September 15, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about how Vikings fans should feel about J.J. McCarthy, if Lions coach Dan Campbell was running up the score on the Bears' Ben Johnson, how big of a blow this is to the rookie head coach, Insta-Advice Line, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, Shaka laka. It's our numb bear three, our number three,
ready to go. And here in hour number three, we
start out in Minnesota. It's very rare that the Sunday
night game ends up in our number three. That's how
bad a game it was. Minnesota did not score an
offensive touchdown. How should Viking fans feel about JJ McCarthy
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two starts into his career. We'll take a look at
the scorecard. Also in the NFC North we go to
that Lions Bears game. Was Lions coach Dan Campbell running
up the score on the Bears Ben Johnson. We'll talk
about that, and how big a body blow body blow
is this for the rookie coach Ben Johnson's Bears losing
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back to back games against divisional opponents to start the year.
We'll talk about all of those things and more. Right
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you listen to the show during the football season, almost
always do. We start the Sunday in the Monday overnight
broadcast with a breakdown, a deep dive on the Sunday
night game on NBC that is supposed to be the
showcase game. For some reason, they put the Vikings and
the Atlanta Falcons on that game and it left a
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lot to be desired. It's not a very entertaining game.
It was rather dull than boring. So we've waited here
to our three to break it down. If you didn't
see the game, consider yourself lucky you did not partake
in that. And it was a l stinko on Sunday night.
Football did not did not excite. It did live up
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to the height. We did not have high expectations in
the game lived up to our expectations. But John Robinson
got her done. He ran twenty two times for one
hundred and forty three yards. I'm told that's good. And
someone named Parker Romo, which sounds like a made up
name that you'd put into a video game or a
golfer on the PGA Tour. Parker Romo made not one,
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not two, not three, not four, five field goals five fields,
did not miss any in his Atlanta Falcon debut as
the previous Falcon kicker on Timeout and Atlanta able to
discombobulate JJ McCarthy. He was sacked not once, not twice,
not three times, not four, not five, how about six
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times McCarthy was sacked. He had three turnovers and a
partridge in a pear tree. As the lowly Atlanta Falcon
strolled in to Minnesota and walked out like a rooster
with their chest up in the air everywhere, and they
win twenty two to six on Sunday Night football. That's
the story, though, the story better source than the losing
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locker room. So the Minnesota offense crossed midfield how many times?
Three times? Three times? They only got into the red
zone one time against the Atlanta fing Falcons. That's how
that went down. Holy crap, all right, so let us discuss.
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Now I read all these glowing stories y'all told me,
Oh man JJ McCarthy, Ah, he's so great. Oh God,
he give him a manny and a petty. So let's
discuss the question. How should Viking fans be feeling about
JJ McCarthy right about now, the prodigy quarterback of the
Minnesota football team. So I've got wings, I hop and
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substitute teacher, and we'll combine all these things together. We're
gonna put him in a pot and make some gulash
is what we're gonna make, and then we'll have some
Baba ganoosh. We'll start with the gulash and then we'll
have the Baba gnoosh. So first of all, I'll tell
you how if you're a real Viking fan and not
a fanboy, a real Viking fan, you should be suffering
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at this point from dizzyness, lightheadedness, nausea, and possibly vomiting,
possibly vomiting watching that particular performance there. You need a
dramamine because what man that was watching him try to
play quarterback? I say, try try to run the offense.
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And I got no skin in the game. I did.
I have a bet? Yeah, I had Atlanta, So I
got that right. I didn't believe that McCarthy would play
that well. I didn't think he play that bad. I
thought to be somewhere in the middle. He was worse
than I imagine. So we're two games in, We're two games
into the career of JJ McCarthy, who had a red
shirt year. Remember that red shirt year for JJ McCarthy.
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So he's played two full games and it's already been
a carnival ride with a shady carnee that does not
tighten the lug nuts and the bolts and all that stuff.
So you know what ends up happening when you don't
do that. And so he's played eight quarters of football
and he said, as he's been bad in one two three, four, five, six, seven.
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He's been really really good in one so one really
really good. Seven L stinko, L stinkle. That's the resume.
That's it. That's the resume right there. Seven bad quarters
of football, one good quarter of football, and he apprenticed.
This is the thing that kills me about this. I
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have this about every year. We have this battle sit, rest, play, learn.
These quarterbactually drafted every year there's three or four quarterbacks
in the first round, and the arm sage, should you
play him right away? No, no, you can't play him
right away. You gotta wrest him. A home sat behind
Alex Smith in Kansas, say, look how good he is.
You know, got to sit him down, rest him up
a little bit. He'll be great. And I said, well, well,
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Daniel Jones sat behind Eli Manning he sucks. Well no, no,
this is different, though. You got to do you rest them,
they'll be better. So McCarthy, now, it was not by design.
It was because he got hurt. But he sat out
all of his what would have been his rookie season.
He was an apprentice. He sat in the team meetings,
he in theory, was coached up mentally. And this is
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what you got right, all that extra time, all that
extra time, and it does not look like he knows
what he's doing. It looks like he's a guy that
should have maybe been drafted, or not even drafted, signed
as a free agent. He's that bad undrafted free agent.
Less than two hundred yards of offense against the Atlanta Falcons.
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The Atlanta effing Falcons held you to less than two
hundred yards of offense. Not the nineteen eighty five Chicago Bears,
not the monsters of the Midway, the dirty birds, the
dirty birds who the Falcons? Two interceptions, two, one fumble,
and your offense did not even sniff the end zone.
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Didn't you get the red zone one time? That's it.
Not one touchdown, not one touchdown on a team that
is supposedly lacked a stack that should say stacked with playmakers.
And it's it's offensive malpractice, is what it is. It's
not all bad, though, because there is a positive. I'm
gonna famey and you guys in minnesot Eke and all
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you and the rest of you. There is something positive
here that I will throw out because I'm gonna be
Benny bright Side here. I did write on my scorecard
that JJ McCarthy earned his wings now, not chicken wings,
the little souvenir wings that you get, the little souvenir
wings you get when you fly the vomit comment. They
give you those when you get on the plane. They say,
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here you go, little souvenir, little little wings. Congratulations little JJ.
You have to wear the rings, and he wore them.
He wrote the vomit comment. One hundred and fifty eight
passing yards. One hundred and fifty. That's a throwback to
like the nineteen early eighties or the nineteen seventies, is
what that is. But wait, thirty one percent of those yards,
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fifty of the one hundred and fifty eight yards came
on one play, a broken play in the second quarter
to Justin Jefferson. So essentially you take that away basically
what you're dealing with without Jefferson on that one broken
coverage by the Atlanta Falcons, McCarthy is essentially the guy
at the county fair. He's throwing the football through a
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tire for a for a free teddy bear. Then he
couldn't win. The teddy bear was not good. Here's the
head coach of the Minnesote the Minnesota Vikings, here commenting
on the situation Kevin O'Connell talking about the youth of
his quarterback.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Take a listen, this is going to be a process
for our team, and our young quarterback's gonna, you know,
make some plays. He's gonna, you know, make some unbelievable throws,
which is a couple a couple of those stores there
that got us down to the two I thought were
big time plays. And then other times he's gonna, you know,
have an attempt and just miss something a little long,
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and you know, we'll go back.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
And try to fix it.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
But sometimes the fundamentals are gonna be right, the technique
you're going to be right, and he's just he's learning
on the fly right now. And there's the way you
overcome that is by the full groups execution level being
to a certain standard that we can go try to
compete and win with.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
So he's going to try to blame other players because
his quarterback is drowning, absolutely drowning. JJ McCarthy and yeah, again,
the guy had a year, a year where he sat around,
went to meetings, got coached up by the Vikings, and
this is what you got, this seven embarrassing quarters where
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he was so bad in those seven of the eight quarters.
