Professor Maller Grades The Cowboys

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won't bear the lead. Dallas, Dallas. Last time the Dallas

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Cowboys won a Super Bowl. Let's see here, where was
I working? I wasn't working here. I was just starting out,
kind of the early days of my career long ago.
Last time the Cowboys had won a championship, and the
cycle of change, the coaching carousel spinning round and round
and mac. It's whack a mole, is what it is. Essentially,

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it's whack a mole with these fine coaching changes and whatnot.
Now Sean Payton was Sean Payton gonna be the coach
of the Cowbano, No, Sean Payton get the job. Didn't
talk to Sean Payton. Of course he's he's free now.
Because the Saints gagged again, bunch of choke artists in
New Orley had changed their name from the Saints to
the Choke Artist that's what they had to do in

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the Bayou, but not him, and Jason Garrett finally given
his walking papers over the weekend on Sunday, and then
on Monday, the Cowboys immediately, not wasting any time, the
equivalent of someone getting a divorce on a Thursday and
then on Saturday getting a shotgun wedding going down there

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at one of those drive through wedding places in Vegas.
And so today the Cowboys immediately hired their replacement for
the head coach, although technically Jason Garrett had been fired, whacked,
let go, relieved of his duties, whatever you want to say,
several days ago. But I assume you've heard by now.
If you've not heard by now, this store is almost

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twenty four hours old. If you've not heard by now, man,
are you doing a bad job and keeping up on
stuff going on in sports? But maybe not. There's always
that one person that doesn't pay that close attention. So
Mike McCarthy is set to become the ninth coach in
franchise history. Holy Barry Switzer, Batman, that's right, Mike McCarthy,

(03:39):
Chubby Mike McCarthy. Now there's a guy that works here
at Fox sports radio during the day, Dan Bayer, who
is a lookalike of Mike McCarthy. Dead ringer who dead
ringer for Mike McCarthy. So essentially they've hired a guy
or I don't know where colleagues here, but you don't
know who he is. And listen, if you listen at night,
you don't know who he has heard. Most of the day,
you don't know who I am. Anyway, Mike McCarthy, you

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lasted thirteen seasons in Green Bay, and the big selling
point of Mike McCarthy is that Super Bowl forty five victory.
The Packers fired him, I think it was week thirteen
of the twenty eighteen season. And now, much like a
certain type of disease, he is back. He has returned,

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and everyone has hot takes. Everyone's got a hot take
on this. So I would like to get in the
congo line of hot takes, and I'd like to give
you mine. So let's discuss. Now, if you were to
put a grade on the Mike McCarthy coaching hire for
the Cowboys, what grade would you give it. I'd like
to give Gridge because I am a professor of sports
talk radio, So I'm gonna give the grade to Mike

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McCarthy a C minus. Now I would like to give
a D. I would like to give an F. But
I'm going to give a C minus to Mike McCarthy. Now,
my thoughts, You've got puppeteering coat tails and hornet's nest,
and we will tie all of these things together into
hopefully a nice little dish of baba ganoosh. That's what
we're gonna try to do. Now, Hey, Jerry Jones, who

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it's like everything with the Cowboys and really everything in
the world, mostly politics, but also in sports. It's very polarizing, right,
Oh my god, this is some people are convinced this
is the greatest hire. Oh my god, Jerry Jones. What,
He's finally figured it out after fifty years owning the Cowboys,
He's finally figured it out, and he's being celebrated by

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a lot of the football media establishment, the upper crust
of media. They don't get denied credentials by the Seattle
Seahawks PR Department when they go to a game, the
one percenters, because you know, they can get by the
morons that work in the Seattle Seahawks PR Department. But anyway,
I so Jerry Jones being celebrated for this hire. I
don't understand why. Now, my position on this is kind

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of clear here. This is a safe hire. Mike McCarthy
has very low upside and no real downside. He's going
to be, at worst Jason Garrett two point zero. It's
an uninspiring higher. It's boring, lacklusters another word I would use.
Mike McCarthy is not really an upgrade over Jason Garrett.

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In fact, anybody that watched the Packers over those thirteen
years would argue, even with some legendary names at quarterback,
for the most part, the Green Bay Packers were as
dull as dishwasher. Under Mike McCarthy. They won some games,
but it wasn't the wild factor that Jerry Jones likes
to think that Cowboys provide the wild factor and the

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clear giveaway here, it's a dead giveaways that Jerry Jones
does not want to share the stage. Now we knew
this already, This is not new. Jerry Jones is the
de facto coach of the Cowboys. He has been essentially
coaching the Cowboys this entire time. Damn right. Not only
is Jerry the coach, he's the general manager, he's the
pr guy, he's the mouthpiece, you name it. He does everything.

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He'll even wash your car. He'll even wash your car.
That's how good Jerry Jones is. So he's going to
continue here his puppeteering ways. So really, when Mike McCarthy
is introduced at the Daists as the new coach of
the Cowboys, which will happen here soon, they really should say,
instead of coach, here's our new sock puppet. That's who
we have. We have a new sock puppet here. And

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every year Mike McCarthy coached in the NFL, he has
a player at quarterback. He's had a player at quarterback
who started the year going to the Hall of Fame. Right,
Brett Farves, Aaron Rodgers. Right, those are the quarterbacks Mike
McCarthy had in Green Bay. And not that the NFC
North is the weakest of weak divisions, but it's not

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like the Lions have been really good more than one
year out of five. And the Chicago Bears, even though
they were the darlings of the pun Ins here recently
to be a Super Bowl favorite, the Bears have mostly
been lousy over the last fifteen years or so once
in a while they have a good team, but for
the most part not so good. The Vikings have had
some decent team in that time. But the argument with

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McCarthy is that his teams, while they won some games
and got to the plos seeds the postseason, they underachieved
in the playoffs. It's not my opinion, it's a fact.
You know, it's been a decade. It's been ten seasons
since that Super Bowl forty five victory for Mike McCarthy.
So he's got a decade without one. And I'm not

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part of the Championship Defenders League. Maybe you are. I'm
not one of these people that sit around so well
you want to, Yeah, but he won a Super Bowl.
Yeah but yeah, but yeah but yeah but yeah but
yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah, yeah,
shove it up here, you know what, You shove it
up the wazoo. And I'm not talking about Washington State. So,
and there are plenty of coaches that are less than

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spectacular coaches who have won Super Bowls. I would like
to give you example a Gary Kubiak, who was the
coach of the Broncos when they won with the washed
up carcass of Peyton Manning, who had apparently run out
of the good stuff from that clinic in Indianapolis and
was just kind of going through the motions. At the end,

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they pushed the hospital gurney across the finish line. But
Gary Kubiak is a super Bowl winning coach. I'm sorry, Roberto,
but John Gruden. I don't think if John Gruden is
an all time great coach. John Gruden won a Super
Bowl in Tampa Bay. Brian Billick, Right, Brian Billick, nice guy.
We used to have him on the radio all the time.
Brian Billick won a championship in Baltimore. Seeing all time Gritton. Now,

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none of those guys who are immortal legend. Mike McCarthy's
on that list. The Green Bay Packers on watch We're
fortunate to even make the playoffs the season they won
the Super Bowl. At all these injuries, they overcame it
right when the examples teams use about next man up
and all that. Now part b here, Mike McCarthy built
his resume by doing what writing the coattails of quarterbacks,

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legendary quarters. Now that's I'm not disparaging it, but that's
the reality. We don't know whether Mike McCarthy can do
it without a legendary very quarterback. I mean I would
do the same thing if I was in his position,
because mean, why would you not. But you don't know,
You really do not know. You think you know, but
you don't know. And it works as a nice deodorant

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to hide that rancid smell. Now, that's in Vegas the
other day and right around the arena there where the
Golden Knights play, and we were I was walking around
about one in the morning, and there was a sewer
league at the Golden Knights had played the Flyers that night,
and there was a sewer league and the entire portion

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of the Las Vegas strip smelled like human feces. And
and so that could be Mike McCarthy, that could be
Mike McCarthy, right, That foul, rotten smell just horrific. Now,
even with the playoff appearances and all that, and in
the failures, many many failures, he often clashed with Aaron Rodgers.

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Roger Now, Rogers never respected Mike McCarthy from from Jump Street.
He was upset McCarthy bashed him while the forty nine Ers,
while he was with the forty nine Ers before the
famous draft slide by Aaron Rodgers. And I was a
big fan of Alex Smith. And and so now you
can say that, you know, Rogers is just a douche,

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And I might agree that I can't really rip McCarthy
because Aaron Rodgers doesn't even like his mom. Who doesn't
like their mom? I mean, come on, please, he didn't
hang out with his family and he's a lonely tone.
But however, all right, yeah, exactly, this does not excuse
the fatal flaw. And any man, woman, or child in

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Wisconsin who who was a stockholder for the Packers would
agree with me the decision making by Mike McCarthy, the
lack of in game adjustments or just adjustments in general,
which is a bedrock of coaching that ought to give
the Cowboys pause. All Right, we talked about it a

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lot here over the last handful of years. The Packers
have had numerous opportunities under Mike McCarthy in that run
to make deep playoff runs. They were often at home,
which means they were favored, and they failed numerous times
outside of the Super Bowl season. Mike McCarthy, I believe
he is six and eight in the postseason with head

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spinning losses to the Giants. As a fifteen and one
top seed in the NFC, the Packers found a way
to screw it up. They also blew a over two touchdown.
It was well with the extra point. It was two touchdown,
sixteen nothing lead they had in the NFC title game
against the Seahawks one year under Mike McCarthy. Those are

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some really agonizing defeats. Imagine if those happened with the
Cowboys be even bigger, being even a bigg video. All right,
last word here, So much of coaching, aside from the
XS and os, is what human relations. And now Mike
McCarthy has to show that he is not just a
byproduct of Brett Farve and Aaron Rodgers the gravy train.
He inherits a much worse quarterback. I think everyone knows

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that in Dakota Prescott McCarthy is going into essentially a
hornets nest. Now, when you fly into a hornet's nest,
you're gonna get stung. Dak Prescott, he's horn swaggled some
low information football fans into thinking he's a top notch
quarterback after this year. But not in these circles, not
in this part of town on this side of the tracks.

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We disagree. We absolutely disagree. He's about to pull off
a bank heist. That's the talk now that there's a
chance the Cowboys do the right thing and just give
him the franchise tag when that opportunity presents itself and
Dak Prescott ends up not getting the MEGAMEGAMEGA millions the
Texas lottery there, but he's gonna get paid a lot

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more money either way, whether it's the franchise tag or
whether or not the Cowboys just give him the riches
of Solomon to play quarterback. And while Dak Prescott certainly
put up better stats in twenty nineteen, upon further review,
they were empty numbers. He had monster games against bad
teams and turned in often feeble performances against the better teams.

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Dak Prescott in games decided by a touchdown or last
was o and five with four touchdowns and three interceptions,
with a passer rating which is very reminiscent of his
career numbers of eighty three point eight. The passer rating
there a pedestrian yards per attempt. But yet, when the
Cowboys played the week Sisters of the Poor and the

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Blind in the NFL. What Dakota was six and oh
against those teams in blowout games with sixteen touchdowns and
three interceptions. Did you see a trend here games decided
by fifteen or more points against the weaker teams? Of course,
and Mike McCarthy now the key thing here and a
big selling point on McCarthy's this guy will hide in

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the shadows. He's not an attention whore. He's not by
most accounts of DVA. He will provide boring news conferences,
much like the predecessor at Cowboys coach Jason Garrett. He
will allow Jerry Jones to be in the center of attention,
right right there in the center behind the microphone. And

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never great with young players. That was the other knock
on McCarthy, never great with young players. He has a
mixed Cowboy roster. It's not all young. It's not some
middle aged players, some players in their prime. It's a
mixed bag there with the Cowboys. And Mike McCarthy will
be predictable. He will coach conservative. He's not gonna do
you think he's gonna change all right? Does the does

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the lion? Does the zebra changes the stripes? I don't
think so, and I don't think that happens very often.
So you're gonna get a guarded, cautious to a fault
coach and you don't have to worry about him running
any red lights and going through any stop signs. Now,
that's it. McCarthy will get the standard thirty day grace
period all coaches get before we really unload and unleash

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the criticism here. But is he gonna evolve? Is he
gonna gonna grow as a coach? Mike McCarthy, it's highly
questionable for the Cowboys, and even with the big names, right,
this has all the ingredients of being a football catastrophe.
He's gonna directly report to Jerry Jones like every other
Cowboy coach. Now the questions, well, if not Mike McCarthy,

(16:15):
who should hire I'll tell you right now who the
Cowboys should have hired. There's two guys out there I
would have gone after. And I'm doing this because I
believe these names would have been better than Mike McCarthy.
Just take a swing, you go big, you go, Lincoln
Riley from Oklahoma or I would have brought in Urban Meyer.
Either one. I wouldn't touch Josh McDaniels, unless Bill Belichick
comes with Josh McDaniels. I wouldn't have touched Josh mcdame's,

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but I would have gone Lincoln Riley of Oklahoma or
Urban Meyer a Fox damn right, Herbert Maya. Now, a
couple of things. First of all, I'm a talk show host.
These guys would have been better for me, all right.
That's number and number two. We could have played the
Urban Meyer drop every day on the show, right, and

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then we would have met it like the cowboy victory thing.
When the Cowboys win, will play the Urban Miny thing,
much like that thing I did for the Raiders, right,
and we say, but when the Raiders win again, we're
gonna play the victory of the poetry from NFL films
that I did the Raiders. That's it, all right. It
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You're a humble sidekick, the voice of reason. I'm at
Eddie on Fox. It's so big. I don't think you
could really kind of get your mouth around it. I mean,
it's you know what I'm saying, and alive from the
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Eddie two days. First problem of twenty twenty for me

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two days when the back reset some computers Master control
here at Fox Sports, and it says disconnected from server. Reconnect,
but it will not allow me to reconnect the server.
So we are off the grid. Is essentially what I'm
saying here in this room. We are off the grid.

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So you have no computer, Well, I have a computer,
but my communication with the other room everyone's in their
own little cubicle here at the building. And so I
had two witnesses. I had Roberto and the Vegan, and
we went in the back there and we marched in there.
We paraded around, we went out the studio here, we
walked around, made a right turn and then and then

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a right into the master control room. We walked in there,
walked around a bunch of cables, the engineering department, and
left there. We walked to the back. I showed these
guys that said, here, you just hit this button, boom,
you reset it. We're good to go. Nothing could go wrong.
And then everything went wrong. Everything went wrong. Well, at
least the network is still running. I mean, I don't know,
are we on the air. Have no idea? Yeah we're good. Yeah,

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I have no idea. But let me let me point
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A lot of people complaining this is weird because half
the people heard the podcast and reacted to it. The

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other people on yesterday's show said, well, I can't hear
the podcast. I saw some of those tweets and was
confused as well. I was because some like I guess,
on some platforms people couldn't get the podcast. I don't
know what happened. I have no idea, but Lee was
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I don't know what. I have no control over that,
so just leave myself out of that, all right. It

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is the de Ben Malers Show on Fox. Let's see
Valls fan. Jimmy says, what was that disease you were
talking about that keeps coming back when you were referring
to Mike McCarthy. Then you can google just google it, Jimmy,
or go to web md. Go to web md. Fran
Rights and says, I'm back on nights, Ben glad to
have you back. Tell me how on earth did you

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get Homer Simpson to do the Urban Meyer drop. We
have our ways, and we're very powerful at this company.
We know, not as good though as my my Mantra
from Edin, Spokane, who led us through the streets of

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Seattle with Jay Scoop and me getting there and Christina
and everyone else that yes, don't need to do that.
It's it's okay. I don't need to do that at all.
So I loved when I was younger. I used to
be a show before YouTube took everything away, but they
had this show called TV Bloopers and it was on
every once in a while. I was always good. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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TV's bloopers and practical jokes. So we have an example
of that. And you'll like this story, Eddie, because it
involves hockey. I don't know if you saw this or not,
but have you ever watched an event and then been
fooled by replay? You know how, like you might be
kind of and they show a replay, Oh ah, we

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scarred and you didn't score, not that I know of,
but I have been burned before where I'll like rewind
to watch something over and then I forget to fast
forward to real time and then people are like texting me,
oh my god, can you believe that? I'm like, what
are you talking about? And then I realize I'm like
ten minutes behind where I you know what everyone else is. Yeah,
that sucks. That's annoying when that happens. Nobody likes that.

