December 8, 2022 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Bills pass rusher Von Miller being ruled out for the rest of the season with a torn ACL, how his absence will impact the Bills finish, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our name Bird two hour two.
As we stand on our own two feet and we
talk some football, Buffalo we go. How will Vaughan Miller's
absence impact the Bills the rest of the season he's
out with knee surgery. Can the Bills hold their defense
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together without Vaughan? And what do we make of that
Mega MEGAMEGA contract that Von Miller signed before this past
NFL season. We'll talk about all that and more right
now as you invest time and share this podcast, the
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way tire buying should be a flurry of activity in
Major League Baseball. We'll get back to that and a fuse.
Andrew Bogart's going from Boston to San Diego. Aaron Judge
has a new home. Kenley Jansen is with the Boston
Red Sox. Now, I'm sure that'll go well for the
for the Socks. The former Dodger in Atlanta, Brave Closure
goes to Boston, and the Red Sox also signing an
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outfielder out of the Japanese League. All right, so our
lead this hour coming from Western New York. Though, we're
gonna play the hits. Moll Man, play the hits, and
that's where the Buffalo roam. But one key Buffalo will
not be roaming anywhere. The Bills having a magical season.
Remember the beginning of the year, the first couple of weeks.
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No one's gonna stop the Bills. Josh Allen is your MVP.
Happy days are here again? Well, problem problem, problem, problem,
problem problem. If you have not heard, and maybe not,
we learned that Edge rusher extraordinaire Von Miller has taken
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a bite out of the breakfast cereal Snap Crackle Pop.
He's out for the year. Heyne von Miller, former RAM
Super Bowl champion, outspoken von Miller got a bad knee.
Bill's head coach Sean McDermott confirming the news. Now, the
Bills had said originally that and von Miller got hurt,
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he'd miss a week or two. Then they said he'd
missed four weeks all right, put him on the injured
reserve list. And then Miller had surgery this week on
his mangled the knee, and it was determined that that
knee is so jacked up he will not be able
to return at all. At turn out the lit the
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parties over. Now, during the procedure, surgeons discovered a torn
a c L, which we know because we like our sports.
We know what an ACL, and we have a couple
of acls, we hope. All right, so let us discuss
the question how will Vaughan Miller's absence impact the Bills
for the rest of the season. So I've got Lynchpin
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powder Room and Tom Hanks and we will lock all
of these things together and we are going to make
some Buffalo wings, is what we're gonna make. There. The
Buffalo chicken wings, the whole thing. All right. So number one,
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this is obvious a gut punch. This is a gut punch,
a body blow, body blow, body blow for Buffalo, the
best laid plans of mice men and NFL teams in
upstate New York. Now you can spin this story six
ways the Sunday. You can swear on the Holy Bible
it will not matter. And I say, Philly, I say, Philly,
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that is nonsense. All right. This is a constipation situation.
With von Miller. The Buffalo defense was able to get
consistent pressure of opposing quarterbacks, and they were doing that
in large part because of the presence of von Miller himself. Now,
what is my evidence to back that up. I'm glad
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you asked Von Miller leading the Bills in sacks with
eight of them and quarterback pressures with thirty eight of them.
Through Week twelve, only seven teams had a higher pressure
rate than the Buffalo Bills defense. With von Miller, he
held everything together. The focus of opposing blocking schemes was
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we got to keep an eye on von Miller vers
von Miller blah blah. Got a double team von Miller
that freed up other defensive players. You take away the lynchpin,
and what happens to the wheel. The wheel does not
go round and round, It comes off, is what happens
to the wheel. So the Buffalo Wagon on defense, that
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lynchpin has been pull out, pull out there, and now
the wheel doesn't come on. You have to put the
Bills lower on your big board and whatever you're using,
big board, ladder, whatever it might be. So this is
a tremendous mitzvah for the Chiefs, the ben Gals, dare
I say, the Dolphins, and anyone else that you consider
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a legitimate contender and not a pretender. It doesn't mean
the Bills can win. It just got a lot harder now. Secondly,
can the Buffalo Bills hold that defense together without von Miller?
So this is always a tricky one. Ken is a
bit of a weazel word. You know, sure they can.
You can find someone from the Greyhound bus station to
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fill in for von Miller? Will you get production? That's
what it's all about now. Gregory Roussel, the edge rusher
who the Bills drafted in the first round out of
the U Miami Miami Miami. He was a first round
pick in the twenty twenty one draft. He now slides
on over, he does the sideway shuffle, and he gets
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the opportunity. Now he's been a bit player, hasn't been
a key guy. He's unproven, and he gets tossed into
the fire. And so that's when the rubber meets the road.
You've got issues here. And we've pointed out many times
that injuries provide a great opportunity for other people, and
there's there's no difference here that this will have a
brass ring opportunity to put yourself on the map, even
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though your first round pick, to prove that you belong,
to prove that you can be productive, and the bills
should not be written on. But at this point, until
I see something from Gregory Rousseau, you've got to think
that that this guy's not going to be anywhere near
the impact player that von Miller was. It's a downgrade, right.
