Hurricane Hippy

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If you had the New England Patriots going sixteen and
o in the regular season, you are a loser. Panic
Radio there as Kansas City goes in to New England
and walks out strutting like a peacock after sticking it
to Tom Brady and the Patriots. One of the great

(00:21):
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Did you watch? Did you witness? Were you part of
the opening of the NFL season? Did you boycott the NFL?
I'll see how that works out. We'll see the ratings say.
But the New England Patriots who looked for the first

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a few minutes of the game like they were going
to win seventy five to three, it appeared early on,
and then the script flipped, touchdown, taken back, and next
thing you know, the Chiefs tie it up. But even
with all of that, and with the New England defense

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being regularly bludgeoned by Alex Smith. The Kansas City Chiefs
looked more like the Pittsburgh Steelers offense with Antonio Brown
and Levian Bell and all these different dynamic weapons. Does
not appear. It did not look like the old Kansas
City Chiefs. It did not so the Chiefs in a

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game that going to the fourth quarter, the New England
Patriots had a twenty seven to twenty one lead and
then allow twenty one points and it was razzle dazzle plays.
This was not your nickel and dime offense, your dink
and dunk offense that we have become to we've become
to know and love regarding Alex Smith. Now, this was

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big plays, seventy plus yard plays, electrifying offense. And what
happened to see Alex Smith. I know it's one game,
It's one That's all we have is one game. All
we have is one game. This is the full sample
size of the NFL regular season, this particular game. But

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the story was going to be Alex Smith all all
he needed to have was like one bad half and
then they were gonna bench him, bench his ass and
bring in Mahomes. But then Alex Smith had a close
to perfect game, right, how do you play better than that?
He had seven incompletions in thirty five attempts against the

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New England Patriots Osi defense. I don't know if that's
a legitimate defense, but a one hundred and forty eight
point six quarterback rating, which I'm told is good. I
am told that is very good. And then the other
side you got Tom Brady. And every time Tom Brady
has a stink bomb, he's forty. Did you know tom
Brady's forty years old. Yeah, he's forty. Oh my god,

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tom Brady's forty. Don't worry. Though he has avocado ice cream,
He's not allowed to have any after this game. He's
in demerit. That's a demerit performance by Tom Brady, who
had twenty incomplete passes and a quarterback rating of seventy
seven zero. That is Jared Goff like. That is if

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the Patriots. You wanted to know what the Patriots would
be like if Jared Golf was the quarterback. That's an example.
Although that he would have had an interception, so it
wouldn't have been a clean game without an interception. It
would have been an interception, all right, let's hear from
the losing side, because the better story is in the
losing locker room. And Tom Brady, Tom Brady man the

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mid the legend. They love him. He's gonna get statues
all over the commonwealth. Tom explain all the wonderful things
that took place in that particular game. There was nothing
really positive about anything that was done. So, you know,
we gotta get back to work. We gotta nine days
for our next game, and hopefully we played out better

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than tonight. Nothing positive. No, we died and he's played
bad football. A great party. It was a very festive
atmosphere there. There seemed to be having a good time,
everyone enjoying themselves. Yes before the game when the game started,
not someone. By the time the game was over, there
was nobody there place. It echoed the place it emptied out.

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It was. It was pretty empty. Didn't see a lot
of Chiefs fans there. I can't blame them. That was
a hot ticket, tough ticket to get. Here's more from
Tom Brady, who points out the elephant in the room
is right over there. I just think we need to
have him wergency and uh, you know, go out there
and perform a lot better and that you know, it
is a winning attitude, in a championship attitude that you

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need to bring every day. And you know we had
it handed to us on our own field. You know,
it's a terrible feeling. There's only people that can do
something about it in that locker room, and we gotta
dig a lot deeper than we did tonight because we
being dig very deep tonight. Are you sure they're in
that locker room because I sent some trades coming, Maybe
they're in some other locker room somewhere. You're positively in
that locker room because that was a mess. That was

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a stink bomb, stink Bob performance. Well, you know who's
gonna cheer everyone up? If you're a Patriot fan, Bill Belichick? Bill,
what's your positive message of the day? Really nothing, that's
good enough. So we all got to do a better job.
That's good be pretty much answered every question, because that's
what it was. Bad defense, bad coaching, bad plan, bad football. Now,

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how do you really feel that you have? No? That's it,
that's how you feel. Yeah, the worst defensive performance of
the Bill Belichick era. Now, if you're a Kansas City
Hughes fan, you'll say, hey, stupid that was the greatest
offensive performance of the Alex Smith, Andy Readierra in an
unexpected situation. The best moments as a sports fan are

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when you do not expect your team to do something
great and they do so. If you're a Kansas City
Chiefs fan, you're like, yes, there were a zillion players
that were marvelous for Kansas City, but in particular Kareem Hunt,
who had a hundred and I didn't even heard anyone

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heard of this guy. He played a Toledo Kareem Hunt
one hundred and forty eight yards on the ground and
a bunch of yards through the air at almost one
hundred yards receiver. Of course, it helps when you have
seventy eight on one play. That's that's not going to
hurt the average yards per catch. He had seventy eight
on one play, but he still had twenty on the
other four catches collectively. As he was the signature player

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for the Kansas City Chiefs, and we thought that Bill
bella check with key in on Tyreek Hill and try
to stop him and make someone else beat the Patriots.
They didn't stop Tyreek Hill. He had one hundred and
thirty three yards, So the pictures didn't stop anybody. This
was a defensive performance that reminded you of the New
Orleans Saints defense, so some of the other terrible defenses

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in the NFL in recent years. So the question is this,
does this particular game, the kickoff game in the NFL
won by the Kansas City Chiefs forty two to twenty seven.
Does this particular game say more about the Chiefs and
what they have to look forward to, or more about
the Patriots and where they are well? The answer is

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New England, England. To me, that's the answer here. The
better stories in the losing, the locker room and all that,
but a couple of thoughts here obviously unexpected, bland, spiritless,
and ineffective, like all of those things are in play.
Here will start with a there's a lot of revisionist

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history going on, and the game hasn't been over, Like
the body's not even cold yet as we do the
autopsy on what took place in New England, but there's
a lot of it. I'm hearing a lot of people
that are around the Patriots, people who cover the pack,
the Pats who are now covering their ass because no one,

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no one foreshadowed this, that this was a possibility, and
there's a lot of people saying, well, I saw in
training camp there were some guys that were questionable. We
pointed it out, and you know, they didn't have a
lot of practice time. There's a lot of excuse making,
a lot of excuse making going on, blaming it on injuries,
the training camp situation. The Patriots have always prided themselves

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on accountability. This is coming from the people that are
around the Patriots that cover the team, but those that
work for the team, it's their public position. I don't
know if this is their private position. But Bill Belichick
has always said no excuses, you know, no days off,
no excuses. Now he's added not good enough. That's the
new catchphrase of Bill Belichick. Now. The second part of

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this is from the Patriots perspective. It was bland. It
was bland football. Yeah, they scored twenty seven points. The
Patriots only had one less first down than Kansas City,
but the yardage gap of well over one hundred almost
two hundred yards difference in favor of Kansas City. This

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was unpatriot like, is what it was. In Kansas City.
They got slapped early. They not only slapped back, they
took a bulldozer and ran over the Patriots in the
fourth quarter of that particular game. And the Patriots in
this game and it's only one game. Yeah, but it's
only one game the yeahbut crowd's gonna check in here. Yeah,

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I get that. But in this particular game, the Patriots
looked old, they looked slow. Kansas City appeared to be
playing with roller skates on, and the Patriots did not
with those big plays, those electrifying plays. How does that happen?
Tom Brady was ineffective. You got a mess, You got

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a mess. Now the silver lining, there is a silver
lining here. The silver lining is the Patriots are still
in the AFC East and that means their competition includes Buffalo,
Miami and the Jets. That is not exactly a murders
or you can win ten games and win that division easily.

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Now that The bad news, though, is this, there's more
bad news. That Patriot defense, which turned Alex Smith into
a Hall of Fame level quarterback, a guy that was
on the hot seat whose teams rafted the air apparent
trying to eventually in the near future push Alex Smith out.

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The Patriot defense was exposed by Alex Smith, and now
they go into their own pit of vipers a date
with Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints. Are we
looking at an O and two start for the New
England Patriots with that defensive forms, they assume that they've
got an extra couple of days that they'll figure out

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how to occasionally tackle someone and not allow he's seventy
yard touchdown play. But that is also are causing when
you think about that possibility. We know the Saints are
not nearly as good on the road as they are
at home. And this game is going to be in
New Orleans. The next game New Orleans still has to

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play this weekend against the Minnesota Vikings. This is relatively uncomplicated.
It's relatively uncomplicated here. That was a cakewalk in the
fourth quarter. That was unchallenging, that's the word. It was
unchallenging for Kansas City late in that particular football game,
which no one thought was possible. Unless you're a big,

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cool drinking Kansas City chief guy. Then for you, yes, now,
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Edmund Dallas steamboat will as it's right over there. This

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was garcr Garcia. This was an unpredictable situation, to be sure.
And I think what was really most surprising is the Patriots.
First of all, they don't lose at home and then
they close out games. To see them implode in the
fourth quarter, Uh was was shocking. It's just not something

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we're used to seeing very often. I was somewhat happy
because in the past when I send mid game tweets out,
I get burned. Didn't get burned this time, not this time.
Didn't get burned. Yeah, I didn't get burned. No, no
revisionist history on my part. People going back to well,
you know you're an idiot. Look at the Patriots came
back and won the game. No, they were terrible for
three quarters and they sucked even worse than the fourth quarter. Well, look,

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but when it's all said and done, Yes, what's more
more said than done. Yeah, I'm taking the Patriots. If
you're gonna if you're gonna give me a choice between
who you're gonna take the chiefs of the Patriots, I'm
taking the Patriots. Well, now we know Eric Berry is
gonna be out for the rest of the year. They
think he tour looks like, yeah, that's horrible. That's so
that screws their defense. Look, Alex Smith is not going
to play another game like this whole year. I don't

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know any not like this, any no, any Kareem Hunt Hunt.
You got to be optimistic the Hunt like this guy.
I never said. Just watched Toledo football, Eddie, a lot
of up Kareem Hunt in the MAC. He gotta love
that he fumbles on his first scary and then he
comes back And that's Mac football, Eddie. They're not underachievers

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in the MAC. He's a junkyard dog, that guy. But
that was Alex Smith's got to be his best game out.
If Kareem Hunt is half as good as he was
in this game. And Tyreek Hill. I'm just talking about
the offense. The defense is fed because their safety has
gone for the year, it would appear so. But just
the offense, You've got a Hunt in the backfield. You've

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You've also got Tyreek Hill, You've got the tight end.
Nothing major in the five catches, but nothing big. You
got three legitimate weapons on offense. Hunt is a legitimate weapon.
You know who should really really be freaking out, Danny
g This kills the Raiders if Kansas City has it.
This is what we call overreaction. But I'm gonna go

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with it. I'm gonna I'm gonna go with it. I'm
gonna go with it, Eddie, because that was an impressive
running back and forth. You are the Hazar of hyper
belie So Captain Knezjerk one of my nicknames. I've earned it.
But admit, admit you were not impressed with it. Admit
that was not a Mona Lisa performance. Oh no, I
was totally impressed with it. It was a great one
game for the Kansas City Chiefs. A great one game.
I don't think it will get any better the rest

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of the year, though. I really don't being negative. Now
you're being I think I'm being realistic. I don't believe
we're being realistic. I think Alex Smith will have a
better game than he had tonight the rest of the year.
I don't if he's got those playmakers, it's the play
Is it the playmakers or is it the quarterback? He
can get a lot of it. Tonight was the quarterback
he can get you. I don't know about that. There

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was one blown coverage where the guy was wide open.
Other than that, he made throws. You look at the
next three games, they're all winnable for the Chiefs. They
play at home at Arrowhead against the Eagles, they play
at the Chargers in LA, and then at home with
the Redskins. They could be four and oz to start
the NFL season with that kind of dynamic off it. Of
Of course, they gotta stop somebody, and we'll see if
they can stop anybody. With Eric Barry, it appears Gonzo

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with a torn up achilles tendon, so it looks like
he is gone. All Right's Ben mal showing Fox got
Danny g who's freaking out over there, so disappointed. Now
A Raiders aren't going to win the AFC West the Chiefs.
It's already over, in fact that the Chiefs have been
crowned the champions of the AFC West. I'm sorry, the
Raiders are playing for a wild card. Sorry, you are

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now in second division status, Danny. After you lose to
the Titans, you'll be a full game back. And Ben,
what I have the Ben Mallard Raiders had on my face?
I like that? How dare you? But no, not not worried.
The Raiders are gonna bounce back this season and sweep
the Chiefs. What about Cooper Loop? Is he worried? Oh yeah,

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they're all freaked out, Coop, He's not concerned at all. Coop,
You've got Trevor Simmey and as your quarterback. Yeah, but
Alex Smith is better than Trevor Simmey. That's that's fine
if you want to say that. But they just lost
Eric Berry, so yeah, next man up. Injuries are part
of football. Wait, Ben, didn't you pick the Patriots against

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the Penny last night? Yes? Of course that was the
right pick. I made the correct pick. You know what
I was unexpected? Unexpected, I was on the right side
of history, is what I was. I expected it. I
believe I picked the chiefs and all in all right, Now,
this is a full service radio show. Back in the
old days and radio they used to have full service
radio stations that would try to do everything. They'd play

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music and talk radio, news and the whole thing. What
a nightmare you imagine radio like that? Yeah, for years,
talk just radio is like that. They played songs and
talk and all that. Well, we are gonna have an
actual hurricane irma update. We're gonna go in to the
where this storm is tracking into our weather center and

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we will get the latest one that and also and
also was it an ignored story from uptop? Was this
ignored from uptop? What is this? We'll get to that
as well, and we'll do it next. The Ben Mallor
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(18:04):
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Why I need answers? I need answers. We'll get to
that coming up in a moment as the Kansas City
Chiefs strutting and flaunting their way out of the Commonwealth.
The Chiefs go into a to enemy territory, in enemy
territory and walk out strutton and victorious, wanting all a dynamic, explosive,

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unexpected offensive performance. Just marvelous for the Chiefs. And it
was so good with some of the seventy yard plays
that the Patriot fans wanted to vomit watching that particular performance.
Those are the old old Patriots back in the day. Recall,

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everyone's gonna bring up down. Remember when the Patriots lost, Well,
not everyone, but some historians, We'll say, Remember that year
they lost was at thirty one nothing to Buffalo to
begin the year after they got rid of Lawyer Malloy
a million years ago, who was a popular player on
the team. Remember that. Yeah, and then they ended up
doing pretty good after that. They were all right. They
won the Super Bowl that year. If I remember against

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Kansas City a few years ago, Tom Rady looked washed up.
Remember that game at Arrowhead back. Now, that was the
game where you said he was done. At that time,
he was done. I would have benched him. They did
not listen to me, and apparently worked out for him.
Should have listened to me, gave great counsel at that
particular moment. It was a terrible performance. Despicable. They sucked

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at a time they should not suck. Let's get before
we get back to football. There's a major storm which
is about to hit America here, Hurricane Irma. You're watching
any of this coverage? I watched summer Man, I'm scared.
I don't live in Florida, but I'm scared. This is
not good, this is terrible. I'm worried about my guy,
weed Man Hippie. Let's check in live now in Miami.