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So I bring this up because we had quite the scene. Now,
this is not an American story, but I think it's
still a great story. I think it's still a one. Yeah.
So this comes from from Russia where they were showing
a I guess this happened over the weekend. Here they
were celebrating. The Russian fans were celebrating here because they

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had played an old medal game, a gold medal game,
at the same time the current gold medal game was
going on it. Yeah, this was the World Junior Championships
of Hockey. Yeah, so these geniuses at this TV channel
in Russia said, you know this would be good. Why
don't we put what counter program for the Russian fan

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and we will put this game on And people were
watching and they did not realize. I guess maybe they
didn't put a chiron up on the screen saying, hey,
this is this is an old, old broadcast because people
were reacting like they had won, they had won the game,
and they were people were very upset by this, and yeah,
pretty funny. I saw one tweet apparently Vladimir Tarasenko plays

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with the Saint Louis, but he's injured right now, so like, oh,
he's got time to watch hockey. Apparently he started watching
it and then realized that he was playing in the
game on the TV and realized, I don't think this
is the right game. I don't think this is that's unfortunate. Yeah,
it wasn't even like last year. It was like from
like several years ago. Very odd. Yeah, yeah, but like

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I've been. I was last weekend or a couple of
weekends ago now, was in Seattle. We were watching the
game because I was banned by the Seahawks. That we
were watching the game on the boom Tube there and
I was talking or whatever, and I turned over and
occasionally I was I'm not gonna. I didn't admit to it,
but I was like, wait, that did that just happen?
Or no, it didn't just happen. That's old, all right.
Ben Malo show on Fox. We will get to the

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files of excuses and alibis. We'll get to that coming
up moment. Telly. We'll attempt to take some phone calls
as well, and the Wandering Man. We'll check in with
the Wandering Man. A person we've talked about on this
show who played in the NFL has decided to either
there's two ways to look at this. Either this person
has decided to use retirement as his life now or

(24:37):
has decided to become homeless. Tell me you're not excited
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dot com for a free right quote. So the Patriots organization,

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Sean pride themselves on accountability. Right do your job is
one of these slogans Bill Belichick has had over the years.
But in the offseason, Man, that's when other people chime in,
for example, a story out. We open up the files
of excuses and alibis. Tom Brady, who was not only

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a quarter of NFL, he was also very mediocre, very
mediocre this season with the New England Patriots. I think
everyone can agree. Even the biggest sycophants, Wayne from Southey,
who has a shrine to Tom Brady at his home,
there occasionally calls even he would have to admit this

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was not a masterpiece by Tom Brady. He was not. Now,
I can go to the stats if you want. I
don't need to go to the stats to tell you
the story of Tom Brady. I don't have to do that.
Tom Brady was the twenty second ranked quarterback in the NFL.
Jared Goff, who was slade by many as being incompetent,
had a higher quarterback rating than Tom Brady. Point me,

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but I bring this up because the people around Tom
Brady Brady wants to play some more, and so they've
decided to come up with some excuses. State run NFL media,
State run NFL media now is pulling out all the excuses,
and the mouthpieces for Tom Brady are out there in
the media and they're saying that not only did Tom

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Brady have tennis elbow, which I guess means he's not
going to be able to play the French Open or
something like that. But Wimbleman, but he had tennis elbow
that bothered him in this late in the season, and
he also had a foot injury that he suffered into semi.
These are two excuses made for Tom Brady and I.

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I don't hate the Patriots, but this is this is poppycock,
is what this is. Okay, this is absolute poppycock. And
let's stop. Okay, stop Brady. Blady sucked. Let's just call
like he wasn't very good. You say, it's not his fall,
that's the receivers and the running backs and all that,

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and that's fine. I might agree with you to a point,
but everyone in the NFL that played quarterback all year
at some point had something go haywire, something didn't go right.
It's just the reality of the situations. I don't want
to hear about it. I don't want to hear about, Oh,
Tom bradyer to wear different cleats and all this. Okay,
God forbid. I mean, you're not going to be completely

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healthy the entire season. That's not how it works. So
stop that. Now. As far as the wandering Man, we
have audio on this. We'll see if bo can cook
up the audio real quick. So this is an NFL
player who has announced now that his team is not
in the postseason anymore, didn't make the postseason, and this
particular player has decided I would like to live like

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a homeless person. I would like them to drive around
and sleep in an RV across the United States. And
that's what I'm gonna do. Or some would say the
retirement life and all that. But let's go to the
audio tape. Here's a starting quarterback in the NFL who
announced he has decided to go on the road. Hello
Gardner Minshew. Here, after a long rookie year, I've decided

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to take a step back recenter myself the only way
I know how, hopping in my brand new RB. Yeah.
We're in this great country. So if you're anywhere between
Jacksonville in LA. I want to hear from you, places
to see, anything, for free food to eat, people to meet.
Hopefully I see y'all out there on the road. But

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until then, keep it rolling. Yeah, now I realize you
can't see Gardner Minshew. There's a little video that we
took from his social media account, but he is wearing
cut off Jean shorts and he's wearing he looks like
the kind of outfit without the hat that Larry remember
the I don't think he's still und Larry the cable guy.
Remember that comedian from years ago, Eddie. I don't know

(28:59):
if you remember, but he kind of looks like that.
He's got to cut off. He's got to the classical
in parts of the South, the classical look that you
would expect. And the only thing that was amazing about
that whole video is he did not promote he said
here's my new RV from El Monte RV or something like.
He didn't say that. I was expecting a commercial like that.

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He was given the RV to drive across the country.
So should we invite Gardner Minshew to come in here
and hang out with us and the Uncle Rico of
the NFL. He can come chill and he's come in
to lay cool. Yeah, why not? Yeah? All right? Well,
if the militia want to let Gardner Minshew know that
he can come in here and do marginal overnight sports
talk radio, we will open up the doors here. We

(29:42):
will open up the doors here and allow him to
work out marginal quarterback in a marginal show. Perfect. Here
you go, match Man, and Evin Cassandra writes and says,
name a college coach beside Jimmy Johnson who made it
in the NFL. All right, let's go Barry Switzer won
a Super Bowl with the Cowboys. How about Pete Carol,
He's done pretty well. He was a college coach at
USC's done all right? From Barry he won a super Bowl.

(30:06):
He won a super Bowl. Yeah, you know, champion Barry Switzer.
He's a winner. It's an absolute winner. JJ from Renton
or formerly of Renton says, why is everyone saying that
that hit on Wentz from Clowney was a dirty hit?
That's crap because JJ, wearing his Seattle Seahawks hat while
sending that said he's a bas Come on now, I

(30:29):
don't think the hullabaloo from the Jadevian clown He play
was warranted. And again, if you're gonna get rid of
tackle in the football, then you're not gonna have that.
But if you have tackle football and bodies are moving around,
I think it's absurd. The same thing as like when
they were calling penalties when players were tackling quarterbacks and
landing on top of them, and they were calling penalties.

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It's it's all uh, it's all ridiculous anyway, heasily Ben
Mallow's Show on Fox Time. Now, we're gonna have the
NBA pick and we'll get to that in a minute.
Here's the who am I Game? That's where we pretend
to be somebody else. Thus the who am I? Game?
I hold the NFL record for the most passing yards
in my playoff debut. Now I would go on to

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play for four teams during my career. Again, I hold
the NFL's all time record for the most passing yards
in a playoff debut. I would go on to play
for four teams during my career. Who am I? The answer?
I'll tell you next. I told her what my state
is on that Why why? Be sure to catch live

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Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller. So we have a
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all have engineering degrees. We're just gonna reset every computer
in master control here until we find the right one.
What could go wrong? Right? You think Steve Harvey has
this problem across the hall, like he's got to get
us hands and knees and go through a bunch of

(32:17):
spider webs to reset computers. No, No, he might. I
don't know. Maybe he does. Maybe maybe he has that
problem across the hall. You know, it all looks new though,
the equipment of let's all new. I don't know. I
don't know what happened, But anyway, I will have the
NBA pick him. Coming up momentarily, Here's the who am I? Game?
I hold the NFL record for the most passing yards

(32:37):
in my playoff debut. I would go on to play
for four teams during my career. Who am I? That
is the question? What is the answer? Big Mac is
going with Doug Williams. Dave says hehaw is the answer.
Kenn O'Brien guest by Adam Randall. Cunningham tossed out by
light Who else do we have See page up, page up.

(32:58):
Brent Farve guests by Justin Doug Fluti from the Hoopster.
Craig in Pennsylvania is going with Vinnie testa Verde for
the who am I? Game? No Stredinis, says Jeff Garcia,
is the answer. That's a very chrisp answer from No Stredinas.
Who else do we have here? Page up, page up,
Urban Myer from ED in Spokan John David Moody tossed

(33:23):
out by Moonshine Trucker Joe. That's his guest, Vince Ferragamo
from while we a lot of guests were all over
the board here. Who else do we have here? Big
Lou when the LBC is going with Sam Kennison as
the answer, that's a relevant guest see here. Christine is
going with Ed from Spokane. That's Christina in Spokane who
has a tattoo of ED from Spokane on her body.

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That's that's not a fake tattoo, edy, she showed me evidence.
It's a real tattoo. It's the real deal. It's got
the Washington State outline on it, all right. Robbie the
Mariner fans going with Michael Vick is his answer, Eddie,
what say you? Let's go with Billy Joe Hobert. Tilly
Joe Holbert. That's a good name, and this name is
the same on that same level as that name. The

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NFL record for most passing yards in a playoff debut
is held by Kelly Holcomb, quarterback who played with the
Cleveland Browns, among others, but he did it with the
Browns in twenty o two. He in his playoff debut,
he passed for four hundred and twenty nine passing yards,
three touchdowns, an intercept. Of course. Yes, the Browns lost

(34:31):
to Bill Kawers to Bill Cower and the Steelers Cleveland,
as they always do, lost the game, and that you
know what he did in his next playoff game. Kelly
Holcomb's I don't know. He hasn't had another playoff game.
He's done, he's out. And he played with the Colts, Browns, Bills,
and Vikings, had an eight and sixteen record, thirty nine

(34:52):
touchdown passes, thirty eight interceptions, and he is the NFL.
He holds a record for most passing yards in your
playoff debut. That's his claim to fame. Congratulations, Kelly hog
did you get a like a ring for that, or
a watch, a trophy or something like that. Do you
get invited back to the Super Bowl to present some
kind of award or something. No, you don't get any
of that, right, just to mention on the Ben Mahler Show, Yeah,

(35:14):
that's right, that's all you need. Chet from San Diego
points out. He says, don't forget Tom Coughlin, Ben was
the head coach at Boston College before going to the NFL.
He did, Okay, Yeah, I've tried to try to avoid that.
Our friend Lavelle who's resting up before the twin season
starts next month. How about baseball next month in Florida,
in Arizona spring training? You're not exciting. Nope, pictures and

(35:39):
catchers are gonna report. Come on, the boys of spring,
the boys of summer are gonna be out. Yeah, it's
not waye Wilson option. We give the answer. All right,
let's get to it. Here we go. It is time
now for the NBA pick them. Were just gonna pick
three players. Whoever gets to the most Fantasy points we
will be declared the winner. Oh said NBA pick him.

(36:02):
I'm going first and I'm gonna take Why are you
going first, man, because it says on the list you
that I'm going first because I won because I'm the
smartest guy in the room. Yeah, according to both good
producing by both the show. I don't know how it happens,
how it works out. You get a Benetton here all
of a sudden, I win this. It's amazing. They're Matt
Bo's Maskulls are superior to Cooper Loop. Same with leta laugh.

(36:25):
All right, first pick, I'm gonna take Carl Anthony Towns
of the Minnesota Timberwolves. Eddie. That's a terrible pick. He's
gonna play Lebron James. Lebron James. I've been a good
pick ten years ago before he was washed up. Roberto
Lebron James, the best player in the NBA. Go the
second best player in the NBA. Anthony Davis, Baby like
your fanboy Radio, Bow the show, go ahead, Bow, John Morant,

(36:46):
John Morant, and one more, take your time, Paul, Chris, Paul.
All right, I'm gonna gonna pick ten years ago. Also Roberto,
Andre Drummond, Andre Drummond, Eddie, Damian Lillard. All right, the
board has hell. I'm gonna take DeAndre Ayton and I
will also take Let's see here, Pascal Siakam all right, Eddie,

(37:09):
Devin Book, Oh, Roberto, future Laker, Marcus Morris, everyone's a
future Laker. One's Kevin Love and Russell Westbrook in the
play my go Ahead Ball. Derek Ross, Derek Ross, Boy,
you you picked a lot. You picked Chris, Paul and Derek.
It's very good years ago. Yeah, yeah, I mean that
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very simple. So a lot of anticipation. Now, we learned
over the weekend that the football world would be focused
below the Mason Dixon line on Monday, specifically Tusca Looser.
There was a news conference that had been scheduled was
announced by I believe Adam Schefter and others there that
Nick Saban and to a Tongue of La we're gonna

(38:39):
be hanging out together schmoozing in a news conference. Would
he stay or would he go? Was the question. And
I don't know if you saw it. I knew that
the moment I heard Arnie Span You're on Fox Sports
radios say that he thinks that to a Tongue of
vlo was going back to Alabama. I knew right then
that he was gone. I knew right then the stinking

(39:00):
genius said that Toa was gonna go back to Alabama.
There was no chance. And if you missed it, yeah,
Alabama quarterback Toa tunguabay Loah is now a former Alabama quarterback.
He has put his name in to the pot for
the twenty twenty NFL Draft tongue of Vayaloa making the
decision official at not really a gala news come. It's

(39:22):
more like a social get together, having a cup of
tea and all that and hanging out. But it did happen.
He made his decision official. There and months and months
of chatter will he leave or not? Because he suffered
a dislocated fractured hip during that game against Mississippi State
way back in November. And now the debate is where

(39:45):
will toa tongue of baylah Land in the April draft
in Vegas. Now, at the beginning of the college football season,
there was one consensus. It was tanked for tah. Everyone's
it is guy's gone a be the number one pick
in the draft. Every draft nick, every genius said, this
is obvious number one overall, Right, no brainer, this guy's

(40:09):
given me the number one pick in the draft. Fine, okay,
But then they had to play the year, and obviously
we know what happened here. He's no longer projected as
the number one picked, not any more, because of the
emergence of other quarterbacks, mainly Joe Burrow, the LSU quarterback
in the Heisman winner, who is now ascended to the
top of the mountain to wear the silly clothes the

(40:33):
Cincinnati Bengals wear and to have that be the next
few years of his life. But it's all about tongue
of byloa here and the injury which certainly has pushed
him down. That we can all agree on that the
mock draft boards, which are about as close to meaningless
as you can possibly get. But let's discuss the question
did Tuah make the right call declaring for the NFL.