I don't know that he'd get a job in the
Canadian football Ye, he's that bad. Here's McCarthy himself, JJ,
you sucked right, Tell me how much you sucked. JJ.
McCarthy got a lot to do and I got a
lot to do personally.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
You know, there's a lot of things about this game
that you know show up and you know, it's awesome
to be part of such a great group where I
know we're going to grow together.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I know we're going to look together.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
There's a lot of love.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
In that locker room.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Bah.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
And that's what it comes down to. You know, this
is a long season, you know, not really for me.
This is a freaking journey and I believe them wholeheartedly.
So it's just about getting it back to the drawing
board and working on just getting better at the little
things and executing the simple things better.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
So that was just filler. That was useless, kind of
like JJ McCarthy playing quarterback right now for the Vikings,
completely useless. So ah, yeah, it's a long, long season, long, long, long,
long season. So if you do the math on this,
the Vikings have already played over ten percent of their
season has already gone two games. It's eleven percent of
an NFL season. And back to McCarthy being in the
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adult rooms here because I you know, it's not my style.
The dogpile on just how pathetic he was. You've got
this alleged wonderkin quarterback JJ McCarthy, who the way he's
playing right now, You're like, well, maybe we should have
him throw peanuts in the upper deck of the stadium there,
But then he might miss people, and then that would
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injure someone. They might lose an eyeball. If McCarthy was
a meal, he would be airline chicken, dry, bland and
not very satisfying. It's just a little piece of chicken.
It's like a size of a nugget. But they say
it's more than a nugget, but it's not. And again
I keep going back. I know it's me. I understand that,
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but he's all he's a rookie. Give him a brike.
He's a rookie. Okay, again, he was the apprentice. He
was supposed to learn, supposed to be ready, hit the
ground running, all that stuff, and Minnesota prepared him and
the long loyal, beaten and broken Viking fans tortured Viking
fans watching JAJ McCarthy. You don't deserve this. It'll get better,
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it's no guarantee it's gonna get better. And we have
to do the show right now, and we have to
react in real time. And this is the show that
I'm doing right now based on what I have seen,
not on projections, not on that, just based on what
I have seen. McCarthy. The first two weeks looked like
the wrong JJ. It looked like the wrong JJ out
there the Vikings drafted the Dollar Tree version of JJ. McCarthy. Now,
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moving away from that game, and now we head to
Motown where the Chicago Bears were roadkilled. Normally you don't
see bears as roadkill. I don't usually see that. You
see like bunny rabbits and squirrels as roadkill, and maybe
a deer. You don't normally see bear as a roadkill.
But there they were. It was so bad. How bad
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was it? It was so bad. The accusation has been made
that the Chicago Bears were the victim of a run
up situation, that the Lions Dan Campbell ran up the
score trying to embarrass Ben Johnson, that that was the argument,
especially when they went for it the Lions on fourth
down and scored a touchdown rather than kick a field
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goal or something like that. Said, and here's Ben Johnson
asked about the running up of the score by the
former employer of his, the Detroit Lions. Take a listen day.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Campbell righted up, Honey, on that fourth.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
What's he supposed to do is fourth and goal? What
do you want him to do? Yeah, he could have
kicked the field goal. They don't kick field goals. They
go for it there. So he was doing what he's
supposed to do. If that's what he does. Sounds very angry.
He's a little annoyed by that, all right. So question
was Lions coach Dan Campbell running up the score on
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the Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson. So I answer
that by saying, is the polpe catholic obvious? Of course? Yes, yes,
come on now, that was a full on dog pile,
and I'm okay with it. That was an avalanche points.
That was Dan Campbell listening to gas bags like yours
truly and other people ranting and raving, going crazy, going
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on and on about how bad the Lions look and
they looked terrible against the Green Bay Packers last week.
They got embarrassed. They also have heard how wonderful Ben
Johnson is and how great this guy is and all
that stuff. And so Dan Campbell was stacking touchdowns like
I hop stacks pancakes. They just kept putting touch at
fifty plus points. Now it was more than just piling
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it on. This had meaning. This was a domination display,
is what that was by the Detroit Lions. This was dogs.
You know how dogs established their territory. They established the
pecking order at the park. In this case, the Lions
acting like the dog and they had to establish They
lifted their leg and the Chicago Bears were a hydrant.
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And I think you know what they did there. And
this is our turf, and you sit there and you
take this, I'm gonna give you a nice shower, is
what I'm going to do. And the Campbell, he could
have kicked field goal here there, could have stood down
and all that, but that's not who Dan Campbell is.
He doesn't settle for three points. He doesn't give up
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on all that stuff. He's going for six every time.
It's in his DNA. That's how he operates. And let's
not make this pee wee football. I have no problem
with what Dan Campbell did. I'm okay with it. I
could tell by the tone of the Chicago Bears head
coach Ben Johnson that he had a problem with it.
The tone was a dead give it, dead give it.
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But I'm okay with it. Right. This is the NFL.
Nobody's handing out orange slices at halftime, and if you
don't like it, you stop them all that stuff. Otherwise
you're going to end up steamroll if you're not prepared.
If you're like the Jets and you just kind of
la la la la la, run over. If you're like
the Chicago Bears because you're poorly coached and you don't
play hard, you don't give up that any points. If
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you're properly coach and you play hard. There's not that
big a talent gap between the Lions and the Bears.
The Lions are the more talented team. That is true. Yes, However,
these final scores should not be that lopsided. If you're trying.
There was some give up on the Chicago Bears. That's
a poorly coach football team. That's what I see when
I was slipping over to that game here, and if
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you want mercy, go to a church. You're not gonna
get it there. If you want respect, maybe play some defense,
tackle someone like that. The Lions are saying, hey, we're
the top of the food chain here and you're still
stuck there eating scraps. So that's it. It's not running
up the score. It's establishing order, is what the Lions
were doing all right. Now, final thought, So after getting
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stomped out, now the Chicago Bears, let me look at
our standings here they're oh and two. Congratulations to the
Chicago Bears owing two. So how big a body blow?
Body blow? Body blow? Is it that this rookie coach
Ben Johnson's Bears have now been embarrassed in different ways
my mind the first two weeks of the NFL season.
So it is emasculating with a capital lee. It's emasculating.
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You gag against Kevin O'Connell's vikings. If you're the Chicago Bears,
you had the game in control. We're thinking blowout city
for Chicago against a quarterback that doesn't know what he's
doing in JJ McCarthy, and then you allow McCarthy to
light you up. And then later on the following week,
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here Dan Campbell throws an avalanche on your head, like,
what is that that? The NFC Central like old schools
supposed to be Black and Blue Division. I know it
was called the back in the day of the Central.
But and you're the ones that are getting You're the
ones in this case who are getting absolutely slapped around
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like a tackling dummy, just pushed around and all that stuff.
And the worst part again Ben Johnson quarterback, whisper quarterback.
You told me that, You told me that. I didn't
say that. You told me that everyone all we gotta
hire Ben Johnson. Oh my god, man Jodd, Ben Jodd. Okay,
how's he doing. Let's see here, Let's take a peek
at Caleb Williams, the fixer Ben Johnson. How's that working out?
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Well?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Kayler Williams is a tree stump and he keeps trotting
out those hollow numbers, Like the numbers don't look that
bad for Caleb Williams. It appears he's unable to play
a full game from beginning to end. You look at
the box score, it doesn't look all that bad. But
if you actually watch the game problem the kids stunk, right,
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the maestro of the nail polish Caleb Williams, but reading defenses, eh,
not his forte, not his forte here. And then you
got Ben Johnson, who again is supposed to know all
of the weak spots, all of them, all the frailties
of the Detroit Lions, and Jared Goff and then Golf
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went out there and looked like Joe Montana, fucking the
football around and all that stuff, and it's like, what
are you doing? Like si, Ben Johnson's standing there on
the sidelines yet again, looking like the substitute teacher who's
lost complete control of the classroom. That's his coaching technique.
