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an airport. We're gonna be talking about jets, is what
we're gonna be talking about, because you know, these jets
today are just not that good. They really are not
that good. Welcome In the beginning of the Ben Mathers Show.
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a member of the Mallar Militia P one reached out

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and said they were nauseated with the amount of Mallar
monologues about coaches being hired. You ain't seen nothing yet.
You this is not the show for you. This is
not the show for you. And if you wonder how
this all comes together, well, there's not a lot of planning, right,

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There's not a lot of plenty. And pretty much what
happens is we whatever's going on, we talk about. Whatever
happens to be going on, we happen to talk about.
And today happens to be a very fruitful day if
you are a hack NFL coach. The big story of
the day. There's three NFL coaches that got hired, one

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yet again, got the job after being fired. Recently the
news out of New Jersey that the Jets are planning
on hiring former Dolphins coach Adam Gasee as their new coach.
So we we originally had eight teams that had openings

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and now we are down to two. Right, there were
eight teams that bush whacked their coach and now there
are two, and the Jets the latest to hire their coach.
And the two teams that don't have a coach at
least I haven't checked in the last five minutes, maybe
they hired their coach. The Cincinnati Bengals and the Miami
Dolphins former Dolphin coach. Though Adam Gasee is now the
headman in New Jersey. Yet the same guy that just

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got sacked, get out of here, walk the plank, go
swim with the fish in Miami. Now he's the beloved
chosen one. I heard to the end of Jason Smith's
show here, and I am convinced that Jason is He's
like Fireman ed my man. Jason, like the Jets could
hire the UNI bomber and he would talk about his

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explosive offense, you know, he would just he find a way.
It's unbelievable. There's not a single thing good about this
if you're a Jet fan, like, there's not. And I
get I got no skin in the game, I'm not
a Jets fan and all that stuff, but this is absurd.
It's absurd. The stories out there that Peyton Manning supposedly

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played a role in this and he made a phone
call and on that is Peyton Manning now running the Jets?
Is that what's going on? What if Peyton Manning tells
you to move the franchise to Baker's Field? Are the
Jets relocating to Bakersfield? Is that what's gonna happen. Who's
your daddy, Peyton Manning, that's your daddy. It's ridiculous. What

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the hell did Adam Gase do with Peyton Manning? By
the way, what is that all about? I don't understand.
I don't get it. Was he the drug mule that
went to the guy or clinic and picked up the
h GH for Peyton's wife? Was at What Adam Gase did?
I don't know. I who ever wrote that narrative can
shoved that one where the sun don't shine. He's one

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of the more bizarre things. A call from Peyton Manning.
A call from Peyton Manning. Now there's other deep state
conspiracies out there about this that we'll get into. But
he becomes the second coach in twenty four hours. Adam
Gays does to be hired just days after they were
fired from their previous job. What the bleep? But he bleep?

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What a bloody mess this is. Adam Gase won out
over Mike McCarthy and others. In fact, there is a
report out tonight that the Jets actually did not have
Adam Gayse as their first choice, that they intended to
go another direction. I don't know if you saw this one.
I just saw it a few minutes ago and I thought, oh,

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this is interesting. I should probably talk about this on
the show. This is pretty good. But the story is
that the Jets that Adam Gas was like Plan B
or Plan C, depending on which two bit in fl
Insider with industry sources. But one of the guys in
The York reporting that the Jets actually wanted Baylor's head
coach Matt Rule to rule the Jets. But who here's

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the rub. We're told that the Jets did not like
the people that he wanted to put on his coaching
staff because he wanted to put his own staff together.
God forbid, you hire the people around you that you're
gonna work with. The Jets said, they used some pig
lattin They said X nay on the coaching staff A.
And so that didn't happen. So Matt Rule did not
get hired. And there is debate whether or not he

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was actually offered the job. But it's really a game
of semantics, that's what I've learned. Well was an official
offer because the contract hadn't been signed. They have ways
of spinning the yarn, is what they did. But the
Dolphins of twenty eighteen went seven and nine. Adam Gase
now takes over the division rival Jets. That stench is

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not a skunk. What you smell is not a skunk.
That is the record of the Jets. Yeah, that's the Jets. Suck, suck, suck.
That's your New York Jets, who went four and twelve
this year, four and twelve. So I guess when you're
four and twelve, if you can hire a coach who
was seven and nine, you've improved by three games. What

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a win. So the question is, how ridiculous is the
Jets decision to hire Adam Gase? All Right? How ridiculous
is this? That is the question that is out there.
It is illogical, it is wildly unreasonable, and it is

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completely inappropriate. You might as well have kept Todd Bowles
as your coach. I have the same level of excitement
and anticipation for an Adam Gase coached football team that
I would for Todd bows So why did you buy
the fire and the guy? All right, here's what I got.
I got the wood, comedy, gold and liberty valance. And

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we will tie all these things together now. Number one,
Adam Gayse was hired based on what he was supposed
to be back in the day with the Dolphins, right
he got into the NFL because and he was tagged
again the Peyton Manning effect, he's gonna be great, and
the Dolphins hired him they expected it to be great.
And he was two games under five hundred in three

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miserably lousy years with the Miami Dolphins. It's terrible. It's
absolutely terrible, right, I mean they were, they were not
absolutely terrible. Maybe that's not the right way of phrasing it.
Just boring and mediocre. That would be more of a
way to the phrase. So right now, the Patriots, Bills,
and Dolphins, they're like Nelson and from the Simpsons, pointing

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and going ha ha. That's what they're doing to the
Jets right now. That's what the entire world should be
going to the Jets. There's not a single thing that's
exciting about Adam Gays coaching the Jets, not a single thing.
The balloon popped, and I don't want to be it's
the hire of the This is really, though, the byproduct

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of being tagged with greatness, which is often in life
more important than actually being great, at least in the
sporting world. Results don't actually matter. They'll make excuses for
you if they like you. Remember that old thing from
Remember I learned in a marketing class years ago that
people don't like to change their minds. Once you perceive

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something one way, that's it, all right. People perceived illogically,
inappropriately and unreasonably that Adam Gays was going to be
the next great coach, and looking back at that, it's laughable.
It's insane, considering how poorly he did in Miami. But

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he was seen as an up and comer in the
coaching ranks. And then he got his chance, and he
did a face plan. He farted all over Miami, far
for you, Far for you, Far for you, That's what
he did. But again he got tagged with great potential
to get another chance. We see this all the time.
I remember years ago, there was a it wasn't even
that long ago. It was in the last fifteen years.
Maybe I'm ten years ago. There was a guy named

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Brandon Wood. You probably don't know who Brandon Wood it was.
He was a baseball player. I think it was a
first round pick of the Angels, and he was compared
to Cal Rippken, a Hall of Famer. Cal Ripken, Brandon
Wood could do everything. He had the body like a god,
and it was going to be this star in baseball.
And then he got to the major leagues and batted

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one eighty six. But they kept saying he's gonna figure
it out. He played six years parts of six years
in the major leagues and his career batting average was
less than two hundred, and Adam Gays was compared to
Don Shula. He flopped and now he's taking he's under
five hundred record to the New York metropolitan area. Now

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the second thing, the ironic part of this, and we
have some audio we're gonna play here in a second.
The walls started to cave in on Adam Gays in Miami.
He could not handle the immense pressure of the Dolphins.
Imagine how that nuclear meltdown he had in Miami is
gonna play in East Rutherford. I'm going to assume the
position not very well. And if you don't remember the

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hissy fit heard round the world, we played it on
our show. Let's play it again here. Adam Gaye was
asked about the health of Ryan Tannehill when he was
coaching the Dolphins. Believe this was a few months ago
and listen to Adam Gays get angrier and angrier and snap,
it was wonderful. I think there's some kind of like

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hippol r or something something like that. Kenna, I don't know.
I don't know. I don't sit there and ask all
these questions, and I just know the guy who couldn't
go today, all right, go ask him. I'm sorry to
answering this question about this guy. I got it, but
you know what, I'm over it. Me and him, we
know that he's not right right now. Okay, the details

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of it, we'll keep that to us. You guys don't
need to know that. Isn't that great? So annoyed, so upset,
he's leave me alone. Go ask him. It's your NFL
coach right there. Good luck. And now he's supposed to
fix Sam Donald because they're good friends. I read that too.

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Gonna ride that green wave in the New York area,
all right. The final point, Now, Adam Gayze is living
proof that that line from the movie The Man That
Shot Liberty Valance still rings true all these years later.
When the legend becomes the fact, you go with the legend.
The legend is that Adam Gayze is a tactical genius.
He's the quarterback whisper. Meanwhile, the results, you know, things

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actually took place that you can look at as fact.
Adam Gays tactical genius as head coach of the Miami Dolphins.
The Dolphins of twenty sixteen or twenty eighteen, rather twenty
six in points in the NFL, tactical offensive genius, thirty
first in yards, there's only thirty two teams. That's your

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new Jets coach, Adam Gays. Well, you say, well, maybe
that's an outlier, maybe that's just a bad year. What
about twenty seventeen. All right, let's look at twenty seventeen.
The Dolphins were twenty fifth in yards. So there you go,
improved a little bit. Twenty eighth in points scored out
of thirty two teams. That's Adam Gase spectacular, spec tacular. Yes,

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and he sparred with Ryan Tannehill. They didn't get along
that well some of the other players in the locker room.
There was a mini revolt to the coaching staff of
Adam Gays, which led to his demise, you need to
have amnesia to think this is good. And before we
get a bunch of morons that are ridiculous and call

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up here and say, whoa wait a minute, what about Belichick?
Belichick lost his first job and with the Browns, and
then he came back and he was great and he's
a Hall of Famer. What about Belichick? Yeah, I've talked
about this in the past, the second chance crowd. You
can take the sock off your foot, the dirty sock,
and shove it in your mouth. Okay, it's slapstick comedy.

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Gold if you think that this is gonna be another
Belichick situation. Bill Belichick was five and fourteen with New England,
was about to get fired himself with the Patriots, and
then manna from heaven fell out of the sky named
Tom Brady because you're bledsoe got hurt. And while the
rest is Patriot history. Now, Belichick is the exception of

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the rule. And the exception does not make the rule.
It is a loop hole in the rule. Herm Edwards,
Shan Gaily, Bruce Cosler. I gave you all these names, Bruce,
Joe Bugle, Mike Mularkey, and he talked about Malarkey, Yester.
He got three jobs. Garbage, gobbage, garbage, And by the way,
the Jets might hire Vance Joseph as their defensive coordinator.

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There's a rumor that that could happen. Here. It is
literally amateur hour with the Jets. Suck, Suck, Suck. We
say hello to Edmund Dallas, Steve Moote, Willie Judas Guars
cs right over there. Yeah, and now we saw all

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of these uh NFL head coaching jobs open up, and
we were talking about the list of potential candidates and
read them and none of them really really were that
interesting and U and of these hires have really been.
I guess Cliff Kingsbury's kind of interesting. I don't know
if it's a good hire or not, but a lot
of underwhelming high is being made right now in the
NFL teams like lacking the wild factor, I would say,

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I would say, so, oh yeah, yeah, there's only one
that I mildly think is good. Well, it's because he's
a fat guy. Is that? What is that? I know,
you love the fat coaches, you know my instincts. Yeah,
I feel like we should be eating biscuits with this guy,
and he would like to join us in biscuits in Grave. Yeah. Absolutely,
I'm pulling for him. I've always pulled for the fat coach.
I know you have one thing about me. You know,

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people say I'm I'm a jock hater and I hate
coaches and all that. I liked the fat coach. I
like the fat player, Bartolo Cologne, fat player. I like
even Pablo Sandoval the baseball Hey, everyone ripped him because
he couldn't play anymore. I still like fat fat ball player.
My favorite quarterback of all time, you know who it is,
Eddie Jared Lorenz And that's right, the hefty lefty round

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mound of touchdown my guy Philby Hillsbury throwboys a good
win to what's that favorite boxer? My favorite boy? Who's
the like oh mean, oh but well man, I don't
know about that. Well, some of those boxes at the
end of their career is like gold heavyweights back in
the day, we get really fat and will be for
George Foreman got fat. Yeah, yeah, well he had the tubs. Yeah.

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I don't even know if he was fat, but the
name of itself sounds like he's fat. No. I remember
when I first got into boxing, there were a bunch
of guys at the end of their career and they
were all like really fat guys in there. You know,
they didn't care. They were heavyweight, so it didn't matter.
He's fat as he won. There you go, all right,
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do you know Sean McVay. If you do, you just
want a brand new car. Really, I've met him. I
was at ram Games. I haven't gone any this year,
but in the past I've out there hanging out and

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we've walked past each other. That considered a friend. Jay
Scoop says the Union bomber might have an explosive offense,
but in the end he'd blow every game that's a
good point. It's not wrong. Ernie in Michigan, the great
oh Piner of the show. Always always, Ernie's always very
active early the show, he says, Ben, when did professional

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sports go from the tireless, retread coaches to the give
the young unknowns a shot? Then this offseason we have
a combination of both. Also, when does Peyton T Bag
Manning recommend himself to coach somewhere? That's from Ernie. Yeah,
it's just embarrassing. I mean, what is Peyton Manning? Jesus H.

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Christ I mean, what are we doing here? I got
a phone call from Peyton Manning. Ben, He's the best
quarterback ever? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love the way this
is being reported. The exactly the owner, Well, the Woody
Johnson's like on some retreat, like he's an ambassador, right,

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the other Johnson, Johnson and Johnson, they're the Johnson and Johnson.
But Christopher Johnson supposedly got a phone call from Peyton Manning. Wow,
his life changed forever. Crazy, so so ridiculous, But that's
the world we live in. Well, the four Armed Guard,

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speaking of just outrageous, just ridiculous. Coaches will do the
darnedest things to try to get their team fired up
for the NFL. Plus, now, you would think the opportunity
to win a championship and have a bunch of ass
kissers protect you the rest of your life because you
won a championship and get free meals and all that stuff,

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that that would be enough, that that would be enough.
But it's not so. Adam Gaze went to historic lengths
to try to crank up the interest in the New
Orleans Saints locker room in the lead up to the
Saints game against Philadelphia this weekend. Say what what did
he do? Well, surprisingly and randomly, randomly, up four armed

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guards arrive at the Saints locker room facility. And then
there was Sean Payton who brought in the Lombardi trophy.
And I've heard several different versions of this. One was
there was a shovel, not a shovel, like a wheelbarrow.
I've heard there was a wheelbarrel. I don't think that's

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been confirmed. But he had the Lombardi trophy and just
imagine like a wheelbarrow. Here's how I imagine it. He's
holding the Lombardi Trophy over his shoulder while pushing with
his other hand the wheelbarrow, and in the wheelbarrow is
too hundred twenty five thousand dollars in cash. And then
Sean Payton gets in front of the team and he

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addresses the Saints locker room and says, you all want
this win three bloody games. Locker room goes crazy, and
then he walks out. That's the amount of money the
players will get. Each player will get a bonus of
two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars if they happen

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to be on the right side of the Super Bowl.
That is the estimated bonus for this year's Super Bowl.
There you go. You know what that tells me? That's
good news for Philadelphia because that Saints team ain't motivated
enough to win on their own. They need a financial incentive.
That Sean Payton knows his football team that these guys

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need a financial element, that just the pride of winning
the game is not enough. I'd be very concerned if
I was in the Bayou and as Saints fan, because
that tells me these motive, the motivation of this Saints
team is not in the right place. That's good news
for Philadelphia because you start going down that greed avenue.
Oh Man the devil will rise up. You'd be insom show,

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be in some show, all right, So Ben Mallers show
on Fox again on Twitter at Ben Maller if you'd
like to be part. Rob in Minnesota says, I'm tired
of answering all these stupid questions all the time. Is
exactly what Hal McCrae said in his tirade when he
threw a glass of milk in a phone. It's good memory, Rob, Yeah,

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that's one of the it's often forgotten because the visual
element for our show. You need to see it as well,
is just to watch it. Because he was walking around
like in his pajamas. It looked like Hal McCray when
he had a tirade and he actually injured, permanently injured.
The sports writer's I throwing a phone. Philly Rob says,
Adam Gas has the secret sauce to beat the Patriots.