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Not only did he make the right call, it was
the only call that he could have made right thousand percent.
Now my observations, you've got the flower, gamesmanship, and spin
the wheel, and we will combine all these things together,
will lock them together like you were supposed to lock
your locker back in the day in high school. So

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number one, you don't play football at Alabama for the education. Now,
I am not here to attack the educational system at
the University of Alabama, but I am going to tell
you I think we can agree on this also, that
Alabama is not When you play football at Alabama, it's
not about boy, if I get that degree, it's like

(41:39):
going to Harvard. You know, you go to Harvard and
you get a degree at Harvard, and all those rich
people that graduated from Harvard give you a job and
then you're set up for life. Not quite the same
situation at Alabama. It is a football clearinghouse and to
a tongue of Ilola made a name for himself with
the Crimson Tide a couple of years back on the field,
and now he is set to cash in his chips

(42:00):
impro football. And while the injury is a bummer, it
certainly undermines the top of draft status that he would
have gotten. This is not an unmitigated disaster that some
are trying to say, Oh, this is doom and glow up. No,
not even place stop now. NFL teams, at least what

(42:20):
they say publicly, don't seem to be overly worried and
concerned about the long term viability of tongue of boy
lower based on his latest injury, and that is apparently
one of the main reasons we're told he decided to
clare for the draft. He talked to the NFL, some
of the executives in the NFL. They said, listen, we
look at this like a knee injury. Now, I don't

(42:42):
know how that's possible. You're talking about a fractured hip.
I think that's a bigger deal than a knee injury,
which is like an assembly line there with treating these
knee injuries. Now along those lines, Tah and there's no
way to avoid this. Can't beat around the Alabama quarterback,
to a tongue of boy lower has been injury prone.

(43:03):
In fact, if he was a flower, he would be
a delicate little flower. That would be what to a
tongue of our lower would be. He has been hurt
every year in college. Every year someone's popped up. He's
had surgery, I believe, on both ankles. Now he's got
the hip issue that he had a medical procedure for.

(43:23):
So if your body is so fragile that it cannot
handle the Southeastern Conference, how is it going to handle
professional football with adults and people who are much bigger,
and everyone's huge and Alabama they play a lot of
ridiculously horrific opponents in the non conference and then the SEC.

(43:47):
There's obviously good players in the SEC, but not every
team is loaded with NFL players. There's maybe a couple
of players on each team in the SEC that will
go on and play in the NFL. So he couldn't
handle that. How's he going to do in the NFL?
That's an open question. Now, some overly cautious NFL executive,
some paranoid teams will absolutely downgrade and ostracize to a

(44:09):
tongue of Byloa, say he's damaged good, but just the same,
someone will pick him in the first round of the draft. Now,
in Layman's terms, he's got too much talent not to
take a flyer on at the most important position in
the field. The guy completed over seventy percent of his
passes this year, had thirty three touchdowns, three interceptions. He

(44:30):
played nine games. Now a lot of those were against
the hostess schedule, but still thirty three touchdowns, three interceptions.
Pretty deep, pretty good. Now. The second the second thing here,
my advice, all right, make sure both puts those up
so I know what we have. Both can do that.
But but my advice to a tongue of Byloa is

(44:52):
to use draft gamesmanship. Right, you have your agent leak
some convenient time stories about setbacks and the recovery from
the hip injury. What you do here is you take
advantage of the gullibal. You take advantage of the gullibal
who will then not draft tongue of Baylola because they'll say, oh,

(45:14):
we can't draft him because he had a setback and
we don't know if he'll ever be able to hit
football because the old saying, as it goes the end
justifies the mean. Right. So if Tongue of Bylola plays
his cards right, he can Jerry Rigg the NFL draft
the way Kawhi Leonard Jerry Riggs the NBA regular season schedule.

(45:35):
All right, pick and choose where you want to play
and where you don't want to play. It's the NBA way.
Well he can do it in the NFL. Now, I'm
okay with this. Before you're drafted. Once you're drafted, you
gotta go play for the team to drafts you. That's
how it works. It's the it's a fogazee system, but
that's how the NFL does it. But but let me
explain this to you like you're five years old. It's
very straightforward. Tua embellishes the injury people around to a

(45:59):
plant store. As I said that, he's he's had setbacks,
he's not where he wants to be, and but he
does here is he allows the teams he wants to
play for to know what's really going on, the art
of deception, and he's able to dodge the misery, the
agony of playing for the ben Gals and those type

(46:21):
of teams, the dormats. He can hand pick his new
team and do it before the draft even gets started. Now,
sure you lose a little money on the front end,
but you make that up on the back end. You
have a longer career and a winning environment. Joe Burrow
is going to walk into a white hot tire fire

(46:41):
in the Cincinnati Bengals facility. That's what's going to happen,
and Tua can move on up to a deluxe apartment
in this guy, he says, though, here's two In his
own words, he says, O listen, I am focusing on rehab.
That's what I'm all about right now. One word rehab.
I'm just folks sing on my rehab. I just sold

(47:01):
as far as now with all the teams and you know,
deciding if I'm going to do anything physically, you know,
we'll decide that with our athletic training staff and then
you know with what the doctors have to say about that. Yeah,
now I referenced this, but the rumor going around is
that the NFL has told to uh, hey, this this
hip injury, which you know it's no big deal. And

(47:22):
to confirm that he said, this is what he's hearing
from the NFL, A lot of the guys, you know,
the general managers, the owners that I've got to talk to,
said the same thing, And they kind of look at
this injury as like a knee injury almost, although it's not,
you know in a way that Okay, are we going
to take a chance on this guy? Or would he
be able to possibly do a pro day before the

(47:42):
draft and whatnot? And really the biggest thing they want
to do is just see that we can you know,
move and we can just be back to how we
were playing prior to the injury. A couple of things.
Number One, it seems like Ta has the inability to lie.
He's very very honest. It's odd and he's gonna have

(48:04):
to change that. In the NFL, right, everyone lies, everyone's
pinocchio in the NFL. Number two, is he gullible? Here
is he the one that's gullible to uh that he's
believing what these NFL people are telling him, selling him
a bill of goods? Here is he the dope? We'll
find out. We will absolutely find out. Final points. So
let's spin the wheel of speculation. Where should to a

(48:28):
tongue of our law try to position himself to play
in twenty twenty. The greatness of the Raiders. They're on
the list, but they're not at the top. I've got
the Patriots at number one now. Following Tom Brady is
a real buzzkill. I get that you don't want to
be the guy that follows the legend. That's the old

(48:48):
argument in sports, but it doesn't always go against you.
Look at Steve Young, who followed Joe Montana years ago
with the forty nine, of which that's about the only
example I have, But but he turned out to be
a Hall of Fame quarterback the Niners back in the day,
and so he had a lot of success. But the Patriots,
assuming Belichick doesn't retire himself, they've built up this winning

(49:09):
culture and all that stuff. They get to play a
bunch of soft teams in the AFC East. It will
be very reminiscent of the Southeastern Conference and many of
the team's Alabama plays in the non conference. And we
know Bill Belichick and Nick Saban are besties, right. Belichick
has this infatuation with Crimson Tide players and worships Nick Saban,

(49:31):
and they have this mutual admiration society which I find nauseating. Now,
the Patriots, because of their failures at the end of
the year, shout out lost to Ryan Fitzpatrick and the Dolphins.
The Patriots have the twenty third pick in the draft,
number twenty three. Now, that's not where you'd like to be,
but it's certainly in position whereof Tua comes tumbling down

(49:55):
like shoots and ladders and goes down, then there's an
opportunity there for the Patriots to swoop in and get him,
and then Brady leaves as a free agent, goes play
somewhere else, and then presto, you have your quarterback. Into
a talk about Lowell. Now, the other possibilities of the Raiders.
The Raiders have the number twelve pick, and thanks to

(50:17):
the Chicago Bears and the Kalil Mack trade, the number
nineteenth pick in the draft. They certainly are not married
to Derek Carr. The Dolphins there are another possible, but
a lot of people think the Dolphins are gonna be
the team that to A goes to because they wanted
him before the year. Now they can get him and
they don't have to trade up to get him, most
likely unless somebody else swoops on up. The Dolphins have

(50:39):
the fifth pick that's their own, the eighteenth compliments of
the Pittsburgh Steelers, and they also have the twenty seventh
pick compliments of the Houston Texans in that fine trade
for the offensive lineman that the Texans pulled off. Now
Jacksonville is also on this list. Now, I hope they
don't do this because they got Gardner Minshew Minshew Man.

(51:00):
But they have the ninth pick and the number twenty
pick compliments of the Rams and the Javan Ramsey trade.
Are you keeping track of all this? You're not keeping
track of who else? How about the Chargers? Carolina also
in them? There are possibilities there, and it really deter you.
It's up to two and the people around him, his
posse to decide where is the best situation for two

(51:23):
a tongue of Vyloa going forward in the NFL. But
this could very well work out as a net positive
in the long game for the now former Alabama quarterback
Ernie the Great Opina Rights, Since says Ben, what's the
chances of the historically pathetic and curse Detroit Lions drafting
to a tongue of Aloha? And then he becomes another

(51:45):
dark old bust here at Detroit. Well, Ernie, here's what
I'll say on that. My my take on the Lions
is if they draft to a tongue of Iloa, he
will be in a wheelchair, is what he's gonna be.
I'll have to roll him out if like wheelchair football unfortunately,
because yeah, he will not be able to bounce back.
All right, let's go to the phones and any meany

(52:07):
miney mall. Let's go to Ben, who's in Louisville. What's
going on? Ben? Hmm see here hear movement. He's not there.
So we'll go to John and Missoo. You gotta be
be ready, John and Missoo. He's got some yeah, real talk,
real talk. I am to give you some real talk. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Hey.

(52:35):
But by the way, now now before you get started here, John,
I just remembered my friend Jay Scoop, the Great Mallard
Militiaman and Meghan. They have an extra like Seahawks flag
that they got they were the Seahawks glass home game
and they say they want to give it. They want
to donate it to a big Seahawks fan who's listening
to the show. Are you a big Seahawks fan, John,

(52:57):
I am not You're not all right, so you're not eligible.
So I brother, Well I don't know your brother. You know,
does your brother live in New York? No, No, he
doesn't live in New York and called radio shop. Yeah

(53:19):
all right. So anyway, when somebody wants the Seahawks flag,
if you're a big fan of the show and you dazzle,
us will help Jay Scoop contact. Not you. I'm talking
to the listeners. I love the Green Bay Packers. What
I love the Green Bay Packers? You what you want
a trophy? You want a cookie? You chocolate chip cookie? Well, hey,

(53:39):
I did. I did earn a golden jake and I
haven't cast it in yet. Well those expire. I thought
we reset the golden ticket. Yeah, January first resets. Yeah.
Oh boom yea. I come to get here. Earlier in

(54:02):
the show, I heard you say Aaron Rawders is a douche.
Now I'm here to say he is not a douche.
He is a great How do you know he's not
a douche. I didn't say it was a bad football player.
I just said, as a human being, he's a douche.
That's what I said, what's wrong with that? Well, how
do you know that he's a dude? Because I read

(54:23):
the tabloids. I believe everything I read in the tabloids.
That's why if they write it in the tabloids, I
believe it. He disavowed, he disowned his family. Mom and
dad had to go and get tickets some other players
in green on the secondary market. Now, Hey, I me
and him agree on the mamie. I mean, I mean,

(54:44):
I'm not really like liking mym am right now, So
I don't blame wrong. What did your mom do wrong?
What happened with your mom? What's about that? She being
a douche? You love the word douche, your favorite word. Yes,
all right, so you've got oh, that never goes well?

(55:07):
You know that never goes well. The one more thing,
Oh my god, I'm sure I'm sure you read about
the the red salt workers. I was accused of a
of attacking people backing Judy. It's twenty six of salt.
I think that's embarrassing for the If you're if you're
going in there and beating up people, you gotta get

(55:29):
out of here. Well, somebody needs to have their ass
kicked every once in a while it needs to. But
I don't know. Listen, I don't know who that person is,
but whatever, I'll probably be arrested. It's I don't think
it's anybody we've ever heard of. So all right, I
thank you. If I'm going no way there, It's just

(55:49):
what I needed. Turns out another reminder that denial ain't
just a river in Egypt. We'll get to that. We'll
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(56:58):
third degree mentioned and that denial ain't just a river
in Egypt. As the old line goes, well, we have
a Houston Astros cheating update. I've been waiting for this
first one since I've come back here. And the Astros,
those dirty, rotten scoundrel Astros, those cheating bums from Houston.

(57:22):
Sound of a. J. Hinch, I believe that was working
his magic there. So the Astros who used all kinds
of techniques to cheat, to illegally gain it'll be gotten
gains the twenty seventeen World Series. I don't think it's
even an open question. I think it's a it's an

(57:43):
open and shut case at this particular point. So some
of the other Astro players have recently chimed in on
these allegations of electronic signs stealing. Astro shortstop Carlos Korea
over the weekend admitted that he has met with Major
League Baseball's investigators about all this. Karea, the shortstop of

(58:09):
the Astros, so he's met with some of the investigators.
He appeared on an autograph show with Alex Bregman and
George Springer, and do you think when they were signing
autographs they whistled while they signed the autographs, so they
banged trash cans while signing the auto How great would
it be if you showed up with a trash can
lid like an Oscar the Grouch trash can lid? And said, Hey,

(58:31):
can I get Bregman and Springer and Kirea to sign
that as a commemorative trash can lid? That would be great.
But Karea didn't seem all that worried about the accusations
made against the Astros in twenty seventeen. Now, the most
outrageous quote came from, of all people, Joe Musgrove, who said,
a pitcher, he said, everyone hears that we cheated, and

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they hear that it was the whole trash can deal
going on. The Astros players said the picture from back
in the day, But no one sees the work that
we were putting in every day to prepare ourselves to
give ourselves an advantage. Yeah right, you know what that
sounds like. That sounds like in the heyday, back when
we were doing steroid radio with Bonds and McGuire and

(59:18):
the Defenders. Well he might be doing steroids, but yeah,
but he's you know, he's still gonna work out. You
just don't put a needle in your ass, and all
of a sudden hit seventy home runs. There's some some
work that has to be done there, I mean, my
goodness here, right, Yeah, there was a start. I don't
know that stat is exactly, but I believe in twenty
fifteen and twenty sixteen the Ossals were had the worst

(59:39):
strikeout strikeout to walk ratio. I believe it was or
something like that, and then all of a sudden in
twenty seventeen, yeah, they were the best. So the way
I read the story here in the quotes from Karea
and Musgrave, Karrea admitted it and was upset with Mike
Fires for being a snitch. He was the one that
spilled the beans. Mike Fires to the Athletic and Musgrave

(01:00:03):
also admitted it, but said, hey, we still you know,
we worked really hard. We worked really hard. So criminals
work really hard to you know, you to rob a
bank and to be a successful criminal, you really have
to work hard at It's not easy, right, all right,
it is the The Ben Ravens Show on Fox. Will
run through some more phone calls. We also have Mallard
or the Third Degree coming up here momentarily, and plenty

(01:00:25):
of your comments on Twitter at Ben Mallard if you'd
like to be part of it, at Ben mallin Nostredinas.
As Aaron Rodgers broke up with Olivia Munn, a total
douche move from Nostredinas. That's his answer. People like that
I referenced Shoots and Ladders. Several people have sent in
little references to Shoots and Ladders, the board game from

(01:00:48):
back in the day. The kids still play board games
these days. No, only when they're little, enforced to by
their parents. Right once, once they learn how to play
video games, it's over. Mike Murder, you got a young daughter. Yeah,
but she's into music, man, that's all like twenty four
seven really music every day. Yeah, she's gonna be a
big music star when she gets next. Shakira. Yeah there
you go, Selena. Oh yeah, hopefully not longer. Yeah, exactly.