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Weed Man Hippie is in South Beach on Fox Sports Radio,
The Ben Mall Show. What's going on? We Man, I
love you too. You gotta get out of there. Weed Man.
I want you. I need you as a caller. I
got no callers. I need you, Ben. I'm gonna be
your exclusive hurricane information source. Oh no, listen, listen. I

(20:45):
want you alive. I don't want you there. I want
you to get out of there. I don't go smoke
weed in another state. If you can, come on when
you see that month for hurricane yeah, where it kisses
the tip of Florida. It might as well say, weed man,
because that's exactly where I am. Then, Yeah, it's demandatory evacuation. Yeah,

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I'm not going anywhere we know. No, man, listen, I
want you around, weed Man. You evacuating nowhere? Well why not? Why?
They'll pay for your food. Probably they'll give you like
blankets and stuff. What I'm gonna hang in there and
I'm gonna report on this hurricane for you Sunday night,

(21:31):
Sunday night when no, no, all right, listening, because if
I don't hear from you, then we're gonna all panic
that you're gone. And I don't want that. I don't
want that kind of stress. I want you to leave
you you love me, I do love you. But and
you don't even know the phones are gonna be working,
weed Man. I mean the phones will probably be out
and everything will be gone, and they'll take days for
that all to come back. Now, where do you do

(21:53):
You live on the first floor, the second floor? Flo
Come on, man, Texas. It's not even funny If it
ends up like Texas. My apartment literally can be flooded
from Florida. Amazing. You gotta get out of the movement.
You gotta you gotta go somewhere. They're taking There's gotta

(22:14):
be a place you can go right somewhere. Yes, ah,
and what a mess it is? A me I agree,
it's a mess. Yes, That's that's why we love sports,
right that because of hurricanes. We love sports tonight. Listen,
that guy hunt tonight. He his speed in high school

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would have been shixed in the Olympic two hundred meters.
I think you're confusing him with no no, no, no no, yeah,
yeah am I there was a guy in that game
so fast it would have been shaped. You're so shaken
by Hurricane Irma here there're giving out phone all right. Listen,

(23:07):
weed Man, you're a big part of our show. We
love you. We don't want to see anything happen to you.
And as much as I would love selfishly to have
an on site correspondent from South Beach, I'm worried about
your safety. Weed Man, I get out of there. I
love you. I'm gonna stay on all night and I'll
give you updates if you want to come back to me.
I'm all right. But now, weed Man, though, do you
have like supplies and stuff? Because you could be on

(23:29):
your own for a very long time. Damn. I made
this video today I sent it to you. Did you
see the inside of my frigerator? There's nothing? God damn.
First I should have at least got pun efficient stuff.
We man, weed man, would you mind if I blow
you up one time for old times sake? Oh no,
don't you your blow away yet? Be no weed man.

(23:55):
You gotta all right do what you want. Okay, I've
given you my professional advice. All right, fine, thank you.
I won't do it. That's our exclusive hurricane. We will
check back with our Fox Sports radio Weather Center. That's
not gonna end well, is it. I hope it's not.
Maybe maybe the media is embellishing it. Do you think

(24:15):
they're embellishing because I'm convinced I'm going to die watching
the coverage. So I hope that everything's all right. I
hope that everyone's okay. I'm worried about our friend Jack,
the judge, and Leslie because it's gonna shoot right up
the state of Florida. Last I saw, it was gonna
right up New England. Patriots are all on one. There
is panic in the NFL. Oh my god, there is panic.
But the story is something that was ignored. What was

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that thing that was ignored. We will get to that.
You're listening to the Band Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio.
We thank you for that. And Eddie Garcia is giving
me an odd look, and Eddie's like, hey, wait a
minute here, what's what's the latest? So Eddie, what's the latest? Well?
What a season opener to the the NFL season is?
The Chiefs go into Foxborough and beep the defending Super
Bowl champion Patriots forty two. It's twenty seven Alex Smith

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four touchdown passes, and rookie running back Kareem Hunt two
hundred and forty six total yards and three scores. That's
the most total yards ever by a rookie in his
first game. Patriots lose at home, and lose in a
game at home in which they led to start the
fourth quarter, kan City outscoring them in that final quarter
twenty one a nothing. Unfortunately, there was one bad note
for Kansas City. A star safety Eric Barry was carted

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off the field where they potential achilles injury games. A note.
In baseball in the American League, Indians won their franchise
record fifteenth game in a robed in the White Sox
eleven to two. Corey Klueber struck out thirteen. He gets
his fifteenth win of the season, which is tied for
the American League League twins over the Royal Sport to
two Yankees down the Orioles nine to one. This reports
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we were talking about Hurricane irma of corey hits affecting
the sports world world as well. We know about the
Dolphins Buccaneers game that's been moved number ten four to
State and number twenty two Florida both canceled their home
openers this Saturday because of the hurricane. Seminals were going
to host Louisiana Monroe and the Gators were against Northern

(26:05):
Shelter weed Man hippie. Can he go to the swamp
where the Gators play and they can put him in
the well that would be in Gainesville, which would be better,
much better than Miami if I go my Florida geography,
so that would be a good idea. Maybe he can
try to get out of Miami. Is there enough time?
There's enough time, right, So I's not gonna hit for
a little while. You look supposedly early or should say

(26:25):
late Saturday night early Sunday morning. He's got time. Although
I would imagine, judging by the photos I saw in
that big box with pictures, yeah, that the roads are
pretty factive and they're running out of gas in some places.
Not a pleasant situation, not at all. Not right. Good luck,
good luck to everybody involved in that wish. You guys
are the best. Got a lot of friends and whatnot

(26:47):
in Florida, So good luck to you guys. All right,
So Ben Mather's show on Fox, We're coming to you
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they didn't get seventy percent of the stadium wearing clown
nose shirts with clown nose hats, but there were certainly

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enough where it was noticeable on the TV broadcast. But
for some reason, for some reason, in the first half,
when when all of this was going down, clown noses
in the air everywhere. The NBC broadcast did not talk
about the elephant in the road. So why was it ignored?

(27:32):
You look like a big fat clown. I believe this
was a mandate from the National Football League? Now what
evidence do I have that it was a mandate from
the National Football League. Al Michaels has often been the
the curmudgeon. Al's been the kind of guy that will
talk about point spreads. The NFL doesn't want you talking
about point spreads. Al Michaels will bring up point spreads

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and things like that. And it was every time. Where
I noticed it the most was when there would be
like an extra point and they they'd show that, yes,
that camera angle behind the kick ready and you'd see,
you know, sprinkled in the crowd people either wearing the
Roger Goodell clown nose shirt or they hold it held
the towel. I want to know what happened to the

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other towels, because they said they made seventy thousand of them.
There weren't seventy thousand of those there, but there were
enough where it was noticed. So why not why did
they not? I want to know, Eddie, I need answers.
Was it a mandate? I believe it was a mandate
from Roger Goodell. That's my belief. Do you think he
wields that kind of power. Yes, yes, spot. I know

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what they've talked about in the past, the you know,
will Goodell show up or hasn't he shown up? And
then in the Super Bowl we were talking about is
he gonna shake hands? What's that gonna be like. I mean,
it's not like they're ignoring the situation at all, but
they did. Also there was a sea of Roger Goodell noses.
They shows they showed him once up in the luxury
box and that was about it. That was about it. Yes,

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but I'm not talking about I'm talking about the crowd
and the obvious elephant in the room, which was ignored,
and they gave some generic statement an NBC spokeshact before
the game, we're gonna cover about the We're gonna cover
the events that take place in the game. I saw
a photo which was pretty good of Goodell walking out
of the tunnel before the game with a couple of

(29:19):
his other Tody Corporate guys from the NFL, and then
right above in the crowd there were like four guys
wearing the clown no shirt like right there, and you
know he saw it. You know he saw it was
possible to ignore unless you work for NBC. What was
going on? I'm sitting on my ass watching the game.

(29:40):
I'm like, oh, there it is again. Look at that,
look at that and anyway, So I was puzzling. I
want to know the answer. Somebody get me the answer.
I will never know the ans to the phones. We
go and let's go to Cape Cod and we'll say
hi to Matt who's in patriot Land and licking his
wound right now. Hello, Matt, I'm not licking my wounds.

(30:03):
I'm a giant fan. I'm sorry. I apologize someone next
time your neighbors licking their wounds about that. Oh my
wife won't be she's not talking to me. She was
hanging out with the Uh. Let's just says she was
prot taking into Justin Cooper action tonight and huff returning
calls when I asked her how the game was going
self medication. Yeah, yeah, so you know, I mean, what

(30:27):
a disgusting effort. Uh. You know, just as a football fan,
I expect a lot more out of the Patriots. That
was pretty to thank And you know, Alex Smith, you
know for a long time, you know, game manager and
all that he looked pretty good tonight. Yeah, so no
you did. It's it's shocking when you have guys that
can actually catch and then keep running. It makes you

(30:49):
look better. I don't know who looks better tonight, Alex
Smith or Kershaw. That's yeah. This is all part of
the plan. It is all part of the planets, one
of the great sandbagging efforts. I give Dave Roberts and
the Dodgers credit. This is all a calculated orchestrated move
to make people that are Dodger haters happy, and then

(31:09):
in the end they will rally back. It'll be one
of the great success stories, breathtaking in fact, when they
rally back and they'll end up winning the World Series.
Get all this out of their system right now, and
then like a super nova when the playoffs begin, they'll
be on their way. Bigger chow Falcons a super Bowl
or Dodgers blowing their playoffs chair. It's easy, ye, the Falcons?

(31:32):
Are you done? Are you you'd like to try some more?
Keep going? Nah? I hear you, all right? Good luck.
I recommend caffeine. That's what I use. Ben Maller's show
on Fox on Fox, and we're gonna have the NFL
pick him make its first appearance of the season. Why
would we have the NFL pick him any other day?

(31:54):
So we'll have the NFL pick him and then next hour,
Benny ver, this is the penny for the first time
every game we did the Patriots game that went really well,
great analysis on what was gonna happen. We told you
exactly what was going to happen in that game. We
broke it down, not that complex, We answered all the
problems and there there wasn't It wasn't your typical analysis, right,

(32:19):
it was got completely right, very believable. We give you facts.
We're very credible with our analysis of these NFL games,
and it happened exactly like we thought it was going
to happen. Yes, all right, here's the who am I game?
Here we go? Who am I? Game? I was targeted
on thirty one percent of the routes or roots I

(32:41):
ran in twenty sixteen, the highest rate for all receivers
in the NFL. Again, who am I? Game? I was
targeted on thirty one percent of the routes or roots
I ran last season, the highest rate for all wide
receivers in the NFL? Who Am I? Note? Is the

(33:05):
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(33:28):
was targeted on thirty one percent of my routes or
roots last NFL season, the highest rate of all wide
receivers in the NFL. Who am I? That's the question.
What's the answer? Justin's going with Fred Flintstone as the answer.
Davante Adams guest by j D the King is going

(33:49):
with weed Man Hippie Live in Miami. Who else? We
have Julian Edelman guest by Joseph so you can't read
that one on the Some of the other guests is
Julio Jones from Bubba, Johnny Morton thrown out by Marvin
the Michigan Man, Howard Johnson from Sean in Portland, and

(34:10):
he's Sean Spicer from Greg Plaxico Burrows from Ernie and
Big Loues going with the Black Pat Garrity Channing Fry
as his answer, what say you, Eddie, What say you?
I'm gonna go with Steelers Great Lewis lips Louis lips No,
incorrect he correct answer Tyreek Hill of the Cansa City

(34:35):
Chiefs is the answer, Tyrek Hill pretty pretty good. Wasn't
the headliner? He was the top pass catcher, but that's
only because Hunt was better than Hill. But overall, with
the body of work, running and whatnot, Let's go to
Zach in Kansas City. We're gonna be the NFL pick him.

(34:57):
Coming up here momentarily, Hello Zach, Hey, big Ben. I
feel slightly disrespected by Cooper Loop because he kept you
on holding, didn't screen you, so I couldn't take your call. Yes, yeah,
I called it. I was looking for Coop Coop Roll.
He's on weed time, so he doesn't actually get to
the calls till it's convenient for him. So today's chief

(35:17):
of the key. I suppose, yes, um No. What I
was going to say was it was a great game.
I was slightly losing my voice from the the extreme
celebrations and the repetitive celebrations. It is just I recommend
rock garlic work. Take some rock. You'll feel better in
the when you wake up, you'll feel better. You gotta

(35:38):
use some raw garlic, chopping ahead of raw garlic in
half and then you're a little lemon, a little honey. Yeah,
it's like a no, you don't need the lemon in
the honey, just the raw garlic. But no, what I
wanted to do was temper some of the Kansas City
fans enthusiasm. Now, now you need a temper. There's nothing
needs to be tempered, you know. Play for the team front,

(36:02):
the front seventh for the Patriots is vastly overrated. They
have probably this is not the time for this phone call.
This is not the time for this phone call. Your
auditional you're not you're not a rational bris. You pick
the Royals to win the World Series? You're not rational? No? No, yes, yes, yes,
yes yes. The World Series in two thousand and kept.

(36:25):
Oh stop, you thought they were going to be wonderful.
This year they've been a dud. They've been a flop
is what they've been. Actually, If you, if you would
remember the calls that I made to you. I asked
you your opinion, and I told you that I was
nervous because I didn't think they had the team anyway.
I don't want to talk about baseball depressing, Gil. You're
trying to make a Chiefs win. Depressing. You're trying to

(36:47):
make a great night. This is the greatest, honest, this
is the greatest night of the Andy Reid era. And
you're trying to spin all over it and urinate on it.
What's wrong with you? This is a it's a great No,
I'm not fitting all over it. I was just saying
that if you watched the play. Okay, the seventh for
the Patriots could not get any at a production and

(37:10):
couldn't get any in the first half of the game.
The Chiefs did not rush. They didn't get to Tom Brady.
Tom Brady had all day to throw, and there was
no he can get passes down the field there all
day he had to throut. There was a It was ridiculous.
It was like he was going a seven on seven.
No one was rushing against it. He couldn't trust his arm. Okay, Well,

(37:30):
what I wanted to bring up to you because I
don't know if you watched the game. Then, No, I
didn't want I'm blind. I can't see you making fun
of me. How dare you? The first the first down
pass the Chris Conley for seventeen yards. Okay, what was
wonderful about that was that he looked and saw that
he had shark Hendrick West wide open for an eight
yard bunk pass. All right, I don't know what did

(37:50):
he do. I gotta yelling, I gotta go, I thank you.
I don't want to break down an individual. Let's get
to the NFL pick, and we haven't done this forever.
NFL pick him. Oh that's yeah. We're gonna pick a quarterback,
of running back, two wide receivers in a tight end,
and whoever has the most fantasy points of the games
on Sunday and Monday will be declared the winner and

(38:12):
we'll get all the glory and all that. So who's
gonna go first? Quickly? Cooper Loop, let's get to it.
We got extra players to pick. We got two extra rounds,
gonna pick five players. East you gottas you gotta keep
track or else just isn't gonna work it. Okay, that
would be Eddie Garcia. All right, Edi, right, you have
the first pick on the NFL Pick them. Let's go
with Antonio Brown shocking election, Danny G. David Johnson. David

(38:37):
Johnson's off the board. All right, I will go I'm
gonna go take a Leveon Bell. I'll take a Leveyon Bell.
Coop Ezekiel Elliott? Wow? All right? And another one? Coop?
Where you got? I will go with Cam Newton, Cam
Big Newton? Are you gonna have Cam Newton? I will
take Julio Jones, Bam, Danny AJ Green? AJ Green is gone? Eddie,

(39:05):
who you got? Let's go with Matt Ryan. Mattie Ice
is off the board. One more Ed and Jordy Nelson. Oh,
Jordy Nelson's gone. Back to Danny G. The Pride of
Fresno State. Derek Carr Carr, all right, I'm gonna go
with Jason Witten of the Dallas Cowboys. Back to Coop.

