March 31, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Mike Tomlin's update on the Aaron Rodgers situation, Brock Purdy's admission that he can't see over his offensive line, the Titans' opinion of Cam Ward, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, shock out Laca. It's our number to our number two,
yapping away and it's all about the Steelers the Insers.
How does Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlins status update, status update
on Aaron Rodgers sound to you? Also, what is your
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reaction to the forty nine ers Rock Purty and his
recent admission that he can't see over his offensive line
and frequently makes throws completely blind? Can you unpack your
thoughts on the Titan's opinion of cam Ward were less
than a month away from the NFL draft, Tennessee not
all in on cam Ward. We'll get to that as well.
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So our lead this hour is from football. We'll get
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hot Final four. Talk at your behest. At your behest,
but ear leave this hour. So I'm really the last
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man standing. It is time for our obligatory Mallard monologue
on Aird Rodgers. That's right, good old Aaron Rodgers. Now
the weekend has come and gone. It's all over. It's
Monday morning here, last day of the month of March.
Got the NFL owners meetings going on. Have you heard
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the latest developments in the saga that is the life
and times of Aaron Rodgers? Mister darkness retreat guy, So
maybe not know. We got you covered. We got you covered,
don't worry. So the latest development involves the Steelers head
coach Mike Tomlin. Did Mike Tomlin say I've had enough,
I can't handle anymore. That's it. We are out We
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are done. The Pittsburgh Steelers are not going to be
held hostage by Aaron Rodgers. We are done. Did Mike
Tomlin step up and man up and say that? No?
In fact, he said, in many ways the opposite, Mike Tomlin.
Tomlin told reporters that he had no definite update on
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terms of a timeline when this will be completed, a
resolution for Aaron Rodgers any decision whether he's going to
sign or not sign in Pittsburgh. Tomlin said the Steelers
are still evaluating potential quarterback players to add to the
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team acquisitions this offseason, and he said they're merely doing
their due diligence. Although he claimed there is no deadline,
there's no timeline on when Aaron Rodgers has to make
his mind up. So let us discuss question. How does
Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin's latest status update on Aaron Rodgers
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sound to you? All right? Does it sound to you? So?
I've got Socrates, Krusty, and the President Obama, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a wonderful plate of goabba gool that's
just weekend, and we'll make a sandwich there with the
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gabba gul. It's right on the plate, that guy, and
we'll make the take the meat and put in the sandwich,
will make the gopa gool, all right, So numb burn,
I said, numb burn. Now my phrase for the Steelers situation,
Mike Tomlin's situation, his update on Aaron Rodgers, my phrase
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is close to the vest or go guarded guarded. Now,
you take all of these coaches at face value, because
they will they will lie to your face. They give
you a version of the truth, but not the whole truth. Now, Tomlin,
as you think this guy knows what he's doing and
he's playing dumb. He's playing dumb, and he has a
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pretty good idea. He didn't want to reveal too much
and I just want to keep it close to the
vest and all that stuff. As we said, But if
there was an indication that Rogers was not going to
go to Pittsburgh, then you would have heard something. By Now,
that doesn't mean he's gung ho to go join the Insers,
but the fact that nothing popped out from anyone saying well,
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Rogers does not want to go there, that leads me
to believe there is a belief that a deal will
get done. And you have to play the game, right,
You got to play the game. We know how that
goes here. And so Tomlin is channeling Socrates with I
only know that I know nothing, and you don't know
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what you don't know and all of that. Tomlins his
famous quote from recent years has been, we want volunteers.
We want volunteers, we don't want hostages. And so we
are confident that Mike Tomlin, that Tomlin has been given
again some kind of double secret handshake wink wink, nod
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nod from Rogers. And this is inching closer to the Steelers.
NFL insider Antonio Brown is reporting Rodgers is definitely going
to play for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Forget Adam Schefter or
Jay Glazer for my money, dollar for dollar, it's Antonio Brown.
That's my insider, that's my go to insider. Here. Here's
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the other reason to believe that he's going to end
up in Pittsburgh, or the Steelers believe he's going to
end up in Pittsburgh. Rogers, they have punted on all
other options. They had both Justin Fields on one side
and Russell Wilson on the in their quarterback room and
they wanted nothing to do with either one of them.
They were covered with maggots. They wanted nothing to do
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with those guys. And so they have a safety net, granted,
not a good safety net. It's like having a rocking
chair and saying that's my go to chair, and that
would be Mason Rudolph, the red nose quarterback, Mason Rudolph,
who is the fallback option there? And so is it
a case where Rogers is really following the council of
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Andrea the astrology lady in Berkeley and waiting for Mercury
to get out of retrograde, which is not until another
another week essentially, And this will drag on and on
and on and on. All right, but certain Rogers does
not follow the normal activity, the norms of a football decorum.
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He's not doing that now. Page two. Interesting story that
popped up recently involving the forty nine Ers quarterback rock Party.
All right, so, forty nine quarterback brock Party, who admitted
recently that he often cannot cannot see over his offensive
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line and that he makes approximately forty percent of all
of his throws completely blind. Did you see this? Why
did this not get more attention? I think this is
kind of a big deal. Am I wrong on that?
Is that not a big deal?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah? So what is your reaction to brock Purty forty nine,
or quarterback brock Purty and his recent admission that he
cannot see over his offensive line and he frequently makes
throws completely blind blind blind blind blind blind, all right,
So it is validation. It is validation. That is the
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word I will use here. Brock Purty is going crusty,
the clown from the Simpsons. He's saying the quiet part
out loud. Is what he's doing here. Brock is about
to be paid roughly a gazillion dollars. He's almost one
hundred percent dependent on understanding coverages. He's not big enough,
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he's not strong enough, he's not all those things traditionally
to play well at that position. So he has to
anticipate the defense and where they're going to rotate the
linebackers and the players in the secondary there, and he
has to trust that his receivers are actually going to
go where they're supposed to go. So he does not
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have elite talent. This is why he was the last
player drafted in the NFL draft. He doesn't have the
height to see over the line. He doesn't have a
bazooka for an arm. He's lacking all that, and he
is dependent on timing, and that is the thing here.
And yet he had a lot of success early on.
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And here we are he's six foot won the forty
nine er offensive line, depending on if they make any
changes here. In recent years they've averaged sixty five sixty
six on the offensive line, and so there's obviously a
big difference there. And now we know. Now we know
the rest of the story. Why brock Purty regularly has
passes over the receiver's head. He just completely terrible passes,
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or he misses that linebacker that drops into coverage because
he cannot see it. You might as well put inca
terror out there, or legally blind Christopher or blind Amate
or blind Scott or any of the other members of
the blind wing of the mal Ord Militia and just
toss him out there. Now, he claims brock Purty that
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it's a sixty to forty split, that sixty percent of
the time he can see just fine. That sixty percent
of the time he's perfectly okay. But it's that other
forty percent where you are simply relying, you're dependent one
hundred percent dependent on the feel of the game and
the timing and knowing where guys are supposed to be.
