Saints Loses Another Heartbreaker

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the sign has not been fixed. I don't know about
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line one to be fixed because I'm planning a birthday
party for line one being broken for a full year.
But we have to get through a couple more weeks.
But we are back at it here and glad to
be back with you. You know. I was debating. I
was like, I always save all the days that I

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accumulate during the year to the end of the year,
but maybe it would be better to spread it out
a little bit and take a summer vacation. So it's
not because I feel like I've been gone, like this
is my first time in radio in a long time,
Like it's like a new medium, talk radio to fascinating thing.
But we'll get to all that. We have plenty of time.
You have four hours, as a guy used to work
with would say, blank canvas of talk radio, four hours

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to debate all of this nonsense. So we will get
to that, all of it throughout the course of the overnight.
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up at the big store. You don't care about all that.
Kirk Cousins finding Kay Rudolf the red nose tight end
in the back of the end zone on the opening
drive of overtime, and the Minnesota Vikings gobsmacked the New
Orleans Saints the big bad bullies, right, people said the
Saints the most talented team. Blah blah blah blah blah blah.

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They're dead. That Saint said dead. Here's how it's sounding.
Third and gold fall on the four yard line. Cousins
in the gun three by one, do is right, Saint
Joy pressure, they bring pressure Lobbitt to the back of
the end zone. Touchdown Kyle Rudolph. That's a full extension
with the right arm by Kyle Rudolph. And of course
this would come down to a review. The officials are

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jogging off the field, it appears, and the officials are
jogging off or the field. I mean, there's nothing song
I can do as far as the time out is concerned,
and the officials jog off the field. In the Superdome,
T J. Williams takes the hand right to the middle
of the numbers in the back of the end zone
on the game winning catch and stuff falling out of
the rafters towards the officials can completely unbiased. On the

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WWL Saints Radio network, absolutely, I don't if you saw
this or not if you miss it. It It has become
like clockwork in recent years, and I'd like to thank
the New Orleans Saints franchise for making my life easy, right.
They the New Orleans Saints. They put up video game

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like numbers during the regular season. They look like this
amazing juggernaut of a team, and they turn out to
be total frauds year after year. In the postseason, right
the doomsday prophecies kicked in again for the Saints. That
those guys from the Bayou. There you heard all the
noise last year, right, all the noise after that Ram

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Saints NFC Championship game. Right now, I am dancing on
your grave, New Orleans shot in Freud. I'm overdosing on
schotten Freud, is what I'm doing here. Oops, it happened again.
It's an old song, but it did happen again. And
that smug Sean Payton and all those cry baby Saints fans.

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So congratulations to the Vikings who have aspirations and now
I might I add legitimate aspirations to make the Super Bowl.
And somewhere Jim in Providence took my advice. I said
before the NFL season, ben on the Vikings. Go with
the Vikings. They've got the Zimmer defense. They can run

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if if anything eventually happens with Cousins where he figures
it out, the Vikings are set up. If you beat
the Saints in New Orleans, you can certainly beat the
forty nine Ers in Santa Clair. Of course, the opposite
alternative universe as well for the Vikings. Now that Cousins
has won a game, he will morph back into a stooge,

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and he will go out and throw two interceptions and
look miserable, look like a lost puppy dog against the
forty nine ers defense next week. So let us discuss
then we know the better stories and losing locker room,
and we're not gonna pretend like it's not. The Saints
get robbed? Were they hornswaggled by the referees? He had
a get of course not. It's ridiculous. Now my thoughts,

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You've got John Hancock microscope and Dunce cap, and we
will combine all these things together will make some boba ganoosh.
I've made boba ganush in a couple of weeks. I
hope I still know how to make boba ganoosh. I
was gonna make chicken Alfredo, but I'll make that next
hour because I found some good Alfredo Feduccini. Alfredo's the
way to go. So hey, Kirk, Cousins. Listen, we can

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say what we want about the Saints that we will
get to that. But Kirk Cousins stepped up the Saints defense,
which had been highly rated and celebrated by many of
the NFL mainstream media. We're not mainstream around overnight. The
mainstream media had celebrated the New Orleans defense, but they
were unape unwilling to slow down the Minnesota offense in

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particular and overtime. But it wasn't just the overtime. The
much maligned quarterback of Minnesota goes on a nine play
march down the field seventy five yards in New Orleans,
and all that braggadocia of the Saints defense and this
ferocious attacking ball hawking defense a total emasculation situation. Kirk Cousins,

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we played the play there. The big play was actually
before the touchdown. That's set up the touchdown, Cousins finding
Adam Feeling on a forty three yard pass play down
to the Saints two yard line. And it wasn't like
that was a catching run by Theelan. Forty of those
yards came in the air. He only tacked on three

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yards after the catch. Yakat yak. Most of that was
through the air by Cousins. So who you're gonna blame
for that particular player, We know, we know you're blaming
the referees New Orleans for the final play, but it's
it's the play later obviously everyone's been focusing in on.
But what about the theland play now? So it was
a third down and four at the New Orleans four

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yard line when Cousins found Kyle Rudolph on the left
side of the end zone. And until something else replaces
that play, this was the John Hancock moment for Kirk Cousins,
that is is now his signature moment wild Card weekend
and he gets it done in overtime and beats Hall

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of Fame Drew Brees, who keeps messing up. He keeps
messing up. Nobody wants to talk about that, right, it's
our little secret. We'll all talked in hush tones. But
it keeps screwing up in playoff games. It's happened more
often than not in recent years. But this was the
John Hancock. This was the signature moment. By the way,
if you're a millennial or younger than that and you

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don't know who John Hancock is he was the first
signer of the Declaration of Independence. You should have learned
that in school right way back in the day in
Philadelphia at Independence Hall. Who in Philly. This does not
a race. I want to point something out. A lot
of broadcasts told your cousins was the real Neil shot up? Stupid?

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Let me explain something. One performance on wild Card weekend
does not a race. All of those week games now, Yes,
this is a defining moment for Kirk Cousins, and congratulations.
He actually made a fortune for Vegas because everyone expected
the Saints to at least the very least win the game.

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They might not cover the spread, but a lot of
people toss the Saints in on the money line to
win by at least a point. The Vikings now head
to Santa Clara for a date with the forty nine ers.
As we talked about, that'll be the early game on Saturday,
so that kicks off the next weekend of NFL playoff
activity from Northern California, and the Titans will play the

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Ravens in the primetime game that's also on Saturday. Wouldn't
it be amazing if Ryan Tannehill ends up in the
AFC Championship game. Wouldn't that just be mind bogger? We
saw what happened to Lamar Jackson last year in the
playof Now he's been much better this year, but man,

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And then on Sunday you got the Texans who were
given a gift more on that later from Buffalo. And
you'll be Texans at Chiefs in the early game, and
then Seahawks will play the Packers in the late game
at Lambo. But let's get back to the elephant in
the room here, the play at the very end that
won the game for the Vikings. And did you see
part B of this? Did you see former NFL referee

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Terry mcaulay who works as a rules boss at he's
the boss over at NBC, right, And he stoked the
flames of outrage on social media. He claimed, this is
a former NFL referee, that Kyle Rudolph was guilty of
offensive pass interference. Now, he said that because Rudolph extended

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his arms to create clear separation from the defender. By
the rule book, that's a violation. Now keep in mind
that this is the old by the letter of the
law versus the spirit of the law debate. And I
because I like to go over the speed limit when
I drive at night. I am a spirit of the
law person. I don't believe in the letter of the law.

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I believe there are liberties that the the police have as
far as when enforcing, you know, because if everyone's going
eighty five miles an hour and the speed limits seventy
five miles an hour, seventy miles an hour, everyone's going
with the flow of traffic. So I don't believe that
you can't give a ticket to everyone, right, So you're
cherry pickings fishing a barrel when you give tickets to
people and they drive around. I like all that, but

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the letter of the law versus the spirit of the
law debate. It's and also Terry McAuley in general, it's
kind of the equivalent of asking a former NFL referee
whether this is a penalty or not. Who's you know,
working doing television. Most of the time, it's like calling
an ambulance chasing lawyer. Every city, And I traveled a
little bit over the last couple weeks. Every city I've

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gone to the every billboard around town, they have these
ambulance chasing lawyers asking you give us a call if
you think you have a case, you call one of
those numbers. Ninety nine point nine percent of the time
they will say, yes, you have a case, come on down.
The price is right, we got a deal, right. So yeah,

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by the letter of the law, you could have called
offensive past interference. But I am a spirit of the
law guy, and it is a slippery slope. In my
expert opinion, having watched the Bruder film style coverage over
and over, this was not a penalty on Kyle Rudolf.
I'll tell you why because under review, you would have

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had to have gone back to the beginning of that
play and you would have had to call defensive past
interference because if you pull out the microscope and the
SATs into pologist don't want to hear this. On the
final play New Orleans, the defensive back P. J. Williams,
I think he's a guy's name. He grabbed the arms
of Kyle Rudolph before the exchange that took place there.

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Even blind Scott was able to see that the Saints
defensive player grabbed the arms of Kyle Ruff. It was
hand fighting, which no I know football has changed a lot,
but it was a good no call. Let him play,
Let him what don't we always Ever since I've been
doing this nonsense, I've always heard at the end of

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the game, the officials are not supposed to aside the
outcome of a game. Can someone tell the Saints that's
how it works, you dummies? What's wrong with you? This
was not a miscarriage of justice against the Saints franchise
that the cry babies in the Bayou? There, calm the

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f down, right, Go out, boy, I wish I sold
pacifiers in New Orleans. I'd make a fortune, right, all right,
Go out, get a pass by, get your favorite stuffy,
your favorite stuff to animal, right, your therapy dog, and
knock yourself out. Now, Al Riveron, the overlord of officials,
was level headed on all of this uproar. He said,

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there is contact by both players, but none of that
contact rises to the level of a foul. So now
he says a lot of the same nonsense every week,
A Riverons will take it with a grain of salt.
So he said, they let the call on the field stand. Now,
the officials on the field did the right thing. They
let them play food to ball, right, they let him

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play football. The whatsification of the NFL, which is very
much in vogue. Now everything's a penalty, everything's egregious, everything's
like a war crime. They want to have a police state,
frame by frame penalty enforcement in the NFL. It's absurd,
It's patently absurd. The Saints came back. Should have put
the Vikings to bed late in the game, right now,

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that the Vikings more than held their own, But New
Orleans had plenty of chances late in that game. Drew
Brees sucked at a time he should not have sucked.
He choked, he had a key fumble. He was just
mediocre throughout the game. And he's able to dodge the criticism.
Right he's the new teflon Don Drew Brees. You can't

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criticize Drew Brees, the visionary tactics. Everyone's talking about the
Kyle Rudolph play at the end of the game, and
they're not talking about all the other stuff that's here
from Sean Payton, speaking of dodging. Here is Sean Payton
do a tap dance as he tries to avoid going
right in on the referees and what happened at the end.

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Explanation on the last play. Did you think I listen? Um?
That wasn't I didn't. I didn't really, I didn't see
any officials. I saw Mike. We chatted for a little
bit and saw some of the other players as we
coached in the Pro Bowl and congratulated them. And they
did a good job. They played well. Yeah. Can you

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mumble some more? Please? Can you stumble and bumble and
mumble a little bit more? All right? Last word on
this stout when now we don't do list radio. Other
shows do list radio. We don't do list radio. However,
I am going to say that this is the second
most painful loss in the modern era of the New
Orleans Saints. Now I still have New Orleans blowing the
game to the Rams that would have sent them to

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the Super Bow. Wasn't the referees that the Saints blew
the game? They had the ball first in overtime? You see,
you see, let me be a grown up here. You
see what you do at the end of a playoff
game in overtime, You take the ball and matriculate the
ball down the field to score a damn touchdown. Go home.
That's what the Vikings did. The Saints last year won
the coin toss. They got the ball first against the Rams.
What did they do Drew Brees through an interception, you

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lose the game, you deserve to lose. You're a bunch
of losers all right now, But that was more painful
last year. I believe though that for my money, the
Kyle Rudolph touchdown, I put that number two on the list,
ahead of the Minneapolis miracle, right. And the reason why, Now,
the Minneapolis miracle was in obviously Minnesota, but it was

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on the road for New Orleans. It was a whiff
tackle by Marcus Williams who turned into a human bowling
ball if you remember that that play, and then took
out the other only other Saints defensive players that could
have made the play. He took them out like a
bowling ball, knocking pins down. But that was a fluke, right,
that's a fluke play. This was not a fluke play.

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The Minnesota Vikings dominated the game. They were held the Viking,
the Vikings defense holding the Saints in check. And then
Kirk Cousins, Kirk Cousins, Bloody Cousins, nine plays, seventy five yards.
He punched you in the face, New Orleans, he punched

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you with a Kirk Cousins. Everyone laughs into me. He's
a punchline and he beat you eight it anyway, let's
say Victor Brick reference. Anyway. Listen, here's the deal, Sean Payton.
We played a little Sean Payton. He needs to wear
the Dunce cap yet again. I hope he enjoys wearing

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the Dunce cap. He will continue to be you know,
the smug sank many you know to manius nonsense. Here
the Mama Luke. There you go. That's the word, Mama
Luke of the NFL. Now practice. How many more times
does the NFL have to adjust the rule book before
the Saints can win another Super Bowl? How many more
rules are going to have to be twisted around? And

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also Sean Payton talk about clock management. Shout out Andy Reid,
who was very impressed when Sean Payton said, I'd rather
hold on to the time out than I don't want to.
I don't worry about ten seconds. How'd that work out?
All right? We'll hear more from some of the key partisans,
including one person with the Saints who believes that the
rules will be changed because of this outcome. We'll take

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your phone calls. We'll say hello to everybody. We are
back for twenty twenty first show for me of the
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We'll get to all that and whine time as well,
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I'm happy though. I sent those the other the day

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and I didn't know. You know, Coop's not here. He's
not in the building. And we have the great lead
a lap who's taking a nap. I no, he's not,
but he's here, and I'm happy you got those. I'm
excited about that, and you didn't complain like last year
when you know, we changed the liners. We're now good
radio shows changed their liners like every month. Now every

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month there's new liners, and there's people that get paid
a lot of money to do that. We have and
what do we do? We have no budget. And well,
Coop's supposed to do it. I mean that's he's the
producer of the show. He's supposed to write that. But
he didn't do it, and he's never shown any motivation
to do it. So I do it. But I do
it once a year because I have a little time
at the end of the year, and so it spent
some time on the plane there and I wrote some

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things down and um, so those are some new rejoons,
which is very exciting. You know why I didn't complain.
Why is that because I didn't even know until you
didn't realize that I looked out. Well last year, if
I recall, you said, boy, this is stupid, and you
whine and you acted like a Saints fan for a while.
You complain to see if how these are? Yeah, Melcolman,

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Mike and Colorado. Right, So he says, welcome back, Ben,
looking forward to another year of groundbreaking news from the
cronkite of Overnight Pascal in Brooklyn. Yeah, people were concerned
that marcel and Brooklyn has apparently been off social media
for like a week, and they're wondering what happened to Marcelle.
I don't know. I don't know, but if he does

(20:29):
not check in in the next couple of weeks, we
will have to have an investigation. We'll call the NYPD
and we will do a wellness check over at Marcelle's
house to make sure he's okay. We'll get we'll get
Tammy involved. Yeah, Tammy will find out what's going on
with Marcella. But we think he's fine. He just maybe
hanging out with Uncle Dynamite or something like that. They're
having a good time. Valls fan Jimmy says, the fifth

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hour podcast and your trip gets five, So yeah, download
that if you want to hear all the exclusive details.
I actually did it during the break, which means I
get an extra day off because I actually worked during
the whole thing with Gagon, who's for some reason they
won't get rid of him. He's still just horrible. David
just ruins every podcast I do. I do this great
work and then he just complained. He hates the Mallard militia.

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He winds about everyone's that listens to the show. He
complains about everybody. He's a pain in the end. Easy money, right,
Sin says, the real big Man is back. His sarcastic
Mallar monologues are back, and his second gallbladder is back
and working for now. Now I don't have to worry
about well, I guess you could get gall stones even
though you don't have a gallbladder. But I don't have

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a goal. It's my first full year without a gallbladder.
What a great accomplishment. I'm so proud of myself that
I did no longer have my goalplayer. Does anyone know
how much a gallbladder weighs? What's the weight of a
gall bladder? I'm curious, like how much weight I lost
just from having my gall bladder out. It's a good thing.
Ernie the great old Pina rights and says Ben, welcome back.

