August 4, 2022 • 37 mins
Ben Maller talks about reports that Mitch Trubisky is losing his grip on the Steelers starting job and if Mason Rudolph is really the better option, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, Fact or Fiction, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number four hour four of
our radio program, The Ben Mallers Show, recorded off terrestrial
radio and repackaged the podcast format just for you with
limited commercial interruption. And this hour we go to Pittsburgh.
Is Mitch Trubisky really losing his grip on the Steelers
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starting job? What is Mike Tomlin doing with these quarterbacks?
And you make the call Mitch Trubisky or Mason Rudolph
to be the starter? Who you got in that quarterback battle?
We talk about that and more right now, Sit back, relax,
enjoy the show here. It is our number four Bendable
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steel the most predictable story of the NFL exhibition season. Welcome,
in the beginning of an other hour of the Ben
Maller Show. We are in the air everywhere head on
as we practice rocket science coast stuck, coast, border to
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border and beyond. On the vast and unimaginably powerful microphones
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and calm zen of Ben, the Fox Sports Radio Studios,
inside the Magic Radio Box, and our lead this hour
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coming from the gridiron. We have a couple of quarterback
competitions playing out during training camp. These are not the
most exciting quarterback competitions. This is not All of Famer
Hall of Famer. I think you already know that, but
it's still intrigue. There's a little bit of intrigue when
you have a quarterback battling it out for the starting job,
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and oh, it's so exciting because you don't know who's
gonna win. You think, you think you know, but you
don't know. Charlotte North Carolina, for example, the Carolina Panthers,
who figured to be a miserable football team this season,
at least at the quarterback position. But you look at
their depth chart and it's neck and neck between Baker
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Mayfield and Sam Darnold. What a competition, But what about him? Pittsburgh,
that's the one that's at the top of the pile
for me right now. The Petsburg standers jet you terrible
Tiel ready Oi and double oi as they attempt to
find a quarterback. And that's where we're gonna go right now.
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So if you've not heard the latest, and maybe not,
we have learned now in the most predictable story of
the NFL exhibition season, Mitch Trubisky has failed to impress
failed to impress the coaching staff and is said to
have people questioning whether or not he should remain the
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de facto starter for the Steelers. How bad has it been?
Mitch Drubisky's lackluster performances opened the door for the competitors
on the depth chart to claim the starting job. In fact,
one reporter indicated that in a drill at Steelers camp
this week, Mitchell Trubisky attempted sixteen passes in one drill.
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How many of those passes did he complete? You got
an answer as many as you and I Oh, for
sixteen in a drill. That's not good. That's not good.
But you don't want to make too much out of
it because it's practice. Not a guy. Not a guy.
We talked about practice. So Pittsburgh will play their first
exhibition game against the Seattle Seahawks. Oh boy, what drama
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that will be? Oh crap. Seattle actually has a worse
quarterback situation than the Steelers do. As bad as Trubisky is.
You look over at Seattle, You're like, oh my god,
what happened Geno Smith and Drew Locke, Holy Connoli, what
happened there in Seattle? But Pittsburgh cut their own problems.
So so so that's the matchup in the first exhibition game
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on August thirteenth, and then they'll have five weeks. We
gotta have five weeks before the opener to figure things out.
So are we ready to sound alarm bells on the
Pittsburgh Steers Now? I said the other day, I'm confident
the Steelers will have a good team and they'll contend.
And I believe that to be true. So let us
discuss the question, are you gonna buy or sell? Buy
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or sell? Mitch Trubisky losing his grip on the Steelers
starting job. So sign me up, Sign me up for that.
I've got whammy feathers and lows to kick off. I
am buying this hook line and sinker. If this is
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a Ponzi scheme, I'm in. The price of Trubisky stock
has been downgraded. How low can you go? Lo? Lo
Lo Lo Lo. One season hanging out in Buffalo does
not change the many weak spots on his skill set.
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It just doesn't. The problem for Trubisky he has, until
proven otherwise, a pre existing condition. He sucks. That's the condition.
I don't know how you get around that. Until proven otherwise,
Trubisky's got the happy feet. We call that happy feet,
nervous feet. Questionable decision making all day and all night.
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That's the double whammy right there, the feet and the
decision making. And you don't really fix that. You know.
He can fool people, some of the people for some
of the time, but eventually he'll catch up to him. Ultimately,
his foo bar skills will see the light of day.
It is inevitable. It is inevitable that he is going
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to buckle. Whether it happens now, it appears to be
happening now. But even if he's able to make it
through the beginning of the season, the more he plays,
the more people will open their eyes and say, this
is an inadequate athlete. The results are not there now.
He blamed us other story the other day, he blamed
his troubles on the Bears coaching staff. That he said,
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when he was in Chicago is the coaching that was
the issue. There's no accountability, not surprised modern athlete. Very
rarely do you find accountability now. The spoiler alert on this.
Mitch Trubiski not the victim of circumstances in Chicago. In fact,
he had a top defense for several years, he had
good players around him, and he continued to look like
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rubbish when he played. There was a hole in his
ozone layer and it could not be fixed. A furthermore,
let's pivot over to the coach. What is Mike Tomlin doing?
Were these quarterbacks? So I'm not in Pittsburgh. I'm out
far away, but I'm just from what I've been reading
and from what I've been seeing here. This is the
way I interpret what Tomlin's doing. He's treating this like
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the great science experiment that he is. He's watching how
this plays out. He's sitting back and observing like a hawk,
and he's looking at everything and he knows the thing
about the Steelers, and people forget Ben Roethlisberger was a
hot stew of pooh for several years, Like the last
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couple of years, he was washed up and he couldn't
get it done. The Steelers kept rolling him out there
on Sunday, and because people, once people form an opinion
on you, they keep that opinion. And he was the
Super Bowl winning quarterback, and so that's what the public
perception was. And it didn't matter if he sucked anymore,
and he couldn't throw the ball and he had a
noodle arm. People perceived him as the Super Bowl winning quarterback,
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and so the Great Unwashed did not mind that he
couldn't play anymore because he had been good at one point.
The only insurance plan that the Steelers have had over
the last couple years Mason Rudolph, the red nosed quarterback.
Mason Rudolph. That's it. And he also stinks. So Pittsburgh
is trying to make with Tomlin here chicken salad out
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of chicken feathers, and good luck with those chicken feathers.
Trying to make a nice chicken salad. It's blind dart
throwing at this point. Now, we still expect things to
work out. They often do in Pittsburgh, and they have
the foundation. You look at the old the tripod. Now
they don't have a tripod, right because the offense is
going to be pretty weak, but the bedrock of the
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defense and the special teams being pretty good, and that's enough.
That's enough to have you content. Now parting shot on this,
you make the call, Mitch Trubisky or Mason Rudolph. Who
you got, all right? Who would you want to go with?