(39:25):
You listen to the NFL pick him on the Ben
Mallis Show. Coop, who you got Jason Witton? It's a
p it's a wonderful pay Yeah, maybe five years ago.
I'll go to Jordan Reed. Oh yeah, that's a great
pick of us. Not it is? You get suspended before
the game. All right, um, and then I'll go Terrell Pryor. Oh,
such a bold pick I'll take. Let's see, let's go

(39:47):
with Marcus Mariota, Bam, guess that Raider defense, Danny greg
Olsen Eddie back to back Lashawn McCoy, you got him.
And let's go with Martellis Bennett. Tend now to get
thick Danny Michael Thomas, friend of the show. All right,
this is gonna be the breakout star of the NFL

(40:08):
weekend Sammy Watkins, so the la He's gonna light it up.
All right, I have thought to himself, cool, who you got,
Damarius Thomas? Not terrible picks, better than your say, total
breakdown for the New England Patriots in the fourth quarter,

(40:28):
a game that was theirs to win. Game they typically do,
but not on this particular day. Kansas City strutting their
stuff in the fourth quarter and the Patriots are licking
their wounds right now. More on that and a penny
the penny in the house. We'll get to that as well.
Welcome in the beginning of another hour. It's the Ben

(40:51):
Mallers Show. We are in the air everywhere the vast
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(41:12):
the first AFC team to beat Tom Brady at home
in a game in which he played the entire game
since back in twenty h six, the last time bet
Brady was horrific in the late stages of this game,
and they really throughout the game a very unbradylike. And

(41:34):
Alex Smith for all his warts and flaws and all
that two and oho head to head regular season matchups
with Tom Brady, so he's owned Brady the regular season.
And that, of course means nothing. Because of these teams
played in the playoffs and they played in Foxborough. You'd
still bet on the Patriots. Although the way the Patriots

(41:55):
defensively played the worst defensive performance in the Bill Belichick
Patriots era forty two points. That's the most allowed by
Bill Belichick led defense. They've been there three hundred and
seven games Belichick's been with the playoffs with including the playoffs,

(42:15):
and yet the numbers are staggering. Staggering. So it is,
but one game, but it is all we have two
dissect and the overreaction machine is gonna get cranked up.
And I keep looking into that Kansas City Chiefs team,
and if Alex Smith can just all you do is
get the football of this guy Hunt, who no one

(42:36):
had ever heard of it, no one thought would be
a difference maker and X factor. In fact, many people
were upset in Kansas City running back position was a
jumbled mess because of injury. But Kareem Hunt the breakout
star in the game on Thursday, a rookie out of
Toledo from Willoughby, Ohio, who lit up the big bad

(42:59):
New England page his defense and it looked like he
had the cheat code on a video game the way
that he was slicing them up at a fifty eight
yard run and a seventy eight yard reception, backbreaking plays
as it turned out. All right, it's Ben Maller's show
on Fox on Fox Now. It has become a staple

(43:21):
of this radio program picking NFL games against the spread,
and that returns right now here we go. Welcome players,
You're welcome. It's time now, Penny, all right, let's do it.

(43:44):
No buy weeks until a few weeks from now, so
we got a full card of NFL games, minus the
Dolphins and Bucks because of weather conditions. If you're new
to our show, welcome for the next hour. This hour
different than all other hours. We will not give out
the number, which is something we haven't done in a
while anyway, until recently. We won't give out the number.
We're not listening calls. We want you just to listen.

(44:05):
You can't play along, though. We'll quiz you every so
often and we'll kind of get an update on this
how smart you are and how much you pay attention
to all this stuff. So relax, enjoy, and let's get
to it. The games for Week one in the NFL,
and it's Benny Versus the Penny twenty seventeen. We'll start

(44:26):
out the Sunday early schedule the Jets at Buffalo. This
game opened up the Bills were a six and a
half point favorite. It is skyrocketed all the way up
to nine. Most of the money's coming in on Buffalo.
The play here, though, is not the Bills. My pick
is the Jets. I'm gonna take the Jets plus the nine,

(44:46):
and I'll tell you why there's to me, there's not
a whole lot separating these teams. Yes, the Jets are
worse than Buffalo. Tyrod Taylor with the concussion issue, is
going to play we here, But will he play the
entire game? That's the question. How effective will Taylor beat
when he does play. The key to me for the
Jets defense is to obviously attempt, attempt to limit the

(45:12):
running game, limit the running game of Buffalo, keep that
in check, and then see what you got at that point.
See what you got, make Taylor beach you Because of
the questionable status and even last year Taylor when he
had some big games, very inconsistent. To me, there's no
way the Bills should be favored by this many points.
I know the Jets are terrible, I realize that, but

(45:36):
the margins of the NFL are pretty close. If you
play hard, you're not gonna get blown out like that.
And number two, I would expect the Jets early in
the season. You would. You'd think they're going to compete, right,
Eventually things are gonna get hopeless. They don't have any depth.
And it comes down like all of these games, when
you're a big underdog and you don't have the talent,

(45:56):
you've got to get those hidden points, turnovers, special teams,
things that the Jets probably suck at. But I'm doing
it anyway. I'm expecting Matt Forte to have some big
places here. Remember Buffalo sucked last year against the run.
They allowed sixty seven runs of ten or more yards.
That was tied for the NFL lead with the forty

(46:16):
nine ers. I don't think they've gotten all that much
better judging by the depth chart. So I will take
the Jets to cover. Bills will win the game, but
the Jets will get to cover. This is going to
be a stink bomb. I'm gonna go thirteen six your
score Buffalo over the Jets. As you may remember this

(46:38):
and Benny versus the penny Heads represents the home team,
Tales represents the away team. Really, I had it, I
had it to reverse. Did you think so? All right?
Just yeah, it's tails. So that means the Penny is
going with the Jets. He grees with you, all right?
Next up Atlanta at Chicago. It's on Fox. You better walk.

(47:00):
It's on Fox. Kevin Burkhardt and Charles Davis in the
Fox booth. They've got to call. The Falcons opened a
six point favorite at Soldier field. They are a seven
point favorite, and this game seventy six percent of the
money on Atlanta or seventy six percent of the bets
on Atlanta, but almost ninety percent of the money that's
been wagers so far is on the side of the

(47:21):
Atlanta Falcons. That's why you go with the other team.
That's why you go with the underdog, and you take
the Chicago Bears to hang around. Now a couple of
reasons for that picks the Bears. First of all, on
the surface, I don't disagree this looks like a tea
ball situation for the Atlanta Falcons. As long as the

(47:42):
team bus arrives, they'll win. Right, show up on time,
get out there. You don't have to play a half
to beat the Chicago Bears. The problem is the fact
I'm not buying it. I'm not buying it in this body.
To me, this is a good betting situation. Again, you
bet on bad teams early, they don't realize they're bad.

(48:03):
Take advantage of it now. Secondly, Chicago, they actually have
a above average defense. They have the potential to be
above average defense. I don't like potential, but they have
the ability about that word, ability to be an above
average defense, especially up front, so I'm for the Bears
to hang around and lurk in the grass. In this

(48:23):
particular game, the front line combo of a Cheam Hicks
and Eddie Goldman are going to have to muck up.
That's muck with an m the middle of the Atlanta
Falcons offense and make Matt Ryan uncomfortable for that to happen.
Also on offense, Chicago obviously ball control all the usual

(48:44):
dinking and dunking in the running of the football. They
can make this a fourth quarter game. Atlanta not a
great road team, etc. So I'll take the Falcons to win,
but I'm gonna say this is a fourth quarter game.
Your finals score Falcons twenty four Bears twenty Bears get
the cover. We have another disagreement, Penn. Oh good, It's

(49:06):
only a second game, so it's well, yeah, they disagreed
on a yeah, but Kenny's going with the Falcons, all right.
Next up, Jacksonville at Houston. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
It's Benny versus the Penny. Jacksonville at Houston, the Texans.
They are currently a five and a half point favorite.
That line has moved up a point they opened it

(49:27):
four and a half and the money or the bets,
I should say eighty four on Houston. No one. No
one believes that Jacksonville's got a chance here. Do you
think I'm gonna go as the contrarian and go with
Jacksonville No way, new chance, zero chance. I'm gonna take
the Houston Texans. That's the pick. And we won't spend

(49:48):
much time on this. But the reasons why you're kind
of Bobby is, to start with, the Jags have a
terrible offensive line. They've gotten pathetic quarterback played by Blake Bortles.
It's a mortal lock that Bortles is going to be
benched at some point, likely in this game, and so
Chad Henny's gonna play. The Texans have a hyper aggressive defense,
which we would imagine is going to obliterate any chance

(50:12):
of offensive success in Jacksonville. And so you're talking about
an unstable offense. And then the other side, the second
part of this, the Texans, who have their own offensive
sins to deal with. But Tom Savage pretty much has
to be a caretaker on offense. You don't need big
plays here to beat Jacksonville. Feed the ball to DeAndre Hopkins,

(50:35):
stay out of the way. That's the job here. And
Blake Bortles will typically self destruct. If he's in the game,
you can probably pull him, but typically that's Howard coaches.
If he's in there, he'll self destructing. You don't worry
about Chad, Henny. Your final score in this one Texans
thirty one, jag six lay the points they're gonna win. Well,

(50:57):
the Penny doesn't think the Texans gonna score that many points.
But Penny does think the Texans will cover. Agrees with you, Ben,
all right, it's Benny versus the Penny Man versus medal
picking every NFL game and next up Philadelphia at Washington.
You know why you need to watch this game. It's
on Fox. You've got to watch Kenny Albert, Friend of

(51:18):
the Show, and Ronde Barber. Yeah, they change it up.
Kenny Albert and Ronde Barber have the call on the
Fox Feed. The Eagles currently a one point favorite. This
game has swung. The Redskins were a two and a
half point pick. That was the opening line. Redskins by
two and a half. It's gone the other way. The
Eagles now favored by one. Pretty competitive wagering fifty nine percent,

(51:39):
so slightly more in favor of the Birds. The pick
here against my better judgment, I'm gonna take a road favorite,
even though it's a small road favorite. I'm gonna take
the Eagles in this game. The reason why there are
there are many opportunistic or people or opera positive people,

(52:01):
shall I say, in the Delaware Valley there that believe
this Eagle team is going to win the NFCS. Now,
they have definitely upgraded the stable of talent in Philadelphia,
and they went out they hired some football renegades to
come in here. Al Shan Jeffrey, Tory Smith Lea, Garrett
Blunt are all gonna wear the green of the Eagles,

(52:23):
and they all arriving in Philadelphia. This is their debut.
And the Redskins a pedestrian defensive team. They're gonna have
to deal with all those different playmakers now they have
in Philadelphia, and specifically Alshan Jeffrey excited about that. Seeing
how Alshon Jeffrey does, this is a big year for him.
He took short money to try to get a bigger,

(52:45):
sexier contract with more money. The key here for Philadelphia
is Carson Wentz not urinating all over the field because
Carson Wentz, for all the hype he got early in
the year, if you look at his overall body of work,
it was not all that impressive. That's the second part
of this. For Washington, it comes down to the battle

(53:06):
and the trenches, the defensive line getting to Carson Wentz.
He showed last season some major limitations. Carson Wentz was
sacked two or more times in eleven games. Now, some
of that's on the offensive line, a lot of that's
on the quarterback also, and Carson Wentz tossed interceptions in
nine different games. Even with that, I am still buying

(53:27):
the hype. I'm gonna take the Eagles Fly. Eagles Fly
twenty three. Redskins twenty is gonna be your final. Penny
agrees with you again, Ben, going with the Eagles out
of agreement. Okay, we will pause for the cause. As
we say, you're listening to Benny versus the Penny every
NFL game of all of them. Time now to see

(53:51):
how smart you are. Test your knowledge as a football fan.
All right, here it is and you can answer this
on Twitter at Ben Mallett. Eighteen point three percent of
Banks carries in twenty sixteen went for ten yards or more,
the highest rate of all running backs with at least

(54:11):
one hundred attempts. Again, going back to last season, we
don't have much. This year has been one game and
the Patriots lost. Eighteen point three percent of blanks carries
in twenty sixteen went for ten or more yards. It's
the highest rate of all running backs that got at
least one hundred attempts. That's the question. The answer next.

(54:34):
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(55:01):
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get back to it. Here's the answer to the question.
Eighteen point three percent of blanks carries in twenty sixteen
went for ten or more yards, the highest rate of
all NFL running backs with at least one hundred attempts.

(55:22):
That's the question. What's the answer, and the answers coming in,
we don't have time to run down all of them.
Greg trying to mock me, went with Todd Gurley, Ezekiel
Elliott guess by Will Patrick, the Uber driver went with
Chuck Muncie as his answer. Car parking Kyle in Kansas
City checks in with Peyton Manning. Let see didn't want

(55:44):
to get it right? Jordan Howard guests by euro Jack.
You're all wrong, You're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong, You're
all wrong. The correct answer from the New York Football
Jets balal Pile of the Jalowell Powell balall eighteen point

(56:05):
three percent of his runs. You're going for ten yards
and more. Let's get back to it. Here we go
Arizona and Detroit. It's on Fox. You gotta watch my
former talk show partner, Chris Myers. I love my hair?
How's my hair? Chris Myers and Darryl moose Johnston working
together this year on Fox. Cardinals opened an underdog. The

(56:28):
Lions were a two and a half point favorite in
this game at the beginning, but now the Cardinals are
a two point road favorite. Most of the money coming
in on Arizona, I'm gonna go with the Lions in
this particular game. I'm gonna roar with the Lions. Now,
why am I gonna roar with the Lions? What do
I like about this particular game? Well, the reason for

(56:48):
Detroit it's pretty simple but yet complex. If you can
slow down somewhat David Johnson, that's gotta be the focus.
You limit the big plays, make Carson Palmer break your back.
I don't believe he can do it. The question is
can the Lions get into a position where they can
press the Cardinals. That's the question. I'm gonna say yes

(57:11):
in this particular spot, and it's of course easier said
than done. You consider the fact the Lions defense a
year ago allowing an NFL record seventy two of their
passes to be completed against them. So even though David
Johnson should be the focus, she's still got to stop
the passes. That should be a net positive with Carson Palmer. Secondly, Arizona,

(57:35):
if you look at the core of this team on
offense outside of David Johnson, got Carson Palmer, who's thirty seven,
Larry Fitzgerald's thirty four by NFL standards. That's old and
last season. The one weakness that the Cardinals showed consistently
that stood out from all the rest in games that
were started at one o'clock Eastern time, those early body

(57:58):
clock games are Zona allowed thirty one points per game.
In those particular games. They played five games that started
at one o'clock Eastern time, and in the rest of
the games in Arizona and elsewhere that we're not one
o'clock Eastern time games, they allowed eighteen points. So it
was a thirteen point spread in the negative. I'm gonna

(58:18):
take the Lions twenty seven, Cardinals twenty four penny versus
the penny. The penny pick is the penny picks Palmer
going with the Cardinals, all right, bad job by the penny.
Next up Oakland at Tennessee the Titans and the Raiders.
Raiders opened a one point favorite. This game has flipped.

(58:40):
Tennessee now a two and a half point favorite on
their home field. Slightly more of the money coming in
on these soon to be Las Vegas Raiders. I say soon,
but it's still a couple of years. The pick here
is the Titans. I'm gonna go with Tennessee in this
particular spot. And the main reason for optimism is the
fact that I believe if Tennessee will be able to

(59:01):
run the football against the Raiders, that combo of Derrick
Henry and DeMarco Murray and it's going to give the
Raider defense. That zone rushing style is going to give
them nightmares with big plays here tossing a couple of
big pass plays from Mariota and that's all you're gonna
need that for the Raiders. We'll see if they can
can do anything that. The Titans spent a ton of

(59:22):
time recrafting their secondary. You get a bunch of new guys,
including Logan Ryan and Dorry Jackson from usc Is there
as well. Are they good. We'll find out if they
are good. If they're as good as advertised, the Titans
will be Okay. There's gonna be a high scoring game, though.
I will take the Titans thirty five, Raiders thirty one. Ben,

(59:46):
there's agreement all throughout the entire studio here. Penny's going
with the Titans as well. All right, It's fine, yeah, right, losers,
The Titans will the flame Heads are gonna win. Danny,
it's a great pick. By you, Ben, Thank you, Coop.
You picked against the Raiders last season they won. I
am right the new season, Dan, yeah, I will make
up for that Thursday night picked. This is going to

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be a great weekend. Well, there is no Tampa Bay
Miami game postponed because of the pending Hurricane IRMA, which
was was gonna played this week's weed Man. Are you
upset that Dolphins aren't playing? Weed Man? Are you devastated
with this? Wait? Want weed Man? I gotta give you

(01:00:34):
some advice here. You're begging for money. You gotta wait
till the hurricane hits weed Man. The protocol is, I
I know, but on the on social media you're asking
everyone for money. Listen to me. You gotta the protoc No, no,
You've gotta wait till the storm actually hits. JJ Watt
didn't try to raise twenty million dollars until after the

(01:00:55):
hurricane hit Houston. As the Benn Maller Show on Fox
Sports Radios, Benny versus the Penny and why don't we
sit back and relax here for a second. Yes, never
supposed to relax in radio. It could be very intense,
very intense. We get to the rest of the NFL

(01:01:17):
card time. Now for another question. Now, we really have
no time for answers, so you really got to be
quick on this, so if you have your phone out
you can send the answer in. But here's the question.
I was one of just two quarterbacks along with Carson Wentz,
to play all sixteen games and not have a single
game with three or more passing touchdowns last season. So again,

(01:01:40):
I was one of two quarterbacks the other being Carson
Wentz to the Eagles that played all sixteen games and
did not have a single game with three or more
passing touchdowns in twenty sixteen. Who am I? If you
will you fill in the blank on that and we'll
give you the answer here in a second. Ben Malors
show Fox Sports Radio Eddie Garcia's board out of his mind.