(21:55):
Glad you survived the Mallard militia march in Seattle. And
why couldn't your boy, soft Mauler, he says, Mallard here,
but Softy Maller get you into the game. Who well,
Softy is the big afternoon drive star on KJR and
Seattle and Icon in Seattle Radio for some time. I

(22:15):
did not ask Softy Mallar to get me in. He
was aware of the situation. He could have if he
had chosen done something. He decided not to. But I
don't think in reality, I want to defend soft I
don't think he has Everyone thinks he's got the kind
of juice there where he can call the Seahawks and
and snap his fingers and then they bow down. I
don't think that's how it works. I'd be very surprised

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if that's how it works. But he did not offer,
so we didn't get I was really hoping to have
the Mauler Mallar photo, but we didn't get that. I
saw you guys were in front of the city Hall.
That's awesome. Yeah it was great. Well, we were marching now,
I was. I was holding the Roberto Fathead as we
were marching down. Yeah, it was great. I was giving

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you some promotion there. I noticed though, most of the
people that were around us were homeless people as we
were marching. So we promoted the show. And it was
funny because because eddin't spoken realizing the crowd we were
talking to were mostly homeless in that part of Seattle
in front of City Hall, pointed out, well, on a
transistor radio, you can't listen for free to the show,
which I thought was kind of cool. Thank you. Ed

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to be fair, Yeah, we do have folks like weed
Man and Tames and those kind of guys listen to
the shows the Obama phones. They got the Obama phones
going where they get the free government. It's not exactly
an audience we don't tap into, that's true. Yeah, we
got guys that are more homeless down there, Lock or

(23:43):
whatever word from him while you were gone by the way,
oh weed Man, But no one concerned about him apparently
like they are ourself. So how should I approach manage?
But I want to we'll get to that here because
I have a decision I have to make here and
I don't know that. I don't think this is gonna
go the way I wanted to go, but I'm gonna try.
We'll get to that coming up, Mama tell you, we'll
take a bunch of these phone calls as well. At
eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, we also have

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wine time to get to but to get back on
track because I am on time, outed by the clock
for the clock, possibly all about the clock except for
this hour. Let's go to Eddie to get your cut
up on everything going on in the sporting world. And
of course we start with the wrap up of wild
card weekend. In the NFL playoffs, we had three of

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the four road teams win, including both of them on Sunday.
Seahawks going to Philadelphia beat the Eagles seventeen to nine.
Seattle had three eighty two yards of total offense. Quarterback
Russell Wilson accounted for three hundred and seventy of those yards.
He had three hundred and twenty five passing and forty
five rushing for Philadelphia. Their starting quarterback, Carson Wentz, was
knocked out of this game in the second quarter with
a parent concussion. Did not return. The Seattle moves on

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and they will play in Green Bay next Sunday in
the divisional round. The Vikings going to New Orleans and
beat the Saints twenty six twenty overtime. With the Saints
kicked a field goal as Tom expired to send into overtime,
but they never saw the ball in ot is because
Minnesota quarterback Cousins took the opening kickoff, drove it down
the field, that hit tied and Mason Rudolph on a
four yard game winning score and that was that for
New Orleans. They have now lost from the final play

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of the game three straight years in the playoffs, including
the last two in overtime. Minnesota advances and we'll play
at the forty nine Ers next Saturday. We had some
games in the NBA, including two games in Los Angeles
on the same day. The Lakers played the late game
beat the Pistons one six ninety nine, Clippers played the
early game, got by the Knicks one thirty five to
one thirty two, and the Heat top the Trailblazers one

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Ben mentioned that Carson Wentz was knocked out of that
game against the Seahawks, and apparently a lot of the
Eagles felt that the hit by Seattle's at Jadevan Clowney

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was dirty. Now Carson Wentz was running with the ball.
Clowney came up from behind. He did tackle him from behind,
It wasn't helmet helmet contact and kind of drove his
head into the ground. Now, Clownie was not penalized. He
said after the game that his intent was not to
hurt him. As for the officials, they said afterwards that
Wentz was a runner, he did not give himself up.
They said they saw the incidental helmet contact and that

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they did not think that was the foul, so that
it was the view of the officials. And the Eagles
apparently aren't buying it. Well, yeah, of course they're gonna
complain about it, But I agree. I watched it as like,
this is not the worst thing in the world. This
isn't as football. You can get smacked around in football.
And if you notice, if you watch it frame by frame,
and who doesn't have a life, and because the Internet,
you can watch everything framed by a frame. But Carson

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Wentz he rolled under Clowney's like the legs of Clowney,
and that caused the body of Clowney to twist a
little bit and then turned his head at the same time.
And so it was the perfect storm Now, I do
not believe in momentum as far as sports, right, I

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don't believe in momentum, but I do believe in the
actual momentum of a human an object in motion Newton's law, right,
I believe in an object in motion stays in motion
and clowney in motion. And then the fact that Wentz,
like I said, the legs moved and it created a
situation where you had Carson Wentz get knocked out of

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the game and he is gonna have to live that down.
I mean, you said, that's just a tough blow for Wentz.
But what is his reputation? Gonna talk about this more
next hour, But what is the reputation of Carson Wentz?
Missus softy Right, He's always hurt, that's his reputation. First playoff,
Remember he didn't play in the playoffs. The last time
Philadelphia was in the playoffs. Yeah, he was driving the

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mister Softy truck around Philadelphia the last time as the
Birtles led the way. He's on his game tonight, Roberto.
He's ready to go. He was here early too. I
was like, well you got here earlier, Roberto. I was
inspired by Tom Hanks. Oh is that right, you watched
the Gold Glows. Yeah, yeah, being being on time, I

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like award shows. I did watch the opening, and I'm
actually glad I did. Was it Ricky Gervais? Good? Yeah,
he just assassinated all of Hollywood. He just unloaded on
all the phonies in Hollywood. It was hilarious. It's amazing.
They bring him back every year. He's always the Yeah,
it's like, yeah, it doesn't Kimmel host that what used
to be Billy Crystal host of the Academy Awards, but

(28:27):
now it's Kimmel, Right, doesn't he do it a lot?
I don't. I don't watch those things. But yeah, because
it was on after the Seahawks Eagles game on my TV,
so I just for some reason I left it on
in the background and then I looked up and Ricky
Gervais was just killing the woke Hollywood community and it
was hilarious. It was it was there wasn't watch I
watched that for a a little there's nothing else. But you

(28:48):
have all these streaming services. You can't find anything to watch.
There's a million different shows you can you can tune
into at the time. So I have a By the way,
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(29:09):
We are now one week into the NFL postseason. Now,
if you know the way the schedule works the NFL postseason,
you got Week two, we know the line up there,
and then you've got the championship games in the AFC
and NFC. Then you have the Pro Bowl, and then
the week after that you have the Super Bowl. And
the Super Bowl is being played in Miami this year. We,

(29:33):
for the twentieth con secutive year I've worked at this company,
will not be going to the Super Bowl. We are
not invited. We're not part of the A list, So
I will not be hanging out in my banana, Hammock
and South Beach. That's not gonna be at the will
be at the NFL Draft. We are not on the
list at the NFL Draft. However, I am considering going

(29:54):
on my own to the NFL Draft because I AI
love Vegas and be you know, I can go there.
I can do the show We've done the show from
Vegas before. Why not, I'd be kind of fun. You
die with that, Eddie, you want to go to Vegas
for the Draft in late April, perhaps perhaps you consider that?
All right? I mean, why not, it's right there. But anyway,
So to get to get to the point, please, I'll

(30:15):
get to the point. So the Super bowls in Miami
were not invited, which is fine. You know, it's expensive
to send people to Miami, and I understand, and there
will be some big name talent here that goes from
Fox Sports Radio, from the company to go to the
super Bowl. But I would like, and we talked about
this before I went on my hiatus at the end
of twenty nineteen. I would like to find a way

(30:36):
for our guy weed Man Hippie to be like our
like Howard Stern used to have stuttering John that would
go and do red carpet interviews and ask very offensive questions.
I would like to have weed Man, who I think
we would write the list of questions and he would
do anything we tell him to do. Now, there's two problems.

(30:57):
A he's gonna want money for this, and I don't
any of us want to pay him, right because it
would come out of our So that's the first problem. B.
I have to go to management at this company and
I have to ask them to put a request in
with the NFL too, credential weed Man Hippie. I guess

(31:17):
I'll have to use his real name. I can't, we
cannot use I don't think the NFL will credential someone
named weed Man Hippie. Then, so what are the chances,
Eddie that I will contact in the next couple of weeks,
maybe even this week, maybe even today, I will contact
our boss, Scott Shapiro, and I will say, Scott, I
have a great idea. All right, it's gonna cost not

(31:39):
cost you any money. All you have to do is
put his name on the list and get him a
credential to the media day. That's it. One media night,
opening night of the Super Bowl they call it. Where
whoever's there, maybe the Vikings and the Ravens or whoever,
the whoever combination the Chiefs and the whatever commedy. All right,

(32:02):
and then he can go around and just ask ridiculous questions.
She says, can I take a shot off? What are
the chances Eddie that management signs up. I'm just putting
them questions that maybe the NFL will deny it. They'll say,
this guy's you know, we can't put him in there.
He's got he's got to give us ID and don't
you have to do it like a security check and
all that when you go to these events. No you don't,
because I've been to two Super Bowl movies and I

(32:24):
don't think they check with me. They just here, here's
the thing. Like I said, I've been to two of
these and I know that they send all kinds of
whack of doodles, so he would fit right in right,
But I bet here's the star. Here's the problem. He
would be representing Fox Sports Radio, and anything he does
would come back on us. And there is a good

(32:48):
chance that while he may be entertaining and ask some
some questions and get some camera time there from the
other folks, because a lot of them they just go
to to to video, the other people want women show
up and stuff like what why can't we have our
guy weed man in a bikini or something like that.
I think the chances of it happening are about zero, Okay,
but I will do my part. I will ask, I

(33:11):
will make the request to management, and it's up to them.
At that point, the ball is in their court. I
passed the baton to them, and then it's up to
them whether they want to put his name on the list.
But I think it would be amazing radio. I think
it would be great. We could come up with questions
he would ask um. The other way we could go
about this, See the primise security is so tight at

(33:32):
these things, but we could have him kind of go
to the Super Bowl hotel and try to or try
to find the players around South Beach in Miami or whatever.
We could do that, but that's a lot more work,
and we'd also have to make sure that he didn't
like pawn off the digital equipment whatever. Oh that's a
good point. Go right to the pawn shop and get

(33:53):
ten dollars for a three hundred you know, three thousand
dollars record or whatever it costs. Yeah, that's I forgot
about that. Yeah, we have to give him a quick
Maybe you could just record it on his iPhone though
some people do that, right, we wouldn't sound well. The
other thing too, Eddie's that that's all broadcast by state
run NFL television. Anyway, we could just take it off
the TV feed at the podium, but we would want

(34:17):
to do non podium stuff too. A lot of questions.
Let's go to weed Man. That's gonna go to weed Man.
He's not on hold. Let's go to Holler and James though,
who's in Minneapolis, Minnesota? Hello, Holler and James. I can't
hear you. Know that actually worked? He stopped talking? Yeah,

(34:44):
what what do you want to hear me? No, I
can't hear you. You got to be able to hear me.
I cannot hear you. Know what's the problem. I can't
hear you? All right? Try that well? No, I really
can't hear you. Now that's really whatever you did there,
that's a real problem. What's going on? I can't hear you.

(35:07):
That's what's going on? This one? Is it? Okay? That's
a little better. It's a little better. I still can't
hear you. What I can't hear you? I'm saying, why
this is not going? Well, it's the first call I'm
out of I'm out of practice here. I'm a little
rusty taking calls here. Come on, Well, I can't hear you.

(35:27):
Who's rusty? Why you heard of that time? No? I
didn't hear that time. What are you talking about I
can't hear you, my vison white woman, but I can't
hear you here? The Vikings won something? What do they wind?
There a parade in Minnesota this week? What's going on?

(35:49):
I didn't. I can't hear you? What? Oh? Forty nine ers? Well,
I can't, I can't. What What do you say, Eddie?
I think Eddie can hear you? I cannot hear you, So, Eddie,

(36:10):
can you translate what he said? He said they're gonna
go beat the forty nine ers? Huh, all right? Why not?
Why can't be? He said they can't. I just heard
him say they can't. Eddie. Did you say they can't?
The Vikings can't beat before the forty niners? I think
he says they can they can? He said that, What
kind of phone are you on? James? I can't hear you?

(36:32):
What kind of phone are you on? Why? Why can't
you hear me? I don't understand it. I don't understand
why I can't hear him, Eddie. I cannot hear the man.
The man's trying to talk, but I can't hear him.
How are we supposed to take calls? If I can't him?
He's online? Two line one still broke. I can't hear him.
He's online too. Try again, Let's go to hollerween James,
Hello James, I can't I cannot hear. Thank you for that, James?

(37:03):
All right? Time now for the who am I? Game?
Here we go. Tennessee Titans horning back Derek Henry one
hundred and eighty two yards risus the Patriots, the third
and most in any road playoff game in NFL history.
I hold the record for the most rushing yards in
any road game in the postseason, of course, not counting
the Super Bowl, which is a neutral site game. Again,

(37:25):
Derrick Henry of Tennessee third and most rushing yards in
any road playoff game in NFL history. I hold the
record for the most rushing yards in any of these
road playoff games, of course, not counting the Super Bowl.
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(38:08):
very upset, so I'm very happy they think it would
be great. Other people say, don't do it, it's a nightmare.
We'll have the who am I game? I gotta eat
the Cowboy Daniel because he's got to hang up. He's
got to call a different radio show at the top
of the hour, so I know you're gonna hang up
Cowboy Dan. Who's the next Cowboy Coach? Either Bill Keller
or Mike McCarthy. All right, big man, I heard you

(38:30):
are on vacation. I flew I waved at you when
I flew over Oregon. I said, somewhere down he's Cowboy Dan. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Bill Caller, you know, we need somebody who's a stand
up to the owner, like Bill Parcel. Heym enough money,
he'll come out of retirement. Yeah, that's not gonna happen.
Keb you better go call the other show though, Cowboy Daniel, No,

(38:52):
they're on kay there, put you back on hold. Then fine,
all right. So Derrick Henry one hundred eighty two yards
for Tennessee against the Patriots, third most of any road
playoff game in NFL history. Think about that. I hold
the record for the most rushing yards in any road game,
not counting the Super Bowl, of course, because that is
a neutral sight game. So that is the question. Who

(39:12):
am I, mister nice guys going with the Seattle Seahawks
PR Department, A bunch of studies there in Seattle. Queen
rocks and I hear it's her birthday, Happy birthday. We
don't do shout outs. Eric Dickerson guests by her Chuck
Munsey from Robin, Minnesota. Marcus Allen tossed up by Lawson
Dick Trickle from Cardiac Stanley, Robin, Vegas is going with

(39:32):
Legion of Doom the Road Warriors. As his answer. Jamal
Lewis guest by I believe that's the guy with the
video game, the anti video game guy. Who else do
we have? Ben Gay guess by Larry, Thank you for that, Larry,
A good product there. Craig in Pennsylvania is going with
Duck Hodges is his answer right? What's your answer? Eddie?

(39:54):
Ron Springs is it? Ron Springs is no, It's believe
it or not. Amon McNeil in the nineteen eighty two
Wildcard game for the Jets two hundred two yards most
of all time. All right, quickly, NBA pick up. I'll
go first, Joe Allen, Mead, Eddie, Let's go with Luca
don j all right, Roberto, John Lee, James Harden, all right,

(40:17):
one more Lee. I will go with Carl Carl, Anthony
Town all right, very good, Roberto Nicola, Jokie, all right,
screw you. Eddie, all right, I'll take Rudy, go Bear
and Bradley Beale, Eddie Donovan, Mitchell, Roberto Christs, Anthony Davis,
we go. Why seconds? Well, because Coop's not here. Cooper

(40:40):
are taking twenty five seconds between picks the job Lee?
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(41:05):
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(41:27):
free ray quote. It was the final game on Wildcard weekend,
the late game and the Sunday television window. As they say,
they're at Seattle Seahawks and the Philadelphia Eagles bouncing around
the field there in South Philly. So Seattle was favored
on the road. It's not like this is an upset.

