September 16, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about what jumps out about Geno Smith's performance for the Raiders in their MNF loss to the Chargers in Vegas' home debut, how weird it was to see FOX broadcaster Tom Brady in the Raiders' coaching booth, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ding Dong, it's our numb bird two. Well, the ding
Dong would be the quarterback of the Raiders. A dud
of a game in the late TV window on Monday night,
the Chargers led from soup to nuts over the team
from Vegas. What jumps out to you about the three
interception performance by Gino Smith and his Raiders' home debut? Also,
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how weird was it to see minority owner and Fox
broadcaster Tom Brady sitting in the Raiders coaching booth as
Gino Smith drowned on the field. We'll discuss that. And
on the other side, is this Jim Harbaugh Chargers defense
the real deal? Can you make that statement after only
two games of the season? That and more? Right now
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here it is give it up for our number two.
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we continue our all night coverage of Monday Night football.
I was told that the marketing campaign was what happens
in Vegas stays in Vegas, and less it's broadcast on television,
then other people see it. See that's the problem. And
that was the problem with the second half of the
Monday night doubleheader. The first game was not aesthetically pleasing, however,
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the finish was rather dramatic. Tampa Bay, down by five,
matriculated the ball down the field. Baker Mayfield completed a
fourth and ten with a fifteen yard run. They got
down got a rushing touchdown with less than ten seconds
to go. They won the game. That's exciting what happened
in the second half. There was just no juice. There
was no juice there. Now, some of that is a
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credit to the Chargers who played lockdown defense, and they
also got a couple of touchdowns. If you didn't see
the game, perhaps you missed it. I don't know what
you were doing staring at the wall watching some baseball,
watching the fight and Fills beat the Dodgers. That hard
to believe the Dodger bullpit would screw things up, huh. Anyway,
Justin Herbert passed for two hundred and forty two yards
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and a couple of touchdowns and the Chargers they get
it done. Twenty to nine. It's like a Hollering James Special.
Twenty to nine the final over the Raiders on Monday night.
So the Chargers improved to two and oh, the Raiders
dropped to one and one. As LA coach Jim Harbaugh
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beating his mortal enemy and his longtime enemy bee a
Las Vegas coach Pete Carroll. They've been rivals going back
to the USC Stanford days and then the Seattle Seahawks
and the forty nine ers, and they've haven't gone against
each other on the gridiron in over a decade, but
now they have in just a few hours ago. The
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win goes to the team from LA. The Chargers did
lose the Mac attack Khalil Mack. Oh my aching elbow. Yeah, well,
I'm not a doctor. I can tell you though, that
the left elbow, it would appear as going to cause
Khalil Mack to miss an extended period of time. He
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left late in the first quarter and he went to
the locker room. He did return and he had his
arm in a sling. It's generally not a good sign.
So let us discuss the question what jumps out to
you about the better story in losing locker room? What
jumps out to you regarding Geno Smith and his performance
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for the Raiders. Now to put in perspective just how
bad I can give you the numbers. The numbers tell
part of the story. Gino Smith completed a little over
fifty five percent of his passes for one hundred and
eighty yards. He averaged a little over four yards per
pass attempt, and was sacked three times. The Raiders had
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it on a fourth down, needing to get the yard
to gain to keep a drive alive, Keep the game alive,
and Gino Smith threw the ball away out of bounds.
Who does that? Gino Smith? He had let me seew
many touchdowns? He had to see what is less than zero?
Do we have that? No touchdowns? And not one, not two?
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Three interceptions? And again I didn't play in the NFL,
so I don't know if I'm qualified. Off to check
with Ryan Clark, but I think that blows. But it
was a pirate there, she blows Gino Smith. Wow, all right,
So that's what it's home debut, home debut and one
of the only games the Raiders play where there's more
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Raider fans than fans of the other team. They were
a couple dozen Charger fans, but mostly Raider fans right
The Raiders stadium famous for the hostile takeover. It is
a destination situation. Your team goes to Vegas, your fan
base takes over the Raider fans seats because the season
ticket holders sell the tickets because they make a killing
on the secondary mark. Anyway, So what jumps out to
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you about all this. I've got fifty cent family guy
and Michael Myers. We'll keep it all in entertainment and
we'll put all those ingredients together. We're gonna make you
about Ushka's favorite Matza ball soup, is what we're gonna do.
So number WA, I said, Number W. So, I have
seen this act for years. I have been to the circus.
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I have seen the circus acts. It is not my
first dipe. It is not and I chuckle. I also
was a little upset because I did take the Raiders
on Benny versus the Penny. If you saw the YouTube
show this week. I thought the Raiders could at least
keep it close, and they did keep it close. I
was hoping that Gino Smith would avoid pooping his pants
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in this game, but alias that was not the case.
But you know he has it in him. And I've
mentioned this earlier in the show. But going back to
when Gino played in Seattle, and I would spar with
no Stradinas, who lives in not no stra Damas. That's
a I'm a distant relative of no stra Damas, but
No Stradinis lives in Seattle, and and we would go
back and forth year and I said, this guy is
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a turky and no he's not. He's good.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
You don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Crying. Craig and all those guys in Seattle and Gino
Smith is garbage. That's what he is. I like, there's
no other way to say it. I'm not being mean.
I'm not being mean. He's not a good NFL quarterback, right,
He's not. And so this idea is something. Fortunately, a
lot of the Raider fan base is kind of level headed.
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We had Mike from Tucson called up last hour's big
Raider fan. His kids are giving him a hard time. Dad,
why you're a Raider fan? We don't want to be
Rider fan. And he' said, well, you know. He tried
to explain it to him. But here's the thing, right,
when you know, you know when something is too good
to be true, like you just know it. Like like,
for example, the Raiders haven't had a quarterback. I don't
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count car because he's average. He's not good. Derek Carr
was not good his average. So the Raiders haven't had
a top level quarterback since rich Gannon. That's like a
generation to go. So uh so, when you know, going
in when something seems too good to be probably, so
the Raiders went out and acquired a quarterback, a veteran
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quarterback that had started a bunch of games in the
NFL and the Seattle Seahawks. When you when you break
it down, the Seattle Seahawks traded Gino Smith their starting
quarterback there QB number one. They traded traded him, right,
and then signed Sam Darnold, who also stinks. So what
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does that tell us, right? NFL teams don't trade good quarterbacks.
They don't. And Gino Smith is not even a jag.
It's not that JAG's just a guy. He's not that,
just a not that not just a guy. All right.
Geno is an EI S type of quarterback. He's an
enigma in shoulder pads. That's what Geno Smith is, an
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EIS type of quarterback, enigma in shoulder pads. It's the
Geno cycle, right, this is the Geno cycle. I've seen it.
We know how this goes. It's like the seasons of
the year. Right, you go through the different parts of
the calendar. And you know, if you live in a
place that actually has different seasons, you know, fall, beautiful
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time of the year, and then it gets into the
nasty winter time and then you have the spring, and
you go through all the different seasons. Right, So here's
the Geno cycle. If you're new to the Gino Smith game.
For six games, Gino Smith will be a top shelf
NFL quarterback. That's right, top shelf NFL quarterback. For six games,
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Gino will either be elite level quarterback or very very
good six games. For six games, Gino Smith will be average.
He will be filler. He'll be just a guy. He'll
be out there. He won't cost you the game, but
he's not going to lead you to a victory. For
six games, the rest of the time, Gino will be
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the worst player you have ever seen. Gino will be
the kid that tries out for the football team that
you say, hey, the band's over there. That's Gino Smith, right,
That's how he is. And Sunday in Vegas, he was
in the third Monday night, not even Monday night. He
was in that third category, right, the Raiders first home
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look with mostly Raider fans, the first home look there
on Monday night, their shiny new quarterback. They opened up
on the road last week, and you could not have
a worse opening night of your Vegas residency. You could
not have three interceptions. Four years he threw the ball
away on a fourth down. You gotta keep possession to
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have a chance to win the game. He threw the
ball out about. You know he did that because he
I'll throw He was like, oh man, I'm gonna throw
another interception. We just throw it out about. So it
was so good. Now, I have been told I don't
live in Vegas, so some of my guys in Vegas
can back me up on this. But I've been told
in the history of Las Vegas, the single worst residency
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in Vegas history was fifty Cent, that it was the
worst of the worst. I don't know why it was
the worst of the worst. I've just been told. Of
all the performers that have gone to Vegas to try
to entertain people, no one was quite as bad as
fifty cent, the worst in the history of that city
that has had just about every two bit entertainer when
they're washed up, go to Vegas and try to make
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some extra money, right and so Gino like a bad
street musician or one of those people that shake you
down on Fremont Street when they're dressed up as Elmo.