That's two weeks in a row. He had no answers
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on JJ McCarthy in the fourth quarter last week on
the Monday night game. And here we are in this game.
And meanwhile, Caleb Williams, who does look like a rich
man's version of Justin Field's not a poor man, a
rich man because he's gotta to make more money because
he was the top pick in the draft. But he's
like Justin Fields two point oh, Caleb Williams, He's Justin
Fields with nail polish, big arm, lot of hype, and
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nothing that really wins you football games, Like I don't
see that. And you can say, well, is it cursed?
Is the franchise cursed? And all that. Whether they're cursed
or not, it's the same old Chicago Bears. They get
talked up every off season. Made a caller Last Hour
talking about the Bears. They get praised every offseason. They
get the newest hottest coach, boy wondered coach coach, and
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they get that number one pick in the draft and
they they got Caleb Williams and then when it matters,
they get pants they get spanked by the divisional opponent there,
and it's it's kind of like walking into a bar
fight and having Cab Williams as your your lead guy,
realizing you showed up, You showed up there, and the
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person you're you're boxing in the bar fight is they've
got they've got brass knuckles, they've got bloody knuckles, and
then you've got nice nail polish. That's what you've got.
So it's it's cute, but it's not really effective, unfortunately,
and we saw what happened in that game. It is
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Riddle of the day. TV crew was fooled in thinking
there was a penalty flag on a touchdown play during
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the Bengal Jaguars game. It was really a blank. It
was really a blank. That is the question. What is
the answer? Let's see does anyone know the answer? It
was a Joe Burrow paced up guessed by Femi the
Uber eats extraordina air in Minnesota. Scrooge cheated, I got
it right, Soda texto. Who else do we have? Page down?
(25:03):
It was hollering James yellow stained undies from Bobby E's
in Florida. Who else? Let's see here? Lady Cyburn said,
a banana Lizzo underwear from Miguel on Fire, pikachuw from
Plastered Paul's Burner account, a sham Wow guest by Asher.
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That's his answer. Ferg Dog going with a pair of
SpongeBob themed boxers seems reasonable. A hairball from alf the
Alien o piner a Savannah banana's rally towel tossed out
by malor prop guy. Who else do we have here?
Robin Minnesota, the Great Robbins? What all the good delies are?
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He says, someone dropped a McDonald cheeseburger rapper. You suck.
I thought it was a penalty there. Andy and Lionel Lakes,
he got it right. Bad job by him, Big Greg
and Iowa says. A Mari old cart banana peel is
the answer. Eileen in the Bay Areas going with Squirrel,
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she's in San Francisco. Who else do we have a
plate of waffles? From King Rory? It's his answer, Paige
down sample fabric for Taylor Swift's wedding dress from Kathy
in Madison. Cheese kurds from Tammy in Montana. A Malard
Militia sweatshirt from the Great inca terror a classically trained
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musician in New York. Just Josh says it was Robbie's
favorite cheese coney dog. All right, do you have an answer, Lorraine?
I've got to know, you do have to know. I
don't know, So again the riddle of day. A TV
crew was fooled into thinking there was a penalty flag
on a touchdown plager in the Bengaled Jaguars game. But
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it was really a blank. It was really a ghost.
Ghosts they're everywhere. Well that may be true, but that
is not the answer to it was a sex toy
was tossed out of the field there, so yeah, it
still has legs, it still has legs or something else.
(27:14):
But starting the WNBA, it's now spread to the end
of I'm old school man. I remember the only time
you saw a sex toy being tossed on the field
was at a Bills game. But now they're literally in
the air. It's so funny though, because the way, if
you watch the clip for our blind listeners, I'll do
the play by play on this. So it had was
seventeen to ten, Jacksonville had the lead eleven to nine
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to go in the third courter, the Bengals had the
ball first and ten from their own third from the
Jaguars thirteen yard line. All right, so down a touchdown
and then they snapped the ball and the backup quarterback
for the Bengals. Browning throws it to the upper right
hand corner of the end zone byam and then the
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falls came flying out and it was a bounce flying, yeah, flying,
fight bounced, and it did appear to be from a distance,
it looks to be like a yellow item that this
is not the usual green at least according to what
I'm looking at here, it looked to be. Well, no,
I take that back. It's like a yellow greenish color.
I take that back. Initially in the dark. Well, there's
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only one way to find out. But anyway, so there
you go. That's that's very funny. And they immediately put
up the graphic thing flag penalty flag was not a
penalty flag. Let's go to Andrew, who's in Bakersfield. Hello Andrew,
what's up?
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Then? How you doing? All right? I have a question.
So you're talking about real fans and samboys.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yes, you're a fanboy, but that you're kind of what
I'm talking about. You're you're a mister sunshine and lollipops
and all that stuff. The guy called up from Illinois,
the Bears fan. That's a real fan. You're a fake fan.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Okay, So you talk about being critical well, I agree,
but being overly critical is not good. Now I have
a question for you. The Dodgers and the Lakers both
want a championships during the COVID.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Are we really going to do this again? I mean,
you just can't handle the truth. Is that what this
is about? You really want me to do that again?
Embarrass you? You want me to embarrass you, I'll embarrass you
if you want, I can embarrass you. I don't want
to embarrass you. But if you want me to embarrass you, i'
embarrass you.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
No, So I am if you could tell what you
think the differences or yeah, the difference.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Okay, so the difference. And again I mean this is
I feel like this is not the day to do this.
That's a bad job by Andrew. But see, one was
fundamentally easier and one was fundamentally more difficult. You see
what the baseball was more difficult because in baseball you
can have a bad month, you have nothing to worry about.
In basketball, it's the war of attrition. Right, You're supposed
to play all those regular season games and then you
(29:52):
got to go right into the playoffs. You've got to travel,
play on the road, planes, trains, at amobiles. In basketball,
they had four months off. They stay into a Mickey
Mouse resort in Florida. I think you'd agree that's a
little easier than having to travel around. And then baseball,
though they had all sixty game season, you have a
key injury, you're done. So that's it. Let's go to uh.
Maybe you'll learn next time. Jed who fled? Hello, Jed,
(30:15):
welcome fast.
Speaker 7 (30:17):
No sports weather or is strange?
Speaker 8 (30:20):
NFL teams should have domes were no rain can mess
with My gambling game? Was that? That's what support. There's
a billion dollar events and all of a sudden, the
runner rolls up and my ben and capability rolls down.
And if if I don't, I don't waste money or
anything other the drugs usually not when that's not waste.
But if I spend money and the ben joy will
(30:40):
and whether affects me, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna probably
end up in jail, and that's not good. That's that's
the game I don't need to take. Now.
Speaker 7 (30:49):
I don't know what that's very little.
Speaker 8 (30:51):
Man, but but I mean I'm following the right collars
that very little so what do you I mean, Hey,
you know what I'm talking, yeah, very little. That's right.
Poppy kept there the other night Poppy ended in leper
call Man. I almost spontaneously combusted, And like Butter, I
can teleport it to hail Man radio tail And he's
got he got a rubber chicken.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
He got a rubber chicken. This guys, it's got the
dangerous society.
Speaker 9 (31:13):
Dude.
Speaker 8 (31:14):
I don't know anybody's got that rubber chicken. And I
know people have got holders. Holders are like.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
You got a piece of waves from eighty seven, Like, yes,
I do. But they don't have rubber chickens.
Speaker 8 (31:23):
Rent high as they have a rubber chickens.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
Fine wine. Okay, why did the rubbers across the road?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
J you want you want to ask him, I'll put
your whole on. Say let me see here, Mike a leprechaun.