(41:49):
The Seahawks were expected to win the game, and they
did pull out a Wildcard victory in Philadelphia in a
game that was not enthralling. It was not. Seventeen to
nine was the final score. Neither team scored in the
fourth quarter of the game. Russell Wilson did go over
three hundred yards passing, He had a touchdown, played better

(42:11):
as the game went on. Marshawn Lynch another miserable performance,
but he got a touchdown. Who whoopity damn new he
got a touchdown. But Marshawn since he's come back, has
looked like someone who was serving up drinks at a
tailgate party at a Raider game. Not so good. Six
carries for seven yards for Marshawn Lynch in the game,

(42:32):
but he did have the touchdown, and so Seattle moves
on and they will play in the frozen tundra of
Lambo Field next weekend. I wonder if Pete Carroll wants
to stay at my brother's house over in Appleton, which
is right, you can stay there, hang out. You know,
my brother knows all the great restaurants in Appleton, Wisconsin,

(42:52):
so he can show him around. He's a good pizza place.
There a lot of cheese, a lot of cheese products
in Wisconsin. So more on the Seahawk side. We'll get
to that later and during the week, of course. But
the better story here is the losing locker room. We
know that victory has a thousand fathers, right, but defeat,
the famous quote is an orphan. So so let's discuss

(43:14):
now that the key headline here for Philadelphia is all
about Carson Wentz. Carson Wentz was knocked out of this
game in the first quarter. Bam, he got hit Javan
Clowney and he was down for the countil The question
as we discussed this game and that's really the story
within the story, the subplot. What do you make of

(43:35):
Carson Wentz being bounced out of this game with a
concussion like situation? Now, my observations, you've got dirt, room
service and demons, and we will combine all these things together.
We'll lock them together now. Number one, this is a
sign of the times, all right. As texting a friend

(43:57):
of mine who might or might not have allegiances to
the Philadelphia Eagles, and I was pointing out that if
this had been the nineteen eighties or the nineteen nineties
or the early two thousands, Carson Wentz would have been
cleared to come back to the game. They wuldn't even
been a concussion protocol. He would have played the game,
maybe misses one series for the Eagles, and then he's

(44:19):
back out there slinging the football round. But in these
modern times that we live in, the NFL has shifted
because of a bunch of lawsuits. Blame the lawyers, an
abundance of caution with these concussions. Now, I'm not saying
that's wrong. I'm just saying it's different than when I
grew up watching football and guys would get knocked around

(44:40):
their eyeballs will be spinning in their head and five
minutes later they'd run back out on the field. Right
in days of yore, what would have happened is somebody
from the Eagle medical staff would have told Carson Wentz
rub some dirt on it and get back out on
the field. Now, obviously that didn't happen here, and we
look at this an exam it is and we don't

(45:01):
have all the details on how severe the concussion is.
The Eagles after the game made it seem like he'll
be fine, He'll be okay. Many cheese steak eating, tasty
cake loving Philadelphia fans wanted to have Jadevan Clowney arrested
on felony assault charges for that hit against Carson Wentz.
They believed that it was an egregious act of violence

(45:24):
that was targeted the head of Carson Wentz. I did
not see it that way. We talked about it earlier
in the show. But for those that are just turning
on the show, we like to point out that the
radio program begins when you turn on the magic radio box.
So the way I looked at that play the hit. Now,
everyone in Phillies saying, you know it was a dirty hit.
How dare those scumbags from Seattle, those dirt bags? But

(45:45):
Clowney he didn't. I we'll hear some of the sound
here in a minute. But Carson Wentz he rolled under
Clowney's legs and that movement by Wentz caused his own
contact to be much worse. There to the head of
Carson Wentz. That's the way I saw it, watching it
seven thousand times on social media. But Carson Wentz played

(46:07):
about nine minutes. He played about nine minutes. He attempted
four passes, completed one of them for three yards in
his playoff debut. Yeah to three yards and a cloud
of dust. He also was sacked before he exited stage.

(46:30):
Right now. The second thing here from the Seahawks perspective,
we get back to the years. But from the Seahawks perspective,
this was a gift from the heavens. Right while they
blew home field advantage, they had a chance to be
the number one seed in the NFC, number one, they
could have been number one. I'm tire NFC, and they blew.
They lost Alligator Arms Murray at home the umpa loompa

(46:54):
beat him, and then the game. I was not at
thanks to the incompetency he had. A sex PR department
should all be fired, every one of them that was
responsible for me not being there. Lee agrees, Yes, all right,
Lee agrees thumbs up on that, from leg to lap
who was involved in that. But anyway, the point of
the matter is this, right, Seattle losing to the forty

(47:15):
nine ers at home, losing the cars. Otherwise they would
have had home field advantage in this wild NFC playoff thing,
and they were pretty much guaranteed a win before the
first quarter end. You think about Seattle, how fortunate the
Seahawks are here. Any path to victory for Philadelphia would
have been Carson Wentz having an out of body type

(47:39):
performance because there's nobody else. The coverage are bare in Philadelphia.
It was gonna bet Carson Wentz, who would have had
to have a massive performance running and throwing, being a
dual threat quarterback, and all that didn't happen. Right, So,
by the time the first quarter came doing end, when
Carson Wentz went to the injury tent, the fat ladies

(48:00):
started warming up. And there's a lot to choose from
in Philly, but they started warming up there and having
a wonderful time and doing a little vocal exercise there
as they were preparing turn out the lots the parties
over that was the song which is not normally a
female lead on that, but they sung it. And this
game was handed to the Seattle Seahawks on a room

(48:23):
service card the moment that Carson Wentz went down with
the injury. Even though al michaels I noticed to tone
in al Michael's voice he was hoping, he was hoping
for Josh McCown to have that story book finished. First
playoff game after all these years in the NFL for McCown,
and he leads the Eagles to victory, and another Disney

(48:45):
movie pops up, not exactly Nick Foles two point zero
though in this game. Now McCown, who has been coaching
high school football back in Charlotte, North Carolina. In fact,
even as the Eagle quarterback, Philadelphia allowed him one of
the conditions for McCown to come out of retirement. They
called him up. They said, hey, you want to be

(49:06):
the quarterback for Philadelphia, the backup quarterback. We got an
injury here. He said, I don't know about it. I
got it. I got this job. I got this job
coaching high school football. Yeah, yeah, he was coaching high
school foaball and he continues to coach as foo fotball.
The condition was he had to be allowed to fly
back to Charlotte, but only for the games. So at
Myers Park High School in Charlotte, their coach play didn't

(49:30):
start the game, but play the playoff game wild card week.
McCown had flown back to Charlotte after the playoffs every
Friday after practice. He then coached the team and then
promptly flew back to the Philadelphia area and that was it.
Who needs practice anyway? I think most high school coaches
don't even pay attention in practice, or no, they do,

(49:50):
actually apparently they do, but not Josh McCown. How great
is it you have your coach who only shows up
for the games, so somebody else is coaching the team
during the way. How did that work out? I don't so.
How did Josh McCown do against Seattle? Statistically? He was
not bad, He was not. He completed seventy five percent
of his passages at one hundred and seventy four yards.
He averaged over seven yards per attempt, which is average,

(50:13):
did not throw an interception, However, what is the object
of offensive football in the NFL? Get the damn ball
in the end zone? How did that turn out? Yeah? No,
Against a hobbled, beaten, up, bruised Seahawks defense, McCown failed

(50:34):
to accomplish that basic fundamental task of offensive football. He
was also sacked, not one, not two, not three, not four,
not how about six times? He fumbled twice. Now, somehow
I was able to recover both those fumbles. He made
the Seattle defense that looked like they were beaten, and
at the end of the rope, look for moments of

(50:56):
this game like the Legion of Boom at times, like
the old Legion of Boom was back for the Seahawks
and the Eagles. Listen, they got the B squads, not
all on McCown and all that, but a lot of rejects,
a lot of outcasts who were playing key roles masquerading
as receivers and running backs in Philly. And all they

(51:16):
could muster was a three pack of field goals. That's it.
And there were opportunities. The Eagles had opportunities in Seattle
territory in the fourth quarter, and they went forward on
fourth down a couple of times. It did not go well.
The uphill battle without Carson Waynes, it became a herculean task.
It was just an uphill battle. I was like, oh,
you gotta go work a little bit to go up

(51:37):
the hill. But then it was a herculean task. The
Philadelphia secondary also filled with a bunch of backups, guys
that were packing groceries, and they did not exactly rise
up to the challenge. Here, Russell Wilson played better. We
talked about he played better as the game went on.
How about dk metcal This is the dk Metcalf that
the Seahawks thought they were gonna get every week. He

(51:57):
has not played like this every week. He had seven
just for one hundred and sixty yards and a touchdown
and looked like a monster compared to all the Eagle
defensive backs. Right, he was like he was like twice
the size of everyone in the Philadelphia secondary. And then
the Eagles were trying to match up with that, with
Dallas Goddard and Boston Scott and Miles Sanders and players

(52:19):
like that. Yeah, did not work out. So Philadelphia goes
to the guilla team. They exit stage right. The final
point back to the quarterback conundrum in the Delaware Valley.
So this was supposed to be the opportunity for Carson
Wentz to not be a ghostbuster, but be a demon killer.
He was gonna kill the demons that have been following

(52:40):
him around, show that he is not a fraud, that
he was gonna This guy's gonna break the trend of
being injury prone. Remember Philadelphia when they won the Super
Bowl a couple of years back, it was no help
of Carson Wentz. In the postseason, right, it was a
hundred dog and all that they were the number one seed.
A lot of that was because Carson Wentz. But in
the postseason the afore Men, Nick Foles had an out

(53:02):
of body type performance. We all remember that. Then he
stole a bunch of money from Jacksonville. Should be arrested
for what he did in Jacksonville last year. What a
criminal performance that was. That's a different conversation. The Philly
Special had nothing to do with Carson Wentz. Nothing in
his first opportunity here. It was first chance in the
playoffs and in essentially a blink of an eye, about

(53:24):
nine minutes, it's over see you later. I'm done. You
can't play anymore. Carson Wentz was unable to perform because
of the concussion. Now there's all kinds of speculation. Was
it that bad? Could he have come back, you know,
should he have pretended like he wasn't concussion? We don't
know all that. I'm sure that will come out in

(53:46):
the next couple of days about what actually did happen.
What was the situation. Could he have returned to the game,
did he want to come back to the game? Was
it out of his hands? Did they take his helmet
from him? All that stuff will come out, But he
certainly did one thing he accomplished. He was unable to
shake the injury tag. In fact, he doubled down going

(54:06):
back to Carson Wentz as a college player in North Dakota.
In college, he broke his wrist in twenty fifteen. In
the NFL, he had a hairline rib fracture in twenty sixteen,
He tore his ACL in twenty seventeen, injured his back
in twenty eighteen, and this year in twenty nineteen, not
to mention several other injuries that also slowed him down.

(54:29):
And now you can add the concussion on top of that.
And so this has done nothing to kill the legend
of Carson Wentz being made out of paper machete. That
demand is made out of paper machee. And Wentz also
is not very popular in the locker room, right that
one of the arguments in some of the media in
Philadelphia has and he's not a leader, he's a weird
al he's a fake guy, and they don't. He's got

(54:52):
favorites that he picks, and you're not supposed to do
that when you're the quarterback and all this stuff. But
you do the math, you do the arithmetic, and it's
not mallor math. The Eagles franchise is being held captive
until Carson Wentz either snaps out of this or goes
to another team and they bring somebody else in because
this ain't gonna get it done. So it's not his fault, okay,
But if you're always hurt, it is becomes your fault

(55:15):
because that's who you are. You're always hurt. That's life.
Life's not fair. But if you're always hurt, you are
injury prone. The definition of injury prone is always being out.
That's how it happens, all right. Anyway, it is the
Ben Mallers Show. As we press on here, we'll take
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(55:38):
A lot of controversy. We talked about something at the
middle part of Last Hour, near the end of Last
Hour that people very polarizing. It's like Republicans and Democrats.
They're very upset with each other, both sides of the
aisle or fighting their bickerings pretty bad. We'll get to
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(57:04):
who because he likes schadenfreud, he likes to dance on
the grave when he is certain cities sports franchises meet
there to mize. He's been with me for many, many years.
The man's a calling legend to the show. We now
go to parts unknown after the Patriots were eliminated from

(57:24):
postseason consideration on wild Card weekend by the Tennessee Titans,
and who else but the Boston Hater. Oh this is
just fabulous, Ben, the Boston the Patriot Haters Dynasty of
going very smooth, twelve and fifteen years, fifty fourth Patriot
Haters title. The scorecard is Patriot Haters fifty four championships,

(57:46):
Spy g E two, Tuck Rule, Pete Carroll, Dan Quinn
and DFOURD one. It's just been. It's just been a
marvelous year. Then the Mathoosla Brady should retire. I mean,
but he's still fifty million short of Peyton Manning in
the bank in the Bank book, so it looks it's
looking pretty good. The Red Sox, of course, looking to

(58:08):
be in a toilet being slaughtered by the Yankees for
one hundred and one years and that shouldn't change. And
the most hated team in the history of sports, the Celtics,
who went without Bill Russell about as often as Jagoboard
does the dishes. And of course the Bullins one ring
in forty seven years. We know what they're doing. But
memo to Colin de Cowhert Ben, when you win three

(58:31):
times in fifteen years, you're not a dynasty. A dynasty
is four consecutive Super Bowl championships, five out of nine,
six out of ten. There's in one hundred years of
the NFL, there's no true dynasty. So that yo yo
brain who uses the word dynasty every two seconds, and
it's very inapropos. And the greatest quarterback of all time,

(58:53):
it's debatable to call this guy to goat is ludicrous.
Johnny and Nitas was the best quarterback of the six season.
He didn't win any rings, but you didn't hear anybody
in the game and the culture on TV. Every time
they were on TV. You never heard Johnny and Ius
referred to as the best quarterback in the world. But Boston, heyter,
I mean, you're losing. It's a losing battle. You understand

(59:15):
that your your fight against this being called the Patriot dynasty.
You're are you pretty much by yourself on three We
had three championships in fifteen years as a dynasty, three
out of fifteen. Yeah, they're in the super Bowl every
other year though, oh yeah, the Lakers were in the
NBA Finals in the sixties every other year. They didn't
win any of them. As before my time, of course

(59:36):
not The Lakers sucked though, how about that? I mean terrible, Yeah,
they're terrible. It can't be the Clippers. I mean, come
on now, Paul George them then they owned Lebron James,
the second greatest franchise in the history of American sports,
and they suck. Yeah, that's right exactly. I mean they've
got sixteen m on Boston hater team of George, Mike

(59:59):
and and Jerry Yeah, I mean Jerry West is working
for the Clippers now, so well, now, yeah, but he
can he can flip out about a half a dozen
Laker Championship rings at him and they're all older. Oh
well yeah, but yeah, but his money is still good.
But uh, the thing, no, the thing is that a
dynasty is four straight titles. Uh. New England has never

(01:00:21):
even three peeted and they had a cheat to repeat. No,
Boston team is three peeted in history outside what are
you done? Yea else? What do you got? Boston? That
I'm saying is Tom Brady will probably play with the
Los Angeles Chargers. Please call you back. I'll call you
back when we get that fifty forty seventh Brewing Haters

(01:00:43):
title in forty eight years. Oh that's right, that's next.
That next time we would talk to you is after
hockey season ends. We have to wait for that. Yeah,
you take it for a man. Have a good one,
all right. There you are the great Boston hater checking
in from parts on. No. I love the guy. That
Za Gobor line was funny when she was alive. She's
been dead for several years. I think she's been dead

(01:01:03):
for four years, and she lived to be like ninety
nine but when he first started using it twenty years ago,
she was, you know, in her seventies or whatever, or
maybe maybe she was even her eighties then. I don't know,
but it's a long time ago. So it is the
Ben Maller Shows. We got some controversy going on. People
are very upset. We had this weed Man thing some
people now that the super Bowl is in Miami. We

(01:01:23):
talked about this at the end of the last year.
I said, why not have weed Man as our media
day correspondent media night correspondent and ask silly questions what
could possibly go wrong? People are very upset by Some
people think it's a great idea. Other people think it's
a terrible idea. Apple Jack says, enough of a weed Man.
The bit got old the first six months. He was funny.
I find myself changing the station when he's on. Now

(01:01:46):
that's from one one p one of the show. But
we got the other side also that thinks this is
a good idea, that we should send him there, that
it would be good for the program, and that it
would be great radio and people would really like it.
But there's like both sides are convinced they're right. Matt
the Warrior inter as fan says, don't do it, Ben,

(01:02:07):
He'll ask players and coaches for money, and it'll be
a really bad idea. That's kind of a good point. Yeah,
that's a really good point. But would it be funny
if you asked Lamar Jackson for money at the Lamarket,
I get twenty bucks. I gotta buy some weed. Be amazing.