Trubisky or Mason Rudolph. So my answer, none of the
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aboff None of the above is my answer. Those are
the known commodities, and not in a good way. Trubisky
is a Chihuahua with fleas, that is mister Bisky, and
Mason Rudolph is doctor doctor Doolittle. So the Mallard advice here,
after a thorough minutes long diagnosis, you go down to
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lows and you select the picket fence. Kenny Pickett, that's
the guy, the old pit quarterback top pick plug and
play baptism by fire all. That that's the guy that
I go with. And here's what I do. I look
at Mike Tomlin and the offensive quarterin there, Met Canada
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or whatever his name is, and I say, you know
what I'm doing. I Am going to run a rudimentary offense,
basic study diet of Naji Harris, out of the backfield,
old school, and I'm not gonna not throw the ball.
But I'll go with Kenny Pickett, and I'll mix in
the blad passing, attack screens, check downs to Clay Chase
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Pool and Deonte Johnson, and assuming that picket doesn't poop
the bed, you can win games that way in the
regular season You're not gonna be a Super Bowl threat,
you're not a legit contender, but you can still get
in the playoffs assuming everyone else is picking up the slack,
and occasionally, occasionally, when the genie goes your way right,
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the genie in the bottle goes your way, you can
end up winning the whole thing. We've seen it with
stiffs like Nick Foles Hell Jared Goff was the quarterback
of a team that got to the super Bowl. That's
all you needed, and the stiler defense and special teams
very little margin for error in this particular setup. It
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we'll take some calls here. Ranting about the Pittsburgh Steelers
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at Mitch Trubisky, Jonathan writes, Sin says Trubisky made thirty
one point five million over his career, so he can't
suck that bad. No, that's a that's a bad take, Jonathan.
He's getting paid off what people thought he was going
to be, not what he is. He didn't play that
much at North Carolina. He didn't have a lot of experience,
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and when he did play, he was inconsistent in college.
But to his credit, I'll give him credit. He was
able to convince the dumb dumbs with the Chicago Bears
to draft him, to acquire his services and he has
been mediocre at best, just does not have the the
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killer instinct. Stevie Meatball's right since says excellent monologue on
the Steelers quarterback situation Shalon, It's pretty sad. Stevie Meatball
says that the mummified remains of Ben Roethlisberger would still
at this point be a better option for them. Probably
not a bad take, not bad at all. Ron from
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Minnesota is annoyed by furg Dog. He is troubled by
furg Dog. He says, if you read another comment from
furg Dog, I will smash my radio. He says that
name sucks. He says, I am so triggered by that name.
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I promise you I will destroy the device. I'm listening.
What do you want me to do? The guy he
sends messages all the time. I only read a fraction
of what furg Dog sends in. This guy must listen
all the time. I don't know what he's got going on.
He's tune in all the time. That guy. Man, all,
let's go to the phones. Oh, here's a blast in
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the past. You remember the NBA finals. This guy was
a regular during the NBA Finals and then after the finals.
He vanished, but he's back. Fillmore Mike, Hello, Fillmore, Mike welcome.
Who Hey, hey, hey Ben? What's up? Ben? Man? You
disappeared on me? What happened? Oh? Man, I'll be listening
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to you. I'll be every time I try to call
in and seem like I'm trying to call it on
like a Sunday night. So I can't call in because
it'd be I don't be, you know, I'd be, man,
it'd be scary hours. But nah, man, you've been doing
your thing. But listen, man. You know Doug Gottia Square
from Delaware, he Square from Tusting. But yeah, I hear you.
Yeah man. But I'm saying, man, why are we talking
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about uh troubiscy Uh Mason Rudolf You're you're trying to
sell Jimmy g I see what you're doing. That would
actually not be bad. The Steelers would be better off
with Jimmy Garoppo. But they they already drafted this guy,
Kenny Pickett in the first round. They gotta play him.
I mean, I guess, I mean I missed so for
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two things I missed. I don't care about training camp stats.
You feel me. I don't care what no I I
agree with you, but but come on, you gotta give
me this film. And I'm right there with you. It's
like spring training stats in baseball, who that cares? Or
NBA exhibition stats, nobody cares. But if you go as
a professional quarterback in a drill an attempt sixteen passes
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and go all for sixteen, that's got my attention. That's
got my attention. You know what that sounds like to me?
You know what that sounds like to me? Why Jim's
how and that Colin Kaepernick, Mason, this bum Mitchell Mason, Trabuski, Rudolf,
both of them are bums. You got right there? You
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know he's you know why he's not playing in the
NFL right now? Fillmore like, come on, you know that
you know that answer. You don't need me to tell
you that. You need to look well, we need to
look at it from a different perspective. When I'm saying, bro, like,
y'all don't realize Colin Kaepernick to sell a lot of
jersey for whatever team you go to. You got the
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people that hate him, but guess what, it's a lot
more people that love Colin Kaepernick. Literally a charm though,
And I'm talking about white people. Y'all talking about white
people two hours ago that a lot of people love
Colin Kaepernick. Bro Like, Hey, Mike, listen, Mike, I'm a
talk showst Colin Kaepernick playing would be good for my business.
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So I'm not against him playing because that would upset people.
And it's like the old thing they used to say
about Howard Stern back when he was in his prime. Right,
the people that hated him listen longer. The people that
don't like Kaepernick would watch more, so they'd hope he stinks.
So it either way, it would be good for from
what I do. So I'm looking out for myself, Mike,
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is what I'm doing. Hey, Ben, you sink. Do people
listen to you more because you really suck or because
you're really captivating? No, they listen because there's nothing else on.
If if there's anything else on, they would not be listening.
There's nothing else on. It all sucks. So anyway, all right,
thank you, Mike. I'm glad you're out there. Call me
more often, man, I need to talk to you more.
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I get out of here. We go from fillmore Mic
and we say hello to the Holy Roller in Hawaii. Hello,
Holy Roller. Oh fantastic bit. You know. Um oh man,
I got I got a little bit stuck here I do.
I want to go back, and you want to go
back on hold, I can put you on in a minute.
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You want to go back, I'm I'm gonna say you lasts. Okay.
Now now I know I was calling. This is big
day here. Now you're gonna what's your plan? Now? This
this game? The Holy Roller strikes again. Over eight and
a half seventeen games, We're gonna get here. That Ben,
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that was greaty. I listened to the tow Fax, the
Buckner and the Hustle. Eighty eight call was unbelievable. If
people out there, I want to see an unbelievable video
take out earl Reamer revenues court. It's unbelievable. Just killed them, Yes,
the earl the earl ever. Well yeah, you're all over
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the plate? What what say? It says? Who was the
arrest rate? We're not We're not done with We're not done.
We still were continuing that until we kick off the
regular season. I think we decided, right, it's not over
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the way, all right. What are you drinking tonight, Holy Roller?
What do we have? I'm drinking Freedom? That's what And
what time does that? Wait? Wait? Wait, what time does
that Raider you're in Hawaii? What time does that game start?
That Raider Jags game? Oh, it's a day game for you?
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Perfect who cares? All right? Good? All right? Please go
hang up on yourself, please? Geez? What do we get
Jared Stidham in that game? Nick Mullins for the Raiders?