The elevator is going down, it's not going up. And
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imagine if you will going into the powder room at
your favorite hotel. Let's say you stand at a nice
five star hotel and I'm going to use the analogy
to sum up von Miller that has never been used
before losing von Miller, And that's the TP analogy. So
you go to this nice potter room at your favorite hotel.
You stay there a lot. They have four ply toilet
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paper that's the thickest, strongest available toilet paper. It's amazingly soft,
it's silky to the touch, It's it's got perfume, it's
it's quilted, it's it's scented, whatever words you want to
it's wonderful. And then midway through your trip to the
potter room, you reach over to grab the four ply
luxury toilet paper and you realize that somebody has replaced
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it with one ply toilet paper, which is a single
layer of paper that is rough on your bad donkey dog.
And so you've gone from silk to sandpaper. Now you
can still accomplish the mission at hand. You can still
complete the mission at hand, but it's gonna be more
uncomfortable for you. You know what I'm saying. Am I
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making the point clear here that yeah, you could still
get the job done with the one ply toilet paper
as opposed to four ply, but the four ply much
more enjoyable as an easier experience for you, and you
won't have any agony, any pain after that. So that's
what the Bills are going to go through on defense.
And again, until you show me that you can get
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it done, I'm gonna show me state of mind. Like
the Great State of Missouri quarterback hits sacks. Sacks are
the biggest one, but pressures, those are game changing plays.
A well timed sack you put an offense behind the
chains and that causes them to have to punt. And
now that ability would seemingly be limited that the Bill's
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defense will be singing a different tune there, that they
will not be able to get that done on a
consistent basis. All right, final point, what do we make
of that von Miller contract? Now let's go back in
the hot tub time machine, and we all feasted our
eyes on that contract. And so my answer would be,
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that's this, This is how I anticipated things going here.
This is a buffalo boondoggle, Buffalo boondoggle. Von Miller is
Tom Hanks in that old nineteen eighties movie The Money Pit,
Don't Let a Falling Star Fall on You in and
von Miller's in that same category of athletes with Kawhi
Leonard and Jacob DeGrand. A wonderful talent when he plays,
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but as he has gone through his career, he has
been unreliable recently. That is the case. The Bills forked
over a three year contract. They gave him a lot
of funny money, but it's really a three year deal
for fifty two point four million. Now, I am a
salary cap truther, but the guaranteed money is guaranteed money.
There's no way to cut that. Back. In Buffalo, they
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thought they were getting the consistent smoke show defender for
a nominal amount of un and he joined the Bills,
and it started out well and all that, and now
here we are at this point across roads in this
season and von Miller, who was playing like a beast
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early in the year, now like wait a minute, he's
broken down, and he's a broken down player that needs prepared.
You know things are not going well when the Bill's
brass is selling the fact, well, von Miller is still
gonna help us in the playoffs with the veteran leadership
on the sidelines. Yeah, that's why you gave him the
contract to be a coach. No, the Bills gambled. They
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ignored the comps. They went full steam ahead, guns a
blazing and here we are Von Miller, who missed all
of the twenty twenty season in Denver with an ankle injury.
Hasn't played a full schedule since twenty eighteen. He's soon
to be thirty four years old. The athletic prime ends
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at thirty two, so he's also This operation on the
knee is not just a single year situation. That's a
knockout punch for this year, but it also has you
behind in the count for twenty twenty three. He's likely
not going to be ready when the season comes around
in the summer of twenty twenty three. So how do
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you think he'll be coming off an injury, missing the
usual work, having to do the rehab and all that
in twenty twenty four at age thirty five? Good luck,
good luck on that. I'm sure nothing bad will happen.
It will all be great, It'll all be great. All right.
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Now strike up the band. Here we go. It's the
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back when NBA players actually like playing every game and
weren't slugs that take every other game off. So we
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canceled the NBA tickled. But let's get to it right now.
We'll do the hockey, hockey, hockey, and with the first pick,
the first pick, Robert mister hockey, I will go with
take your time, Jason Robertson. Oh, Shocky mc chok. That's fine,
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you're gonna have Chockie mcchok. I will take Nie meany
miney mo. Austin Matthews, Austin Matthews. The board has held
Cooper Elia samsonov. Oh not a great thick, all right?
The last why Eddie finished? It wasn't Eddie, it was Oh,
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it was Eddie. It was Eddie told me, wasn't it
take any time off? Yeh, Eddie let's go with Mitch Marner.
It's Marnerick and yeah he's got a hot streak. Right now,
let's go with um, let's see a couple of ways
I can go here. Yeah, oh, let's go. Oh it's
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my guy. Man, you should feel left me. Jason Robertson, Yeah, no,
it's okay, All right, back to Coop we go. Oh crap, teams,
did somebody already Pickton Matthews? My thanks for listening? Okay, Um,
I don't know any of these guys who has no
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idea who's playing? Okay, they got time playing, but they're
all like terrible John Tavaris. Who John Tavares? All right,
go ahead there, me, I get to go. Oh, I'll
go ahead there. Mark Shifley of the one peg, Now
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he's a hell of a thing. The guy's a goal
scoring machine. He'll get two goals in that game today.