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Now he's claiming Rock Purdy that it's not just him.
He says, that's how pretty much every quarterback does it
in the NFL. I find that hard to believe. I
find that hard to believe right now, final point to
the NFL Draft. This the final day of March. We
are less than a month away from go time at
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Lomboufield in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where the NFL Draft will
be held this year, and recent chatter indicates radio chatter
indicating the Tennessee Titans are quote pretty sold on cam
Ward close quote However, however, it is not quote a
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slam dunk that Ward will be drafted number one overall
number in the draft. So question, can you unpack your
thoughts on the Tennessee Titans and their real opinion on
cam Ward less than a month ago until the NFL
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Draft twenty twenty five. So, based on reading the room here,
reading the room in Tennessee, my position, I'm locked in.
I am locked in in my position here. It's think
of it like this, It's like you're going to I
don't know, buffalo wild wings and you order a plate
of wings and you're very excited about that. You can't wait.
You're hungry, you haven't eaten in a couple of days.
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There you want to break your fast and the wings
show up to the table and you're anticipating. You see
it looks pretty good, and then you go to eat
them and you realize that plate of wings is lukewarm.
You're like, WHOA, I didn't want lukewarm chicken wings. I
wanted hot. I ordered them thinking they were going to
be hot. And that is cam Ward in a nutshell. Now,
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cam Ward is not the worst of the worst. It's
not his fault. He's going to be overdrafted. But Tennessee,
deep down, I believe they know they don't want to
draft him, that he's a second round graded quarterback who's
going to be picked likely number one or number two
in the draft. And it's a horrible mistake. But you
have to draft whoever the top quarterback is, whoever has
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been deemed the top quarterback. You have to draft him
at the very top because it's a quarterback league and
he's getting all the hype right now and all that
blah blah blah blah blah blah. So what the Titans
are doing right now, They're looking around and they're like,
can we be like the auto industry or the banking industry,
and can we get in a President Obama like bail
out here? Can we get some sucker to show up
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here and bail our asses out and trade for the
number one overall pick in the draft? They need, whether
it's the Cleveland Browns or the Giants or or the
Raiders or a mystery team to step up and say,
all right, let's make a deal. I'll trade you a
goodie bag of players. Let's make it happen. And I
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keep reading these draft things. I don't know why I'm
doing an NFL draft show. I just find them interesting,
and a lot of them it's it's a version of
the truth, but not the whole truth. And you're you're wondering,
like what is bull crap and what is not? But
the general consensus is that Abdul Carter of Penn State
is the blue chip player in this draft, that he
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is the one that is most likely to be an
all pro level that there's a better chance of abdual
Carter being an All Pro defensive player than there is
of cam Ward being an All Pro quarterback by night
and day. And yet it appears that he will not
be drafted number one. That even if Tennessee trades the
top pick, that whoever trades for the pick will be
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doing it to take cam Ward at number one. So
stay tuned, I know you will. All Right is the
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A shame on you, King Rory writes in he says,
as someone who lives about thirty miles from Green Bay,
I am looking forward to the draft. I plan on
attending night number one, number one, and I'm just hoping
the weather cooperates that night, unlike it is now. Just
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had an ice storm warning turned into a winter storm warning,
typical Wisconsin weather. Well, you're saying that you want the
weather to be good, King Ry, I would argue there
are factions at the NFELL that want a rare late
April snowstorm in Green Bay. They want that full Green
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Bay frozen tundra experience. They don't want it to be
seventy five degrees and picture perfect weather in Green Bay. No, No,
they want a little bit of ice makes for better television.
What they're worried about, Malibu Rubin, right, since says serious question.
Can ain Ragers even still play? In two years with
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the Jets, he appeared in about what eight games with
the amount of airtime devoted to his next destination, I'll
take about ten snaps and then become a full time podcaster. Well,
whether he can play or not, Malibu Rubin, we have
a show to do right now, and this is a
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talking point. And Rogers did miss an entire year. Therefore, yes,
if you look at his two years with the Jets,
he came out his highlight was running out with the
American flag on September eleventh, and then snap crackle pop.
Now Terry in England, who is a lap dog for
the forty nine ers, lick lick lick Terry Wrights and
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says that brock Purty is living rent free in Ben's mind.
Come on, Ben, give us a solution. What should the
forties Niners do? Cut him or trade him? Well, Terry,
you know deep down what the Niners need to do.
It's rather obvious they should trade brock party. He's not
a franchise quarterback. He doesn't make players around him better.
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And once you pay him fifty million dollars a year,
you will then be rewarding him for something that he
is not. He's a mid level player in the NFL.
And I know, and we've heard for years that Shanahan
loves Kirk Cousins. So why not make a deal for
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Kirk Cousins who will either be let go at some
point by Atlanta or they'll be trading him for a
late draft pick. And if you don't think brock Purty's
all it and he's not, then don't pay him and
let somebody other dumb team payim. Whether that's the Tennessee
Titans of the Cleveland Browns, and then you go ahead
and get Kirk Cousins, and you figure it out for
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a couple of years, and then you go out and
get whoever the next big time quarterback is. It's not
that hard. Now, if any of these teams, including the
forty nine ers, want to contact me, they can reach
out to me. I am offering my consultation for a
nominal fee. Now the advice I give had on the
radio for free, this is multi million dollar advice, and
the real good advice I save, the real good advice
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I save. Let's go to the phones. We'll say hello
to Hollering James, who's in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hello, Hollering James.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Made your show?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
No?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I was just kidding.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
No, I deserve you know I on your show. I
had a bag and please and almost worship chat to
get him to take and pay him gas money.
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Speaker 1 (22:01):
A little too much, a little too over.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
The top, too enthusiastic.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I think some of your information was erroneous. But that's fine,
So let's talk. Let's do a classic sporty call, hollering James,
classic sporty call. You ready for a sporty call.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I'm ready for a sporty call for man?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Is because I got some questions for that.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
You're a taking man. You're taking man. And we all
know Tammy and Montana, we all know that's your woman.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I know she hasn't called though she can't get through.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
This too, Loraina Loreina doesn't call you, really, she doesn't.
It's all right, So we've been working voice all weekend
just for you. Hollering James with that Montana accent, going forward.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Montana action. There is infiltrate.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
You know, it's this weekend, and it really reminded me
of you and your beautiful big eyes. James, that's not
all it's uh does kind of look like a cow?