Is that against C. J. Beethard and others? For Jacksonville?
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Who's got that? Is that an NBC game? Who's got
that game? Do we know who has that game on TV?
What channel? Do we need to watch? All the fame games?
I don't know? Yeah, nobody, nobody knows. We're like, yeah,
it's NBC. Do you think Michael's alt my Well, Michael's
not doing it anymore, so who's It's Tarico? So he'll
be there like al Michaels wouldn't show up, but he
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didn't have to what he's doing Amazon? Now I gotta
update my scorecard. And these broadcasters buck going from Fox
to ESPN and now they get the news. It's confusing.
There you go eight pm Eastern five in the West
and two o'clock in Hawaii today tonight. Yeah, Thursday night here. Hey,
football's back. Yeah, and like always, I will watch and
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I'll watch the first Coops listening either Coop, it's the
Discover Card Key matchup brought to you. That's right, that's right.
Forecast to kickoff Eddie. Rain showers in seventy nine degrees
at Tom Benson Stadium. Were you there when that stadium
was that's a new stadium a couple of years old.
Were you there when that stadium was going on? Yeah?
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They When I was there, half of it was constructed
and the other half was under construction. What was your
favorite restaurant in Canton, Ohio? Do you have a favorite
restaurant you ate it when you were there? Oh, that's
a good question. Bob Evans, I guess. I don't know.
Bob Evans, I know, but there's no But you can
go Bob Evans all of the country or not here
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where we are. But no, not here, So no Bob Steak,
steak and shake. Like I went to Florida. My favorite
restaurant was the waffle House. That was so good. Oh, please,
Like you go to some you know, local? No, I
try to go. I try to go to local play
I do. Yeah, I know somebody would have told me,
you know, hey, you gotta go to this place in Canton.
I might have checked it out, Like your brother told
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me to go to that pizza place in Appleton was
pretty good. Yeah. Be sure to catch live editions of
The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven
pm Pacific. I'm George Reister, host of the Reister or
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Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. So this
one college football I thought it was pretty amusing. Alabama
head coach Nick Saban was reflecting on last season for
the Crimson Tide. You may recall they had a thirteen
and two season. They lost in the national title game
to Georgia. Nick Saban calling last season kind of a
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rebuilding year. Yeah, well, you gotta do it every once
in a while. They were tanking Alabama last year when
they got to the playoff, they were tanking. Rebuilding year,
lost in the National Title Game, rebuilding year. Good old
Nick Saban. Who's gonna retire first? Nick Saban or Bill Belichick? Oh?
What's the ages on that? I think they're around the
same age, right there, Nick Saban. Let me see a
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Nick Saban. I'm gonna say Belli Saban seventy. They're both seventy.
Oh they're by the same age. Perfect, This is a
great bet. I'll take Saban. I'm taking Saban. I can't
see Belichick has no hobbies. Not that Saban has hobbies either,
but I mean Belichick, they're not gonna be as good.
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It doesn't matter. He don't carries a football guy. Well,
I think he does care. Acter Saban is just gonna
He doesn't even have to do anything, though the five
star recruits come rolling it every every year. Belichick is
convinced if he hangs around long enough that the Patriots
will end up back in the Super Bowl. And he
has to keep going because Brady won a Super Bowl
without him, So Belichick has to keep going until he
wins one. Okay with me, erto Saban's gonna retire because
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save he's gonna take a TV job somewhere. I can
see him to a TV ESPN or somewhere like that
or Fox. No no, Roberto saving, Yeah, loser's anything you lost?
Bad job by you three losers. All right, it is
the Bennet Mallers Show. As we continue on here, and
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let's say hello to Belichick. Might get fired, Oh please,
I gotta fire him. Crazy Robert craft is I've got
long for this world. He wants another super Bowl Robert
craft Craft. Okay, So I go to Blind Scott, who's
on the north end of Boston. Hello, Blind Scott, Oh,
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what's hap for? Yeah, I hope save it in Belichick retire.
I'm so sick of those old boomers. This country is
being destroyed by boomer hippies, and I like to see
them take the back door. Hey, I'm excited about this
Puck the World Um segment calling next. I hope it's
really good because if it sucks my boys that you know,
Mike from Al Dente, he'll be listening. Now, the don't
really be mad. And you wear one of those puck hats,
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you know, like the puckheads. Uh, we wear like one
of those big styrofoam pucks. That's a great question. He's
got it on right now. Yeah. Hey, one more thing,
the Red Sox. They're making a cup the Red Sox
to hold the line. And uh, you know, one more thing.
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Two you can't say what were you already said? One
more thing? The Burble Octagon. This guy's the punk. He
was talking trash about me. He saying all this crap.
You know, Oh, you want to take on furg Dog.
All right, Fergan, let's make that happen. Let's make that happen.
Ferg Dog and Blind Scott in the Octagon and in
this I'm not happy about this game show on Mafia
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that tried to ruin the games for everybody here. That's
right then? Yeah, yeah, what do you think that Blind
Scott is the voice of reason? You're blind? Your justice
is blind. Blind Scott Scott is blind. So what do
you think of Eddie and Justin and these in Roberto,
the Shenanigans and these game photos now involved Roberto used
an illegal clue yesterday and password? Yeah, now I know
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why just was winning so much that given him the answer?
That's right? Why? Why that's all they've gotten? Their life
is fixed in these games. You know, Roberto has been
off for a while. He left loads the scotto from
now he's back and he thinks he's gonna take over
the country, you know, alright, alright, I gotta go, thank you?
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All right? Is that on the toilet with today? I'm
going to take over the country. Yes, wow, Let's is
one pancake at a time. All right, let's get over
right now to Eddie Garcia. Get you caught up on
all the hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, fuckball world, mister hockey,
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Eddie Garce. All right, thank you, Benwell. The free agency
period started about a month ago, and it was curious
that a couple of the big players available hadn't found
teams until this past week. John Klingberg, considered the best
available free agent defenseman, I finally signed a deal one
year with the Anaheim Ducks. Uh. He is about to
turn thirty. At forty seven points and seventy four games
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last year, he as an elite offensive defenseman. Apparently he
wasn't happy with his agent and not getting a deal
until now, because he fired his agent and got new
representation and then signed a one year deal with a
bad team in Anaheim. His Figges to live in Newport Beach,
and he should put up a lot of good numbers
on that bad team because he's gonna get a play
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a lot and then he'll try again next year in
free agency. But the other guy is still out there,
Nazim Cadre, the best probably second line center in the NHL,
still looking for a home. There's a lot of buzz
that he may sign with the New York Islanders, but
that has yet to have What a bummer for the Island.
Didn't they have spend fifty thousand on lottery tickets and
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they didn't win? Yeah? I did, that's what they said.
I don't know. Minnesota probably don't think said if a charity,
they're gonna give them money to twelve If they would
have won, then that could have been a tax on Minnesota.