(01:01:17):
All right. We will get to mallow the thirty gree
of these phone calls as well, but right now, let's
go over to Eddie and he'll get your caught up
on everything going on overnight in sports and bend. The
two big stories on Monday came from football. First, in
the NFL, Dallas Cowboys apparently finding Jason Garrett's replacement, and
it's reportedly Mike McCarthy, who previously was the head coach
of the Packers. Hey, what does Jason Garrett do? Does

(01:01:39):
he get a TV job like everyone else and tells
us how smart he is doing television? So I thought
the Giants wanted him? Guess not? Uh doubt it. Well anyway,
from McCarthy. He won the Super Bowl with Green Bay
in twenty eleven, had a one twenty five, seventy seven
and two record in thirteen seasons with the Packers, made
the playoffs nine times, had ten playoff victories under Jason Garrett.

(01:01:59):
In nine seasons a boy, he has had two playoff wins.
College football Alabama star quarterback two a tongue of VLOA
announcing he is leaving school following his junior year to
enter the NFL draft. He's projected as a first round pick,
but he's also coming off a dislocated hip injury that
required surgery. He burst out of the scene. In twenty seventeen,
coming off the bench, de Raley Alabama to a national
title game victory. Finishes his college career with eighty seven

(01:02:20):
touchdowns and eleven interceptions in thirty two games. He was
the runner up for the Heisman Trophy. Last season college football,
we have the granddaddy of them all, the Lending Tree Bowl.
Believe it or not. On Monday, we had a football game.
What are they gonna play? The championship games? A week?
How many weeks waiting? Championship game? Louisiana Lafayette to beat

(01:02:40):
to Miami of Ohio twenty seven to seventeen. The Rage
in Cajuns one of the better nicknames in college I've
got the ratings Seri eddires eleven and three. Three and
a half people watched that game. Three and a half.
In college basketball, we had one top twenty five teen
in action number seventeen. West Virginia beat Oklahoma State fifty
five to forty one. Online car shopping can be confusing,
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I bet. I'm guessing you probably missed this, but we
had our sixth head coaching change in the NHL. Who
is the latest coach to be fired? Did you see this? Yeah?
The Nashville Predators lost the hockey Eddie Who Peter lava

(01:03:22):
Lette had been the head coach in Nashville since twenty fourteen,
two hundred forty eight, one forty three and sixty record.
They had made the playoffs every season he'd been in Nashville,
including making to the Stanley Cup Final in twenty seventeen.
But this season the old what have you done? People? Nately,
they are one of the bigger disappointments in the NHL.
They're in sixth place in their division, being one of
the preseason favorites to make it to the Stanley Cup

(01:03:42):
Final out of the West, and they're five points out
of wild cards. But nineteen fifteen and seventh the record.
So Peter lavia let he go Nashville Predators. All right,
good luck to him. I'm sure he'll get hired and
all these guys problem cycled again. That's what happens. It
is the Ben mallershell. Great news. There's a quick, an
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the phones. We go. And I think that's a degree
of difficulties been cranked up here. I'm not looking for
some kind of award. Let's go to I think line
two and we don't have line one. I don't think
line six is working very well, but line two is working.
Hello Christopher, the astro's PR man who is on in Houston.

(01:04:27):
Hello Chris in Houston. Now I was gonna say welcome
back and happy New Year. Thank you very kind of
you to say that. No, you like you know what?
What do you know what? I called James Harden and
Russell westbrig tweeter, don a TWEETO do but YouTube? Hold
a case, wait for something that I got quotes right

(01:04:48):
here sticks that quote I got quotes from man. No,
I'm not. It's actually spaghetti. The reference is spaghetti on
the wall. To see what sticks. That's the reference. Get
it right, But you throw a right because life don't
well neither the spaghetti usually stick to a wall. All right,
But anyways, Carlos Correa is a member of the twenty
seventeen Astros. He says the title is not tainted. He

(01:05:10):
got upset with Mike Fires for being a snitch, right,
that's a sign of guilt. And Musgrave's like, well, yeah,
but we worked really hard. He sounds just like Barry
Bonds and Mark McGuire and all the steroid guys black
a million years ago. That was Luno was taking the dump?
What you were? Rovert though, And I'll tell you musgro

(01:05:33):
I gotta what is stalk about? Must grow? Are you
know how the teams have that pre game, that preseason,
before the season start, they have the fan Fast. Yeah,
well Musgrove was at the fan fast, but the Astros
two years ago before he was traded. He was traded
the date of the fan fast, like while the fan
fast was going on, Like he was shaking hands and everything.

(01:05:53):
They had to take him off the field because he
just got traded. Like good sucks man. Hey, he sounds sick.
You should tried garlic. Don't sound sick, you said, Doesn't
he sound like he's got a cold? Yeah he does.
You're a little congested. Well, I'm one this bluetooth. My
wife gave me so oh your big time on the Bluetooth?

(01:06:15):
Look at that? Did you get that for Christmas? So called?
You know what'd you get? Older? You barely man, we
don't get I know I have noticed that as I've
aged that the gifts have started to suck as I've
gotten older. There. But the cool thing is when you
get older you can just if you have the money,
you can get what you really need. You know, when
you need it. You don't have to wait till a
birthday or a holiday or something like that. So now

(01:06:35):
I've been but I've referenced this earlier on my on
my show about Mike McCarthy. I'll look at that, look
at him promoting his showing sliding in a promotion for
his show look at You You're Dirty Dog. But the
equivalent to Mike McCarthy equivalent that to a handshake, it's
like a sloppy fish hands that one of them flopping

(01:06:57):
fish handshakes, like it's just not that stern hands they
wanted and they're just gonna get this black just I mean,
Mike McCarthy is like blad, it was just not no,
it's just gey Joe slipping well Jerry Jones wants to
continue to be in charge. He doesn't want to. This
is a safe, it's a safe. He's racist. Why is
he racist? And he's racist? How is he ra black candidates?

(01:07:20):
Why didn't Chris Mark interview Margaret Lewis they interviewed him.
They want to Dan Green dead in the cemetery somewhere unfortunately. Yeah, okay, yeah,
bring him in there. This shit about huge? What's not not? Yeah?
Who Hugh Jackson the old Brown's car trip? No, yeah,

(01:07:42):
he bring it here. Here, take an interview. You know
he liked taking free hotel trips. Hugh's got He's got
a big smile all the time. He's happle him. Can't
do it. Thanks for Josh Allen for being an idiot.
I know you are. You are so you are so lucky, Chris.
Without Josh Allen giving that game on a silver platter

(01:08:04):
to the Texans, we are mocking Bill O'Brien. We are
goofing on the Texans and the fact that they were
shut out in the first half by Buffalo and they
had I think eight points going to the fourth quarter
of that game, seventy five percent of the game. To
Sean Wasson was completely ineffective at getting the ball down
the field, score points, and he gets bailed out. It's
like a government bailout by Josh Allen bail out of

(01:08:27):
what you could college shall feel very sated. Bit. The
Texans do not have any type of blitz pickup. They
don't know what blitz tickup is. Like, I mean the
shot gut hit seven times, that's sex sevens her up. Dude,
that's pathetic. They don't running backs three hill. Well, you
traded two first round picks to solve your offensive line though,
Come on, christ Chris got so excited he said, where

(01:08:56):
you're not supposed to say, uh oh, that's great. That
is a wonderful thing. You know, it's not one of it.
Did anyone see the video of Joellen beads finger mangle
the finger I saw? Oh, Mike, once you see it,

(01:09:16):
you can't un see it. Oh, I gotta see it
and then I'll retweet it. Yeah, that's just what people
want to see. Did it really bother you that much?
It was pretty nasty. Jason Pierre Paul right, his finger
was bent the wrong way there. Well, Jason Pierre Paul
does take the cake. But but I think of the
not to do list radio. But athletes I've known over

(01:09:37):
the years that have had terrible looking finger. Ronnie Lott
cut off the tip of his finger famously with the
forty nine ers. Back in the Tory Holt the old
Saint Louis Rams were you're seeing photos of his finger.
It's it's bent like this. You can't see because i'm radio.
In high school, I had a teacher who played in
the NFL back in the day, and he had his
fingers are all broken. Yeah, Chris Paul actually of Oklahoma City,

(01:10:01):
he's got some mangled fingers. Oh, I just looked at
the photo. Oh, let's see. Uh, pretty nasty. Tory Holtz though,
I think number one the all mangled finger team of
professional sports. But like if you, I've messed around dislocated fingers,
but I've never had it where like it's pointing the

(01:10:22):
wrong direction that much. You know. That was just brought
All right, spend Maller's show on Fish. We're gonna get
to Mallard of the third degree. Get to that coming up.
Here's the Insta trivia. Vince Carter recently became the first
NBA player to play in parts of four decades. Vinceanity
as He was nicknamed from the great Chuck Swarski, the

(01:10:44):
now voice of the Bowls, who used to be the
radio voice of the Toronto Raptors back in the day.
But Vince Carter the first NBA player to play in
parts of four decades. There have been twenty nine baseball
players have played over the years in four decades, twenty
nine that have done it. Blank was the last major
league player to appear in four decades. That's the question,

(01:11:07):
the answer and Mallard to the third degree, we'll get
to that. We'll do it next. Be sure to catch
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I live from the Guico Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's
Ben Maller time. Now for the instant trivia. So Vince
Carter became the first NBA player recently to play in
parts of four decades, Vinceanity. There have only been twenty

(01:11:51):
nine baseball players to do it. I guess that's a lot.
Baseball has been around since the eighteen seventies or whatever
it was. So Blank was the last baseball player to
play in four decades? That's the question. What's the answer?
Ron Swoboda guests by Ernie the Great Opiter, Tim Wakefield
from Dante see here, Tony Parker from The Burner. Craig says,

(01:12:14):
who is Dennis Oil? Canboyd? I endorse the Ben Malla
Show from the Camel City in the Carolina's Doug Mencavage
guests by Robin Minnesota, the man that split time for
the Twins with David Ortiz back in the day, The
Incredible Hulk guests by Jiggie Redd and McCombs tossed out

(01:12:35):
by mc Carlos Beltron from Will Wild Thing. Rick Vaughan
was guest by mediocre Kabuki David and a couple other people.
Got this right? Manic Mike also got it right? Bad
job by you? Who else do we have? He did?
I say, Jay Scoop with White hursag. I think I
did say that. Who else do we have? Anthony Munio's finger?

(01:12:58):
Guests by Justin And since Daddy, Justin, guess which finger
I'm gonna give you for that sending me that photo?
Screw you? Who else? Graveyard Sea's got Don Manningley's sideburns
less Nessman from Cardiac Stanley eight TV Radio Legend les
Nessman Robin Vegas is going with Greg the Hammer Valentine

(01:13:18):
as his answer who else do we have? Here? His
page da happen are? Do you have an answer? Eddie? Please? Oh? Yes?
The kung Fu Panda fine fine guests unfortunately sent correct
the correct answer. Omarvesskel Omarvi Skels shortstop for Cleveland Seattle
a bunch of other teams in twenty twelve. The same year,
in twenty twelve, Jamie Moyer, who played from nineteen eighty

(01:13:43):
six to twenty twelve. He also played in four decades
there for the I think what was it? The mariners
at the industry. All right, let's get to it. Here
we go. It's Meller. How about that? To the third degree?
This is one gets squill and it is brought to
you by Discovered card. We treat you like you treat

(01:14:04):
you bow to show what do we have here? Bo? Okay,
So let's get to it. The Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes
are expected to reach an agreement on a contract extension
this offseason. Yeah, Ben, will Mahomes be the first ever
two hundred million dollar man in the NFL? All right?
So originally I thought yes, But doing some mallor math,
I do not believe that's the case. If he gets
the contract this offseason, it's not going to happen. Hey, Mahomes,

(01:14:25):
He's gonna be a wee bit short here. The way
the contract game works in the NFL, each contract the
quarterback gets goes a little bit higher. So assuming that
model continues and Mahomes is next, he will get more
than Russell Wilson, who had one hundred and forty million
dollars thirty three and a half million per season. That's
a good neighborhood to be it, so I would expect. Secondly,

(01:14:46):
Mahomes will get like one hundred and fifty million dollars,
which is also not a bad place to be. He's
twenty four, I believe now. I think that's his age.
Mahomes can sign a four year deal for like one
hundred and fifty two million, get thirty eight and a
half million dollars a year from Kansas City, and then

(01:15:08):
would be a free agent again by the time he's thirty.
So get another one hundred and fifty or two hundred
million dollars if he's good. So he's gonna break the bank.
He's got a chance. Mahomes a good chance of becoming
the all time highest paid player in NFL history by
the time he's done. All right next, The Lakers have
shown a recent willingness to listen to trade offers for

(01:15:29):
forward Kyle Kuzma. What do you think the trouble in
the Mudsville there not? All's right there? Yeah? Do I
think that he's going to be traded. I think they're
gonna try to trade him. Do I think he's actually
gonna get traded? I think the odds are low. Number
one Lebron James. He's got to do something here because
Kyle Kuzma spit a lugi at Lebron through his trainer.

(01:15:54):
Lebron's gotta I don't know if you know this an
enormous ego what most people do, and they don't want
someone to trash them and all that So the problem
the Lakers have his Kuzma is making peanuts by NBA standards.
So in order to trade Kuzma and get anything in return,
you're gonna have to throw in Avery Bradley and Rajon
Ron though, who's actually not making much. But some other

(01:16:14):
players on the team are gonna be have to thrown in.
You're not gonna get Kevin Love or CJ. McCollum. The numbers,
the salary cap numbers don't work out. But the writing
is on the wall for a separation situation with Kyle
Kuzma and the Lakers, if not this year. In the
off season, his trainer bashed Lebron James if you missed it,
essentially calling him King Fony and praising Kawhi Leonard for

(01:16:38):
his work ethic and his smarts and all that stuff.
And it's like the Godfather, never tell anyone outside the
family what you're thinking, right, You're learning that in The Godfather.
All right, next, All right, So, as we all know,
the Cowboys have hired former Packers head coach Mike McCarthy.
Ben are he surprised that they didn't make a serious
run at Saints head coach Sean Payton. I am not.
Because Sean Payton's got a good thing. Why would he
leave New Orleans? Right? He would be the village idiot

(01:17:01):
to leave the Saints. He almost got, but he didn't.
He has close to complete control in New Orleans. Right,
He's pretty much the boss of the football operations there.
He's treated like a god. He continues to be out
coached in playoff games, his team crumbles because of officiating,
and he's able to get away with it. The fans

(01:17:22):
in Louisiana put up with it now. Secondly, unless Peyton's
childhood dream was to coach the Dallas Cowboys, it never
made sense because Jerry Jones is never going to give
up the power, right, never going to give up the power.
And so Sean Payton doesn't have to worry about being

(01:17:43):
subservient to Jerry Jones or anybody else. Jerry is the
overlord or the Cowboys, and that's the way it's always
going to be. Sean Payton's the overlord of the Saints,
and that's the way it is until they get rid
of him. All right, there, it is Mallard to the
third and read both the show how did we do?
All good answers? He won that is he winning. Don't
play the foots, play the cheers. People like winners. I

(01:18:09):
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from Super Bowl runner up to watching the playoffs on

(01:18:30):
the boom Tube. The Los Angeles Rams have fallen on
hard times. After reaching close to the top of the mountain,
things not obviously going well the Rams. They came tumbling
down here back there like a like a failed rocket launch,
just did not go well, like some space junk. And
now the other shoe has dropped. And I assume you've

(01:18:53):
connected what I've said so far and you figured this out.
But maybe not the Los Angeles Rams, who had a
defense last year that ranked ninth overall in one of
the key categories. It depends on what stat you look at.
You can find positive stats, you can find negative stats
on the Rams defense. But Wade Phillips, I don't know
that he was really fired more than relieved of his duties.