You know, one of those people. So like a bad
magician trying to pull the quarter out and they can't.
They futs it around and all that stuff behind their ear.
Gino Smith is not a mystery box. He's not you
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know what's inside. It's not Jack in the box. It's
Gino in the box. And to quote former Fox Sports
radio personality for about a month before he got a
TV job, the late great Dennis Green, who sat just
down the hall in the old studio and opined about
the NFL, he is who we thought he was, Gino Smith,
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he was, and it just this is the first inning,
the first inning of the season. Really is a game
number two. So buckle up, buccaroo, It's gonna be a
bumpy ride, bumpity bumpity bumpity bump with Gino Smith. Gino
Smith is the used car that the Charlatan put a
fresh coat of paint on, put new upholstery on the seats,
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and looked really good. You're all excited about it. Mass
smells good, looks good. And the second you pull that
thing onto the freeway, onto the highway, the check engine
light starts flashing like Christmas lights and you're like, holy crap,
what happened? And so this certainly felt less like a
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debut a home debut for Gino Smith, and more like
a deja vu, but not the Strip Club for Gino Smith.
We've been there. Now Pete Carroll. We like Pete Carroll.
He famously used the Mallard phone when he was coaching
at USC back in the day, and I've never washed
the phone since. Of course, I like three phones past
that at this particular point. But but there's Pete Carroll,
good old Pete, positive Pete on the sidelines and trying
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to trying to work this out. So here is Pete
Carroll commenting on his quarterback throwing not one, not two,
but three interceptions.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Take a liss Three interceptions by the quarterback. That's usually
a non starter. What was the anything that took put
your finger on it.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, well, he took a couple of shots. You know,
he threw a couple of bombs down there, and one
was on about the two and the other one was
in the end zone, I think, if that's right. Yeah,
the reason that he got there because we had time
to hold the football, so we protected, okay, and we
didn't get the ball thrown underneath. That's that's what I
wish we would have done. I wish we would have
not taken those shots. You know, they looked like, like,
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you know, we've had to score quick or something. I
don't feel like that when we plays is the way
that we should ever play. But so we got to
take what's there, and we got to take a look
on the film and I got to see why that
happened like that. I'm just surprised. We haven't looked like
that at all at any time. So it's the first
time that came out.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Coached him in Seattle. He did the same thing with
the Seahawks. He said, what is that. I love the
coach saying, well, the reason we throw those interceptions our
offensive line protected the quarterback. That's why we threw those interceptions.
Who that's great. Let's hear from Geno Smith. I've got
to hear what Gino has to say. Here's Geno Smith. Gino,
You've just thrown three interceptions in your Raiders home debut.
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Here's the question. Here the answer this.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Spot decision making, especially the ones where he took shots downfield.
Can you just sort of summarize what took place and
where you were at the you know, in the game,
at the moment and taking those shots, especially the ones
that got picked.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Yeah, you know, the first play of the game, the
play that you know we designed. You know, had had
an open guy, let him a little bit too far
up front, ball gets tipped up, gets interception. You know,
a play that you know obviously you want to have
those plays back.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You can't.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
I mean, it's the reality of it. You know, took
a shot to Dante or you know before before the half.
You know, I thought he had a safety on him,
thought he had a shot. You know, I gave him
a chance. Obviously didn't work out in our favor. And
then you know the one to Jacobe, you know, had
a DV with his back turned. They're playing Tampa two.
You know, thought I could fit it in there. Obviously
we need to score seven points in that situation. You know,
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a field goal would have helped us, but you know
seven points would have put us in a better position.
Bagus tipped up again. You know, I thought I'd put
it in a decent spot where our guy can make
a play. Bagus tipped up, They make a play on it,
and you know we don't get points.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
That is a forty million dollar quarterback right there. The
Raiders are paying him forty million dollars to give the
other team the ball, all right, Moving on from that,
So page two here the B squad on esp How
bad were those announcers? Holy crap man Dan Orlofsky. He
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must have photos of people compromising goes. Anyway, the B
squad there on ESPN showed Tom Brady shadowing chip Kelly.
The Raiders wrote ton to offensive Cordner, the man that
saw the light at UCLA and ran away from those
gutty little bruins. Get me out of here anyway. Chip
Kelly's now toiling in the NFL. Is the Raiders offensive corner.
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There was Tom Brady sitting in the booth and he
had a headset on the whole dale, the whole fing
of a Jake question. How weird was it? How weird
was it to see the minority owner of the Raiders,
the Fox broadcaster Tom Brady's sitting in the Raiders coaching
booth as Gino Smith drowned on television. So this was
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peak surreal sports TV is what this was. It was perfect.
It was deserving is a word I will use. Tom
Brady is the GM by proxy. Every man, woman and
child knows it. Everyone knows this. Tom Brady is the
GM by proxy with the Raiders. He's got plausible the ability.
That's what he wants, right. If the team's bad, it's
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not my fault. I'm not the GM. I'm just hanging
out at the country club drinking cocktails and doing my yoga.
So he's got plausible belly. He's there in the room,
he's got the headset on. He's got a bird's eye
view of what's going on from atop the stadium. Tom
sitting there, he can literally smell the suck. Yeah, that's
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Raider football, Baby, smell the suck. The commitment to blow
the Raiders. Now, you cannot wash off the silver and
black goo that Gino Smith put all over the field there.
It was all over everything. And listen, this is to
be expected. Tom Brady, mister big shot out there. He
went out and got leftovers. That's not who he wanted.
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It's not who he wanted. It's not Tom Brady wanted
Ben Johnson. That's not looking very good either, Ben Johnson
with the Bears, and he got Pete Carroll. Tom Brady
wanted Matthew Stafford to be the Raiders quarterback. He winded
done Stafford at a Montana resort, treated him like he
was the king of the world, and Matthew Stafford said
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thanks very much, Tom, I'm not going to play for
you and went back to the Rams, and so he
ended up with Gino Smith the consolation prize. Gino Smith.
That's not team building, that is settling. And Brady, what
he has done is recreate the twenty three, not twenty nineteen,
twenty twenty three, and I believe the twenty twenty two
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Seattle Seahawks. And is that some kind of trailblazer activity.
It's it's like the family guy cutaway Tom Brady's quagmire
in the booth. Giggity giggity giggity giggity right, that's Tom Brady, right,
what have I done? What have I done?
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Giggy giggy giget gigeby.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Meanwhile, Gino Smith out there sinking in quicksand it's just
so good. The Raiders can't pick up a first down,
or it's so you can't get a touchdown. They got
some first downs, but they have a lot of bass hits,
not any doubles, not any triples out any home Russ
Tom Bradys. They're taking notes like a professor who who
brought the wrong lecture binder and all that, and oh
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By the way, how the hell did the Patriots lose
the Raiders? All my guys in the in the Northeast,
what's going on with your team? You lost to that
Raider team, you lost to Gino Smith. If I'm Robert Kraft,
I am throwing up in my mouth that that Patriots
lost to the Raiders with that combination. Man, it's it's
Seahawk cosplay from a couple of years ago, and that
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is an indictment on the Patriots. That's a different conversation.
But thisten tom Brady wants to play genius owner, but
he wants plausible deniability, and he's got to stank all
over him. I hope he enjoys that. He's not the
greatest quarterback of all time anymore. He's a former NFL
quarterback who's in very poor broadcaster and apparently a very
terrible GM at the same time. All right, now, final point.