(01:02:04):
He's like, I'm loving this man, really. Okay, take a
little cst over here. What's the latest? He's the late
breaking news. Has Bill Belichick been fired Eddie after that
performance in Foxborough? Then he has not been fired. But
of course everyone that's still awake still buzzing about the
NFL season opener in Foxborough last night, where the Chiefs
beat the Patriots forty two to twenty seven. Thanks to

(01:02:25):
a twenty one nothing outscoring him in the fourth quarter
on the road. Alex Smith four touchdown passes for Kansas City,
their quarterback, and their rookie running back Cremhunt two hundred
and forty six total yards, three touchdowns. That's the most
total yards by a rookie in his first game in
NFL history. He's the greatest player in NFL history. One week,
Yes he is. Kims City starts safety Eric Berry, though

(01:02:46):
bad news with the Chiefs. That looks like carted off
the field. Looks like an achilles injury, and if that
is the case, then he's done for the year. Most
likely baseball games that note. In the American League, Indians
have won a franchise record fifteen games in a row
thanks to an eleven two win over the White Sox
wins down the Royals four to two, so Minnesota is
now a full game up on the Angels for that
second wildcard spot, and the Yankees down the Orioles nine

(01:03:06):
to one. New York is three and a half back
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experience and Ben back to the NFL. Yeah, we didn't
have some news earlier in the day with the Bengals
signing linebacker von Tz Berwick to a three year extension
where thirty eight point seven million. Take that, Eddie, Now,

(01:03:28):
he won't you have this guy? I do now. He
won't be on the field until week four because he's
serving a three game suspension for a dirty hit in
the preseason game. But obviously, when he's on the field
and he's not acting like an idiot, he's a pretty
good player in the Bengals that want to kep him
around a little bit longer. What about the children, Eddie,
What about the children? What kind of message does it
send the children that if you're talented, you can do

(01:03:48):
whatever you want. For the most part, it's pretty much
the way life is right pretty much. Yes, unless you
bill co investors out of a lot of money and
then the FBI knocks on your door in the middle
of the night. Would do a thing? I don't know.
I have no idea who would do that? Saying pointing
that out Fortunately, no one would ever give me a
forty million dollars line of credit. So that's one thing
I might get arrested for something, but that's not something

(01:04:10):
i'll get arrested for. No one has enough confidence in
me to give me that kind of line of credit,
so I don't have to worry about that. It's one
thing in life I do not need to worry about.
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a free rate quote. A weed man's having a hissy

(01:04:32):
fit now he's in he's in Miami. The hurricane's about
to hit. Well, bet he does have to ask for
the money now because he may not be alive once hurricane. Yes,
just for the record and for my management, I did
advise weed man. My counsel was to get out of absolute.
He chose not to listen, so now, not even for

(01:04:53):
a second, didn't even consider it. So now my conscience
can be clear, right because I've done my part. I've
asked him to leave, So now we that's all you
can do. What else can you do? The man can't
physically go over there and grab him and move him.
I mean, he's a grown ass man. He's older than me,
so if he chooses to stay, he's an adult. I
can at least benefit from that. Some wouldn't get live
reports from the hurricane as long as the phones all rights.

(01:05:16):
Penny versus the penny man versus metal. And here is
the answer to the question. I was one of just
two quarterbacks, along with Carson Wentz, to play all sixteen
games last season not have a single game with three
or more passing touchdowns. Let's see who's the answer. Well,
a lot of people said Alex Smith, Bubba, and a
bunch of people the Palm Desert Rat went with Dieter Brock.

(01:05:40):
Who else you have Sam Bradford, T J. Ruby? Bradford
by J Mills, TJ. Ruby from the Horn. Tony Romo
was guest. We have Matthew Stafford from Eric the correct
answer the Redhead Andy Dalton, the Cincinnata Bengals buckles and

(01:06:02):
much like it was planned, let's talk about that Cincinnati
Baltimore game. Amazing how that always seems to work. Cincinnati
playing host of Baltimore Bengals a three point favorite. They
opened a one point favorite. The pick for me is
the Ravens. The side I'm going with is Baltimore. I'll
tell you why. First of all, the Ravens traditionally have

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given nightmares to Andy Dalton. However, that was when they
were decent. They're not supposed to be any good. They
weren't good last year. Andy Dalton, though in the past
matchups with the Ravens, has thrown one or less touchdown
passes in eight of eleven games in his career against
the Ravens defense, and four of the past five games
have ended up that way. Last year was not very

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good either, So is that the Andy Dalton that shows
up in this matchup. Secondly, Joe Flacco, we know he's
damaged goods and he's always a risk not to even
make it through the entire game. But if you look
at this particular matchup, the Baltimore defense the Ravens, with
all the changes they've made and the injuries and all
that stuff. The Ravens allowed ten point six points per

(01:07:07):
game on the road last season. Now I know it's
a different look. He can't go by last year, you
gotta go by this year. We don't have a lot
of data or data, but the main reason to pick
against the Bengals no pac Man Jones, no Vantes Burfiict,
both of them out being slapped on the wrist for
disciplinary reasons. So I will take the Ravens, the road
team Baltimore twenty two, Cincinnati thirteen, and the penny making

(01:07:34):
the pick. We have another agreement, Ben, So it looks
like you might actually have a good record this week.
I have a great record. Be a winning week, especially
that Titan Raider game. It's my seven star lock of
the week right there. Next up, Pittsburgh at Cleveland, Pittsburgh
at Cleveland. This game opened up the Pittsburgh Steelers a

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nine and a half point favorite. The Steelers are currently
a nine point fa and as you would expect, most
of the money coming in on Pittsburgh. I cannot go
with nine points in this spot. I can't do it.
Pittsburgh's gonna win the game, but I can't lay nine.
I'm gonna take the home team getting nine. I'll take
the Cleveland Browns. This is a close your eyes, you

(01:08:18):
just do not look, do not listen situation, because at
first glance, it certainly appears like child's play, like Pittsburgh
can treat the Browns like Plato and pretty much do
what they want. They've won the past four meetings between
these two teams by a combined fifty five points, and
the Browns last year biblically bad. They trailed almost seventy

(01:08:41):
percent of their plays. Last season, they were down almost
seventy percent. Sixty seven percent of the time the Browns
ran a play, they were trailing, highest in the NFL.
But that was last year, right, The Browns don't realize
they suck, at least not yet. And I know they've
got a rookie quarterback against the Steelers defense, which is
a wild card here. But remember Ben Roethlisberger has been

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a garden variety road quarterback. Last season on the road,
Roethlisberger had nine touchdowns and eight interceptions in his road starts.
Not good, not good. So I need more of that
Big Ben in this game. Why am I taking Cleveland?
That's part of it. And also because I'm a daredevil,
and I believe anytime as a gambler, you get over

(01:09:25):
seven points in a divisional game, you do not ask questions.
You take the points. You're happy, even with a greenhorn quarterback.
To Sean Kaiser, who needs to use his legs to
make some places, because I don't think he'll be able
to use his arm to make plays in this game.
I will go with Cleveland Steelers win, but the Browns

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are gonna cover. Pittsburgh thirty one, Browns twenty three. Penny
agrees again, Ben. Good job by the penny, Bad radio open,
Good job by the penny. All right, Next up, as
you're listening to Fox Sports Radio, every NFL game against
the spread. If you like this, we do it every
week this hour. If you don't like it, it's only

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one hour. Screw you, all right. Late games Indianapolis at
Los Angeles the Rams. The Rams opened up a three
and a half point dog. Indianapolis was favored by three
and a half, and then there was a glitch. Andrew
Luck announced he will not play out of the lineup,
and whailah, the Rams now favorite. Last report, Rams favorite

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by three to three and a half. It's a big
point spread move seven points the opposite direction based on
Andrew Luck. And despite the Rams now being favored, I
am going with boy Wonder, I'm gonna take the Rams
to win their home opener. This is pretty much a

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one one matchup game. Frank Gore versus Todd Gurley. I'm
actually going with Gurley. I'm right with my girl, is
what I'm doing in this game. He's gonna be the
surprise player of the weekend. Gurley was a disaster last season.
The Rams believe they've upgraded their offensive line. I'm praying
to Jesus that that is true, that they've improved their

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offensive line, that that is accurate. And more importantly, the
Colts have a very questionable front seven. This is a
resurrection situation for Todd Gurley. Thank you, Doogie Houser, coach
of the Rams. Here the millennial coach is gonna win
his debut. Get the ball to Sammy Watkins. I picked him.
I picked Sammy Watkins in the NFL. Pick him and

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he got some playmakers. Got a couple of playmakers on offense.
We'll see if the quarterback who sucked last year, Jared Goff,
can get them the ball. Even without Aaron Donald, the
Rams should be able to hold their own defensively because
the Colts are starting Scott Tolzine. Good luck on that.
It's gonna be ugly. Rams fifteen Colts, Nah, that's right.

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Eight field goals. That's it penny. Ben, I flipped the
penny twice trying to get a disagreement here, but it's
just it's not happening Ben. The penny agree. It's just
Ben picking games in the penny agree you much like
the guy was mister Irrigation that was cheating off the
off the pie guy in the game the other day.

(01:12:21):
I remember that he was cheating the answers. Yeah, that's
what's going on right now, cheating the wrong answer exactly,
all right, Carolina at Santa Clara. That's right, the Santa
Clara forty nine ers. It's on Fox. You better watch
Tom Brenneman and Chris Spielman in the Fox box that
rocks calling this game. The Carolina Panthers opened up a

(01:12:41):
four point favorite. They're currently favored by five and a half.
Eighty three percent of the bets coming in that are
tracked or on the Carolina Panthers in this game. The
pick here, I'm kicking another crappy team. I'm gonna take
the Niners. I'm gonna take the Niners. And then the
main reason why I don't trust Cam Newton. He's been

(01:13:01):
on the shelf for months. I know he played barely
in the exhibition season. What kind of performance are you
gonna get out of Cam Newton? I don't trust. I
know the forty nine ers are bad and that should
help Cam Newton out, but we don't know that for sure,
and they don't know that they suck yet. And part
B of this, everyone's told me that Kyle Shanahan is

(01:13:22):
an offensive guru, but that was when he had Matt
Ryan and Julio Jones. Is he gonna be an offensive
guru with Brian Hoyer and Pierre Garssan in Santa Clara
as his big playmakers? That said, when you parlay the
unknown of Cam Newton the rust the Panthers essentially being
handed this win. Everyone's been saying this is an easy win,

(01:13:45):
to just give him a win. Why do they even
bother flying from Carolina from Charlotte across the country. I
like the Niners as a home dog, and they're gonna
actually win this game, not just to cover the number.
They're gonna win the game. Ron Rivera is gonna be
on the hot seat by the end of this weekend.
Forty nine Ers for one week celebrating, much like they

(01:14:06):
have the last couple years when they win their opener
Niners twenty four, Panthers twenty and an upset special. Not
even the Penny can't go there. Come on, cope, Penny's
going with the Panthers. Yeah, it's the Ben Mallers Show.
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. We will get to
the rest of the NFL card and we've got three games.

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This is the fastest we've gotten through the NFL games
in the history of Benny versus the Penny. I want
you to know that typically what happens. They saved the
best games for the end of the card, the Sunday
night Monday night games. They try to showcase teams, and
usually what happens and this will happen next week. By
the end of the hour, we are just giving the pick.

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We're no no handicapping, no, no, why just giving the pick.
That's usually what happens. One good thing that came from
IRMA and we even got an IRMA update. Wee man's
very upset with me. He's complain anything that I'm trying
to shut down his fundraising efforts, that I'm censoring his
fundraising efforts. Yeah, because with that game, with the Dolphins game,
you'd still be behind right now. That's good point. Yeah,

(01:15:10):
with the Dolphin if the Dolphin game had that's a
fair point. All right, a very good time. Now for
the instant trivia. Here we go just where we give
you a question blatant attempt to get you to keep
listening longer to Benny versus the Penny every NFL game.
And hey, if you like this, tell a friend, tell
them about the podcast. Right this, this podcast has life
until Sunday, and then it's suddenly no one will want

(01:15:33):
to listen to it. But this will last a Sunday
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then all day on Saturday. People can download this podcast
and tell a friend you want to get information on
all the games while you're working out on the treadmill,
you can do it right here. All right, here's the
instant trivia. Blank quarterback Blank quarterback ranked twentieth in pass

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attempts per game that was thirty four per game, but
second in interceptions per game for all quarterbacks last seasoning
for the name of the NFL quarterback Blank blank quarterback.
He ranked twentieth in pass attempts per game, but somehow
was second in interceptions per game for all quarterbacks in

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the NFL last season. Fill in the blank. That's the question,
the answer, and the rest of Benny Versus the Penny.
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ask our friend Red Circle, who I believes a woman
to stop stop trolling weed man with pictures of old

(01:17:03):
hurricanes compared to the Hurricane Irma. I mean, she's just
she's an evil woman. She's trying to freak weed man
smoking weed right now in Miami. Maybe she's trying to
do a little scared straight there. All right, tough love, okay,
all right. As she sent out a photo of what
Hurricane Andrew looked like back in nineteen ninety two next
to Hurricane Irma, it's quite the difference. Quite the difference.

(01:17:25):
All right, let's get to it. Here we go. The
instant Trivia Blank quarterback rate twenty if in past attempts
per game, but second in in completions per game last
season for all quarterbacks in the NFL. That's the question.
What's the answer? And Eric Kramer guests by Marvin the
Michigan Man, Trevor Simeon from euro Chuck Bennik from Tapton,

(01:17:48):
Tommy LaVar Ball from Jimmy from Maine. Random line caller
guess by Henley. I don't an idea why I go
to the random line. I have no idea what it's
gonna be. Kelly Whole. Come, there's a fun name from
Rob Eddie. What say you, Eddie? I'm gonna go with
Matt Kavanaugh. No, No, I'm not Cavanaugh. No, shockingly not.

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The answer is the man that's gonna lose this weekend.
Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers. Yeah, thirty four pass
attempts in the NFL. That was twenty if, but he
averaged sixteen incompletions. A terrible year last year for Cam Newton.
Will he be better this year? We'll find out starting
on Sunday, All right, Sunday Night Football, Giants and Cowboys.

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It's Benny versus the Penny. Dallas opened up a six
point favorite. They're currently a four point favorite. We know
Ezekiel Elliot's gonna play. This is a toss up game
for me. Generally, the Giant Cowboy games are closed. Last
year the Giants dominated the Cowboys. I'm gonna take the
Cowboys in this spot. That's the pick. And first of all,

(01:18:51):
we know Ezekiel is gonna play. We don't know whether
or not he's going to dominate this particular game. But
you can bind that with the presence of Eli Manning,
who's good for at least a couple of turnovers. And
I like the Cowboys chances in this game at home.
But this was a toss up game for me. Dez
Bryant and Dak Prescott together neither one of them play well,

(01:19:11):
which I guess makes sense. If Dak doesn't play well,
Dez isn't gonna play well. They both sucked against the
Giants last year. This is a payback situation, a retaliation situation.
Get some vengeance for what happened last year. The Cowboys
will do that. They'll pull away in the second half.
Dallas thirty four the New York Football Giants twenty three.

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Penny must have had too much pizza, not thinkings training
going with the Giants all right? Next up, Monday Night
football in New Orleans at Minnesota the Vikings a three
and a half point favorite. That line has stayed the same.
I'm gonna take the Saints in this game. I like
the Saints here and here's why something's gotta give. The
Vikings offense was in a slumber in the exhibition season.