Jed has a problem with your rubber chicken.
Speaker 7 (31:39):
Like you, I'm not gonna I'm gonna do.
Speaker 9 (31:42):
I'm not gonna sail got the money? What is it?
Speaker 8 (31:46):
I'm a Wheal fan. Don't go to jail.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
People are strange, You're strange.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
I was the one you tossed the rubber chicken onto
the field yesterday there did you say? People are strange,
and I'm trying chicken to pat the chicken picks the
hat and the chicken was right. I would try, you
did and jail did. Yeah, don't get go.
Speaker 9 (32:05):
That's crazy.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Not go.
Speaker 8 (32:07):
I really have never had a meal that you like.
You never take it from me? What you about it?
Can you fight to defend it? Would you like to
have a touch push data?
Speaker 7 (32:18):
We're not gonna jail.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
We're not gonna jail.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
You cannot saying.
Speaker 8 (32:22):
All all right, no man, take him off, kick him
off me kick it off.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Can I kick you off too? I feel like I need,
I need to kick you off. I did kick him off.
I gotta. I'm gona hanging up on you to go away.
Let's go to snooker in north Las Vegas. Not to
be confused with the Las Vegas that everyone else knows,
but actually most people go to Paradise, Nevada, not not
Las Vegas. What's going on, snooker?
Speaker 9 (32:44):
What do you know about Paradise?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
That's a strip guy? Okay, yeah, no, no, well no
no no, that's where that's where all the hotels are
in Paradise, Nevada. So they they changed, they changed all
the there's different laws there different.
Speaker 9 (33:01):
Hey, hey didn't out. Hey you know what I did yesterday?
Speaker 1 (33:06):
You read a book?
Speaker 9 (33:07):
No, I can't, baby, I cash Okay. I told you
last week to put your money on Crawford. He didn't listen.
He did. I'm gonna watch the fight.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
I didn't bet on the fight. I did well. I
watched the fight. I think we needed one more band
to play, that's what we needed. I think they didn't
have enough bands before the fight. That was great planning.
Idiots over there, there was it YouTube, Holy crap.
Speaker 9 (33:30):
Well, I mean, you know, that's that's the Sacond point.
The bands, and that's the sacond point. I'm watching the fight.
I don't care about the band anyway.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Yeah, but to get to the fight, you had to
listen to the bands. It was a battle of the
bands before the fire, before the damn fight. It was ridiculous.
Speaker 9 (33:45):
That's what you bought a ticket. I didn't buy a ticket,
you know, I didn't buy it.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
That wasn't there. I didn't buy a ticket. I was
watching on the stupid TV, waiting for the fight, and
I kept turning and then the band here, band there,
band everywhere.
Speaker 9 (34:00):
Then you know what, I wouldn't catch my ticket, right,
and I have to I have to ticket, right. I said,
you know, how many people did you write up for Canelos?
And the girl said, oh, I wrote up about seventy percent.
That's a seventy percent. These people are crazy, you know,
I don't know what they did. Wait. Wait, I got
(34:20):
my money, right, and then I went to Bob Taylor.
You don't know nothing about Bob Taylor's in Vegas. Okay,
you know it's one of the oldest steakhouses in Vegas. Anyway,
I went and got my porterhouse and uh, then I
went back home. And then today, you know, I said,
let me call bit now and see if you bet
on a fight. But he probably didn't.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I would have been on crawfordough because you're getting value
on that. I would I would have been on them.
Because of that, I didn't do it.
Speaker 9 (34:49):
You got to remember, you got to remember being eight
percent of the fights. The boxer will always beat the puncher.
That's a fact. Okay.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
So he said, every confidently, And now we'll see next time.
I'm sure there'll be a rematch down the line.
Speaker 9 (35:04):
So all the way back to Mohammad Ali.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Yeah, okay, I gotta leave it there. So I'm story
I got a hard network out, otherwise I'll get in
a lot of trouble. You have it straight ahead. We
are moments away from the insta advice line. We'll get
to that. We will do it next quickly.
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Speaker 4 (36:03):
Hey you sports figure, guy or.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Girl here, Well you talking to so hear some interested advice.
Hold that don no one's paid attention to me for
ten whole seconds. And if you don't like it, anyway,
we go. It's the instant advice line. Unscreened radio. Who
needs our advice? Well that's only one a couple options,
but we are gonna go with the head coach of
(36:26):
the Chicago Bears. They won the offseason. Congratulations Chicago Bears.
They are off to the ozer and two start. Got
smacked around Ben Johnson? What's wrong with Ben Johnson? So
advice to Ben Johnson and the Chicago Bears. Off to
the zero and two start. And you're live on the air.
When you hear my voice say hello you online one.
(36:48):
You're on the airline one. Hello, your advice to the
Bears Line.
Speaker 9 (36:51):
One morning time. Look at it's not fair I go
to the wedding, they choose the size before they even
get married. You get roo.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yeah, that's good point. That's we should change that. Hell, hell,
you should decide after the wedding. Hello, you're on the
air line too. Hello, line too. We're giving advice comparing.
Speaker 8 (37:06):
The twenty twenty World Series to the ridiculous Mickey Mouse Championship.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Use your brain exactly, great call. That's a solid call, Fergie,
Good job by you. Line five, you're on the airline five.
Speaker 8 (37:16):
Hello, coarata cocarata.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Okay, was that poppy? I don't know how. Line one, Hello,
you're on the airline one.
Speaker 5 (37:23):
Go Jazz Chism needs to shut up before he unless
he makes the playoffs this year.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Oh I saw that. Yeah, Jazz chishoms. The Yankees have arrived.
They went, They went out and lost to the Red Sox. Hello.
Line four, Hello, line four, you're on the airline for
advice to Ben Johnson. Line for the Bears coach.
Speaker 9 (37:41):
In that field, not for losers.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Yeah, no, morning time right there. Now, you're definitely not
ricking Maryland. Hello caller, you're on the air. Caller, Hello,
eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox, Hello.
Speaker 9 (37:54):
To you.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Okay, that's a fake hollering, James, stop that Hello call
you're on the air. We're giving you to Ben Johnson.
Coach Ben Johnson, the Chicago Bears off to the oh
and two.
Speaker 7 (38:04):
Start Bears football is supposed to be like making Web
two midget.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Okay, thank you for that. This line eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox. Line five, you're on the airline five.
Speaker 9 (38:15):
Hello, I would advise the head coach of Chicago. Look
at the Candy Cooper loop bot. That's the lash.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Okay, there you go, it's the candy bar of the
coop butt. Hello, Line five, you're on the airline.
Speaker 8 (38:27):
Five toenail polish.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Yeah, well they do have that. The Bears lead the
NFL in toenail polish and just nail polish in general.
Line number one, Hello, Line one.
Speaker 7 (38:39):
JJ McCarthy is about as useful as a lepre con.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Okay, there you go. We do have a Leprechaun call.
You're on the airline three. Go headline three.
Speaker 7 (38:48):
That's the chargers.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Okay, there's all. That's our buddy from Banks. One more,
only one more of us. Good, I'll take credit. Hurry up, Coper,
mind too. Line two, you're on the air line two.
Go go, there you go. What great advice to Ben Johnson.
That'll help out the Bears a lot right there.
Boom, Shaka laka. It's our numb bear three, our number three,
ready to go. And here in hour number three, we
start out in Minnesota. It's very rare that the Sunday
night game ends up in our number three. That's how
bad a game it was. Minnesota did not score an
offensive touchdown. How should Viking fans feel about JJ McCarthy
(00:24):
two starts into his career. We'll take a look at
the scorecard. Also in the NFC North we go to
that Lions Bears game. Was Lions coach Dan Campbell running
up the score on the Bears Ben Johnson. We'll talk
about that, and how big a body blow body blow
is this for the rookie coach Ben Johnson's Bears losing
(00:44):
back to back games against divisional opponents to start the year.