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We go to the winners locker room. Quickly, we go
to the winners locker room. Is this Jim Harbaugh Chargers
defense the real deal? Are they the real deal?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
So?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I am not sold yet? Okay, I am not sold yet.
Now the jury is still out. The numbers are stunningly
good for the Charges right now. They handed it to
Mahomes in Brazil on that Friday NFL opener. The Chiefs offense, however,
is lacking these spark plugs. They don't have any real playmakers,
and so it's not the same Chiefs of years gone
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by right now. And then you go out and you
beat Geno Smith and the Raiders police Gino is child's play.
It's Michael Myers with a NERF knife, is what it is.
You're not as intimidated off Michael Myers with a NERF knife.
You think you can take Michael Myers with a Nerf fifer.
But the Seahawks got rid of him right as we
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talked about and all that stuff, and that's all you
need to know. And so now the Chargers do not
have the most difficult schedule. They don't play the Ravens,
they don't play the Bills. But down the line, if
they get to the playoffs, they're gonna have to be
match up with Josh Allen, and if they can hogtie
Josh Allen, if they can slam the door on Lamar Jackson,
which both those guys not as good in the playoffs,
at least Lamar is definitely not as good in the playoffs.
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But that's when I will start to buy into the
powder Blue hype. And Justin Herbert, who you know, not
not a fan, you know, not everyone loves this guy.
I've seen this guy sucking big games for several years now.
And I like Jim Harbaugh. I'm a fan of hardball.
And certainly they're playing aggressive, crushing people on defense, and
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it's the power hour down at SOFI. They get their
home opener against Coops Broncos next weekend, so that's a
big that's a big turning point game. You win that game,
you start, you start bearing people in the division, and
you start opening up some space if you're the Chargers,
if you can beat the Broncos at home next week,
and at that point maybe you start saying show me
your lightning bolt like my old mentor Hacksaw back in
the day. But until then, eh, yeah, it's a nice
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September story. It's a good September story. Wake me up, though,
when they do this in December in January, all right,
then then I'll be okay, Yeah, it's legit. Spen Aller
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a talk show. We we go back to the talk.
Talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk all
night talk, a lot of talk, yes, a lot of talk.
Let's see what do we have here on the live air. Yes,
you're on the late night drug Tester says, I was
feeling good about fading Poppy's picks until halftime of the
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Raiders game. Poppy being only right one out of three
times will send you straight to the poorhouse. Yes, that
is a good way for you to go bankrupt, is
to lose all your money. Scrooge who loves to brag
that he's in the younger demographic in the audience in
the Bay Area, says my girl asked me, Scrooge said,
(24:35):
if I was going to watch the Raiders game. I
said no, because the Raiders will probably lose twenty to
six and Gino Smith will likely throw at least two
interceptions after the final That's right, the Raiders now after
the final score, She asked me how I knew that
would happen. I said, because it's the Raiders, and that's
what the Raiders do. That is what the Raiders do.
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Who else do we have? Supermarkets? Ste says my man,
Geno Smith did something very impressive on Monday night. He
threw three interceptions. None of them were The worst pass
he threw all night. That fourth down throwaway was pathetically bad,
and he said supermarket. Seve also says that Danny G
Radio and Roberto. You haven't checked in on Danny G
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Radio and Robert, two of the biggest Raider fans I know.
Says Danny G Radio and Roberto are frantically checking to
see if their Geno Smith jerseys can be They ordered
back on Monday that hasn't been shipped last Monday and
hopes they can just outright cancel the order before they
have to actually send it back. It is a problem.
Just Josh from since Sinnati writes and says, Gino Smith
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plays quarterback like he's flat broke. I think it's a
geno thing. Let me see what you did. There went
forty million dollars. That's he got more money from the Raiders.
Mentioned that the guy stuck. He's stuck in Seattle. You
trade for him, give him the keys to the franchise.
You gotta pay him more money. And the guy proved
he can't play. Now the Grill Sergeant writes and says,
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eight plus plus plus on the mal monologue. I had
to suffer through the Seattle Gino years. I can count
on one hand how many times he look like a
slightly above average quarterback. He blew as a Seattle Sea
Hawk and will continue to blow as a raider now.
Kenneth points out that it still sounds like rice crispies.
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He says at the feed the ieheart.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
Kenneth the only one who's saying that.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
All right, anyone who wants to complain, you need to
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will do rapid fire. Maybe it doesn't sound like Rice Crispies.
It's possible. It might sound like Captain Crunch. Could be
Captain Crunch. It could be what other great cereals do
(26:57):
we have here? We cheerios? Nobody likes cheerios, Honey, cheerios
are not bad. My dad and my dad and he's dead,
but he loved cheerios. What about Freddy Pebbles?
Speaker 9 (27:09):
Not? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
But aren't they getting rid of all the dies? They're
changing the dies, right, so they're just gonna look like
they're not going to be as bright and all that stuff.
Bill's Monster writes in he says, maybe next week they'll
let Tom Brady suit up, call the plays and sell
concessions at halftime. Don't worry, he says, don't worry, Vegas.
We'll still find a way to lose by double digits
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Tom Brady. They're coaching from the box and now though,
calm down. Somehow the Raiders still managed to look like
the Raiders, truly inspiring proof that even the goat can't
save a franchise. Well isn't that that that's got to
be a vote for Belichick, like Tom Brady. Like the
(27:56):
Belichick Brady things already over right, because Belichick went to
he sucked without Brady and then all that. However, Tom
Brady as a general manager and as a coach, to me,
that's not a loss on Pete care That's a loss
on Tom Brady. Do we have that audio? But we
have we have. Here's Pete Carroll commenting on the fact
(28:17):
that Tom Brady was in the But who was in
the box? Tom Brady? Listen to Pete Carroll comment on that. No,
we have it somewhere. We're gonna find it. But Pete
Carroll was asking to make sure it's the right one. Okay.
We want to play the right one. We believe in
We have high standards here. We want to play the
right one. Yeah, because I can't you want to play
the wrong one. The wrong one would be wrong. People
(28:38):
will be upset if we play the wrong ones. We
gotta play the right one. But Pete Carroll commenting on
the fact that Tom Brady, it's it's kind of like
your boss, who's a busy body. All right, Here's here's
Pete Carrole let's see what he had to say.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
There was a report that Tom Brady meets three times
a week or so with Chip Kelly, goes over a
film with them. We saw him up in the booth
with the with the headset on. I just was curious
you're thoughts on that level of participation with convert.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Yeah, that's not it's not accurate. That's not accurate. If
if that's not accurate, we have conversations. I talked to Tom.
Chip talks to Tom regularly. I mean, we have a
tremendous asset and so, uh, you know, and we all
get along well and we respect each other, and so
we just talk, you know, about life and football and
whatever it comes. And uh, and we he has great insight.
(29:27):
So we're lucky to have him as an owner.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
See. The follow up would have been, well, how many
times do you guys talk? Because Pete Carroll said, no,
that's not incorrect, that's not correct. We don't talk three times.
What if they talk five or six times? What if
it's actually more than that? How about that? Right? We
have I think we have people calling up to complain
about the audio feed. Random caller, you're on the These
are on screen calls. Hello, random caller, you're on the air, Hello,
(29:52):
random call Yes, so are you calling the complain? Yeah?
Sometimes when you playing yours one commercial time? Oh really?
All right? All right, well that's it. You sound terrible too,
(30:13):
That's that's not good. Does how does that happen? Some
of this is automated. I think some of this is automated. Yeah,
so there's automation. That's what you want. AI. You fire
human beings, you get AI. That's what happens. Sometimes AI
f's up, and that happens that we have more people complaining.
These are actual callers complaining about the quality of the
audio feed and normally sparkling this. iHeart app is amazing.
(30:38):
But I'm glad you're calling them because we will. Let
me tell you, heads are going to rule. We are
going to let corporate know that we are not going
to stand for inferior audio quality. We are not going
to have high standards here on the Ben Maler Show.
Let's go to Timothy, who's in Portland, Oregon. He's also complaining. Hello, Timothy,
what does it sound? Does it sound like Rice krispys?