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The problem with that, Chief Steak, Philly Rob, is this
the secret sauce he doesn't get to take from Miami.
He has to leave that in Miami when he goes
to play the coach of the Jets. That Dolphins secret
sauce is eighty degree weather in December in Miami. That's
the secret sauce. Patriots go down there. They're only there

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for a couple of days, and all of a sudden
they go out to those clubs on South Beach and
the next thing you know, they got nothing, nothing at all.
Slow writes and says, four armed guards gotta be there
to protect the money JaMarcus Russell stole from the Raiders.
There you go. Dyll writes and says, well, when you're
on air endorsing fat lazy asses, would you want the

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Dodgers to bring Manny Machado back if he stopped working
out and became a fat ass? Well, no, I'm good.
Manny Machado's signature moment as a Dodger was hitting a
ball in the World Series and then standing and watching
how far the ball went. Unfortunately for Manny it wasn't

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Camedon yards. If it had been Camdon yards, that would
have been a home run at Dodger Stadium. It was
an embarrassing moment that will really sum up the career
of Manny Machado as a Dodge. That's sow that go
all right, It's Ben Alas show on Fox. Will press
On will take some of these calls here in a minute,
and some fun with Wikipedia as well. We'll go there

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in a moment, but right now from the guy coo
Fox Sports Radio Studios, we say hello to Eddie Garcia. Eddie,
and then we start with news from the NFL coaching
news of course, and the New York Jets are portally
gonna hire recently fired Miami Dolphins head coach Adam Gasee
as their next head coach. Now, he had up twenty
three and twenty five record in three years at Miami,

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made the playoffs once they lost that game. And that
also means that apparently recently fired Green Bay Packers head
coach Mike McCarthy will not be head coach season wha
time out when he was let go. Did I not
hear national pund and say he would have four or
five teams that we're gonn offer him a job? Did
I not hear that? Well, apparently he only wanted one
job's at and that's a lie. I pursued the Jets.

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He thought, that's now that they feel that vacancy. I
don't believe that he's you guys, lie all the time.
I'll lie right to your face. He wanted a job
he felt like he was gonna get the job. So
it sounds better when you say, well, I only want
the Jet job. Was it not true that he declined
to interview for the Browns vacancy. They didn't want to
talk to him, they wanted Kitchens. That wasn't true. That

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was a lie. There you go, another lie. Okay, The
Denver Broncos are portably gonna hire Chicago Bears defensive coordator
Vic Fangio as their next head coach. Coop is very
excited about this. Now, he's never been a head coach before,
but he has been an assistant in the NFL for
thirty three years. And this is actually good for Coop
And I'll explain later in the show why this is
good news. Well, he may be happy that former Broncos
head coach Gary Kubiak's moving out of the front office

(25:49):
to be the offensive coordinator. Yeah, with his outdated offense,
that's true. Yeah, And the Cleveland Browns promoting offensive coordinator
Freddie Kitchens to be their next head coach. He has
no previous head coaching experienced, not Interim head coach and
defensive coordinador Greg Williams has been let go by the team.
Some NBA Games of note, we had the Bucks beating
the Rockets in Houston, won sixteen to one on nine
Janis Identi Coupo twenty seven points, twenty one rebounds in

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the win. James Harden for Houston forty two points, eleven
rebounds in defeat Celtics one hundred and thirty five points.
On the night they beat the Pacers one thirty five
one oh eight Wizards because it made the seven different
Celtics and double figures. Eddie I covered that it's not bad. Yeah,
it's pretty good. Wizards beat the seventy six ers one
twenty three, one oh six, Grizzlies over the Star and
beat at a Monster games wise to pick thirty five
points three ninety three eighty six Grizzlies over the Spurs

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and the Trail Players beat the Bowls one twenty four
two one twelve a real quick one top twenty five
college basketball game to pass along Battle of Rank Teams
Number seven Kansas beat number twenty five TCU seventy seven
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close the bottom of the hour reports with a page
two story. This one would normally be a little bit
later in the show, but I had to had to
move it up. Had to move it up because of you, Ben.
I know you're excited about this news. Maybe he'll put
you in a good mood. Free agent catcher Yasmani Grandahl
agreeing on a one year, eighteen point two five million
dollars deal with the Milwaukee Brewers. How much did he get?

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One year eighteen point two five million by the fools
live in Wisconsin. That is insane. A thirty year old
turn down a one year, seventy point nine million dollars
deal from the Dodgers. He had been pursued by the Mets.
They partably wanted to give him a four year, fifty
million dollars deal, but instead he has chosen the brew Crew.
Career two forty hit, one hundred and thirteen homers, three

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and thirty nine rbi, and seven hundred twenty six big
league games were the Dodgers. In the podcast Yeah Now,
This is good. This is called Dodger revenge because the
Brewers pulled those stunts in the NLCS where they started
a pitcher and they was it Wade Miley and then
they took him out after like one batter. This is
your revenge. Yours is to have Yasmoni grind Doll on

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your ross. Let me tell you about this bum yasmone Grandall, Wisconsin.
Let me educate Milwaukee on yas Bonnie Granddall. This guy
had the yips in the playoffs. He couldn't couldn't catch
the damn ball. What's the number one job of a
catcher catch the damn ball? He couldn't do that. And
then the media was They were very concerned and Dodger

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beat reporters asked Jazmone Grandall, how upsetting this was. You
must be devastated. You're in the playoffs, the team's trying
to win a championship and you can't catch the ball.
You're so bad. They had to play Austin Barnes, who
can't hit a lick either. They had to put him
out there, and Yasmani Granddall, a professional ball player, told

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the media, you guys are more concerned than I am.
I'm not worried about it. That's brewer. That's a brewer.
That's a brewer. This is good news for the Cubs.
It's good news for the Cincinnati Reds, the Cardinals, the
Chief and Cardon all those teams, not the Pirates because
they're not trying to win. It's incredible, true, you be either.
The Mets offered him sixty million dollars and he turned

(29:07):
it down. They got that Brody van Wagoning. Sounds like
a rich golf guy. Anyway, it's thank you for annoying me, Eddie,
appreciate that. I feel better. Yeah, it's good. That feels good,
all right, because now we can eliminate the Brewers from
postseason playing with you. Yeah. Well, at least it's good
news for Grandaldal because you know, the Brewers play that

(29:29):
gimmick style of baseball. So it's good for grandall who'll
get the rest while they keep making pitching changes seven
pitching changes, eight pitching changes, nine pitching changes a game.
That's good. Granddaal can get some gatorade and relax, get
a towel. Not that he sweats very much because he
doesn't hustle. Ridiculous, by the way, I've just been told

(29:50):
by a source close to the show that it turns
out that Sean Payton lied to the New Orleans Saints.
How about that? Yes? How is that someone very can did,
who's a listener to our show, who knows NFL types
in fact might work in front of an NFL team,
says to me that the bonus is not two hundred

(30:10):
twenty five thousand dollars. Sean Payton got it wrong. The
players get the player's bonus. There's no pay during the
bye week twenty nine thousand, this week fifty four thousand
conference championship. So the Super Bowl total is two two
hundred thousand and one dollar because the Saints had to buy,
So if they hadn't had to buy, they would have

(30:31):
gotten more money. But they played on they didn't play
on wild card weekends. So he's a liar. And my
source told me he missiled the Saints players. He missled, Yeah,
he missiled. Oh misled right, that's a missile. He fired
a explosive projectiles he did, he filed. He fired a

(30:53):
missile in the locker room. It was a Russian missile
and now the Muller investigation is looking into it was
at one point they wrote Russia on it, so it
became a Russian missile, so they had to look into that.
All right, it's Ben Malon's show on Fox Real quick.
This a Wikipedia fund, so everyone's just having a feeding frenzy. Here.
There's blood in the water. Blood. It's like a piranha

(31:15):
with the water. This Adam Gays news. So Wikipedia was hacked.
Adam Gays Wikipedia page. They have the normal profile coaching stuff,
the new coach of the Jets and all that stuff.
How embarrassing is this? I would feel I would feel
bad if I was Adam Gays and the only reason
I got the job was because of Peyton Manning making
a phone call. It's just it's embarrassing, is what it is.

(31:36):
You want to get a job based on your own efforts,
not somebody because you have to be friends with Peyton Manning,
and Peyton Manning made a phone call. That's not the
proper way to get a job, all right. It's like
your daddy pulling strings to get your job. It's like
all those weasels at work in radio and went to Syracuse.
You know they know somebody or something. You know that
kind of stuff. You want to really prove yourself in

(31:57):
the in the media business, in sports radio, go to
saddle backed. F Oh, I can't say it. No, I
believed it. I believe I almost said saddle back bloody college.
There you go, I said it. Then you've proved yourself anyway.

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So somebody hacked Adam gaze Wikipedia page and they have
all his normal stuff from the Dolphins, and then it
has New York Jets and it says under the New
York Jets section of the the profile of Adam Gays,
it says the Jets have become the new Cleveland Browns
is all. It says. That's that's just, that's perfect, that's wonderful.
All right, So the Beller Show on Fox of the
phones we go, Let's say hello to Billy in Chicago.

(32:41):
Who's on Fox Sports Radio. Hello Billy, Hey, what's up there? Welcome,
what's going on? Talk to me? Hey? Um, I talked
to you last when I was in Laws Vegas. I
was working for Well. I remember you. Yeah, yeah, you're
no longer working for Night And then I talked to
you when I was in Louisville and about rip. Through
the years you have like you're in Chicago now. Yeah,

(33:03):
still trying to become a sportscaster or still trying to
get into business. Well, you you're like in the military,
you're moving around, man, You're you're seeing the entire country.
I'm just just trying, just working hard, trying to get
in talking to random people. Your hustle, Well, wasn't your problem.
Now your problem at William Hill, if I remember correctly, Billy,
was you were kind of goofing on some of the

(33:23):
bad bets that you were getting when you worked at
the counter. Is that accurate? Yes, yeah, they don't like that,
they will. I was that guy that, you know, if
someone picked a bad pick, I'd be like, you're an idiot. Yeah, yeah, no,
you can't do you can't do that. You can't do that.
Because you do that, then they chinge the bet and
then they win, and then we lose money exactly exactly,
Like I'm a stockholder in william Hill, Like I need

(33:46):
people to lose bets or the stock price does not
you know, does not go up if people are winning
money from william Hill. So yeah, that's that's not not
good yet, super quick before I get to my question.
You want to saddle back right, the Great Sadleback College
say it with probably respect that you are. You are
a sports you know, a broadcast or whatever for Fox Sports, Raid,

(34:09):
which is a global everyone is global empire, world domination?
Was what was your just I don't want, I don't
need the whole for you, but what was a quick summary?
How did you get in? Like? What was well? I
I started, as most people, as an intern. I was
in school. I got an internship at the mighty six ninety.
I got coffee for Lee Hacksaw Hamilton, who was a

(34:32):
big star in radio in those years in San Diego.
And I had two jobs for hacks I I, well,
I had three. I pulled the carts. They don't even
have those anymore, the commercials. I got them coffee. And
then this is so long ago before the internet, that
I sat in the end. They literally had a newsroom
a radio station with a newsroom, and I sat in

(34:52):
the newsroom and they had a sports ticker and an
ap newswire, and Hacksall was obsessed. I remember this. I
did several times. Any there'll be like an open wheel
driving accident in Europe or something like that, I'd have
to monitor the high speed sportswire in case the driver died.
And then I'd have to run in and give the
the AP news break the hack saw that this guy
died or whatever, and then he'd run. He'd excitedly read

(35:14):
the story on the air. So wow, Okay, So to
my question, it was about Freddie Kitchens. Do you believe
that now what's what's Hugh Jackson gone to cancer? That
I'm actually a Brownson? I has a been a Browns
fan since I was a kid. My condolences that, yeah, thanks.
Do you believe with Hugh Jackson gone with now Freddie

(35:34):
Kitchens high coach? Do you think the Browns will out
or do you think we will? Well? What's your definition?
If a excel is seven to nine wins? Of all
these hires, the one that I approve of is Freddie Kitchens.
That's the one I approve of. This gets the malar
seal of approval. I like this. I was asked about
the Browns job a couple of weeks ago, and I said,

(35:55):
Freddie Kitchens. Just hire Freddie Kitchens. Don't mess around with
these other idiots. And Freddie Kitchens is better than Mike McCarthy,
is a higher He's better than Greg Williams. That's the
guy they want I'm all for this. It'll work out
well for the Browns. But work out well does not
mean they're gonna win the super Bowl. It just means
they're gonna be an actual competitive member than a the
NFL and not a bunch of lightweights. Well, good luck, Billy,
keep me posted to send me an email, Billy, let

(36:16):
me know what's going on with you. I'll live your
life through me, or you can live here. How's that sound.
I will I will enjoy your life experience as you
travel around Louisville, Vegas, Chicago. And where will Billy end
up next? Where's Billy? Instead of where's Waldo? Where's Billy?
Who is that? Shirley's Billy? It's my man Billy from Chicago.

(36:42):
We got the NHL Puckham. We'll do that in a moment.
Here's the who am I? Game? Here we go to
who am I? Game? And this is where we pretend
to be somebody else among the quarterbacks still alive in
the NFL playoffs meeting they'll play this weekend. Who has
the lowest career passer rating of the eight quarterbacks that
will take the field this weekend. Who has the lowest

(37:05):
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Here's the who am I game? Among all the quarterbacks
still alive in the twenty is it the twenty eighteen postseason?

(37:50):
But it's twenty nineties, so it should be postseason. I
feel weird about it. It's twenty nineteen. You can't live
in the past. Season is the twenty eighteen season which continues? Correct?
Very confusing. I don't like it. I don't like this
at all anyway, whatever you call it in the postseason.
Among the quarterbacks still alive, Blank has the lowest career
passer rating no matter how many games they played, Whether

(38:11):
it's one or whatever. Let's go with Ernie. Ernie is
going with Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle. That's his answer. The Little Troller,
says Disco Duck. John Candy guests from ed in Spokane.
Rod the Ambassador to Bakersfield says Nick Foles is the answer.
Billy Ray Cyrus from Cardiac Stanley. Who else we have?

(38:35):
A El Guapo, says Tommy Maddox, the first pick of
the twenty nineteen XFL draft, Dakota Prescott guests by J Scoop,
Chris Chelios from Eric Some good guests? Is you're Patrick
Mahomes from EKE. That's his answer. Let's see your page down,
page down. Cowboy Kills says it has to be former

(38:56):
caller Angry Bill. Angry Bills actually up for a benny.
Angry Bill could win a benny for our favorite caller
that stopped calling the show, So there's a category for that.
There's a rumor that that will be a category. Cleo
Lemon from Robin, Minnesota. Nice. Who else do we have?
Forrest Gump from car Park and Kyle in Kansas City.

(39:19):
Queen Rocks Anne cheated, so she got it rights batch
up by you? Eddie do you have an answer? Yes, spend.
The answer is gary hoga boom, oh, the great Gary hogeboom.
Is it gary hogeboom? It is not snuff elophagus, which
was guessed by mister Wright. The correct answer and Drew Luck.

(39:40):
He has the lowest career passer rating any quarterback left
in the playoffs. Ques Patrick Mahomes hasn't played a game yet,
but Andrew Luck seventy two point seven career quarterback rating.
He's got eleven touchdowns, thirteen interceptions, played a great first
half against the Texans last week and didn't do anything
in the second half, and seven playoff games in his career.

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That is actually worse than Jared Golf, who has the
next worst at seventy seven point ninety. In his only
playoff game last year against the Falcons, Golf had one
touchdown and no interceptions. And Philip Rivers is the third
worst on the list. The Charger quarterback a career passer
radium eighty four point seven. In the postseason, let's get

(40:21):
to it, here we go. It is time for the
n h L Fuco cool. We're gonna try not to
run into the brick wall this time, so it's good luck,
expedite the process or process. Who's gonna go first? That
would be Roberto. It's a lie, all right, go ahead, Roberto,
you have the first pick your mister hockey go I
will go with Stephen Stamkos. Stephen Stamkos, all right, I'm

(40:45):
gonna take Nikita Kucher off Cooper, Loop, Connor McDavid, Connor
McDavid is off the board, Eddie. The back to back
two skaters and the goalie on my goalie will be
Robin Lenner on my list, Baden point not on my
list to you, Coop, go ahead, Cool, I'll go with

(41:05):
thank you, okay, uh give me Alex Ovedkin and Rupert
too back to back, Andrew Andre Vezelevski all right, one
more hurry up and David Perun all right, Mark Andre Floury. Coop,
I'll go with Peccorina. Can't say that on radio, Eddie,

(41:26):
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(41:48):
Welcome in the beginning, of another hour. It's the Ben
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unlike many people that work in my profession, I actually
use critical thinking. Many people that work in radio are cheerleaders.
They're raw raw kool aid drinkers. I am not. And
the latest hire, Yes, we get to play another coaching
roulette game here, the latest hire the revolving door in Denver,
Round and round and round, it goes where it stops.