(01:02:28):
The One True King says, let me tell you something.
If you guys are stupid enough to put your effing
jobs in the hands of a useless parasite like a
lead man hippie, I would start working on your resumes.
Not a smart decision, he said. Okay, I mean, so

(01:02:49):
there's both sides of the aisle here or checking in.
You're very passionate about this, and people were giving us
both sides here on what we should do with the
conundrum of the weed man. And now keep in mind,
even if I put the request into management, they will
there's several stages this can be shot down. Like I
could go to management of this company and say, hey,

(01:03:11):
this is what we want to do. It doesn't cost
you any money. They'd like that part of it because
they love big companies love when it doesn't cost them. Money,
So they'd be all for that doesn't cost them a cent,
doesn't have to pay for a hotel room, doesn't have
to pay for the airfare, transportation, ground transportation. He'll probably
have to write his biker hitchhike to get to the
media event, but that's fun. So he'd be all for
that management. But then once I explained the backstory, that

(01:03:34):
would be a problem. And that would be a problem.
And even if management said okay, we'll put the request in,
then you have NFL and NFL security that could also
shoot it down and say no, we're not gonna do it,
not gonna happen. D I love you, Thank you, K
and D. Right, Since says Ben, please reconsider asking Scott
Shapiro to send weed Man to the super Bowl to

(01:03:56):
ask questions. You might keep in mind that his first
question will be do you have money for my electric bill?
That that would be its first questioned. Ben, Please don't
put your career at Fox in jeopardy, and that is
something that we have to factor in here. We don't
have anyone else though to ask the questions, and if

(01:04:17):
we had somebody else that would ask silly questions, we
would go to them pretty much him. This portion of
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over to Eddie, we go for all your overnight sporting news,
and of course we start with the conclusion of wild
card weekend in the NFL playoffs, and three of the

(01:04:37):
four road teams one including both on Sunday, the Seahawks
go into Philadelphia beat the Eagles seventeen to nine. Seadle
had three hundred eighty two yards of total offense. Quarterback
Russell Wilson accounted for three hundred and seventy of those
two hundred and eighty two yards. He had three out
of twenty five yards through the air, and he led
them in rushing, with forty five on the ground for Philadelphia,
air starting quarterback Carson Wentz was knocked out of the

(01:04:58):
game in the second quarter with an herod concussion. He
didn't return and the Eagles did not score a touchdown
in that loss. Seattle Who's on. They'll play in Green
Bay next Sunday in the divisional round, and the Vikings
go into New Orleans and beat the Saints twenty six
twenty in overtime. New Orleans did kick a field goal
as time expired to send it into ot, but they
never saw the ball in overtime because Minnesota quarterbacker Cousins

(01:05:19):
drove his team down the field and it tied in
Kyle Rudolph with a four yard game winning score. New
Orleans is now lost in the final play of the
game three straight years in the playoffs. The past two
have been in overtime. Can't wait till next year. I
want to see four in a row. That'll be a dynasty.
According to The Bostonator, if the Saints lose painfully four
years in a row and Minnesota moves on, they'll play

(01:05:39):
at the forty nine Ers next Saturday. A couple of
games in college basketball involving ranked teams and top twenty
five teams go to headhead in the state of Michigan.
When number fourteen Michigan State beat number twelve Michigan eighty
seven sixty nine Spartans, led by Cassius Winston's thirty two points.
Michigan State now four and o Big Ten play and
number twenty Dayton beat Saint Joseph's eighty to seven I'm

(01:06:00):
sure Dick and Dayton is very excited about that news.
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Boston hated not bring this up. But yeah, Bill Belichick
is something else because of course, you know, leading up
to this weekend's game, you're not going to talk about

(01:06:21):
the Tom Brady stuff. We're just prepared on Tennessee blah
blah blah. So now on Sunday morning, now that the
season is over, he can't say we're just focused on
Tennessee now. But he did say regarding Tom Brady's future
with the organization, now isn't the time to address Brady's
future with the franchise, He says, I'm sure there are
a lot of questions about the future. Nobody has thought

(01:06:42):
about the future. Yeah, exactly, Now is not the time.
When is the time, Bill, When is the time to
talk about the season is over? Well, Belichick is the
king of the visionary tax. It's something else. He likes
to dance around, and he knows he's like he will
not answer a question directly, and someday he will teach

(01:07:03):
classes at a college and he will teach how to
not ever answer anything. I have no knowledge of anything. Like.
Politicians are pretty good at that, but occasionally they have
a misstep. Belichick's never screws up. He never messes up.
He always knows just what to say to not answer
the question. I mean, Brady sold his house. He put
his house in the market in Boston. Alex Guerrero, that

(01:07:26):
Weasley savant guy that was selling, Yeah, we got behind that.
But he was famous for being charged in a crime
of selling a cure for cancer, and that's Brady's right him.
But he also sold his house. So that would lead
you to believe even Belichick a tyrant and the pressor

(01:07:46):
a death spot of football and all that, that there's
there's something going on now. I still believe there's an
opportunity for Brady to go back to the Patriots. I
don't think it's it's a fat account play that Brady's gone,
like so many other people seem to think that there's
no chance that he's going to come back. Because I
don't know if you know this, and we'll talk more
about it later. The Patriots haven't exactly replaced Brady. There's

(01:08:07):
nobody waiting in the wings like they had Jimmy Garoppolo,
who was supposed to be the heir to the throne.
He ain't walking through that door unless he has a
five interception game against the Vikings on on the weekend,
then possibly he will be made available. But you get
the point. Get more and more on Brady later in
the show. It is the Ben Maller program or company

(01:08:30):
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Our friends supermarket Steve right Sin says, at least we
now found out where the Boston Hater is from. He
is Roberto's neighbor. With all that Laker propaganda, that was nauseating.

(01:08:52):
That was absolutely nauseating. Right, other people love the Boston Hater,
can't get enough of it. I'm using take Boston Hater,
how was holding your breath for twenty years waiting for
your Patriots take to come true? Someone get that man
an oxygen tank. I think he's turning blue. Let's go
to MGM John and lost Wait just now we're gonna

(01:09:15):
have Mallard to the third degree coming up. Hello, MGM John, Pokey,
pokey pokey, mister Ben Mala has been a long time,
Missa Malla. Now you still working at the MGM? Do
you still work there? I actually still do you do?
All right? I was wondering you because I was in
Vegas this weekend. I did not see you though I
was wandering around. I don't see you. Yeah, I was

(01:09:39):
working the night shift that way. Unfortunately I was there
at night walking around. You know. Anyway, what's going on?
What's going on? John? What you got for me? I
got for you, Missa Malla. Is the Patriots and the
Saint fans two biggest cry babies of the weekend. The
Patriots fan they know their dynasty is over no more.

(01:10:00):
And the Saints fans are the worst fans of They're
like cowboys fans of the South. They are annoying, entitled
and well. John, but you know that you as a
Raider fan, that the Raiders have a reputation of being
the same way you realize the greatness of the Raiders.
The greatness of the Raiders will return in two thousand now, John,

(01:10:22):
you know John the Veteran movie. You gotta get a
job at the Raiders stadium. Man, I'm sure they're looking
to hire people. I don't think they've hired people yet
to work at the stadium. You might as well get
a job there. That way, you're guaranteed to go to
the Raider games. Oh, I'm guaranteed to go to Raider games.
And also, mister mellot, I got the odds of Tom
Brady plane for the next team next season. Mister Mallow,

(01:10:44):
you have those you're breaking news here. You have the
odds in front of you on your hot little hands. Yep,
I actually do all right? Here we go, Here we
go the Cleveland Browns at plus five fifty, which Tom
Brady will go alongside. Yeah, Tom Brady wants to who
is married to the like one of the richest women,

(01:11:06):
wants to live in Cleveland. They fly over Cleveland. They
spit Luki's out of the plane when they fly over Cleveland.
Do you think he's gonna sign up to live in Cleveland?
Are you out of your mind? What is you only
gonna fly in on Sunday to play the game and
then fly back to the Hamptons. I mean, what are
we doing here? Plus the Brown Well, that's that's a

(01:11:28):
fool's bed. That's a come on please. And then there's
three other teams at plus six hundred, Carolina Panthers, the
Los Angeles Chargers, and you'd be surprised the Los Vegas Raiders. Yeah, well,
I don't think any of those teams and Charlotte that's
not a big enough stage. I can see Vegas, but nah,

(01:11:51):
the problem is Brady looked washed up his past year.
That's a tough thing to throw. There's one more, but wait,
there's more. You want to say there's more? Yeah, the
Cowboys at plus seven hundred will be well, that would
be that would be a smart move because that would
mean Dak Prescott has gone and Dac Prescott is a fraud.

(01:12:12):
He was exposed as a fraud late in the year.
And the rumor is Josh McDaniel could be leaving New
England and could land in Dallas. Glad. That would be dumb.
Well would be done for the Cowboys. Josh McDaniels better
to take a job because he was exposed a little
bit this year. Thank you John with your breaking You're
like you're Mike Marcel and Brooklyn with his breaking years here.

(01:12:34):
It's unbelievable with you, you're gonna break about that. The
Titanic is yeah, it's gonna give us odds on Peyton
Manning where he's gonna play next year, and Kurt Warner
and all that stuff. But as far as the Josh
McDaniels story, Josh McDaniels, I do not believe he is
going to be a He was a coach of the
Broncos I know was a young guy. It didn't work
out for him there. I do not believe that he

(01:12:56):
is going to leave New England and flourish and with
another opportunity. I would be stunned if he turns out
to be a very good head coach. He has been
writing the coattails of Tom Brady, and Brady got old suddenly,
the Patriots offense didn't look so good and all that,
and the same thing's gonna happen if he goes out
on his own right. He has to go out and

(01:13:16):
leave home. You know, you gotta pay your own bills,
You gotta make your own bad right to clean your
own house, all that stuff, wash your underwear. It's a problem,
all right. It is the Ben Mather shows, we press
on now. I want to get back on track here, Roberto,
so we will have Mallard to the third degree on
the other side, as they say, with producer lease, we'll
have that. Here is the Insta trivia, and here it

(01:13:37):
is Carson A. Wains through for three yards before exiting
the Eagle game with an injury. That's yet three yards
in his playoff debut. That is the fewest yards passing
for a starting quarterback in the playoffs since blank. All
right again, Carson Waynes through for three yards for the Eagles,

(01:14:01):
then he got hurt. That's it nine minutes in the game.
See it fewest passing yards for a starting quarterback in
a playoff performance or the super Bowl. By the way,
we'll throw that in since blank. That's the question. The
answer next his name is Dave that Heston as Dave.
It's a shocking revelation. Be sure to catch live editions

(01:14:23):
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(01:14:44):
and l from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's
Ben Maller. So Carson wentz through for three yards before
leaving the Eagle game with an injury. It's the fewest
yards passing for a starting quarterback in a postseason game
since blank. That's the question. What's the answer? Will is
going with Blake Mortals as his answer. Several people did

(01:15:08):
get this right. David and guites Romo got it right.
Bobby Abear guests by Mediocre Kabuki. The Rooster says it's
gotta be Chris wanky Man. Chris in the Carolinas is
going with blind Scott as his answer. That's blind Chris.
He's going with blind Scott. Who else do we have here?

(01:15:29):
Let's see page down here. Tim Tebow from Eke. Peyton
Manning misspelled by Johnny Q. Jenny Q. How do you
misspell Peyton Manning's name? The guys all over that. I mean,
I hadn't annoyed by him, but how do you misspell
his name? Joe Webb from a Reek in Minnesota. Ben
is going with Christian Ponder's wife Sam, who, by the way,
blocked me, Sam Ponder, why would you even ponder following

(01:15:51):
her on Twitter? She got so upset, not by anything
I said on the show, but by jokes that listeners
made about her husband. Well at that point they were
just dating there, but yeah, she got very upset. Matt
Castle get by guests by Lawson, Justin and Cincinnati, who
got fired for picking up the wrong body. He's going

(01:16:12):
with Rosie O'Donnell as his answer Brad Johnson from Fluffy,
Dave Milkman, Mike got it right the game Triple h
from Rob in Vegas. All right, what's her answer there,
Eddie Bend. The answer is Tony Easton in Super Bowl twenty,
Tony Easton the Patriots back. No, that's actually correct. It's

(01:16:32):
Tony Easton. Tony Easton attempted six passes. He was sacked
three times, fumbled once, didn't complete any of the six passes,
was responsible for three points that Bears scored at that
moment when he left the game. The Great Steve Grogan
most Steve Grogan Famous four Eddie quarterback. Yes, a gigantic

(01:16:55):
neck roll, and he came in there and led the
Patriots to their only touchdown forty six to ten. The
Chicago Bears, the Monsters of the Midway, won that game
back in nineteen eighty five. Let's get to it here
we go. It's maller how about that? To the third degree.
This is one big Ben gets quailed man getting some

(01:17:17):
overtime hours here the great lead to lap in for
the koplop Alright, Ben Baylor head coach Matt Rule is
set to interview for the Panthers job as well as
the Giants job this week. Ben, do you think Matt
Rule gets a coaching job in the NFL this season?
I do not. I do not think he's gonna get
a job this year. I'll tell you why. Hey, Matt
Rule has a buyout from what I read on the
internet over the last couple of weeks, of ten million

(01:17:39):
dollars or more. I cannot imagine an NFL team paying
that kind of money for a guy who's not a
sure thing. And he is not a sure thing. He's
one situation to be the king of Waco, Texas, which
is what Matt Rule is right now, It's a whole
different universe running an NFL franchise and be eventually. I
do think that Matt Rule will be a head coach

(01:18:01):
in the NFL. I would be surprised though, if it
happens right now, and I have a feeling he is
simply looking to squeeze even more money out of Baylor
and get some more zeros added on there, some more
digits added on to his contract. That the Giants job
is not a great job. The Panther's job is not
a great job. These are average jobs in the NFL.
All right, Next, All right, Ben, Andre Drummond is a

(01:18:24):
free agent after this season, and according to Woes, the
Pistons have been discussing trade scenarios with the Hawks and
other teams. H no deals imminent. But Ben, do you
think Drummond is out of Detroit by the deadline? All right?
So I'm gonna go yes on this, and I'll tell
you why. Andre Drummond is too tantalizing a rebounder to
be stuck in purgatory with the Pistons and Detroit. They're

(01:18:45):
ready to move on. It sounds like they're ready to
move on. They have to take pennies on the dollar.
But Drummond is going to be a free agent, right,
They're gonna have to take some spins of the slot machine.
Get rid of Andre Drummond. He is a liability on offense,
but we'll get you fifteen to twenty rebounds a game.
The Atlanta Hawks make sense, although there are other teams

(01:19:06):
that are in play here because you've got Trey Young
and John Collins for the rest of the year. If
you put Drumming out there and see how it fits together.
He's only twenty six. He's a liability in the playoffs
as well. He can become a free agent after the season.
If not the Hawks, I could see several other teams.
The Phoenix Suns could be involved in that. Sacramento always

(01:19:29):
seems to pop up on these lists, the Chicago Bulls.
There are team enough teams out there. I believe Drummond
will be traded at the deadline in early February. All right, next,
all right? Ben Winn asked about Jacoby Brissett's future as
the starting quarterback for the Colts. GM Chris Ballard said,
the jury is still out. Yeah, Well, is Jacoby Brisett
the starting quarterback for the Colts next year? Well, his

(01:19:49):
jury might be out, but my jury's and we announced
midseason this guy is not a starting quarterback in the NFL. Right.
We said that at the very beginning of our monologue
year yapping about the Colts. Middle of the year. He
is a high end backup. He was exposed when he's
played as a regular starting quarterback. Now my evidence, Brissette

(01:20:10):
had a quarterback rate of eighty one point seven when
he started a couple of years ago, eighty eight point
zero this season, averaging less than seven yards per attempt.
And my advice to GM Chris Ballard here, go out
and get a stop back, stop gap quarterback, but do
not come back with Jacobe Brissette. That is a Kamakazi

(01:20:30):
mission for you and the coaching staff. Go out and
find somebody else the payport quarterback. Even if you take
a chance on someone else who also fails, it's better
than the guy you know's gonna fail. Go out and
sign Tannehill or Cam Newton or even god forbid, Philip Rivers,
someone other than Jacoby Brissette. All right, there, it is
Mallard of the third degree. How did we do? I'm

(01:20:50):
gonna give you a pass tonight. That is thank you,
Lee and I give you a pass. I did not
give the Seattle Seahawks PR Department of pass. They get
think they're losers, but you're a winner, and that's what matters.
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to listen live. Even a mafia, A mafia cannot save
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(01:21:35):
Emma Needing live from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios.
your car insurance. Just visit gego dot com for a
free rate quote. So we do this show, and I
know you tune in. When you tune in, you listen
when you listen. But we've already discussed and we've done