Roberto Andreas a love Ski, All right, you've got him
one more? Is it a Kevin Fiola Eddy that's right, yeah,
my King's baby Kings go righty at the end of it. There,
and I'm gonna take I think he has and pick
Connor Hella Buck. Oh, it's a great I got two
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to Winnipeg. Guys. I love Winnipeg. Go ahead there, it's
never been said on sports radio. Go ahead, Coop. Let's
go with rupe Hins. Rope Hints. I like Coop's version
better than what was that again, Coop? Rupe Hins, he's
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related to Rupert Jones, baseball player from back in the
old days. Eddie, go ahead there, edit your last pig.
Let's go with my goaltender, Jake Ottener of the Dallas Stars.
Jake otten Jay out. He's do for a bad game.
He's good for and not against Ottawa. Oh no, Ottaways.
Listen that team you watch out for the Senators everywhere,
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those sneaky politicians are you there? It is the NHL.
Fuck them. Do with that as you will, and enjoy, enjoy,
enjoy well another day and an their quarterback change, a
starting quarterback change in the NFL. We'll get to that.
We'll take your calls as well, and we will do
it next. He blew me off at a hotel near Lax.
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Oh my god, let's end in audio, Eddie. That's for Burt.
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to our collection? Is that new Roberto Instant classic instance Classic?
Of course, it's knew Eddie. Come on, it's a wonderful
tune right there. Yeah, Ben, just In Allen to me,
I just sent it a few minutes ago. I just
saw my email, so thank you, Ohio. Aw hot off
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the pressence. Yeah, there's some people that send songs. Well,
I just can't play him on the air. I was
see out of respect to the other callers who produced these.
We have standard. We have standard. Not many standards, but
we have standards. And so that was either Ohio hol
or Lady Gaga one of them. But that was a
wonderful tune. So thank you, Ohio. Frankie writes in and says, hey, Ben,
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will you expose the salary cap conspiracy live? And said
all of us fans free. Well, Frankie, I've talked about
this many times. You've exposed yourself for not listening to
the show. Bad job by you, But real quick, the
salary cap is a myth. It isn't a work of fiction.
It is what NFL teams use when they don't want
to pay someone. They want a veteran player, They want
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to get rid of them. So we have to get
rid of the player because of the salary cap reasons
when they want to pinch pennies, right and uh, if
they don't want to add a player, they say I
can't afford him because of the salary cap. But trust me,
all right, it's just moving numbers around. It's salary cap,
salary cap economics. It's a voodoo, is what it is.
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And you can you can move a numbers here, decimal
points over there to get the desired result you want.
Your restructure contracts, you turn salaries into roster bonuses, signing bonuses, etc. Etc.
You avoidable years. There's all these loopholes and all these
slides to get out of the salary camp. So again,
if you want, if you want to keep someone, you
can do it. And if you don't want to keep someone,
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you know it's it's no different than any business. I've
worked in radio, and I've I've worked in radio a
long time, and I know there's certain people. If you
get a lot of ratings, they find a way to
come up with money. If you don't get ratings, we
can't afford you. You're out of the budget. This is
the way it is. So anyway, all right, what else
do you have to see? Page down? Here? Page down? Uh?
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Stevie me balls enjoyed my toilet paper analogy. There's too
many words, though, I can't read all that on the air.
No strudinas says, Wow, that toilet paper analogy is spot on.
Ben completely describes the Seattle Seahawks going from Russell Wilson
to Geno Smith. At least that was the thought. Well,
that that was the thought. No Streudinus before the year.
Aguil Fire says, I remember crying Craig he called in
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the last hour and why he got the name. I
also remember Jeff Deurey, Miranda and Julio there you go,
good times. Well, those those were all references from a
previous hour of the show. Let's get back to the calls,
though we have not taken a call in sometime. Bad
job by us. I saw a van the one legged
man on hold, but he's not there anymore. Let's go
to Andrea in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, Welcome Andrea. I
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think Andrea fell asleep. Yeah, I think he fell asleep. Yeah,
he's a teacher. He's gonna be up in a few
hours to teach the the kiddos. All right, well, thank
you on the effort, was there. I'll give you an
a for effort. I will not mark you absence. You
will not be absent. No truancy for Andrea. You did
check it. You fell asleep. You were dreaming of Xander
Bogart's in a Padre uniform eating a fish taco. So
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that means the movie the Pinders is gonna move for
Nando to tease to the outfield, Isn't That is not
the plan there that they'll have ye center field, right field.
M m. The next guy they pays gotta be Soto.
They gotta keep him, right, that's the next guy they pay.
But they would, but he's gonna go to free agencies.
There's not a lot that he's gonna resign there. He's
a Boris guy. They can't resign him before he hits
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free agency because that's not what Boris does. Well, he's
good as gun. He said, he's not gonna stay in
San Diego, no anything. We'll go to them. Yeah, he
gonna go dog so many teams the Dodgers think they
do get him. All right, Let's go to Nye Meni
Mini Moll. Let's say hello to Andrea the sports Sorcerer.
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She's hanging out and she's in mourning right now because
the San Francisco Giants. She's not a Giants fan, but
she does live in the Bay and the Giants were
this close to getting Aaron Judge, and then Arson happened.
Hello Andrea, Hello Ben, how are you happy? Full Moon?