(42:35):
No one knows. That's the right to spun again, John Elway,
he doesn't have the mightest touch anymore. New, New, New, New,
John Elway has picked his new XS and O's Maven.
If you're not listening earlier, if you've been out of
the loop, might not know. Have you've had your blinders on?
The Broncos have hired wait for it, Vic Fangio is

(43:02):
the new coach. Come on down, Vic Fangio, you're the
head coach in the NFL in Denver. Now he's sixty
years old, and there's a lot of stories being written
about how he's finally getting his opportunities first head coaching job.
He's interviewed for several head coaching jobs over his career.
No one's deemed him worthy enough to be a head coach.

(43:22):
It took now John Elway to give him his opportunity.
The bride'smaid, but never the bride. Well, the bride'smaid has
become the bride. He's worked in a bunch of different towns.
His first big breaking coaching was with Jim Mora, who
used to work here, the old man Jim Moore, the
Diddleypoo Jim Mora, but more recently with the forty nine

(43:45):
ers back in the Jim Harbaugh days, and they got
to the Super Bowl Chicago, of course, with the contingent
of he was with John Fox. And he's continued on
there with the new coaching staff which changes all the
time at Naggy there in Chicago. So Fangio the defensive genius.
The Bears defense very good this year. Statistically, they led

(44:07):
the NFL in turnovers created and then went out and
defecated on the field. Could not stop Nick Foles with
the game on the line in the fourth quarter of
a playoff game at their home field. They allowed a
backup quarterback to drive down on a twelve play sixty
yard drive and on a fourth down play convert a touchdown.
That's your new coach, Denver, that's your new coach. Defensive

(44:30):
genius couldn't call a play to stop the Eagle offense
and they know they've been hesitating and all that, and
then there you go. Now, keep in mind, who did
this guy beat out? Who did Vic Fangio beat out? Well,
he beat out Mike Munchak, who did nothing when he
coached the Tennessee Titans. This is you talk about a
who you talk about a snooze cruise. This list of candidates,

(44:52):
the John Elway deam the finalists. This reminds me of
the bathroom here today here at the iHeartMedia Building and
the the masked bomber went in there and unloaded. So
the question is what letter grade would you give the
Broncos John Elway for his decision to hire Vic Fangio

(45:16):
as the new head coach of Denver. Now, I'm not
just doing this because it's a double and Tundra. I'm
not doing it because of that. But my letter grade,
I'm a I'm a teacher, a D. I am giving
the Broncos a date, all right for this, And it's
not just for defense and Denver and all that stuff.
This is what's called A D grade is below average, right,

(45:37):
A C is average, D is below average, F is failing.
So this is a D higher. It is a below
average higher. My thoughts, you've got outdated cherry picking and
the coffin and we will put all this together now, Hey,
John Elway, I will concede that John Elway, he has

(45:59):
definitely the reservation. To my knowledge, the only interaction that
Vic Fangio has had with Sean McVay is when the
Bears beat the Rams because the Rams players couldn't handle
the cold weather in Chicago. That's it. And so this
is not a case of groupthink playing in in an
age where Sean mcvay's barber is getting an offer to

(46:24):
be an offensive assistant. Vic Fangio is a contrarian, right.
This higher is a contrarian higher. And while that part
of it I have no problem with that, I'm not
against it. It certainly seems like Elway had very poor
options and there was no real backup plan. I'm getting

(46:45):
the feeling that Elway thought he had a better, better
avenue to go down and he didn't. So this was
not well thought out by le bron because they were like, well,
we have to get rid of Vance Joseph because he's
not having the time of his life anymore. So we
have to bring somebody else in here. But we don't
have anybody else to bring it here. And much like
I've talked about with the Jets, you know, you might

(47:06):
as well have kept Vance Joseph. I'm there's no excitement
for this, there's nothing to be excited about. And then
to pour salt on the open wound for the Bronco fan,
John Elway. You know, you see what he did for
the offense. His solution is to bring back his bff,
Gary Kubiak as the offensive coordinator, the same Gary Kubiak

(47:30):
that was forced out because of health reasons. See Bruce Arians,
same thing happened, Arians. I can't coach anymore. My health
is declining. Okay, Tampa wants to hire me. Done? Yeah,
tick tick tick tick? What we wish him the best
of luck. We wish him the best of luck. Right,
this is ridiculous. And now the word on the street

(47:54):
is that we're being told that Vic Fangio the condition
for him to get the job was you have to
take deadweight and Gary Kubiak is your offensive coordinator. And
Fangio is like, let me do the math on this,
all right, let's do the equation. I'm sixty years old.
I have failed every interview I've ever had to be
a head coach. The Bears had the number one defense.

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They won't have the number one defense next year. This
is my chance. Whatever you want, whatever you want. You
could hire Doink the clown as the offensive coordinator in Denver,
and Vic Fangio would have signed off on that because
he wanted the job. He was desperate. I don't blame
him for that. This is his last opportunity. You take

(48:35):
your last opportunity. You try to make the most of it.
But here's my memory. And again, I'm not a Bronco
fan or anything like that. I'm probably the anti Bronco
fan because I love when kop is a misery and
my producer Kopa loop. Anytime the Broncos lose, he's bummed
out and all that stuff, and it's bad for hims.

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But here's my memory. Tell me if I'm wrong in this.
When Kubiak last coached in his offensive system was seen
as antiquated, that he couldn't keep up with the modern NFL.
That's what I remember. Am I wrong on that? Because
it certainly doesn't seem like that's a nuanced offense, and
it's always trying to go old school. He's taken the

(49:18):
safe road. He knows Kubiak. He's comfortable with Kubiak. The
problem with this, though, if you're Vic Fangio is you've
got a spy. You gotta fly in the room on
the wall, because you know Gary Kubiak is gonna go
tell everything he's gonna say to Elway, and it happens
in that coach's room, in that locker room. Kubiak is

(49:40):
a double agent, is what he is, double age. So
that's that's what we got. You know. He wants Vic
Fangio to galvanize the defense and get the Orange Crush
back into the top five. And the defense was not
as good this year, but the real problem was the offense.
Good luck now beat Many mainstream and fell walks have

(50:02):
gone on and on rants about how great this is.
It's a good story for a sportswriter, because if you're
a sportswriter, you're looking for the story, and the story
has been the same stories been the last couple of weeks,
it's been Sean McVay disciples get coaching jobs. There's only
so many ways you can write Sean McVay disciples get
coaching jobs. People that were in the room with Sean McVay,

(50:25):
people that share to tissue with Sean McVay. There's only
so many ways you can write them. This is different, right,
this is different, And so you can write to telle
Vic Fangio waiting until he's sixty sixty years old to
get the gig. It's a nice narrative. It's different. It's
a story of perseverance, and those that love that are

(50:46):
cherry picking successful coaches who had to play the waiting
game before they finally got the opportunity. For example, let
me give you an example here. I've seen several people
mentioned that Mike Zimmer should be the name that's that
Bronco fans look. Mike Zimmer was hired at fifty eight

(51:06):
years old by the Vikings, and while certainly the Vikings
were disappointment this year, overall, the Vikings have been very competitive,
and they got to the NFC Championship game the year
before because the Saints defense ran into each other like
they were the Keystone Cops. But that is supposed to
be a prime example of a successful coach who waited
in the line at the DMV for his number to

(51:28):
be called, and then finally he got the opportunity. Now,
since I believe in critical thinking, I believe in truth
in broadcasting, I think, let me give you the other
side of the story. For every Mike Zimmer that is
an older coach that gets hired, you get a dozen

(51:51):
prolific disasters. Let me give me the name of Dick LeBeau.
You know Dick lebo Is. Dick lebo is a legendary
Hall of Fame defensive coordinator, beloved by broadcasters and coaches,
been all over the NFL, mostly Pittsburgh, but several other
stops along the way. And he got his first head

(52:14):
coaching gig at age sixty two. And I remember when
Dick LeBeau was hired as an NFL coaching people said,
this is great, this is the way it should be,
this is gonna be a wonderful coach. These are people
with I thought had common sense. But when it became
gut check time, right when the measuring stick was on.

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For Dick LeBeau as an NFL head coach, you remember
what he did, Yeah, he did nothing. He coached a
couple of years. He had a twelve and thirty three
record as coach of the Cincinnati Bengals. He was hired
in two thousand, went twelve and thirty three. You know
who replaced him, Marvin Lewis. Mark, that's what a disaster

(52:59):
the Bengals were. And Marvin Lewis took over for Dick Lebau.
So I know the Bronco fans saying, well, this could
be Mike Zimmer two point oh, it could also be
Dick LeBeau two point zero. Be very very careful. Now
the last word on this. Vic Fangio has interviewed for,
as I said, a number of these jobs around the NFL.
He's never seriously been considered as a head coach. And

(53:23):
so we're gonna see how this goes. I am not
expecting much. This is the kind of coaching catastrophe that
does have a silver line. This is the good news,
because every bad story has a happy ending. Typically, this
is the good story for Bronco fans. This is going
to be such a mess that this will be the
final nail in the coffin for John Elway as the

(53:48):
tzar of the Broncos front office. This higher is going
to lead to the demise of John Elway in the
Bronco front office. It is an abject failure that the
combo of Fangio and Kubiak bad news. By the way,
Vic Fangio started as a high school coach in nineteen

(54:11):
seventy nine. Was his first year as a high school coach.
His first job in the USFL professional football was in
nineteen eighty four. His first NFL gig was as linebacker
coach for Jim Moore. I think I believe Jim Moore
coach the Philadelphia Stars in the USFL also, but Fangio
coach with Jim Moore with the New Orleans Saints in

(54:32):
nineteen eighty six. That was also the year that Sean
McVay was born in nineteen eighty six. See there you go,
there's the connection. Always like I gotta hire a guy
who just got happened to be born the year that
or he happened to get his first NFL job the
year that McVeigh was born. But the good news is

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Elway will likely lose his job because of this. And
for Elway, he's got it. He's got someone that will
hear everything. He's got a spy on the inside. Right
those walls could talk, they'd sound like Gary Kubiak. We
say hello to Edmund Dallas Steamboat. Willie Judas Gars see it.

(55:13):
Very excited about this higher. Ben, Yeah, I am too.
It's gonna be great for Cooper Loop. I think this
is the perfect choice. I don't care about Coop. It
means that Mike Munchak can continue to be the outstanding
offensive line coach for my Pittsburgh Steelers. So very very
glad he did knock He didn't deserve that job. No,
he didn't. Think Fangio was clearly the right call. Well,
Coop's very excited. I saw his face earlier today, looks
extremely excited about this higher. I was surprised. I thought

(55:36):
he I didn't think he was gonna wear a Bronco jersey.
But he's got a full Bronco gear. He's got the broncho,
he's got the Elway jersey on, he's got his Broncho hat.
We trust yeah, he said it many times. He's really
into it. I thought for sure. I was like you,
I thought, well, even Coop's gonna be like, oh, this
is a terrible higher. I'm embarrassed to be a Bronco fan.
But he's he's got full fan gear on today. He's
really excited about this, So that's good. Yeah, I'm totally

(55:58):
decked out in Broncos gar unless I'm not. Well, you
can lie about it all you want. I'm looking at
you right here he came in. That would be something
excitement in his voice. So some people have asked it No,
I just I just think it's a ridiculous monologue, because
it's not ridiculous. It is. It's it's it's you could

(56:20):
literally plug in every single team that needed to hire
a coach and and it would be the same monologue
you gave them a d Tell me who what what?
Higher would have been an a next hour? Oh okay,
next hours maybe not, maybe I'll wait till the last
I don't know. Make you and this is this is

(56:40):
a day after the monologue of how everybody's ridiculous for
trying to go and get the young, inexperienced ted coach,
and then then the Broncos hire an an experienced coach
who's not young, and you're like, oh, this is a
terrible higher And let me tell you another like area

(57:00):
that you're wrong in. It's not gonna be the downfall
of John Elway. Because for better, for better or worse,
John Elway is Denver. That he is the Denver Broncos
and he's not going anywhere. He's gonna focus on those
car dealerships. Who's gonna fire John Elway? What's that I said?
Who is going to fire John Elway? The people will, right,

(57:21):
people Denver will say we gotta get rid of Elway.
We love him and all that, but we gotta get
somebody new in there. Never'll whoever will happen. I'm telling you,
the tide will turn. The tide will turn on Elway.
Yeah he's not Yes, he will lose his job in Denver. Yes, absolutely,
you want to bet uh, Yes, I'll bet you that
John Away is out as the Bronco executive within the

(57:42):
next three years. Done, within the next three years. Yes, done, deal, Okay,
because what do you want to bet? Um? Seven thousand
dollars Z so typical band. He knows he's not gonna
pay up that he names some ridiculous amount. I don't
have to pay up. I don't want the seven grade,
and I'll do the seventh grade. One huh, you don't

(58:03):
wanted the seventh grade? What do you want to bet? Coop?
What would you like to bet? What's in your wheelhouse? There? Coop?
You want a better meal? What do you want to bet?
That's been one hundred bucks? You want have been one
hundred bucks? So in three years, by the end of
twenty twenty two, John Elway's out is the Bronco executive
power is removed? Yes? Also, I can't believe I'm actually
doing this, since you like welch on your bets. Constant's

(58:26):
not an official bet yet. If you don't want to
do it, you know I want to do it, but
I don't think you want to do it. You're already backing.
I know how this backing ever really make it? Bed,
I was just doing it for the radio. I know
that I have never done that. Ben, You're the only
one to have never to have not paid paid off
every wager I had made in my life. That is

(58:47):
a lie. Every wager I have paid off. Nope, you
can say no all you want I don't like your
attitude the people. The people know better. Can I get
one of the dants in here? No? No, let's slob
all over and tell me how great I am. Oh,
you're so funny, Dan. Can I guess some of that? No? No,

(59:10):
that's terrible. Instead, my producer, you're a you're a monologue
sucked this hour and last hour was even worse, or
yesterday it was even worse. I didn't say yesterday's monologue
was worse. I said that this monologue contradicts yesterday. It
does not. See there's there's a middle ground here, which
you seem to be forgetting. You don't have to hire

(59:31):
this sixty year old coach. You don't have to hire
the thirty year old coach. There you go, ding ding
ding ding ding. I'm a middle ground guy. I like
the middle ground coach. All right, eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. If you enjoyed rane is that's not
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(59:51):
six three six nine, the number falling over the cliff.
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(01:00:55):
for you also at the Instant Trivia and falling over
the cliff. We'll get there as well. Now, as are
the phones. We go and we say hi to Christopher
bad phone arising in Houston. Hello, Chris Man, I'm starting
to think my wife switched my phone with Obama phone
or something. Man, I don't know what's going on. It's
like I can't go in certain spots to the store,

(01:01:16):
and it just kind of like kills himself. I don't
know what's going on. Then you know what these people did.
But Ben, I think I know where you're going. You know,
great minds thinking likes with these coach and hires. My
personal opinion, the best hire was Bruce Arians and Tide
boss defensive coordinator. I like that because Bruce Arians, he's
a great quarterback whisper. And they gives Damon's Wison a

(01:01:38):
good chance if they do give him another chance, or
they draft another quarterback. Now who wrote, But I think
that's the best one out of all of them. Now,
this Freddy Kitchen and the Cleveland crap that they fired
Greg Williams, Like, why would you fire your best That
was the best part of your team is your defense,
So you get rid of defensive the guy that actually

(01:01:58):
helped you win games. Now, I just agree you're wrong
on the Browns. You your bad job by you. It's
wrong now being am I no line that those first
wins in that season that came from that defense, that
was that's a stronger that was a stronger defense of
Greg Williams. That's your perception but you don't have all
the information. It's actually not the fact, it's not you're

(01:02:19):
you're talking out of your tookis. But just fine. I
mean I do that all the time, so I'm not
against that. But you're wrong now now being I would
listen to the podcast yesterday. You guys are gonna listen
to podcast. I listened to it on stitcher, you know, downloaded.
Give it five stars. Oh look at you. You are
such a You are such a weasel now being you
you are be You called yourself a looker. I listen

(01:02:40):
to Ben and out of podcast. What's wrong with that?
You go listen to it? You know I was listening.
You called yourself a loser, Ben, And you know I
didn't like that, Ben, because you know you are moving up.
But what happened was is a participation trophy crowd moved
in and they don't like that during the daytime. They
don't like batching their stars during the daytime. That is true,
like a buttering of the biscuits. And they like to

(01:03:01):
get those guys on for very boring interviews usually that's
most of those guys are very dull when their interview,
but they like put them on. So I hear you, man,
I hear you. And Roberto zero bro zero? Really yeah,
you didn't hear that on the podcast, won't people? You

(01:03:22):
did hear it on the podcast. But Roberto said that
his price is zero to do something that many people,
many men, would not do. I would never do that.
You said, your price is zero, never do that. I
can afford that, Roberto, I got I got no money either.
All right, it's it's the Ben Maller Show on Fox.
Let's keep it going on the phones. We'll say hello
to Aid in Spokane. Who's next? Hello? Ed? Hey, what's

(01:03:45):
going on? Ben? Well? I'm doing yeah, a great hire,
such a wonderful job on Super Bowl forty eight, it
was outstand you sounds tired? You okay? Everything all right
with you? Ed? What's going on with you? Everything? All right?
I'm doing great, wonderful. I remember you had a great

(01:04:09):
line on the show, though no one heard it. Well asked,
I asked you what you do for a living? Ed?
You remember that one time? And yeah, it wasn't on
the podcast either. Well, I don't think we could put
it on the podcast, but you had You had a
very interesting job that a lot of people would probably
have an issue with as well. But maybe Roberto wouldn't.
But Eddie, you said, you said you have a there's

(01:04:30):
a lot of blowing involved in your work. I guess, yeah, yes,
there was. Yes, it's a very interesting way to describe that. People.
I heard real talk on your last show. Yes earlier,
I called in on the podcast and that was hilarious.
Oh you enjoyed that? Yeah? I laugh my, but well good?