(01:21:56):
some malan monologues about the games that were played on Sundays.
Seeah beating Philadelphia, Carson Wentz knocked out of the game,
see you later with an injury nine minutes or so
under the game in Minnesota, upsetting New Orleans and the
Tears that are filling up the Mississippi, the Mighty Mississippi
from Saints fans who are very upset, very angry, outrage

(01:22:21):
with what happened there at the end of the game.
And it was a good non call. But we have
an opportunity, much like the Buffalo Bills had an opportunity
to talk about another game, another game that plays played
on Saturday. The opportunity was knocking at the door for
the Bills, but they didn't answer the bell. Late in
the game, despite a top notch defensive effort by Buffalo,

(01:22:45):
the Bills unable to overcome the ineptitude of Josh Allen
down the stretch. They lost the game. He saw the game,
I assume over the weekend lost of the Texans on
wild Card weekend twenty two to nineteen. Game that went
to overtime and not double overtime, just overtime. But Buffalo,
who dominated the first half of the game and really

(01:23:08):
the first three quarters of the game, they were it
was a domination situation. The Houston Texans offense has sucked
at a time you cannot suck there. They did not
score any points in the first half, and they scored
in the third quarter, but that was a late third
quarter situation. And so while many are focusing on the

(01:23:31):
comeback and celebrating and champion championing the Deshaun Watson his
performance there and the fact that he played well in
the fourth quarter. Of course, for seventy five percent of
the game he was stealing money for the Texans offense.
But fine, it made some plays in the fourth quarter.
Whoopdie damn do congratulations, But we know the better stories

(01:23:53):
with the Mafia of Buffalo and oh we got a
good we got a good one as they exit from
the NFL postseason. So let us discuss the question if
you're the Buffalo Bill's front office and you're the coaching step,
how do you feel about Josh Bloody Allen, the quarterback

(01:24:15):
who was unbelievably bad, laid in the game and essentially said,
you know what, I have twenty thousand dollars in cash.
I'm gonna leave it on the table, take it if
you want it. Here it is, And the Texas are like, yeah,
we kind of like that cash. Why don't we take
that money? Why don't we take that money? So, if
you're the Bills front office and coaching staff. You can't

(01:24:37):
be surprised by this, right, you cannot be surprised because
this is the same player that Josh Allen had been
billed to be. But we talked about Allen that the
NFL Draft a couple of years ago. This was the
reputation he had at Wyoming. Who the hell watches Wyoming football?
But this is his reputation. So you've got the pretzel,

(01:24:58):
the Ferris wheel, and the and we'll combine all these
things together. Before we get to that, though, let's hear
from Sean McDermott, who I don't know if you know this,
he's the coach of the Bills. A lot of people
don't know that Sean McDermott. Here's a Sean McDermott, the
coach of the Bills, commenting on Josh Allen and his imperfection,
shall we say, late in the game, trying to do

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too much and and getting a little bit maybe you know,
just extreme with what he with what he felt like
we needed at the time. They won lateral on their
sideline or whatever it was there, but you know, overall
we us didn't make enough place. You know what that is?
That's a baseball. Excuse. I covered baseball for years, and
any time a player was like, oh for thirty or

(01:25:41):
one for twenty eight, and you asked the manager, you'd say,
what's going on with so and so he's over twenty
eight or one for thirty whatever, And they said, well,
he's trying trying to do too much at that. I
really did. Don't play that. Come on, man, I mean
it's twenty twenty. Can we can we move on? Still
waiting for the die just to make it Jack, They're

(01:26:02):
gonna do something, Roberto nothing, when's that fan fest? When's that?
Two weeks? Two weeks? All right? Dodgers, we predict, but
me and Roberto agree the Dodgers will sign someone has
been before that date, or they'll make some trade or
something like that. It's hardly na be left in for you.
But I'm getting carried away with baseball, all right? How
about Josh Allen? Josh Allen, you know he likes it.

(01:26:24):
Seems like the guy you want to pull for it, right,
He's says the right thing. Here's Josh Allen commenting on
what the hell happened? Every loss is personal and real thing.
Go out there and execute differently, and you know tin
sight's twenty twenty, but there's some things we should have
hit on, you know, and put that on my shoulders,
especially with hellboo defense played today. So teams go, how

(01:26:44):
they're their quarterbacks aoul, They go and, um, I gotta
be better for this team. Yeah, go back to the
airport in Buffalo and take a photo of selfie. They'll
end up in the art museum and you'll do that again.
So again, I got pretzel, Ferris wheel and comment. Now,
first of all, this was a game where even an
average performance by Josh Allen late in the game would
have produced the victor. Does anyone disagree with that? Eat?

(01:27:07):
Just average quarterback play, don't f it up? Right, Buffalo's
defense was playing at an elite level, and they were
as good as advertised. They were top five defense in
the NFL. They played like a top five defense in
the NFL. Deshaun Watson, you know, I was at the mall.
I did some shopping over the last couple of weeks.
You go to theen, I go to the mall, I
buy pretzels. All right, that's my Deshaun Watson was like

(01:27:31):
a mall pretzel right for seventy five percent of the game,
Watson was garbage. You Now, what's my evidence? First three quarters,
Deshaun Watson had eighty three yards passing eighty three. He
averaged less than six yards per attempt, and his passer
rating was like eighty six or something like that. No

(01:27:52):
passing touchdowns. Now, the Bills should have been up by
what twenty four points or something like that at that
particular moment, at least in the game, but instead they
only had a sixteen to nothing lead. It was sixteen
to eight by the time the fourth quarter rolled around,
and they were unable to deliver the mortal blow to

(01:28:14):
the Houston Texas because of Josh Allen. Now the second
thing here, my new good friend Robbie the Marine fan
is not listening. But Josh Allen is a poor man's
Jamis Winston is what he is. Watching this guy play,
It's it's enough to give you a golf stone attack.

(01:28:35):
I can't have a golfstone attack anymore. I don't think
I guess I could still. But he's a human Ferris
wheel is what Josh Allen is, right up and down,
up and down from play to play. Now I say
poor man's because he's not out as outrageous as Jamis Winston.
But my evidence Allan started the game looked electric. Right,

(01:28:56):
I'm watching this game, I'm like, wow, I mean I
picked Buffalo all and I thought Buffalo would win the game.
And he came out. He looked really good. He had
one hundred and eighty three yards of offense, and he
had much of that was a forty two yard quarterback
keeper on the ground, but one hundred and eighty three
yards of total office. And now Allan was not exactly
throwing perfect passes, so it's not like he got a

(01:29:19):
lot of yards, but he was still all over the place.
The Bills converted two of their first three drives for
ten points. They looked like they were on their way
to victory. But then looks can be mislead. Right, the
defense that had been ferocious and wonderful and all that
Houston punted on their first four possessions of the game,
Josh Allen, all he needed was one more big play,

(01:29:44):
one more big play late in the game in the
fourth quarter there to put the game out of reach.
And he was unable to do that. And it could
have happened even before the fourth quarter, could have happened
in the third quarter, when Buffalo was up sixteen to nothing,
they go up twenty three to enough. See you later,
and then we're just goofing on Bill O'Brien and making

(01:30:05):
fun of de Shaun Watson having a grand old time
doing schadenfreud at the expense of the Houston Texans. But
Josh Allen blew it. He blew it. He was unable
to get it done. And had Buffalo gotten that one
touchdown and the Texans were cooked, they were not going
to win this game. This is known as the woulda
could have should a defensive strategy for Buffalo and a

(01:30:27):
final fought here. As the stakes got higher in the
fourth quarter, right, they turned up the heat and we
talked about the boiling frog, and he turned the water
up a little bit and gets a little hot, and
you really notice it, and then eventually you're like, oh
my god, I'm boiled. I'm burned up here. Josh Allen's
instincts kicked in the way I watched this game. That's

(01:30:47):
how I saw it that Allen was feeling it, right,
he was feeling it. He wasn't feeling his oats, he
was feeling the pressure. And he became more inaccurate and
more reckless as the game progressed to the late stages.
Now he fumbled the ball twice, including an unforgivable giveaway

(01:31:07):
on the second play of the fourth quarter that handed
the Texans a field goal. Now, Allen, he was terrible
down the stretch. In the fourth quarter. He was five
of fourteen passing the football. He was sacked twice. He
lost a fumble. As we mentioned there when it was
gut check time, Josh Allen took a ride on a commet.

(01:31:30):
It was the vomit commet is what he took a
ride on there in the fourth quarter, held the ball
for too long, taking sacks, horrible decisions that almost resulted
in several other turnovers. He threw deep into double coverage.
How about that play laddering the ball to Dawson Knox.
You would have been better off if you had thrown
the ball to Jonas Knox than Dawson Knox there the

(01:31:54):
tight end. It was a hot mess, and he was
never in control of the game late in the game
when you had to be right. That's the acid test,
that's the litmus test. Good luck to the frauds and
the Bills mafia and I'm upset with the Bills mafia.
We got some of these guys that listen to my friend,
the Great Sports with Coleman Baltimore radio. God, all right,

(01:32:18):
this guy, now, he was telling me while I was
away that he had made some comments about Buffalo on
his radio show in Baltimore, and so apparently there was
some stuff that happened on social media or whatever. I
don't know all the details, and I'm probably butchering the story,
but here's what he told me. So he's given me
the whole rap about this, and he's like, he shows

(01:32:39):
me a clip of local TV news and Buffalo and
so some people on Twitter started donating money to charity
in the name of my friend's Sports with Coleman's a
mom who's sick, and so the Buffalo TV station made
it seem like Bill's Mafia are like Saints there, They're

(01:33:00):
amazing and all this stuff. There's one problem. They did
not mention all the Bills mafia that were sending horrifically
disgusting messages about things that Sports with Coleman could do
and things that they wish had happened to him. And
this never was an endless stream. And of course that

(01:33:21):
did not make the local television news in Buffalo. That
of course, you need to talk about fake news and
how you present a story. And they made it seem
like the Bills, all the great fans all and they
were continuing to pepper my guy, just attacking him. Of course,
that's why they have the mute button on Twitter, and yeah,
I could have a field day with that. Anyway, it
is the Ben Mallers Show on Fox. Just to put

(01:33:43):
the bow on the package here for Josh Allen, here's
the way I'll look at it. And we mentioned the
mistakes and the poor decision that was Wyoming Josh. That
was that was Josh Allen from his days at Wyoming
there and the thing that has to scare scare Buffalo

(01:34:03):
is the fact that it's never more than a heartbeat away.
It's never more than a play away where at any
moment this Josh Allen can return. And we've talked about
this many times, but instincts kick in, tendencies kick in
when the pressure gets cranked up, and Josh Allen was

(01:34:23):
unable to avoid that, and he's Buffalo as a franchise.
We talked about the Eagles earlier in their predicament with
Carson Wentz always getting hurt. Well, Buffalo is going to
continue spinning its wheels there, wasting a top notch defense
with Josh Allen, who is the compass rose. It could

(01:34:45):
go north, southeast west. You don't know where the ball's
going when he throws it in these games. All right,
it is the Ben Mallers show. As we press on
here to the phones, we go and we say hello
to our friend Philly Rob, who is not enjoying victory
cheese steak after his Eagles were eliminated. Hello Philly Rob,

(01:35:05):
Hello Ben, welcome back. Thank you sir. What's up? What
a lousy night? Got some mallar mass for you? All right?
If you take your forty, my forty multiplied by two
divide by five, we're still faster than Josh McCown. Yeah,
that was you're talking about the fourth down play there

(01:35:27):
that that was not good, that was ugly. It was
Mariota fis Carson could have scored a touchdown? Yeah, I
think pretty much. There's some people in cemeteries that could
have risen up from the grave and scored a touchdown.
He Jababyon Clowney is an Eagle hater. Because he had
a forty thousand dollars fine against him for his hit.

(01:35:51):
That was not a horrific play and he should have
been fine. He should be fine for this one because
it was a sack. He wasn't over the line of scrimmage.
But Philly Rob, you should be upset with Carson Wentz
because he should have pretended like he didn't have a concussion.
Then he could have stayed in the game. It's a playoffs, man,
that's when you pretend like you don't have a concussion
so you can stay in the game. Right. How about
you said, as you said in your monologue, it's the

(01:36:12):
new NFL rules. It's not like take two aspern and
get back on the field. No rubbed dirt on it.
But I here's the other thing, Philly Rob. Now, we've
seen stories over the last couple of years of players
since this started his concussion protocol with his independent arbitrator,
we've heard stories of NFL players who have said they
know how to get around the concussion tests. They know

(01:36:33):
what to say, what questions to how to answer the
questions to be allowed back on the field. Come on,
the Eagles don't cheat like the cheat treats let's not Letten,
you had no chance. You had a high school football
coach playing quarterback in the playoffs. And I'm not I'm
not making fun of Josh McCown. He's a high school
football coach in Charlotte, North Carolina, and that's the guy

(01:36:53):
you were depending on to make plays in a playoff game.
And that's that's a mistake by the coach because Nate
Sudfell should have been the backup quarterback. And you asked
me at the beginning of the season, what happens when
Carson gets hurt? And I said, you go back and
check it. We have Nate Sutfeld, he was healthy. The
coach to activate him, that's a bad job by him.

(01:37:14):
And Philly Rob Now, we love you man, you're a
friend of the show. But I'm gonna tell you before
the twenty twenty NFL season, I will ask you, what
are you gonna do when Carson Wentz get hurt because
he's going to hired again again? Mark, Well, who knows
who we're gonna get? You might get Mariota in free agency? Yeah,
well that would be who dreams coming true, Marcus Mario.

(01:37:36):
Never know, you never know. We might get Nick Foles
back cheap. Yeah, bring back Randall Cunningham. What's he doing
these days? He's living in he might be living in Vegas.
In Vegas. There you go. I'm sure he's available. He
can come back and play. Well, we got we gotta
hook up for the draft Vegas. Well, listen, I'm thinking
about going there, so maybe we'll make it happen. All right,
thank you, Philly, rob Be good Man. Yep, all right,

(01:37:57):
thank rate Philly. Rob Man's devastay that his team has
been eliminated from the postseason and now he's got to
listen to us talk about all these other teams. So
Ben Mallers Show on Fox will press on here. We
have a lot of things that we were supposed to
get to that we didn't get to. I'm all over
the place, but you know, I have a good excuse.
We have the Mallard Travelogue. We still have to get
to that. And the curse is real, the Carris is real.

(01:38:24):
We'll get to that and we'll do it next. Ronnie
Leonard not his name. Be sure to catch live editions
of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
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Mallard twenty twenty. You can be heard in the democracy
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(01:38:45):
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Who's got the Mallard lou It would be lead to
lap and he is on Twitter at Lee l E
D D E lap La double P. I always enjoyed

(01:39:09):
ran is. Guys, we don't have any lead to lap
funny sidebites to play and aline from the Geico Fox
Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller Hayley, say something stupid
so we can put it in the system. Can you
do that? Something stupid? Boom done? There you go, Mark Taper.
You never know when Lee's gonna be any here. You
might be in tomorrow. I don't know. I mean, who

(01:39:30):
knows if Coop's gonna make it back or not. Son
his deathbed right now, he's literally on his deathbed. I
already had a gallbladder attack. His gallstones attacked him. That's
what I heard. It's a rumor. I heard you recommended garlic.
I did. Yeah, that's my answer. Garlic went in doubt,
Throw some garlic on it, and you're good to go.
Carson know that. Did you know about that? Yeah? I

(01:39:51):
knew that garlic does what cures everything? Carson wentz. If
he had had some garlic, some raw garlic, he would
have been back in the game for Philly. They would
have won the game. Whatever. Then get sick. He sucks
on raw garlic. Well that's laryngized. Now, now to cure
the cold, you've got to actually eat a clove of
raw garlic, like not a cloth, but as several uh yeah,

(01:40:14):
several clothes. Actually is not the head of garlic, but
because that would be too much, Yeah, the clothes of
garl Yeah. I had to check with my chef Roberto,
find out my cooking expert. But yeah, if you eat
raw garlic. And by the way, before I say this,
you should never take medical advice from an overnight sports
stock radio host. That would be a fatal missile. Who

(01:40:36):
by the way, you continue to give it out though
I know, well, I always put the disclaimer in there
for for legal reasons. But yeah, yeah, so I I
of course I did this, and I had my gallbladder
ripped out of me an emergency surgery situation. But yeah,
the raw garlic on an empty stomach, When you eat
like two or three heads of raw garlic on an
empty stomach, when you start feeling a cold coming on,

(01:40:57):
it'll knock it out that your body will be over
weelmed by the garlic and you will not get sick.
How are you doing without the gallbladder, by the way, Yeah,
I feel fine. I feel good. It was weird. I
got sleep for like two weeks in a row. I
got like, you know, over eight hours. Man. It's an
amazing thing, a beautiful thing, getting a lot of sleep.