(01:19:16):
His contract ran out, and the Rams have decided to
not to not to give him another contract for the
age of seventy two. Wade Phillips is out skis and
he was not the only one. The Rams also fired
Bill Johnson, who is one of the defensive assistants as well.

(01:19:36):
He got rid of some other secondary I don't know
who these people are, but they got rid of them.
They got rid of some of them church well. But
the big one is Wade Phillips, who people were, Oh,
I can't believe Wade liked to tweet that took a
shot at the Rams on you know, people were very upset,
outraged by this, very fierce. But let's discuss the question.
Did Wade Phillips get a raw deal as the defense

(01:20:00):
Cordina now former defensive coordinator of the Rams, and absolutely not. Now,
Wade is very popular. People like the guy. He's a
likable person I like, but he didn't get a raw deal.
Here this is how professional sports operate. You've got the rodeo,

(01:20:21):
the movies, and diamonds and we will combine all these
things together. Now, first of all, Wade Phillips is so popular.
How popular is people are upset? Even though you look
at the numbers, you do the arithmetic here, you say, well,
it makes sense the Rams would do this when you
look at the big picture, but people are still outraged

(01:20:44):
the bum Phillips. His dad, being the son of bum
Wade Phillips was also a big character in the NFL
back in the day Loved Me Blue and all that,
so Wade is seen as a connection to that era
of the NFL. He's also old enough to have been
in that of the NFL like the the glory days
of pro football, though many people will say today is

(01:21:05):
the glory days of pro football. But here's it is
both a blessing and a curse to be Wade Phillips right,
because it's yeah, he is a throwback. But the blessing
part is because of the vast experience right guys played
or not played. He's coached with thirty one percent of

(01:21:25):
the NFL teams. He's either been the head coach or
an assistant coach for ten of the thirty two teams
in the National Football League. So that would be the blessing, right,
he knows everybody. The curse is that he's in a
situation now because of his age. When times get tough,
who do they get rid of. They don't get rid
of the young coach. They get it to the old geezer.

(01:21:47):
That's the guy they get rid of, they say, get
out of here. And Phillips, at age seventy two, is
in that category. And he knows the drill. This is
not his first rodeo. He's been in this situation before
and he's seen. Wade Phillips how the addle industry of
football works. I'm not saying it's right, but that's what
the way the way it operates now. I work in
the radio industry. I don't like a lot of the
things that I see in the radio business, but that's

(01:22:08):
the way the business is done, and you know, try
to change it and then you'll end you'll end up
on the beach somewhere and you won't be in the
radio business. That's normally how that works. But Wade Phillips,
why was he hired by the Rams in the first place. Listen,
the guy's been a pretty good defensive coordinator. But he
was brought in for wisdom. He was brought in as

(01:22:30):
a savvy, veteran coach to show Sean McVeagh the way right,
the unproven, untested Sean McVeigh. McVeigh is no longer a greenhorn.
He's not he's a seasoned NFL coach. Now you can
say he was exposed this year, and maybe he was.
But from the Rams perspective, this was the perfect time

(01:22:51):
for a divorce. I'll explain why in a couple of minutes.
But Wade Phillips says he still wants to coach. Maybe
he can go back to Dallas. It sounds like they've
already found their defensive cord. There's a bunch of teams
that have changed coaches, so there's possibilities for Wade Phillips.
And he knows people, but everyone he knows everyone. But
the older you get, the more people you know, but

(01:23:13):
often the fewer chances you get it. It's a catch
twenty two situation. Now in his favor is being the beloved,
popular coach, and you can win some votes having Wade
Phillips as a consultant. They're on your staff, the good
Old Boys Network and all that. Now, second, we don't
need to use revisionist history here when talking about the

(01:23:34):
situation with the Rams. Wade Phillips, did he do a
bad job with the Rams. No, he didn't do a
bad job with the Rams. There were moments when the
defense that occasionally was known in LA as the mob squad.
Sparkle played very well, but they just were not enough.
There were not enough of those moments. And he talked
the talk. The Rams occasionally walk the walk, but I

(01:23:57):
would give Wade Phillips a raid a grade of date
as Rams defensive corner. Yeah, they got to the super Bowl,
and the Rams defense was often the one that starred
in that playoff run, with game changing plays and all
that they did. Run the ball down the throat of
the Cowboys if you remember that, that particular playoff game
at college seem but despite having Aaron Donald a bunch

(01:24:20):
of big name defensive backs week to week, you never
knew what you were gonna get from the Rams defense.
And now the Rams can hire, well, anybody they hire
is gonna be younger than Wade Phillips. You're not gonna
hire somebody older, which doesn't mean anything. Youth does not
mean greatness. But who are they gonna hire? Brett Bielma,
Marvin Lewis, he's gonna walk in there to the Rams

(01:24:43):
as a defensive corner. They're gonna promote somebody from within.
They're gonna hire a position coach from another team. Now,
my advice all right, give the Rams advice here. Look
to the movies. Wreck It, Ralph, I love the movie
rough they made two of them. Which character do you
need to bring in in record Row? Fix it? Felix? Right,

(01:25:07):
fix it, Felix Junior. What's his slogan? He's here to
save the day. That's the man you gotta bring in
at Vince Gordon, I would chake it up. I would
not be married to the three four defense. I would go.
I would go from the Wade Phillips three four to
the four to three. I'd mix it up. Inquiring minds
would like to know what's going to happen here. Now

(01:25:28):
the final fought. So the Rams have boxed themselves into
a corner. Now we get to the why Wade Phillips
had to depart. The Rams have handed out massive contracts
like it's Halloween, you're handing out little mini Snickers bars.
Everyone gets multiple years and millions of dollars. It's great,
Todd Gurley, he's now damaged goods. Jared Goffer Grass and

(01:25:52):
the Rams still have to find a way to pony
up a bunch of money to justify the Jalen Ramsey
trade to keep him around because they traded all those
first round picks. But you do the math, the malor math.
The only real change the Rams could make is to
shake up the coaching staff. They're not going to get
rid of Sean McVay. They've got no high draft picks

(01:26:13):
the Rams in the next two years because they've traded
all those away to build the roster that they have.
And so you cannot market a first round pick. You
can't say, hey, well, we're gonna be better because of Blank,
We're gonna draft in the first round. You can't do that.
You can market the stadium, but that only lasts for
so long. And so you say, hey, we're gonna be

(01:26:35):
better because of Blank, because our defense is going to
be better because we have a new defensive guru. Right,
you're peddling what in professional sports, you're peddling hope. Right.
You hope to be better, You hope to win a championship.
In sports, you sell that to your fan base. Oftentimes
you're selling cheap, low grade optimism. We've talked about that

(01:26:56):
a lot of the year's false hope is another way
to say it. Now. I don't believe things are as
gloomy around the Rams as most everyone else seems to
think the Rams. Now they actually have to roll up
their sleeves here and do a little work. Now. They
gotta find some diamonds in the rough. Sean McVay is
going to have to actually earn some money here and
coach up middle round trafficks. They got to find a

(01:27:20):
few offensive linemen in the fifth and the sixth round.
They gotta find. The guys are out there. Belichick finds
them all the time. The guys are out there. You
gotta find who They gotta hit on a couple of
second tier free agents, embrace the situation rather than wallow
and misery and woe is me, and have a defeatist attitude,

(01:27:41):
because you're either going to coach up the players, if
you're Sean McVay, you're gonna dress them down when things
go poorly. And they also have to hope that Jared
Goff becomes a mediocre quarterback, not a bad quarterback, an
average quarterback that occasionally plays very well, that occasionally is
slightly above average. Todd Gurley seems like the dice are
loaded on him there. I don't know how you get

(01:28:02):
out of that. And you're gonna have to forget about
him being the battering ram and you're gonna have to
do there's different ways to do to cut an apple. Right.
That was the lab stuffed streaming. Yeah, well they've stopped Wade.
Wade Phillips has we stopped Wade? Can't do that anymore though,
Wade's unable to do that, and unfortunately he has exited

(01:28:26):
stage left. All right, it is the Band Mathers Show
on Fox. To the phones were go, I was gonna
go to JJ and Renton, but he hung up, So
that means us the any meany mighty mo. Let's go
to hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesote. I hope I can
hear him. I couldn't. Oh this is a good one.

(01:28:51):
We got a sleeper cell. Wow, everyone quiet, let's all observe.
It's like bird watching. It's magical. Hey, holler and James,

(01:29:18):
you think the Vikings are gonna win this weekend? Oh? Yeah,
he said, yes, who's your favorite Minnesota twin? Holler and James? Uh, really,
what about the wolves? They gonna turn around here? Really,

(01:29:39):
I'm surprised. I'm surprised you don't talk over me all Yes,
I understand, Yeah, all right, one more thing, you have
one more thing. Okay, all right, thank you a great holler.
And James, I've been doing this a long time and

(01:30:02):
he is in the top five all time snoring callers
I've every time. That's pretty pretty. He didn't sound that.
He didn't sound like full water buffalo though. Let's go back.
Let me go back and see here, James, pretty good, solid, Yeah,

(01:30:23):
all right, it must be nice. Oh yeah, man, I
had flipped my schedule because I had like three months off,
so I'd flipped my schedule, and so now I was tough.
It was not a good not a good day, Roberto. Yeah,
it's been a tough day in the sleep department day. Yeah,

(01:30:46):
I can imagine. Not not what we're looking for. Well,
there there's a saying in the radio business when you
take a snoring caller, it's probably a good idea. Give
out the number and reset eight seven seven ninety nine
on box eight seven seven ninety nine six sixty three
six nine. If you'd like to be part of the program,

(01:31:06):
you can join the festivities. Manic Mike says the Rams
should hire Rod Marinelli. I'm good. I've had enough Rod
Marinelli in my life. I don't need any more Rod Marinelli.
I'm okay. I don't need Rod Marinelli. Let's go to
the phones again, though, because I'm a glutton for punishment.

(01:31:27):
Weed man, hippie, he's in Miami. Wow, Ben, I love you.
I got all thrown off because I'm gonna cover the
super Bowl for you. Calm down, cow, this is a possibility.
This is possible. There's not a done deal, nothing's agreed
upon here. It's something that's a possibility. Weed me. Ben.

(01:31:52):
It was terrible that you would not on the radio
for so long. A radio is a very low ball,
and you are the best thing on radio. I'm telling you,
very kind of you, and I appreciate you stoking up
to me. It's very kind of Look. I made some notes,
some sports notes. Mac Jones is a good quarterback. Somebody

(01:32:15):
should Mac Jones the quarterbacks to Alabama. Yeah, he's good.
And any day ravings are down because all the tours
are in the West and the games those starts took
ten thirty at night. That's why ravings are down. Hey,
we're getting sporty, weed man, here's what we're getting. Yeah,

(01:32:37):
you got Dolphins. The Dolphins beating the Patriots while Casey
wins and Patrick my homes, my new favorite quarterbacks slip
positions and get him buy. That was the gravest moment
in sports, in football sports. Really, that was the greatest

(01:32:57):
moment in football sports. You know, and everything has a
clime plane, and clime plane that's what stands out for me. Yeah,
all right, and no, no, I heard I heard your
upset that wait wait, wait, we got more. Wait. The
Dolphins are so stupid. All they had though, was lose

(01:33:18):
every game. What how could they just trying to win?
That's nice that they were trying to win some games,
but you could still get calm down? What are you doing?
Come on, come on, quarterbacks. They're going to get the
tool and he's going he got the ball shops injury. No,

(01:33:43):
he does not the boat. It's not the If he
was the bow Jackson injury, he wouldn't be drafted. It's
not the bow jack it's not the same injury that
bow Jackson had. You not what I heard. I look
for my medical advice from weed man hip is what
I look for. I want to do. I want to come.

(01:34:13):
He's going to be banking. This is just a disaster.
Wouldn't happen If it doesn't work out, you're gonna have
a melt. Love me, Love me, love me. I've heard
all these stories a million times. I know everyone loved you.
You had Met season tickets. You ran a toy store

(01:34:34):
in New York. You lost all your money when the
stock market crashed. You were worth millions of dollars. Your
wife left you. Lisa left you. I know your whole
life story. You had a TV cable TV show in
New York, public Access TV show. I know everything about
this guy, she says, can I take a shower? I
don't know that. I want to know everything about him,

(01:34:55):
but I know everything about him. All we will send
a major, major tip of the headphones to a legendary
member in the Mallem Militia. We'll get to that. We'll
do it next. In the overnight. It's Ben Maller on
the Fox Sports Radio Network. Really be sure to catch
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(01:35:17):
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(01:35:39):
and I'll live from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios.
It's Ben maller critically acclaimed call from Hollerween James. If
you didn't hear it, you gotta go back and listen
to the podcast. The p Ones love at JJ from
Renton's laughing his ass off there Graveyard ceases holler and
James is talking out of his us again. Trucker Joe says,

(01:36:01):
hollering James snore sounded like that guy from your Talent
show that snorted jingle bells. Yeah, it's one of the
great holiday songs that we played. Just Josh right since
says who keeps turning on the blender, hollering James channeling
that inner water buffalo. Give the man a golden ticket.

(01:36:34):
Let's see if James is still there sleeping here. Let's
see yep, yep, still there. We left him on hold,
so we enjoy second artist, like a verbal artist here.
I like that. I'm in on delay in my background.