If I was any better, I'd be a judge, but
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not Aaron Judge because I wouldn't know what to do
with all that money. And it's a lot of money. Yeah,
I know. You know it's funny you said that. One
of the local news channels were like saying something like, well,
what would you do with three hundred and sixty million?
And they said something like, well, that's one hundred and
eighty dollars per second for his baseball career. I mean,
it was just outrageous. But be even as it may,
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I'll tell you, you know, I'm pretty intuitive. I really
didn't think he was going to go to the Giants.
I think he was using them as leverage. And you know,
I mean he's from Sacramento, California, but I really think
he was just using them. And then I don't know,
if you heard the eleventh hour, the Padres came in.
I don't know if that's it flew him, the Potters
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flew him to San Diego to hang out and meet
some good food there and millions they offered him. And
then the thing is he wanted to be, you know,
when I tune into his Taurus energy in the pantheon
of Yankees greatness whatever that means. I mean, I grew
up a met Fans, so it is what it is.
But you know, I think, as you know I have,
I have Taurus rising, you're Taurus. I don't think Tauris
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really seeks out change necessarily unless they have to. So
I think he was pretty comfortable, Um, you know, being
in New York when push comes to shove with the
sixty two home runs and did you hear how Steinbrenner
born December third did this eleventh hour phone call and
told him how much he's appreciated. Wasn't he eating pasta
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in Italy or something like that and he'd called him
up and He's like, let me put down my spaghetti
and I would like to talk to you. Yeah, it's
like the rich get richer. So I think he was
just really, you know, kind of using the Giants's leverage.
You know, we won't hold it against him, you know, well,
I thought he was gonna go to the Giants. I
thought he was gonna Yeah, because he didn't, the Yankees
screwed him over. Supposedly, you know, one hundred and forty
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six million dollars more. But I thought he's leaving. He's
from northern California, his hometown team, all that, and if
he wanted to stay with the Yankees, I figured he
would have just signed the contract with the Yankees prior
to going through free agency. But he's back right, Well,
the fans boot him, do you remember when that happened. Yeah,
they'll booy you anywhere though that doesn't really yes, but
that's New York. I mean they'll booyo in the Milwaukee.
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They boot Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay, sneepy green Bay.
So great after taxes? How much is you think he's
gonna end up with after he pays all? You know,
that's a good point to actually mentioned that on the
show when they were cheasing about the money, because we
have sky high, um, you know taxes in California, but
New York does too, right, Yeah, so I think the
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math I was reading this earlier. So the agent gets
five percent, the federal tax rates thirty seven percent, So
the federal government's gonna get one hundred and thirty three
point two million of that contract. The New York state
taxes ten point nine percent, So that's thirty nine. I'm
given a lot of numbers out, Andrea, I've given too
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many numbers out, but they there's the New York City
tax rate, which is three point eight percent. One hundred
and thirty three million dollars of that contract goes to
the two. Yeah, that's a federal tax, thirty seven percent taxes,
and Judge is gonna have to pay tax on when
the Yankees play on the road in different locations, You're
gonna have to pay tax on that. That's gonna be
about ten million. So after all of that, I think
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we don't need to hold the bakesale for Aaron Judge.
But he's actually gonna end up clearing after he pays
all the taxes and fees one hundred and forty five
point six million dollars, it'll be his. That's really enlightening.
Then I did not know the nuances of that. There
you go, that's you know it. Well, that's a ballpark.
I mean it might be might be a little war,
might be a little less, but it's around one hundred
and forty five and fifty million. Yeah. No, I was,
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you know, watching the Yankees, Hot Stove METSPTNET New York.
You know, they were all like, well, we knew he
was going to sign here, sooner rather than later. You know,
they all all seem kind assure themselves. And again to me,
Taurus doesn't really like, you know, major changes, unlet's say,
to unless they instigate them. Man, his sad a return,
you know, turning thirty endings a new beginnings. So the
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new beginning it's just more money. Yeah, and I all right, Well, Andrea,
thank you so much. I appreciate you. Happy fullon. There
she goes where she goes, only she knows. Happy full moon, Ben,
How are you celebrating the full moon, Roberto for a
Raider game? That's right, You're gonna hang out and imagine
a full moon of a full moon and a stadium
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pack with Raider fans because the Ram fans don't want
to show their face the way the Rams are playing,
so it'll be all Raider fans and oh my god,
what a madhouse. Will be lots of Mexicans in there. Yeah,
well you think so? He thinks would be like a
Dodger game. Do you think you'd be like a Dodger
crowd out? Yeah, yeah, yeah, a lot of like Dodger
fans of Raider Face. I've noticed that there's a crossover
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Covino en Rich give me a hell Yeah? Did you
see remember that guy the punt God? Remember Buffalo Bills?
I did, Yes, yeah, he high high draft picked by
the Bills, was gonna win the job going to the season,
and then some allegations came out that when he was
at San Diego State, he was involved in a gang rape. Yes, well,
(27:56):
you know, allegedly, yeah, lge. You know, well it never
happened to me when I was in college, but I
couldn't get one person asleep with events, all right. Anyway, Yeah,
The San Diego County District Attorney's Office has decided to
not pursue charges against matt Areiza or his former teammates, saying, quote,
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prosecutors determined as clear the evidence does not support the
filing of criminal charges and there is no path to
a potential criminal conviction. Yeah. So this guy's been destroyed
because he's he's out of the NFL. He says he
wants to keep playing. He released a statement through some
representative that he wants to continue on and all that.