(01:41:19):
Let's go to the phones level. One of the people
I met while I was on my travels, the places, yo,
the people you'll see, the people you'll meet JJ in
renting or what's going on or close to it. He's
cashing a golden ticket, Hello j J. Man. What man,
I'm back heard slaving away over the hot microphones of Fox. No, no, no,

(01:41:44):
I'm slaving on the hot links man. Oh that's right, Yeah,
you're you're making the chain, not the anchor, but the
chain that goes to the anchor in those massive boats.
And then what, man, what is Trump thinking? Man? Why
did he do that with a wrong Well, you've called
you know, it's not Fox News Radio, it's Fox Sports Radio. J.

(01:42:07):
I don't remember that one lady though, thought it was
Fox News Radio. Yeah, Oh my god, no, no, j
J j JJ one of the greatest calls I've ever taken.
I think Eddie's referring to the one that you're talking about,
the old old woman from Massachusetts. Yeah. So I'm in
here taking phone calls, right, and this this very elderly
woman who sounded very nice, but she was very upset.

(01:42:28):
She's staying on hold for like two hours, and she
starts attacking me. She thought I was like Sean of
Hannity or somebody like that, and she's and then she
hangs up, right, and oh, yeah it was. It was
a classic guy. What do you think about DK metcal
tonight man? Oh, it was amazing while it was actually
yesterday in the afternoon, but he was amazing. That was

(01:42:51):
a guy. You had hyped him up. JJ. You were
you were leading the marching and chowder Society for for
for this guy, and he was amazing. He looked like
Rainy Moss or who's that receiver that played at Ohio
State that didn't really make it in the NFL. You
know what I'm talking about? Boston? Yeah, what was his name?
I don't David Boss, David Boston. He was. He was

(01:43:13):
like bigger than everybody. It was. It was awesome. He
was great. I don't know, I don't like complimenting people, JJ,
you know that. I mean, you're putting me in an
awkward position here. So so after Seattle he went back home.
How do you enjoy your time off? Man? Oh? You
want to hear Mike Mallard travel log. Well, I had

(01:43:36):
a great time meeting you JJ and all the other
Malam militia that came out to our event. And thank
you with a lot of listeners on kJ R and
Seattle and other parts of Washington State like Eden, Spokane
and Christina who made the trip over there. So it
was cool meeting all you guys and big thanks to
Jay Scoop and Jesse and all those guys. I met
several people that hide behind Twitter aliases. No stradinas I

(01:44:01):
met him. That was kind of cool, and uh we
had some joke riders that were there and some people
that don't call the show and don't even interact with
the show, but still showed up. So that was that
was neat my cousin. To remember my cousin winning the
Tampa Bay Jersey. I do, well, you had a holy man,
come on, man, don't show upon who like well, JJ
showed up with your own You had your own entourage.

(01:44:23):
You were like the boss. You had your own entourage
with you, which I liked. And uh so that was
one that I came back and I had to do,
you know stuff, grown up stuff. I had to like
cut trees at the Mallard mansion and I had to
take the trash out. I had, you know, all this
stuff around the house that needed to be done. And
so we did that, and then I snuck away to
Vegas like a real last minute couple of days of

(01:44:45):
you wouldn't got some money there? No, I lost some
money actually, but I did enjoy myself. Don't JJ listen
to me, JJ. Those video roulette machines are fixed, all right.
The Mallard system is unbreathable, but the mat telling me
eight times in a row. It comes up red nine
times in a row. It either comes up green or

(01:45:07):
even not odd. Come on, Fogus, the machines are ranked.
I'm demanding the Nevada Gaming Commission investigate. I'm gonna say this,
Rob there you go, Yeah, Riddy Jay, you've gotta go
burn something or gonna make something. All right, It is
the Ben Malla Show. Later this hour we are gonna

(01:45:28):
have the Insta Advice Line unscreened radio. We'll get to that.
But the curse is real. We will examine the evidence.
We'll get to that. But right now, over to Eddie,
we go all your overnight sporting news, and of course
we recap the final two games of wild Card Weekend
in the NFL playoffs, and both the road teams supposed
victories included the Seahawks, who go into Philadelphia and beat

(01:45:51):
the Eagles seventeen to nine. Now, Seattle had three hundred
eighty two total yards of offense. Quarterback Russell Wilson accounted
for three hundred and seventy of those yards. He had
three hundred twenty five passing and led the team in
rushing with forty five yards on the ground. Meanwhile, Philadelphia
quarterback Carson Wentz was knocked out of this game in
the second quarter with an apparent concussion. He didn't return
and the Eagles could not get into the end zone,

(01:46:12):
just three field goals for all their offense. Where Seattle
they move on. They'll play in Green Bay next Sunday
in the divisional round. Vikings go to New Orleans and
beat the Saints twenty six twenty in overtime, and New
Orleans kicked the fuel goal as time expired to force
the ot but they never saw the ball in overtime.
That's because Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins drove his team down
the field and ended up hitting tight end Kyle Rudolph

(01:46:32):
for the four yard game winning touchdown. New Orleans has
now lost on the final play of the game three
straight years in the playoffs. The last two have come
in overtime. Minnesota advances. They'll play at the forty nine
Ers next Saturday. In the NBA A couple of games
a note. We had a double header at Staples Center
in Los Angeles. In the opening game, the Clippers get
by the Knicks one thirty five, one thirty two. The

(01:46:54):
Clippers took off Saturday. They just Saturday. They didn't want
to play that game on Saturday against Memphis. They've lost
like thirty point it's at home in the Memphis. That's
kind of embarrassing. Montrez Harold thirty four points off the bench.
Kawhi Leonard not playing this one because of course, as
you mentioned, they played on Saturday, so he can't play
two games in a row. And then they played another
game at Stable Center. They I assume they pulled up
the court and put the other court down for the

(01:47:14):
Lakers who beat the Pistons one of six ninety nine.
Lebron j the puzzleboard you got up, I've seen him
put it together. It's like a puzzle board. Yeah, Lebron
twenty one points, fourteen rebounds, eleven assists in that way.
And also the Heat top of the trailer, you see
that Lakers story, I'll talk about Tomork. Kyle Kuzma is
apparently going to be traded by Lebron James the GM
there because his trainer took a shot at Lebron while

(01:47:39):
I was away. Yes, big news. I'll have to talk
more about that. Yeah, I can't wait. The Heat beat
the Trailblazers one twenty two, one eleven, I mean now
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sure you heard about this, but the Dallas Cowboys finally
pulled the plug on Jason Garrett and they finally made

(01:48:22):
it official over the weekend after it was reported last week.
How about Jerry doing a solo though for ed Warder,
who he loves, right, that's the old guy ed Warder
who lost his job at ESPN got whacked in a
like you. He came back, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I came
back here, I got well, let go ten years ago,
actually eleven years ago now, wow, and came back and

(01:48:45):
Edward Jerry he was always the cowboy beat guy right
back in the day, Edwarder, and he still covers the Cowboys,
and so Jerry gave him Massali. Soa, here you go,
I got the story for you. Screw Adam Schefter, screw
all these other guys, Glazer, I'm gonna give ed Warder
the scoop. Now, the Cowboys interview two former NFL head
coaches over the weekend. Mike McCarthy the Packers. That's not
a surprise. How about this one though, Marvin Lewis, Yeah,

(01:49:06):
last time we saw me, he was like a volunteer
assistant in Arizona State with herm Edwards. Yeah, former long
time Bengals quarterback. We had an interview this weekend. Bengal
coach and not quarterback coach. If he was quarterback, they
would have had even more problems. But maybe. But here's
the thing about Marvel Lewis. Now people are saying, well,
this is just because of the Rooney rule. They don't
ever I think they. I think Marvin Lewis has a

(01:49:26):
chance to be the Cowboy coach. I'll tell you why
he is like the African American version of Jason Garrett.
He you know, kind of what I mean by that
is he's not a great coach, and also he stays
in the shadows, you know what I mean, Like Marvin
Lewis was never the story in Cincinnati, you know what
I'm saying, Like there's something to be said for laying
low exactly like Jerry Jones want he didn't want to

(01:49:48):
fire Jason Garrett. I guess technically he wasn't fired as
contract right now, but in Jerry's mind, Jason Garrett was
the perfect coach for him. So if he can find
Jason Garret at two point zero or someone like that.
Now there's also a chance Marvin Lewis ends up as
the defensive coordinator the Cowboys. They shake up everything, everyone

(01:50:08):
gets blown out there in Dallas when the whole coaching
staff is turned over. So I think there's a shot
that Marvin Lewis ends up and does I don't I
know it the cynical thing, and I am a cynic,
so it's odd that I'm saying this, But Marvin Lewis,
I believe it. That was a legit interview. I don't
think that was just to check a box because of
some quota thing that you have to do, which is
the whole Rooney rule is absurd, I think. But anyway,

(01:50:31):
the way, but speaking of lurking in the shadows, I
know no one else will know or care about this,
but I don't care. It just me and you. I
saw Chris Lindsley while you were gone, you did. Yeah,
he's worked here since day one. He's behind the scenes,
works in promotions and does some stuff on the air. No,
not promote, he works in their promotional what do you
call it? Right? Image image image one of the two

(01:50:54):
imaging guys in in Vito. He like he's like the
Phantom of the Opera. He like sneaks in, goes in
his back out. Yeah, but he just he like just
laid his low and it's he's been here from day one.
I know well, And I saw I saw him like, Chris,
how are you doing good to see I'll see you
in the year, because it seemed like once a year.
And I've known him you know too, And he was

(01:51:16):
the whole editing department for Fox Sports radio work back
in the US with us. Yeah, he sat behind and
he was the only one cutting up. We have a
staff of many people that work behind the scenes, you know. Yes,
we have like several rooms dedicated to cutting up highlights
from different feeds around the country. We had one guy

(01:51:38):
and it was so I love Chris because we had
a meeting one time and one of the hosts, who's
no longer here because the whole thing's turned over, complaint
all right. He whined about the lack of sound and
uh and Lesley, He's like, he's like sitting there and
he bit his tongue. He wanted to punch the guy
because he's like, I'm one guy. There's you know, many

(01:51:59):
games there are every night. And it was a very
music with Christy. Good guy and his I guess his
daughters are all grown up, right, I asked him. He
said one of him was like twenty four. I was like,
oh my god. They used to come around and hang
out here when they were little girls. Oh my god,
what happened Eddie. But of course I'm a young guy,
not only my second decade here, but you're in your

(01:52:19):
third decade here at Fox Sports Radio. Oh my god,
what has happened? What happened? Eddie? Can you stop that
from continuing? I mean, my goodness. Anyway, we love Geico, Geico, Geico.
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Bill is in New Jersey. Hello Bill, Oh it's angry Bill.

(01:52:44):
Angry Bill. How dare you? I'm trying to change my image.
You know, if I said, oh, go from Jacksonville, you
think of something bad, so I sworn to change it
to Bill from Nutley, New Jersey. Well, you'd you would
still be on hold if you called up his Bill
from jackson Yeah, but I wish they'd taken out your

(01:53:05):
tonsil instead of your gold butter. Maybe you shut up
once in a while. But well, it's a talk show.
It's talk talk talk. It's you know, if I quite much,
you talk too much about the same sty Well, the
only well, the only rule of radio talk radio is
there's a VU meter on the board here, and we
have to keep that moving. There has to be a

(01:53:27):
certain amount of noise coming out. Otherwise we're not doing radio.
We're doing want some noise coming out once in a while,
we're you in stead of your mouth for all right,
we'll do that. Look what happened. We hung up on you.
Amazing how that works in your pop A new leaf.

(01:53:48):
He's a new guy. Yeah guy, he's a sweet bill.
How has he not been arrested again? He got robbed
a bank before? I can't he rob another bank and
get five years or so? And Jay, what's up with it?
So the curse of anton Nio Brown? Did you see this,
Eddie abho? He said? Oh? He pointed out over the
last week, all the teams that he put the Antonio

(01:54:09):
Brown curse on have been eliminated from either making the
postseason or postseason in general, he said. He listed them
the Steamers. Of course your your team, Eddie Gone, didn't
make the Plus Raiders, that's Robertos didn't make the Plus
Buffalo Bill's gone eliminated. Patriots also eliminating one game with
the base. Remember the Bills famously had agreed supposedly to

(01:54:31):
a trade with Antonio Brown. He refused to report for
one night. In the middle of that mount of monologue,
Eddie of Antonio Brown going to the Patriots, I think
we got like interrupted and didn't didn't happen? And then
the Saints also he had a workout with the New
Orleans Saints all of them out of the postseason. Antonio Brown.
The curse of a B, he says, is the real deal.

(01:54:57):
It's the you can't stop the curse of a BA.
All right, So bem Allas show on Fox. Just going
to Andrea in Berkeley, California. We're gonna have in a
couple of minutes. You're the instant Viceline. But hello, Andrew,
our first conversation of the new year. Yes, welcome back.
Then we missed you, thank you, thank you. It's good
to be back here. I assume you're doing well. You

(01:55:17):
had a good New Year's and all that stuff here. Yeah, yeah,
I went to see Dan and Company at Chase Center.
Quite a nice arena. Wow did they Did you have
to empty out all your pockets when you got to
the Chase Center or just only one of them? Yeah?
Not only did you have to empty out your pockets,
but beer was eighteen dollars a pop. So there's that
eighteen do oh you go? You could go get a

(01:55:42):
keg at Costco for eighteen, my kid you not. Yeah.
It was pretty upscale, but it was a good show.
That's good. Well, yeah, because you got to compete with
all those dot com people, right, all the social media
wizards that live in the Bay Area. Yeah, no, kidding,
very different vibe than you know what I'm used to
back in a day, but you know, it is what
it is, and it was a great show. Now you're

(01:56:03):
not going to You're not one of these people saying
they sold out because of the crowd that's there. You're
not one of those people. No, okay, No, I'm you know,
a hippie from Berkeley, I understand, Yes, a sports sorceress
from Berkeley. That's right. You've got your star charts out?
And what are you examining today? Are you're just saying hello,
do you have Tom Brady? I'm sorry, I have a

(01:56:26):
lot of people have been very active on Twitter, so
Tom Brady. That's right. Now I'm gonna do a monologue
about Brady, but we don't have a lot of time.
So what do you have on Tom Brady? You're having
his midlife crisis? Uh, basically, the uranus opposition occurs between
forty and forty two. The midlife crisis when you want
to rejuvenate, revitalize your life, restless easily board, wanting to

(01:56:47):
do something different. Ben, So this will be different. To
see how it unfolds. And you know, Gazelle's into astrology.
She has an astrologer, so and she wanted him to
retire for several years now, so it'll be interesting to see, um,
you know what he does differently because this is a
time to rejuvenate and revitalize and go on a different

(01:57:09):
fresh path. So do you think the star chart indicates
that he could retire here? This is actually a possibility exactly,
but really yeah, even more so than going to another team.
I think can you tweet that out that these our
friend in Berkeley there, she believes the star charts indicate
Brady could announces the time. We can you tweet that
out on the Fox Sports radio Twitter feed? Sure, I'd

(01:57:29):
be happy to ben. All right, all right, well thank you, Andrew,
very good. And so they're a midlife crisis for Brady
and you should get hooked up with missus Brady there,
wouldn't that be nice? A colleague of mine in Massachusetts
is her astrologer. So yeah, I'm available. You know what,
I'll tweet Giselle right now. Yeah. Let Giselle knows that. Listen,

(01:57:51):
you're a multimedia star here, Andrea, and you got other
opportunities all right, I gotta let you go. Thank you,
Andrew A glad you're back with us in twenty twenty.
Our friend Andrea Virgo in service and she's got all
the star treks. Very nice to the Mallam militia there
in her compound in Berkeley. The instant at Viceline. Who

(01:58:11):
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(01:59:16):
Yet again, it's become a rite of passage in the
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(01:59:38):
Then can I played backup quarterbacks for the Eagles? Yes? Line,
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understand that. Line six, you're on the ar. What do
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the hood guys back. That's all I care about. Line five, Hello,
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(02:00:44):
Happy new year to all you. Pete brain, pencil nex
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Line four. Line five, you're next. What do you have
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Go is Line six not working. That's two times line

(02:01:08):
six is not worth that. But boy, if we have
line one broken, line six is bro let's try line
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everybody's our friend, Tammy and Monten. All right, Lee, pick
the final call. Hurry up, lady, what do you want?
Which line? We'll go three? Line three. You're on the air.
You advice to Sean Payton. Hey, Penock, you also be
the samet coach. There you go, PINOKEI oh, you could

(02:01:32):
also pick line four, but we're not gonna put line
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(02:01:53):
it's kind of like the soap opera up not as
the world turns, As the Brady turns? Where will he turn?
Will he stay where he is and do a three
to sixty? Or does he do a one eighty? Does
he say bye bye? Asta leavista riva Drcha. I'm done
with this whole NFL thing. We discuss Welcome in the

(02:02:13):
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(02:02:35):
a free rate quote. So the playoff games on Wildcar Weekend,
get two overtime games. The games on Sunday, the Vikings
pull off the win twenty six to twenty over the
Big Bad Saints. And I've seen some video several of
you have sent the video of the referees trying to
make their way off the field at the Superdome and

(02:02:57):
they made it rain at the Dome and it was
raining trash as the referees tried to make their way off.
What happened to that Southern charm, but that Southern hospitality
and all that. It's the referees are like, they're all
like this, They're holding their arms walking is it's raining
down hot hot dog rappers and beer cups as they're

(02:03:19):
running off the field trying to get away from all
the debris. It was raining down from the top of
the dome. So in that game, the controversial finish, Kyle
Rudolph scores a touchdown. Did they push off? No, it
was actually defensive passing inference Kyle Rue. If I I'm
from the old school, I believe in letting him play.