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Timothy? Oh yeah, snap, crackle and pop.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Ben.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
How you doing all right? Uh, well, apparently not good.
If I sound like I'm I'm in a bowl of
rice crispies. You don't believe this guy. Cut wait minute, Lorainy,
you don't believe this guy. He sounds like he's coming,
so clear, Lorenda does not believe you. Oh it sounds
good now, okay.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Right now, it sounds good. But on the I'm listening
to the Iron Heart app.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
And it was also Jason Smith.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
And Mike Carmen and for the last couple of days.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Oh is this not new?
Speaker 2 (31:27):
No, So I decided to because You're like, everyone tell
us if it's bad, And I was like, oh.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
You know, well, yeah, let us know how we're not
listening to it. How the hell would we know We're
not actually listening to what we're doing it, So there's
no way we know if it sucks. Oh, thank you, Timmy.
We'll make sure this is fixed right away. In fact,
I'm gonna wake up some corporate weasel right now at
all right, thank you, all right. Yeah. I've been to
the iHeart headquarters in Manhattan, the iHeart building in Manhattan.
(31:53):
They have the master computers of the iHeart network. Is
it sounds really sexy, but it's just these giant it's
like on I forget what floors is on. But it's
in the iHeart Building, which is in Lower Manhattan, which
is not the good part of Manhattan because it's the
old part of Manhattan where the streets don't line up
and it was designed for like horses and crap like that,
so it's really confusing. If you're not from there, you
(32:13):
don't really know what to do anyway. Uh, And it's
just a bunch of service. It's just mostly a bunch
of computer room, you know, the big giant rooms and
like as long as you can see floors of computers
and all that. We more people complaining about the audio.
Let's go to Josh. It's the hour of complaints. Josh
is on Orlando. Josh, what does it sound like? Josh
boots on the ground.
Speaker 7 (32:32):
You know what, I'll tell you, Lorena sounds amazing and fabulous.
You sound kind of staticky. But if we had to
blame anybody, it definitely would blame Eddy.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yes, I agree, even though he no longer works here.
Let's blame Eddie Garcia went in doubt, blame Eddie. That's
I agree. That's a great take to solid take. Josh
so there's no way the Raina sounds good if everyone
else sounds bad.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
It could just be my naturally nice one. No, this
is he's just trying to You're just trying to suck up.
I know she hung off Andrew and bakers This guy
always complains me. He's such a fan boy. What's going on, Andrew?
What are you gonna complain about? Go ahead, hurry up.
Speaker 9 (33:06):
Okay. I heard has been messed up since the Odd Couple,
but it's also messed up on AM nine seventy in
Baker's Field.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Oh my god, we are not AM night seventy A.
Baker's Field is messed up. Oh my god, Baker's Field
is messed up. Holy crap. That's our most important affiliate.
We Bakersfield sounds bad? Well, Raina, call the engineers right now,
Wake them off the phone, right now. All right, we're
gonna get to the bottom of this. Andrew, what what?
(33:35):
How's that Dodger? How's that Dodger? Bullpen? Andrew? You're gonna
defend those bums.
Speaker 9 (33:39):
I missed the end of the game.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I'm sure you that's convenient, Andrew, That's very convenient. You
know who else missed the end of the game, the
Dodger bumping. They missed the end of the game.
Speaker 9 (33:50):
That's unfortunate. But your monologue, you were cracking me up.
Whenever you talk about ooh or crap. It's hilarious. But
also one of my favorite things from a sports talk
show when the host laughs at himself, he makes himself laugh.
That's the best, I think one of them.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
You enjoy that. So you want more potty talk? You
would like us to do more potty talk?
Speaker 9 (34:12):
Well, just wouldn't You made yourself laugh? It's funny.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Oh okay, all right, thank you. Can you try not
to clear your throat on the ear? Yeah, thank you?
All right, go ahead saying there's Andrew.
Speaker 8 (34:29):
I wonder if this is making the audio quality better
or worse.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
I don't know. Well, we we had a lot of
people complaining to me of audio quality. You need some garlic,
Chris Fowler. That's what his voice satellite actually Chris Vowler
on ESPN. He was doing the play by play and
he clearly had some kind of sinus infection. Vocal situation
was not sounding particularly. I recommend rob garlic. It looked
(34:57):
like he had either had laryngitis or he was just
getting laryngitis, and for some reason he had to do
the game because he only gets to do like one
NFL game a year, and that was the night and
he did not want to miss his one NFL game
a year. So much like me doing the show when
I've had laryngitis, it's not good. And how about sign
(35:17):
language from Justin Herbert spotted by cameras walking in to
the stadium in Vegas. There and he low key gave
the bird under hand bird, hand down bird to the paparazzi. Yeah,
that's your charge, quarterback right there, he's gonna get fined.
It is the Ben Att Malor Show. Straight ahead. We
have mallardly third degree and here's the answer. Trivia. Blank
(35:40):
became the first wide receiver in NFL history to record
a negative receiving yards negative receiving yards on at least
eight targets. And that is the answer, Trivia. The answer.
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
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(36:26):
here's the Insta Trivia quick light. So only the only
teams in NFL history to blow when we did that
last hour, this is the instat Trivia. So Blank became
the first wide receiver in NFL history to have negative
receiving yards on at least eight targets. This has never
happened before in NFL history. That's the question. What's the answer?
(36:48):
Joy Galloway from paulid Count Alfred Chocula from King Rory
Gumby from Eloy from Compton Scroogers going with Jim Rome
in the jungle. Who else do we have? Page now?
The Leprechan from Femi, the Uber East Driver, Curley Lambeau
from JT The Wingman, muffin Man from Milkman Mike. Who
else page down? Adam Feelen from just Josh Jrwood Kirby
(37:11):
from Shane and des Moines, Antonio Brown from Chip and
the Queues. All right, what's that you quick? Right, Mike Harmon, No,
although he did. He's a good pass catcher. He was
on the hallway Panthers a receiver Xavier Leget on Sunday,
first time ever. Here we got here, we got how about?
(37:31):
That was a fun degree. This is one big gets
grilled cool book.
Speaker 6 (37:39):
The Arizona Cardinals are two and oh after another win
that was closer than it should have been. Kyler Murray
admitted to the media that if they keep playing around,
they're gonna get bit.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Ben when do you think they get bit Well, this
is the worst two and oh team in NFS three.
They beat the Saints and the Carolina Panthers. All right,
they're frauds. And now they play another suspect team, the
forty nine ers with Mac Jones this week. So they
could be three and oh and still not good. They
have the softest schedule. They play Seattle and Darnald he
blows the Titan. They are looking at possibly five and
(38:11):
zero and still not a good team. So I don't
believe him. Next, Drake May.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
Was getting nothing but praise from his Patriots teammates after
his three touchdown performance against the Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Ben, do you think May has turned a corner? No.
The fact that Miami has basically quit on their head coach,
and yet the Patriots needed to make some amazing plays
late in that game to win the game is not
a great side. The Dolphins had a lead in the
fourth quarter in that game. That is not any particularly.
I'm not overly impressed with Drake May. He looked very
(38:42):
average to me. Next.
Speaker 6 (38:44):
Over the weekend, Salvador Perez of the Royals became just
the eighth catcher to hit three hundred homers and the
fifteenth to get one thousand rbi. Ben, do you think
Perez will get into the Hall?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
He's not for me. He's not a Hall of Famer.
He's going to get into the Hall of Fame. Nine
time All Star, five Gold Gloves, World Series, MVP. He's
in the Hall of Fame. I wouldn't put him in,
but he's in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 9 (39:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
He's got all the accolades. It's a Lifetime Achievement Award.
How do we do? I've got the game, super Dog.
I won the game for
Ding Dong, it's our numb bird two. Well, the ding
Dong would be the quarterback of the Raiders. A dud
of a game in the late TV window on Monday night,
the Chargers led from soup to nuts over the team
from Vegas. What jumps out to you about the three
interception performance by Gino Smith and his Raiders' home debut? Also,
(00:22):
how weird was it to see minority owner and Fox
broadcaster Tom Brady sitting in the Raiders coaching booth as
Gino Smith drowned on the field. We'll discuss that. And
on the other side, is this Jim Harbaugh Chargers defense
the real deal? Can you make that statement after only
two games of the season? That and more? Right now
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here it is give it up for our number two.