We'll talk about all of those things and more. Right
now here it is our number three playing in a
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lead this hour from the Purple Haes. Not normally if
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you listen to the show during the football season, almost
always do. We start the Sunday in the Monday overnight
broadcast with a breakdown, a deep dive on the Sunday
night game on NBC that is supposed to be the
showcase game. For some reason, they put the Vikings and
the Atlanta Falcons on that game and it left a
(02:39):
lot to be desired. It's not a very entertaining game.
It was rather dull than boring. So we've waited here
to our three to break it down. If you didn't
see the game, consider yourself lucky you did not partake
in that. And it was a l stinko on Sunday night.
Football did not did not excite. It did live up
(02:59):
to the height. We did not have high expectations in
the game lived up to our expectations. But John Robinson
got her done. He ran twenty two times for one
hundred and forty three yards. I'm told that's good. And
someone named Parker Romo, which sounds like a made up
name that you'd put into a video game or a
golfer on the PGA Tour. Parker Romo made not one,
(03:21):
not two, not three, not four, five field goals five fields,
did not miss any in his Atlanta Falcon debut as
the previous Falcon kicker on Timeout and Atlanta able to
discombobulate JJ McCarthy. He was sacked not once, not twice,
not three times, not four, not five, how about six
(03:43):
times McCarthy was sacked. He had three turnovers and a
partridge in a pear tree. As the lowly Atlanta Falcon
strolled in to Minnesota and walked out like a rooster
with their chest up in the air everywhere, and they
win twenty two to six on Sunday Night football. That's
the story, though, the story better source than the losing
(04:04):
locker room. So the Minnesota offense crossed midfield how many times?
Three times? Three times? They only got into the red
zone one time against the Atlanta fing Falcons. That's how
that went down. Holy crap, all right, so let us discuss.
(04:25):
Now I read all these glowing stories y'all told me,
Oh man JJ McCarthy, Ah, he's so great. Oh God,
he give him a manny and a petty. So let's
discuss the question. How should Viking fans be feeling about
JJ McCarthy right about now, the prodigy quarterback of the
Minnesota football team. So I've got wings, I hop and
(04:49):
substitute teacher, and we'll combine all these things together. We're
gonna put him in a pot and make some gulash
is what we're gonna make, and then we'll have some
Baba ganoosh. We'll start with the gulash and then we'll
have the Baba gnoosh. So first of all, I'll tell
you how if you're a real Viking fan and not
a fanboy, a real Viking fan, you should be suffering
(05:10):
at this point from dizzyness, lightheadedness, nausea, and possibly vomiting,
possibly vomiting watching that particular performance there. You need a
dramamine because what man that was watching him try to
play quarterback? I say, try try to run the offense.
(05:31):
And I got no skin in the game. I did.
I have a bet? Yeah, I had Atlanta, So I
got that right. I didn't believe that McCarthy would play
that well. I didn't think he play that bad. I
thought to be somewhere in the middle. He was worse
than I imagine. So we're two games in, We're two games
into the career of JJ McCarthy, who had a red
shirt year. Remember that red shirt year for JJ McCarthy.
(05:52):
So he's played two full games and it's already been
a carnival ride with a shady carnee that does not
tighten the lug nuts and the bolts and all that stuff.
So you know what ends up happening when you don't
do that. And so he's played eight quarters of football
and he said, as he's been bad in one two three, four, five, six, seven.
(06:13):
He's been really really good in one so one really
really good. Seven L stinko, L stinkle. That's the resume.
That's it. That's the resume right there. Seven bad quarters
of football, one good quarter of football, and he apprenticed.
This is the thing that kills me about this. I
(06:34):
have this about every year. We have this battle sit, rest, play, learn.
These quarterbactually drafted every year there's three or four quarterbacks
in the first round, and the arm sage, should you
play him right away? No, no, you can't play him
right away. You gotta wrest him. A home sat behind
Alex Smith in Kansas, say, look how good he is.
You know, got to sit him down, rest him up
a little bit. He'll be great. And I said, well, well,
(06:54):
Daniel Jones sat behind Eli Manning he sucks. Well no, no,
this is different, though. You got to do you rest them,
they'll be better. So McCarthy, now, it was not by design.
It was because he got hurt. But he sat out
all of his what would have been his rookie season.
He was an apprentice. He sat in the team meetings,
he in theory, was coached up mentally. And this is
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what you got right, all that extra time, all that
extra time, and it does not look like he knows
what he's doing. It looks like he's a guy that
should have maybe been drafted, or not even drafted, signed
as a free agent. He's that bad undrafted free agent.
Less than two hundred yards of offense against the Atlanta Falcons.
(07:39):
The Atlanta effing Falcons held you to less than two
hundred yards of offense. Not the nineteen eighty five Chicago Bears,
not the monsters of the Midway, the dirty birds, the
dirty birds who the Falcons? Two interceptions, two, one fumble,
and your offense did not even sniff the end zone.
(08:02):
Didn't you get the red zone one time? That's it.
Not one touchdown, not one touchdown on a team that
is supposedly lacked a stack that should say stacked with playmakers.
And it's it's offensive malpractice, is what it is. It's
not all bad, though, because there is a positive. I'm
gonna famey and you guys in minnesot Eke and all
(08:25):
you and the rest of you. There is something positive
here that I will throw out because I'm gonna be
Benny bright Side here. I did write on my scorecard
that JJ McCarthy earned his wings now, not chicken wings,
the little souvenir wings that you get, the little souvenir
wings you get when you fly the vomit comment. They
give you those when you get on the plane. They say,
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here you go, little souvenir, little little wings. Congratulations little JJ.
You have to wear the rings, and he wore them.
He wrote the vomit comment. One hundred and fifty eight
passing yards. One hundred and fifty. That's a throwback to
like the nineteen early eighties or the nineteen seventies, is
what that is. But wait, thirty one percent of those yards,
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fifty of the one hundred and fifty eight yards came
on one play, a broken play in the second quarter
to Justin Jefferson. So essentially you take that away basically
what you're dealing with without Jefferson on that one broken
coverage by the Atlanta Falcons, McCarthy is essentially the guy
at the county fair. He's throwing the football through a
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tire for a for a free teddy bear. Then he
couldn't win. The teddy bear was not good. Here's the
head coach of the Minnesote the Minnesota Vikings, here commenting
on the situation Kevin O'Connell talking about the youth of
his quarterback.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Take a listen, this is going to be a process
for our team, and our young quarterback's gonna, you know,
make some plays. He's gonna, you know, make some unbelievable throws,
which is a couple a couple of those stores there
that got us down to the two I thought were
big time plays. And then other times he's gonna, you know,
have an attempt and just miss something a little long,
(10:11):
and you know, we'll go back.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
And try to fix it.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
But sometimes the fundamentals are gonna be right, the technique
you're going to be right, and he's just he's learning
on the fly right now. And there's the way you
overcome that is by the full groups execution level being
to a certain standard that we can go try to
compete and win with.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
So he's going to try to blame other players because
his quarterback is drowning, absolutely drowning. JJ McCarthy and yeah, again,
the guy had a year, a year where he sat around,
went to meetings, got coached up by the Vikings, and
this is what you got, this seven embarrassing quarters where
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he was so bad in those seven of the eight quarters.
I don't know that he'd get a job in the
Canadian football Ye, he's that bad. Here's McCarthy himself, JJ,
you sucked right, Tell me how much you sucked. JJ.
McCarthy got a lot to do and I got a
lot to do personally.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
You know, there's a lot of things about this game
that you know show up and you know, it's awesome
to be part of such a great group where I
know we're going to grow together.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I know we're going to look together.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
There's a lot of love.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
In that locker room.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Bah.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
And that's what it comes down to. You know, this
is a long season, you know, not really for me.