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Sam Bradford terrible. I know it's just practice football and
all that. Did they flip the switch here? And no
excuses New Orleans. They were terrible defensively last season. They
think they're better. This is a spot to go into
Minnesota early in the year, hang around. I know the
Vikings have always had a good defense. I expect some
turnovers and with all that, the Saints get a one

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point win. Twenty six twenty five Knowledge Penny going with
the Saints, all right. Chargers and Broncos Denver a three
and a half point favorite. They opened it four. I'm
gonna take the Chargers in this game to cover Broncos
twenty three Chargers twenty Penny agreed. He's going with the

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Chargers and no sto. Just for the record, we were
bragging about having plenty of time, right we're ragging. See
what happens when you rag. We ran out of time.
Always happens. How does one go from relatively off the
grid to the talk of the NFL world. Will ask
Alex Smith in the Kansas City Chiefs. None of these

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websites that preview the NFL season expecting much of anything
for Kansas City, But they are going to be the
talk of the town after frodling the once proud in
New England Patriots, at least for a week. The Patriots
the doormats of the NFL. Welcome in the beginning of
another hour. It's the Ben Maller Show. We are in

(01:21:29):
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A sizeable underdog in Foxboro, Massachusetts, the Kansas City Chiefs

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ended up throwing darts all over the field. Alex Smith
did big play there, big play there, big play there.
I'm going to year and Nate all over your Super
Bowl banner celebration. That's what I'm gonna do. That's what
the Chiefs did. And let's talk about it and we'll
reopen the phone lines. In a moment, so you can

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start calling give out the number in a second. But
Alex Smith through not one, not two, not three, but
four four kind of four touchdown passes and a guy
I have never heard of, Kareem Hunt. Kareem Hunt looked
like Marshall Falk at times for the Kansas City offense.

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The rookie running back out of Toledo had three touchdowns.
He fumbled away the first carry and everyone had the
same reaction, Oh my god, they suck. He's a bomb.
I've never heard of him. He fumbled the first carry,
but it did not matter. The game competitive until the
start of the fourth quarter. But that's even a false

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statement because New England came out and looked like they
were going to go up fourteen to nothing. But an
odd turn of events and a big play by Eric
Barry of the Kansas City defense mixed with a poorly
time penalty like there's a good time for a penalty
for the New England Patriots resulted in the flip of
confidence in that game. So it was a competitive game,

(01:23:25):
fourth quarter game. But the difference here is that captain
comeback Tom Brady did not did not live up to
his Hall of fame resume on this particular night, as
he stunk and everyone in a Patriot uniform stunk. In
the fourth quarter of the Patriots had been eighty one
and oh at Gillette Stadium when leading at halftime in

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the regular season ninety five and one if you include
the postseason. This was not supposed to happen, but the
Chiefs come back after trailing seventeen fourteen and a halftime.
The Patriots were also one hundred and five and two
when leading after three quarters, And remember New England heading

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into the fourth quarter, had the leader was a twenty
seven twenty one game in favor of the Patriots, and
then in the fourth quarter a twenty one zippo situation.
It was a debacle from the New England side of things.
Not good at all, all the way across the board. Terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible.

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A right, let's hear from Andy Reid here, Andy Reid,
and tell me about this guy, Kareem Hunt. I've never
heard of him. Where the hell did he come from?
Our rookie running back did tremendous job. It started out
just a little bit shaky, but it was all hard.
I mean, he was trying hard and tried maybe a
step too hard and the ball popped out. But I'm

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proud of it for getting right back on it and
doing a good job. That's just thinking. If you play
fantasy like the day, not the daily fantasy per se,
but just like regular fantasy football, and you you got
Alex Smith, you're probably like us, We're screwed. I got
Alex Smith as my quarterback. I got no chance. Alex
Smith goes out as almost four hundred yards, three hundred

(01:25:15):
and sixty eight yards, and I mentioned all the touchdown passes,
the four touchdown passes, but big places he had Maddened
like the easy level on Madden, the arcade level on
mad He had Tyreek Hill and Hunt touchdown passes of
seventy five and seventy eight yards. Alex Smith. Alex Smith
did that. But let's focus in on this guy, Kareem Hunt.

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We've never heard of him. I would like you to
kiss his ass, Alex Smith. Can you do that? You
can see how great he is and tell me how
wonderful he is. Yes, we were, We were going as
Kareem was going. You know, he was really a big
chunk of the offense tonight. You know, for a young
guy that we put a lot on him in all
facets to the game plan tonight, and he was able
to handle it. So certainly hats off to him in
both those areas, not just physically, but I mean he

(01:25:57):
was able to handle the game plans. A credit him.
Somewhat empty sound by right? Is that not? Yeah? Now
what do you expect? You're expecting great poetry here. You're
not gonna get it. It's not going to happen, all right?
The man of the hour. We've heard other people talk
about him. I wonder what do you think his voice
sounds like? You think he's got a very masculine voice.
I don't know. You think he sounds like David Wright,

(01:26:19):
the Mets third baseman. Will find out, let's find out
here he is Kareem Hunt, the latest star in the NFL.
He ought to retire. Now he'll be the greatest rookie
sensation in NFL history? Is he a one hit? Wonder?
The sound of Kareem Hunt? And he was embarrassing? You
embarrass yourself with that fubble? How did you come back?
What did you do? They showed me that they believed

(01:26:39):
in me. They gave up on me and just you know,
hell me on the bench and honestly helped me out
and keeping my head up and stuff like that. Just
going back out there and making plays for the team
showed a lot. Look apparently, read sports cliche dot com
before you said it to talk. Yes, all right, So
here's the question now from the can the city side

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of things, From the Kansas City side, is this particular
game a big deal, A little deal, no deal. I
believe it's a big deal. And the reason I believe
it's a big deal is because if you look at
the chief schedule and you say, well, these are the
games that you got a chance to win. You could
win this number of games. This is not on anyone's

(01:27:25):
realistic list of winnable games. And if you look at
the Chiefs upcoming schedule and you project ahead and you say,
the next three games are all games that Kansas City
has a really good chance of winning. Two of the
next three at home, the road games at the Chargers
in LA, you're talking about a pretty good start, a

(01:27:46):
pretty good start. And more importantly, the thought I have
on this is confidence. Confidence, because if you can win
a game in the fourth quarter against the Patriots and
who knows might this might be the end of the Patriots.
I don't believe it is, and everyone will overreact, overreaction.
Monday will be coming before you know it. Actual overreaction Tuesday, right,

(01:28:09):
You wait till the Monday night games and then you
overreact Tuesday and Wednesday, and then you get back to
it on Thursday. That's usually the calendar in the NFL.
But it's a big day from a confidence standpoint. Remember,
I don't believe in momentum. I don't, but I do
believe in confidence. And you win a game like this.
And it was not a lot of boredom for the Chiefs.

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For the Patriots, it was very bored. They were very bored.
They looked what was the emotion here? There was not
a lot of anger. It's it's almost like they were
just kind of floating along. There was a lack of
energy from the New England Patriots, which was surprising. And

(01:28:52):
we played earlier some of the sound from Tom Brady.
Do we have that Bill Belichick sound bright though? Because
that's Belichick. After these type of games, they don't happen
off and for the Patriots, but he is at his best,
old grumpy face Bill Belichick when he has to talk
about his team. Right, they had months and months to
prepare for Kansas City. I just love to disgust when

(01:29:12):
even when the Patriots win, Bill Belichick has the emotion
of disgust. But listen to Belichick here as he whacks
poetically and he's obviously annoyed with his team's performance. Totally.
Nothing that's good enough, So we all got to do
a better job. That's to be pretty much. He answered
every question because that's what it was. Bad defense, bad coaching,

(01:29:34):
bad plan, bad football. Yeah, somebody pointing out to me
that the reason the Patriots lost this game is they
have too many former Buffalo Bills that are playing prominent roles.
That that's why Gillisie looked. He looked pretty good though
he scored two touchdowns earlier in the game. Right, I

(01:29:55):
thought that I was convinced at halftime that GILSI I
believe I s he said he was going to be
the breakout start. Right, two touchdowns in the first half.
You figured he'll be around one hundred yards, maybe he'll
score another touchdown in the second half. He'll three touchdowns
and that'll be the feature that'll be the feature story.
But the script obviously flipping around, and there's going to

(01:30:16):
be a lot of anger in the Patriot Patriot locker room.
So Bill Belichick, the mad scientist, has an extra couple
of days to get ready for the New Orleans Saints,
where you're not gonna play till Sunday. But that's the
next game for the Patriots. And even though we assume
that the Saints defense is going to be cream cheese
yet again, that is not going to be the case

(01:30:38):
on offense. And let me let me ask the question now,
Eddie Garcia, the bigger concern for the Patriots is it
a Tom Brady or be a defense that was the
worst in the Belichick era? What is a bigger concern?
If you're Bill Belichick, when you wake up in the morning,
I assume he's sleeping. But when you wake up in

(01:30:58):
the morning, your bigger concern is Tom Brady at age
forty sucking or is it the defense? I don't think
there's any question it's the defense. I'm gonnade Alex Smith
look like, but I'm gonna go with Brady. Of course
you are, well, let me give you my reasons. I'm sure,
I'm sure they'll be very good reasons. What are your

(01:31:18):
reasons for picking Brady? Because with Edelman out, the assumption
was next man up, that they'll be fine. Tom Brady
was not only a quarterback in this game, he looked
like every other bad quarterback in the NFL. He was
missing receivers. Now, was this the question I will never

(01:31:40):
will not know the answer until later on. Was this
because the receivers were running routes or roots that were
inappropriate that they were not connecting the synergy was not
there with Tom Brady? Or was this Tom Brady just
eating some bad turkey raps before the game, right and
that vegan diet that he's got. I'm chalking it up

(01:32:01):
to first game of the year, not a lot of
work in the preseason. That's what your child. You can
make the same argument for the defense. You can say,
well they didn't the starting defense. They have some new
guys and they didn't play the quarterbacking. A lot of
quarterbacking is about rhythm and timing with your receivers. Yes,
defense is tackling and being in the right place. That's

(01:32:22):
to me, that's a different thing. Well, they got burned
on some big plays, the seventy five, the seventy eight
yard play from from Alex Smith. Those two in particular
stand out, but there were several other, several other big plays.
But the problem for the Patriots is if one game,
you're not gonna do anything crazy. But if Brady starts
stacking up performances like this, even with all the success,

(01:32:46):
at some point the call will be made. What do
you do with it? If we're sitting here, let's play
the hypothetical panic radio. If it's week six and Tom
Brady's stacking up performances like this, is how many bad
games does Brady get before the Patriots have to step in?
You give him a mulligan. Right, I'm not saying do

(01:33:07):
anything now, you get a mulligan, But how many mulligans
does Tom Brady get before Jimmy Garoppolo somehow they come
up with a phantom injury for Brady or something like that,
and give Garoppolo a chance to play? How many games?
Is it two? Is it three? Is it four? Is
it half the season? The Patriots wait till it's at
least four, at least four. Yeah, so he gets three
more stink bombs and then at that point, at that

(01:33:29):
point you make a change. Okay, Well, yeah, but I mean,
he didn't even throw it. E didn't throw any interceptions
this game. I mean, where you know, you're talking like
stink bombs by his standards, I mean, he had a
seventy quarterback rading. Okay, he that sucks. I've seen a
lot worse performances in the NFL than what I saw
from Tom Brady. Really, yes, well, because you can turn

(01:33:49):
the ball over, but I yeah, well that's pretty important.
And twenty he had more in completions than completions. You
think that wasn't that bad. I'm saying by most standards
in the NFL, I've a lot worse I've seen. I mean, look,
look at your team. Look at the Rams. He reminded
me of a Rams quarterback. I think they want to
trade for him. As long as he plays like that,
he can play for the Rams. That's pick sixes or

(01:34:11):
something like that. Maybe you know they just dank and
dunk it and play the short passing game, bubble screens.
That's you know they can do that. Boy, They're gonna
try to hide Jared Golf from every team. That's boy,
wonder their coach. That's good luck hiding your quarterback. It's
a challenge that really worked, all right, we'll get your
thoughts on all of this. If you would like to
take part. The number, and I only give it out

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to leave, but he will not leave Miami. He's hanging
out right in South Beach in the belly of the
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We asked him to leave, he said no, so he's
as long as the phone reception works, we'll talk to

(01:34:55):
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As we have begun the regular season in the NFL,
it is now gotten underway and it's it's almost time

(01:35:39):
to exercise your brain, right, you have to exercise your brain.
In fact, we will get to that and we'll do
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Ben Maller. One of the standard cliches in politics. They

(01:36:21):
talk about politicians and they'll say moving mountains, right, you
got to move mountains in politics, well by football in
football parlance, with the Kansas City Chiefs were able to
do beating the Patriots as impressively as they did, getting
some style points and all. That was the equivalent of
moving mountains, right. No one has been able to do

(01:36:42):
that when trailing at halftime and going into the fourth quarter.
That is a huge, huge deal, so almost as big
as my weekly appearances on local Kansas City radio, which
by the way will becoming. I think the radios will
be even higher to hear when the people who are
sleeping right now wake up and they're on their way
to work in the morning. When I call in to

(01:37:03):
the FESCO in the morning show to hear my opinion
of their team, that's what they want to hear. But
the last time you were on their program, what did
you say about the game? Yes, I told them they
were idiots. They all thought the Chiefs are gonna win.
I said, no, the Patriots are gonna win. I'm taking
the Patriots. I also said the Chiefs would win ten
games this year. I'm gonna now up that to eleven.
So I don't know. I'm gonna go eleven and five.

(01:37:24):
This was a game I did not have them winning,
So I'm gonna go to eleven and five. Hey, it's
the art of the deal, all right. I think that's
what Donald Trump. Donald Trump meant with the art of
the deal. I think that's what he was going for,
all right, Ben Mallers Show on Fox. That's the big story.
We'll get to the brain food in a moment. Right now, though,
we got a golden ticket. Let's go to Minneapolis, where

(01:37:45):
the Vikings. We'll take on the Saints later in the weekend.
We say hello to Paul, who's on the Ben Mallers
Show on Fox. Hello, Paul, Hey, what's going on? Man?
So I disagree with your Saints Vikings pick. I agree
it'll be a close game, and yeah, our offense is hot, garbitch,

(01:38:07):
but I think our defense is gonna probably be one
of the best this year that we've had in a while.
Our defensive line is completely solid. Yeah, I think Breeze
is gonna have a tough time getting off. Adrian Peterson
isn't going anywhere, that's for sure. And I don't expect.
I don't expect. I don't think the Peterson's gonna do
all that well. But I figure that Breeze will get

(01:38:29):
me at least a couple of touchdown drives. And I'm
also counting on Sam Bradford trying to force some stuff.
Even know the Saints defense is a fertilizer. I'm counting
on brad for making a couple of mistakes. And the
key to this for me picking the Saints is that
the Vikings offense is going to turn the ball over
a couple of times. If the Vikings play a clean game,

(01:38:52):
which I don't believe they will. Then, yeah, they'll win
the game. But I'm I'm counting on some mistakes. That's
what the Saints are gonna have to do to win
win that game. Hello, Joe, Hi, I like the Saint Yeah,
well that's one of our great callers from the past. There,
one of the highlights of the year and they heard

(01:39:12):
that one. But yeah, I mean Bradford, I don't see
him making a lot of mistakes. I mean, look at
what he did last year. I mean, seventy whatever completion
percentage and gonna be a lot better once we get
Floyd back too. So I don't see us turning the
bo He ain't playing here. He's drinking that kombucha t
That's what I'd be doing, exactly good for you. You
would agree though, that Sam Bradford, that that last season

(01:39:35):
that was an aberration, that was an irregularity, that it's
not the norm. You're not gonna get that. I don't
know if it was man. Our offensive line was like
made of guys that we've now cut. Yeah, So I mean,
as long as recent rammers can keep them from getting killed,
I should be Okay. Our offense is bad though you're
very optimistic. We'll see if you're optimistic on Monday. You're

(01:39:58):
optimistic on Friday, but you be optimistic on Monday. That's
the questions. All right, Oh yeah, thank you. And we're
at home. We're at home, man, that's I cannot lose
it home invincible, invincible, all right, thank you. Let's let's
check back in with our correspondent. Hurricane Irma is barreling
down in hours on the Sunshine State. We wish everyone

(01:40:19):
they're the best. Be safe. If you can evacuate and
go to a safer location, which I think is like
somewhere else in another state. But if you can get away,
please get away. That's what everyone's advising, right. And our
friend weed Man hippie though, is a daredevil and an idiot.
He's not going anywhere a weed man? Are you okay?