He does a tipping them over all? Right now, hollering James. Now,
let's say the Vikings have the twenty fourth pick in
the draft. Tell tell the listener right now who the
Vikings are going to pick in that twenty fourth selection.
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Go ahead, I'll wait for your selection.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Dante Williams.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Dante Williams. Who is Dante Williams?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Is it he going down on a thirty fourth draft pick?
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Yeah, but the Vikings out they have the twenty fourth pick.
See that's a problem.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yeah, twenty fourth pick.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Yeah all right, and if you don't make that pick,
I think.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
They should trade up. Maybe what's that quarterbacks in that
bats up? Kirk Cougins, Oh.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
You think they should make a trade with the Falcons
for the guy that's going to be the starting quarterback
in Atlanta. Is that what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
I think they should try to work out a deal
to get us.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Oh you want? Oh you want? I thought you. I
thought that thought you wanted. Okay, so you just for
the So you want Cousins. You do not want to
trade for Michael Pennix Junior. No, okay, So you want
Kirk Cousin. But why would you Why would he want
to come back there? You got rid of him, you
didn't want him anymore.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
I know, but Cousins has shown he could be the
elite quarterback to back cup Jajon McCarthy, I'm.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Not Can I let you go? I feel like I
need to let you go, James. I feel like our
call is and why I got a question for you? No,
you don't. You're just gonna make a question up. You
don't have a question for me. You just want to
be on the air. You don't actually have a question.
You just admit you don't have a question. How about that?
If you admit you don't have a question, I'll let
you stay on hold. If you say you have a
question and it's a bad question, I'm going to hang
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up on you. How about that, I don't have a question. Okay,
all right, hold on, I knew it. I knew he
didn't have a question. I knew it. I knew it.
I knew I knew him at Bones. Let's go to Andrea.
She's in Berkeley. She's the astrology lady. Hello, Andrea, welcome.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
You're getting closer and closer to being right here. Andrea
getting closer Aaron Rodgers. Another week and no announcement from Rogers.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Well, I know my customers, and I know when people
are really, you know, strongly believed in astrology and mercury retrograde,
case in point. And I was impressed that you remembered
Ben April seventh, Yeah, until then.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Well, and how about this? Now there is a there
was one of the tabloids reported that Rogers is going
to be making a public appearance on April ninth, and
they believe that that is the date, April ninth, and
Rogers will announce his decision.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Interesting, and it's the NFL Draft.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
The NFL Draft is the last weekend in April.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
So okay, right, yeah, April. I remember I called last
week and I talked about you know, for all intents
and purposes, it's out of retrograde. April seven.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
We are twenty four days away from the NFL, right.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
But it's not at one hundred percent strength until it
gets back to the degree that retrograded at, which is
two to three weeks later. But like I said, for
all intents and purposes, it's out of retrograde April seventh,
So I think he's biding his time. You know, he's
probably the other people don't know what to suspect. It's like, well,
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is he playing hard to get It's like, you know,
if they do their due diligence and research, they'll know
he's into astrology. He's you know, a client of my colleague.
He actually helped teach a class of hers. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Well, here's the story is Rogers is expected, although it's
not been confirmed, that he will appear at an event
with Pat McAfee in Pittsburgh on April ninth, So that
would be after Mercury is out.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Of wood absolutely all right, Mercury is out of retrograde,
and you know, if one needs to be perfect, it
never gets done, so no need to wait weeks after that.
But you know, again, for all intents and purposes, anytime
after April seven, So it sounds like he's got a
little wiggle room and he's gonna hop right on it.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
So well, we'll see, we'll see what happens. But yeah,
you gotta make some kind of decision. You can't go
on forever here right.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
Well, is coming out of rech grade April seven?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yeah, another weeks? Nothing, come on, one more week. Everyone
talking about every blowhard on radio and all the pretty
boys on TV. Absolutely all right, well, very good, thank you,
Andrey and then Virgo and service on. Actually want to
say hello to Andrea. Thank you. And there she goes
back to her compound in Berkeley to analyze everything. She's
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probably hugging a tree right now, just out there, just
living her life, living the dreams. Hugging trees is good
for your soul. Ben, you sure about that? Yeah, I
just hugged one yesterday. Did you see Skasquatch when you
were in Oregon?
Speaker 6 (27:49):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
I tried not to look for him. Did you did
you go down the Oregon Trail? Absolutely not underrated game
the Oregon Trail? Love that game. Great game. Back in
the Stone Age. That was the only game we had.
You might people mind. Did you die from? Was a dysteria?
Dys oh man? Oh yes, that was a fun game.
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It was this the only game we got to play.
Felexis is America's favorite drag queen caller in Buffalo. Hello Flexus, Hello, oh,
thank you, thank you think you think? No, don't don't
take don't take advantage of my generosity for Lexus.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I don't know you had.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Any is so far craft?
Speaker 2 (28:39):
What took me a couple of days.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
And I never heard such slow craft in my life.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I know astrology. You don't know astrology. You know, no,
you don't. You have no idea?
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Your your your bowl every night.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
But that is true whether I was a tour so not.
I am full of bull. It goes with the job.
It's being a talk.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
To God.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
What but you it?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I'm now, I'm not regretting taking this phone call. I
feel like I should not have taken this phone call.
I feel like I need to move on to someone else.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Ida.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
What do you saying? I think he said him? Miranda? Lorena? Lorena, Lorena?
Speaker 3 (29:27):
What's your name?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
All right? You don't even listen? You don't even listen
to show? What are you? Why are you bothering? You
don't even listen?
Speaker 3 (29:35):
I do this show when you're talking.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
I've been listening so goddamn one.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Hundred years, one hundred years. Oh my god, I mean
I don't even know. This shows me not When are
you moving to Lexington, Kentucky? Remember that Flexus, when you
swore you were moving to Lexington, Kentucky. I remember that
you were so excited about bluegrass, and now all you
do is smoke grass. Go who knew from the UK?
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All right, that's a terrible phone call. Let's say hello
to Danny de Vito, who's in Boston. Hello, Danny DeVito,
mister Nello, what's going on? I hope you didn't bet
all dogs this weekend. I hope you bet some favorites.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
Indy, I actually took a week off this week. I've
been getting killed the last couple of weeks, as you know.
But I actually would have won over the weekend. I
would have taken the under the Duke game and I
would have taken Houston. That's how it always works.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
You win all the bets you don't make, every bet
you don't make, you end up winning. That's generally how
that that goes. And yeah, it's this has been an
unprecedented run. What's been going on here in this NCAA tournament?
Speaker 6 (30:47):
Yeah, yes, I got a problem with Duke Ben any
other team besides Dukes. It sounds them about du demeanor,
the plays, the coaches, they're.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
All rich, spoiled care is you want to punch Is
that why?