This is a freaking journey and I believe them wholeheartedly.
So it's just about getting it back to the drawing
board and working on just getting better at the little
things and executing the simple things better.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
So that was just filler. That was useless, kind of
like JJ McCarthy playing quarterback right now for the Vikings,
completely useless. So ah, yeah, it's a long, long season, long, long, long,
long season. So if you do the math on this,
the Vikings have already played over ten percent of their
season has already gone two games. It's eleven percent of
an NFL season. And back to McCarthy being in the
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adult rooms here because I you know, it's not my style.
The dogpile on just how pathetic he was. You've got
this alleged wonderkin quarterback JJ McCarthy, who the way he's
playing right now, You're like, well, maybe we should have
him throw peanuts in the upper deck of the stadium there,
But then he might miss people, and then that would
(12:10):
injure someone. They might lose an eyeball. If McCarthy was
a meal, he would be airline chicken, dry, bland and
not very satisfying. It's just a little piece of chicken.
It's like a size of a nugget. But they say
it's more than a nugget, but it's not. And again
I keep going back. I know it's me. I understand that,
(12:33):
but he's all he's a rookie. Give him a brike.
He's a rookie. Okay, again, he was the apprentice. He
was supposed to learn, supposed to be ready, hit the
ground running, all that stuff, and Minnesota prepared him and
the long loyal, beaten and broken Viking fans tortured Viking
fans watching JAJ McCarthy. You don't deserve this. It'll get better,
(12:58):
it's no guarantee it's gonna get better. And we have
to do the show right now, and we have to
react in real time. And this is the show that
I'm doing right now based on what I have seen,
not on projections, not on that, just based on what
I have seen. McCarthy. The first two weeks looked like
the wrong JJ. It looked like the wrong JJ out
there the Vikings drafted the Dollar Tree version of JJ. McCarthy. Now,
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moving away from that game, and now we head to
Motown where the Chicago Bears were roadkilled. Normally you don't
see bears as roadkill. I don't usually see that. You
see like bunny rabbits and squirrels as roadkill, and maybe
a deer. You don't normally see bear as a roadkill.
But there they were. It was so bad. How bad
(13:46):
was it? It was so bad. The accusation has been made
that the Chicago Bears were the victim of a run
up situation, that the Lions Dan Campbell ran up the
score trying to embarrass Ben Johnson, that that was the argument,
especially when they went for it the Lions on fourth
down and scored a touchdown rather than kick a field
(14:10):
goal or something like that. Said, and here's Ben Johnson
asked about the running up of the score by the
former employer of his, the Detroit Lions. Take a listen day.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Campbell righted up, Honey, on that fourth.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
What's he supposed to do is fourth and goal? What
do you want him to do? Yeah, he could have
kicked the field goal. They don't kick field goals. They
go for it there. So he was doing what he's
supposed to do. If that's what he does. Sounds very angry.
He's a little annoyed by that, all right. So question
was Lions coach Dan Campbell running up the score on
(14:44):
the Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson. So I answer
that by saying, is the polpe catholic obvious? Of course? Yes, yes,
come on now, that was a full on dog pile,
and I'm okay with it. That was an avalanche points.
That was Dan Campbell listening to gas bags like yours
truly and other people ranting and raving, going crazy, going
(15:08):
on and on about how bad the Lions look and
they looked terrible against the Green Bay Packers last week.
They got embarrassed. They also have heard how wonderful Ben
Johnson is and how great this guy is and all
that stuff. And so Dan Campbell was stacking touchdowns like
I hop stacks pancakes. They just kept putting touch at
fifty plus points. Now it was more than just piling
(15:31):
it on. This had meaning. This was a domination display,
is what that was by the Detroit Lions. This was dogs.
You know how dogs established their territory. They established the
pecking order at the park. In this case, the Lions
acting like the dog and they had to establish They
lifted their leg and the Chicago Bears were a hydrant.
(15:55):
And I think you know what they did there. And
this is our turf, and you sit there and you
take this, I'm gonna give you a nice shower, is
what I'm going to do. And the Campbell, he could
have kicked field goal here there, could have stood down
and all that, but that's not who Dan Campbell is.
He doesn't settle for three points. He doesn't give up
(16:16):
on all that stuff. He's going for six every time.
It's in his DNA. That's how he operates. And let's
not make this pee wee football. I have no problem
with what Dan Campbell did. I'm okay with it. I
could tell by the tone of the Chicago Bears head
coach Ben Johnson that he had a problem with it.
The tone was a dead give it, dead give it.
(16:37):
But I'm okay with it. Right. This is the NFL.
Nobody's handing out orange slices at halftime, and if you
don't like it, you stop them all that stuff. Otherwise
you're going to end up steamroll if you're not prepared.
If you're like the Jets and you just kind of
la la la la la, run over. If you're like
the Chicago Bears because you're poorly coached and you don't
play hard, you don't give up that any points. If
(17:00):
you're properly coach and you play hard. There's not that
big a talent gap between the Lions and the Bears.
The Lions are the more talented team. That is true. Yes, However,
these final scores should not be that lopsided. If you're trying.
There was some give up on the Chicago Bears. That's
a poorly coach football team. That's what I see when
I was slipping over to that game here, and if
(17:22):
you want mercy, go to a church. You're not gonna
get it there. If you want respect, maybe play some defense,
tackle someone like that. The Lions are saying, hey, we're
the top of the food chain here and you're still
stuck there eating scraps. So that's it. It's not running
up the score. It's establishing order, is what the Lions
were doing all right. Now, final thought, So after getting
(17:43):
stomped out, now the Chicago Bears, let me look at
our standings here they're oh and two. Congratulations to the
Chicago Bears owing two. So how big a body blow?
Body blow? Body blow? Is it that this rookie coach
Ben Johnson's Bears have now been embarrassed in different ways
my mind the first two weeks of the NFL season.
So it is emasculating with a capital lee. It's emasculating.
(18:07):
You gag against Kevin O'Connell's vikings. If you're the Chicago Bears,
you had the game in control. We're thinking blowout city
for Chicago against a quarterback that doesn't know what he's
doing in JJ McCarthy, and then you allow McCarthy to
light you up. And then later on the following week,
(18:28):
here Dan Campbell throws an avalanche on your head, like,
what is that that? The NFC Central like old schools
supposed to be Black and Blue Division. I know it
was called the back in the day of the Central.
But and you're the ones that are getting You're the
ones in this case who are getting absolutely slapped around
(18:49):
like a tackling dummy, just pushed around and all that stuff.
And the worst part again Ben Johnson quarterback, whisper quarterback.
You told me that, You told me that. I didn't
say that. You told me that everyone all we gotta
hire Ben Johnson. Oh my god, man Jodd, Ben Jodd. Okay,
how's he doing. Let's see here, Let's take a peek
at Caleb Williams, the fixer Ben Johnson. How's that working out?
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Well?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Kayler Williams is a tree stump and he keeps trotting
out those hollow numbers, Like the numbers don't look that
bad for Caleb Williams. It appears he's unable to play
a full game from beginning to end. You look at
the box score, it doesn't look all that bad. But
if you actually watch the game problem the kids stunk, right,
(19:34):
the maestro of the nail polish Caleb Williams, but reading defenses, eh,
not his forte, not his forte here. And then you
got Ben Johnson, who again is supposed to know all
of the weak spots, all of them, all the frailties
of the Detroit Lions, and Jared Goff and then Golf
(19:55):
went out there and looked like Joe Montana, fucking the
football around and all that stuff, and it's like, what
are you doing? Like si, Ben Johnson's standing there on
the sidelines yet again, looking like the substitute teacher who's
lost complete control of the classroom. That's his coaching technique.