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we continue our all night coverage of Monday Night football.
I was told that the marketing campaign was what happens
in Vegas stays in Vegas, and less it's broadcast on television,
then other people see it. See that's the problem. And
that was the problem with the second half of the
Monday night doubleheader. The first game was not aesthetically pleasing, however,
(02:14):
the finish was rather dramatic. Tampa Bay, down by five,
matriculated the ball down the field. Baker Mayfield completed a
fourth and ten with a fifteen yard run. They got
down got a rushing touchdown with less than ten seconds
to go. They won the game. That's exciting what happened
in the second half. There was just no juice. There
was no juice there. Now, some of that is a
(02:36):
credit to the Chargers who played lockdown defense, and they
also got a couple of touchdowns. If you didn't see
the game, perhaps you missed it. I don't know what
you were doing staring at the wall watching some baseball,
watching the fight and Fills beat the Dodgers. That hard
to believe the Dodger bullpit would screw things up, huh. Anyway,
Justin Herbert passed for two hundred and forty two yards
(02:58):
and a couple of touchdowns and the Chargers they get
it done. Twenty to nine. It's like a Hollering James Special.
Twenty to nine the final over the Raiders on Monday night.
So the Chargers improved to two and oh, the Raiders
dropped to one and one. As LA coach Jim Harbaugh
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beating his mortal enemy and his longtime enemy bee a
Las Vegas coach Pete Carroll. They've been rivals going back
to the USC Stanford days and then the Seattle Seahawks
and the forty nine ers, and they've haven't gone against
each other on the gridiron in over a decade, but
now they have in just a few hours ago. The
(03:39):
win goes to the team from LA. The Chargers did
lose the Mac attack Khalil Mack. Oh my aching elbow. Yeah, well,
I'm not a doctor. I can tell you though, that
the left elbow, it would appear as going to cause
Khalil Mack to miss an extended period of time. He
(03:59):
left late in the first quarter and he went to
the locker room. He did return and he had his
arm in a sling. It's generally not a good sign.
So let us discuss the question what jumps out to
you about the better story in losing locker room? What
jumps out to you regarding Geno Smith and his performance
(04:21):
for the Raiders. Now to put in perspective just how
bad I can give you the numbers. The numbers tell
part of the story. Gino Smith completed a little over
fifty five percent of his passes for one hundred and
eighty yards. He averaged a little over four yards per
pass attempt, and was sacked three times. The Raiders had
(04:44):
it on a fourth down, needing to get the yard
to gain to keep a drive alive, Keep the game alive,
and Gino Smith threw the ball away out of bounds.
Who does that? Gino Smith? He had let me seew
many touchdowns? He had to see what is less than zero?
Do we have that? No touchdowns? And not one, not two?
(05:07):
Three interceptions? And again I didn't play in the NFL,
so I don't know if I'm qualified. Off to check
with Ryan Clark, but I think that blows. But it
was a pirate there, she blows Gino Smith. Wow, all right,
So that's what it's home debut, home debut and one
of the only games the Raiders play where there's more
(05:28):
Raider fans than fans of the other team. They were
a couple dozen Charger fans, but mostly Raider fans right
The Raiders stadium famous for the hostile takeover. It is
a destination situation. Your team goes to Vegas, your fan
base takes over the Raider fans seats because the season
ticket holders sell the tickets because they make a killing
on the secondary mark. Anyway, So what jumps out to
(05:51):
you about all this. I've got fifty cent family guy
and Michael Myers. We'll keep it all in entertainment and
we'll put all those ingredients together. We're gonna make you
about Ushka's favorite Matza ball soup, is what we're gonna do.
So number WA, I said, Number W. So, I have
seen this act for years. I have been to the circus.
(06:12):
I have seen the circus acts. It is not my
first dipe. It is not and I chuckle. I also
was a little upset because I did take the Raiders
on Benny versus the Penny. If you saw the YouTube
show this week. I thought the Raiders could at least
keep it close, and they did keep it close. I
was hoping that Gino Smith would avoid pooping his pants
(06:33):
in this game, but alias that was not the case.
But you know he has it in him. And I've
mentioned this earlier in the show. But going back to
when Gino played in Seattle, and I would spar with
no Stradinas, who lives in not no stra Damas. That's
a I'm a distant relative of no stra Damas, but
No Stradinis lives in Seattle, and and we would go
back and forth year and I said, this guy is
(06:53):
a turky and no he's not. He's good.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
You don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Crying. Craig and all those guys in Seattle and Gino
Smith is garbage. That's what he is. I like, there's
no other way to say it. I'm not being mean.
I'm not being mean. He's not a good NFL quarterback, right,
He's not. And so this idea is something. Fortunately, a
lot of the Raider fan base is kind of level headed.
(07:20):
We had Mike from Tucson called up last hour's big
Raider fan. His kids are giving him a hard time. Dad,
why you're a Raider fan? We don't want to be
Rider fan. And he' said, well, you know. He tried
to explain it to him. But here's the thing, right,
when you know, you know when something is too good
to be true, like you just know it. Like like,
for example, the Raiders haven't had a quarterback. I don't
(07:41):
count car because he's average. He's not good. Derek Carr
was not good his average. So the Raiders haven't had
a top level quarterback since rich Gannon. That's like a
generation to go. So uh so, when you know, going
in when something seems too good to be probably, so
the Raiders went out and acquired a quarterback, a veteran
(08:03):
quarterback that had started a bunch of games in the
NFL and the Seattle Seahawks. When you when you break
it down, the Seattle Seahawks traded Gino Smith their starting
quarterback there QB number one. They traded traded him, right,
and then signed Sam Darnold, who also stinks. So what
(08:24):
does that tell us, right? NFL teams don't trade good quarterbacks.
They don't. And Gino Smith is not even a jag.
It's not that JAG's just a guy. He's not that,
just a not that not just a guy. All right.
Geno is an EI S type of quarterback. He's an
enigma in shoulder pads. That's what Geno Smith is, an
(08:46):
EIS type of quarterback, enigma in shoulder pads. It's the
Geno cycle, right, this is the Geno cycle. I've seen it.
We know how this goes. It's like the seasons of
the year. Right, you go through the different parts of
the calendar. And you know, if you live in a
place that actually has different seasons, you know, fall, beautiful
(09:06):
time of the year, and then it gets into the
nasty winter time and then you have the spring, and
you go through all the different seasons. Right, So here's
the Geno cycle. If you're new to the Gino Smith game.
For six games, Gino Smith will be a top shelf
NFL quarterback. That's right, top shelf NFL quarterback. For six games,
(09:26):
Gino will either be elite level quarterback or very very
good six games. For six games, Gino Smith will be average.
He will be filler. He'll be just a guy. He'll
be out there. He won't cost you the game, but
he's not going to lead you to a victory. For
six games, the rest of the time, Gino will be
(09:49):
the worst player you have ever seen. Gino will be
the kid that tries out for the football team that
you say, hey, the band's over there. That's Gino Smith, right,
That's how he is. And Sunday in Vegas, he was
in the third Monday night, not even Monday night. He
was in that third category, right, the Raiders first home
(10:11):
look with mostly Raider fans, the first home look there
on Monday night, their shiny new quarterback. They opened up
on the road last week, and you could not have
a worse opening night of your Vegas residency. You could
not have three interceptions. Four years he threw the ball
away on a fourth down. You gotta keep possession to
(10:34):
have a chance to win the game. He threw the
ball out about. You know he did that because he
I'll throw He was like, oh man, I'm gonna throw
another interception. We just throw it out about. So it
was so good. Now, I have been told I don't
live in Vegas, so some of my guys in Vegas
can back me up on this. But I've been told
in the history of Las Vegas, the single worst residency
(10:54):
in Vegas history was fifty Cent, that it was the
worst of the worst. I don't know why it was
the worst of the worst. I've just been told. Of
all the performers that have gone to Vegas to try
to entertain people, no one was quite as bad as
fifty cent, the worst in the history of that city
that has had just about every two bit entertainer when
they're washed up, go to Vegas and try to make
(11:15):
some extra money, right and so Gino like a bad
street musician or one of those people that shake you
down on Fremont Street when they're dressed up as Elmo.