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (31:02):
Yeah, yeah, they got that face on him, it's want
to punch out.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
We got that elitist, that smarmy look to them, and
it's it's it's just a Duke thing because it's been
my entire life. The players have changed, but they've had
the same appearance. Gotta say, exactly.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
Right, the same appearance and all that. So, I mean,
I know, I don't mind this kid Flag. He seems
all right, but you know the rest of these guys,
you know, I just I can't stand them. So I'm
hoping that, uh, I'm hoping that somebody beat them. They're
gonna probably win it the heavy favorite, but I'm hoping
somebody beat them. But uh, there's been some shadow too
about this draft. I don't know if you heard it.
(31:39):
The top this guy Jackson dot is he gonna want
to be a top five pick or top ten pick?
This saying that, I mean, you brought the the Titans
trade them out of that spot. But I got news
for you if they trade out of that spot, they're
not gonna go nowhere because they're gonna sit that quarterback.
And Will Levis he can't even play.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Yeah. But but here's the thing, though, if if you
believe these guys can't play, it's not just not a
great quarterback draft. Why would you still take a quarterback
if you don't think they're that good? Like, why would
you take them one? You're going to force the pick.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
He's a prospect, right, cam wardt Well, they're all prospects.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
But a prospect is a suspect until proven otherwise.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
So I agree with that.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
I agree with that.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
But the other guy there is already it's terrible. The
guy he can't even play.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
So every talking about Will Will Levis the male guy
that is really good. His only elite skill is turning
the ball over, which is generally what you're not looking for.
You generally don't want to see a quarterback whose only
real ability is to turn the football over, whether it
be a fumble or an interception or all of the above,
or all of the above. He will give you that,
(32:49):
But I did want to give you the numbers on this.
I'm trying to get him here. I had the numbers.
This is the historical right now. I know in the
Final four, I think Duke opened it, what four and
a half over Houston, and I think Floor I think
that's already gone up. And Florida is a two and
a half point favorite over Auburn in the other half
of the final fours where we played on Saturday. However, though,
twelve and oh, the numbers here this weekend insane. The favorites.
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The favorites went twelve and oh straight up in the
sweet sixteen and the elite aid And that's the first
time ever that has happened. Not against the spread, but overall,
favorites have won fourteen straight tourney games out right now.
That means that means they are due to lose, is
what that means.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
Yeah, so I'm hoping that happens. That's crazy. Twelve and oh,
first time ever, that is crazy that you know that
already happened.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
That's my by the way, that is my fun fact
of the hour. That is my fun fact of the hour.
I just want to share that fun fact.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Yeah, you brought up, he brought brought thirty. They're gonna
make a huge mistake. Sign this kid, do you know
that he just soups up Mac Jones and uh. The team,
as you know open the last couple of years, fifth
team has been loaded on both sides of the ball.
Now they're gonna be stretched down this year on both
sides of the ball, so you can't really see his flaw.
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I believe.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Listen, he started to show some falls. Last year's numbers
were down brock Purty and so we'll see how you
know he's Day's forty nine or lap dogs. They don't
want to hear it. I gotta let you go. Thank you,
Danny the Great Danny DeVito. They're checking in from Boston
and saying hello. It is the Ben Mahler Show. We
are going to have coming up here momentarily a new
edition of Mallor to the third Degree. But first, here
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is your insta trivia, a blatant attempt to get you
to listen a little bit longer. You're going to answer
this on the X machine at Ben Mallard. We'll go
to baseball where Red Sox slugger I see that in
air quarts, Raviel Devers has broken Blank's major league record,
striking out ten times through the first three games of
the season. I don't know. The Red Socks have not
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played four games, but Ravio Devers broke Blank's major league record,
having struck out ten times through the first three games
of the season. That is the Insta Trivia the answer.
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
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(36:05):
The Insta Trivia Red Sox slugger Rafael Devers has broken
blanks major league record, having struck out ten times through
the first three games of the season. And that is
the question. What is the answer? We will get to Mallard.
To a third degree, alf the Alien O Pinter says,
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blind Scott Smokey Bear from Scrooge in the Bay Area,
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that is unfortunately correct. Correct answer is Greg Luzinski nineteen
(37:12):
seventy four. It's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
To the third degree, this is one big Ben gets.
Speaker 7 (37:23):
Graill but I know it's way too early to start
making season long predictions in this Oh it's never too
baseball season.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
But the Saint Louis.
Speaker 7 (37:32):
Cardinals are off to their first three and oho starts
since two thousand and six.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Wow, I was barely alive in two thousand and six, Coop,
it was a little child in twenty oh six.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (37:43):
So should Cardinals fans be excited?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
The answer is no, because they played the Minnesota Twins, Coop,
and the Twins are not supposed to be all that
great this year.
Speaker 7 (37:55):
So no.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Now, when the Cardinals beat up the Dodgers, the Podres
and the Yankees or somebody like that, then they can
get excited. But no, not after a sweep of the Twins.
Absolutely not. Next.
Speaker 7 (38:05):
So we all know about the back and forth between
Lebron James and Steven a former morning guy.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Yes right now.
Speaker 7 (38:11):
Recently there was a basketball analyst that said that the
feud between the two is bad for basketball because it
just furthers the divide between NBA media and the players.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Ben, do you agree? No, absolutely not. I don't know
who said that, but they're they're an idiot, They're a dope.
It's great for the NBA. A lot of the NBA
media's fanboys. Steven A occasionally criticizes he's actually good for
the NBA media. It's great for the NBA because people
are talking about next.
Speaker 7 (38:37):
Abduel Carter argued that a defensive player can impact the
game just as much as a quarterback.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Is he crazy? Yes, but I'd still take him number
one overall, and a quarterback is much better than a
defensive player. But this guy's a prodigty.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
How do we do?
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Kobolo? This week? I'm undefeated this week. I have not
lost this week. I'm undefeated.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Did you hear me?
Boom, shock out Laca. It's our number to our number two,
yapping away and it's all about the Steelers the Insers.
How does Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlins status update, status update
on Aaron Rodgers sound to you? Also, what is your
(00:22):
reaction to the forty nine ers Rock Purty and his
recent admission that he can't see over his offensive line
and frequently makes throws completely blind? Can you unpack your
thoughts on the Titan's opinion of cam Ward were less
than a month away from the NFL draft, Tennessee not
all in on cam Ward. We'll get to that as well.
(00:45):
Right now, Say hello to our number two. The countdown continues.
Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the ben
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So our lead this hour is from football. We'll get
back to the Final four. If you're so inclined for
hot Final four. Talk at your behest. At your behest,
but ear leave this hour. So I'm really the last
(02:09):
man standing. It is time for our obligatory Mallard monologue
on Aird Rodgers. That's right, good old Aaron Rodgers. Now
the weekend has come and gone. It's all over. It's
Monday morning here, last day of the month of March.
Got the NFL owners meetings going on. Have you heard
(02:31):
the latest developments in the saga that is the life
and times of Aaron Rodgers? Mister darkness retreat guy, So
maybe not know. We got you covered. We got you covered,
don't worry. So the latest development involves the Steelers head
coach Mike Tomlin. Did Mike Tomlin say I've had enough,
I can't handle anymore. That's it. We are out We
(02:53):
are done. The Pittsburgh Steelers are not going to be
held hostage by Aaron Rodgers. We are done. Did Mike
Tomlin step up and man up and say that? No?
In fact, he said, in many ways the opposite, Mike Tomlin.
Tomlin told reporters that he had no definite update on
(03:17):
terms of a timeline when this will be completed, a
resolution for Aaron Rodgers any decision whether he's going to
sign or not sign in Pittsburgh. Tomlin said the Steelers
are still evaluating potential quarterback players to add to the
(03:37):
team acquisitions this offseason, and he said they're merely doing
their due diligence. Although he claimed there is no deadline,
there's no timeline on when Aaron Rodgers has to make
his mind up. So let us discuss question. How does
Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin's latest status update on Aaron Rodgers
(04:01):
sound to you? All right? Does it sound to you? So?
I've got Socrates, Krusty, and the President Obama, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a wonderful plate of goabba gool that's
just weekend, and we'll make a sandwich there with the
(04:23):
gabba gul. It's right on the plate, that guy, and
we'll make the take the meat and put in the sandwich,
will make the gopa gool, all right, So numb burn,
I said, numb burn. Now my phrase for the Steelers situation,
Mike Tomlin's situation, his update on Aaron Rodgers, my phrase
(04:46):
is close to the vest or go guarded guarded. Now,
you take all of these coaches at face value, because
they will they will lie to your face. They give
you a version of the truth, but not the whole truth. Now, Tomlin,
as you think this guy knows what he's doing and
he's playing dumb. He's playing dumb, and he has a
(05:09):
pretty good idea. He didn't want to reveal too much
and I just want to keep it close to the
vest and all that stuff. As we said, But if
there was an indication that Rogers was not going to
go to Pittsburgh, then you would have heard something. By Now,
that doesn't mean he's gung ho to go join the Insers,
but the fact that nothing popped out from anyone saying well,
(05:34):
Rogers does not want to go there, that leads me
to believe there is a belief that a deal will
get done. And you have to play the game, right,
You got to play the game. We know how that
goes here. And so Tomlin is channeling Socrates with I
only know that I know nothing, and you don't know
(05:56):
what you don't know and all of that. Tomlins his
famous quote from recent years has been, we want volunteers.
We want volunteers, we don't want hostages. And so we
are confident that Mike Tomlin, that Tomlin has been given
again some kind of double secret handshake wink wink, nod
(06:21):
nod from Rogers. And this is inching closer to the Steelers.
NFL insider Antonio Brown is reporting Rodgers is definitely going
to play for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Forget Adam Schefter or
Jay Glazer for my money, dollar for dollar, it's Antonio Brown.
That's my insider, that's my go to insider. Here. Here's
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the other reason to believe that he's going to end
up in Pittsburgh, or the Steelers believe he's going to
end up in Pittsburgh. Rogers, they have punted on all
other options. They had both Justin Fields on one side
and Russell Wilson on the in their quarterback room and
they wanted nothing to do with either one of them.
They were covered with maggots. They wanted nothing to do
(07:07):
with those guys. And so they have a safety net, granted,
not a good safety net. It's like having a rocking
chair and saying that's my go to chair, and that
would be Mason Rudolph, the red nose quarterback, Mason Rudolph,
who is the fallback option there? And so is it
a case where Rogers is really following the council of
(07:27):
Andrea the astrology lady in Berkeley and waiting for Mercury
to get out of retrograde, which is not until another
another week essentially, And this will drag on and on
and on and on. All right, but certain Rogers does
not follow the normal activity, the norms of a football decorum.
(07:50):
He's not doing that now. Page two. Interesting story that
popped up recently involving the forty nine Ers quarterback rock Party.
All right, so, forty nine quarterback brock Party, who admitted
recently that he often cannot cannot see over his offensive
(08:12):
line and that he makes approximately forty percent of all
of his throws completely blind. Did you see this? Why
did this not get more attention? I think this is
kind of a big deal. Am I wrong on that?
Is that not a big deal?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah? So what is your reaction to brock Purty forty nine,
or quarterback brock Purty and his recent admission that he
cannot see over his offensive line and he frequently makes
throws completely blind blind blind blind blind blind, all right,
So it is validation. It is validation. That is the
(08:55):
word I will use here. Brock Purty is going crusty,
the clown from the Simpsons. He's saying the quiet part
out loud. Is what he's doing here. Brock is about
to be paid roughly a gazillion dollars. He's almost one
hundred percent dependent on understanding coverages. He's not big enough,
(09:16):
he's not strong enough, he's not all those things traditionally
to play well at that position. So he has to
anticipate the defense and where they're going to rotate the
linebackers and the players in the secondary there, and he
has to trust that his receivers are actually going to
go where they're supposed to go. So he does not
(09:39):
have elite talent. This is why he was the last
player drafted in the NFL draft. He doesn't have the
height to see over the line. He doesn't have a
bazooka for an arm. He's lacking all that, and he
is dependent on timing, and that is the thing here.
And yet he had a lot of success early on.
(10:02):
And here we are he's six foot won the forty
nine er offensive line, depending on if they make any
changes here. In recent years they've averaged sixty five sixty
six on the offensive line, and so there's obviously a
big difference there. And now we know. Now we know
the rest of the story. Why brock Purty regularly has
passes over the receiver's head. He just completely terrible passes,
(10:29):
or he misses that linebacker that drops into coverage because
he cannot see it. You might as well put inca
terror out there, or legally blind Christopher or blind Amate
or blind Scott or any of the other members of
the blind wing of the mal Ord Militia and just
toss him out there. Now, he claims brock Purty that
(10:51):
it's a sixty to forty split, that sixty percent of
the time he can see just fine. That sixty percent
of the time he's perfectly okay. But it's that other
forty percent where you are simply relying, you're dependent one
hundred percent dependent on the feel of the game and
the timing and knowing where guys are supposed to be.
(11:13):
Now he's claiming Rock Purdy that it's not just him.