(01:04:52):
All right? Anything else said? Anything else you've got? So
I'm gonna meet in southern California months or a month
or two, I don't know you are you're gonna be
You're relocating randomly. Why would you relocate for a month?
That's a little shady. What's going on with it? Oh?
Going to Disney lamb, You're going to Disneyland for a month? No, no, no,

(01:05:14):
I'm gonna be there for a week. Oh for a week.
All right. So I'm gonna stop by and bring some food.
Are you inviting yourself? Wait a minute, are you inviting
yourself down here? No? Uh? Eddie said that I could
come and bring some hold on, hold on a sad,

(01:05:36):
hold on a sack. Hey, Eddie, some guy told me
that you invited him down to the studio. Is that true, Eddie? No,
he asked if he said he was going to be
in southern California and asked if he could stop by,
and I said, uh yeah, I just let Coop and
Ben know and that usually that guests bring some food.
That's what I told him on Twitter. All right, So,
so ed I spoke to Eddie and Eddie tells me

(01:05:58):
that he did not say that you're guaranteed to get
in studio. Oh really, yeah, sorry about that? Yeah he did.
He I was it off the air conversation when he
told me that he's no guarantee. Oh yeah, we get

(01:06:23):
the falling off the cliff. We'll get to that coming
up here in a moment. And also Mallard to the
third degree more for that riveting talk radio as well.
This is great. What's nor he got tonight? He's talking
about kem trails. What's he got over there? Ghosts? Something? Yeah? Yeah,
all right, something good, something, something spacey. All right, Well
we'll press on. Ben mallishaw offights right now though. From

(01:06:45):
the guy coo Fox Sports Radio Studios, here is Eddie
Garcia with the latest and news from the NFL, where
three more coaching vagancies have been filled in New York.
The Jets are portedly gonna hire recently fired Miami Dolphins
head coach Adam Gasee as their next head coach. He
was twenty three and twenty five in three seasons in Miami,
made the playoffs once, did not win a playoff game.

(01:07:06):
Denver Broncos are probably gonna bring in Chicago various defensive
coordinator Dick Fangio as their next head coach. He's never
been a head coach before. He has been an assistant
though in the NFL for thirty three years, and the
Cleveland Browns are promoting offensive coordinator Freddie Kitchens to be
their nextead coach. He also has no previous head coaching experience.
Some of the nights in the NBA, the Bucks beat
the Rockets and Houston won sixteen to one on nine.
Janis at de Koumpo twenty seven points twenty one rebounds

(01:07:29):
in the win for Milwaukee. Houston's James Harden forty two
points eleven rebounds in defeat Celtics over the Pacers won
thirty five two one oh eight. The Wizards down the
seventy six ers one twenty three to one oh six.
Grizzlies over the Spurs ninety six eighty six, and the
Trailblazers beat the Bulls one twenty four two one twelve.
Top twenty five college basketball. We had a battle of
ranked teams, with number seven Kansas beating number twenty five

(01:07:50):
TCU seventy seven to sixty eight. Eleventh ranked Auburn number sixteen,
Ohio State a number seventy in Houston. We're all upset
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(01:08:10):
and reigning Heisman Trophy winner Kyler Murray reportedly going to
declare for the NFL draft. Now some have said Murray
could be a first round draft. It gonna be a
first round pick. Eddie is a weasel word. Could he
led the suitors to a twelve The two record was
ninth pick a ninth round pick. No was it? Was it?
No ninth pick? Ninth picks a first a top ten pick.

(01:08:31):
The A's wasting on his Major League Baseball draft is
an outfielder. He agreed on a four point six six
million dollars deal with Oakland. Now they say they still
expect Murder to report the training game. Here's the problem.
Made February and started his baseball career at a ball
in Stockton. Oh you wouldn't you want to live in
Stockton for a year? Come on, no comment. Listen. This

(01:08:51):
guy was a very exciting, electrifying college football player. But
that's where the football career ends. He's not a legitimate
prospect in the end. Fell and what kind of bizarro
world are we living in? He's getting some bad advice here. Financially,
the Oakland A's control everything. They could ruin this guy.
I'll explain more about that later. But the A's if

(01:09:14):
they want to, and they're being nice, they're being the
good cop right now. But if they want to play
the bad cop, they can really mess mess with this
guy big time. So anyw'll have that, Maybe we'll do
that at the top of the next hour. It's the
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for a free rate quote. Let's go to Bronco Brett.
Who's next on Fox Sports Radio? Hello Broncho Brett? Hey man,
so long time, first time. No one cares. So you
cannot take John Elway to task. You just can't. That

(01:09:57):
guy leaves Denver on his terms, his terms only. He
is a Hall of Fame quarterback. He is unquestionably here
we go. This is this is the Championship Defenders League.
This is the this is the twelve year old Brett
flashing back to John Elway. This is that. That's who
that is right there. It's not it's not. It's just
he is one of the very best players chosen by

(01:10:21):
a team in terms of what he's meant to their franchise. Ever,
that's great, put you know, that's fine. Doesn't mean he's
a good GM. He's a terrible GM. How many how
many years? So the rest of John Elway's life, if
he wants to be the Broncos executive because he was
a good football player, you just allow him to continue on?
Is that because he because he was good at playing football?

(01:10:43):
What kind of that's cringe worthy? Is what that is?
But wait, no, I totally agree. I agree with you
that that would be ridiculous. But what has he done
as a gym. He executed the removal from Tim Tobomania, right,
he did, He just did, and he outpit everyone else
to get Peyton Manning, everyone else or whoever else wanted it, right,

(01:11:05):
and then he built an offensive jargonnaut and then they
got water I'm sure built it. Yeah, yeah, just that
Peyton Manning was on so many steroids those nineties. Bass
Barry Bonds thought Peyton Manning should cut back on the steroids.
That's fine, that's fine. I don't know, that's fine. But
he go watch The Dark Side if you want to

(01:11:26):
learn more about Peyton Manning his wife are I totally agree.
But everyone wanted it and Alway pulled him in and
they built this offensive jugernaut and they got and they
and they drafted Thomas and they brought in Standers, and
they got him from the Steelers and blah blah blah,
and then they got and then they reinvent themselves. Yeah,

(01:11:48):
they really reinvented them. So I've been impressed with this
vintage of the Broncos. I think they're very good. You
are correct, that is a solid football that franchise. You
know what, now that you call it, you've I've had
a change of heart, now that you've called I've seen
the light. The last three years of Bronco football, where
they collectively under two different head coaches, have a four

(01:12:08):
seventeen winning percentage. I think I always should get or
I wish you could an extension is what he should
get right This twenty and twenty eight record is that's
Broncho football. They always clearly doing a good job in
the GM eight years, won the AFC West five of them,
yet of the Super Bowl twice. Yes, in the last
three years. No playoffs, no playoffs, no playoffs. Well yeah, sure,

(01:12:29):
the last three years. But you know you fired them
after yes years. Yes it's the NFL. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
because I'm sure that you would do a monologue talking
about how, oh you're just too quick to fire too quick.
The franchise is devoid of talent. The player he hires,
the rock coach, he picks the wrong quarterback. Everything Elway

(01:12:52):
touches turns to crap. One area quarterback and yes that's
the most important area, every jost everything. Now he's hired
Vic Fangio. Koubiak wasn't a good coach either. Oh he
only won the Super Bowl. Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, Koubiak
was completely responsible for that. I could have coached the
Broncos with Peyton man and they would have won the

(01:13:14):
Super Bowls. Really, Peyton Manning had such a great year,
the one the year that they won the Super Bowl, right, exactly. Yes,
he's a statistical juggernaut. Yes, that was the year before
when he had the fifty five, was at the Double Nichols.
All right, so Ben Maller's show on Fox, we will
press on here and if you'd like to be part
eight seven seven ninety nine. So falling off the cliff,

(01:13:35):
this is, this is tremendous. So apparently Stephen A. Smith
who's still learning about the LA Chargers roster and who's
on the roster and who's not in the roster. Yes, unfortunate.
So you know, he's doing his job, ranting and raving
and going on and on about all these things like
we all do. It's our job. It's the job description.

(01:13:56):
So Stephen A had some some pointed criticism of Cliff
Kingsburg as the Cardinal coach and the Arizona Cardinal said,
you know what, let me why don't we have some
fun with this all right? Because Stephen A said this, dude,
Cliff Kingsbury looks like a better candidate to be on
the Bachelor than a head coach of a football team. Well,

(01:14:16):
no one said that before. That's an original hot take.
That's why stephen he gets paid the big money. And
so the Cardinals twitter account responded by saying, we thought
you would be in a good mood since the Chargers
activated Hunter Henry this week. Well, Stephen A shockingly did
not sit back with his thumb in his mouth and

(01:14:38):
it take his punishment. Oh no, He then decided, I don't.
He responded, I don't care how many mistakes I've made
in my twenty five years of this business. I can
assure you it falls short of the morbid product you
guys contaminated the state of Arizona with the previous four months,

(01:15:01):
is what he's saying. I would disagree with that. I
would argue, and I believe I'm correcting this, that Stephen
A being completely unprepared on television as a sportscaster when
he got literally everything wrong in previewing a Charger Chiefs game.
That that is worse than the Arizona Cardinals. That's more embarrassing,

(01:15:24):
it's more humiliating. Bad football teams happen all the time.
But how many broadcasters on a major network get on
television Stephen is one of the highest paid guys at
ESPN and have no clue that you can tell. Either
he made it up right or he was fed bad
advice and didn't do any homework on his own. Either way,

(01:15:45):
he looks like a schmuck. Now here's the instant trivia here.
It is Blank is on pace to become the first
player in NBA history to shoot fifty percent or better
from three point range, forty percent or better from Actually
it was fifty percent or better from the field, forty
percent or better from three point range, and ninety five

(01:16:07):
percent are better from the foul line. Do you get
all that Blank is on pace to become the first
player in NBA history to shoot fifty percent or better
from the floor, forty percent or better from three point range,
and ninety five percent or better from the foul line.
That's the instant trivia. The answer and Mallard of the
third degree. We will get there. We'll do it next.

(01:16:28):
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Ben Maller. Well, I was planning on talking about something
else coming up in a few minutes, but I think
I'm gonna have to to move ahead with my I'm
gonna change there's a plot twist, Eddie calling an audible

(01:17:14):
calling an audible. That's what we're doing. But right now,
here's the It doesn't matter because I don't think I
said exactly what I was gonna say on the air,
So it doesn't matter. Heading into Wednesday. Heading into Wednesday,
Blank is on pace to become the first player in
NBA history to shoot fifty percent or better from the field,
forty percent or better from three point range, and ninety
five percent or better from the ninety five percent better

(01:17:39):
from three point I keep saying three point range on anything.
It's it's from the field fifty percent, from three point
range forty percent, and then from the foul line ninety
five percent. All right, it's very confusing. There's a lot
of numbers. They said there would be no numbers. There's numbers.
It's a bad job by them. Some of the guests
is coming in. Mister nice guy is going with Riley
Curry as his answer. She's still the cute little girl,

(01:18:01):
Riley Currier. Is she now older and annoying? Not yet. No,
she's still a cute little girl. Who else? A stinky
D's going with Billy Ray Valentine is his answer. Ivanson
from The Quickie Martin Orlando says Amari Cooper God Sham
God from Matt the Longtime Warrior Raider as fan John

(01:18:21):
Stockton from Cardiac Stanley Justin is going with the All Blacks.
Shout out to our friends in New Zealand. No, that's
the national team. Is the all blackscist. Well, actually, people
wouldn't have a problem. The problem they would have is
the is it the basketball No, the rugby teams the
all blacks and then one of the teams is the
all whites. That's the issue they'd have a problem with that.

(01:18:43):
Who else do we have? The Bosnian Beast from Robbie
the Mariner fan, Jimmy Chitwood tossed out by Ernie, Anthony
Bennett from El Guapo, the Higante fan, Gary Condent from
from Trip, Mike Cobbage Robin Minnesota, our old friend, she's
back nerd Christina says, Mason Plumley is the answer? How

(01:19:04):
about that? H No? Uh, Eddie, do you have an answer? Eddie?
And the answer Felton Spencer Felton is it? Felton Spencer?
Malcolm Brogden Eddie, do you know a team Malcolm Brogden
plays for. I've never heard of him before. That's our
NBA guy, our NBA and said he's just like Woad.

(01:19:24):
He plays for the Milwaukee Bucks. And Malcolm Malcolm Brogden
well and doing a lot of talk radio here, Eddie.
But yeah, he's having a remarkable year for Milwaukee. But
it's only the midway point. The problem is you got
to play the best because you don't watch the bucks.
That's why it's a bad job by you. I believe

(01:19:46):
his three point percentage has just gone below forty percent,
so I believe he's just below that. He had been
above it. All right, let's get let's get to it
right now. Here we go, it's Meller. How about that
to the third day. This is one big Ben gets guailed.
The condensed version Cooper lad Ben. The leaders reports on

(01:20:08):
the vacant head coaching position at UCLA is that Luke
Walton is a potential candidate should he lose his job
with the Lakers. Ben, what do you think the odds
are for each of those things happened? All right, there's
one hundred percent chance Luke Walton gets fired by the Lakers.
There's zero percent chance he coaches at UCLA. Okay, Eventually,
Lebron James is, I know the Lakers beat the Pistons
last night, whoopie damn do But Lebron, even if they win,

(01:20:30):
they're not going to win the West, so they'll make
a change. Lebron eventually will put one of his buddies in.
That's how he rolls and UCLA is not going to
hire lukewall and he's an Arizona guy. There's a better
job chance that Bill Walton gets the UCLA coaching job
than his kid. Next, as a result of the hype
surrounding Trevor Lawrence, that has been increased scrutiny over eligibility
for the NFL Draft. Now. One suggestion, however, is that

(01:20:50):
Lawrence play one more season at Clemson, then play a
season in the XFL before declaring for the draft. What
do you think of this idea of ben Yeah, I
think there's a higher probability of Donald Trump doing a
sit down interview saying how much he loves CNN and
the New York Times. Then Lawrence going to the XFL.
You get ostracized. Right. It'd be the same for Trevor

(01:21:11):
Lawrence as LaVar Ball taking his kids to Lithuania. Now,
I like the XFL and I support it, but the
main football establishment will not allow that to happen. They
will look down on Lawrence. You can't do that. How day, Next,
the Benon's being reported that the Raiders are in discussion
with the city of San Diego to play their next
season poses an ironic question, but I think you think

(01:21:34):
Robert Over the season ticket holder, who would have the
worst home field advantage? The Raiders or the Chargers. I
would be the Chargers. I worked in San Diego. There
are a lot of Raider fans. But more importantly, the
Raiders could play in Siberia and there'd be a convoy
of Silver and Black fans trying to get to Siberia
to watch the Raiders play. It doesn't matter that they

(01:21:54):
love the Raider. It doesn't get how bad the team is,
how embarrassing it they trade all their best players for
draft when Gruden doesn't like draft picks. The Raider fan band, Wagner,
that's what the Chargers have to get. The Raiders have
that all? Right? There we go, Coop, how do we
do get? I won the game, he said, I want
in my headset, he said, I won the game. I
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(01:23:00):
for a free right quote. So it was a head
spinning day in the NFL. If you enjoy coaching news, man,
it was big. We had the feeding frenzy Wednesday is
what it was. Only two teams don't have coaches. Now
we had eight openings and now two or left, the
Bengals and the Dolphins. Adam Gase somehow got the Jets job.