(01:36:55):
That's good. Yeah, okay, I just need a little taste yeah,
a little taste. See is Weeden weed Man. I got
a guy I erned a great old Pina road in
weed Man. He says, come on school, in school in
s I don't know what you're talking about. It says
nobody likes sporty weed Man or panhandling weed Man. Tell

(01:37:18):
him to go smoke his wife's leg or drink some
boon's farm and call back wasted. His stupidity is here
to entertain us. Mallard Militia members. Your thoughts on that Weedman, Oh,
guys that I will love us. Thing needed a super Bowl,

(01:37:40):
all right? You have somewhat serious here, although we're never
really that serious. While we were on hiatus at the
end of twenty nineteen, we lost a friend of the show,
and I promised this person's daughter Anna that we would
give her pops a fitting tribute when we returned to

(01:38:01):
the microphones of Fox Sports Radio. So I would like
to do that right now. I feel bear with me,
So we want to thank and he's passed on. While
we were away, man by the name of Steve Williams.
He was fifty seven years old. Young guy and his
daughter Anna reached out to me because her dad was
a big fan of the show and was a big

(01:38:22):
supporter of what we do here in the overnight, and
she told me a little bit about her dad, and
I wanted to share it with you because I think
it's kind of cool, you know, to hear I like
to go out and meet people. I was in Seattle.
I have to meet a lot of the listeners, like
to hear what they do. And you know, I don't know,
I'm hearing a radio studio and the lights are turned down.
But this guy, Steve sounds like a great guy. I
never got a chance to meet him, but he was

(01:38:42):
a certified mechanic. He was a body man for forty years,
even from the age of like seventeen, he started working.
And his daughter said that when I was let go
in the really the darkest day of Fox Sports Radio
January twentieth of twenty o nine, when I was off
the air for a while, apparently Steve was so upset

(01:39:04):
that he protested on Facebook that he demanded my immediate
return to the airwaves. He made an entire page for
fans of the show to go on to try to
get me back. Apparently it worked. By the way, I
should thank this guy, Steve I should send him a
check or his daughter, because it worked. I got back
six months and twenty six days later. And some other

(01:39:26):
things about about Steve, who passed December fifteenth, by the way,
so about a little less than a month ago. And
his daughter said that he did not have internet. He
would drive to the nearest hospital to sit for an
hour just to stream the podcast. How much dedication can

(01:39:46):
one get. And she says that she used to stay
up with her dad listening to the show, and she
shared a lot of laughs and all that stuff. So anyway,
he had he had brain cancer for about two years
and all that stuff, and there was some treatment that
went well, and obviously in the end he was on
some trial products that did not obviously work in the

(01:40:06):
end and whatnot. But his daughter said some amazing things
about her dad and said every day he would she
would make sure to get the podcast to listen, playing
some of the older shows for him and all that stuff.
While he was he was thick. And she said some
very nice things, and I appreciate that very much. And
she said the only things that made him smile were

(01:40:28):
his grandkids, his daughter, and this ridiculous, stupid show that
we do here at night, and she wanted to thanks.
I want to thank you very much, he said. You know,
she's not she's not a big fan of the show,
but she became a fan of show because of her
dad and a way to bond together. So rest in
peace to Steve Williams. Sounds like a great guy, and

(01:40:48):
thank him and good luck to his family there for
supporting our little radio show. And may he rest in peace.
All Right, it is the Ben Mallers Show as we
press on here, And yeah, Albert Wright, sinces, are you
going to talk about Alex Russo? Yeah, I lost a
friend of mine. Alex Russo was a veteran LA radio

(01:41:08):
reporter and man, I go back with Alex for like
twenty years. I am bummed out. Man, I've been bummed
out for the last couple of days. I found out
he passed away over the weekend. And a good guy
hung out back in the morbid days, I guess we're
doing we're doing this, but back in the morbid days
of the Clippers, and they played at the LA Memorial

(01:41:29):
Sports Arena, the Toilet Bowl, and I was a young
guy and Alex was a younger guy than he obviously
ended up being, and he and we hung out together
pretty much every night, and I spent because you know,
I couldn't date any women, No women would be I'd
pretty much hang I'd hung out and hang out with
Alex for three, four or five hours a night for
like twenty years. Now, I don't I haven't seen him

(01:41:49):
as much in recent years. I actually just saw him
a couple of weeks ago. But Alex worked at a
Spanish radio station in Los Angeles and was like a
talk show host and a reporter and not for a
long time in LA and everyone loved everyone. I don't
know everyone loved him because he had kind of a
gruff persona, but I loved him, and once you got
to know him, he was very kind. And so my

(01:42:11):
condolences to Alex and and very very sad about that.
So thanks to Albert for reminding me, because I didn't
mean to say that, Albert, I didn't mean to point
something out. I just forgot. But but Alex, uh, the Russian,
Alex Russo the Russian they call him. But I don't know.
I was around the guy for twenty years, and I
guess he's got like he had a Russian name. But

(01:42:32):
he did radio at like a Mexican radio station in LA.
I don't I'm very confused. I don't know what happened there.
I don't know. I never I never asked him, but
uh and I actually listened to him a few times
and it was like five guys that were talking, but
I you know, he was screaming at each other, like yeah,
like most sports radio. All right, it is the Ben

(01:42:54):
Mallers Show. We're gonna have Mallard's Mountain of Money. We're
gonna get to that. If you would like to play
call right now. Both the show was orchestrating all that.
We'll get to it momentarily. By the way, we have
more death radio. We've got to do because David. Maybe
I'll do that on the podcast. There's only so much
we can do with David. If you touch my life,
but I usually do these six line tributes and all that.

(01:43:17):
David Stern died, the NBA commissioner, Sam Wish another one
that touched my he died while we were away and
all that stuff. Anyway, Don Larson, yeah, Donald did not
touch my life. But Don Larson, yeah, passed away as well. Ben.
You would have saw this had the Seattle Seahawks been
professional enough to grant you a credential to allow a

(01:43:39):
national sports radio network which is on in their market,
to have access to the stadium. Yes, it's an outage.
But in that final game of the NFL regular season
between the Seahawks and Settle Yeah, yeah, Jimmy Garoppolo apparently
was very happy with the win, and he threw the
game ball into the stands. Oh, that's cool, that's nice.
Now it was actually caught by a young forty nine

(01:44:02):
ers fall. That's hard, ten year old guy, Matt Pinelli.
I was outside the stadium, Eddie. It's century liked. They
were mostly I didn't see. I did have a few
forty nineer fans, but mostly Seahawks fans, Eddie. Now, Garoppolo
got fined over seven thousand dollars for doing this because
the league says the safety issue, but the story I
was reading said they're actually the league in the Hall
of Fame upset. Because that was the final game ball

(01:44:22):
used in the NFL's one hundredth regular season. Some cans
wanted it to go into the Hall of Fame. Nineteen.
He's a young guy. That's good. I'm guessing that they could, uh,
they could work out yeast him invite him to the
Pro Football Hall of Fame, guessing it wouldn't even cost
that much from the nineteen year old, right, give him

(01:44:44):
some weed or something like that, he'd be good to go,
right now. Yeah, I mean maybe I don't know. It
could be I don't know a situation there. But that's
interesting that happens. So he got fined mainly because of that.
I like him. Basketball, sometimes guys will throw the ball
into the crowd and feel good. I remember one time
there was an old NBA player before my time. Of course,
I said on YouTube, Chuck person of the Indiana Paces,
who I was involved in that college candle the shoe scandal.

(01:45:07):
But he he punted at the old Chicago Stadium when
he's playing for the Indiana Paces with Vern Fleming. He
punted the ball into the crowd. And I recall that
one very very much. How about my friend Rob Dibble
in baseball who used to work here. Zibble would take
the He took the ball one time and chucked it
into the upper deck. He was upset. They remember, they

(01:45:29):
I think, if I remember correctly, he gave up a
home run and then they threw the ball the umpire
throws the ball out and he took it and chucked it.
When Panella came out of the dugout to take him
out of the game, he like, he just threw it.
And then and then the other time was when he
was like the incredible Hulk Dibble and he ripped the
jersey off. Remember that when he was upset and he

(01:45:50):
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(01:46:12):
All right, score the phones and any meany miny moe. Oh,
we're actually why don't we introduce the contestants right now?
I'm gonna get back on track because I'm on time.
Maller buy the clock for the clock? Possibly all about
the clock now Mailer's mounting the money? Hey, do you
have what it takes to get to the top? Probably

(01:46:33):
not so Both the show has given me some names
here and has said that these people would be good
for the game show. So I'm putting this all on both.
It's good I'll take credit. If not, I'm gonna blame
both the show. Who's in here producing. Our new plan
for twenty twenty is to have a different producer every night,
So that's what we're gonna do and both. So far,
so good. Yes, we're two for two and we'll see

(01:46:54):
what happens there. Very exciting, but let's let's get into it.
As Marcel in Brooklyn would say, very fascinating man, that
Marcell in Brooklyn. We have see here the punch up
line at number four. One's not working, two's working, three's working. Four.
All right, let's say hello to Jackass, Josh. Would you

(01:47:14):
like to play the game? Jackass? Where's Cooper Loop? I
don't know. He's on his deathbed. I don't know where
he is, probably sleeping, I would think is where he is? Okay,
i'll play he sound bummed out? The Coop's not here? Yeah? Well,
the guy who answered the phoe didn't know who I was.

(01:47:35):
So oh, your ego is taking over there, your vanity.
You're like, I'm Jackass, Josh. Everyone knows who I am.
I'm the only ones the only Sacramento Kings fan in
LA and that's me. I'm Jackass. Josh right, the King's
beat the Warriors tonight? Baby yeah? Did Winston Garland start

(01:47:57):
for the Warriors? All right? Hold on, he doesn't sound excited,
but we'll have him play. Why not the bar is low?
We got two and three, Eddie, two and three? Picked
your poison there? Two or three? Three? All right? You've
picked line three and that is Trenton, I believe. Yes,
Hello Trenton, Hello, Hello, welcome in. You want to play

(01:48:20):
a radio game show? Absolutely all right? Now, jack ass?
Josh I know is a jackass. What does Trenton do though?
And where are you? By the way, Trenton? I'm in Oswego, Kansas. Oh,
I'm beautiful Kansas, all right? And what do you do
in Kansas? I'm a forklift driver at a company here
in town over. Are you working right now? No? I
just got off. I want your podcast? Well, thank you?

(01:48:47):
Ye five stars remember five stars on the podcast? And
you live in the Holy Land for the Mallard Militia
because I have not what part of are you? How
far are you from? Like Kansas City an hour and
a half away. Oh that's nothing, that's ninety minutes. Boom done.
We have two food dishes in the Kansas City area.

(01:49:08):
I have been honored with chicken fingers, and also well
over in Lawrence, Kansas, which is in your state. Of course,
the college town. The Mallard Fowler sandwich is available, but
the landing in Liberty, Missouri. And then that's where the
chicken fingers are. The landing in Liberty, Missouri. And then
I love how I'm just promoting this randomly. And also
the Mallard Fowler that's at the bird. The ballet, that's

(01:49:31):
the ballet, and Lawrence it's the ballet. Everyone every guy
knows the ballet. All right. Anyway, hold on a second, Trenton,
so actually find out who these guys want to play
with as partners. Go back to Jackass, Josh, you beloved
Cooper Loop is not here, Jackass, who do you want
to partner up with? I'll partner with Trenton because well, no, no,

(01:49:54):
you can't. You're not allowed to do that. That's not how.
It's no no, because I just got off too, So
I'll trent and for no problem. What what are you stupid? No,
that's not how, Ben. Now you should play with Eddie.
I'll play with Eddie, all right, good, all right, boom
done Eddie all right. You got this guy, Eddie, you
got the jackass, gave him you should be with you

(01:50:15):
if he's no, No, he's a big fan of yours.
All right, Trenton, who do you want to partner up with? Trent?
Eddie's off the board? There you play with one of
the other people in the show. All right? And who's left?
You're a big fan of the show. We have we
have bow gag On is over there? Yes, Tom Looney,
I think over there? Looney over there? We got Roberto

(01:50:40):
and Ben. All right, very very good show. I'm glad
you didn't pick Looney because that would have been very
all right. So it's Trenton and Ben, and it's Eddie
and the Jackass, Josh and we will have so we
pick the categories first. Why don't we do that? We'll
just waste more time. What are the categories? Oh? I

(01:51:00):
hung up on, Jackass? This is a disaster, Eddie. Oh Trenton,
are you there? Trenton? Yes? All right? The what it's
the Joaquin Phoenix Edition? Yes, all right. The categories are jokers, signs,
walk the Line, and inherent vice. Which category do you want?
Walk the line? Walk the line? All right? That'll be
our category. Let's see if Jackass Josh called back. I

(01:51:22):
hope he did, all right, Sorry, Eddie, it's your worst nightmare.
I hit the wrong button up on him again, Jackass?
Are you there? Which which category you got? The Jokers
signs or inherent vice? Joker size? Perfect? All right? He is,
He's on the ball. All right, We'll get to Mahler's

(01:51:43):
amount of money. Innocent tire. This is gonna be a
hot mess. We'll get to that. We'll do it next.
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Maller and right to the game we go here it's
the Waking Phoenix edition. I have no idea why it is,
but somebody wrote the board. So that's what we're doing.
And I'm sure there's a good explanation. Maybe it was

(01:52:26):
an anniversary of something that happened there and all that thing.
That's probably Yeah, all right. We have jackass Josh who's
with Eddie and I believe he's on this line. Hello Jackass. Yeah,
groups in Denver looking for a head coach for the product.
You're being roasted by everyone on social media. They're just
destroying you, jackass. Josh, Hold on a sec. You were there,

(01:52:49):
and Trenton, are you there in Kansas? Yeah? All right,
very good. I was played the game, Eddie. You're up first.
The category is what the joker? Sure? All right? Forty
five seconds on the we need first and last name,
and you're on your way. I guess these are athletes
that we laugh at, I guess, or made us laugh.
I guess I go ahead, dy Uh. The d seul

(01:53:11):
for the Lakers teamed up with Kobe to win titles.
Yet Oh my god, full name please. O'Neil very good? Uh,
protesting former quarterback for the Colts and Broncos. His brother
Eli plays with the John Matty Beast model Brake March,
Don Lake All former Clipper uh now with the Pistons,

(01:53:37):
he dunked over at Kia to win the All Star
Gun contest. Oh Blake, Blake Griffin, Yes, the round mound
of rebound. Oh Dog Barkley. Yeah. Um this guy is
um he was. He had a funny beard. He was
a closer for the San Francisco Giants. I'm William, I

(01:53:58):
am Jack Guy. I am protesting here because there is
no way on God's green Earth that Shaquille o'neel's one
hundred point how dare is one of the most famous
names in the world of the Smart Show is doing
a great job with this list. Well you think that
people don't know who Shock is? You really think that
what's going on here? Yeah? No, this is really short notice.

(01:54:21):
So yeah, all right, I don't know because I look
at some of these other two points for us. All right,
my category, the one hundred point name is much tougher,
but we'll go to buy category. It's just pretty easy
to I mean, walk the line. Are you there, by
the way, you're there, Trenton? All right, let's play the game.
Here we go. Athletes with musical talent, athletes with musical talent.

(01:54:43):
All right, we're on. We don't worry about that. Just
don't curse, all right, yeah, don't curse. All right, here
we go forty five seconds on the clock and we're
on our way. Go us soccer star retired red hair
long Beard playing go ahead. Oh my god, mister big
chest from the Steelers and he got let go with

(01:55:04):
the Raiders and the Patriots. Uh oh, come on, all right,
yes marvinus. How about a Laker legend number eight, number
twenty four is number. Yeah, there you go, got that,
all right. Blazers guard. He's a current star with the
Portland Trailblazers. Uh yeah, yeah, kind of yea, yeah, all right,

(01:55:28):
all right, it's not home depot. He's a small forward
for the Pacers. Uh, Indiana, he's injured right now, not
in time. No, it's old the depot. Yeah but yeah, alright,
good yeah, only two d yeah, well again. The hundred
point question for the joker category Shaquille O'Neil mine was

(01:55:51):
Alexei Lawless. The eighty point question was Bronson arroy a
bad job by don't even your I don't even know
if his mom could name Bronson Roy. Ben Trenton pick
another category, have signs or inherent vice? Uh? Signs all right?