Wild Star forward and Russian Kuril capriz Off successfully back
in the United States. According to the Athlete take that putin. Yeah,
he reportedly left Russia through Turkey, which is I don't
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know if that's the typical way to get out, but Russia. Yeah,
he got out and uh, the twenty twenty two MVP
candidate back on American soil. Of course, it's been a chaotic,
chaotic summer for Russian athletes. Who is that story about
the goaltender for the Flyers? I've been fedetof who still
apparently is being detained in that remote log somewhere in
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the northern Arctic Circle, the Arctic Circle. He log in
the Arctic Sure, Kril capriz Off is freak, He's He's
in the United States. ESPN reported that Adidas will not
return as the NHL's official supplier of uniforms on apparel
when their agreement ends after the twenty twenty three twenty
fourth season. They've got tears remaining on that seven year
deal and apparently they told the NHL, hey wait, wait,
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we're not going to be back after this. They replaced
Reebok back in twenty seventeen eighteen and reportedly paid more
than thirty five million dollars for the rights to be
the apparel, So it's going to be the new Apparel Cup.
They switched this up every few years, so I don't
it's Nike's turn. I guess their their turn night does
Nike wanted though? I don't know if they know somebody
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will do it. Santos Shark's going to retire the number
twelve of Patrick Marlow. I know you love the number
of retirements this coming season. Yes, so they gave him
a statue. Also, no statue for him, I don't believe.
But he is the first number to be retired by
that franchise. He's the all time leader in their history
and games played, goals, points, playoff points, power play, goals,
short at everything, pretty much every name. He also is
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the NHL career record holder for most games played in
a career one thousand and seven or seventy nine. The
Sharks also announced that they're gonna retire, well actually I
guess not retire, raise a banner for former player, captain
and general manager Doug Wilson. So they said, not not
a number, but his name. That's what you should do.
That's the proper way to do a tribute. He was
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the first captain in the history of the Sharks inducted
into the Hall of Fame in twenty twenty. He was
the GM. I'm offended by the Shark nickname. You know,
many people have been bitten by Sharks over the years.
He's a very violent thing. I think they should cancel
that name. I think they should be called the San
Jose hockey team. That's what they should call him, maybe
the Commandos. Doug Wilson had a nice run in San Jose,
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but not as long as the forty three years for
Kevin Lowe in Edmonton. He was the first ever draft
pick of the team back in nineteen seventy nine. He
wouldn't leave. He couldn't get out of Edmontonsps. Went on
to be an assistant coach, briefly a head coach, then
was a scout general manager, president of Hockey Operations, Hall
of Famer. He had his number retired. I know you
hate that, but he announced he is retiring after forty
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three years all in Edmonton with the Edmonton Artis and
that is your puck the World report. All right, thank
you for that. Hey, take off my puckhead now. I
hope blond Scott like that. I don't care about that. Yeah.
Somebody in Dallas asked I just get an email, said,
why didn't you talk about the Jerry Jones? What am
I gonna add to every day there's a Jerry Jones.
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I can't do Jerry Jones every day. I can't do it.
Did you see Jerry Jones the other day? Eddie what
he wants some glory. Oh. He gave advice to Kelvin Joseph,
the guy that was involved. He was in a car
that there was a fatal drive by shooting and he
said to clean it up. Good advice, Davon Mexico. Guy's dead.
Clean it up. Don't do that again, clean it up.
I won't mas some Glorihill. Cowboy John brad Is in Windsor, Ontario.
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of judges. I do not see the Power Couple. A
week off for the Power Couple. We do have the
return of Doc Mike to the show. Hello, Doc, good morning.
I see your time management. There's still have problem overns
getting lated. Doc. You you haven't lost your fastball, Doc,
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you haven't lost your fastball. Hold on, you're still drinking
your I just got back from Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, and
next week I'm going back to Arkansas. Oh we got
we got a guy you can see in Arkansas, one
of our callers down there. Fantastic. I'll try to get
down the show. All right, hold on a second. The
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Boston Burper is on to be a judge. Hello, Boston Burper,
what's going on? We missed you in the Talent Show
this year, but you still have the skills. You still
have the skills, yes, sir? All right, hold on your phone.
Sounds a little crappy. Shane in Des Moines, Hello, Shane.
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It's nice to be amongst such as teams callers. Yeah,
these are legends. These are absolute legends. Hold on and
furg Dog a polarizing caller. Furg Dog who Blind Scott
would like to put in the octagon. Hello, ferg Dog.
Hey Ben. I've never played factor fiction before, but I
just had a call from my number one fans, Ron
from Minnesota and Blind Scott. All right, hey Ron from Minnesota.
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Anything you're you want to say hello to furg Dog?
Yeah me, hell yeah? Well he just you're on the air.
Run here, Hey, fer Dog, You're like a bag of
garbage basically, hold on, he's a veteran fer dog. He
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just called you a piece of garbage. Your thoughts I
carry say anything, Mina Rn He's a veteran All right, Ron,
He says he can't say any media because you're a veteran. Well,
why don't you take on Blaron Scott in the verbal
octagon and uh sell this once and for all. All right,
ferg Dog, I'll think about it, but I don't really
have a problem with blind Scotts. I'm not sure what
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that's about. All Right. We gotta get to the damn game.
Story number one, Doc Mike Junior Leonard Fournette of the
Bucket Here's is he a fan of the radio show.
He took a page out of Doc Mike's book. Celebrating
Tom Brady's birthday, Fournette ordered a goat a goat head.
It was a cake. It was kind of a It
wasn't shaped like a goad head unless he did. In
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story number two that was for Tom Brady's birthday, Hollywood
Metcalf DK Metcalf of the Seahawks go in Hollywood, it
was announced he will make his acting debut alongside Owen
Wilson and Michael Pinion an upcoming action movie called Secret Headquarters.
It premiers later this month here in August. And story
number three, Now that is a forever tribute Vince Gully,
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the voice of the Dodgers, dying this week at age
ninety four and longtime Dodger third baseman Justin Turner decided,
you know what, I'm gonna do him a solid. He
went out in San Francisco and got a tattoo of
Vin's name with the backdrop backdrop of Dodger Stadium on
his shoulder as a forever tribute to the voice of
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the Dodgers. All right, which of these three stories is
not true? Number one, number two or number three? Doc Mike?
Number one, number one on but you're more of you
actually do like number one? Hold on a sec and
Boston Burper one two or three Boston Burper n Sorry,
number two Shane Shane and Demoine Shane. Fur Dog, you
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know I love you. It's number one, number one bur Dog.
I'll go with option one, option number one, I believe
it or not. The fake story was number three, number three.
The tattoos story about Vince Skill. That was fake. Who knew?
I knew? I added in front of me and got
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a murder. Gotta go. I don't have to go anywhere.
Hello and welcome. It's our number four hour four of
our radio program, The Ben Mallers Show, recorded off terrestrial
radio and repackaged the podcast format just for you with
limited commercial interruption. And this hour we go to Pittsburgh.
Is Mitch Trubisky really losing his grip on the Steelers
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starting job? What is Mike Tomlin doing with these quarterbacks?