You know, one of those people. So like a bad
magician trying to pull the quarter out and they can't.
They futs it around and all that stuff behind their ear.
Gino Smith is not a mystery box. He's not you
(11:37):
know what's inside. It's not Jack in the box. It's
Gino in the box. And to quote former Fox Sports
radio personality for about a month before he got a
TV job, the late great Dennis Green, who sat just
down the hall in the old studio and opined about
the NFL, he is who we thought he was, Gino Smith,
(11:58):
he was, and it just this is the first inning,
the first inning of the season. Really is a game
number two. So buckle up, buccaroo, It's gonna be a
bumpy ride, bumpity bumpity bumpity bump with Gino Smith. Gino
Smith is the used car that the Charlatan put a
fresh coat of paint on, put new upholstery on the seats,
(12:22):
and looked really good. You're all excited about it. Mass
smells good, looks good. And the second you pull that
thing onto the freeway, onto the highway, the check engine
light starts flashing like Christmas lights and you're like, holy crap,
what happened? And so this certainly felt less like a
(12:42):
debut a home debut for Gino Smith, and more like
a deja vu, but not the Strip Club for Gino Smith.
We've been there. Now Pete Carroll. We like Pete Carroll.
He famously used the Mallard phone when he was coaching
at USC back in the day, and I've never washed
the phone since. Of course, I like three phones past
that at this particular point. But but there's Pete Carroll,
good old Pete, positive Pete on the sidelines and trying
(13:06):
to trying to work this out. So here is Pete
Carroll commenting on his quarterback throwing not one, not two,
but three interceptions.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Take a liss Three interceptions by the quarterback. That's usually
a non starter. What was the anything that took put
your finger on it.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, well, he took a couple of shots. You know,
he threw a couple of bombs down there, and one
was on about the two and the other one was
in the end zone, I think, if that's right. Yeah,
the reason that he got there because we had time
to hold the football, so we protected, okay, and we
didn't get the ball thrown underneath. That's that's what I
wish we would have done. I wish we would have
not taken those shots. You know, they looked like, like,
(13:43):
you know, we've had to score quick or something. I
don't feel like that when we plays is the way
that we should ever play. But so we got to
take what's there, and we got to take a look
on the film and I got to see why that
happened like that. I'm just surprised. We haven't looked like
that at all at any time. So it's the first
time that came out.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Coached him in Seattle. He did the same thing with
the Seahawks. He said, what is that. I love the
coach saying, well, the reason we throw those interceptions our
offensive line protected the quarterback. That's why we threw those interceptions.
Who that's great. Let's hear from Geno Smith. I've got
to hear what Gino has to say. Here's Geno Smith. Gino,
You've just thrown three interceptions in your Raiders home debut.
(14:22):
Here's the question. Here the answer this.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Spot decision making, especially the ones where he took shots downfield.
Can you just sort of summarize what took place and
where you were at the you know, in the game,
at the moment and taking those shots, especially the ones
that got picked.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Yeah, you know, the first play of the game, the
play that you know we designed. You know, had had
an open guy, let him a little bit too far
up front, ball gets tipped up, gets interception. You know,
a play that you know obviously you want to have
those plays back.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You can't.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
I mean, it's the reality of it. You know, took
a shot to Dante or you know before before the half.
You know, I thought he had a safety on him,
thought he had a shot. You know, I gave him
a chance. Obviously didn't work out in our favor. And
then you know the one to Jacobe, you know, had
a DV with his back turned. They're playing Tampa two.
You know, thought I could fit it in there. Obviously
we need to score seven points in that situation. You know,
(15:08):
a field goal would have helped us, but you know
seven points would have put us in a better position.
Bagus tipped up again. You know, I thought I'd put
it in a decent spot where our guy can make
a play. Bagus tipped up, They make a play on it,
and you know we don't get points.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
That is a forty million dollar quarterback right there. The
Raiders are paying him forty million dollars to give the
other team the ball, all right, Moving on from that,
So page two here the B squad on esp How
bad were those announcers? Holy crap man Dan Orlofsky. He
(15:42):
must have photos of people compromising goes. Anyway, the B
squad there on ESPN showed Tom Brady shadowing chip Kelly.
The Raiders wrote ton to offensive Cordner, the man that
saw the light at UCLA and ran away from those
gutty little bruins. Get me out of here anyway. Chip
Kelly's now toiling in the NFL. Is the Raiders offensive corner.
(16:03):
There was Tom Brady sitting in the booth and he
had a headset on the whole dale, the whole fing
of a Jake question. How weird was it? How weird
was it to see the minority owner of the Raiders,
the Fox broadcaster Tom Brady's sitting in the Raiders coaching
booth as Gino Smith drowned on television. So this was
(16:29):
peak surreal sports TV is what this was. It was perfect.
It was deserving is a word I will use. Tom
Brady is the GM by proxy. Every man, woman and
child knows it. Everyone knows this. Tom Brady is the
GM by proxy with the Raiders. He's got plausible the ability.
That's what he wants, right. If the team's bad, it's
(16:50):
not my fault. I'm not the GM. I'm just hanging
out at the country club drinking cocktails and doing my yoga.
So he's got plausible belly. He's there in the room,
he's got the headset on. He's got a bird's eye
view of what's going on from atop the stadium. Tom
sitting there, he can literally smell the suck. Yeah, that's
(17:13):
Raider football, Baby, smell the suck. The commitment to blow
the Raiders. Now, you cannot wash off the silver and
black goo that Gino Smith put all over the field there.
It was all over everything. And listen, this is to
be expected. Tom Brady, mister big shot out there. He
went out and got leftovers. That's not who he wanted.
(17:37):
It's not who he wanted. It's not Tom Brady wanted
Ben Johnson. That's not looking very good either, Ben Johnson
with the Bears, and he got Pete Carroll. Tom Brady
wanted Matthew Stafford to be the Raiders quarterback. He winded
done Stafford at a Montana resort, treated him like he
was the king of the world, and Matthew Stafford said
(17:59):
thanks very much, Tom, I'm not going to play for
you and went back to the Rams, and so he
ended up with Gino Smith the consolation prize. Gino Smith.
That's not team building, that is settling. And Brady, what
he has done is recreate the twenty three, not twenty nineteen,
twenty twenty three, and I believe the twenty twenty two
(18:19):
Seattle Seahawks. And is that some kind of trailblazer activity.
It's it's like the family guy cutaway Tom Brady's quagmire
in the booth. Giggity giggity giggity giggity right, that's Tom Brady, right,
what have I done? What have I done?
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Giggy giggy giget gigeby.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Meanwhile, Gino Smith out there sinking in quicksand it's just
so good. The Raiders can't pick up a first down,
or it's so you can't get a touchdown. They got
some first downs, but they have a lot of bass hits,
not any doubles, not any triples out any home Russ
Tom Bradys. They're taking notes like a professor who who
brought the wrong lecture binder and all that, and oh
(19:00):
By the way, how the hell did the Patriots lose
the Raiders? All my guys in the in the Northeast,
what's going on with your team? You lost to that
Raider team, you lost to Gino Smith. If I'm Robert Kraft,
I am throwing up in my mouth that that Patriots
lost to the Raiders with that combination. Man, it's it's
Seahawk cosplay from a couple of years ago, and that
(19:22):
is an indictment on the Patriots. That's a different conversation.
But thisten tom Brady wants to play genius owner, but
he wants plausible deniability, and he's got to stank all
over him. I hope he enjoys that. He's not the
greatest quarterback of all time anymore. He's a former NFL
quarterback who's in very poor broadcaster and apparently a very
terrible GM at the same time. All right, now, final point.