(01:56:11):
Signs athletes that might be aliens category play hit the
button all right? Uh, he's the King of the NBA
for the Lakers. Used to play in Cleveland. Uh. Lebron James, Yes,
his airness with the Chicago Bulls. Michael Jordan the answer
for the Philadelphia seventies six Correct. Megatron for the Detroit Lions. Yes, correct,

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Star of the Royals and the Raiders in the nineteen
eighties two sports stock correct. Uh. Played with the plays
with the Angels. A couple of NVP Awards. Outfielders, Yes,
fastest man in the world out of Brazil. Bunch of
a limp. Yeah. We Unfortunately it is an incomplete game

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because we don't have time to have an incomplete game.
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free great quote. So we wait for the NFL playoffs
to continue. I have monitored the point spread looking at

(01:58:03):
where the gambling market is on the playoff games this weekend,
and we'll actually start with that and then we'll work
our way to the bell. But the Minnesota San Francisco game,
which our friends Sports Plus says, is the most expensive
ticket on the secondary market from the divisional round the
second round of the playoffs. Because I believe that's because

(01:58:23):
the people on the secondary market know those that want
to buy those tickets are executives at Google and all
the internet companies Twitter that are based in Northern California,
Facebook and all that. So that's why my theory that why,
that's why that game is so valuable. But the forty
nine Ers, the Santa Clara forty nine Ers, opened a
seven point favorite. They are still favored by seven in

(01:58:47):
that game. That is the first game on set as
the early game the Niners against the Vikings, and early
on the money there's a there's a lean. It's not overwhelming.
When you get overwhelming, it's like seventy five eight. It's
about sixty percent on the forty nine ers at this

(01:59:07):
point early in the week for the playoff game. There
the numbers. I have the Tennessee Titans and Baltimore Ravens.
That's the Saturday night game. What does the gambling market
have on this? Baltimore opened up a ten point favorite.
There's a rule anywhere you get anytime you get double
digit points in the NFL, you take the points. You
don't ask questions. And that line has moved down to

(01:59:29):
minus nine. So Baltimore is over a touchdown favorite at
home in that game, and in this game, the underdog
is very popular with the early money, as almost sixty
percent of the money has come in on the Tennessee
Titans plus nine in Baltimore against the Big Bad Ravens

(01:59:50):
who went fourteen in two this year. Then the Sunday games,
the Texans are at Kensa City, the house that Bob
Fesco built their arrowhead stadiu him and in this game,
Kansas City opened a nine point favorite. They've actually gone
up to nine and a half. I don't have any
current numbers on where the money is on that game

(02:00:11):
or the Seahawks Packers game Seattle. The road team, green
Bay favored by three and a half, so they're saying
that green Bay is really only a half point better
than Seattle because you get three points when you're at home.
So they're saying that green Bay. No, weather's not going
to be a big factor in that game of the
yearly forecast. It's not gonna it's gonna be cold, but
it's not. No snow is forecast for Lambeau. So anyway,

(02:00:32):
in that game, the line has stayed the same. I
don't have any numbers on the money there. So that's
the update on the playoffs. Now. As far as the
bell ringing in the Bell and all that, the New
York Jets and Levion Bell now head coach Adam Gaze,
while we were on hiatus, told reporters to ask general

(02:00:52):
manager Joe Douglas about Bell's future with the franchise. That
was back on December thirtieth, when he, you know, when
there was a question or whether he wanted Bell to
be back on the team in twenty twenty. So that's
exactly what happened this week on Monday. I don't know
if you heard this, Anno you saw it. Joe Douglas,

(02:01:12):
the JETGM was asked point blank in a radio interview
on the Michael K Radio show in New York. Was
asked about the possibility of Levion Bell being back with
the team. I don't know. We have any audio on
We do not have any audio on this. But I'll
just read the quote. Just imagine I'm Joe Douglas. Just

(02:01:33):
imagine I'm an NFL executive. I've been running NFL teams
for years here behind the microphones of Fox Sports Radio.
But here's how I'll answered. All right, here's the quote
from Levion Bell. Rather, here's how he answered it. We
value Levon Bell, Douglas said, we value the competitor, we
value the teammate. We're excited for him being in our

(02:01:58):
program another year, going through our offseason again close quote.
All right, so that was very vague. Let us discuss
the question. Joe Douglas, in a roundabout way, said, we
value Levon Bell. Do you think that the Jets actually
value Levion Bell? Now, my answer on this, You've got
the Dakota Ring, the Moose and the Insider, and we

(02:02:21):
will combine all these things together and we will make
some banana cream pipe because boy is at a good pipe,
but Nana Creampie is a wonderful pie. So to lead
off with, you're never supposed to believe three people in life,
a lawyer, a politician, or a sports executive slash coach
when their lips are moving. Never believe any of those people.

(02:02:44):
You will live a good life, you will leave this planet.
Is a good person, to my knowledge. Joe Douglas the
way I actually heard the quote, we don't have it.
But he successfully tap danced around this. He was asked
point blank he never he knew the question was coming.
But he never declared the JETSDM that Levion Bell will

(02:03:05):
not be traded. That was a mistake that Dave Gettelman
the Giants GM made with Odell Beckham last year. He said,
I'm not going to trade him. I don't want to
trade blah blah blah. But the Jets never said we
don't want to trade him, We're not going to trade him.
I didn't hear that in any of you. So Joe
Douglas merely implied the Jets value Levion Bell. That is

(02:03:27):
factually correct, gain Green values all of its players. That's
the company line. Got to tow the company line. And
Levion Bell did sign a four year contract for over
fifty million dollars as a free agent last year. And
from what I understand, there's not a lot of ways
to get out of that contract other than some other
sucker coming along to take take him off your hands.

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And Levion Bell rushed for only seven hundred eighty nine yards.
He had three touchdowns in fifteen games as a Jet.
And the most amazing statistic, and I think you'd agree
Levion Bell had two hundred forty five carries. You remember
him in Pittsburgh. Is this electric all world running back.

(02:04:10):
Levion Bell's longest run as a Jet went for nineteen yards.
Nineteen yards. That's it. Oh, the Jets could have gone
out and signed some Canadian League football player from Saskatchewan

(02:04:31):
who would have put up those numbers. Levion Bell gained
three point two yards per rush this season. The worst mark.
Think about this, worst mark in Jets history for any
player with at least two hundred rushing attempts. The worst
running back in Jets history in that metric is Levion F.
And Bell. So, using my trustee super secret Dakota Ring,

(02:04:56):
this is not hard to decipher. It's really child's play.
Determined through years of expert analysis and marginal sports talk radio,
I have determined the Jets value Levion Bell for like
a third round pick, maybe a fifth round pick thrown
in their conditional draft selection. And you can have Levion Bell. Now,

(02:05:16):
we are still several months away from the real trading
period in the National Football League, but I expect you're
a lot more noise, a lot of noise about Levion
Bell to continue. It makes for good talk radio now.
Furthermore so Adam Gaze, who is himself an odd duck
as it is. I mean, there was a falling out

(02:05:36):
between the coach and the player. You don't have to
be some kind of Jets savant to know that there
was displeasure. Levion Bell feels some bitterness because of the
way that he was used or unused, and it's like
he's essentially stuck in football purgatory. And so we've got
an awkward and uncomfortable relationship and it came to a

(02:05:59):
head several times. The final game the Jets played against Buffalo,
a little birdie singing that Levion Bell and Adam Gaze
had a private, heated conversation in the locker room following
that game against Buffalo, in which Levion Bell had forty
one yards on sixteen carres. He only touched the ball

(02:06:21):
five times in the second half. All those were late
in the fourth quarter, so that was not a standalone event.
Levion Bell also butted heads with the Jets coach earlier
in the season, so they essentially have acted like a
couple of moose locking antlers together. That's the relationship with
Levion Bell and Adam Gaze into All of this is circumstantial.

(02:06:42):
All of this is anecdotal, but it all indicates a
need for change, a need for a divorce situation. All right. Lastly,
so where will Levion Bell play in twenty twenty if
not the Jets? Again, inquiring mindes would like to know.
So let's go to our NFL insider. I'm not talking
about Adam Schefter, Jay Glazer or the rap sheet. I

(02:07:05):
am talking about levy On Bell. That's our NFL inside.
You remember that back in Halloween, we talked about it
on the show. He had a podcast he named the
teams that he claimed tried to trade for him. That
list includes Houston, shout out, Texas creen Bay. Can I

(02:07:27):
get some cheese heads from the Packers Cansas City where
the barbecue is fresh and the chicken fingers are good?
And the Pittsburgh Steelers his old team. Now, you would assume,
connecting the dots here, that those same teams would have
some level of interest in Levon Bell this offseason. In

(02:07:49):
terms of the odds, I make my own odds. I
don't need other people's odds. I believe there is a
minus three fifty chance that Levion Bell is traded. Now,
he was not Adam Gays guy. That was the er
GM of the Jets that decided they had to bring
in Levion Bell. They never were on the same page,
the coaching staff and Bell. By the way, that implies
a seventy five percent chance that Levion Bell is sent

(02:08:12):
packing Asta la Vista, see you later, Get out of here,
Rivera der Chay and all of that fired. All of that.
I got some updated odds on Bill Belichick and Tom
Brady and all everyone's got odds. Everyone's got odds and
all that stuff about all this. Will Bill Belichick retire

(02:08:35):
before the twenty twenty NFL regular season. Yes is plus
seven hundred, No is minus fifteen hundred. I told her
what my state is on. Yeah, he's a news flash year.
He's not going to retire Belichick? Why would? He's in

(02:08:56):
good health by all accounts. I mean something something odd
would have have to happen for him to walk away.
By the way, if you're not a degenerate gambler and
you're not familiar without the odds, game works and all that,
I will fill you in on the details. Minus fifteen
hundred that Belichick would retire me or not retire is
it means it's a ninety four percent chance he's back

(02:09:18):
coaching the New England Patriots. Taking it one days. So
how you gotta do. It's already been undressed. I understand, Yeah,
I understand. As far as Brady, the odds are out
there about you know, we talked about a little bit
yesterday with the Browns, Panthers, Raiders, Chargers all thrown out
the throwing stuff against the wall. Will Tom Brady be

(02:09:41):
on the Patriots roster Week one of the twenty twenty
NFL season. The odds on Brady back to the Patriots
minus two hundred, minus two hundred. That's a his sixty
five percent chance that he's back with the Patriots, which
I believe is about right. Well, he's about right. I

(02:10:01):
think it's actually, you know, somewhere in that there's a
gray area there, but I believe it's somewhere in there.
All right, So Ben Malo Show on Fox. To the
phones we go, and let's see who is next. Let's
see let's go to Oh, here's a blast in the past.
If you're a long time listening to the show, Ray
from Springfield, Hello, Ray, what's up? Man? There? He is

(02:10:25):
now now Ray. For those of the people that are
new listeners to the show, you and I go way back.
When did you make your most famous phone call? Year?
What year was your famous phone call? Ray? I don't know.
Let's been long, too long, Like, how are we talking
like five years something? Oh my god, it's been over

(02:10:46):
fifteen years. Can you say just five years? It was
before they fired you? Okay, so it's been at least
eleven years fired Yeah, maybe twelve years. So anyway, Ray
called up one night, stayed on hold forever because he
wanted to talk about a duke in college basketball. But
he then who proposed on the air to his girlfriend

(02:11:09):
and then famously, Ray, at the end of the call,
after you had proposed to your your your girlfriend who
was like sleeping, you like woke her up. It's my
fault because I kept on hole forever. And then you said,
can I still talk about Duke or we actually have
it in the system. Roberto's one of the great moments
in show history. And you you called, you called up
a few years ago. You're not with her anymore, right,

(02:11:30):
you've moved on from that. Oh no, no, we had
we had a beautiful child together though. Oh that's good.
So you can you can tell the kid when the
kid how old is the kid now? She's gonna be seventeen?
Come on, oh my god? All right, anyway, you can
tell the kid that a magical story. You can tell
the kid all about that. You know she's actually enough

(02:11:51):
now to know that. Yeah, I'm actually from Oswego kidsas
like from where Trenton called. We haven't had a y
On called, oh because we have an eighty share in Oswego, Kansas.
Is that how you say? Oswego, Kansas? Yeah, yewee Sweego
we Go. Yes. All right, Well, look I'm glad you're

(02:12:12):
still listening. Ray, What are you doing for work these days? Oh?
I work at subway? Oh you do. Well? The bread
smells great at subway. Let me tell you something. That
bread smells pretty good. Yeah all right, Well you gotta
you got a job unlike Weedman, so you're ahead of
the game on that Ray work. I don't. I don't.
I don't even call. Actually, LS do every night. Still

(02:12:35):
I don't have to call to ask for money though.
Well that's good. You're not begging for money like degenerated.
And you do you want to cover the Super Bowl
for Fox Sports Radio? Would you like to ask silly
questions to NFL players? Do I have what? I'm sorry?
I know I'm speaking foreign language. I understand, but but listen,
I did my phone broke up a good night? Okay?

(02:12:59):
Well because of a sweet goo Kansas. The phone lines
apparently are not that great, but I was. I mean, yeah,
you can't say you're not in Kansas anymore because you
are in Kansas. You can't use that line because you
live in Kansas. It's a line you cannot use. All right. Uh,
I gotta go, But Ray, I'm glad you're still listening. Man.
Thanks for being loyal all these years. Man, I appreciate it.

(02:13:20):
Good luck. Yeah about that, man, I kids seventeen years old?
Holy Moses, what the hell happened? Roberto? I don't know, man.
My daughter's ready for crazy man. Those kids are like
markers of time, right, Yeah, exactly, Yeah, damn kids, damn damn, damn, damn,

(02:13:42):
damn damn damn. All Right, spith Maller's show on Fox
will press on. The most amazing name has emerged in
the NFL coaching search for the Cleveland Browns. Are they
really gonna do it? Are they really gonna go to
the or They're in the on deck racle right now
with this guy. But are they going to put him

(02:14:02):
in the batter's box? We'll talk about that and we'll
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(02:14:24):
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(02:14:46):
Unfortunately you don't look naked. And now live from the
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got site to bite coming up later in the hour.
But the Cleveland Browns never disappoint that you're looking for
another head coach. You see the rumor here overnight on
who the Cleveland Browns are all hot and bothered to
get their hands on. They have requested an interview. Did

(02:15:08):
you see this, Eddie? No, I can't wait to hear it. Ah,
this is good. Former Detroit Lions head coach Jim Schwartz,
May the Swarts be with you now. Schwartz is the
defensive coordinator in Philadelphia, and he's one of those guys
that has the reputation of being a good coordinator but

(02:15:32):
not a good head coach. Now. The thing that bothers
me about Jim Schwartz, he's been the defensive coordinate in
Philadelphia since twenty sixteen, and he is credited with helping
the Eagles win the Super Bowl against the Patriots. How
many points and how many passing yards did that Eagles
defense exactly like a Super Bowl record passing yards against

(02:15:54):
the Jim Schwartz defense. And he's being credited as a
defensive guru winning the Super Bowl and all that. And
the Eagles over the last few years, they had one
year where they were fifth and one year where they
were fourth. But they've they've also been above that. I mean,
they've they've been up and down in Philadelphia. And Jim

(02:16:14):
Schwartz coached the Lions. He had a twenty nine and
fifty one record as coach of the Detroit Lions. And
that is the hot name, the hot name. The Browns
organizer seun they've already interviewed the Buffalo offensive coordinator Brian Dabble.
I believe it's his name, Uh, Robert Dabble, No dab Dable,

(02:16:38):
Dable and the forty nine ers defensive quarter That guy's
always on TV, Robert Sally, Uh, He's He's been interviewed
Eric Bienemy of the Chiefs, their offensive quinner a bunch
of Greg Broman and I should be interviewed as well.
If you're gonna put Jim Schwartz out there, why not me.