(01:23:25):
Ha ha. Vic Fangio showing that John Elway doesn't nobody's doing.
But the Bronco fans are so delirious they don't care
in Elway. They trust right off the cliff like Lemmings
and Vic Fangio takes over in Denver, which is great
news for the Raiders, Chargers and Chiefs and just in
the mess and Cleveland joined the NFL coaching frenzy. The

(01:23:47):
Brownies said, we are not gonna bring in somebody from
the outside. No, no, no, no no. So if you've
not been caught up, maybe you just turned the show
on here. For whatever reason, the Browns have hired their
interim offensive coordinator, Freddie in the Kitchens as their permanent
head coach. Freddy Keinchen's is the new head coach in Cleveland.

(01:24:10):
So I wanted to talk about this now. It's very simple.
The Browns had Greg Williams. Many people had said that
Mike McCarthy was going to be the coach in Cleveland.
At one point. He was the hot name. And there
were some other names that popped up, some of them
made up, some of them true. So what do you
make of Freddy Kitchens taking over in the land Now,

(01:24:31):
I'm gonna blow you away. I like this move. This
move gets the Mallar seal of approval. It does. I'm
gonna give this move and a minus. I like it.
I like. I don't like Fangio and Denver and gazed
at the Jets. They don't do anyy for me. No, no,

(01:24:52):
this moves the needle. It does. It absolutely is. Now
my observations, you've got comfort food, the blessing and the
preemptive strike, and we will put all these together. We'll
tie them together now, Ay, Unlike Vic Fangio, who feels

(01:25:12):
like a big reach by John Elway who doesn't know
what he's doing, and that laughing stock that is the
Jets with Adam Gase going to New Jersey after being
fired by the Dolphins last week. This feels right right
Freddie Kitchens is it just seems like a normal dude.
He's overweight, he looks like a football coach should look.
When I see Freddie Kitchens, I want to have biscuits

(01:25:34):
and gravy with him, is what I would like that.
I want to sit in a room with Peyton, with
Freddie Kitchens, Baker Mayfield and me and we'll just sit
around and we'll tell stories. Wouldn't that be fun? There
is no chance that Kitchens ever gets called to be
on the Bachelor at all at all. Right, This is
this comfort food, is what it is. It's comfort food.

(01:25:56):
The Morbid Browns actually showed some signs of life last season.
Freddie Kitchens has paid his dues, but he hasn't paid
his dues forever. He's never interviewed for a head coaching
job and not gotten it. He's taking an advantage of
an opportunity. I always like when people take advantage of opportunities.
The Brown Fans should feel much better about Kitchens than
say Matt Lafleur in Green Bay. Kitchens has a clear

(01:26:21):
bond with Baker Mayfield. Now, it is a small sample size,
and that's the problem. That's part B of this, the
curse of the small sample size, right, And that's an
issue here. He got the job in large part because
Baker Mayfield signed off on him. But Freddie Kitchens had
the blessing when he took over in Cleveland of very

(01:26:43):
low expectations. You want to follow Hugh Jackson. That's why
this is not a bad job. Now, Greig Williams, who
was technically the last coach of the Browns, but he
was the interim coach. The last permanent coach is Hugh Jackson.
You want to walk in those footsteps in the shadow
of Hugh Jackson because you look great. You look great,

(01:27:06):
You're pretty much guaranteed to win his many games your
first year, as Hugh Jackson won his entire career in Cleveland.
Would you rather follow Bill Belichick or Hugh Jackson as
an NFL head coach. I think we all know the answer. Yes,
all right, you're shaking your head. Yes. And so Cleveland
certainly had an offense that went turbo time Baker Mayfield

(01:27:27):
took off, and when he took over the play calling
duties in Week nine, the Browns averaged almost twenty four
points per game. Baker Mayfield had a nineteen to eight
touchdown interception ratio, and he averaged eight and a half
yards per attempt. Remember, the average quarterback the passing grade
is seven. He was a yard and a half above

(01:27:50):
what would just be an average quarterback. That's close to elite,
elite level when you average eight point five yards per tempt. Now,
Mayfield's completion percentage also went up by twelve percent, So
that all of that was enough to convince the brains
of the Browns that Kitchens is a rising star in
the coaching fraternity. And this guy was a nobody. He

(01:28:11):
was a peasant, a faceless assistant coach, and now he
is going into the frying pan of an NFL head
coaching job. And Kitchens, he actually did play quarterback in Alabama,
and when he was in college, they were well, they
weren't very good. Like he was. This is not an
amazing success story and all that of boy star college corporate.

(01:28:36):
Although I've always argued that if you're playing quarterback at Alabama,
you can't be that bad, right you have. It's kind
of like Tom Brady, the story about Tom Brady going
to Michigans. Well, Tom Brady, it's a great success story.
That's an underdog story. But he did have the opportunity
to play to Michigan. They're not recruiting stiffs to go
to Michigan, Oh they're not. So Anyway, this guy gets

(01:28:58):
an opportunity and a good old Southern boy, right, good
old Southern boy. Why not? Now? The final warrior the Browns.
The other part of this, the last piece of the puzzle.
The Browns hired Freddy Kitchens because they were afraid. They
did this out of fear, the fear that they could

(01:29:21):
have just left Greg Williams in status quo and had
Kitchens continue as the offensive coordinator. But a year from now,
Kitchens could have left and gotten a head coaching job.
And that is the ugly truth, right, And it might
have worked if Greg Williams had continuously head coach. It
might have worked. However, again, a year from now, Kitchens

(01:29:41):
could have left. So this was a preemptive strike by
the Browns. And prior to week nine, no one had
ever heard of Freddie Kitchens. Nobody. He had never been
an offensive coordinator or a head coach at any level.
Not with the years a Cardinals where he spent a
long time, to Dallas Cowboys, the Mississippi State Bulldogs, Northern Texas,

(01:30:05):
the Meet and Green. He even had a year as
a graduate assistant at LSU or Glenville State whatever that is,
or he was an assistant that's apparently school in West Virginia.
I am told, so that's the new news. Now listen
to this, and we have some audio of Freddie Kitchens.
This is from NFL Films. I don't think the audio

(01:30:27):
quality on this is great, but listen to this interaction
between Freddie Kitchens and Baker Mayfield. This is on the
sidelines during a game night. Before we play the audio,
you have to understand that Freddie Kitchens, the offensive coordinator,
is in front of Baker Mayfield. He's sitting on the
bench and Freddie Kitchen starts rubbing Baker Mayfield's neck like

(01:30:49):
he's petting a dog. Listen to this he's rubbing his Yeah,
that's Mayfield. At the end play that I talked over.
Play listen closely at the end there you'll hear some
ambient noise and then listen to Baker Mayfield is Freddie
Kitchens walks away? The Browns just tied an idiot. I like,

(01:31:23):
I've been calling an idiot on Twitter. So I like
the fact that a fellow idiot got a head coaching job.
I like it all right. So the Ben Mallers Show
on Fox, we say hello right over there to Edmund Dallas, steamboat,
Willie Judas solid goal. The guards see it. Yeah. I
remember Freddie Kitchens when he played at Alabama. He was

(01:31:44):
a kind of a chubby quarterback back in the day.
And then I saw an NFL films piece on him
a few years back. Were almost died at practice. He
had a really serious health heart problem. They had to
fly him to by helicopter to a hospital, and I
thought it was a, you know, interesting kind of a piece.
And then I never heard of him. I don't know
shot of him. And then when I saw that they

(01:32:06):
made the coaching change in Cleveland and he was being
the offensive courtner, I'm like, oh my god, I remember
him Freddy Kitchens, and then next now he's the head coach.
I mean, what a crazy ride for this guy. That's unbelievable. Yeah,
I've seen some people who don't know much about the
interview process said, well, Brown's if they really wanted Kitchens,
they should have already hired him. Why they wait so long?
See the problem with that argument is, do you have
this thing called the Rooney rule where you have to

(01:32:27):
go through the dog and pony show and interview people
you don't want to hire. And so that's what the
NFL's got. And people, let me tell you something, if
there are no minority coaches hired in the NFL, every group,
with the political activists, they will be besides themself. There
is going to be scorched earth. Because people believe some

(01:32:48):
some should get jobs based on their ethnicity, that that
should be there, that the NFL has to have a
certain number. You have to quota in the NFL for
everything as far as coaching. Of course we don't have
a quota for everything, but they don't. They only want
certain things. But I'm telling you, if these last two jobs,
the Bengals and the Dolphins, if they if they hire

(01:33:10):
like white dudes. Oh they'll be oh man, who every
intellectual is going to be beside themselves. They will be
going nuts. Oh when all the coaches were getting fired,
and I mean, maybe I'm naive, I didn't even really
think about it. I did see the articles about, you know,
the number of African American coaches that were fired. This

(01:33:32):
is raising a red flag which team should be forced
to hire any minority kind? I'm like, all right, wait,
let's see here. Marvin Lewis was there for a million years.
He should have been fired a long time ago. Let's
see Todd Bowles in New York. Yes, I mean it
was time for a change. There a guy in Arizona
whose name I've already forgotten. I mean he did a
terrible jobs. I mean, who's getting screwed over here? Who's

(01:33:53):
the guy that's been fired unjustly? They're bad? They're bad coaches.
Bad coaches get fired all the time. I agree with you.
I mean, you can't have a business based on a
quota system. It doesn't work. You can't engineers socially engineer
these things. You can't. Now, if you tell me that
guys aren't that are qualified, that aren't getting jobs like

(01:34:14):
who who's getting screwed over here? I've heard Jim Calledwell
is getting screwed over. Really, Jim Caldwell is getting the
short end of the stick. The NFL is not a
great league because Jim called Well is not coaching a team.
I mean, is there somebody else I'm missing? I don't
know if there is, tell me, I don't know, Ma'm
I'm missing something? All right? Tony Dunn, Yes, Tony Dungee,

(01:34:38):
please I endorse that. Get him off TV. He's a
bore higher Dungee. Please, as long as he's not on TV. Man,
that is a dull guy. Right there, Show some life, Tony.
You're on television, right, my God, try to be entertaining
for once. Yes, let's go now to weed Man, hippie.
He's sporty weed Man. Now he's into it. He's sporty

(01:34:58):
weed Man. He's excited. Hello, weed Man, he's doing the
full Mallar Marathon. I don't play the white then, I
love you. I'm here every hour, you know. Then I
am channeling God. Here we go. No, no, no, no,

(01:35:20):
you said you were doing sporty stuff. Now you're going
back to the God stuff. I just wanted you to know,
the magic Radio box band with thousands of peoples, and
I could be listening and talking to George Lorin those
George Loris people who come here and listen to me
and everybody listening to down roll the podcast every day.

(01:35:44):
Make then show the biggest downloading podcast. All right, let's
do sports, fan. I just love how you say let's
do sports. I love that when you say that, it
makes it. And then you'll just shout out random team name,
which is your next time name? I heave my favorite

(01:36:06):
new core back. And the kid, Oh, I want to
tell you you had the discussion about pronunciation last night.
That was great radio. Oh and are you guys in
the crew should learn how to treat been like robbing
Quivers treat Howard Star. That's true, Absolutely, that is correct. Okay,

(01:36:29):
So the kid, the kid, Kevin Lawrence whatever his name was,
what's his name? You're writing about him? He's just a kid.
Game Yeah, yeah, trevel trevel is. The Dolphins should have
him all Adams games, Oh my god, Adam games. Joe

(01:36:51):
Plice stooges been for three, which which one of the
y the Dolphins suggested Adams the three Stooges, which is
why Tom Brady, who is falling off food. Which one
of the stooges would you be? No? No, if you

(01:37:12):
were one of the three stooges, which one would you right?
And cur Yeah, everyone wants Curly was the funny one,
right everyone. Now, I've heard that you had to have
the other guys, right, obviously for for Curly to be,
you have to have the straight guy swimp shimp remember
swimp No, No, you had Mohaward Larry. Fine, there you go,

(01:37:37):
there you go in Champa and it's exciting. Sports is
exciting and fighting like I fight, God's fight. But you're
a warrior. Allows us all for love and roots together

(01:37:57):
even though we don't know each other. Which everybody going,
You're still going? All right there it is weak man, hippie.

(01:38:19):
So I get a message from Adam. He says, the
radio in my work truck doesn't pull in the local
affiliate for some reason. Are you guys on any streaming apps?
Every segment of every show, I pimp out the facts
that we're on. iHeart radio, and yet Adam's like, I
don't know, are you guys streaming anywhere? Man? I don't understand.
I don't get it. It's up with that. We're gonna

(01:38:42):
have asked Ben coming up later this hour. It'll be
your questions are answers. We'll get to that, and we
have a new Pinocchio of football. We'll get there as well.
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that for ask Ben. Maybe Coople asked me that question

(01:39:45):
right there, and ask Ben. I don't want to get
ahead of that coming up later this hour. Your questions
are answers, some very interesting questions. I see some unique
questions we've not gotten before. So hopefully those will get
on the air. We'll get to the Pinocchio of foot
the ball. But right now, let's go to Death Valley
where they are still celebrating. Evan in South Carolina is

(01:40:06):
on Fox Sports Radio. Hello Evan, gentlemen, seventy seven minutes later.
Is great to be here this morning. Not that you're complaining,
Not that you're complaining, but not that you were looking on.
I love your show. You know why I love your show.
You're the only show that works overnight. The other shows
just say something for about six or seven minutes and

(01:40:27):
they go over and over and over again. I think
they're in Bristol, Tennessee. No Connecticut whatever, Go go Fox
go Yes, that's Cox, Go go Fox go Yes. This morning,
we need to know this. I don't care about the Gamecocks,
the Tigers, the Panthers, whether it be Charlotte or Pittsburgh Panthers,

(01:40:48):
but know this, and this is this is rather captain obvious,
So don't don't hang up on me. Uh Gabo Sweeney,
under no circumstances, Alabama could give him one Billy dollars
and he will never ever ever leave Clemson. He will
no no, no, no, no, no no no, don't say that.

(01:41:09):
Don't say buried it. Tell me, why, tell me? Why not?
Don't hang up? Please don't because I know I like that.
You're begging for me not to hang up when you
started body by complaining about how long you're on hold,
listen to me. All right, Let's let's say let's say
a couple of years from now, the Clemson is not
winning the championship, They're not getting the championship game everything,
So go ahead. I'm not Clemson. They will be here,

(01:41:31):
how to Clemson fan, but they will be Let's say
the Atlanta Falcon the game. Let's say the Atlanta Falcon
job opens up, and Dabbo's like, hey, maybe maybe I
want to coach in the NFL. Maybe I want to
give it a shot to see how I could do
in the NFL. Why would he not pursue that? Because
I know him? How about that breaking news? I happen

(01:41:52):
to know the man well, if this isn't I'm not
just a fan. I just know from being a sports
reporter in this space. But you know, you know people,
you know, you think you know people, but you don't
know them. You're not like inside the head of Dabo Sweeney.
Let's see that doesn't matter anymore. I remember Kobe Bryant.