(19:43):
We go to the winners locker room. Quickly, we go
to the winners locker room. Is this Jim Harbaugh Chargers
defense the real deal? Are they the real deal?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
So?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I am not sold yet? Okay, I am not sold yet.
Now the jury is still out. The numbers are stunningly
good for the Charges right now. They handed it to
Mahomes in Brazil on that Friday NFL opener. The Chiefs offense, however,
is lacking these spark plugs. They don't have any real playmakers,
and so it's not the same Chiefs of years gone
(20:15):
by right now. And then you go out and you
beat Geno Smith and the Raiders police Gino is child's play.
It's Michael Myers with a NERF knife, is what it is.
You're not as intimidated off Michael Myers with a NERF knife.
You think you can take Michael Myers with a Nerf fifer.
But the Seahawks got rid of him right as we
(20:36):
talked about and all that stuff, and that's all you
need to know. And so now the Chargers do not
have the most difficult schedule. They don't play the Ravens,
they don't play the Bills. But down the line, if
they get to the playoffs, they're gonna have to be
match up with Josh Allen, and if they can hogtie
Josh Allen, if they can slam the door on Lamar Jackson,
which both those guys not as good in the playoffs,
at least Lamar is definitely not as good in the playoffs.
(20:57):
But that's when I will start to buy into the
powder Blue hype. And Justin Herbert, who you know, not
not a fan, you know, not everyone loves this guy.
I've seen this guy sucking big games for several years now.
And I like Jim Harbaugh. I'm a fan of hardball.
And certainly they're playing aggressive, crushing people on defense, and
(21:21):
it's the power hour down at SOFI. They get their
home opener against Coops Broncos next weekend, so that's a
big that's a big turning point game. You win that game,
you start, you start bearing people in the division, and
you start opening up some space if you're the Chargers,
if you can beat the Broncos at home next week,
and at that point maybe you start saying show me
your lightning bolt like my old mentor Hacksaw back in
the day. But until then, eh, yeah, it's a nice
(21:43):
September story. It's a good September story. Wake me up, though,
when they do this in December in January, all right,
then then I'll be okay, Yeah, it's legit. Spen Aller
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(23:51):
a talk show. We we go back to the talk.
Talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk all
night talk, a lot of talk, yes, a lot of talk.
Let's see what do we have here on the live air. Yes,
you're on the late night drug Tester says, I was
feeling good about fading Poppy's picks until halftime of the
(24:12):
Raiders game. Poppy being only right one out of three
times will send you straight to the poorhouse. Yes, that
is a good way for you to go bankrupt, is
to lose all your money. Scrooge who loves to brag
that he's in the younger demographic in the audience in
the Bay Area, says my girl asked me, Scrooge said,
(24:35):
if I was going to watch the Raiders game. I
said no, because the Raiders will probably lose twenty to
six and Gino Smith will likely throw at least two
interceptions after the final That's right, the Raiders now after
the final score, She asked me how I knew that
would happen. I said, because it's the Raiders, and that's
what the Raiders do. That is what the Raiders do.
(24:58):
Who else do we have? Supermarkets? Ste says my man,
Geno Smith did something very impressive on Monday night. He
threw three interceptions. None of them were The worst pass
he threw all night. That fourth down throwaway was pathetically bad,
and he said supermarket. Seve also says that Danny G
Radio and Roberto. You haven't checked in on Danny G
(25:21):
Radio and Robert, two of the biggest Raider fans I know.
Says Danny G Radio and Roberto are frantically checking to
see if their Geno Smith jerseys can be They ordered
back on Monday that hasn't been shipped last Monday and
hopes they can just outright cancel the order before they
have to actually send it back. It is a problem.
Just Josh from since Sinnati writes and says, Gino Smith
(25:44):
plays quarterback like he's flat broke. I think it's a
geno thing. Let me see what you did. There went
forty million dollars. That's he got more money from the Raiders.
Mentioned that the guy stuck. He's stuck in Seattle. You
trade for him, give him the keys to the franchise.
You gotta pay him more money. And the guy proved
he can't play. Now the Grill Sergeant writes and says,
(26:08):
eight plus plus plus on the mal monologue. I had
to suffer through the Seattle Gino years. I can count
on one hand how many times he look like a
slightly above average quarterback. He blew as a Seattle Sea
Hawk and will continue to blow as a raider now.
Kenneth points out that it still sounds like rice crispies.
(26:29):
He says at the feed the ieheart.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
Kenneth the only one who's saying that.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
All right, anyone who wants to complain, you need to
know anyone that wants to complain about the quality of
the audio feed on the iHeart app. You can call
right now at eight seven seven ninety nine. Fix you
will do rapid fire. Maybe it doesn't sound like Rice Crispies.
It's possible. It might sound like Captain Crunch. Could be
Captain Crunch. It could be what other great cereals do
(26:57):
we have here? We cheerios? Nobody likes cheerios, Honey, cheerios
are not bad. My dad and my dad and he's dead,
but he loved cheerios. What about Freddy Pebbles?
Speaker 9 (27:09):
Not? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
But aren't they getting rid of all the dies? They're
changing the dies, right, so they're just gonna look like
they're not going to be as bright and all that stuff.
Bill's Monster writes in he says, maybe next week they'll
let Tom Brady suit up, call the plays and sell
concessions at halftime. Don't worry, he says, don't worry, Vegas.
We'll still find a way to lose by double digits
(27:35):
Tom Brady. They're coaching from the box and now though,
calm down. Somehow the Raiders still managed to look like
the Raiders, truly inspiring proof that even the goat can't
save a franchise. Well isn't that that that's got to
be a vote for Belichick, like Tom Brady. Like the
(27:56):
Belichick Brady things already over right, because Belichick went to
he sucked without Brady and then all that. However, Tom
Brady as a general manager and as a coach, to me,
that's not a loss on Pete care That's a loss
on Tom Brady. Do we have that audio? But we
have we have. Here's Pete Carroll commenting on the fact
(28:17):
that Tom Brady was in the But who was in
the box? Tom Brady? Listen to Pete Carroll comment on that. No,
we have it somewhere. We're gonna find it. But Pete
Carroll was asking to make sure it's the right one. Okay.
We want to play the right one. We believe in
We have high standards here. We want to play the
right one. Yeah, because I can't you want to play
the wrong one. The wrong one would be wrong. People
(28:38):
will be upset if we play the wrong ones. We
gotta play the right one. But Pete Carroll commenting on
the fact that Tom Brady, it's it's kind of like
your boss, who's a busy body. All right, Here's here's
Pete Carrole let's see what he had to say.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
There was a report that Tom Brady meets three times
a week or so with Chip Kelly, goes over a
film with them. We saw him up in the booth
with the with the headset on. I just was curious
you're thoughts on that level of participation with convert.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Yeah, that's not it's not accurate. That's not accurate. If
if that's not accurate, we have conversations. I talked to Tom.
Chip talks to Tom regularly. I mean, we have a
tremendous asset and so, uh, you know, and we all
get along well and we respect each other, and so
we just talk, you know, about life and football and
whatever it comes. And uh, and we he has great insight.
(29:27):
So we're lucky to have him as an owner.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
See. The follow up would have been, well, how many
times do you guys talk? Because Pete Carroll said, no,
that's not incorrect, that's not correct. We don't talk three times.
What if they talk five or six times? What if
it's actually more than that? How about that? Right? We
have I think we have people calling up to complain
about the audio feed. Random caller, you're on the These
are on screen calls. Hello, random caller, you're on the air, Hello,
(29:52):
random call Yes, so are you calling the complain? Yeah?
Sometimes when you playing yours one commercial time? Oh really?
All right? All right, well that's it. You sound terrible too,
(30:13):
That's that's not good. Does how does that happen? Some
of this is automated. I think some of this is automated. Yeah,
so there's automation. That's what you want. AI. You fire
human beings, you get AI. That's what happens. Sometimes AI
f's up, and that happens that we have more people complaining.
These are actual callers complaining about the quality of the
audio feed and normally sparkling this. iHeart app is amazing.