And you make the call Mitch Trubisky or Mason Rudolph
to be the starter? Who you got in that quarterback battle?
We talk about that and more right now, Sit back, relax,
enjoy the show here. It is our number four Bendable
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steel the most predictable story of the NFL exhibition season. Welcome,
in the beginning of an other hour of the Ben
Maller Show. We are in the air everywhere head on
as we practice rocket science coast stuck, coast, border to
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border and beyond. On the vast and unimaginably powerful microphones
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and calm zen of Ben, the Fox Sports Radio Studios,
inside the Magic Radio Box, and our lead this hour
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coming from the gridiron. We have a couple of quarterback
competitions playing out during training camp. These are not the
most exciting quarterback competitions. This is not All of Famer
Hall of Famer. I think you already know that, but
it's still intrigue. There's a little bit of intrigue when
you have a quarterback battling it out for the starting job,
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and oh, it's so exciting because you don't know who's
gonna win. You think, you think you know, but you
don't know. Charlotte North Carolina, for example, the Carolina Panthers,
who figured to be a miserable football team this season,
at least at the quarterback position. But you look at
their depth chart and it's neck and neck between Baker
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Mayfield and Sam Darnold. What a competition, But what about him? Pittsburgh,
that's the one that's at the top of the pile
for me right now. The Petsburg standers jet you terrible
Tiel ready Oi and double oi as they attempt to
find a quarterback. And that's where we're gonna go right now.
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So if you've not heard the latest, and maybe not,
we have learned now in the most predictable story of
the NFL exhibition season, Mitch Trubisky has failed to impress
failed to impress the coaching staff and is said to
have people questioning whether or not he should remain the
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de facto starter for the Steelers. How bad has it been?
Mitch Drubisky's lackluster performances opened the door for the competitors
on the depth chart to claim the starting job. In fact,
one reporter indicated that in a drill at Steelers camp
this week, Mitchell Trubisky attempted sixteen passes in one drill.
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How many of those passes did he complete? You got
an answer as many as you and I Oh, for
sixteen in a drill. That's not good. That's not good.
But you don't want to make too much out of
it because it's practice. Not a guy. Not a guy.
We talked about practice. So Pittsburgh will play their first
exhibition game against the Seattle Seahawks. Oh boy, what drama
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that will be? Oh crap. Seattle actually has a worse
quarterback situation than the Steelers do. As bad as Trubisky is.
You look over at Seattle, You're like, oh my god,
what happened Geno Smith and Drew Locke, Holy Connoli, what
happened there in Seattle? But Pittsburgh cut their own problems.
So so so that's the matchup in the first exhibition game
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on August thirteenth, and then they'll have five weeks. We
gotta have five weeks before the opener to figure things out.
So are we ready to sound alarm bells on the
Pittsburgh Steers Now? I said the other day, I'm confident
the Steelers will have a good team and they'll contend.
And I believe that to be true. So let us
discuss the question, are you gonna buy or sell? Buy
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or sell? Mitch Trubisky losing his grip on the Steelers
starting job. So sign me up, Sign me up for that.
I've got whammy feathers and lows to kick off. I
am buying this hook line and sinker. If this is
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a Ponzi scheme, I'm in. The price of Trubisky stock
has been downgraded. How low can you go? Lo? Lo
Lo Lo Lo. One season hanging out in Buffalo does
not change the many weak spots on his skill set.
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It just doesn't. The problem for Trubisky he has, until
proven otherwise, a pre existing condition. He sucks. That's the condition.
I don't know how you get around that. Until proven otherwise,
Trubisky's got the happy feet. We call that happy feet,
nervous feet. Questionable decision making all day and all night.
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That's the double whammy right there, the feet and the
decision making. And you don't really fix that. You know.
He can fool people, some of the people for some
of the time, but eventually he'll catch up to him. Ultimately,
his foo bar skills will see the light of day.
It is inevitable. It is inevitable that he is going
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to buckle. Whether it happens now, it appears to be
happening now. But even if he's able to make it
through the beginning of the season, the more he plays,
the more people will open their eyes and say, this
is an inadequate athlete. The results are not there now.
He blamed us other story the other day, he blamed
his troubles on the Bears coaching staff. That he said,
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when he was in Chicago is the coaching that was
the issue. There's no accountability, not surprised modern athlete. Very
rarely do you find accountability now. The spoiler alert on this.
Mitch Trubiski not the victim of circumstances in Chicago. In fact,
he had a top defense for several years, he had
good players around him, and he continued to look like
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rubbish when he played. There was a hole in his
ozone layer and it could not be fixed. A furthermore,
let's pivot over to the coach. What is Mike Tomlin doing?
Were these quarterbacks? So I'm not in Pittsburgh. I'm out
far away, but I'm just from what I've been reading
and from what I've been seeing here. This is the
way I interpret what Tomlin's doing. He's treating this like
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the great science experiment that he is. He's watching how
this plays out. He's sitting back and observing like a hawk,
and he's looking at everything and he knows the thing
about the Steelers, and people forget Ben Roethlisberger was a
hot stew of pooh for several years, Like the last
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couple of years, he was washed up and he couldn't
get it done. The Steelers kept rolling him out there
on Sunday, and because people, once people form an opinion
on you, they keep that opinion. And he was the
Super Bowl winning quarterback, and so that's what the public
perception was. And it didn't matter if he sucked anymore,
and he couldn't throw the ball and he had a
noodle arm. People perceived him as the Super Bowl winning quarterback,
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and so the Great Unwashed did not mind that he
couldn't play anymore because he had been good at one point.
The only insurance plan that the Steelers have had over
the last couple years Mason Rudolph, the red nosed quarterback.
Mason Rudolph. That's it. And he also stinks. So Pittsburgh
is trying to make with Tomlin here chicken salad out
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of chicken feathers, and good luck with those chicken feathers.
Trying to make a nice chicken salad. It's blind dart
throwing at this point. Now, we still expect things to
work out. They often do in Pittsburgh, and they have
the foundation. You look at the old the tripod. Now
they don't have a tripod, right because the offense is
going to be pretty weak, but the bedrock of the
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defense and the special teams being pretty good, and that's enough.
That's enough to have you content. Now parting shot on this,
you make the call, Mitch Trubisky or Mason Rudolph. Who
you got, all right? Who would you want to go with?
Trubisky or Mason Rudolph. So my answer, none of the
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aboff None of the above is my answer. Those are
the known commodities, and not in a good way. Trubisky
is a Chihuahua with fleas, that is mister Bisky, and
Mason Rudolph is doctor doctor Doolittle. So the Mallard advice here,
after a thorough minutes long diagnosis, you go down to
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lows and you select the picket fence. Kenny Pickett, that's
the guy, the old pit quarterback top pick plug and
play baptism by fire all. That that's the guy that
I go with. And here's what I do. I look
at Mike Tomlin and the offensive quarterin there, Met Canada
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or whatever his name is, and I say, you know
what I'm doing. I Am going to run a rudimentary offense,
basic study diet of Naji Harris, out of the backfield,
old school, and I'm not gonna not throw the ball.