(01:40:39):
Weed Man? Just man? You now, you're just blowing into
the phone. That's not real, win weed Man, you're making
that up? Whatever? Okay, Man, I'm serious. If I die

(01:41:00):
in this hurricane, how will we know? Ben? Please? And
if I don't play you Sunday night, you'll know. No,
I won't know. Maybe the cell I judging of these
photos like in the in the Bahamas, in the Caribbean,
this cell phone service all got knocked out. Everything got
knocked out, everything got the promise me. Yeah, the last

(01:41:20):
time I ever sleep to you and I die. You
make sure the weed Man hippie biopic gets made, preferably
by Netflix. What what if? What if there's a company?
What if Warner Brothers wants to do you wouldn't want one?
I lost six hundred thousand dollars on the beach eleven years.

(01:41:44):
We've heard that before. All right, please don't die? All
right now, Coop watches everything on Netflix. Coop, would you
watch the weed Man Hippie story on Netflix. I've tried
to tell weed Man many times that that Netflix is
not the platform for him. He loves Netflix and wants
to be on Netflix. Thinked all about it, but I

(01:42:05):
don't know to It's like, is public access TV is
still a thing? Is that still the things like people
have Back in the day, people used to public weed
Man had a public access TV show in New York?
Is that still a thing? I think that's when people
use rabbit air antennas. Yeah, like, nobody that's not a
thing anymore. So people just do the stuff on YouTube
or Facebook Live or whatever. You don't need to do it.

(01:42:28):
It's an outdated reference. It's a bad job by me.
You're listening to the Ben Maller Show on Fox. The
brain food involves Tom Brady, and I wonder how many
of these tom Brady's gonna sell. Tom Brady, we learned
this week, has partnered up with a company out of
the Bay Area, his old homeland, and they are the

(01:42:49):
leader and what they call clinically proven brain fitness programs.
And so Tom Brady is selling brain what he calls
brain exercises. And the catch is that for fourteen dollars
a month, you can get these brain exercises that Tom

(01:43:10):
Brady uses, and if you want for the full year,
it's only going to cost you at ninety six dollars
for the full year. Now, a couple of thoughts on this.
Number One, I do believe that you need to exercise
your brain, especially as you get older. I think that's
an important thing. I know some of my relatives that
are older that's some of the wisdom they've passed down
to me. But at the same time, I think you're

(01:43:30):
also a bit of a sucker if you need to
pay fourteen dollars a month to do it. There are
a bunch of apps like to me playing I play
word crack. I think I'm exercising my mind. Right, there's
different ways you can do it. You don't have to pay.
There's plenty of free apps. You don't have to pay
fourteen dollars a month or ninety six dollars a year.
Ian Listen, if you got the money and that's what

(01:43:51):
you don't want to do, Hey, it's not my money,
but I would advise you to use some of these
other apps that are out there. Can you imagine when
Brady's done playing, he is going to be on the
Home Shopping Network doing infommercials NonStop. Like he's going to
be remember the Who's the guy who was it? Ron Popeel,
Remember the old legendary infommercial guy back in the day.

(01:44:13):
He's gonna be like that. Tom Brady's gonna be on
late night TV doing infommercial That's the future every kind
of quackery, medical quackery and ridiculous side and my imagine
Brady will be selling all right we were. You know what,
why don't we push back the lame jokes? I want
to take some more phone calls, we'll push back the
lame jokes a segment, all right, so we will have

(01:44:35):
the lame jokes. We're just gonna do it up next.
We got a bunch of people lined up, so we'll
do that right now. Those are you listening to the
Ben Maller's Show on Fox, Eddie Garcia gonna give you
a little latest Eddie, Well, Ben, if any of our
listeners missed the season opener the NFL season, I'm sure
the Patriots right, they will dominated the game twenty one

(01:44:57):
unanswered points in the fourth quarter. Now Kansas City Chiefs
go into Foxborough and shock the defending Super Bowl James
forty two to twenty seven. Oh my god, Eddie Dawn,
Chiefs won the game. How about this Alex Smith? Yeah,
four touchdown passes, no interceptions, and Kareem Hart running back

(01:45:18):
for Kansas City in his first game. He's not hard,
thank you. He had two hundred and forty six total
yards and three touchdowns. That's the most yards every boy
a rookie in his first Eddie Goode, some idiot was
I can't believe you've never heard of Kareem Hunt. Yeah, yeah, exactly, Man,
I don't watch I need to watch more mac football,

(01:45:38):
Eddie and follow the third round of the NFL draft
where he was picked. Well. As great as that win
was for Kansas City, one one downer for him for sure.
Star safety Eric Berry carted off the field late, and
they're saying potential Achilles injury. And usually when that happens,
that means your year is over. So they'll they'll update
him tomorrow. But it does not look good. Cool guy

(01:46:00):
interviewed jam good player when he was at Tennessee years ago.
Was that right? Yeah? Back when I used to do interviews,
it was boring, but I like you understand baseball games.
Note in the American League, the Cleveland Indians, who have
been around for quite some time, one their fifteenth game
in a row. That's the longest winning streak Enfranchise history,
as they beat the White Sox eleven to two. Hold second,

(01:46:20):
how many games if the Indians won a row fifteen
fifteen games in a row, the Indians have one? Is
that right? Indians? Yes? All right, Heedro, Calm down, Pedro,
I know you're excited. Calmed down, please, you should be excited.
Come on. Twins beat the Royals for two. Yankees over
the Orioles nine to one. That's not me. The report

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Big Sunday Night game NFC East Clash as the Giants
will be taken on the Cowboys. Of course, Ezekiel Elliott
getting a lot of attention because he's gonna play in
that game and then maybe gone for suspension. Doesn't Alan

(01:47:05):
Michaels hate that he's doing the game right? Doesn't he
hate having to do two games in a week and
go from from five star hotel to five star hotel
from first class plane trail. Yeah, it's a pin in
the app well. One of the big stories though for
the Giants is is Odell Beckham Junior going to play
or not? Still not practicing, But the Giants are still
not saying that he's going to be out for week one,

(01:47:25):
So it's a division game, a big game for him obviously,
you know he wants to play. So it looks like
they're gonna hold out to the last possible second to
see if Oudeo Beckham Junior will be able to play.
That's called games from a Ship, Eddie. That's called games
from a ship. Any dubious method method possible to gain
an edge, that's what they're doing. It's Ben Mala's show,
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dot com or a free rate quote. We're gonna time
shift the jokes just a few minutes because rather than
do two segments of jokes, I thought, because everyone's we
didn't take too many calls here, so let's take some
more calls. Patriots and the Chiefs, not your mundane lidlifter

(01:48:11):
in the NFL. Let's welcome in Angry Bill, who's on
Fox Sports Radio. Hello, Angry Bell? What about a nine
year old girl? I want to be a nutli right now? Yeah?
Are you gonna leave? Are you gonna let the storm
set in your way too? Are you gonna get out
of there? I guess I'm actually gonna get my carm
to drive down in Miami because if the storm doesn't

(01:48:32):
keep kill weed man. I'm gonna shut up. Weed man.
You're Jack and Joe. You're worried about weed man, and
when you started your show, and then you're worried about
Jack and Joel. What's the old one under down? How
many people are coming to Florida right now? Jack and Joe, Hey,
we'd met. Yeah, I know they took a train down.
Remember we talked. We talked to Leslie. She's like, oh,

(01:48:54):
we looked at the storm. It's not going to affect us.
The entire state is things. It's flying over the entire
staying in Florida. A weed man, let's check it, weed man,
what do you think of angry Bill? He would like
to kill you. What do you think about that? Weed man?
Bleep him? All right? What do you think we said?

(01:49:14):
Leap him? No? Leaper is upseting? Go hop in a bathtub?
You drive yourself now? Alright, bleapp idiot man. I want
to clear up. I want to clear up my sexual
orientation because the chore yesterday said up him with three

(01:49:37):
men in my life and I was in prison. We
were in a dorm with sixteen eight men, okay, every
one of them. Congratulations A Bill Bill Clinton excuse. Yeah, okay,
there was no penetration. Okay, and I did Inhale all right,
So I think that's a problem. Also in basketball. I
remember Phil Jackson. We used to talk about that, hands

(01:49:59):
on balls and gotta get the penetration of the basket.
He would talk about that about the field. It's all
about hand on the balls. Yeah, all right, are you done?
I just I'm not. I'd like to wish everybody the
best of leuct in Florida here except weed man who
you'd like to kill? Yes, yeah, we go get in
the bathtub, moron, stop that something. Thank you, Angry Bill.

(01:50:27):
We don't call him angry Bill for nothing. He's lived
up to that man robbed the bank at one point,
and here he is. Do you think he ever like
extorted five million dollars out of investors? Do you think
he ever did that with like a ticket scam? You
think he ever pulled that one off? No? You think
he was ever in Wyoming and walked into the wrong
house and living at now He didn't do that either. No,

(01:50:50):
Salt Lake City, we go, the home of the Utah
Jazz where women at well, clearly Salt Lake City. Chris
is in Salt Lake and he is on the Ben
Maller Show on Fox, and it's so every every news
outlets saying there needs to be a mass exodus ahead

(01:51:10):
of Irma and weed Man know, every every news channel,
every media report, every government agency's telling everyone get out
of there. We need an exodus. Not we even anyway.
You don't care about that, Chris, what's on your mind? Ally?
Thanks for having me. Well, like, I'm not sure about
the Utah Jazz. They can go to Hell. Let's go Celtics,
all right, Just good advice. He's a fellow us, went

(01:51:30):
to Ueversity of Utah, watched him play. I've always believed
he was a good quarterback. You guys never give him
enough credit. Stop, he gets plenty of credit. He's he's
a game manager. That's what this is. To give me
an idea. How out of no, no, out of the norm.
This is Alex Smith. This amazing monster performance. He had
never had a game where he threw for three hundred

(01:51:52):
yards and four touchdowns in his NFL career. That's how
out of the norm this performance is. He's been around
for a long time, he never had a game like that.
That's a career game. Oh no, I'll give you that.
It was definitely a career game for him. But he's
finally got pieces around him to help him out. He's
got a great offensive line. He's mean, Hunts came out
of nowhere and supported him. Hill's a great deep through.

(01:52:12):
Now that's not true. Chris Guy on Twitter said, I
should have known about Kareem Hunt. That's what he told me.
It's Toledo football. Nobody cares about Toledo. It's an accurate statement.
At least they're fall Yeah, but I will say it's
very quickly. With Tom Brady, I still think he's a
great quarterback, but he is getting at that age. But
when it comes to the Patriots at this time, I
would be more concerned about the defense because defense wins championships.

(01:52:34):
Oh that's good. You've got a lot of cliches in there,
So you think Brady after one bad game is still
a great quarterback. I still think he has enough in
the tank to get them to the playoffs. But if
you're a Patriots fan at this point, I had plenty
of friends who are I would seriously be considering looking
at Grappa up possibly because I mean I love Brady.
I mean I'm not a Patriots fan. I know, he

(01:52:54):
gets a lot of craps. Where are you? Are you
from Utah? Did you grow up there? Are you from
somewhere else? I've been all over the place, So I look,
I'm a Navy brad. But okay, all right, so I
want to know you. I'm always interested guys like you.
I'm fascinated by guys like it. So you like the Celtics,
that's your basketball team and your football team is who?

(01:53:16):
So you got the Texans Celtics? That's a comb And
do you like baseball at all? Oh? Yeah, I'm a
Boston Red Sox fan. Okay, so, but why not the Patriots?
Why did you pick the texts over the Patriots? You
have more fun if you were a Patriot fan. Texans
have actually have a good defense, and I enjoyed watching
the defense pancakes people. It's more fun that way. Okay, fine,

(01:53:36):
thank you? And I mean serious, combine, Look at the
took of the Texans. You got J. J. Watts and
Clowney Quing. I mean, come on, what's not to like
about that? It's it? Could you want me? When they
played Bordles of upcoming? It gets to be watching like
a little schoolgirl right from a pack of boys. All right, wow,
all right, thank you. Hot commentary there from our friend

(01:53:58):
Chris in Salt. It is the Ben Mallers Show. You're
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(01:54:21):
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in some hot football conversation here as the unexpected happened,

(01:54:44):
the unimaginable for many a nine and a half point favorite,
the New England Patriots lose in the fourth quarter, outscored
twenty one to nothing. And so now the Kansas City
Chiefs the talk of the NFL, the overreaction machine getting
cranked up. But you gotta a bit off. Kareem Hunt
is anything like he was in that particular game in

(01:55:05):
Kansas City is gonna be much better than people expected.
We'll find out the next couple of weeks whether that's
true or not. We'll also find out right now if
we're funny or not. Knock knock, who's there? Blame week?
Blame week? Who it's Big Ben's lame joke of the week.
All right? These are actual jokes, some actual listeners submitted

(01:55:26):
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(01:55:47):
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Just give us like ten minutes. Okay, Now, these jokes
are meant in a comedian approach. If you don't laugh
at this kind of stuff, that's fine, but these are
listeners have been at jokes. We want you to listen,
but just turn down the audio for a little bit,

(01:56:07):
give us a shot, all right, and Coop's got his
offensive joke batting leadoff here our friend, serious, Sean, Serious, Sean,
what you got for us? All right? So this joke
here is from the penny that was with you about
an hour ago. Okay, all right, So what did one
penny say to the other penny? No, I don't know.

(01:56:30):
Let's let's get together and make some sense. Thank you, Sean.
Good luck with your studies. Try to practice joke writing

(01:56:51):
if you can't work that in there. Yes, all right, Well,
the way this works, I'll read the joke, I'll bounce
it off Eddie, he'll bounce it back to me. I'll
give you the punchline at that point, Danny g will
play this. If it's funny, you'll hear this. If it's
not funny, if you can go either way, you'll hear this.
Let's say, if it's big enough, I'm not going to
enjoy it very much. Wow, out of context audio always appropriate.

(01:57:14):
All right, Coop's got the offensive joke, Eddie. A man
was trapped in an apartment this week due to a
poor ups package placement. Yes, you told us about that. Yeah,
the man it turned out was boxed in literally was
yes the Big Man's lame jokes of the week. See here,
Should I do a Chinese food joke from Eke? Should

(01:57:36):
I do that for Eke and Roseville, Minnesota? All right?
Why do married women like Chinese food so much? I
don't know, Ben? Why do you married women like Chinese
foods so much? Because wan ton spelled backwards is not
now racist? That's from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. That sounds

(01:58:00):
like you came from Sirius Sean, this guy named Ben.
Did you hear about the hungry clock, Eddie? I did
not hear about the hungry clock, Benn. It went back
for seconds. Well, big news in the NFL about half
of Vantz Burfick's new contract. They believe guaranteed money Eddie.
Oh is that right? Yeah? Guaranteed to be paid back

(01:58:23):
to the NFL and fines. It's funny because it's true.
From Jay who sent that one in? What did weed
man Hippy say when he heard a hurricane was headed
to South Beach? What do you think that weed man
Hippy said when a hurricane was headed to South We
know he's not leaving, but what did he say when
he heard about heard about that hurricane, he said, irma

(01:58:44):
god fields of green in Minnesota. Are you listening? Laugh?
Why not? A guy trapped in his apartment? Here we
go another one. They guy trapped in his apartment due
to a box being placed for the wrong spot. Eddie,

(01:59:05):
we've heard about that, Yes, yes we have. His Amazon
package was a real doorstopper. I'm let's say, if it's
big enough, I'm not going to enjoy it very much, Eddie.
Did you know that Bartolo Holme likes what he likes
in food? He likes in veteran ball players? I did
not know that, now, yeah, seasoned? Did you did you

(01:59:27):
see Andy Reid in the sidelines? The look he dropped,
the he's done good, good job by Andy's on your diet, Eddie?
You're using that app right? Perhaps? Yeah, he said. He
joined some of the coaches on his staff with a
twenty one day challenge. Oh yeah, good for him, all right,
Cooper Loop, what you got for me? Coop? What's the
last thing going through weed Man's head on Sunday night?