I know this guy CJ coach Tip and he's busting
(28:41):
my balls at that guy. He was like, hey, you
got to apologize to this guy. And I'm like, well,
first of all, I don't have to apologize, so I
don't think I I buried him like some other people.
But he's not out of the woods yet, Eddie, because
he's still matt Arise is still facing a civil lawsuit,
so he's not completely out of it. Will he get
another opportunity because I Trevor Bauer. We'll talk more about
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him later. But the Dodgers pitcher, well, well he's tied
into the Dodger story because Bauer is suspended. But it's
it's sounding like everyone thinks that's gonna get overturned and
he's gonna be back. But he was not charged with
any crime. There was an investigation that took several months,
and there was a civil thing that went went away,
and then he's suing everybody. Bauer, he's gone scorched earth
(29:28):
trying to get his name back and all that and so,
but he would he be allowed back? Bauer not charged
with a crime. Stay tuned dot dot dot. Inquiring minds
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Come on, just Josh as If Andre spent half as
much time putting his lesson planned together then sitting on
hold on the Mallard Show, maybe his students wouldn't have
to take his class again next year. Shots fired, Benito
the Cowboys fans. This shout out to the Mexicados who
will be at the Raider game tonight. He says, there's coy.
(30:36):
He's not a Raider fan. He's a Cowboy fan. That guy,
how dare you? Uh? Let's see page down, page down.
No Studina says, Ben just gave a masterclass on reading.
Listener comments, Yes I did, no studinis, Yes I did, absolutely,
That's why we're here. Let's go back to the phones. Jed,
who fled? Is next? Hello? Jed? Masterclass holidays? I got
(31:02):
the landline charging. I don't want to not get in
next hour, so I'm just holding the cell phone kind
of stuff. All right, I'll put you back on. I'll
put you back on. Let's go to Rick and now
he wants to be at all put them on Rick
in Nashville. What's going on? Rick? What's going on? Gentlemen? Welcome? Well,
that first hour you were saying, how the mystique of
(31:23):
I want to stick around to be a Yankee that
you have people talking about these major teams, these blue bloods.
I kind of relate to a degree. I don't know
if you could. I guess Apple's orders to a sense.
I signed up to be a marine at a high
school and going through a couple of tours. The Army
was paying serious money for combat marines to come over
(31:46):
and uh sign contracts with them, give you a big
sign of bonus everything else, and I mean way bigger
than what the Marine Corps offering to stay in. Yeah,
did you did you go to the art? I couldn't.
I I was lined up. I couldn't do it. I
can not trade my Marine Corps uniform, man, and nothing
against the Army. Each branch is eliting him own sense,
(32:08):
my brothers and my sisters. But it wasn't. It wasn't
the marine uniform. It ain't the same. So yeah, well
I disagree with you. I mean, that's you, and you
made a choice. That's great for you. But I the world.
I mean with professional sports. I don't think that exists
where you're like, I'm gonna if if the if the
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Yankees hadn't matched Judges contract, he would have been a giant.
Right now, we'd be talking about how many homes and
sucks really bad. Maybe the Yankees stand it would suck
really bad. But at the same point in time. Sometimes
I know it's very rare, and I know it's sports,
but this is more about pride now, I don't. I
think it's about three hundred and sixty million dollars. I
think that's what it's about. And he that's the contract
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he wanted. The Giants offered it to him. The Padres
actually offered him more, but he didn't want to live
in San Diego. Whatever. San Diego is a great place
to live, you don't want to live there. And this
became it was either the Yankees and the Giants, and
I don't think the uniform had had That's where the
different meet of things. But yeah, if if the like
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like Rick, if the Coastguard called you up and said
we got some money for you here, you know, three
hundred million, you'd you'd be like, all right, you'd be
singing the praise with the Coast Guard, wouldn't you, I'd
you'd be in a submarine right now. You'd be like,
I'll be on the Navy Coastguard. Whatever. Hello, whoa, all right,
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thank you? Rick? All right, there he goes. The Padres
deal was only it was just an extra year, so
they had they had to go way over to to
get judged to sign with the Padres. Got I mean,
it's not like totally unheard of for somebody to I mean,
I'm not saying that this is the case with Aaron Judge,
but it's not unheard of for an athlete to show,
you know, loyalty to the team that they were already
with and leave money on the table to stay there.
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It's it's happened. I mean, I'm I'm sure it wouldn't
take me long to find some example. Yeah, but those
are outliers. That's not the norm. Oh No, for sure.
For sure, you can always find outliers. But that doesn't
make the rule. It's an outlier anyway. All right, Well,
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as a starting quarterback in the NFL. Wow, I got benched.
They went to Alan the backup and that was a debacle.
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So Davis Mills back and he is being thrown into
the fire against the Dallas Cowboys this weekend. I'm sure
that will go well. Unless it does not. We have
Mallard of the third degree. Here's the instant trivia. Mike
Iman's DeAndre Hopkins, Travis Kelsey and Blank are the only
players with five hundred plus receiving yards each of the
past nine seasons. That's the instant trivia. The answer next.