But I'll go with Kenny Pickett, and I'll mix in
the blad passing, attack screens, check downs to Clay Chase
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Pool and Deonte Johnson, and assuming that picket doesn't poop
the bed, you can win games that way in the
regular season You're not gonna be a Super Bowl threat,
you're not a legit contender, but you can still get
in the playoffs assuming everyone else is picking up the slack,
and occasionally, occasionally, when the genie goes your way right,
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the genie in the bottle goes your way, you can
end up winning the whole thing. We've seen it with
stiffs like Nick Foles Hell Jared Goff was the quarterback
of a team that got to the super Bowl. That's
all you needed, and the stiler defense and special teams
very little margin for error in this particular setup. It
is the Bannet Mallers Show. If you would like to
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coming up here momentarily and also fact or fiction and
we'll take some calls here. Ranting about the Pittsburgh Steelers
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at Mitch Trubisky, Jonathan writes, Sin says Trubisky made thirty
one point five million over his career, so he can't
suck that bad. No, that's a that's a bad take, Jonathan.
He's getting paid off what people thought he was going
to be, not what he is. He didn't play that
much at North Carolina. He didn't have a lot of experience,
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and when he did play, he was inconsistent in college.
But to his credit, I'll give him credit. He was
able to convince the dumb dumbs with the Chicago Bears
to draft him, to acquire his services and he has
been mediocre at best, just does not have the the
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killer instinct. Stevie Meatball's right since says excellent monologue on
the Steelers quarterback situation Shalon, It's pretty sad. Stevie Meatball
says that the mummified remains of Ben Roethlisberger would still
at this point be a better option for them. Probably
not a bad take, not bad at all. Ron from
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Minnesota is annoyed by furg Dog. He is troubled by
furg Dog. He says, if you read another comment from
furg Dog, I will smash my radio. He says that
name sucks. He says, I am so triggered by that name.
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I promise you I will destroy the device. I'm listening.
What do you want me to do? The guy he
sends messages all the time. I only read a fraction
of what furg Dog sends in. This guy must listen
all the time. I don't know what he's got going on.
He's tune in all the time. That guy. Man, all,
let's go to the phones. Oh, here's a blast in
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the past. You remember the NBA finals. This guy was
a regular during the NBA Finals and then after the finals.
He vanished, but he's back. Fillmore Mike, Hello, Fillmore, Mike welcome.
Who Hey, hey, hey Ben? What's up? Ben? Man? You
disappeared on me? What happened? Oh? Man, I'll be listening
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to you. I'll be every time I try to call
in and seem like I'm trying to call it on
like a Sunday night. So I can't call in because
it'd be I don't be, you know, I'd be, man,
it'd be scary hours. But nah, man, you've been doing
your thing. But listen, man. You know Doug Gottia Square
from Delaware, he Square from Tusting. But yeah, I hear you.
Yeah man. But I'm saying, man, why are we talking
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about uh troubiscy Uh Mason Rudolf You're you're trying to
sell Jimmy g I see what you're doing. That would
actually not be bad. The Steelers would be better off
with Jimmy Garoppo. But they they already drafted this guy,
Kenny Pickett in the first round. They gotta play him.
I mean, I guess, I mean I missed so for
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two things I missed. I don't care about training camp stats.
You feel me. I don't care what no I I
agree with you, but but come on, you gotta give
me this film. And I'm right there with you. It's
like spring training stats in baseball, who that cares? Or
NBA exhibition stats, nobody cares. But if you go as
a professional quarterback in a drill an attempt sixteen passes
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and go all for sixteen, that's got my attention. That's
got my attention. You know what that sounds like to me?
You know what that sounds like to me? Why Jim's
how and that Colin Kaepernick, Mason, this bum Mitchell Mason, Trabuski, Rudolf,
both of them are bums. You got right there? You
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know he's you know why he's not playing in the
NFL right now? Fillmore like, come on, you know that
you know that answer. You don't need me to tell
you that. You need to look well, we need to
look at it from a different perspective. When I'm saying, bro, like,
y'all don't realize Colin Kaepernick to sell a lot of
jersey for whatever team you go to. You got the
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people that hate him, but guess what, it's a lot
more people that love Colin Kaepernick. Literally a charm though,
And I'm talking about white people. Y'all talking about white
people two hours ago that a lot of people love
Colin Kaepernick. Bro Like, Hey, Mike, listen, Mike, I'm a
talk showst Colin Kaepernick playing would be good for my business.
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So I'm not against him playing because that would upset people.
And it's like the old thing they used to say
about Howard Stern back when he was in his prime. Right,
the people that hated him listen longer. The people that
don't like Kaepernick would watch more, so they'd hope he stinks.
So it either way, it would be good for from
what I do. So I'm looking out for myself, Mike,
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is what I'm doing. Hey, Ben, you sink. Do people
listen to you more because you really suck or because
you're really captivating? No, they listen because there's nothing else on.
If if there's anything else on, they would not be listening.
There's nothing else on. It all sucks. So anyway, all right,
thank you, Mike. I'm glad you're out there. Call me
more often, man, I need to talk to you more.
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I get out of here. We go from fillmore Mic
and we say hello to the Holy Roller in Hawaii. Hello,
Holy Roller. Oh fantastic bit. You know. Um oh man,
I got I got a little bit stuck here I do.
I want to go back, and you want to go
back on hold, I can put you on in a minute.
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You want to go back, I'm I'm gonna say you lasts. Okay.
Now now I know I was calling. This is big
day here. Now you're gonna what's your plan? Now? This
this game? The Holy Roller strikes again. Over eight and
a half seventeen games, We're gonna get here. That Ben,
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that was greaty. I listened to the tow Fax, the
Buckner and the Hustle. Eighty eight call was unbelievable. If
people out there, I want to see an unbelievable video
take out earl Reamer revenues court. It's unbelievable. Just killed them, Yes,
the earl the earl ever. Well yeah, you're all over
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the plate? What what say? It says? Who was the
arrest rate? We're not We're not done with We're not done.
We still were continuing that until we kick off the
regular season. I think we decided, right, it's not over
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the way, all right. What are you drinking tonight, Holy Roller?
What do we have? I'm drinking Freedom? That's what And
what time does that? Wait? Wait? Wait, what time does
that Raider you're in Hawaii? What time does that game start?
That Raider Jags game? Oh, it's a day game for you?
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Perfect who cares? All right? Good? All right? Please go
hang up on yourself, please? Geez? What do we get
Jared Stidham in that game? Nick Mullins for the Raiders?
Is that against C. J. Beethard and others? For Jacksonville?
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Who's got that? Is that an NBC game? Who's got
that game? Do we know who has that game on TV?
What channel? Do we need to watch? All the fame games?
I don't know? Yeah, nobody, nobody knows. We're like, yeah,
it's NBC. Do you think Michael's alt my Well, Michael's
not doing it anymore, so who's It's Tarico? So he'll
be there like al Michaels wouldn't show up, but he
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didn't have to what he's doing Amazon? Now I gotta
update my scorecard. And these broadcasters buck going from Fox
to ESPN and now they get the news. It's confusing.