He says, that's how pretty much every quarterback does it
in the NFL. I find that hard to believe. I
find that hard to believe right now, final point to
the NFL Draft. This the final day of March. We
are less than a month away from go time at
(11:35):
Lomboufield in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where the NFL Draft will
be held this year, and recent chatter indicates radio chatter
indicating the Tennessee Titans are quote pretty sold on cam
Ward close quote However, however, it is not quote a
(11:58):
slam dunk that Ward will be drafted number one overall
number in the draft. So question, can you unpack your
thoughts on the Tennessee Titans and their real opinion on
cam Ward less than a month ago until the NFL
(12:20):
Draft twenty twenty five. So, based on reading the room here,
reading the room in Tennessee, my position, I'm locked in.
I am locked in in my position here. It's think
of it like this, It's like you're going to I
don't know, buffalo wild wings and you order a plate
of wings and you're very excited about that. You can't wait.
You're hungry, you haven't eaten in a couple of days.
(12:41):
There you want to break your fast and the wings
show up to the table and you're anticipating. You see
it looks pretty good, and then you go to eat
them and you realize that plate of wings is lukewarm.
You're like, WHOA, I didn't want lukewarm chicken wings. I
wanted hot. I ordered them thinking they were going to
be hot. And that is cam Ward in a nutshell. Now,
(13:06):
cam Ward is not the worst of the worst. It's
not his fault. He's going to be overdrafted. But Tennessee,
deep down, I believe they know they don't want to
draft him, that he's a second round graded quarterback who's
going to be picked likely number one or number two
in the draft. And it's a horrible mistake. But you
have to draft whoever the top quarterback is, whoever has
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been deemed the top quarterback. You have to draft him
at the very top because it's a quarterback league and
he's getting all the hype right now and all that
blah blah blah blah blah blah. So what the Titans
are doing right now, They're looking around and they're like,
can we be like the auto industry or the banking industry,
and can we get in a President Obama like bail
out here? Can we get some sucker to show up
(13:51):
here and bail our asses out and trade for the
number one overall pick in the draft? They need, whether
it's the Cleveland Browns or the Giants or or the
Raiders or a mystery team to step up and say,
all right, let's make a deal. I'll trade you a
goodie bag of players. Let's make it happen. And I
(14:13):
keep reading these draft things. I don't know why I'm
doing an NFL draft show. I just find them interesting,
and a lot of them it's it's a version of
the truth, but not the whole truth. And you're you're wondering,
like what is bull crap and what is not? But
the general consensus is that Abdul Carter of Penn State
is the blue chip player in this draft, that he
(14:34):
is the one that is most likely to be an
all pro level that there's a better chance of abdual
Carter being an All Pro defensive player than there is
of cam Ward being an All Pro quarterback by night
and day. And yet it appears that he will not
be drafted number one. That even if Tennessee trades the
top pick, that whoever trades for the pick will be
(14:56):
doing it to take cam Ward at number one. So
stay tuned, I know you will. All Right is the
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A shame on you, King Rory writes in he says,
as someone who lives about thirty miles from Green Bay,
I am looking forward to the draft. I plan on
attending night number one, number one, and I'm just hoping
the weather cooperates that night, unlike it is now. Just
(17:44):
had an ice storm warning turned into a winter storm warning,
typical Wisconsin weather. Well, you're saying that you want the
weather to be good, King Ry, I would argue there
are factions at the NFELL that want a rare late
April snowstorm in Green Bay. They want that full Green
(18:07):
Bay frozen tundra experience. They don't want it to be
seventy five degrees and picture perfect weather in Green Bay. No, No,
they want a little bit of ice makes for better television.
What they're worried about, Malibu Rubin, right, since says serious question.
Can ain Ragers even still play? In two years with
(18:31):
the Jets, he appeared in about what eight games with
the amount of airtime devoted to his next destination, I'll
take about ten snaps and then become a full time podcaster. Well,
whether he can play or not, Malibu Rubin, we have
a show to do right now, and this is a
(18:51):
talking point. And Rogers did miss an entire year. Therefore, yes,
if you look at his two years with the Jets,
he came out his highlight was running out with the
American flag on September eleventh, and then snap crackle pop.
Now Terry in England, who is a lap dog for
the forty nine ers, lick lick lick Terry Wrights and
(19:15):
says that brock Purty is living rent free in Ben's mind.
Come on, Ben, give us a solution. What should the
forties Niners do? Cut him or trade him? Well, Terry,
you know deep down what the Niners need to do.
It's rather obvious they should trade brock party. He's not
a franchise quarterback. He doesn't make players around him better.
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And once you pay him fifty million dollars a year,
you will then be rewarding him for something that he
is not. He's a mid level player in the NFL.
And I know, and we've heard for years that Shanahan
loves Kirk Cousins. So why not make a deal for
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Kirk Cousins who will either be let go at some
point by Atlanta or they'll be trading him for a
late draft pick. And if you don't think brock Purty's
all it and he's not, then don't pay him and
let somebody other dumb team payim. Whether that's the Tennessee
Titans of the Cleveland Browns, and then you go ahead
and get Kirk Cousins, and you figure it out for
(20:19):
a couple of years, and then you go out and
get whoever the next big time quarterback is. It's not
that hard. Now, if any of these teams, including the
forty nine ers, want to contact me, they can reach
out to me. I am offering my consultation for a
nominal fee. Now the advice I give had on the
radio for free, this is multi million dollar advice, and
the real good advice I save, the real good advice
(20:41):
I save. Let's go to the phones. We'll say hello
to Hollering James, who's in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hello, Hollering James.
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Made your show?
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No?
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Why not?
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I was just kidding.
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No, I deserve you know I on your show. I
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isn't that amazing?
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Tractors supplies the best tractor they made to the supplies chickens,
which makes expensive eggs. With produces eggs, You produce money,
you save money, and tract to Supply is the best
spy in America.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
A little too much, a little too over.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
The top, too enthusiastic.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I think some of your information was erroneous. But that's fine,
So let's talk. Let's do a classic sporty call, hollering James,
classic sporty call. You ready for a sporty call.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I'm ready for a sporty call for man?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Is because I got some questions for that.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
You're a taking man. You're taking man. And we all
know Tammy and Montana, we all know that's your woman.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I know she hasn't called though she can't get through.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
This too, Loraina Loreina doesn't call you, really, she doesn't.
It's all right, So we've been working voice all weekend
just for you. Hollering James with that Montana accent, going forward.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Montana action. There is infiltrate.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
You know, it's this weekend, and it really reminded me
of you and your beautiful big eyes. James, that's not
all it's uh does kind of look like a cow?