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Kelsey and Blank are the only players with five hundred
plus receiving yards in each of the past nine seasons.
That is the question. What is the answer, And we
do have coming up here in a minute. We'll have
Mallard of the third degree, Dwayne the Rock Johnson from
Rob in Vegas, Jenny McCarthy from the Dixter Parody account,
(36:43):
cousin Eddie from Milkman, Mike Brian Blade's guests by Trucker
or Texas Trucker. Who else do we have? Bob a
Booie from ferg Dog People's Choice Award winner Lizzo from
Mason Mister Mason and Huntington Beach, Jose Ramirez the answer
from Jim and Cleveland unless it wasn't Norm Peterson from
rob in In. Where's Rob Goldman? That's the famous Goldman?
(37:06):
DeVante Adams from Double Ow, Mexican. Wally and Florida's going
with TK Metcalf Geronimo Allison from eakon Roseville, Minnesota. What
say you, Eddie? It's former New York Giants wide receiver
Mario Manningham. No, Eddie, it's Brandon Cooks. Brandon Cooks so
they Houston Texans it's Meller. How about that? To the
(37:26):
third degree? This is one big band gets grilled. Speaking
of the Raiders, they have now won three games in
a row and DeVante Adams is starting to dominate. Ben.
Is there any chance that the Raiders sneak into the
playoffs this season? Yeah? So, I don't see the math
working out this way. The Raiders are five and seven.
(37:47):
They should beat the Ramps tonight to get to six
and seven, and they they've gotta shot. They gotta win
out get the ten and seven to have a shot.
The Chargers, Patriots, and Jets are all ahead of them.
And the problem is Vegas still has games at the
end of year with the Niners and the Chiefs, so
the chances of them winning both those games are slim
and none. So I'm going no. That loss to the Colts,
(38:08):
the one to the Saints is gonna kill him next. So,
speaking of teams starting to gel, the defending AFC champ
Bengals have won four games in a row. Is Joe
Burrow firmly back in the MVP race? Well, he's in
the race. He's not the favorite. Mahomes and Jalen Hurts
are ahead of him. But listen, this guy Burrow has
been amazing. I think the last I did this for
(38:28):
the handicapping last seven games, he's got sixteen touchdowns and
three interceptions. He's been absolutely wonderful for the Bengals. He
keeps that up. Yeah, but he's not leading the race.
He's in the race next. Seohn Peyton revealed on Monday
that he expects to coach again sooner than later, if
not this year, hopefully next year, is what he said,
been asking for Broncos fans everywhere. Do you think there's
(38:50):
any chance he comes to Denver? Well, you still have
Russell Wilson right, so no, why would you know? Come on, No,
he's not gonna go to Denver. I think the Charger
job the one he's gonna get because they're gonna they're
gonna change the coaching staff and justin Herbert, everyone's kissing
his asses. God's gift of the quarterback position. That's the
job I think Peyton gets at this point. How did
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weak down coat below you fail this edition? What are
you talking? I can't fail? Terrible answer, that's a great answer.
Have you seen Russell Wilson play? Who coaches the Chargers? Paid?
I guessed to live in La though,
Hello and welcome. It's our name Bird two hour two.
As we stand on our own two feet and we
talk some football, Buffalo we go. How will Vaughan Miller's
absence impact the Bills the rest of the season he's
out with knee surgery. Can the Bills hold their defense
(00:23):
together without Vaughan? And what do we make of that
Mega MEGAMEGA contract that Von Miller signed before this past
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Major League Baseball. We'll get back to that and a fuse.
Andrew Bogart's going from Boston to San Diego. Aaron Judge
has a new home. Kenley Jansen is with the Boston
Red Sox. Now, I'm sure that'll go well for the
for the Socks. The former Dodger in Atlanta, Brave Closure
goes to Boston, and the Red Sox also signing an
(01:56):
outfielder out of the Japanese League. All right, so our
lead this hour coming from Western New York. Though, we're
gonna play the hits. Moll Man, play the hits, and
that's where the Buffalo roam. But one key Buffalo will
not be roaming anywhere. The Bills having a magical season.
Remember the beginning of the year, the first couple of weeks.
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No one's gonna stop the Bills. Josh Allen is your MVP.
Happy days are here again? Well, problem problem, problem, problem,
problem problem. If you have not heard, and maybe not,
we learned that Edge rusher extraordinaire Von Miller has taken
(02:40):
a bite out of the breakfast cereal Snap Crackle Pop.
He's out for the year. Heyne von Miller, former RAM
Super Bowl champion, outspoken von Miller got a bad knee.
Bill's head coach Sean McDermott confirming the news. Now, the
Bills had said originally that and von Miller got hurt,
(03:00):
he'd miss a week or two. Then they said he'd
missed four weeks all right, put him on the injured
reserve list. And then Miller had surgery this week on
his mangled the knee, and it was determined that that
knee is so jacked up he will not be able
to return at all. At turn out the lit the
(03:21):
parties over. Now, during the procedure, surgeons discovered a torn
a c L, which we know because we like our sports.