(01:42:15):
I got a phone call from Joe McDonald, who you
don't know, but he was a big talk shows in
Labe's pathetic version of d Well at the time. Though,
when when Kobe Bryant I get this phone call from
Joey you hear what happened to Kobe? I said, no,
I don't know what you're talking about. Kobe was arrested
for rape in Colorado. But if you had said anybody
who was around Kobe and knew Kobe Bryant that he

(01:42:36):
would have gotten in that kind of trouble, they would
have said, no, way not. Kobe might have been another
NBA player, but it would never be Kobe be charged
with rape and have to pay a bunch of money
to get out of it, pay the victim off. Nobody
ever thought that would happen to Kobe. So you don't know,
you think you know but you don't know. That's what
I'm saying. I would agree, but it makes no sense
for him to leave in the near future. But a
couple of years, three years from now, things should be different,

(01:42:59):
and he could say, I want to try the NFL.
I want to go to whether it's Carolina or Atlanta
or one of the teams in the South, give it
a shot. Well, let's spend at least sixty seconds or more. Please.
Do you think the defensive coordinator leave? I do not.
I think he needs to stay with coach Sweeney because
he I think the defensive coordinator for for Clemson is

(01:43:21):
still overrated still because here's why. How many yardists do
they give up before halftime? Almost two hundred and seventy yards?
The only reason Alabama was drilled? Say the guys like
it's Brent Venables. Remember the seventy points he gave up
against West Virginia four five short seasons ago and nothing

(01:43:45):
but liberty. So you think, just to recap this phone
call you because you go to the same church as
Dabo Sweeney, you believe you will stay. You don't think
that Brent Venable should leave, and you believe that Dabbo
Sweeney is the rest of his life is going to
be at Clemson. He will never another team other than Clemson.
He will be glad to sign a lifetime contract if
they offer, he will. There's no reason why tell me

(01:44:09):
why he should leave Clemson. That's all I'm asking to
give me some reasons why if you should find a
new challenge, right, if you conquered, go to see something
else he could be better. It to be a challenge
for him to keep winning championships there. But look, if
he goes, if he goes to the NFL and wins
in the NFL, he would trump Nick Saban if he
let's say he wins another three championships at Clemson, whatever,
and he then says, I want to go to the NFL.

(01:44:29):
If he turns out to be a winning coach in
the NFL, he then trump Saban because Saban was a
failure as an NFL coach. I agree, and so was Spurrier,
and so there's so you're right, and so was there
you go, you know I've changed. I've changed your mind, Evan,
So that I've changed your mind, can you call next
time you're in church? Can you tell Dabbo to call

(01:44:50):
into the show when you're you know, and you're praying.
Can you tell him maybe to call in give us
a shout out? All right, thank you, Evan. That's a
nice passive, aggressive way to start a phone call. It's
gonna be oh you seventy seven minutes after I called in.
He wasn't a Clemson fan, by the way, not a

(01:45:10):
Clemson fan. But everything is great for Clemson. It's the
most amazing place in the world. Every South Carolina, South Carolina.
He's called before. I remember him, he's called in the past.
But he's excited. Good for him, very very exciting. We'll
press on. We'll get to the Pinocchio of football and

(01:45:31):
also ask Ben your questions are answers an extended dance remix.
But right now, Eddie Garcia is here from the Geico
Studios with the latest Eddie and benam In the NFL,
three more coaching baconsi's have been filled. We'll start with
the New York Jets hiring the recently fired Miami Dolphins.
It's coach Adam Gas to be their next head coach.

(01:45:52):
Gas was twenty three and twenty five and three seasons
with the Dolphins. Denver Broncos is reportably gonna hire Chicago
Barriers divinsive coordinator Big Fangio our next day coach. Now,
he's never been a head coach before. He has been
an assistant in the NFL for thirty three years, and
Cleveland Brown's gonna promote offensive coordinator Freddie Kitchens to be
the next Well, that sounds like a long time. Aty
thirty three years, I'm going on on twenty years. I'm

(01:46:12):
closing in on twenty years at Fox Sports Radio. Man,
I'm like the years. Wow, Yeah, I'm same with me, Roberto.
You guys gonna have statues outside of right here. If
we were at Staples Center, we would we played for
the Lakers. But yeah, Freddie Kitchens new head coach of
the Cleveland Browns. NBA games of note was the Bucks

(01:46:35):
over the Rockets in Houston one sixteen one on nine.
Janice did the coupo twenty seven points and twenty one
Chris Paul Milwaukee. He didn't play. James Harden did play.
He had forty two points and eleven rebounds in defeat.
So how opposite. Remember they asked James Harden about the
MVP award a couple of days ago. He said, well,
it's really important that I win it. They asked the
Greek free Yeah about winning the MVP Award and his responses,

(01:46:58):
I don't know if I'm there yet. No, Sorry's like
give me that damn MVP you blank and he plague
you bloody loser and jannest is like that just wants
to get better. Yeah. Celtics beat the Pacers one thirty
five to one oh eight, was the Wizards over the
Sixers one twenty three to one oh six, Grizzlies beat
the Spurs ninety six eighty six, and the Trailblazers topped

(01:47:18):
the Bowls one twenty four to one twelve. This report
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Hurts has entered the NCAA Transfer portal portal shop. I

(01:47:41):
don't know that's what it sounds like, right, but he's
entered the transfer portal. Uh. He graduated in December. Another dimension, well,
another school at least he is eligible to play next season.
He went twenty six and two as a start for
the Crimson Tide before losing his job due to a
tongue of Halola. The big rumor Jalen Hurts two Oklahoma
to replace the departing Heisman Trophy Tyler Murray. Yeah, see

(01:48:06):
that that would not be good because Hurts will not
live up to the to the last two quarterbacks. So
then he'll go, yeah, that's boy if he does. Though,
what if he went there and he turned out to
be another Lincoln Riley would be uh yeah, promoted to God?
Wouldn't that be If Jalen Hurts transferred to Oklahoma, would
he be led? He'd be eligible play right away? Right?

(01:48:28):
So if he think about that and then he won
the Heisman three years in a row, three different quarterbacks
would be something that would be something cool, all right?
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(01:48:49):
rate quote. So there was a lot of turmoil among
the social justice warrior contingent of NFL fans Eric Reid,
who had been out of the end the first disciple
of Colin Kaepernick's failed movement. But Eric Reid got a
job with the Carolina Panthers and immediately started causing problems.

(01:49:10):
Immediately started causing problems with the Carolina Panthers, and he
went on a rant several times during the year about
how he was being singled out, that the NFL drug
testing program was targeting him, there was another injustice, and
he was the victim of the big bad NFL. And

(01:49:32):
he claimed that he had been tested seven times in
eleven weeks for drugs for portance enhancing drugs after games,
and people were like, this is just not right. How
could the NFL target Eric read like this, this is
just not I mean, think about on the surface, if
there you only play eleven games and sixty three percent

(01:49:54):
of the time you're being drug tested, it's not right.
So the NFL had a joint state they released there
was an investigation done. They claim it was a joint
statement by the NFL and the nfl PA, and they
announced publicly that Eric Reid is a liar. He wasn't
tested that many times. He's Pinocchio is what he is. Now,

(01:50:19):
this is a blow to those that love the movement
that was started by Colin Kaepernick, the I Hate Police
movement by Kaepernick, and Eric Reid signed up on it.
So Eric red, if you like Eric Reid, you say,
you don't say he lied because that's a harsh word, right,
That's a tough word. So instead they say, well, he overstated,

(01:50:40):
or he embellished or exaggerated. You use words like that,
he lied. And if he didn't lie, if the NFL's
lying about this, then let's go look at the evidence.
Let's see if Eric Reid was actually tested seven times.
I have a pretty strong inkling read is not going

(01:51:01):
to release all the information because that would look him,
make him look like a complete stooge, and didn't want that.
What a blow this is. Though, you think about a
lot of people say, oh, this is a lot that's
not true. You know, I don't. I don't believe the NFL,
no matter what the NFL, But this is the the
NFL says, this is the NFLPA. Also, right, the LPA

(01:51:23):
is saying this guy's a troublemaker and a liar, is
what they're saying. Trying to be the victim right, I'm
the victim trying to play the victim card. Think about that. Right,
This has to be a kick in the nuts to
whatever movement he was trying to be a part of.
Just trying to get some attention is what he was

(01:51:44):
trying to do. And to think that he thought he
could get away with it though, right, I mean, what
is that? And ever since this came out, I'll check.
I haven't checked them. Last hour and a half or so.
I was doing some other stuff. But he's not responded.
If somebody calls you a liar, if Eric Reid has

(01:52:04):
the facts on his side that he's not a liar,
that he was actually tested all these times. If that's
the case, don't you think he would be screaming and
shouting and yelling and saying no, I'm not a liar.
He hadn't said it all right, So the Ben Alla
Show on Fox, it is time now for you know what,

(01:52:29):
It's now time for time for as Twitter. Your questions
on Twitter, not your questions are answers. For the rest
of the hour, we head over to the Master of
Ceremonies at the Daists wearing his Bronco John Elway jerseys.
So excited that Vic Fangio is now the coach of
his Bronchos. This is big kol Benn. Here's a question

(01:52:54):
for you. This is from Christen Houston. Hi, Chris, and
of all the hosts at Fox Sports Radio, who is
the big name dropper besides Dan Patrick? Oh, I don't know. Uh.
They're all name droppers. Every one of them's a name.
I saw you're getting a radio. You're a blowhard name dropper.
You think you're great. That's how we all are in radio.
The biggest name dropper of all time was Pat O'Brien

(01:53:16):
when he worked here. But Pat doesn't work here. I
called Pat O'Brien up one time. We used to be buddies.
We were acquaintances. I don't know buddies, but I we
talked off the e every once in a while. I
called Pat up. I called Pat up one time and
I'm talking to him. He says, Ben, I've got to
put you on hold. Yoko is on the other line. Yoko,

(01:53:39):
he's in the name drop. He's a he's an all
time sports talk radio. I don't know. I mean a
lot of the daytime shows I'm sleeping or you know,
call her callin calhard I'm sleeping. I hear a little
bit of Clay show. He not, he drops a lot
of names. I guess I'll go with Clay. Is that
just for me? Oh? Yes, that was just right? All right?
Uh no, I think it was for everybody. I thought
it was a group question. It said the crew can shime. Yeah,

(01:54:00):
it's as they can. But all you're choosing to abstain? Interesting?
All right? Next, Ben? This does you make me answer
a thing to ask? Ben? All right? Yeah? This one
is for you as well. This is from Ernie on Twitter.
Hi Ernie, would it be okay with you if a young,
up and coming person who's applying for a job in
the radio TV industry says that they knew you somehow

(01:54:22):
during the interview? Oh yeah, people do it all the time.
I got a Weasley friend that that wants to give
the Boston Red Sox play by play job, and because
I work at WEI, they're they're one of the play
by play positions. Open. This guy's trying to use me
to get that job. How about that? What a weasel
that guy is? Huh? What if he gets the job,
are you then use him to damn right work? Absolutely correct?

(01:54:47):
I'm not I'm not bashful. I will will not do that.
But it's kind of like Adam Gaze, right, Adam Gaze
was not gonna be hired as the Jets coach. He
calls up Peyton man He, Hey, Peyton, can you call
the Jets owner because I want to be the coach
of the Jets. Makes a phone call. What did Peyton
Manning say? Did he say, if you don't hire Adam Gase,
I'm going to expose photos of you with farm animals?

(01:55:08):
What could he have said? Anyway? Is that? What are
we doing that for you? That was just yes. Now
moving on to a group question. It's asked Ben. By
the way, your question is aur answers for the rest
of the hour. This is from Manic Mike. I Manic,
you find out last second while getting dressed for an
important engagement that you have no clean underwear. Do you

(01:55:29):
go commando, wear a dirty pear, or try an alternative
choice like a thong or something like that. I have
no idea what that last. I don't know what that mean.
In the move here, let me say, as a as
a bat, I only got married for five years ago,
so I was a bachelor for a long time. The
move here is Commando, and I'll tell you why, because
you're in danger of the smell. If you're like in

(01:55:50):
a job interview or on a date with a beautiful woman,
you know he's trying to you can't be wearing the
dirty underwear because if that smell starts waving through, it
affects the whole mood. You gotta go Commando. You're better
off with Commando. Eddie. Uh, Eddie loves these. I mean
you can go the smell test without you know, like

(01:56:12):
bearing your nose in there and uh just kind of
you know, I kind of wave it in front of
your face there and see what see what's coming out.
I go smell test and see how that goes. Sorry,
I just took some apple cider vinegar and I just
started coughing. I'm a spit it all over the room
that smell smell test. And then then I've been I've

(01:56:33):
been doing seven hours of radio today, Eddie, so I
gotta I gotta do a full dose of apple cider vinegar.
I've been sipping it throughout the show and it's DISGUSTINGNA
just put it down. Well, no, it's better to drink
it a little bit of time because it helps coat
the throat. You know, well, I was good complaining. Then
all right, go ahead, Roberto Commando all the way. Yeah,
that's right, Team Commando right now. I typically go the

(01:57:01):
same route as Eddie. But if it's the winter time
and I'm wearing jeans, because I don't I don't like
I don't like going commando with jeans. It's just it's
just it's not comfortable. So what I'll do in the
winter time, if if I'm wearing, you know, long pants,
I'll throw on a pair of pajama pass underneath my jeans.

(01:57:25):
Why don't you get a cod piece while you're at it? Cool?
Put that down? How about that? All right, it's the
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(01:57:46):
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(01:58:31):
emails on the seven month holiday hiatus. Give asked Ben
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This question is from Mike on Facebook. Hi, mind, is
it for everyone? What is your proudest do it yourself moment?

(01:58:52):
Proudest do it yourself a moment putting up the Christmas
lights and not burning the house down That just happened
recently because Eddie saw the house then. I don't know.
There's there's a few things that pop up in life,
but I accomplished that. I'm impressed by. What about you, Eddie?
I am not a fix it up person at all,
so I can't even think of something I've done that
was spectacular. You know. I'm such a not a fix

(01:59:14):
it up guy that when I want to change out
there were this big refrigerator, and when I want to
change the water filter, I have to shut the water
off to the entire house to do it. I literally
shut the water off to the entire house just to
change because it's easier to change it that way. Otherwise
you have to like move the refrigerator exactly that shut
off to the refrigerators behind. I feel you, man, that's
that's the right moved. All right. What about you, Roberto,

(01:59:35):
I'm not a fix it guy either. No, No, we're
in radio. We're Yeah. My dad's a big artistic hereto
my dauld fix any Yeah, my dad too. All right?
What about you? Cool? Well, like the rest of you,
I am not a fix it type person, but I
do remember a couple of moments that I was I
was proud of. First one was changing the I had

(01:59:58):
the headlight bul in my car. That's a good one. Yeah,
one I was super impressed with myself. Was the guy
from pet Boys standing over your shoulder telling you exactly
how to do it? Or no. I pulled up a
YouTube video I just I have made like in the kitchen.
I'm actually proud of that. I was not fixing fixing stuff,

(02:00:19):
but I've like cooking doing it yourself. Yeah, I'm doing
it myself and I'm cooking stuff and I'm going on YouTube.
It's pretty cool, man. I feel like I'm like a
real adult, you know. Yeah. Yeah, I'm putting together my
daughter's crib. Also, that was Oh yeah. I bought this
big case from I think it was like home deepot
this big closet thing, and I tried to build it,

(02:00:39):
and after about three days I returned it to Home Deep.
Wasn't I put together a few Ikeia things, So I
don't know that Ikea stuff's pretty hard too. That's it.
There's a lot of it is. Yeah, all like picture instructions.
That's not good. Yeah, to ask Ben, Your questions are answers,
and we pressed. If you like this, we do it

(02:00:59):
every week about this time. If you don't like it,
screw you your problem. This next one is for Roberto.
This is from the Ben Maller fan on Twitter. I
Ben Maller fan. When was the last time you got
into a fight and what caused it? Last time I
got in a fight, I was probably at a Raider game.
Yeah you remember what cost it different ten years ago?