(02:03:41):
And I also know and apparently Sean Payton doesn't know this,
that you don't allow the referees are not supposed to
decide the outcome of these games. Sean Payton lives in
a parallel universe where he wants the referees to decide
every game to go in favor of New Orleans. His
team's clearly not tough enough the Saints three years in
a row. What an embarrassment New Orleans Saints are. So

(02:04:01):
you had that, you had Seattle beat up, beat up,
but they won against a high school coach, high school
football coach Josh McCown who played most of the game
for Philadelphia. So the Seahawks have advanced. And of course
on Saturday, you had Houston beat Buffalo and Tennessee over

(02:04:22):
the Patriots. The Patriots are done, so that sets up
the next round of the playoffs. You got the Vikings
in forty nine Ers, Titans, and Ravens on Saturday, and
then on Sunday the Texans go to Canns City to
take on the Chiefs and the Seahawks and Packers. Me o, my,

(02:04:42):
those are the matchups next week. Now, at the end
of the Seahawks Eagle game, Al Michaels and Chris Coownsworth
were trying to kill time. Now how do I know
they were trying to kill time because NBC was broadcasting
the Golden Globes and so they had to fill the
time time to the top of the hour at eight

(02:05:03):
o'clock Eastern time, I believe it was. I think that's
when it began the Golden Globes, and so they were
killing a lot of time talking about all the playoffs
scenarios and blah blah blah blah blah blah. Then the
Patriots came up. I don't know if he saw this,
and now maybe you missed it, but New England, as
we talked about, eliminated Derrick Henry running it down the

(02:05:24):
throat of the Patriots defense. There for the Titans in
the wild card game, well, Chris Collinsworth attempted to avoid
the specific question from Al Michaels about tom Brady's future.
He hemmed in hard killing some more time before the
Golden Globes, and finally he answered the question right now.
He couched it with saying it was a wild guess that,

(02:05:48):
of course, gives himself plausible deniability, which you need. God
forbid you make a wrong prediction about a quarterback wearing
different laundry. Anyway, Chris Collinsworth said he believes that Tom
Brady is done with the Patriots. Oh my god, Collinsworth
said he's done, And when asked where tom Brady could
end up, Collinsworth named one franchise, which one, No, not

(02:06:13):
that one, he said, the Los Angeles Chargers, formerly of Carson, California,
soon to be of Englewood in the hood in Inglewood
was the way that he answered the question. Now he's
not alone. A number of woke NFL media have said
similar things that the Chargers are going to make a
run at Tom Brady. Now, in theory, tom Brady would

(02:06:36):
be used for his marketing prowess, sell some tickets, sell
some merchandise. Trophy quarterback you have you hear about in
Hollywood they have trophy wives and all that. Well, maybe
would be a trophy quarterback and the Chargers could show
him off right at fan events and all that stuff,
and he would be the franchise marketing savior, not savior

(02:06:57):
on the field, Brady, he would be the marketing anyway.
Let's go back over the weekend, Tom Brady addressed whether
or not he would be back with the Patriots. What's
going on with his future there? He was asked about
all that, and he gave an answer. He answered the question,
I just don't know what's going to happen, and you know,
I'm not going to predict it, and no one needs
to make choices at this point. You know, I love

(02:07:19):
playing football. I love playing for this team. I love
playing for this team for two decades and winning a
lot of games. Again, I just I don't know what
it looks like moving forward, So we'll just take it
day by day. Yeah, that does not sound like someone
who wants to do radio, not do radio, not do
football and give it up and go live in the

(02:07:39):
South of France or wherever, and you know, and have
a wonderful life and not ready to do that. How
about Bill Belichick? Now this Belichick. We referenced this earlier
in the show, but you were probably not listening. Here
is Bill Belichick who was asked about Brady's future, and
of course, like all answers, Bill Belichick gives. He said nothing,
obviously give him Tom Brady age. And there's been a

(02:08:00):
lot of talk about his future. Do you have a
timeline in your mindful? And you'd like to sit down
and do you have would you like to get clarity
on his situation by the time of New week? Here starts. Look,
I mean, I know it's out there, just like there's
a lot of other things out there. I mean, we
could bring up fifty questions just like that one, and
I told her what my state is on that, and

(02:08:21):
so you can ask all fifty of them and it's
going to be the same answer fifty times been We've
been working on Tennessee, it's twelve hours after the game.
I'm not going to talk a lot of things about
the future because it's not I'm not prepared to talk about.
But technically you are in the future. Thanks for addressing
me as Ben. I appreciate that you answered the question
as Ben. Taking it one day at a time. Yeah,

(02:08:42):
that's very important. It's already been addressed. Now I understand
I understand you, all right. So I know there are
odds out there that are floating around from the offshore
books and where Tom Brady's going to end up. And
I know bet Online has some odds out I make
my own lines. I don't need the bookmaker. I make
myne So what are my odds that Tom Brady goes

(02:09:03):
from the Patriots to the Chargers. I'm gonna set the
odds at plus four hundred. Now, if you're not a
degenerate gambler like myself, that implies a twenty percent chance.
All right, Now, I've got the Twilight Zone, the band,
and the marching and Chowder, and we will line all
these things up and will knock him down like dominoes.
Now to lead off with Tom Brady. Even if you

(02:09:26):
hate Tom Brady and think he's the spawn of the devil,
he is NFL royalty. The guy's a living legend. He's
the greatest quarterback in pro football history. And for those
of us that like sports, that means something. He zoomed
past Joe Montanas several years ago. So Brady, not that
we'd like to kiss anyone's ass, is in rarefied air.
He's also on borrowed time, all right, as far as

(02:09:48):
the age game and all that stuff, and even legends
get long in the tooth, and so Brady's in this
weird paradox where he's a legend and an all time
great and he's a pedestal because of that. But let's
be honest here as adults, that stench was like a

(02:10:09):
broken sewer while watching Brady play. Now, more on that
in a little bit, But as far as the Chargers,
I understand why it would make sense from the Charger's perspective,
but from Brady's perspective, it doesn't make sense. If you
drop Tom Brady on the page on the Chargers in

(02:10:30):
twenty twenty, and we don't know what other moves they're
gonna make. But just for the purposes of this monologue,
let's just see that. Assume they don't make any real
major moves. That is not a Super Bowl contender. That's
not a team that is going to threaten to go anywhere.
It's going to continue to spin their wheels there the Chargers,
and I know they lost a bunch of close games.

(02:10:52):
Remember the Golden rule. Bad teams lose close games, good
teams win close games. That's how it works, I would
put the Chargers in the middle of the belt Herve
and truth be told that the Bolts franchise is residing
in the Twilight Zone, right if you had other options,
if you're Tom Brady, why would you choose to live

(02:11:12):
in the twilight Zone. It doesn't make sense that. Now.
I understand the Chargers. Hey, it's a great underdog story
blah blah blah blah blah, But that would be elder
abuse to have Tom Brady played for the Chargers. I mean,
what are we doing here? And that makes anyways La?
You know, it's not really La. It's not you know,

(02:11:33):
like the Rams have got a little traction, a little
bit of traction. The Chargers have no tracks. And I
know the argument is desperate times call for desperate measures.
And the argument against the LA sports scene is it's
all about stars and the people are a bunch of
lemmings and you just throw a big name out there
and the people will show up. And I hate to

(02:11:54):
say it, but that actually was true. I believe if
Brady went to the Chargers, they would sell a bunch
of tickets and it would be a huge marketing success.
All the pomp and circumstances. They show a bunch of
highlights of Tom Brady with the Patriots back in his
salad days and all that stuff, because you can't find
a bigger name than Tom Brady. But again that's from
the Chargers business side. They ain't gonna be a better

(02:12:16):
football team with Tom Brady at this point the way
Brady performed this year in New England. So that's not
a reality. And they're not gonna win. They're not gonna
be a threat to win a Super Bowl. That's not
a plausible scenario. Now. Furthermore, following the loss to the Titan,
now we played the sound by from Tom Brady. He

(02:12:37):
sounds like someone who's not ready to retire. He sounds
like someone that wants to continue to play pro football.
And if that's the case, he's gonna have options. And
we talked about this couple months ago, actually about a
month ago, that Tom Brady's you know the NFL quarterback roulette,
you know, spind the roulette wheel, the whole thing. There's
gonna be like fifteen of the thirty two teams that

(02:13:01):
change quarterbacks or will consider changing quarterbacks. Now, I do
not believe, like many who have already decided it's a
fate to complete that Tom Brady is done with New England.
I don't believe that, like I understand now, certainly all
the indicators are. There's a lot of circumstantial evidence that
Tom Brady is dune skis with the Patriots right, sold

(02:13:24):
his house, his personal guru, sold their house. There's no
way the Patriots can franchise tag tom Brady. He is
free to roam around the NFL and the Patriots can
do nothing to stop him. I understand it, but I
am not closing the door to a reconciliation with the

(02:13:45):
New England Patriots. All it takes is for Tom Brady
to call mister Craft up to hold a private meeting
at some swanky resort or some day spa in Palm
Beach and you know, hang out there and in my
Emmy and all that, have a wonderful time. Get the
band back together, right, say hey, you'll go out get
some better playmakers, spend some money. And the Patriots, they

(02:14:10):
have no air to tom Brady's throne in New England.
There's no one there. Bill Belichick is going to have
to throw spaghetti against the wall to find a replacement
at quarterback. Now, Belichick likely wants to do that because
it's tough and He's people have said for years that
he wants to win a Super Bowl without Brady, and

(02:14:30):
Brady would like to win without Belichick. The feeling is mutual,
if you believe the scuttle but around New England and
all that. But I think there's a plus five fifty chance,
about fifteen percent chance that Brady is back with the Patriots,
that commerheads will prevail and that they will work it
out because playing for the charges being the witness protection program. Now,

(02:14:53):
I mentioned that about fifty percent of NFL teams forty
seven percent are going to change quarterbacks or will consider it.
And you've got the Dolphins, Bengals, Colts, Jags, Titans, Broncos, Chargers, Raiders, Bears, Lions, Steelers, Panthers, Bucks.
How about the Saints. Drew Brees looked old. Drew Brees

(02:15:14):
looked old, he's over forty. And of course the Patriots.
So of those teams, now the team I have at
the top of my list, you know it is for
Tom Brady. I believe there is a better chance that
Tom Brady goes to Tampa Bay. The Buccaneers now Bruce

(02:15:34):
Arians sounded like a guy who's fed up with Jamis Winston.
Let me give you my argument. I'm giving you my
elevator pitch. Why the Buccaneers make sense for Tom Brady?
All right? On both sides. Like Bruce Arians was supposed
to fix Jameis Winston, he led the NFL in interceptions,
was a hot mess, threw a lot of touchdowns through

(02:15:55):
a lot of interceptions. And Bruce Arians knows you can't
win with Winston the way he's playing. And so take
Tom Brady for a season. And the argument against Brady
or the pro Brady crowd was that he doesn't have
a lot of playmakers and all that stuff. Well, in
Tampa Bay problem solved lastly. So Tom Brady looked to

(02:16:17):
be cooked, well done with the Patriots this year. Typically,
when you get past forty and you have a bad season,
it means that you are washed up. Very rarely do
you have a bounceback performance past that age because you
don't get another opportunity. When you get past that age,
that's it. You're done. And he had a mangled Julian

(02:16:41):
Edelman and really nobody else this year. Antonio Brown played
one game. Philip Dorsett should be out of the NFL.
Nakill Harry did not electrify anybody. The rookie wide receiver
out of Arizona State. Not exactly the second coming of
Randy Moss or Troy Brown as a rookie. Mohammed Sanu,

(02:17:01):
how do you do? He was a bust coming over
from Atlanta. And you can only throw so many screen
passes to James White and little dump off fastest to
Benjamin Watson before the jig is up? Who as they
say so, the Brady Marching and Chowder society claimed, well,
he didn't have playmakers in New England while going to

(02:17:23):
Tampa Bay. Chris Godwin and Mike Evans are there, Cameron,
brad not a bomb at tight end. You've got several offensive,
cornerstone type players, playmakers. If Brady can get in the
NFC South is a manageable division. Carolina new coach who

(02:17:44):
knows who they're gonna hire, Atlanta Trading trading water, They're
not going anywhere. He kept their coaching staff together for
the most part, head coach anyway, and the Saints have
Drew Brees who looked old. Brady looked old too. So
the point is the division is not an outrageous path
of an obstacle course to get through. Whereas you figure

(02:18:09):
the Raiders are gonna spend some money, they'll be a
better team in Vegas. And they get all those draft
picks still, so they'll put a better team on the
field in Vegas. And also you've got Kansas City and
Patrick Mahomes in the AFC West. You talk about going
to the Chargers. All right, it is the Ben Mallers
Show on Fox. Will press on. We'll take a bunch
of these phone calls. It is good to be back

(02:18:30):
in the catbird seat here. And in NFL legend has
called Peyton Manning essentially a liar. We'll get to that
and we'll do it next. Also, another breaking overnight news
while everyone is slapped, the RMS Titanic has reportedly hit
an iceberg from New York. Nobody else had that? Nobody else?

(02:18:53):
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(02:19:38):
Later this hour, coach player and attended the phones. We
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I understand that will not get paid. You have to
say I understand that will like get I understand you
will not pay me? All right, and hold on SA
Now you have to also you just say repeat that

(02:20:23):
Weed man, the last thing you just said, I will
not ask anyone for money. All right, now, I like this,
I even now, Will you shower? Will you shower before this?
Weed man? I'll be so great that I know you.

(02:20:46):
I don't know. I don't know you in real life,
so I don't know if I can trust you. And
this could create a lot of problems for me if
you screw this up. So I'm concerned that you might
go on a bender and show up and then we've
got a problem. So I don't do benders. I'm sure.
Just system you don't have to worry about going through detoxes.
You never get off whatever you're on. I understand, all right,

(02:21:06):
But listen, weed man, here's the thing. You have to
understand this that there's a lot of bureaucracy with the NFL,
like and also you know I work at a big
company here, so I will that's true. All right, Here's
what's gonna happen. Okay, if we decide to do this,
I will make a phone call or send an email
to the powers that be. All right, I'm just a

(02:21:29):
cog in the machine here, and I will send an
email to those that need to do good. I really
love me. Okay, at that point, weed Man, it's out
of my hands whether or not he signs off on it.
And even if he signs off on it, then the
NFL has to approve you. You understand that, Well, then

(02:21:59):
that's really let me keep in wine mine. Now we
we Man. You've admitted you've been arrested over a hundred
times and all that you're a lot of minor stuff.
But you know, we we we keep in mind I've
been arrested zero times and I was denied a credential
by the incompetent Seattle Seahawks PR Department. So uh, keep

(02:22:20):
that in mind, all right, Ben, No, it's not. It
doesn't mean this is over. Now you've already. I love
that weed Man has gone from this high where he's
excited to do it and now all of a sudden
he's like, in the span of like two minutes, he's
now determined that this is not going to happen, and
the world sucks. That's the beauty of you, weed Man,

(02:22:42):
that you you have these highs and your bipolar is
what you are. I'm not, I'm really I'm really not.
But then I've been Withdrew for how many years? Am
I consistently here every night we do well, you get
banned quite often, and you do stuff here. I show up,
all right, all right, all right, all right, comda, all right, comda.