There you go eight pm Eastern five in the West
and two o'clock in Hawaii today tonight. Yeah, Thursday night here. Hey,
football's back. Yeah, and like always, I will watch and
(19:59):
I'll watch the first Coops listening either Coop, it's the
Discover Card Key matchup brought to you. That's right, that's right.
Forecast to kickoff Eddie. Rain showers in seventy nine degrees
at Tom Benson Stadium. Were you there when that stadium
was that's a new stadium a couple of years old.
Were you there when that stadium was going on? Yeah?
(20:20):
They When I was there, half of it was constructed
and the other half was under construction. What was your
favorite restaurant in Canton, Ohio? Do you have a favorite
restaurant you ate it when you were there? Oh, that's
a good question. Bob Evans, I guess. I don't know.
Bob Evans, I know, but there's no But you can
go Bob Evans all of the country or not here
(20:41):
where we are. But no, not here, So no Bob Steak,
steak and shake. Like I went to Florida. My favorite
restaurant was the waffle House. That was so good. Oh, please,
Like you go to some you know, local? No, I
try to go. I try to go to local play
I do. Yeah, I know somebody would have told me,
you know, hey, you gotta go to this place in Canton.
I might have checked it out, Like your brother told
(21:02):
me to go to that pizza place in Appleton was
pretty good. Yeah. Be sure to catch live editions of
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Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. So this
one college football I thought it was pretty amusing. Alabama
head coach Nick Saban was reflecting on last season for
the Crimson Tide. You may recall they had a thirteen
and two season. They lost in the national title game
to Georgia. Nick Saban calling last season kind of a
(22:04):
rebuilding year. Yeah, well, you gotta do it every once
in a while. They were tanking Alabama last year when
they got to the playoff, they were tanking. Rebuilding year,
lost in the National Title Game, rebuilding year. Good old
Nick Saban. Who's gonna retire first? Nick Saban or Bill Belichick? Oh?
What's the ages on that? I think they're around the
same age, right there, Nick Saban. Let me see a
(22:26):
Nick Saban. I'm gonna say Belli Saban seventy. They're both seventy.
Oh they're by the same age. Perfect, This is a
great bet. I'll take Saban. I'm taking Saban. I can't
see Belichick has no hobbies. Not that Saban has hobbies either,
but I mean Belichick, they're not gonna be as good.
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It doesn't matter. He don't carries a football guy. Well,
I think he does care. Acter Saban is just gonna
He doesn't even have to do anything, though the five
star recruits come rolling it every every year. Belichick is
convinced if he hangs around long enough that the Patriots
will end up back in the Super Bowl. And he
has to keep going because Brady won a Super Bowl
without him, So Belichick has to keep going until he
wins one. Okay with me, erto Saban's gonna retire because
(23:12):
save he's gonna take a TV job somewhere. I can
see him to a TV ESPN or somewhere like that
or Fox. No no, Roberto saving, Yeah, loser's anything you lost?
Bad job by you three losers. All right, it is
the Bennet Mallers Show. As we continue on here, and
(23:36):
let's say hello to Belichick. Might get fired, Oh please,
I gotta fire him. Crazy Robert craft is I've got
long for this world. He wants another super Bowl Robert
craft Craft. Okay, So I go to Blind Scott, who's
on the north end of Boston. Hello, Blind Scott, Oh,
(23:59):
what's hap for? Yeah, I hope save it in Belichick retire.
I'm so sick of those old boomers. This country is
being destroyed by boomer hippies, and I like to see
them take the back door. Hey, I'm excited about this
Puck the World Um segment calling next. I hope it's
really good because if it sucks my boys that you know,
Mike from Al Dente, he'll be listening. Now, the don't
really be mad. And you wear one of those puck hats,
(24:21):
you know, like the puckheads. Uh, we wear like one
of those big styrofoam pucks. That's a great question. He's
got it on right now. Yeah. Hey, one more thing,
the Red Sox. They're making a cup the Red Sox
to hold the line. And uh, you know, one more thing.
(24:42):
Two you can't say what were you already said? One
more thing? The Burble Octagon. This guy's the punk. He
was talking trash about me. He saying all this crap.
You know, Oh, you want to take on furg Dog.
All right, Fergan, let's make that happen. Let's make that happen.
Ferg Dog and Blind Scott in the Octagon and in
this I'm not happy about this game show on Mafia
(25:03):
that tried to ruin the games for everybody here. That's
right then? Yeah, yeah, what do you think that Blind
Scott is the voice of reason? You're blind? Your justice
is blind. Blind Scott Scott is blind. So what do
you think of Eddie and Justin and these in Roberto,
the Shenanigans and these game photos now involved Roberto used
an illegal clue yesterday and password? Yeah, now I know
(25:26):
why just was winning so much that given him the answer?
That's right? Why? Why that's all they've gotten? Their life
is fixed in these games. You know, Roberto has been
off for a while. He left loads the scotto from
now he's back and he thinks he's gonna take over
the country, you know, alright, alright, I gotta go, thank you?
(25:48):
All right? Is that on the toilet with today? I'm
going to take over the country. Yes, wow, Let's is
one pancake at a time. All right, let's get over
right now to Eddie Garcia. Get you caught up on
all the hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, fuckball world, mister hockey,
(26:08):
Eddie Garce. All right, thank you, Benwell. The free agency
period started about a month ago, and it was curious
that a couple of the big players available hadn't found
teams until this past week. John Klingberg, considered the best
available free agent defenseman, I finally signed a deal one
year with the Anaheim Ducks. Uh. He is about to
turn thirty. At forty seven points and seventy four games
(26:30):
last year, he as an elite offensive defenseman. Apparently he
wasn't happy with his agent and not getting a deal
until now, because he fired his agent and got new
representation and then signed a one year deal with a
bad team in Anaheim. His Figges to live in Newport Beach,
and he should put up a lot of good numbers
on that bad team because he's gonna get a play
(26:51):
a lot and then he'll try again next year in
free agency. But the other guy is still out there,
Nazim Cadre, the best probably second line center in the NHL,
still looking for a home. There's a lot of buzz
that he may sign with the New York Islanders, but
that has yet to have What a bummer for the Island.
Didn't they have spend fifty thousand on lottery tickets and
(27:11):
they didn't win? Yeah? I did, that's what they said.
I don't know. Minnesota probably don't think said if a charity,
they're gonna give them money to twelve If they would
have won, then that could have been a tax on Minnesota.