(02:01:22):
That was more in powder blue blue in the wrong
colors and I was drunk, So that's those are fighting colors. Yeah,
all right, move on to ask Ben. Your questions are answers.
All right, this question is for everyone. This is from
Eke on Twitter. What amount of money would you accept
to not be on Twitter for one year? Oh? You
could listen, It's not that much. I mean we use

(02:01:43):
Twitter for the show to promote the show and things
like that and whenever I pop up elsewhere. But if
I could pay off all my debt done, you know
I'm in give me, give me two million dollars, I'm
in none, next two million, I'll do it for two grands.
I got a lot of debt. Eddie that Mallard mansions.
Oh nothing, Yeah, what would you do it for two grand? Yeah? Absolutely? Yeah,

(02:02:06):
I on the show. I'm only on Twitter because of
the show. I don't normally do it, so if the
show ended, you would just get off Twitter. Yeah. Probably. Hey,
by the way, Joe Namath looks old. Go ahead, Roberto,
go ahead. Uh ten thousand. So more for that than
the other thing that you were asked of yesterday. All right,

(02:02:27):
you bought your Twitter more? What about you? Cool? Quickly? Cool?
I have to go five grand? Five grand? Yeah, I
do it for five grand. Just a year, you guys
get a raise. That's a Year's a long time, man,
it's a long time. Actually a plus to not have
to do it for me and just put it down, man.
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(02:03:32):
Heisman Trophy winner of college football has decided. I don't
know if I want to play baseball. I know I
signed a contract, but I don't know if I actually
want to play baseball. He was a first round pick
of the Oakland Athletics, and he would have been in
the minor leagues this upcoming year. Well, the news came
out last night and then the overnight there is some

(02:03:55):
new developments here that the Athletics expect the Heisman Trophy
winner Kyler Murray to declare himself eligible for the twenty
nineteen National Football League Draft. Say, why, wait a minute.
This guy was the ninth pick by the Athletics in
the baseball draft, and he is I believe he's already

(02:04:20):
been paid some of the signing bonus, but he would
have to. You're talking about four point six million dollars
or some conflicting reports on that, but I believe that's
what he already got. Pad. I think he was paid
at four point six million dollars to choose baseball over football. Now,

(02:04:40):
it's still a fluid situation because Kyler Murray declaring for
the draft, it does not mean that he is one
hundred percent going to actually enter the draft itself. But
he's got options, and we're heading to a waterloo moment
in the month of February because the Athletic Kyler Murray

(02:05:01):
is set to report to spring training in Mesa, Arizona
on February fifteenth. That's his report day to start his
baseball career, the career he agreed to do and took
four point six million four But even though Murray, who's
been invited, he's been invited to the major league camp.
The guy's never played a minor league game or anything

(02:05:21):
like that. They've invited into the major league camp with
the Athletics. He'll be the biggest name on the A's
roster in spring training when he shows up. Is that
a cheap shot? That might be a cheap shot, but
it's it's accurate. So here's the problem though this The
NFL scouting Combine in Indianapolis is February twenty six, So

(02:05:45):
you can't Maybe I'm wrong with this. I don't think
you can be in two places at one time. I
don't believe it's possible. Eventually, they'll have like you can
clone yourself and you will be able to be in
two places at one time. So Kyler Murra is going
to have to decide do I go to spring training?
Does he show up and then leave? But to get
to the combine, you have to practice and train. It's supposedly,

(02:06:07):
if you believe these these agents and the players, it's
a meat market and they poke and praud and all
they test you in every way possible. It's a it's
a it's insane. It's cattle call. That's what they call
the combine. You can't just go to spring training and
being baseball player and then show up randomly to the
to the COMBA. I suppose if you want to be

(02:06:28):
a high first or second round pick or third round
pick in the draft, so there will be a decision
to make. There is a decision to make. Now. The
consensus is that if you know Kyler Murray could be
I keep reading this he could be a first round pick,
that Kyler Murray could be a first round pick, which
just blows me away. So let's talk about this. There's

(02:06:48):
a lot to unpack in this story. The question is
what do you make of Kyler Murray having a change
of heart. Unless there's been a rumor back in mid December,
it is now become reality. Now I've got crazy Town,
Mighty Mouse, and the poison Pill, Crazytown, Mighty Mouse, and

(02:07:10):
the poison Pill, and we will combine all these things together. Now,
first of all, this reeks of peer pressure. There's a
lot of buzz on social media because of how good
Kyler Murray was at Oklahoma that this guy should be
a football player, and people are upset. There's a group

(02:07:31):
of people that have clearly touched Murray, and I get it.
He was an astonishing quarterback, very exciting to watch for
the Sooners, good enough to win the Heisman. I had
ta tongue of Eloah winning the Heisman. He didn't win it, right,
The thrilling play of Murray was enough to stimulate the
Heisman voters to get him the votes to win the award,

(02:07:56):
and so fine. It's completely reasonable to think that you
could play in the NFL if you win the Heisman Trophy.
But there's a long list of Heisman Trophy winners that
did not even try to play in the NFL. Shout
out Charlie Ward comes to mind. He was a Florida
State Heisman winner. He said, I can play basketball. I'm
gonna go play for the Knickerbockers. I'll play in the

(02:08:17):
NBA for a bunch of years, I'll make a bunch
of money. And that's exactly what he did, right, So
this feels like it's social media noise. Follow your dream
and all that. The problem is that Kyler Murray already
followed his dream. He signed a professional baseball contract with

(02:08:38):
the Oakland Athletics. It is crazy town for any sensible,
rational human being to think that this guy is going
to go have an NFL career as a quarterback. What
kind of what kind of nonsense are we peddling here?
Anyone who's well reasoned understands that this is not going

(02:08:59):
to happen. To think the doors are going to open
up in the football world, it is disingenuous. It's giving
some bad advice. It's also a snake move. It's a
snake move. You add a decision. Kyler Murray gambled. He
got four point six million dollars to play baseball. He

(02:09:19):
made his decision. Part of being an adult is when
you make decisions, you keep your word. He's clearly considering
walking back on his word. Now. The second part of this,
Murray is called this this different buzzwords that are used here.

(02:09:43):
I don't know how do I phrase this here? H
You'll hear broadcasts when you when you hear Kyler Murray
when he was doing like an Oklahoma game, they will
talk about how he is the the side East diminutive.
They'll call him diminutive, right, which is a nice way

(02:10:03):
of saying he's a tiny man. He's a tiny man.
And even though he plays like mighty mouse on the
football field, he's five foot nine and depending on who
you believe, anywhere from one hundred and seventy five pounds
to one hundred and ninety five pounds. If he's got

(02:10:23):
a bunch of weights on his back, he's one hundred
ninety five pounds. So unless he can go to some
kind of freak show and get get about thirty pounds more,
get to about two twenty five or so minimum, and
get a little bit taller, all right, a little bit
taller there, at least a couple inches taller. If he
could do that, we got something. Again. I can't stress

(02:10:48):
this enough. There are people that claim to be knowledgeable
football people, well reasoned, people that are called intelligent that
thinking NFL team is in a draft a quarterback the
size of a kicker with a first round draft pick.
Now I know we have the left brain and the

(02:11:09):
right brain. There's a lot of right brain thickers that
are speaking right now. That is, of course, the emotional
side of the brain. But if you look through the
eyes of the right side of the brain, the right brain,
the or the the left brain, which is the logic center,
rather the left brain. I was never good at direction.
But if you look at the left brain, which is
the logic center, it's it's it's ridiculous. It's very straightforward,

(02:11:32):
it's uncomplicated. The NFL career is a pipe dream. That's
part of the reason Kyler Murray made the right decision
to play for the Athletics. As a baseball player, he's
a top ten pick. He's got a bazooka arm by
those that watched him play at Oklahoma playing baseball, He's
got world class track speed, great athleticism, all those things

(02:11:54):
that would give him an opportunity to be a wonderful
professional baseball player. And he gets to live if he
makes the major leagues, he gets to live in the
Bay Area, which is a great place to live and
all that, and instead he's there. You know this football thing,
I got an inch to scratch. Now, the last point,
the Athletics are playing the good cop right now. I've

(02:12:15):
talked about that earlier. They're being the good cop, and
they're like, Okay, you know you want to give it
a shot and apply for the NFL draft. That's fine,
that's terrific. Good job by you. You know, we support you.
But at some point they've got to become the heel
and they call the shots on this because Kyler Murray
but as I have been told, he got a check

(02:12:37):
for four point six million dollars to play professional baseball.
The Athletics have at their disposal a poison pill. What
is it? What is the poison pill here? Let's do
some economics. The A's can financially destroy Kyler Murray with
this poison pill because he's already been paid the four

(02:12:58):
million dollars four point five whatever over four point five millions.
This is if I'm getting accurate information here. When you
get paid that money, you then have the taxes taken out.
But when you pay back the money, they don't deduct
the taxes. So if Kyler Murray's got to be one
hundred percent sure that there's gonna be a first round pick,

(02:13:18):
otherwise the economics don't work out. Do you understand what
I'm saying like this is, this is complicated. This is
more complex than just following your dream and traveling the world.
Because if you've gotten paid four million dollars or four
point five million dollars, and then you've written a check

(02:13:41):
to the government which is partially closed, and said, hey,
listen to them. You know, here's my tax money. Well,
the Oakland A's are gonna say, well, we don't care
about that. We want the full amount of money that
we were paid. Pay the man, pay the athletics. So

(02:14:02):
you better be damn sure that you're gonna get that.
And then some from the Oaklands. He got paid the
signing most was four point seven million dollars. I got
it right here. So after taxes and all that in
the rough these are rough numbers. I'm using Malo Matt.

(02:14:22):
He got two point three million dollars out of that
after he paid his agent and the taxes and all that,
about two point three million, which a lot of money,
but again that's that's after tax he would have to pay.
He would owe the athletics the pre tax number, pre
tax numbers. That's the problem. Now here's something that's even better.
We're gonna bringing Edmund Dallas steamboat, Willie Judas guards Sea,

(02:14:47):
Solid Gold, blah blah blah blah. So we've talked a
lot about Kyler Murray over the last couple of months,
and we will continue to talk about Kyler Murray. It
sounds like because he's going forward and gonna try to
pursue this NFL draft thing. I know the state run
NFL network would rather have him at the Combine because
that would provide them with a great storyline when they
sell the combine. Sure, great for them. But here's some

(02:15:10):
wonderful audio, Eddie. This is from we have audio of
how should I frame this? I'm going to frame this
as be careful what you say because your words can
haunt you. Let's go back into the audio archive. This
is a current NFL coach, but this was back in
October October of last year. Listen to Cliff Kingsbury, current

(02:15:35):
head coach of the Arizona Cardinals, discuss his affection for
Kyler Murray. Kyler is, I mean, he's a freak man.
Party's a really good young player, and he's going to
be a tremendous player of But Kyler as a freak
and I've followed him since here's a sophomore in high

(02:15:56):
school and just think the world of him and what
he can do football field. And I've never seen one
better in high school and he's starting to show it
now at the college level. One. I mean, I don't
have enough good things to say about him. He's phenomenal.
I've never seen him have a poor outing, not one
which a quarterbacks it's impossible to do, but he's done it.
And I don't know. I'd take him with the first

(02:16:17):
figure of the draft if I could. I know he's
signed up to play baseball, but he is a dominant
football player and I would I would take him with
the first pick, Eddie, I would like you to look
at your NFL draft big board. Who has the first
pick in the NFL Draft in twenty nineteen, Eddie, that
would be the Arizona Cardinals. Who's the head coach of
the Arizona Cardinals, Cliff Kingsbury, who just said he would

(02:16:39):
draft Kyler Murray if he had the number one pick
in the draft, number one overall Kyler Murray with his
NFL team, Cliff kicksby. He's not the GM of the
team though, though he sounds also there's two things. YEA,
I want you to listen closely. Against you you might
not have heard that last part. This is Cliff Kingsbury,
the new coach with the Cardinals. He also sounds to
me like Luke Walton. Doesn't he listen closely? Here's again

(02:17:03):
the coach formerly a Texas tick. This is back in October.
Kyler is I mean, he's a freak man. Party's a
really good, tremendous player, but Kyler is a freak And
I've followed him since he was a sophomore in high
school and just think the world of him and what
he can do on a football field. And I've never
seen one better in high school and he's starting to

(02:17:24):
show it now at the college level. And I mean,
I don't have enough good things to say about him.
He's phenomenal. I've never seen him have a poor outing,
not one which a quarterbacks it's impossible to do, but
he's done it. And I don't know. I'd take him
with the first figure of the draft if I could.
I know he's signed up to play baseball, but he
is a dominant football player, and I would I would
take him with the first pick. There's a couple takeaways

(02:17:47):
from this Not clearly he's a dead ringer for Luke Walton.
The voice is the same, the debt is like Pete
Carroll and Russell Wilson speaking in the same anyway, that's
number one and then number two here this is a case.
So you know, he was like he got carried away.
He's like, I'm gonna compliment. I want to. He was
trying to one up the previous compliment of Kyler Murray,

(02:18:08):
and eventually he just got carried away. Like he's he's
Jesus H. Christ, Mother, Teresa, you know he can he
can fix cancer and world hunger and everyone will love
each other. Aline, Just wonderful, absolutely wonderful. All right. Uh see,

(02:18:30):
we have the Twitter Army, the Mallar Militia very active.
Donald rights. He says, why can't Kyler Murray be the
next Dion Sanders and play both? Well, he could try
to do it, Donald, But the problem is the baseball
season goes forever. You report the spring training in February,
you go all the way, you know, through October, and

(02:18:50):
the major league player, the minor league season ends earlier
than that, but you go through October. If you're a
big league ball player and NFL teams report to training
camp in July. You have training you have mini camp
before that in the off season, during the baseball season.
So would a team draft and have their quarterback be
a part time quarterback? Would that be the case? And

(02:19:10):
could Here's the million dollar question, or in this case,
the four point six million dollar question, would Kyler Murray
consider an NFL care What if a team said, you
know what, I don't see you as a quarterback, but
I see you as like a was It wasn't Wes
Welker or he was a short kind of receiver like
five to nine. He had a pretty good career as

(02:19:32):
a slot receiver, a great career. What if they said,
Kyler Murray, we'll draft you in the first round. We
love your speeding on, but we're gonna make you a
wide receiver. Would he do it? Would he? Would he
give up baseball to be a wide receiver. Depends on
how much money they're gonna pay on them. It's all
about the money. But he got four point six on
the table. But he's gonna I was I was taught
Eddie and I ranted about this last maybe maybe it

(02:19:53):
was last month. I don't remember when but I was
taught never to give back money. If it's your money,
you don't give it back. And he'd have to give
back a lot of money. That's a tough spot to be,
that's true. But if he gets drafted in the first round,
which I don't think he will leave some butts, he
would have plenty of money to pay back. You think
your Steelers should draft him? That's the air apparent to
Ben Roethlisberger. No, no, why not take a chance. The

(02:20:16):
Steelers have the twentieth pick. Why not draft Kyler Murray
twentieth overall? Yeah? Great pick? No, I'm good. That tells
that seems like more like a Raider pick to me. Well,
the Raiders have three first round picksiders. Who else could
I see? Let's see what other team would draft Kyler Murray?
Let's see who is who's crazy? Who's bat bleep crazy
enough to draft this guy? Oh, you'd say the Browns,

(02:20:40):
But they got Baker Mayfield, see to eliminate them. The Redskins.
Dan Snyder could he be he's I think he bamboozled
into that. I don't think so often now O r
G three situation. Yeah, Indianapolis, but they got Andrew LUs
you eliminate them? How about the charges is like the
air apparent to Philip Rivers. They do need somebody. Yeah yeah,
it's got a couple more years, but they do need

(02:21:01):
somebody to replace. New Orleans needs a quarterback. Drew Brees
is getting up there. How Patriots? Patriots have a twenty
No way Belichick is gonna draft a five nine quarterback
New New do do do? But that that Cliff Kingsbury
sound was just wonderful, wasn't it? That was great? I
love that. Luke Walton he is Luke? Does he not?
Is that? Did I not nail that? Come on? Yeah,

(02:21:23):
big time? Thank you. We will have Puck the World
with Eddie Garcia. It's already that day. I can't believe
the time either. Here shocking the week is just blown by.
We will get to Puck the World. Also have Factor
Fiction later in the hour. But we'll get to all
that and we'll do it next. Be sure to catch
live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two

(02:21:44):
am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and
the iHeart Radio app A. We're gonna hear the whole
song Eddie, I man really go to wait till write
when I was about to talk. I'm sorry. I was
just enjoying the music. Why would you, I know you're
a huge smashing pumpkinson. Yes, I've always wanted to hear
this entire song in the middle of the show. All right,
well let's listen. Let's do it then, all right. I

(02:22:10):
feel bad for the podcast listeners they don't get to
hear it. They won't complain though, No, they were not
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(02:22:31):
five star review. It keeps the Pirate Ship floating in
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Guico Fox Sports Radio Studios. It is Ben Maller. I
just want to tell you again, Eddie. I mentioned this earlier,
but for those that just listen to this last hour,
I'm so excited. I want to thank everyone that Yasmani
Grandall is now Milwaukee Brewer. I am convinced that if
Grandall was actually good at his job, the Dodgers would

(02:22:52):
have won one of the last two World Series. One
of my favorite nicknames that I don't have, but Reggie
Jackson was called mister October. Right. There's there's belief that
he rose up and he played his his greatest baseball
the last month of the year. It's part of the
Yankee lore of Reggie Jackson. The opposite of that would

(02:23:13):
be YASMANI Grandy. You know what his career batting average,
the former Dodger catcher who was signed with the Brewers,
is his career postseason average. And he's been in the
playoffs a bunch, because the Dodgers are in the playoffs
every year and they go far in the playoffs. What
do you think it is, Roberto, you're a Dodger apologist?
Zero zero ninety seven seven. Do you want to take

(02:23:38):
a guess? Eddie? No? All right, thanks for playing. You
know it was that your Ralph Irvin answer. I'm getting
Puck the world ready? Okay, God forbid? Coop you want
to play along here? Coop? No, all right, but you
guys are so I'm gonna go one eighty three three.
All right, the correct answer one oh seven. One oh

(02:24:00):
seven is Yasmani Grandall's career batting average with Berto wins again.
He wins again. Yeah, thirty five strikeouts in ninety two
plate appearances. Thirty five strikeouts in seventy five at bats
for this slug, Yasmani Grandall, And he could have had,
he could have had sixty million dollars from the Mets,
and he turned it down. I still don't believe that.