(01:59:48):
The last thing going through weed Man weed Man's head
on Sunday night, his roof. Oh we Man's loving this
all right? So big Man's lame jokes of the week. Well,
the NFL had to reschedule the Bucks Dolphins game, Eddie, Yes,

(02:00:11):
I know, yeah, they wanted to avoid another blowout. Oh
good man, is that all right? Is that okay? I
say we man? Is that okay? He likes all these jokes,
might as well have a good time before he disappears.
All right, cool? What do you got? Cool? Quickly? Why

(02:00:33):
is marriage like a hurricane? I don't know. At the
beginning there was a lot of blowing, but in the
end you lose your house. All right? Just Josh I
said this one in why did the coach pull no
condom Carl out of the ball game? I don't know.
Why did that happen? Because he refused to put on

(02:00:54):
his glove? That was from Just Josh. All right, last one,
last one? Did you know that Coop de Loop and Weedman,
Hippie I have a new show together on the internet.
I did not know that it's a podcast. That's a podcast.

(02:01:15):
If you had the New England Patriots a cakewalk winner
in the beginning of the NFL season, you are a loser.
A surprise to kick off the NFL regular season and
a great gift to the Kansas City fan. Welcome in
the beginning of another hour, It's the Ben Mallers Show.

(02:01:37):
We are in the air everywhere the vast Fox Sports
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free rate quote. You could argue it's the greatest night

(02:01:58):
in the last twenty years for the Kansas City Chiefs.
I know it's a regular season game, it's Week one,
blah blah blah, blah blah. But here's my argument. The
Kansas City Chiefs were huge underdogs in this particular game,
and no one outside of Kansas City gave them much
of a chance. This was not supposed to be a
competitive game. It was a very competitive game for three quarters,

(02:02:21):
and then in the fourth quarter it was turbo time.
But instead of the Patriots go on turbo time, it
was Kansas City with big plays. They looked like the
Pittsburgh Steelers on offense. It was like the Pittsburgh Steelers
are those big weapons, Levion Bell and Antonio Brown and
all the rest had shifted to the Heartland and we're

(02:02:42):
wearing Chiefs uniforms on the road in Foxboro, a stunning
turn of events. Alex Smith has been around with multiple
teams for years and had never had a Mona Lisa
like performance. Never before had he combined a three hundred
yard passing day with the four touchdowns, which is what
he did in this particular game. And there have been

(02:03:03):
many studies that have been done. The psychology world has
agreed that if you look at being a sports fan,
the lifeblood of professional sports, the most enjoyable moment you
can have is the unexpected, right when you think your
team is going to lose and you're just expecting that

(02:03:24):
outcome and then everything gets flipped around and you end
up on top. It's the greatest feeling you can have. Now,
if your team's favored in every game, it's hard to
have that particular feeling, unless unless you fall behind by
seventeen thousand points in the super Bowl and then come
back and beat the Atlanta Falcons, which we know took place,

(02:03:45):
but at this moment, we only have this game. It's
a small sample size for Kansas City, but this is
a big deal, a breakout start at least for a week.
Kareem Hunt the running back. Keep in mind, when Kansas
City lost, they're starting running back. It had been assumed
this was a problem like spencer Ware going down. The

(02:04:07):
assumption had been that this was a net negative for
Kansas City. And if that injury had not happened, how
much playing time was Kareem Hunt gonna get? And you
also wonder how much of his success was because he's good,
and how much of his success is because the New
England Patriots essentially had concrete shoes on. That's kind of

(02:04:32):
how that went down. It was a d bacle, But
Kansas City set up the next three games, assuming they
don't end up taking a gigantic step back the old
zigzag theory, which has been prominent in the NFL. You
have a big win, you're feeling great, everyone's going to
talk about how wonderful you are, and then you come
back out and urinate all over the field in the

(02:04:55):
next game. Assuming that does not happen, there are three
winnable games that you would think Kansas City's gonna win.
Two of those three at home, so the Chiefs could
be sitting at a four and oh start the first
part of the NFL season. The Patriots a record breaking
bad performance by the defense, the worst defensive performance by

(02:05:16):
a Bill Belichick Patriots defense, most points yards allowed, The
numbers are historic in the wrong direction for New England,
and now they have to fix that. And they also
wonder what the hell happened to Tom Brady. A very
run of the run of the mill performance, middle of
the road performance. He did not have an interception, but

(02:05:38):
more in completions than completions for Tom Brady, and many
of those passes. If you saw the game, you know this,
we're not that close. You wonder is that the receiver?
Is that the quarterback? Now we know that the receiver
is going to be the one that gets blamed, but
there were so many passes that were just not even close.
It seemed to be caught very untom Radiolike, very untom

(02:06:02):
radylike all right's Ben Malashan Fox down. There is other
stuff going on. A great radio host needs to have
a surprise. And we thought we were gonna say we
did the Benny versus the Penny earlier. But if you
paid close attention, you noticed that we saved what we
think is the best game of the weekend till now.
That's what's called. Here's a little lesson for you. In radio,

(02:06:24):
they call it TSL time spent listening, and we have
just pulled off one of the great TSL moves of
all times. So let's break it down. Seattle and Green Bay.
We saved it till now. It's the best game of
the weekend. It's better than all the rest. It's Genie.

(02:06:45):
It's on Fox. You better watch. You know this is
the most important game because Joe Buck and Troy Aikman
are calling the game. The Packers opened a three point favorite.
This game has stayed the same. It's a currently a
Green Bay three point favorite. Eighty percent of the action
on the cheese heads from the great state of Wisconsin,
just down the street from my brother who lives over

(02:07:07):
in Appleton and just next door to Green Bay. I
am going to take the home team here. I will
take the Green Bay Packers in this game, and I'll
tell you why. I'll kind of walk you through the reason.
First of all, we have told you this is the
top matchup. It's the top matchup for several reasons. But
these are two of the top powers in the NFC.
And with Ezekiel Elliott a wild card, whether or not

(02:07:30):
he can play that would downgrade all season. That can
downgrade the Cowboys, And I'm interested to see the game
within the game when these teams have played, and they
play a lot, considering they're not in the same division,
whether it's the postseason, just regular season matchups. Aaron Rodgers
and Richard Sherman the game within the game. Last three years,

(02:07:51):
these teams have played every year three regular season matchups
the last three years. Because they've been good. They have
matched up with each other for three years in a row.
But the consistency has been Aaron Rodgers avoids Richard Sherman
like the bubonic plague. Right wherever Richard Sherman is, whatever
receiver he's lined up against, the Packers do not throw
that way. In three games, eighty four targets. The Richard

(02:08:15):
Sherman wide receiver whoever he's gone against only three times
in eighty four targets, so it's not it's not been
a situation where Rogers even looks the direction of Richard Sherman.
So we'll see. We'll see if Sherman will match up,
how often he'll go against Jordy Nelson. Likely not much
at all, but that'll be the game within the game. Secondly,

(02:08:38):
will Seattle'll be able to run the football effectively? And
how much Eddie Lacy do we get? Can Eddie Lacy
be the featured back because of injury? And do the
ground and pound situation? Get the pound of revenge if
you will in this spot, because the Packers didn't want

(02:08:59):
to bring him back, at least not at the price
point that Eddie Lacey wanted. So generally with the Seattle Seahawks,
it's been pretty consistent. You bet on them at home,
you bet against them on the road. That's been a
pretty good financial investment as a gambler over the peak
Carroll years. Here, I'm gonna follow that model. I'm gonna

(02:09:22):
buy into the Packers and some early season success for
Aaron Rodgers. Your final score here the Packers thirty one,
Seahawks twenty one. Penny going with the Packers. Penny going
with the Packers. All right, So there it is the

(02:09:42):
top game of the weekend, and we saved? Are we dirty?
Are we mean people for doing that? Well? We got
you to listen, got you listen a little bit longer.
Maybe we'll do that every week, maybe we won't. We'll
keep you on your toes, keep you on your toes.
That's how we do all I know. Know you do,
and keep in mind the reason I am the people's

(02:10:04):
sports talk radio host. I don't sell my picks. I
don't have a smoke phone. I don't sell you know
some website you have to go to to get my picks.
My picks are so valuable they are the entire gambling industry.
I've got guys that run sports books in Vegas that
are friends of mine. They tell me, don't give out
your picks. Ben, You're gonna ruin us. You're gonna ruin

(02:10:24):
our industry. I see, you know what I'm gonna do it.
I don't need extra money. I make so much money
doing the Overnight showed Fox Sports Radio. I'm rolling in money.
I don't need. I don't need any more money. Enough money. Yes,
there's an act of charity, is what it is, By
the people for the people. That's how I do. It's

(02:10:46):
my belief in life. It's my way to give back
to the community. So how I roll? All right? So
Ben Malvish show on Fox. So I have a question.
I think it's a relevant question and it involves Adrian Peterson.
He's going back to the Belly of the Beast where
the Minnesota Vikings plays of Saints and Vikings. Big matchup

(02:11:06):
that rivalry because Peterson versus the Vikings. The Saints Vikings
game itself not all that attractive, but the matchup of Peterson,
the human emotion, long time stalwart of the Vikings but
loved Minnesota Viking going back. And the question is what
will the fan reaction be? What would the Viking fan do?
Those at the game that can afford those expensive NFL tickets.

(02:11:30):
Now here's what I believe is gonna have to quote
Dick and Dayton's favorite old play by play guy that
passed away a couple of years ago, nev Chandler, Minnesota
will be serenading Adrian Peterson with a chorus in boo
flat yeah. A couple of thoughts at wrong laundry, animosity, bitterness,

(02:11:54):
and time and place those three things now real quick.
Adrian Peterson is on the wrong side. He's wearing the
wrong uniform, the wrong laundry. And Peterson wonderful in his
heyday with Minnesota, which a few years back, but he
is an enemy combatant at this particular point. Ape stands

(02:12:15):
in the way of a Viking wind and the right
thing to do, the noble thing to do, is to
boo Adrian Peterson. That is the move here. You boo
him in this spot. Secondly, we know there's animosity as
to how Peterson ended his time in Minnesota. There's still
bitterness as there should be over the child abuse scandal

(02:12:38):
involving Peterson. He's also in denial about his ability. He
believes he's an elite back still. The numbers last year
proved otherwise, and he does not sound like he is
ready to take a secondary role in New Orleans, even
though the depth chart has him in a secondary role.
But from the fan perspective, I am odd counting on

(02:13:01):
Midwestern hospitality here, and I have the pulse of the
people I do. It's one thing. I have pulse of
the people doing this show. And as a result, I
believe that is the case. Now, the odds say otherwise.
The offshore books have actually put odds on this whether
or not Adrian Peterson will be booed or not, and

(02:13:21):
the odds say there's an eighty three percent chance that
Peterson will get a standing ovation standing ovation. From the
Minnesota fan, the side I'm on is the boo and
that's only a five percent chance. According to the odds
at the Offshore book. There's a two percent chance of indifference,
and then for some reason there's a ten percent chance

(02:13:45):
of the field. What the hell would that be? Would
that be like everyone in the stadium mooning Adrian Peterson
given him the Monty, the full Monty. I don't know
what the field would be, but that's on there. But
to kind of wrap this up, time and place, time
and place. The time to give Adrian Peterson a standing ovation.

(02:14:06):
The place is after he retires, when they bring him
back and put him in the Ring of Honor and
all that. That's when you do it. That's the move there.
But you don't do it now he's still playing, he's
on the other side. The move is to boot. That's it.
And the great thing is we live in a boot
time Minnesota. People from Minnesota very nice, good people, salt
of the earth and all that. But you got to

(02:14:27):
do the right thing. The right thing is to boot.
You gotta do it. Edmund Dallas steamboat, Willie Garcia So wait, wait,
know angry Bill will be will be booing that game
wherever he is. Yes, will you believe in booze? Eddie
I'm going with Booze. The odds say standing ovation, I'm

(02:14:48):
gonna go with it. I don't think there's gonna be
a standing ovation. That's the eighty three percent chance according
to the Wise. I actually think it'll be a mix.
But I think they'll actually be a little more more
cheers than Booze. A little bit more cheers than Booze.
Will they be cheering when he runs into the back
of the offensive line for the Saints. Will that be
when they cheer? That might be some cheering for that
as well. Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, very very good.

(02:15:11):
And you're not going to an NFL game this weekend
because the Chargers on the road, so you avoid that.
That to indignity. It's the Sunday of lots of clicking.
Yeah yeah, I got it all all laid out. I'm
looking forward to it. Very stressful the early part of
the NFL schedule because I feel like I feel like

(02:15:31):
I'm gonna miss something, and some people just watch the
red zone channel. I like to make my own red
zone channel. I agree, but I feel stressed because I'm
like I'm gonna miss something, So then I keep flipping
around and then I end up like watching ten seconds
at a time. I'll be like jumping around from game
to game, the game, the game. But it's uh, it's good.
And I got my direct TV fixed. Dye. There was

(02:15:52):
an outer, Yeah, there was a problem. It had said
that he could not connect to my receiver. And then
the guy came out. They wanted to charge ninety nine
dollars to come out. Well, of course they did, and
I said, really, I don't need to be raped. Uh,
and then and then they said, I guess it was
seven dollars. It was some thing you had to sign

(02:16:13):
up for. It's like seven dollars a month's difference. Okay, yeah,
so they want seven dollars a month. But of course
the scam is that a lot of people and when
you get monthly payments, a lot of people say, well,
you can sign up and then you can cancel it.
But a lot of people forget and they just pay
seven dollars a month for attorney till they die, and
then their kids have to pay seven dollars a month,
and it just keeps going on and on and on.

(02:16:33):
So anyway, but they did fix it. So the guy
was very nice from direct TV. He came out very nice.
He knew exactly what he was doing. He knew what
the problem was, and so it's good. We're good to go.
I know you're very concerned in my TV watching hat. Well. Look,
having the direct TV out of commission is uh, well,
now is a nightmare. I gave a mandate. I said,
if they don't get this fixed by Sunday, I'm done.

(02:16:55):
What's the point. I'll just get regular cable. It's a
little cheaper. I'll downgrade my package of cable television and
I'm good. I had to add that because you perverts.
So'll take that and Danny heat every time I did
you get that? Danny? Did you? I might have laughed.

(02:17:17):
You say that again? No? No, who's gonna eat the
little ben there. I feel like we've checked in enough
with Weedman, but I'm concerned he's gonna die, so I
think we should keep going back to him. You know,
he's in Miami. He's on the first floor. He's not leaving.
Mandatory evacuation. Hurricane warning issued for all of southern Florida.

(02:17:37):
The storm surge they're talking about is insane. Weed Man
is like right near the beach. I've asked him to leave.
He will not leave. And we're watching the images here,
we get the news channels up of what happened. Oh yeah, yeah,
all right, and we'll check in lie with our friend
weed Man in the middle of all that prepared, I say, preparing,

(02:18:01):
but he's just sitting in his room smoking weed. He's
not really preparing. I mean, that's that's not what the
federal government wants you to do when a hurricane is coming.
They don't advise you to stay on hold the entire
night on a sports radio show and smoke pot while
the hurricanes approaching. But that's weed Man strategy. He's a
free spirit, Eddie is what he is. That's what he is,

(02:18:22):
free free spirit. The Coop Scoop on Entertainment will get
to that, and we'll do it next. Known as the
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(02:18:43):
It's the underdog of monologues, Ben Maller. We will get
to the Coop Scoop on Entertainment in a moment. Now,
this is a story that if it hadn't been for
a big NFL stunner, we would have talked more about.
But I'm very embarrassed for some people that have been
triggered by a song that was played at a baseball

(02:19:06):
game last night. We're gonna get to the coop scoop
in a moment. But at the Atlanta Braves game last night,
the Braves officially apologized. They're playing the Miami Marlins, and
the Braves apologize because of a song that was played.
Let me see if my my hurricane. Irma corresponded, weed man, hippies,

(02:19:27):
weed man, are you there? Weed man? All right, stay
a lot, don't die, weed man, don't die. You're making
that up. You're blowing into the phone. Stop all right,
listen to me. So the Braves have apologized because they
played rock You Like a Hurricane on the PA system
and they people were triggered by that. Then I'm gonna

(02:19:53):
stand outside. No don't, no, no, don't do that for you. No,
don't do that. No, no, don't please, don't do that. No. No,
weed man, I don't think you realize you're like the
guy when the uh was it Mount Saint Helen's You
know that legendary story. Yeah the guy, Yeah, it exploded,
and they told this guy he lived. He say, say live.