(30:38):
But I'm glad you're calling them because we will. Let
me tell you, heads are going to rule. We are
going to let corporate know that we are not going
to stand for inferior audio quality. We are not going
to have high standards here on the Ben Maler Show.
Let's go to Timothy, who's in Portland, Oregon. He's also complaining. Hello, Timothy,
what does it sound? Does it sound like Rice krispys?
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Timothy? Oh yeah, snap, crackle and pop.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Ben.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
How you doing all right? Uh, well, apparently not good.
If I sound like I'm I'm in a bowl of
rice crispies. You don't believe this guy. Cut wait minute, Lorainy,
you don't believe this guy. He sounds like he's coming,
so clear, Lorenda does not believe you. Oh it sounds
good now, okay.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Right now, it sounds good. But on the I'm listening
to the Iron Heart app.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
And it was also Jason Smith.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
And Mike Carmen and for the last couple of days.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Oh is this not new?
Speaker 2 (31:27):
No, So I decided to because You're like, everyone tell
us if it's bad, And I was like, oh.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
You know, well, yeah, let us know how we're not
listening to it. How the hell would we know We're
not actually listening to what we're doing it, So there's
no way we know if it sucks. Oh, thank you, Timmy.
We'll make sure this is fixed right away. In fact,
I'm gonna wake up some corporate weasel right now at
all right, thank you, all right. Yeah. I've been to
the iHeart headquarters in Manhattan, the iHeart building in Manhattan.
(31:53):
They have the master computers of the iHeart network. Is
it sounds really sexy, but it's just these giant it's
like on I forget what floors is on. But it's
in the iHeart Building, which is in Lower Manhattan, which
is not the good part of Manhattan because it's the
old part of Manhattan where the streets don't line up
and it was designed for like horses and crap like that,
so it's really confusing. If you're not from there, you
(32:13):
don't really know what to do anyway. Uh, And it's
just a bunch of service. It's just mostly a bunch
of computer room, you know, the big giant rooms and
like as long as you can see floors of computers
and all that. We more people complaining about the audio.
Let's go to Josh. It's the hour of complaints. Josh
is on Orlando. Josh, what does it sound like? Josh
boots on the ground.
Speaker 7 (32:32):
You know what, I'll tell you, Lorena sounds amazing and fabulous.
You sound kind of staticky. But if we had to
blame anybody, it definitely would blame Eddy.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yes, I agree, even though he no longer works here.
Let's blame Eddie Garcia went in doubt, blame Eddie. That's
I agree. That's a great take to solid take. Josh
so there's no way the Raina sounds good if everyone
else sounds bad.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
It could just be my naturally nice one. No, this
is he's just trying to You're just trying to suck up.
I know she hung off Andrew and bakers This guy
always complains me. He's such a fan boy. What's going on, Andrew?
What are you gonna complain about? Go ahead, hurry up.
Speaker 9 (33:06):
Okay. I heard has been messed up since the Odd Couple,
but it's also messed up on AM nine seventy in
Baker's Field.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Oh my god, we are not AM night seventy A.
Baker's Field is messed up. Oh my god, Baker's Field
is messed up. Holy crap. That's our most important affiliate.
We Bakersfield sounds bad? Well, Raina, call the engineers right now,
Wake them off the phone, right now. All right, we're
gonna get to the bottom of this. Andrew, what what?
(33:35):
How's that Dodger? How's that Dodger? Bullpen? Andrew? You're gonna
defend those bums.
Speaker 9 (33:39):
I missed the end of the game.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I'm sure you that's convenient, Andrew, That's very convenient. You
know who else missed the end of the game, the
Dodger bumping. They missed the end of the game.
Speaker 9 (33:50):
That's unfortunate. But your monologue, you were cracking me up.
Whenever you talk about ooh or crap. It's hilarious. But
also one of my favorite things from a sports talk
show when the host laughs at himself, he makes himself laugh.
That's the best, I think one of them.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
You enjoy that. So you want more potty talk? You
would like us to do more potty talk?
Speaker 9 (34:12):
Well, just wouldn't You made yourself laugh? It's funny.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Oh okay, all right, thank you. Can you try not
to clear your throat on the ear? Yeah, thank you?
All right, go ahead saying there's Andrew.
Speaker 8 (34:29):
I wonder if this is making the audio quality better
or worse.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
I don't know. Well, we we had a lot of
people complaining to me of audio quality. You need some garlic,
Chris Fowler. That's what his voice satellite actually Chris Vowler
on ESPN. He was doing the play by play and
he clearly had some kind of sinus infection. Vocal situation
was not sounding particularly. I recommend rob garlic. It looked
(34:57):
like he had either had laryngitis or he was just
getting laryngitis, and for some reason he had to do
the game because he only gets to do like one
NFL game a year, and that was the night and
he did not want to miss his one NFL game
a year. So much like me doing the show when
I've had laryngitis, it's not good. And how about sign
(35:17):
language from Justin Herbert spotted by cameras walking in to
the stadium in Vegas. There and he low key gave
the bird under hand bird, hand down bird to the paparazzi. Yeah,
that's your charge, quarterback right there, he's gonna get fined.
It is the Ben Att Malor Show. Straight ahead. We
have mallardly third degree and here's the answer. Trivia. Blank
(35:40):
became the first wide receiver in NFL history to record
a negative receiving yards negative receiving yards on at least
eight targets. And that is the answer, Trivia. The answer.
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
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(36:26):
here's the Insta Trivia quick light. So only the only
teams in NFL history to blow when we did that
last hour, this is the instat Trivia. So Blank became
the first wide receiver in NFL history to have negative
receiving yards on at least eight targets. This has never
happened before in NFL history. That's the question. What's the answer?
(36:48):
Joy Galloway from paulid Count Alfred Chocula from King Rory
Gumby from Eloy from Compton Scroogers going with Jim Rome
in the jungle. Who else do we have? Page now?
The Leprechan from Femi, the Uber East Driver, Curley Lambeau
from JT The Wingman, muffin Man from Milkman Mike. Who
else page down? Adam Feelen from just Josh Jrwood Kirby
(37:11):
from Shane and des Moines, Antonio Brown from Chip and
the Queues. All right, what's that you quick? Right, Mike Harmon, No,
although he did. He's a good pass catcher. He was
on the hallway Panthers a receiver Xavier Leget on Sunday,
first time ever. Here we got here, we got how about?
(37:31):
That was a fun degree. This is one big gets
grilled cool book.
Speaker 6 (37:39):
The Arizona Cardinals are two and oh after another win
that was closer than it should have been. Kyler Murray
admitted to the media that if they keep playing around,
they're gonna get bit.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Ben when do you think they get bit Well, this
is the worst two and oh team in NFS three.
They beat the Saints and the Carolina Panthers. All right,
they're frauds. And now they play another suspect team, the
forty nine ers with Mac Jones this week. So they
could be three and oh and still not good. They
have the softest schedule. They play Seattle and Darnald he
blows the Titan. They are looking at possibly five and
(38:11):
zero and still not a good team. So I don't
believe him. Next, Drake May.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
Was getting nothing but praise from his Patriots teammates after
his three touchdown performance against the Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Ben, do you think May has turned a corner? No.
The fact that Miami has basically quit on their head coach,
and yet the Patriots needed to make some amazing plays
late in that game to win the game is not
a great side. The Dolphins had a lead in the
fourth quarter in that game. That is not any particularly.
I'm not overly impressed with Drake May. He looked very
(38:42):
average to me. Next.
Speaker 6 (38:44):
Over the weekend, Salvador Perez of the Royals became just
the eighth catcher to hit three hundred homers and the
fifteenth to get one thousand rbi. Ben, do you think
Perez will get into the Hall?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
He's not for me. He's not a Hall of Famer.
He's going to get into the Hall of Fame. Nine
time All Star, five Gold Gloves, World Series, MVP. He's
in the Hall of Fame. I wouldn't put him in,
but he's in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 9 (39:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
He's got all the accolades. It's a Lifetime Achievement Award.
How do we do? I've got the game, super Dog.
I won the game for
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