He does a tipping them over all? Right now, hollering James. Now,
let's say the Vikings have the twenty fourth pick in
the draft. Tell tell the listener right now who the
Vikings are going to pick in that twenty fourth selection.
(23:09):
Go ahead, I'll wait for your selection.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Dante Williams.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Dante Williams. Who is Dante Williams?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Is it he going down on a thirty fourth draft pick?
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Yeah, but the Vikings out they have the twenty fourth pick.
See that's a problem.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yeah, twenty fourth pick.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Yeah all right, and if you don't make that pick,
I think.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
They should trade up. Maybe what's that quarterbacks in that
bats up? Kirk Cougins, Oh.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
You think they should make a trade with the Falcons
for the guy that's going to be the starting quarterback
in Atlanta. Is that what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
I think they should try to work out a deal
to get us.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Oh you want? Oh you want? I thought you. I
thought that thought you wanted. Okay, so you just for
the So you want Cousins. You do not want to
trade for Michael Pennix Junior. No, okay, So you want
Kirk Cousin. But why would you Why would he want
to come back there? You got rid of him, you
didn't want him anymore.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
I know, but Cousins has shown he could be the
elite quarterback to back cup Jajon McCarthy, I'm.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Not Can I let you go? I feel like I
need to let you go, James. I feel like our
call is and why I got a question for you? No,
you don't. You're just gonna make a question up. You
don't have a question for me. You just want to
be on the air. You don't actually have a question.
You just admit you don't have a question. How about that?
If you admit you don't have a question, I'll let
you stay on hold. If you say you have a
question and it's a bad question, I'm going to hang
(24:37):
up on you. How about that, I don't have a question. Okay,
all right, hold on, I knew it. I knew he
didn't have a question. I knew it. I knew it.
I knew I knew him at Bones. Let's go to Andrea.
She's in Berkeley. She's the astrology lady. Hello, Andrea, welcome.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
You're getting closer and closer to being right here. Andrea
getting closer Aaron Rodgers. Another week and no announcement from Rogers.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Well, I know my customers, and I know when people
are really, you know, strongly believed in astrology and mercury retrograde,
case in point. And I was impressed that you remembered
Ben April seventh, Yeah, until then.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Well, and how about this? Now there is a there
was one of the tabloids reported that Rogers is going
to be making a public appearance on April ninth, and
they believe that that is the date, April ninth, and
Rogers will announce his decision.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Interesting, and it's the NFL Draft.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
The NFL Draft is the last weekend in April.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
So okay, right, yeah, April. I remember I called last
week and I talked about you know, for all intents
and purposes, it's out of retrograde. April seven.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
We are twenty four days away from the NFL, right.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
But it's not at one hundred percent strength until it
gets back to the degree that retrograded at, which is
two to three weeks later. But like I said, for
all intents and purposes, it's out of retrograde April seventh,
So I think he's biding his time. You know, he's
probably the other people don't know what to suspect. It's like, well,
(26:14):
is he playing hard to get It's like, you know,
if they do their due diligence and research, they'll know
he's into astrology. He's you know, a client of my colleague.
He actually helped teach a class of hers. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Well, here's the story is Rogers is expected, although it's
not been confirmed, that he will appear at an event
with Pat McAfee in Pittsburgh on April ninth, So that
would be after Mercury is out.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Of wood absolutely all right, Mercury is out of retrograde,
and you know, if one needs to be perfect, it
never gets done, so no need to wait weeks after that.
But you know, again, for all intents and purposes, anytime
after April seven, So it sounds like he's got a
little wiggle room and he's gonna hop right on it.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
So well, we'll see, we'll see what happens. But yeah,
you gotta make some kind of decision. You can't go
on forever here right.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
Well, is coming out of rech grade April seven?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yeah, another weeks? Nothing, come on, one more week. Everyone
talking about every blowhard on radio and all the pretty
boys on TV. Absolutely all right, well, very good, thank you,
Andrey and then Virgo and service on. Actually want to
say hello to Andrea. Thank you. And there she goes
back to her compound in Berkeley to analyze everything. She's
(27:38):
probably hugging a tree right now, just out there, just
living her life, living the dreams. Hugging trees is good
for your soul. Ben, you sure about that? Yeah, I
just hugged one yesterday. Did you see Skasquatch when you
were in Oregon?
Speaker 6 (27:49):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
I tried not to look for him. Did you did
you go down the Oregon Trail? Absolutely not underrated game
the Oregon Trail? Love that game. Great game. Back in
the Stone Age. That was the only game we had.
You might people mind. Did you die from? Was a dysteria?
Dys oh man? Oh yes, that was a fun game.
(28:13):
It was this the only game we got to play.
Felexis is America's favorite drag queen caller in Buffalo. Hello Flexus, Hello, oh,
thank you, thank you think you think? No, don't don't
take don't take advantage of my generosity for Lexus.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I don't know you had.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Any is so far craft?
Speaker 2 (28:39):
What took me a couple of days.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
And I never heard such slow craft in my life.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I know astrology. You don't know astrology. You know, no,
you don't. You have no idea?
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Your your your bowl every night.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
But that is true whether I was a tour so not.
I am full of bull. It goes with the job.
It's being a talk.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
To God.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
What but you it?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I'm now, I'm not regretting taking this phone call. I
feel like I should not have taken this phone call.
I feel like I need to move on to someone else.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Ida.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
What do you saying? I think he said him? Miranda? Lorena? Lorena, Lorena?
Speaker 3 (29:27):
What's your name?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
All right? You don't even listen? You don't even listen
to show? What are you? Why are you bothering? You
don't even listen?
Speaker 3 (29:35):
I do this show when you're talking.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
I've been listening so goddamn one.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Hundred years, one hundred years. Oh my god, I mean
I don't even know. This shows me not When are
you moving to Lexington, Kentucky? Remember that Flexus, when you
swore you were moving to Lexington, Kentucky. I remember that
you were so excited about bluegrass, and now all you
do is smoke grass. Go who knew from the UK?
(30:04):
All right, that's a terrible phone call. Let's say hello
to Danny de Vito, who's in Boston. Hello, Danny DeVito,
mister Nello, what's going on? I hope you didn't bet
all dogs this weekend. I hope you bet some favorites.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
Indy, I actually took a week off this week. I've
been getting killed the last couple of weeks, as you know.
But I actually would have won over the weekend. I
would have taken the under the Duke game and I
would have taken Houston. That's how it always works.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
You win all the bets you don't make, every bet
you don't make, you end up winning. That's generally how
that that goes. And yeah, it's this has been an
unprecedented run. What's been going on here in this NCAA tournament?
Speaker 6 (30:47):
Yeah, yes, I got a problem with Duke Ben any
other team besides Dukes. It sounds them about du demeanor,
the plays, the coaches, they're.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
All rich, spoiled care is you want to punch Is
that why?