That's two weeks in a row. He had no answers
(20:16):
on JJ McCarthy in the fourth quarter last week on
the Monday night game. And here we are in this game.
And meanwhile, Caleb Williams, who does look like a rich
man's version of Justin Field's not a poor man, a
rich man because he's gotta to make more money because
he was the top pick in the draft. But he's
like Justin Fields two point oh, Caleb Williams, He's Justin
Fields with nail polish, big arm, lot of hype, and
(20:39):
nothing that really wins you football games, Like I don't
see that. And you can say, well, is it cursed?
Is the franchise cursed? And all that. Whether they're cursed
or not, it's the same old Chicago Bears. They get
talked up every off season. Made a caller Last Hour
talking about the Bears. They get praised every offseason. They
get the newest hottest coach, boy wondered coach coach, and
(21:01):
they get that number one pick in the draft and
they they got Caleb Williams and then when it matters,
they get pants they get spanked by the divisional opponent there,
and it's it's kind of like walking into a bar
fight and having Cab Williams as your your lead guy,
realizing you showed up, You showed up there, and the
(21:26):
person you're you're boxing in the bar fight is they've
got they've got brass knuckles, they've got bloody knuckles, and
then you've got nice nail polish. That's what you've got.
So it's it's cute, but it's not really effective, unfortunately,
and we saw what happened in that game. It is
the Ben Mahler Show. You want to comment on any
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the Malor Riddle of the day. And here's the Mallord
Riddle of the day. All right, here we go. So
television crew was fooled in the thinking there was a
flag on a touchdown play during the Bengals Jaguars game,
(22:12):
but it was actually something else. It was actually a blank. Again.
TV crew was fooled into thinking there was a penalty
flag on a play on a touchdown play and they
flashed the graphics on the scoreen during the Bengals Jaguars game,
but it was really a blank. That is the Malor
Riddle of the day. The answer. We'll get to it.
(22:33):
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Riddle of the day. TV crew was fooled in thinking
there was a penalty flag on a touchdown play during
(24:39):
the Bengal Jaguars game. It was really a blank. It
was really a blank. That is the question. What is
the answer? Let's see does anyone know the answer? It
was a Joe Burrow paced up guessed by Femi the
Uber eats extraordina air in Minnesota. Scrooge cheated, I got
it right, Soda texto. Who else do we have? Page down?
(25:03):
It was hollering James yellow stained undies from Bobby E's
in Florida. Who else? Let's see here? Lady Cyburn said,
a banana Lizzo underwear from Miguel on Fire, pikachuw from
Plastered Paul's Burner account, a sham Wow guest by Asher.
(25:25):
That's his answer. Ferg Dog going with a pair of
SpongeBob themed boxers seems reasonable. A hairball from alf the
Alien o piner a Savannah banana's rally towel tossed out
by malor prop guy. Who else do we have here?
Robin Minnesota, the Great Robbins? What all the good delies are?
(25:46):
He says, someone dropped a McDonald cheeseburger rapper. You suck.
I thought it was a penalty there. Andy and Lionel Lakes,
he got it right. Bad job by him, Big Greg
and Iowa says. A Mari old cart banana peel is
the answer. Eileen in the Bay Areas going with Squirrel,
(26:07):
she's in San Francisco. Who else do we have a
plate of waffles? From King Rory? It's his answer, Paige
down sample fabric for Taylor Swift's wedding dress from Kathy
in Madison. Cheese kurds from Tammy in Montana. A Malard
Militia sweatshirt from the Great inca terror a classically trained
(26:30):
musician in New York. Just Josh says it was Robbie's
favorite cheese coney dog. All right, do you have an answer, Lorraine?
I've got to know, you do have to know. I
don't know, So again the riddle of day. A TV
crew was fooled into thinking there was a penalty flag
on a touchdown plager in the Bengaled Jaguars game. But
(26:51):
it was really a blank. It was really a ghost.
Ghosts they're everywhere. Well that may be true, but that
is not the answer to it was a sex toy
was tossed out of the field there, so yeah, it
still has legs, it still has legs or something else.
(27:14):
But starting the WNBA, it's now spread to the end
of I'm old school man. I remember the only time
you saw a sex toy being tossed on the field
was at a Bills game. But now they're literally in
the air. It's so funny though, because the way, if
you watch the clip for our blind listeners, I'll do
the play by play on this. So it had was
seventeen to ten, Jacksonville had the lead eleven to nine
(27:37):
to go in the third courter, the Bengals had the
ball first and ten from their own third from the
Jaguars thirteen yard line. All right, so down a touchdown
and then they snapped the ball and the backup quarterback
for the Bengals. Browning throws it to the upper right
hand corner of the end zone byam and then the
(27:58):
falls came flying out and it was a bounce flying, yeah, flying,
fight bounced, and it did appear to be from a distance,
it looks to be like a yellow item that this
is not the usual green at least according to what
I'm looking at here, it looked to be. Well, no,
I take that back. It's like a yellow greenish color.
I take that back. Initially in the dark. Well, there's
(28:21):
only one way to find out. But anyway, so there
you go. That's that's very funny. And they immediately put
up the graphic thing flag penalty flag was not a
penalty flag. Let's go to Andrew, who's in Bakersfield. Hello Andrew,
what's up?
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Then? How you doing? All right? I have a question.
So you're talking about real fans and samboys.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yes, you're a fanboy, but that you're kind of what
I'm talking about. You're you're a mister sunshine and lollipops
and all that stuff. The guy called up from Illinois,
the Bears fan. That's a real fan. You're a fake fan.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Okay, So you talk about being critical well, I agree,
but being overly critical is not good. Now I have
a question for you. The Dodgers and the Lakers both
want a championships during the COVID.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Are we really going to do this again? I mean,
you just can't handle the truth. Is that what this
is about? You really want me to do that again?
Embarrass you? You want me to embarrass you, I'll embarrass you
if you want, I can embarrass you. I don't want
to embarrass you. But if you want me to embarrass you, i'
embarrass you.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
No, So I am if you could tell what you
think the differences or yeah, the difference.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Okay, so the difference. And again I mean this is
I feel like this is not the day to do this.
That's a bad job by Andrew. But see, one was
fundamentally easier and one was fundamentally more difficult. You see
what the baseball was more difficult because in baseball you
can have a bad month, you have nothing to worry about.
In basketball, it's the war of attrition. Right, You're supposed
to play all those regular season games and then you
(29:52):
got to go right into the playoffs. You've got to travel,
play on the road, planes, trains, at amobiles. In basketball,
they had four months off. They stay into a Mickey
Mouse resort in Florida. I think you'd agree that's a
little easier than having to travel around. And then baseball,
though they had all sixty game season, you have a
key injury, you're done. So that's it. Let's go to uh.
Maybe you'll learn next time. Jed who fled? Hello, Jed,
(30:15):
welcome fast.
Speaker 7 (30:17):
No sports weather or is strange?
Speaker 8 (30:20):
NFL teams should have domes were no rain can mess
with My gambling game? Was that? That's what support. There's
a billion dollar events and all of a sudden, the
runner rolls up and my ben and capability rolls down.
And if if I don't, I don't waste money or
anything other the drugs usually not when that's not waste.
But if I spend money and the ben joy will
(30:40):
and whether affects me, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna probably
end up in jail, and that's not good. That's that's
the game I don't need to take. Now.
Speaker 7 (30:49):
I don't know what that's very little.
Speaker 8 (30:51):
Man, but but I mean I'm following the right collars
that very little so what do you I mean, Hey,
you know what I'm talking, yeah, very little. That's right.
Poppy kept there the other night Poppy ended in leper
call Man. I almost spontaneously combusted, And like Butter, I
can teleport it to hail Man radio tail And he's
got he got a rubber chicken.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
He got a rubber chicken. This guys, it's got the
dangerous society.