(02:23:08):
That's where we are. There's nothing else to add to
the conversation. I will if we decide we'll talk about
it during the week, and we decided to do this,
I will again talk to the people that need to
be talked to. It's then their decision. I am very
low on the totem pole here, and then the other
people have more power and they will be the ones

(02:23:29):
that make the ultimate decision. All Right, we will have
later this hour. We're gonna have coach player entertainer will
take some more of these calls, including someone we were
gonna put a search out for apparent we found him.
We'll get to all that, but right now we go
over to Eddie for all your overnight sporting news, and

(02:23:49):
we start, of course, with the conclusion of wild card weekend.
We had two games in the NFL playoffs, and both
the road teams posted wins, including the Seahawks, who went
to Philadelphia and beat the Eagles seventeen to nine. Now
Seattle had three hundred and eighty two yards of total offense.
Quarterback Russell Wilson accounted for three hundred and seventy of
those yards, with three out of twenty five yards passing.

(02:24:09):
He was also the team's leading rusher with forty five
yards on the ground. For Philadelphia, quarterback Carson Wentz was
knocked out of the game in the first quarter with
an apparent concussion. He did not return to the Eagles
did not score a touchdown. Seattle moves on. They'll play
in Green Bay next Sunday again in the divisional round.
We also had the Vikings in New Orleans to take
on the Saints. This one was decided in overtime. It
brings us to our Geico play of the day Bird

(02:24:31):
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The Minnesota Vikings have beaten the New Orleans Saints twenty
six twenty in overtime. And this game indeed was a
Sam Francisco treat well thanks to our friends over at

(02:24:54):
kay Fan and the Vikings radio network. With the Geico
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save fifteen percent or more on your car insurance. That,
of course, the call of quarterback Kirk Cousins hitting tight
end Kyle Rudolph with a four yard touchdown to end
the game. Again twenty six twenty fightings over the Saints
in overtime. For New Orleans, A have now lost in

(02:25:16):
the final play of the game three years in a
row in the playoffs. The last two years have been
overtime losses. Again. Minnesota advances to play at San Francisco
next Saturday. That was what the announcer was referring to.
In the NBA, we had a doubleheader at Staples Center
in Los Angeles. The first game saw the Clippers edge
of the Knicks one thirty five, one thirty two. The
second game, the Lakers beat the Pistons one six Pistons.

(02:25:37):
Why don't you use the word edge? They edged the Pistons,
they were trailing going to the fourth quarter of the
Lakers and the Heat beat the Trailblazers one eleven. Yeah.
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(02:25:59):
we talked about this on the little bit in the
first hour, but at the end of the Saints of
Vikings game, a lot of New Orleans fans upset. They
thought that the tight end for the Vikings, Kyle Rudolph,
had a little push off in the end zone before
he was able to reel in that game winning touchdown passed.
But Al River, on the much embattled senior vice the officials,

(02:26:24):
he said that they did review the play, and here's
the quote. He says, this is consistent with what we've
done all year. We left the ruling on the field.
We'd let it stand. There was contact by both players,
but none of that contact rise to the level of
a foul end quote. They did say on the broadcast
that the play wasn't reviewed, but the NFL says the

(02:26:44):
play was reviewed and they stuck with the call on
the field. Some people watch football, I'm convinced they think
there's like a seven foot rule like strip clubs that
used to have, where you can't be within seven feet
of another human being, Like there's a there's this invisible
force field around, I mean, so so stupid. It's like

(02:27:05):
they're in a different dimension. And what are you doing?
All right? Anyways, the Ben Maller Show on Fox. We
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free rate quote. So Tom Brady says Peyton Manning is
full of blank, a word for fertilizer or manure, for

(02:27:27):
denying that the Colts pumped in crowd noise in the dumb.
Now everyone is pretty much agreed that that's exactly what
the Colts did back in Peyton Manning's heyday in Indianapolis.
But Tom Brady did some fugazy TV show with Peyton Manning.
And now some of this was all just kidding around,
laughing and all that stuff. But I believe there's truth
in what Tom Brady said when he said that Peyton

(02:27:50):
Manning is full of blank. And I advised Tom Brady
to go watch The Dark Side on YouTube, which is
several years old now, but it's still on YouTube, and
there's a documentary, a great work by Al Jazeera, and
they look into Peyton Manning there and it's a fine,
fine piece of I think that that narrative can shove
that and where the sun don't on a golden globe. Actually,

(02:28:10):
I didn't watch the Golden Globes other than the first
the opening monologue by Ricky Jervais, which was very good.
By the way, I don't like award shows, but I
just happened to not turn the channel because I'm lazy.
Except the Bennies. Well, the Bennies I like. Well, the
Bennies are a mocking of award shows, but we do
give out awards. In fact, somebody that's won awards over
the years, here, Justin in Cincinnati's cashing a golden ticket.

(02:28:34):
Get the dumb button ready. He'll say something offensive and
then we'll dump him and then we'll move on. Hello,
just what could go wrong when you send a seventy
year old holdless guy to proposition offensive lineman at the
Super Bowl? What happened to you over this break? Well,
I got out, I saw the world, I met people,
I pressed the flesh and had a wonderful time. And
meeting people Justin is what I did. Okay, Brady, I'm

(02:28:58):
want to set the odds of this ninety nine percent
chance he goes back to New England. They don't have
any other options. Are you doing it? Are you doing
a real sports radio call? Not justin? What's going on
with you? What's wrong with you? Turn over a new
leaf hot take machine? Justin and Cincinnati a game show horr.
Now you're gonna be a game showhor in twenty twenty. Also,

(02:29:19):
I don't know, it's gonna be three years in a row.
I'm gonna be the champion and one final thing weed
Man Athletes and how I taste? How many people were
very concerned about Marcel in Brooklyn. I believe he has
checked inut I don't know because Lee's in for Coop
and so I don't know. This might be a Marcel impersonator.

(02:29:41):
But let's go to New York. Is this the legendary Marcel? Yes,
he's back. Where morning? Where have you been? On Twitter? Marcel?
People were concerned because you haven't been sending out a
rampant amount of tweets, a outrageous amount of tweets. Well,
Mike Tablett is going to be okay from Saturday. As

(02:30:03):
a matter of fact, what the breadth of Amazon will
give us some new tablets. I promise, I'm about get
back to Twitter. Oh so you're okay, okay, so you're
that's the problem. Your tablet broke? Did uncle dynamite throw
it down or something like that? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, okay,
all right? Get is that the blue tablet? I think

(02:30:24):
my daughter has the same one as you. It's my
Amazon five or seven tablet. My uncle Kareem gave it
to us. Kareem hear, yes, the Gaream up Ul Jabar
is his uncle. No, no, no, no, no, no, Kareem
my uncle uncle. Oh you're losing Maine. Okay, I got you,
now you know. Marcel, I had this get together with

(02:30:44):
listeners in Seattle and we had a great time, and
you were talked about it a lot. Marcel. People had
questions about you. They wanted to know about what makes
Marcel tick. In fact, Jay Scoop even had one of
the gifts was oodles and noodles, Marcel's oodles and noodles.
That was given out there as a gift in your
in your honor. It's Shack said. That's good. That's good.

(02:31:06):
And now it's a new day, it's a new year.
Twenty twenty May no malla militia. Let's get into acts
food picks. Okay, I'm gonna go hot dog, Eddie, pizza pizza,
all right, Roberto, what do you think Marcel had for
dinner last night in Brooklyn? I'm gonna say said all right,

(02:31:28):
and Lee producer Lida lab who's in for coop? What
do you think? I'm gonna say? Pasta? All right, Marcel,
He's included all pasta, which is a good guest by you.
You include the spaghetti and uh and in the all
the chef boy r D products. All right, Marcel, go ahead. Okay,

(02:31:49):
my food pick from last night, that's that's what you said. Ben,
everyone knows from the Great Northwest Seahawk City, USA is
Bodles for noodles, Oodles for noodles. I should have known.
That's a good one. And now one week from tonight,
number one clips and take on number three LSU. Who's

(02:32:12):
going to win? Guys? That's right, the big championship of
college football is coming up here. Let's see who's gonna win.
The team that scores more points I believe will win, Marcel.
I believe the Tigers will win. Yeah, it's a good
call by you. Eddie I'm gonna agree with Eddie. I'm
gonna go with Tigers. Yeah, Tigers. Do we have the Tigers, well,

(02:32:34):
just the Tigers team will Now do we have the
player of the weekend in Marcel's universe? Okay, sounds good
to me. Let's do it all right, here we go,
Marcel pat Gal that's not his name. That's the player
of the week for Monday, January the July. It's Monday,

(02:32:56):
January six twenty, the new year. By the way, we're
able to fix the Titanic, Marcel, that's the nice one.
It's Russell Westbrook of the Seattle Seahawks, Seahawks edge the
Philadelphia Eagle seventeen. And his name. What's the guy's name?
What's Westbrook? That's right, the quarterback of the Seattle seas Welso.

(02:33:20):
Westbrook had a lot of triple doubles triple of years ago.
Now I have some breaking news for you right here
in New York. All right, here we go, Oh boy,
no play news from Fox Award. What are you doing?
From Saturday? There was a Fifth Avenue fire on Building

(02:33:42):
twenty here at Marlborough Houses. People died. The our city's
break first responders were on the scene there and the
people are very embarrassed. So the thoughts and prayers are
with everyone over at Building twenty. Did that tablet fix? Marcel?
All right? Thank you marthon Mark seven. Be sure to
follow me right now. I'll feed it back to him.

(02:34:02):
Follow him. He's not able to respond because his tablet broke,
but make sure to follow him on Twitter. Dick in Dayton,
here's another allegend that he a legends are all out tonight. Hello,
welcome this morning. Now, Hello Dick and Dayton. Well, happy
New Year, guys. Happy New Year to you, Dick and Daton.
Did you go out and celebrate? I had a great Christmas?

(02:34:24):
And uh I worked on New Years. But yeah, I
had a good time. My cousin came down and uh,
both of my cousins. It was a round her birthday.
It was really dying. Yeah. Well, I want you to know, Dick.
You were also a topic of conversation at the Mallard
Militia get together in Seattle. There people were asking questions
about Dick and Dayton. I said, I love this guy.

(02:34:45):
Guy's a legend. I got to meet Dick and Dames. Yeah, absolutely, Well,
then I didn't think that the general manager. But I
know you're you're here, Dick. Why don't you send your
resume in? You could be the GM? And could I should?
Is this now, Dick and Daton we've talked over the

(02:35:05):
years here, You've been with me a long time. We've
had a lot of conversations when the Browns have fired
a GM or a coach and the one name you
have always said, Bernie cos Aar. Is this the year
that Bernie Cosar gets one of those jobs? I would say, yes,
all right? Can you tweet that out Lee that Dick

(02:35:25):
and Dayton is reporting that this is the year Bernie
Cozar gets a front office job with the Browns. I
love that, you know. Listen, all right, so you didn't
do anything to celebrate over the holidays. You just worked
and that was it. And oh well Christaero. I was
with a girlfriend and her U and her daughter. We

(02:35:45):
had a great Christmas. I who knew Dick and Dayton
or the Hi look at you your big stud with
your girlfriend? How about that? Huh? Yeah? But I'm hoping
the Browns get the coach from New England. Josh McDaniels.
Now you don't want that guy, Na, Na, you don't
want that guy do better. You can do better than

(02:36:08):
Josh McDaniels. Come on, ye, he's not gonna bring Belichick
with him. Yeah, how about Urban Meyer? Did Yer? You
know what about Urban Meyer? Man? I go for it.
All right, he's a yard. He's all all right, thank you, Dick,
Bye bye, hey bye bye. All right, there you go.
A great Dick and did he was gonna keep the

(02:36:29):
name as Dave. He's doing as Dave Ohio State. Let's
go now. If you want to play Coach Player Entertainer,
call right now. While a brief edition of Coach Player Entertainer.
But right now, let's say hello for the first time
in twenty twenty. How many years has this been? I
don't know, Cowboy John Brad, I believe I can't like
the line is blocked, but I think I'm right on that,
Cowboy John Brad. Hello, we'll big Ben and welcome, Welcome back,

(02:36:52):
and happy New year, New Dick, and I think it's
been eighteen years. Happy twenty sixth birthday, Jamis Crabby Winston
and also forber Major League outfielder Lenny Green would have
been eighty seven today, but he died last year on
his eighty sixth birthday and your twenty fifth President. Jo
Roosevelt died January sixth, nineteen nineteen, and twenty five days later,

(02:37:17):
a baby boy was born on a plantation in Georgia
and his mother named Jack Roosevelt Robinson. Yeah that Jack Roosevelt,
Robin legend and forty three years ago today, Mike never
heard of the Angel shortstop was also the quarterback for
La Hugh a few years previously, five days after Ruse

(02:37:41):
reliever Dan Fisello was killed on a New Year's Day
nineteen seventy seven. Doom Buggy, that's ever heard? A great singer.
Lou Rolls died fourteen years ago today in eight seventy
two from lung cancer. Robert Duval was eighty nine yesterday,
And let's see Diane Cannon Diane and eaton with some
of the four yesterday speak two people tomorrow get asked

(02:38:04):
our Facebook by that is a complete load of crap,
A fine Canadian lad cowboy John. But we're gonna have
coach player entertain if you would like to play call
right now eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox a
brief edition of that game. We'll get to that. We'll
do it next. Be sure to catch live editions of
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(02:38:27):
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I from the guy coed Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's
Ben Maller. Put on your thinking caps. My name is

(02:38:50):
time to identify my name is Is it a coach,
player or entertainer? All right, let's do it. We don't
have a lot of time. Brought to you by Discovered Card.
We treat you, you treat you, will meet our contestants,
will meet them together. I guess on the air. Here,
let's go to you a line six. You want to
play line six? Hello? The lines again in line six?

(02:39:11):
Don't tell me? Line six is now live? Ones already broken?
All right, John and Duluth. He wants to play Hello John, Hey,
welcome and John. What are you doing, Duluth? Not much,
not much. You're having a job, or you are you
titty money from the government, like weed man, what are
you doing here? No, I'm going to work, work on

(02:39:33):
the railroad. All right, Look at you working on the railroad.
That's a legit job. That's like a real job. That's
very important. There's a lot of every time I see
those huge freight trains on the railroad and all that.
All right, a whole lot of sect. John, you are
gonna play? And who else do we have? John the
railroad guy going to work? And Mike in Pennsylvania. Hello, Mike,
what's up? Brother? How are you? Welcome back? Thank you Mike.

(02:39:55):
I recognize your voice. Mike, You're very distinctive. Cadence. But
tell the guy in bib Damn, who's got a friend
in Punksitani? What you do for a living? I am handicap.
Well that's not what you do for a living. You
you are living? Right? You call radio shows for example? Okay? Cool?
Yeah there, I'm actually blind. I'm another blind person. I

(02:40:16):
will oh really, Oh, I love the you know, I'm
a hero for the blind. I used to be the
number one rated radio guy with the blind, but we
don't have time to do that Shtickola, So let's get
to it. We have John and Duluth and blind Mike
in Pennsylvania. So the way this works, I'll say the
name you tell me is it to coach, a player
and entertainer. Your name is your buzzer. To get the

(02:40:37):
full seven points, you have to say both parts of this.
All right, let's go to uh. Let's see here. First
name up, Billy Turner, coach player, entertainer. Your name is
your buzzer, John John coach No. Billy Turner is a
players offensive lineman for the Green Bay Packers. Coach player, entertainer.

(02:41:00):
Let's see here. Jared Harris, Jared Harris, Mike Mike player
no actually was an actor, is an actor and Chernobyl
and got Golden Globe apparently. I guess it was at
the Golden Globes. All right, coach player entertainer. The next
name up for us is Jonathan Price John John player

(02:41:25):
no actually an actor. That's why it's amazing that two
popes all sort the Golden Globe apparently lead the lap
watch the Golden Globes last night, our poditioner. All right,
who else do we offer? Dennis Allan coach player, entertainer.
John John is in first John and the luth railroad guy.
Coach he said, coach, No, he's at Dennis Allen was

(02:41:49):
not a good coach, but he's We're out of time,
globs scoring. John wins at the Buzz went over Mike
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