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (31:02):
Yeah, yeah, they got that face on him, it's want
to punch out.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
We got that elitist, that smarmy look to them, and
it's it's it's just a Duke thing because it's been
my entire life. The players have changed, but they've had
the same appearance. Gotta say, exactly.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
Right, the same appearance and all that. So, I mean,
I know, I don't mind this kid Flag. He seems
all right, but you know the rest of these guys,
you know, I just I can't stand them. So I'm
hoping that, uh, I'm hoping that somebody beat them. They're
gonna probably win it the heavy favorite, but I'm hoping
somebody beat them. But uh, there's been some shadow too
about this draft. I don't know if you heard it.
(31:39):
The top this guy Jackson dot is he gonna want
to be a top five pick or top ten pick?
This saying that, I mean, you brought the the Titans
trade them out of that spot. But I got news
for you if they trade out of that spot, they're
not gonna go nowhere because they're gonna sit that quarterback.
And Will Levis he can't even play.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Yeah. But but here's the thing, though, if if you
believe these guys can't play, it's not just not a
great quarterback draft. Why would you still take a quarterback
if you don't think they're that good? Like, why would
you take them one? You're going to force the pick.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
He's a prospect, right, cam wardt Well, they're all prospects.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
But a prospect is a suspect until proven otherwise.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
So I agree with that.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
I agree with that.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
But the other guy there is already it's terrible. The
guy he can't even play.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
So every talking about Will Will Levis the male guy
that is really good. His only elite skill is turning
the ball over, which is generally what you're not looking for.
You generally don't want to see a quarterback whose only
real ability is to turn the football over, whether it
be a fumble or an interception or all of the above,
or all of the above. He will give you that,
(32:49):
But I did want to give you the numbers on this.
I'm trying to get him here. I had the numbers.
This is the historical right now. I know in the
Final four, I think Duke opened it, what four and
a half over Houston, and I think Floor I think
that's already gone up. And Florida is a two and
a half point favorite over Auburn in the other half
of the final fours where we played on Saturday. However, though,
twelve and oh, the numbers here this weekend insane. The favorites.
(33:16):
The favorites went twelve and oh straight up in the
sweet sixteen and the elite aid And that's the first
time ever that has happened. Not against the spread, but overall,
favorites have won fourteen straight tourney games out right now.
That means that means they are due to lose, is
what that means.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
Yeah, so I'm hoping that happens. That's crazy. Twelve and oh,
first time ever, that is crazy that you know that
already happened.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
That's my by the way, that is my fun fact
of the hour. That is my fun fact of the hour.
I just want to share that fun fact.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Yeah, you brought up, he brought brought thirty. They're gonna
make a huge mistake. Sign this kid, do you know
that he just soups up Mac Jones and uh. The team,
as you know open the last couple of years, fifth
team has been loaded on both sides of the ball.
Now they're gonna be stretched down this year on both
sides of the ball, so you can't really see his flaw.
(34:08):
I believe.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Listen, he started to show some falls. Last year's numbers
were down brock Purty and so we'll see how you
know he's Day's forty nine or lap dogs. They don't
want to hear it. I gotta let you go. Thank you,
Danny the Great Danny DeVito. They're checking in from Boston
and saying hello. It is the Ben Mahler Show. We
are going to have coming up here momentarily a new
edition of Mallor to the third Degree. But first, here
(34:32):
is your insta trivia, a blatant attempt to get you
to listen a little bit longer. You're going to answer
this on the X machine at Ben Mallard. We'll go
to baseball where Red Sox slugger I see that in
air quarts, Raviel Devers has broken Blank's major league record,
striking out ten times through the first three games of
the season. I don't know. The Red Socks have not
(34:54):
played four games, but Ravio Devers broke Blank's major league record,
having struck out ten times through the first three games
of the season. That is the Insta Trivia the answer.
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
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(36:05):
The Insta Trivia Red Sox slugger Rafael Devers has broken
blanks major league record, having struck out ten times through
the first three games of the season. And that is
the question. What is the answer? We will get to Mallard.
To a third degree, alf the Alien O Pinter says,
Billy Barty is the answer. Mike the Lepperton going with
(36:27):
blind Scott Smokey Bear from Scrooge in the Bay Area,
Orville Overall from Donkey Sausage. Ferk Dog says, a till
of the hun, very very good photo of at till
of the hun. There. Who else do we have? Moe
Berg from I forty Ian dougman Kaevich guessed by Robin Minnesota,
(36:47):
Adam Dunn from Econ, Roseville, Minnesota, Sid Finch from the
k C. Carl Holler, former Mariners catcher Dan Wilson from
Shane and des Moines, Travis Freman guessed by James matt Stairs,
Roger Assassin from Robbie the Mariner, faying, all right, you
have an answer the rain, Yes, Pukey Mookie bets all right, No,
that is unfortunately correct. Correct answer is Greg Luzinski nineteen
(37:12):
seventy four. It's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
To the third degree, this is one big Ben gets.
Speaker 7 (37:23):
Graill but I know it's way too early to start
making season long predictions in this Oh it's never too
baseball season.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
But the Saint Louis.
Speaker 7 (37:32):
Cardinals are off to their first three and oho starts
since two thousand and six.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Wow, I was barely alive in two thousand and six, Coop,
it was a little child in twenty oh six.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (37:43):
So should Cardinals fans be excited?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
The answer is no, because they played the Minnesota Twins, Coop,
and the Twins are not supposed to be all that
great this year.
Speaker 7 (37:55):
So no.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Now, when the Cardinals beat up the Dodgers, the Podres
and the Yankees or somebody like that, then they can
get excited. But no, not after a sweep of the Twins.
Absolutely not. Next.
Speaker 7 (38:05):
So we all know about the back and forth between
Lebron James and Steven a former morning guy.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Yes right now.
Speaker 7 (38:11):
Recently there was a basketball analyst that said that the
feud between the two is bad for basketball because it
just furthers the divide between NBA media and the players.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Ben, do you agree? No, absolutely not. I don't know
who said that, but they're they're an idiot, They're a dope.
It's great for the NBA. A lot of the NBA
media's fanboys. Steven A occasionally criticizes he's actually good for
the NBA media. It's great for the NBA because people
are talking about next.
Speaker 7 (38:37):
Abduel Carter argued that a defensive player can impact the
game just as much as a quarterback.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Is he crazy? Yes, but I'd still take him number
one overall, and a quarterback is much better than a
defensive player. But this guy's a prodigty.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
How do we do?
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Kobolo? This week? I'm undefeated this week. I have not
lost this week. I'm undefeated.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Did you hear me?
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