(02:16:58):
You know what Jim Schwartz is. Jim Schwartz is the
defensive equivalent of Pat Schremer. Maybe that's what Tom Brady needs.
It needs to face Jim Schwartz again. That's Tom Brady's
last great game. Man. Yeah, there you go. By the way.
Pat Schremer, who was let go as the Giant said coach,
said to be drawing interests from multiple teams to be
an offensive coordinator. The good Old Boys network is alive

(02:17:22):
and oh well alive and well all right. I have
no idea who's on hold here? I asked both to
reset the calls. He has not done that. So let's
just go randomly to the phones and we'll see who's there. Hello,
Line three, you're on the air. Hello, Line three, going on,
Moving man, Matt, Who I are you? Are you a

(02:17:43):
citizen of the United States? Moving man, Matt. I was
offended by the question, but yes, I am. You are. Yeah,
so you gotta tell us as you were driving? Are
you you were in Texas? Is al Paso? Is that right?
Pretty much Warrez, Mexico. But yeah, I was at El Paso.
All right, So you're in Warrez, Mexico, slash e pass
and you were who stopped you as a border control checkpoint?

(02:18:08):
And so racist moving man Matt who lives not far
from Plymouth Rock. Uh, you were asked whether or not
you are a citizen of the United States. Are you
a citizen by the way, you are, right? Yes? Yeah?

(02:18:28):
Did they want to make sure he wasn't carrying any
drugs there for the cartels? You know, did you have
any did you have by that border drug Do you
have any drugs in your truck? No? You do not?
Are you sure about that? You don't know? Well, let
me ask you what I say exactly. Yeah. That's the

(02:18:49):
most amazing thing about your truck drivers, Like a lot
of you have no idea what's in the back of
your truck because they're afraid you might, you know, steal it. Right.
I learned this years ago from a truck driver that
blows me away these big, massive trucks all over I
think I would like to know what's behind me, right,
I would like to know what I'm I'm hauling there.
But a lot of you guys have no idea. But

(02:19:10):
you're moving man, Matt, So you know you're moving stuff
from houses, and that's how you you know what's behind you.
Oh yeah, and I loaded and unloaded. And most of
those other guys think we're crazy. Yeah, because they just
pick up the rig and drive right. They don't have
to do the loading and the unloading. Oh yeah, sure.
Otherwise they know what's in there. They know that there's
a bunch of iPhones in there, and you might want

(02:19:30):
to pull over to the side of the road and
you got free iPhones. Yeah, I'm curious the climent I'm
gonna be returning home to. I mean a lot have
changed since I left. Then, well, you're a Giants fan, though,
you gotta be happy about the misery here of Patriot Nation,
all upset and all the angst around the Patriots is.
This is gonna be good though, for talk radio in Boston,

(02:19:52):
because if Brady leaves and they have to bring in
a new quarterback, it is going to be explosive talk
radio to this figure out who they bring in. It
can be great. Yeah, I just he's not going anywhere.
He's not going anywhere. I mean, I heard you put
you know, set the odds at sixty five, and he's

(02:20:13):
not going anywhere. He's either retiring or they're resigning them. Well,
I would tend to agree with you, because all it
takes is Brady to call Robert Kraft up or text
him and say, hey, I want to play again, and
Robert Kraft will go to Belichick and say, go suck Rocks.
We're gonna have Brady another year, and it's gonna be
something like a front loaded, a three year front loaded

(02:20:34):
with a bunch of money buried through TV, you know,
a TV twelve brand. And well, no, well he's well, Brady,
whenever he retires, we'll have one of those We're one
of those red jackets and come out and shake hands
and kiss babies and all that stuff. That's how that's
gonna go. For the rest of his life. He will
come back to haunt the future Patriot quarterbacks. There. All right,
I gotta go moving man, Matt. But I'm glad you

(02:20:56):
survived the border checkpoint there and Texas and mexicom so
I'm glad to hear that. Yeah, all right, Top Ben
Mather Show on Fox. We are gonna get here in
a couple of minutes to site the bite, but you
also have to release the beast. You've got to release
the beast. We'll get to that. It's not what you mean.
Did you see that crazy story out of the UK

(02:21:17):
about the the woman who has a weird fetish she
eats baby powder? Like, yeah, yeah, for fifteen years, this
is almost amazingly there was a TV show about people
who eat weird stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but for fifteen
years this woman has spent you know, ten bucks a

(02:21:39):
week or whatever on a bottle of baby powder and
eating it. Seems healthy. She's still alive, though she didn't
look very good, but she's still alive. Dye. I mean,
how about that, You eat any weird stuff you want
to share with the class, Any weird things that you consume? Nope, No, nothing,
Roberto anything odd that. When I was a kid, my
bookers all the time, salty. I used to I liked

(02:22:04):
Elmer's glue. I was bored in school, so I would
pour Elmer's glue all over my hands and then pick
it off, and I enjoyed that. I like the smell
of gasoline, but I've never had gasoline. I've ever eaten gasoline,
So that's not that's not happened bow any weird things
both of shows in producing any odd things that you've eaten.

(02:22:24):
I ate my own tooth once. Well, but you didn't
realize you were eating it? Right? No, not on perfect
and like put it on the play. You're not like
a cannibal. Yeah. No. I took a bite of a
hamburger and noticed that my tooth was gone. So I
tugged my mom on her shirt and I was like, hey,
my tooth's gone. Yeah. Bad, bad news for you, good
news for the dentist, bad news for the tooth fair.
Yeah yeah, oh yeah, you swallowed us. You don't get

(02:22:46):
the money for somehow, I still did. It's gotta come
out somehow, a right, one way or another. It's gotta
come out. Yeah, all right. It is the Ben Matter Show,
where company from the Gatco of rock sports radio students.
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(02:23:07):
free rate quote. Let's go to I believe Rachel and Manabello.
I think, hello, Rachel, there she is Militia. Happy New
Year to you, Rachel. Release a beast to the Ben
mallor time capsule Billy dooey. There's the that's the beast.

(02:23:27):
We had the beast right there. The rumor is not correct.
I do not eat baby powder. You do not. You
are not the woman in question that eats the baby powder. No,
absolutely not, all right? And Ben, how does how does
baby powder taste? I wouldn't even to try it. I mean,
what do you eat? You mix it with your pasta, like,

(02:23:47):
how do you eat? I wonder how she eats it? Yeah,
I don't know. That would give you a serious indigestion,
apparently now she's been doing it for fifteen years. No,
but I eat a lot of Tamali's this Christmas. Did
you eat it? You did? I I ate very well.
I took a little pause from the diet. I'm back on.

(02:24:07):
I haven't eaten since Sundays, so I'm back on the diet.
Now back on the fasting and all that. But I
did enjoy some fine Mexican food and some Italian food,
telling Roberto about the new Italian joint I found in Vegas,
which has been there for a long time. And I
had some good alfredo, which I enjoyed, little fetecchini alfredo,
which I like, So it was good. Then you have

(02:24:28):
to eat a little bit each day because if you
don't want to end up in the hospital again. No, no, no,
you actually don't. You know. Back in the early days
of human beings, I've read about this people had. They
didn't have like big grocery stores. You didn't have Walmart
where you can go get a side of beef, and
people would go many days without eating because hunters had
about a two hundred batting average, which means eight out

(02:24:50):
of ten times they went out to hunt, they didn't
kill anything to eat, so they people had to eat.
They did eat other things like plants and went up,
but they didn't they didn't always get food the way
we get food every few hours. So it's my dietary
advice from an overnight radio guy. We just don't want
you to get sick again. Well, I can't lose my
gallbladder again. That can't happen. No, that's true, to lose

(02:25:12):
some other stuff versus more important, I guess. But yeah, Ben,
I think Tom Terrific stays in New England. I don't
see why he wouldn't, so you are not. I want
to put that on the Twitter feed there that Rachel
and Manabello is reporting that Tom Brady will stay with
the Patriot. Yes, absolutely, there's a ninety percent chance he
will stay. Ten percent he would leave. But where would

(02:25:34):
he leave. I don't think the Chargers, I don't think
Champa Bay. No will say Indianapolis. But I think he's
going to stay. I think it's going to stay. You
believe he will stay, he said ninety percent. I mean,
I mean where else. He's either going to go to
Brazil and hang out with Giselle on a beach in
Brazil or play football with the Pages. She probably hit
him over the head with a baseball bat. Who knows,

(02:25:57):
really she would bludge you in. Tom Brady tweet that out.
That's a better story. That's a wild story there that
you're recording that. Rachel, that's a crazy story. We missed
you all right now. I know I'm back. Don't worry, Raggy.
Listen very kind of you. I know we had a
falling out right before. There was some tension before the

(02:26:17):
Talent Show last year. We're gonna do the Talent Show
again now. Jay Scoops won the last two years. You
were the runner up the first year. Oh Ben, I
just wanted to help the show, you know, help I know,
I know you. Listen, we're gonna do the talent show
this summer when nothing's going on, So I want you
to be prepared for that. Okay, I've always been prepared.

(02:26:37):
Oh look at that. She's always she was a girl
scout back in the day. All right, thank you, Rachel,
all right, nine, thank yous. Drops. Let's see. I think
we've got cowboy John Brad and are you there a cowboy?
All right, there's cowboy up on the Ben Mountain. You
don't even have to screen cowboy bow. I know when
cowboy calls the show. Let's go to cowboy, and when's

(02:27:00):
you go? Ahead? Cowboys? How about them cowboys? For hiring
Mike McCarthy and of course Detroit Lions, please find police
draft Two and four years ago today, Larry Williams forty
four saying Bony Moroney and short Fat Fanny back in

(02:27:21):
the late fifties and rever the Beatles songs died. Dariously
was killed by the mob January, becoming the first of
the four major rockers to die. In nineteen eighty and
uh January sixth, nineteen ninety one, Alan Wiggins became the
first regularlye ballplayer to die of aids and the great
jazz man John bu Dizzy Gospie January sixth, women at

(02:27:48):
three at age seventy five of pancre icncer, which, as
I said, killed my sister h Stick a little bit
more than six years later. And U, now there you go.
That is a complete load of crap. Where he goes
no one knows, So I release the beast. The story
out of Seattle that the Seahawks have decided to increase

(02:28:12):
Marshawn Lynch's workload. Now I'm confused about this story. Pete
Carroll appeared on radio in Seattle and said that they
will likely give him more of an opportunity. Marshawn Lynch,
first of all, has looked terrible. He's not only been
a running back, he's been looked old and slow. Secondly,

(02:28:32):
what is the rule from the book The Art of War?
You're never supposed to reveal to your opponent what your
battle plan is in an athletic competition. So why would
Pete Carroll announce, Hey, we're gonna run Marshawn Lynch. More,
why would he announce that. I'm not saying it's not
going to happen, but what good does it do you
to tell the Green Bay Packers that your thirty three

(02:28:54):
year old running back is going to get or done
in this game this week? It makes no sense. I
think Pete Carroll was just trying to kill time on
a radio interview and just get through the damn interview.
And he answered the question the way he answered the question.
Everyone took the ball and rain with it. All Right's
Ben Mallers Show on Fox. Site the Bite the great

(02:29:15):
sports radio mystery this. We'll see how Bow comes up
with something here. If it's hard, if it's easy, we
don't know. But site the Bite next, get a job,
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and now from the guy Goo, Fox Sports Radio Studios

(02:29:58):
it's Ben Maller. It's time now to site to site
to bite, Bite where we play random generic sound bite,
you know, in a sports and entertainment cliche spoken by
so called experts. You try to tell us who's doing
the talking. All right, we get to it. It is

(02:30:21):
time now for site to bite. If you would like
to play Site to Bite, only a limited number of
people get to play. So there's a couple lines open
right now you can sneak in. Have the rare opportunity
to play a radio game show. Eight seven seven nineteen
nine six sixty three six nine, eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox is the number you can call in

(02:30:43):
and be part of the amazing radio show. So the
way this works, we have a sound bite from the
world of sports the last seven to ten days and
you have to figure out who it is. Now the
key is we only play a little little bit, a
little bit and you have to figure out who it is.
So Bo put this together. Bow the show this week,

(02:31:04):
by the Wayside, the bite brought to you by Discover.
We treat you like you treat you. And let's go
to the audio tape. As Warner Wolf would say, here's
this week's mystery voice. I want to thank my lord.
I want to thank my lord. Oh boy, I want
to thank my lord. Someone will get this right away,
but I want to thank my lord. Wow, I want

(02:31:27):
to thank my lord. Okay, all right, will anyone get
this right? Someone from the world of sports the last
seven to ten days. If no one gets this right,
I'm gonna slap every one of you, starting with you
in the back. I will say, Eddie caller number two,
We'll get this right you, Eddie caller five, all right,

(02:31:47):
Roberto caller number single, no middle single, all right, right,
right off the bat? What about you? Bo? Which caller
will get it right? Nobody's gonna get it. Nobody's gonna
get it. I want to thank my lord. I want
to thank my Look if nobody gets my lord to
thank your lord. All right, let's get to it. Here
we go and yeah, so good times. Let's start out

(02:32:10):
with Rob in Vegas. Rob is caller number one. Hello,
Rob in Happy New year? Thank you? Um. Is that
Ricky Gervase bitch flapping the Hollywood League? I did see
that was a good job by Ricky Gervase. Is it
Ricky Gervaise? No, not Ricky Gervaise. All right, thank you

(02:32:32):
for that. Rob, alright, blow me up for bird. That
was what he was gonna say. But all right, there
he goes. Time now for caller number two. See here,
play the SoundBite again, play again. I want to thank
my lord. All right, you we'll go to line line three. Hello,
line three? Who is this? Uh? What up? Ben? Sh

(02:32:56):
is that? Uh? Is that? Uh? To what who you mean?
I want to thank what? I don't know the name
are you saying? Tom Coughlin? Is that what you're saying?
Eastern quartaback photoback? Oh? Well that makes all the more
sense in the world. No, apparently you did not get it, buddy.

(02:33:20):
These people tried. I mean, all right, first clue, first clue. Uh.
This person's entire family relocated move. They uprooted their lives
to follow this person to watch him play college football.

(02:33:41):
I want to thank my lord. All right, caller number three,
let's see here, let's go. Yeah, well it's kind of
kind of obvious. Line number four, Hello, line four, Well,
that's Justin Cincinnatius, ta call it five. I was Cauli five.

(02:34:04):
He was calling. There you go, justin gets it right.
As to a tongue of eye law and This is
probably the most obvious one that we've had since. Remember
that there was one time Steve Nash was in the
news and Coop played like a twenty second sound bite
of Steve Nash, and that was kind of obvious. But this,

(02:34:25):
I mean, Bo, you've really gone deep into the bag
of tricks here to try to fool the listeners. Because two,
who's a you know, god fearing quarterback at Alabama now
formerly about and I cut like a second and a
half out of it, Yeah, yeah, and plenty of time.
And I watched the two of news conference most of

(02:34:46):
it was related to religion, and yeah, man, that's a
bold move by you bow the show. A lot of
people would not have done that. It still took three callers.
I mean, now, are you bothered by the fact, Bo,
that people think that me and you that you you
kind of look like me? Does that bother you? I
don't think you look like me at all. No, I don't.

(02:35:07):
I don't see it either, But why would it bother me?
You know why? The person that does that is gag On.
He's blind, he's legally blind, and he can't hear. I
think he's just jealous that you and I already such
a good friend. Well exactly, Well, you you're a professional,
you work hard, you work with my schedule, unlike that
schmuck ola and who does not work with my schedule.
And I use as these little high school soccer games,

(02:35:29):
and I gotta, I gotta change my whole schedule, So
paint in the ass. I'm sick and tired of hold
me up, Rocky Roberto

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