We know what an ACL, and we have a couple
of acls, we hope. All right, so let us discuss
the question how will Vaughan Miller's absence impact the Bills
for the rest of the season. So I've got Lynchpin
(03:43):
powder Room and Tom Hanks and we will lock all
of these things together and we are going to make
some Buffalo wings, is what we're gonna make. There. The
Buffalo chicken wings, the whole thing. All right. So number one,
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this is obvious a gut punch. This is a gut punch,
a body blow, body blow, body blow for Buffalo, the
best laid plans of mice men and NFL teams in
upstate New York. Now you can spin this story six
ways the Sunday. You can swear on the Holy Bible
it will not matter. And I say, Philly, I say, Philly,
(04:29):
that is nonsense. All right. This is a constipation situation.
With von Miller. The Buffalo defense was able to get
consistent pressure of opposing quarterbacks, and they were doing that
in large part because of the presence of von Miller himself. Now,
what is my evidence to back that up. I'm glad
(04:50):
you asked Von Miller leading the Bills in sacks with
eight of them and quarterback pressures with thirty eight of them.
Through Week twelve, only seven teams had a higher pressure
rate than the Buffalo Bills defense. With von Miller, he
held everything together. The focus of opposing blocking schemes was
(05:11):
we got to keep an eye on von Miller vers
von Miller blah blah. Got a double team von Miller
that freed up other defensive players. You take away the lynchpin,
and what happens to the wheel. The wheel does not
go round and round, It comes off, is what happens
to the wheel. So the Buffalo Wagon on defense, that
(05:31):
lynchpin has been pull out, pull out there, and now
the wheel doesn't come on. You have to put the
Bills lower on your big board and whatever you're using,
big board, ladder, whatever it might be. So this is
a tremendous mitzvah for the Chiefs, the ben Gals, dare
I say, the Dolphins, and anyone else that you consider
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a legitimate contender and not a pretender. It doesn't mean
the Bills can win. It just got a lot harder now. Secondly,
can the Buffalo Bills hold that defense together without von Miller?
So this is always a tricky one. Ken is a
bit of a weazel word. You know, sure they can.
You can find someone from the Greyhound bus station to
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fill in for von Miller? Will you get production? That's
what it's all about now. Gregory Roussel, the edge rusher
who the Bills drafted in the first round out of
the U Miami Miami Miami. He was a first round
pick in the twenty twenty one draft. He now slides
on over, he does the sideway shuffle, and he gets
(06:38):
the opportunity. Now he's been a bit player, hasn't been
a key guy. He's unproven, and he gets tossed into
the fire. And so that's when the rubber meets the road.
You've got issues here. And we've pointed out many times
that injuries provide a great opportunity for other people, and
there's there's no difference here that this will have a
brass ring opportunity to put yourself on the map, even
(06:59):
though your first round pick, to prove that you belong,
to prove that you can be productive, and the bills
should not be written on. But at this point, until
I see something from Gregory Rousseau, you've got to think
that that this guy's not going to be anywhere near
the impact player that von Miller was. It's a downgrade, right.
The elevator is going down, it's not going up. And
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imagine if you will going into the powder room at
your favorite hotel. Let's say you stand at a nice
five star hotel and I'm going to use the analogy
to sum up von Miller that has never been used
before losing von Miller, And that's the TP analogy. So
you go to this nice potter room at your favorite hotel.
You stay there a lot. They have four ply toilet
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paper that's the thickest, strongest available toilet paper. It's amazingly soft,
it's silky to the touch, It's it's got perfume, it's
it's quilted, it's it's scented, whatever words you want to
it's wonderful. And then midway through your trip to the
potter room, you reach over to grab the four ply
luxury toilet paper and you realize that somebody has replaced
(08:08):
it with one ply toilet paper, which is a single
layer of paper that is rough on your bad donkey dog.
And so you've gone from silk to sandpaper. Now you
can still accomplish the mission at hand. You can still
complete the mission at hand, but it's gonna be more
uncomfortable for you. You know what I'm saying. Am I
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making the point clear here that yeah, you could still
get the job done with the one ply toilet paper
as opposed to four ply, but the four ply much
more enjoyable as an easier experience for you, and you
won't have any agony, any pain after that. So that's
what the Bills are going to go through on defense.
And again, until you show me that you can get
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it done, I'm gonna show me state of mind. Like
the Great State of Missouri quarterback hits sacks. Sacks are
the biggest one, but pressures, those are game changing plays.
A well timed sack you put an offense behind the
chains and that causes them to have to punt. And
now that ability would seemingly be limited that the Bill's
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defense will be singing a different tune there, that they
will not be able to get that done on a
consistent basis. All right, final point, what do we make
of that von Miller contract? Now let's go back in
the hot tub time machine, and we all feasted our
eyes on that contract. And so my answer would be,
(09:33):
that's this, This is how I anticipated things going here.
This is a buffalo boondoggle, Buffalo boondoggle. Von Miller is
Tom Hanks in that old nineteen eighties movie The Money Pit,
Don't Let a Falling Star Fall on You in and
von Miller's in that same category of athletes with Kawhi
Leonard and Jacob DeGrand. A wonderful talent when he plays,
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but as he has gone through his career, he has
been unreliable recently. That is the case. The Bills forked
over a three year contract. They gave him a lot
of funny money, but it's really a three year deal
for fifty two point four million. Now, I am a
salary cap truther, but the guaranteed money is guaranteed money.