(02:24:22):
I pray the Dodgers somehow play the Brewers in the playoffs.
They won't, but it would be great, and they could
go against Jasmoni Grandall, who struck out thirty seven percent
of his plate appearances. He struck out. If you want
to go through the official at bats, he struck out
forty six percent of his at bats, his official at
bats as a Dodger. Garbage real quick. Billy in Albany, Hello, Billy,

(02:24:48):
what's it going? Uh? Yeah, I just wanted to do
a colon and uh comment on your second Hour monologue.
I thought it was great. I think it was a
panic panic higher by John Elway. And this is not
nothing against Coop John. I mean Justin's a good guy
like but I mean you need to understand John Elway
is the best and the worst of that organization. It's

(02:25:10):
it's it's not working with him as a GM. And
I mean it's just you can't winder. I mean there's
been no proof of it. I mean, well he really
and Coop and it wasn't just him and these Bronco
kool a drinking fans call it Oh Elway. No matter what,
he's gonna be the GM or the Broncos. And it's
kind of like saying, if you have a business and

(02:25:32):
you come out with it's like if Apple never came
out with another new product, Well, they had the iPhone,
so it doesn't matter they had the iPhone. That you
gotta come up with. What's next. You gotta keep You
gotta keep producing any business, whatever the business is, you
gotta keep producing. Who says it best about John Elway?
That really really explains this whole position right now. You

(02:25:54):
know who says it best, Mike Singletary. Play with them, Yeah,
I'll win with him. Cannot coach with him, can't do it,
that's right. And I'd win with him, Cannot coach with him,
can't do it. That's right now. You nailed that quote.
Good job by you, Billy Cobo. All right, thank you Bo.

(02:26:16):
It's reading about the El Chopo trial. I mean reading
some stories about that. There's some good stuff in there. Interesting.
I always look forward to Billy when he calls Bill.
He's always a very positive guy. Billy, even when he's
attacking John Elway. It's a good job by him. We'll
get to puck the world as a double shot of
Eddie Garcia is here right now to give you the
latest from the guy co Fox Sports Radio Studios. Eddie

(02:26:39):
and we start with coaching news from the NFL, where
the New York Jets are reportedly going to hire the
recently fired head coach of the Miami Dolphins. That would
be Adam Gasee. He's gonna be their next dead coach.
Case went to twenty three and twenty five and three
seasons with the Dolphins. He was over one in the playoffs.
DeFord Broncos reportedly gonna hire Chicago Bears defensive coordinator Vic
Fangio as their next dead coach. He's never been a

(02:27:00):
head coach before, but he has been an assistant in
the NFL for thirty three years and The Cleveland Browns
are promoting offensive coordinator Freddie Kitchens to be their next
head coach. He had just been promoted to that position
earlier this season, and he has no previous head coaching experience.
NBA games of note, the Bucks beat the Rockets in
Houston won sixteen to one on nine for Milwaukee, Janis
at the Takoumpo twenty seven points and twenty one rebounds

(02:27:21):
in the win. For Houston, James Harden forty two points
in the Laws. Celtics over the Pacers one thirty five
to one oh eight. The Wizards knock off the seventy
six Ers one twenty three to one oh six, Grizzlies
defeat the Spurs ninety six to eighty six, and it
was the Trailblazers knocking off the Bowls one twenty four
to one twelve. The NHL season continues tonight with the
Washington Capitals at the Boston Bruins at sevent Eastern. It's

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It is the benmoun Show. We press on here. You
got a lot to do. We're gonna have Factor fiction
come up in a couple of minutes, and we'll also

(02:28:03):
have Eddie back here in his second from the Geico
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Geico dot com for a free rate. Quote mister nice guy.
He referenced the Cliff Kingsbury audio that we played where
Kingsbury could not say enough nice things about Kyler Murray.

(02:28:23):
He said, I want to bear all his children. It's
essentially what he was gonna say next, right, And he
also sent me this video. Have you seen this? It's
making the rounds of Janis Adenta Coombo and he throws
a no look past to one of his teammates. Accepted
hits James Harden right in the face. It was he

(02:28:48):
spins around, no look and bam, like he was playing dodge.
It was he he passed it. He passed to himself,
Oh this is great. I keep watching this. I'm watching
the loop. It's only like two seconds or whatever. The clip,
but it or three seconds. It's awesome. He passed the

(02:29:10):
ball to himself off the face of James Harden. It's great.
Does Harden get an assist for that? That's a good question.
I don't know. It didn't seem like he had. It
seemed like that had happened before. James Harden, the way
he reacted, way he just got up. He's like, okay,
I got hit, get hit right in the eye. But
no big deal. A hockey season somewhere, so let's find

(02:29:32):
out right now. Here's Eddie Garcia with the latest on hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey. Well, Ben,
we are about halfway through the NHL season. Most of
the team's NHL had played around forty two forty three
games of the eighty two games schedule, and the top
team in the league by faller has been the Tampa
Bay Lightning, blowing away the competition. They went the entire

(02:29:54):
month of December without a regulation loss and had more
wins in that one months and a lot of teams did. Yes,
they're peaking too soon. That's uh, that's very cliche take
on your part. It's a bad job by you. That's
what Funhouse told me. But the Lightning again. Uh, going
by far and away the best team in the NHLU

(02:30:14):
as far as some of the other teams were. Flames Calgary,
we're on in cal Calgary's having a very fine season.
They're battling it out with the Vegas Golden Knights in
the Santosy Sharks Division. Not sure about their goaltending, but
they can sure score some goals. Who cares about goaltending? Uh, Well,
if you want to win the Stanley Cup, it's probably
fat important. National Predators Winnipeg Jets battling it out for

(02:30:36):
the Central Division top spot, and the defending Stanley Cup
champion Washington Capitals and the Pittsburgh Penguins battling it out
for the top spot in the Metropolitan Division. Now, in
his first trip to Seattle since the city was granted in,
NHL franchise Commissioner Gary Betman announced a couple more rewards
for the future team. He says that the league has
promised Seattle it will host an All Star Weekend within

(02:30:57):
the first seven seasons, and the team is also slated
to also host the NHL Draft sometime as well, so
they'll begin play in the twenty twenty one twenty two
season Philadelphia Flyers are setting a record that they probably
did not want to set, but as of last night,
they have now used more goalies in a season than
any team in the history of the NHL. And again,

(02:31:19):
we're just about halfway through the season. So bad they're
gonna bring Goldberg in to play goal? Yeah? I don't
Maybe he is? He still with us and he wasn't.
Goldberg has some drug issues yea. Unfortunately very skinny. Now
Goldberg looks like he's us. Here's the list. Here's the
list so far. Mike mckinna, Carter Hart, Brian Elliott, Michael Neuvier,
Calvin Pickard, Alex Lyon and Anthony stolars of all seen

(02:31:42):
time between the pipes in Philadelphia. Shockly enough, they're the
worst team in the NHL. Um, maybe they go hand
in hand those two things. Maybe not. Well, they fire
the coach in the GM, that's right, Who's next? Who
do they fire next? The owner? I don't think they
do that, Okay, but that might be appropriate. The Vancouver
Canucks bringing a huge side relief their young star Elias Peterson.

(02:32:02):
Uh look like he suffered a serious knee injury last week,
but the good news on the medical report looks like
it's just gonna be a week or two that he's
gonna be out of action. He has injected a lot
of life into the Canucks team that not a lot
of people thought would be very good. They're kind of
baddling for a playoff spot in the West. But he
will be the rookie of the year barring any further injuries.
Twenty years old, twenty two goals and twenty assists so far.

(02:32:23):
How are Kings doing, Eddie? Not good? Not good? Not
it turned things around. I'm still in the seller there
in the in the Pacific goal right now. Though they
could get a top three pick in the twenty nineteen
NHL draft. It's true, and they have a lottery right
so they could win the lottery. It's possible Kings could
end up with a number one pick. I'm on tanka
fon right now, Eddie doing the lottery simulation, trying to

(02:32:44):
get that number one pick. Yeah, you never go to
that website tankafun dot com, tath dot com. Yeah, check
it out. Pretty cool. They have NBA, NHL, NFL, and
m Major League Baseball drafts. Of obviously, in baseball and football,
there's no lottery. But they have a lottery simulation. It's
pretty neat. Actually, like I just did a lot of simulation. Eddie,
the Rangers got the number one Yeah, let me do

(02:33:06):
it again. Flyers with the number one pick. Teams get
the number two pick though, Eddie Jack Hughes a young American. Eddie,
go ahead, excited. That's it. Tuck the world over all right,
thank you, Edi. It is the Ben Mallen Show Company
from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios and all that
good stuff. Let me tell you something. The La Kings,

(02:33:28):
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(02:33:51):
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(02:34:12):
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(02:35:19):
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(02:35:39):
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(02:36:02):
And I lie from the Guico Fox Sports Radio Studios.
It's Ben Maller. Please Francepit Opedia. Is it fact fiction?
Let's face some roth fact on the Ben Maller Show.
Let's get to it. It's factor fiction. As the Maller

(02:36:22):
Marathon rolls, I just want to address a question, though
several people have asked, Sir Tyler the latest, did you
guys get an office email for the bathroom agedding that took? No? No,
we didn't. I don't check my company email, but I
didn't get I don't. I don't. I judge it by
text message or phone call. I didn't get one. Let's
meet our celebrity panel of judges for Factor Fiction. We

(02:36:42):
always start out with the power couple socialites. It's been
part of the year in Florida, part of the year
on Long Island. Leslie and Jack the judge, Good morning
to Leslie. Hello Leslie, Hello Ben. Great to hear your
voice and you sure do sound perky today. Thank you.
I'm just glad my voice is held up. I was
on the weather last week, so I was concerned. But

(02:37:06):
I had some chicken soup, so I'm I'm mats of
ball soup. I'm good, you know. And apple cider. Do
you ever use apple cider vinegar? Leslie? No, I use
it in Salad. But I've heard of but yeah, Bertie,
I don't know it's helped it. I had laryngitis when
I woke up one day last week and I started
taking this stuff and I was able to work. It

(02:37:27):
was crazy. It gets rid of skin tags too. Okay, Leslie,
that was the perfect answer, Leslie. Do you know what
you've done has provided the perfect answer? All right, I
gotta move. Thank you. Hold on, Leslie? Okay, hold on,
thank you. I hope you're all good. Yes, all right,
hold on. We have Blind Scott in Boston. Hello, blind Scott.

(02:37:50):
Oh hey, nothing but a champion right here, just like
this network. You know, I bring the heat to the radio,
and I bring on the list and as two and
I'm the man, and I got clear my here with
me and I thought shop and they ain't gonna tell
me they can't help me because I'm gonna go the
closest to come back. All right. By the way, Blind Scott,
I don't have time to tell I'll tell you the
brief version. He said on the Boston show that he

(02:38:10):
called our affiliate in Minnesota threatening to pull sponsorship because
he was an advertiser. Oh man, that's awesome. Let's go.
Let's immoral. Let's go to Bill in Indie, who's a judge. Hello,
Bill hey Ben, Welcome, How are you. I'm one big voice, Bill,

(02:38:32):
I know you. Bill hey Man. Always good to have
you along. I'm transporting medical waste across the state line
even as we talk. That's good. I'm providing audio waste
as we talk, so that we have that in common.
All right, be safe. I'm there, Bill, hold on a
seg we got weed Man wants to be a judge. There,
weed Man Man, I have a bit you and if

(02:38:52):
I say I pay it, I pay cool twenty dollars
when he ate se I don't have time for this. Ray.
You a rich our friend from Wheeling, West Virginia, the
curmudgeon of callers. Do you want to play here? Radio rich?
That was my intention? Yeah, yeah, you sure earlier when
you listen to the entire song before you came back

(02:39:14):
to chime man, you reminding me of a legend here
in Wheeling, West Virginia called build the fab. He does
the same thing every time he gets an interest, only
plays the whole thing. So there's two of them in
the country to do it. Yeah, well, that was not
my intention. I was making the most of a very
negative situation, is what I was doing. But but anyway,
I'm glad you appreciated it. I hate bumper music. I said,

(02:39:36):
it sucks. I think we should play no bumper music.
We have the Rooster in Minnesota. Hello Rooster, Hey Ben,
so um, how about that yacht that Jerry Jones bought?
An't you liking that one? Yeah? But you know, think
of the maintenance on that. How many people have to
run it? What a pin in the ass that must be?

(02:39:57):
All right? I was kind of more or less thinking,
you know, now that we've seen pictures his yacht, we're
still waiting to see picture yours. Yeah, well, you know,
I might send a picture out. Maybe I'll send a picture.
I think you need I need to think. I think
you need to put I said, now, Rooster, I said,
if somebody sends a sailor's captain fits my head, I'll

(02:40:18):
wear it and you can take photos. Benny the sailor
man Captain Captain saffarber A right hold on, second, Rooster,
Thank you, buddy. Let's get to the story is real
quick here we go. It's factor fiction, three stories. And
the way this works, you driving around you listening to
the podcast you that can't sleep. I'll give you three stories.
Figure out which of the three is not true, separating
fiction from fact. Story number one, pay the Man. The

(02:40:44):
animals that are Philadelphia Eagle fans that love cheese, steak
and tasty cakes were so happy that Cody Parkey double
dooint he missed the field goal I know it was
block blah blah. Over the weekend, they decided to treat
him to a beer or several beers. Parky's Venmo account
was flooded with donations from Eagle fans so excited, so much, though,

(02:41:05):
that some random people created bogus accounts, fake Cody Parky
accounts on Twitter in hopes that they would get some
of the Venmo money, like the electronic deposit no word
off that actually worked and not know what word if
that actually happened, as far as it working out for them.
Story number two Kawai not Kawhi. Leonard might be a
short term guy in Toronto, but he's trying to monetize

(02:41:28):
his stay in Canada. Earlier this week, Kawhi announcing with
his representation the launch of his very own energy drink
called Clutch. Clutch is only available through Canada, and it
is only for a limited time as well. Story number three,
even I can do that went back to Cody Parkey's
at least one establishment in Chicago that has Parki's back.

(02:41:49):
Goose Island Beer Company went after all of their armchair
kickers and out of there, and all for any fan
that could kick a forty three yard field goal a
free beer for a year. The chams will take place
this upcoming Saturday. And those are the three stories, which
of them is not true? We gotta go quick here,
Leslie one two or three, Leslie, I gotta go with

(02:42:11):
two number two. Have a great weekend. Thank you, Leslie,
say heah to Jack, all right and be good? All right,
blind Scott hung up. Let's go to my Bill rather
Bill driving around in he quickly Bill two two two?
All right? You cheating off? Leslie's paper weed man doing
the full Mallar marath, Flo, thank you for playing along.
He's did the whole marathon. Radio Rich one two or

(02:42:31):
three give me number one number one and rooster one
two or three, Rooster number three, man, it's number two.
Most of you guys got it right. The Kawai story
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