Wild Star forward and Russian Kuril capriz Off successfully back
in the United States. According to the Athlete take that putin. Yeah,
he reportedly left Russia through Turkey, which is I don't
(27:34):
know if that's the typical way to get out, but Russia. Yeah,
he got out and uh, the twenty twenty two MVP
candidate back on American soil. Of course, it's been a chaotic,
chaotic summer for Russian athletes. Who is that story about
the goaltender for the Flyers? I've been fedetof who still
apparently is being detained in that remote log somewhere in
(27:56):
the northern Arctic Circle, the Arctic Circle. He log in
the Arctic Sure, Kril capriz Off is freak, He's He's
in the United States. ESPN reported that Adidas will not
return as the NHL's official supplier of uniforms on apparel
when their agreement ends after the twenty twenty three twenty
fourth season. They've got tears remaining on that seven year
deal and apparently they told the NHL, hey wait, wait,
(28:18):
we're not going to be back after this. They replaced
Reebok back in twenty seventeen eighteen and reportedly paid more
than thirty five million dollars for the rights to be
the apparel, So it's going to be the new Apparel Cup.
They switched this up every few years, so I don't
it's Nike's turn. I guess their their turn night does
Nike wanted though? I don't know if they know somebody
(28:39):
will do it. Santos Shark's going to retire the number
twelve of Patrick Marlow. I know you love the number
of retirements this coming season. Yes, so they gave him
a statue. Also, no statue for him, I don't believe.
But he is the first number to be retired by
that franchise. He's the all time leader in their history
and games played, goals, points, playoff points, power play, goals,
short at everything, pretty much every name. He also is
(29:01):
the NHL career record holder for most games played in
a career one thousand and seven or seventy nine. The
Sharks also announced that they're gonna retire, well actually I
guess not retire, raise a banner for former player, captain
and general manager Doug Wilson. So they said, not not
a number, but his name. That's what you should do.
That's the proper way to do a tribute. He was
(29:21):
the first captain in the history of the Sharks inducted
into the Hall of Fame in twenty twenty. He was
the GM. I'm offended by the Shark nickname. You know,
many people have been bitten by Sharks over the years.
He's a very violent thing. I think they should cancel
that name. I think they should be called the San
Jose hockey team. That's what they should call him, maybe
the Commandos. Doug Wilson had a nice run in San Jose,
(29:43):
but not as long as the forty three years for
Kevin Lowe in Edmonton. He was the first ever draft
pick of the team back in nineteen seventy nine. He
wouldn't leave. He couldn't get out of Edmontonsps. Went on
to be an assistant coach, briefly a head coach, then
was a scout general manager, president of Hockey Operations, Hall
of Famer. He had his number retired. I know you
hate that, but he announced he is retiring after forty
(30:06):
three years all in Edmonton with the Edmonton Artis and
that is your puck the World report. All right, thank
you for that. Hey, take off my puckhead now. I
hope blond Scott like that. I don't care about that. Yeah.
Somebody in Dallas asked I just get an email, said,
why didn't you talk about the Jerry Jones? What am
I gonna add to every day there's a Jerry Jones.
(30:26):
I can't do Jerry Jones every day. I can't do it.
Did you see Jerry Jones the other day? Eddie what
he wants some glory. Oh. He gave advice to Kelvin Joseph,
the guy that was involved. He was in a car
that there was a fatal drive by shooting and he
said to clean it up. Good advice, Davon Mexico. Guy's dead.
Clean it up. Don't do that again, clean it up.
I won't mas some Glorihill. Cowboy John brad Is in Windsor, Ontario.
(30:50):
A very brief Cowboys Quarter. Hello Cowboy John Brad I
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This is fifty a birth the discover of the body
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(31:12):
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have been arrested by Sheriff Cecil Price and unleashed into
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sixty seven today, Jeff Gordon's sixty one transition. Um, oh,
let's see you're forty fourth President, mister Obama is sixty
(31:36):
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(33:30):
right tore we go. We welcome in our celebrity panel
of judges. I do not see the Power Couple. A
week off for the Power Couple. We do have the
return of Doc Mike to the show. Hello, Doc, good morning.
I see your time management. There's still have problem overns
getting lated. Doc. You you haven't lost your fastball, Doc,
(33:55):
you haven't lost your fastball. Hold on, you're still drinking
your I just got back from Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, and
next week I'm going back to Arkansas. Oh we got
we got a guy you can see in Arkansas, one
of our callers down there. Fantastic. I'll try to get
down the show. All right, hold on a second. The
(34:18):
Boston Burper is on to be a judge. Hello, Boston Burper,
what's going on? We missed you in the Talent Show
this year, but you still have the skills. You still
have the skills, yes, sir? All right, hold on your phone.
Sounds a little crappy. Shane in Des Moines, Hello, Shane.
(34:40):
It's nice to be amongst such as teams callers. Yeah,
these are legends. These are absolute legends. Hold on and
furg Dog a polarizing caller. Furg Dog who Blind Scott
would like to put in the octagon. Hello, ferg Dog.
Hey Ben. I've never played factor fiction before, but I
just had a call from my number one fans, Ron
from Minnesota and Blind Scott. All right, hey Ron from Minnesota.
(35:02):
Anything you're you want to say hello to furg Dog?
Yeah me, hell yeah? Well he just you're on the air.
Run here, Hey, fer Dog, You're like a bag of
garbage basically, hold on, he's a veteran fer dog. He
(35:23):
just called you a piece of garbage. Your thoughts I
carry say anything, Mina Rn He's a veteran All right, Ron,
He says he can't say any media because you're a veteran. Well,
why don't you take on Blaron Scott in the verbal
octagon and uh sell this once and for all. All right,
ferg Dog, I'll think about it, but I don't really
have a problem with blind Scotts. I'm not sure what
(35:44):
that's about. All Right. We gotta get to the damn game.
Story number one, Doc Mike Junior Leonard Fournette of the
Bucket Here's is he a fan of the radio show.
He took a page out of Doc Mike's book. Celebrating
Tom Brady's birthday, Fournette ordered a goat a goat head.
It was a cake. It was kind of a It
wasn't shaped like a goad head unless he did. In
(36:06):
story number two that was for Tom Brady's birthday, Hollywood
Metcalf DK Metcalf of the Seahawks go in Hollywood, it
was announced he will make his acting debut alongside Owen
Wilson and Michael Pinion an upcoming action movie called Secret Headquarters.
It premiers later this month here in August. And story
number three, Now that is a forever tribute Vince Gully,
(36:29):
the voice of the Dodgers, dying this week at age
ninety four and longtime Dodger third baseman Justin Turner decided,
you know what, I'm gonna do him a solid. He
went out in San Francisco and got a tattoo of
Vin's name with the backdrop backdrop of Dodger Stadium on
his shoulder as a forever tribute to the voice of
(36:50):
the Dodgers. All right, which of these three stories is
not true? Number one, number two or number three? Doc Mike?
Number one, number one on but you're more of you
actually do like number one? Hold on a sec and
Boston Burper one two or three Boston Burper n Sorry,
number two Shane Shane and Demoine Shane. Fur Dog, you
(37:19):
know I love you. It's number one, number one bur Dog.
I'll go with option one, option number one, I believe
it or not. The fake story was number three, number three.
The tattoos story about Vince Skill. That was fake. Who knew?
I knew? I added in front of me and got
(37:40):
a murder. Gotta go. I don't have to go anywhere.
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