(02:20:15):
He live right near Mount sat Addles. They said, get
out of here're gonna die. He said, no, I'm gonna
stay here. He died. Weed man, you gotta get out
of there, weed man, No, how dare you? I'm triggered.
I need my I need my safe space. Danny gee,
why if I go? Yeah, being high and listening to you,

(02:20:39):
I'm happy. No, no, no, no, I'm not happy. I
gotta deal with this. Please, weed man, go to like
the airport or something. Now they have flights. They can
get you out of there. Man, Can you swim? Do
you know how to swim? No? Eddy, I'm gonna be
doggy paddle. Oh. I don't think he gets the Eddy.
I don't think he gets I don't think outside in

(02:21:02):
the hun No, don't no, don't no, weed man. No,
it'll be your big break. You're backbreaking, when you get
dragged by the wind, that'll be the big break. Listen,
don't do that. All right, ridiculous, All right, it's once

(02:21:25):
you know he doesn't. We're gonna be freaking out all
of next week because you know what's gonna happen. If
this is accurate, if these you know, doomsday prophecies that
everyone on the news media is speaking, which I hope
is fake news. But if it's right, then the cell
phone service is going to be out for a while.
All of the things we need right, the things in America,
the first world that we have come to love are

(02:21:47):
gonna be out for a while until it gets repaired,
and we won't hear from weed Man, and we'll be
convinced he's dead, and then I gotta deal with that.
I gotta worry about that, Ben, if our worst fears
are realized, will you have a seven line salute for
we'd been? Hey? Weed Man? Could I do a seven
line salute for you? If you don't call seven? Yeah? Well,

(02:22:09):
it's like when someone dies, it's what we do. We
do a tribute to them. It's seven line salute. Yeah, Hey, Ben,
I just want to tell everybody to be happy and
love each other and change the world. Could you're a
primitive planet and you're a bunch of primitive people, Okay, yeah,
but those everybody aliens will come by and say we've been,
we've been. All those primitive people are still leaving though

(02:22:30):
they're still leaving stuff right, thank you? Hey weed man,
how close do you do the beach there? I'm literally
five blocks from the beach. Oh my god? Should we
say goodbye to him? Just in case? Hey we man,
I've enjoyed your work and we fought. You know, you
left the show. You try, you try, you left me,

(02:22:52):
You left me for the morning girl on local Miami radio.
You flirt up, all right? All right, all right, I
know you all right? On a second, God, am I

(02:23:12):
gonna feel guilty? All right? Now, when the last time
is you're gonna check in with him so we can
say goodbye? Just yeah, okay, we'll do that. Well, I
would like to blow him up on last time preemptive strike,
Yes all, you want to get out in front of
Hurricane Irma. All right, very very good. We hope everyone's
are everyone's okay? All right, we'll get to the coop

(02:23:33):
scoop on entertainment and also baller. We'll get to all that.
You're listening to the Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports
Radio right now, though, Eddie Garcia with the latest Eddie
Well in the opening game of the NFL season, a
little bit of a surprise as the Super Bowl champion
New England Patriots lose at home to the Chiefs forty
two to twenty seven. Alex Smith that four touchdown passed

(02:23:55):
for Kansas City and rookie running back Kareem Hunt had
two hundred and forty six yards total offense, most yards
ever buy a rookie in his first game. He also
scored three times for New England. They lose at home,
and they lose at home in a game that they
led going into the fourth quarters. Can't see out scored
him in that final quarter twenty one to nothing one down.
Note though, for Kansas City is their star safety Eric

(02:24:16):
Berry was carted off the field with a potential achilles injury.
Baseball games a note In the American League, the Indians
won their franchise record fifteenth game in a row, beating
the White Sox eleven to two. Corey Kluber gets his
fifteenth win on the mound twins over the Royals four
to two. Was the Yankees down the Orioles nine to one.
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(02:24:59):
He's gonna this not only week one, but week two
at least, and then be reevaluated. Could be out even
longer than that. Don't worry, Eddie. The Browns always overcome injuries.
They have great depth. They never let they never let
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(02:25:42):
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This guy's been in a major Hollywood week In fact,
the greatest movie of all time. Liar, Liar, the Coop,
The Loop with the inside Scoop. Thank you, Ben. I
agree with that assessment. Now it is a It is
a big week in in entertain him in a big weekend,
I should say, in entertainment. Of course, we have the

(02:26:03):
return of the NFL, so that that Trump's everything. But
for once, the uh, the silver screen takes precedent over
over the television because the new adaptation of Stephen King's
It premieres today. You're excited, excited. I'm very excited. I
have I have a couple of friends that have already

(02:26:23):
seen the movie, and I have heard that it is terrifying,
not just for people who have a fear of clowns,
but for anybody to watch this. So I'm I'm very
excited about it because I personally, I think horror movie
scary movies are just not what they used to be.
They've kind of fallen off in the past decade or so.
So because you can't go too scary because people get upset. Yeah,

(02:26:45):
I'm very hopeful. So, yeah, it's the new adaptation. Bill
Scars Guard now plays penny Wise, the clown. He's part
of the scars Guard acting family. I do who they are, Okay, well,
all right, I'm a sports guy. Yeah I am. I know.
Uh so I'm moving on to to TV on Netflix

(02:27:05):
because you know that's what I like to talk about.
Is Netflix premiering today Friday, September eighty thought. This is
what I'm really excited about season four of bow Jack Horsemen.
I know you talked about this last year. I remember
I did, I did this. This not only is one
of the best cartoons of all time, it's up there
is just one of the best shows. It's it's deep,
it's thought provoking, it's funny, it's fantastic. Now do you

(02:27:29):
watch this while medicated? Does that make it better? I'm sure,
I'm sure. Yes. Look, but I don't want that to
take away from the show, because it's great without that. Yes,
I mean, Coop, here's what you should do. I know
you're excited about the show. You you love Netflix, right,
you should call Netflix up? So hey, let's bring liar liar,

(02:27:50):
bring it back Netflix. It's on Netflix or I know
I'm talking about a new oh Netflix original. You can
play like the Jim Carrey role now because you're all
going on right, and then you can have an annoying kid.
How you get the whole thing right? So you want
Liar Liar too? Yes, like the continuation of Liar Liar. Well,
if any Netflix executives are listening, reach out to me.
How about a spin how about a spinoff? How about

(02:28:12):
a like how about like a you know, a couple
of episodes a month or something like I Am More,
I Am more than willing. I'd obviously have to take
a hiatus from the show, but you wouldn't. It's like
four hours a night. You can come on alright. Also,
premiering today on Netflix is this is for you, Ben.
I point these out specifically for you. It's a documentary

(02:28:33):
called The Confession Tapes. Yes, it's a true crime documentary series,
and it investigates cases where people convicted of murder claim
that their confessions were coerced, involuntary or completely false. Yeah.
So yeah, there're gonna be a spinoff of sports radio Hosts.
Is that gonna be? OK? Not no word on that,

(02:28:54):
all right, but that sounds interesting. So I'll definitely check
that out. And just real quick, Yeah, I'm not Gonna
Get Over the Deuce on HBO premiere Sunday, nine pm.
It's about New York, New York Close. It starts James
Franco's about New York's porn industry in the Rich. I

(02:29:15):
am very happy, Coop. I don't know that you experienced this,
but I am lucky that I got to go to
New York City when my brother first moved to New
York years ago. I got to go there when Times
Square was seedy. There were peep holes on every corner.
It was a prostitute. Yes it was. It was like
before they cleaned it up and turned it into a Disneyland,
like naked women. It was you go, yeah, you'd like

(02:29:41):
walking money in it was it was supposed ridiculously and
these women would walk out their naked or whatever they
and you pay like whatever price it was for like
however much time, And then yeah, it was you didn't
do this right, you saw other team. Of course I
did buy a fake ID in Times Square, though, I
did when I was under age. You have a fake

(02:30:01):
name or just the year, yeah, I was. It was
Norm Peterson was my fake name. That was my yeah, exactly.
I think you can figure out why hey to Ben Mallishaw. Yeah,
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And now it's just what you've been waiting for. It's
Ben's balder dash. What the hell is this? Formerly known
as something we're not allowed to say? Hit it all right,
let's go right to it. It's balderdash. We gotta jump

(02:31:46):
in here and welcome in our defending champion, Tyler back again.
Hello Tyler? Hey, how you doing norm Yeah exactly. It
was great in Times Square in those days. I was like,
you know, even legal yet as an addult. But the
guy I walked into one of these shops on the corner,
he had a book of every state driver's license. He said,

(02:32:09):
which state would you like to be from? It was awesome,
It was amazing, all right, anyway, all right, I think
the Statue of Limitations is run out, So I'm allowed
to tell that story? All right? Tyler? You ready to go? Yes, Yeah,
I'm great. Let's do it, all right? And Justin in
Cincinnati you're gonna play Justin? Yes, Yes, I'm good. Let's
all right. Here we go, gentlemen. The categories are Alumni Association,

(02:32:31):
Straight Cash Homie, and all about Steve Tyler. Where do
you want to go? Straight cash homie? All right? You
guys each get a lifeline. Each get one lifeline. Here
we go, straight cash homie. And in this category, everyone
is in the top ten highest paid in their respective sport.
For two hundred dollars, This two time league MVP is

(02:32:52):
a baby faced assassin and seems justin justin correct, Good
job by you. Four und dollars. This quarterback had to
beat out Matt Flynn in the off season. Just wow,
he's on his way. Who were getting an upset? Good
start for Justin. But it's early, it's early, all right,

(02:33:15):
six hundred dollars. This ferocious dunker out of Oklahoma and yeah,
beloved NBA superstar and hero to you. It does not
say that A did Anthony write this? Good job? Anthony
did not? Okay, who wrote this? You? I didn't. Oh, okay,
he didn't write these this week? Really? Okay? All right?

(02:33:35):
Eight hundred bad job by Anthony? I thought he was
coming by or by the way, what happened Monday? Oh?
Monday's his birthday? On Monday? Oh? Really? He wants to
come here on his birthday? I fight? Yeah, I guess
are we gonna have multiple guests on that day? Coup?
Is it Sunday or monthone? Else? Is coming? Really on Monday?
Not Sunday? I'm confused? All moving on? Sorry, all right,
let me know who's coming in here, so I know

(02:33:56):
we're we're underwear and stuff. Alright, eight hundred dollars, Here
we go. This Samethrower lost his closing job earlier this
season and is well known for making headlines after shooting bam.
Just like just like that, Yeah, exactly, right back in
the game for Tyler. We'll close out the category for

(02:34:17):
a thousand dollars on balded ash Ben Mall show. You're
listening to Fox thousand dollars. This two time All star
for the Atlanta Braves has kind of fallen off the
map after his cop justin lifeline. All right, where do
you want to go? All right? Danny g. This two
time All Star for the Atlanta Braves has kind of
fallen off the map after his Hollywood. Are we allowed

(02:34:41):
to finish the question? I don't know how's this work, Cooper?
Are we allowed to finish the question? I mean we
had said no, so that's all you got after his Hollywood?
So La to Atlanta. It's got to be Matt Kemp,
it is yeah, all right, it's almost like Danny g
knew the answer. Yes, that is right, Matt Kemp, you
got it right. A thousand dollars for you, Justin. Let's

(02:35:04):
keep it going, Justin. We have alumni association, and all
about Steve alumni association. All right, alumni association. I named
the player, you'd tell me the college they played for.
This is a staple of Cooper Loop Baldadesh. He loves
these kind of categories. All right, here we go again.
I'll name the player, you tell me the college they
played for? For two hundred dollars. Kevin Durant, justin, justin,

(02:35:26):
Texas fan, four hundred dollars. I named the player, you
named the school they played for? Drew Breese Justin, Justine correct.
The almost sounds bored answering this question. Six hundred dollars,
I named the player, you tell me the college, Eddie

(02:35:47):
Lacy Justin Yes, Alabama A methodical robotic approach by josh
or Justin Raley. All right, justin eight hundred dollars. I
named the player you tell me the college. It's open
for you as well, Tyler. Feel free to try to
answer eight hundred dollars Hakima laja on Justin Houston. Wow, Tyler,

(02:36:11):
what's are you tired? Tyler? What's going on here? I
just quick on the game? Okay. Last question in the
category for thousand dollars, I named the player you tell
me the college. Roberto Aguayo Tyler Tyler, liveline, Okay, Eddie
Eddie Garcia all right, I named the player. You named

(02:36:31):
the college, Eddie Roberto Aguayou. That was the kicker that
was drafted by the Buccaneers. I believe he went to
Florida State. It's on hard knocks. Do you want to
go that? Yeah? That's right? But is that enough? Is
that enough? Coop a little? But I don't think it is.
But I'm not good at math. Coop's doing the man.

(02:36:52):
It is, really it is. Justin has thirty six hundred
to Tyler's twenty four hundred. All right, very good. We'll
have final Balderdash. The category is Holiday h Year, and
we will say our goodbyes to weed Man Hippy as
he's about to leave us. We wish him the best,
and we hope that Weedman will send us a message
from the other side, because weed Man's about to find

(02:37:14):
out if there is another side, he'll find out before
all of us. We'll get to that and we'll do
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Nabob of negativity, Ben Maller, And back to Balderdash we go.

(02:37:37):
We'll say our goodbyes to weed Man Hippy, so let's
get back to it. We have Tyler in Southern California,
our defending champ who I thought was just getting destroyed,
but he got enough to stay alive against Justin in Cincinnati,
and the final Balderdash question on Fox Sports Radios Ben
Maller's show. The NBA announced their Christmas Day's schedule last month.

(02:38:00):
Which player has the career record for the most points
scored on Christmas Day. You can tell that Cooper Loop
wrote these questions. Yeah, he loves basketball, always working basketball.
And all right, So Tyler our Champ, who was trailing,
he wagered all twenty four hundred of his fake radio
dollars and he went with Lebron James. He went with

(02:38:23):
Lebron James. Justin who had thirty six hundred dollars, he
wagered twelve hundred dollars and his answer was also Lebron James.
The correct answer Kobe Bryant. But just what a disappointing finish.

(02:38:46):
But Justin, since he didn't wager all his money, he
put Tyler got into right. He could have, he could
have really done some damage there, but did not. And
so Justin, you're the new winner. Justin. I try, I try.
You sound so excited, you're so full of emotion. I
am tic. I just want to say, I just want

(02:39:09):
to say the weed man, enjoy the weed. The last
couple of days you'll be missed. Okay, thank you. Sounds
like Mitchell, doesn't. Justin sounds you've got that same laid
back Mitchell. It's one of our other callers delivery. All right,
weed man, here we go. This is it. We love you,
we wish you nothing but the best and uh and
I want you to send me some kind of message
if you don't make it through the hurricane. We've asked

(02:39:30):
you to leave roughly seven thousand times all night long.
You are you are refusing to leave. You are five
blocks from the beach, You're in South Beach, You're on
the first floor. The hurricane is about to hit, and
you are still refusing to leave. Bad job by you. Then,
my whole life is just about being happy in the

(02:39:54):
face of whatever life brings you. And I gotta tell
you those years that I lived homeless on the beach
and I woke up from the rain, I was listening
to you on the radio. And when I finally got
to a bench and got under an overhang sting, I

(02:40:15):
would listen to humors. That's very nice. And I appreciate
that you've been loyal to me over the years. I
don't want you to die. I've already lost Genie in Medford.
She can't I can't lose you. I don't have to
talk to regular people. I don't want that. I don't
want to be like everyone else and talk to regular people.
You're smash many. Sunday is the day of the hurricane's

(02:40:36):
really gonna hit, and it might last for twenty four hours,
and I'll be on the radio. Whisp you your phone
won't work. You don't understand, all right, Danny g. You
want to say any goodbye real quick? Anything you want,
weed Man. I sure hope that we don't hear you
in Cowboy's death report on Sunday and the Monday. We
don't want that, Eddie. I just want to say. I

(02:40:58):
just want to say real quick. Cool. You know, at
the top of the mountains, it doesn't matter when a
person peaks. It's just as long as you alright for
running out of time? Any final words by a condio
swede Man, all right, Coop, any final words to weed Man?
Love you, weed Man, toff tough alright man, get get

(02:41:23):
the hell out of there, weed Man, all right, Thank you, dude.
Not die in the hurricane. Weed Man, that's not right there.
Why would you do that?

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