Speaker 9 (31:13):
Dude.
Speaker 8 (31:14):
I don't know anybody's got that rubber chicken. And I
know people have got holders. Holders are like.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
You got a piece of waves from eighty seven, Like, yes,
I do. But they don't have rubber chickens.
Speaker 8 (31:23):
Rent high as they have a rubber chickens.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
Fine wine. Okay, why did the rubbers across the road?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
J you want you want to ask him, I'll put
your whole on. Say let me see here, Mike a leprechaun.
Jed has a problem with your rubber chicken.
Speaker 7 (31:39):
Like you, I'm not gonna I'm gonna do.
Speaker 9 (31:42):
I'm not gonna sail got the money? What is it?
Speaker 8 (31:46):
I'm a Wheal fan. Don't go to jail.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
People are strange, You're strange.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
I was the one you tossed the rubber chicken onto
the field yesterday there did you say? People are strange,
and I'm trying chicken to pat the chicken picks the
hat and the chicken was right. I would try, you
did and jail did. Yeah, don't get go.
Speaker 9 (32:05):
That's crazy.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Not go.
Speaker 8 (32:07):
I really have never had a meal that you like.
You never take it from me? What you about it?
Can you fight to defend it? Would you like to
have a touch push data?
Speaker 7 (32:18):
We're not gonna jail.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
We're not gonna jail.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
You cannot saying.
Speaker 8 (32:22):
All all right, no man, take him off, kick him
off me kick it off.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Can I kick you off too? I feel like I need,
I need to kick you off. I did kick him off.
I gotta. I'm gona hanging up on you to go away.
Let's go to snooker in north Las Vegas. Not to
be confused with the Las Vegas that everyone else knows,
but actually most people go to Paradise, Nevada, not not
Las Vegas. What's going on, snooker?
Speaker 9 (32:44):
What do you know about Paradise?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
That's a strip guy? Okay, yeah, no, no, well no
no no, that's where that's where all the hotels are
in Paradise, Nevada. So they they changed, they changed all
the there's different laws there different.
Speaker 9 (33:01):
Hey, hey didn't out. Hey you know what I did yesterday?
Speaker 1 (33:06):
You read a book?
Speaker 9 (33:07):
No, I can't, baby, I cash Okay. I told you
last week to put your money on Crawford. He didn't listen.
He did. I'm gonna watch the fight.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
I didn't bet on the fight. I did well. I
watched the fight. I think we needed one more band
to play, that's what we needed. I think they didn't
have enough bands before the fight. That was great planning.
Idiots over there, there was it YouTube, Holy crap.
Speaker 9 (33:30):
Well, I mean, you know, that's that's the Sacond point.
The bands, and that's the sacond point. I'm watching the fight.
I don't care about the band anyway.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Yeah, but to get to the fight, you had to
listen to the bands. It was a battle of the
bands before the fire, before the damn fight. It was ridiculous.
Speaker 9 (33:45):
That's what you bought a ticket. I didn't buy a ticket,
you know, I didn't buy it.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
That wasn't there. I didn't buy a ticket. I was
watching on the stupid TV, waiting for the fight, and
I kept turning and then the band here, band there,
band everywhere.
Speaker 9 (34:00):
Then you know what, I wouldn't catch my ticket, right,
and I have to I have to ticket, right. I said,
you know, how many people did you write up for Canelos?
And the girl said, oh, I wrote up about seventy percent.
That's a seventy percent. These people are crazy, you know,
I don't know what they did. Wait. Wait, I got
(34:20):
my money, right, and then I went to Bob Taylor.
You don't know nothing about Bob Taylor's in Vegas. Okay,
you know it's one of the oldest steakhouses in Vegas. Anyway,
I went and got my porterhouse and uh, then I
went back home. And then today, you know, I said,
let me call bit now and see if you bet
on a fight. But he probably didn't.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I would have been on crawfordough because you're getting value
on that. I would I would have been on them.
Because of that, I didn't do it.
Speaker 9 (34:49):
You got to remember, you got to remember being eight
percent of the fights. The boxer will always beat the puncher.
That's a fact. Okay.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
So he said, every confidently, And now we'll see next time.
I'm sure there'll be a rematch down the line.
Speaker 9 (35:04):
So all the way back to Mohammad Ali.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Yeah, okay, I gotta leave it there. So I'm story
I got a hard network out, otherwise I'll get in
a lot of trouble. You have it straight ahead. We
are moments away from the insta advice line. We'll get
to that. We will do it next quickly.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
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Speaker 4 (36:03):
Hey you sports figure, guy or.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Girl here, Well you talking to so hear some interested advice.
Hold that don no one's paid attention to me for
ten whole seconds. And if you don't like it, anyway,
we go. It's the instant advice line. Unscreened radio. Who
needs our advice? Well that's only one a couple options,
but we are gonna go with the head coach of
(36:26):
the Chicago Bears. They won the offseason. Congratulations Chicago Bears.
They are off to the ozer and two start. Got
smacked around Ben Johnson? What's wrong with Ben Johnson? So
advice to Ben Johnson and the Chicago Bears. Off to
the zero and two start. And you're live on the air.
When you hear my voice say hello you online one.
(36:48):
You're on the airline one. Hello, your advice to the
Bears Line.
Speaker 9 (36:51):
One morning time. Look at it's not fair I go
to the wedding, they choose the size before they even
get married. You get roo.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yeah, that's good point. That's we should change that. Hell, hell,
you should decide after the wedding. Hello, you're on the
air line too. Hello, line too. We're giving advice comparing.
Speaker 8 (37:06):
The twenty twenty World Series to the ridiculous Mickey Mouse Championship.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Use your brain exactly, great call. That's a solid call, Fergie,
Good job by you. Line five, you're on the airline five.
Speaker 8 (37:16):
Hello, coarata cocarata.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Okay, was that poppy? I don't know how. Line one, Hello,
you're on the airline one.
Speaker 5 (37:23):
Go Jazz Chism needs to shut up before he unless
he makes the playoffs this year.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Oh I saw that. Yeah, Jazz chishoms. The Yankees have arrived.
They went, They went out and lost to the Red Sox. Hello.
Line four, Hello, line four, you're on the airline for
advice to Ben Johnson. Line for the Bears coach.
Speaker 9 (37:41):
In that field, not for losers.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Yeah, no, morning time right there. Now, you're definitely not
ricking Maryland. Hello caller, you're on the air. Caller, Hello,
eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox, Hello.
Speaker 9 (37:54):
To you.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Okay, that's a fake hollering, James, stop that Hello call
you're on the air. We're giving you to Ben Johnson.
Coach Ben Johnson, the Chicago Bears off to the oh
and two.
Speaker 7 (38:04):
Start Bears football is supposed to be like making Web
two midget.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Okay, thank you for that. This line eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox. Line five, you're on the airline five.
Speaker 9 (38:15):
Hello, I would advise the head coach of Chicago. Look
at the Candy Cooper loop bot. That's the lash.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Okay, there you go, it's the candy bar of the
coop butt. Hello, Line five, you're on the airline.
Speaker 8 (38:27):
Five toenail polish.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Yeah, well they do have that. The Bears lead the
NFL in toenail polish and just nail polish in general.
Line number one, Hello, Line one.
Speaker 7 (38:39):
JJ McCarthy is about as useful as a lepre con.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Okay, there you go. We do have a Leprechaun call.
You're on the airline three. Go headline three.
Speaker 7 (38:48):
That's the chargers.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Okay, there's all. That's our buddy from Banks. One more,
only one more of us. Good, I'll take credit. Hurry up, Coper,
mind too. Line two, you're on the air line two.
Go go, there you go. What great advice to Ben Johnson.
That'll help out the Bears a lot right there.
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