There's no way to cut that. Back. In Buffalo, they
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thought they were getting the consistent smoke show defender for
a nominal amount of un and he joined the Bills,
and it started out well and all that, and now
here we are at this point across roads in this
season and von Miller, who was playing like a beast
(10:42):
early in the year, now like wait a minute, he's
broken down, and he's a broken down player that needs prepared.
You know things are not going well when the Bill's
brass is selling the fact, well, von Miller is still
gonna help us in the playoffs with the veteran leadership
on the sidelines. Yeah, that's why you gave him the
contract to be a coach. No, the Bills gambled. They
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ignored the comps. They went full steam ahead, guns a
blazing and here we are Von Miller, who missed all
of the twenty twenty season in Denver with an ankle injury.
Hasn't played a full schedule since twenty eighteen. He's soon
to be thirty four years old. The athletic prime ends
(11:24):
at thirty two, so he's also This operation on the
knee is not just a single year situation. That's a
knockout punch for this year, but it also has you
behind in the count for twenty twenty three. He's likely
not going to be ready when the season comes around
in the summer of twenty twenty three. So how do
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you think he'll be coming off an injury, missing the
usual work, having to do the rehab and all that
in twenty twenty four at age thirty five? Good luck,
good luck on that. I'm sure nothing bad will happen.
It will all be great, It'll all be great. All right.
(12:06):
We will have coming up here momentarily. We're gonna have
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Now strike up the band. Here we go. It's the
NHL puckham Our fantasy game. We play hockey one day,
football one day. We used to do basketball, but that's
back when NBA players actually like playing every game and
weren't slugs that take every other game off. So we
(12:50):
canceled the NBA tickled. But let's get to it right now.
We'll do the hockey, hockey, hockey, and with the first pick,
the first pick, Robert mister hockey, I will go with
take your time, Jason Robertson. Oh, Shocky mc chok. That's fine,
(13:14):
you're gonna have Chockie mcchok. I will take Nie meany
miney mo. Austin Matthews, Austin Matthews. The board has held
Cooper Elia samsonov. Oh not a great thick, all right?
The last why Eddie finished? It wasn't Eddie, it was Oh,
(13:35):
it was Eddie. It was Eddie told me, wasn't it
take any time off? Yeh, Eddie let's go with Mitch Marner.
It's Marnerick and yeah he's got a hot streak. Right now,
let's go with um, let's see a couple of ways
I can go here. Yeah, oh, let's go. Oh it's
(13:58):
my guy. Man, you should feel left me. Jason Robertson, Yeah, no,
it's okay, All right, back to Coop we go. Oh crap, teams,
did somebody already Pickton Matthews? My thanks for listening? Okay, Um,
I don't know any of these guys who has no
(14:20):
idea who's playing? Okay, they got time playing, but they're
all like terrible John Tavaris. Who John Tavares? All right,
go ahead there, me, I get to go. Oh, I'll
go ahead there. Mark Shifley of the one peg, Now
(14:41):
he's a hell of a thing. The guy's a goal
scoring machine. He'll get two goals in that game today.
Roberto Andreas a love Ski, All right, you've got him
one more? Is it a Kevin Fiola Eddy that's right, yeah,
my King's baby Kings go righty at the end of it. There,
and I'm gonna take I think he has and pick
Connor Hella Buck. Oh, it's a great I got two
(15:04):
to Winnipeg. Guys. I love Winnipeg. Go ahead there, it's
never been said on sports radio. Go ahead, Coop. Let's
go with rupe Hins. Rope Hints. I like Coop's version
better than what was that again, Coop? Rupe Hins, he's
(15:27):
related to Rupert Jones, baseball player from back in the
old days. Eddie, go ahead there, edit your last pig.
Let's go with my goaltender, Jake Ottener of the Dallas Stars.
Jake otten Jay out. He's do for a bad game.
He's good for and not against Ottawa. Oh no, Ottaways.
Listen that team you watch out for the Senators everywhere,
(15:48):
those sneaky politicians are you there? It is the NHL.
Fuck them. Do with that as you will, and enjoy, enjoy,
enjoy well another day and an their quarterback change, a
starting quarterback change in the NFL. We'll get to that.
We'll take your calls as well, and we will do
it next. He blew me off at a hotel near Lax.
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Oh my god, let's end in audio, Eddie. That's for Burt.
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It's Ben Mallory the Radio, the Great Ohio aw Addie
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to our collection? Is that new Roberto Instant classic instance Classic?
Of course, it's knew Eddie. Come on, it's a wonderful
tune right there. Yeah, Ben, just In Allen to me,
I just sent it a few minutes ago. I just
saw my email, so thank you, Ohio. Aw hot off
(17:53):
the pressence. Yeah, there's some people that send songs. Well,
I just can't play him on the air. I was
see out of respect to the other callers who produced these.
We have standard. We have standard. Not many standards, but
we have standards. And so that was either Ohio hol
or Lady Gaga one of them. But that was a
wonderful tune. So thank you, Ohio. Frankie writes in and says, hey, Ben,
(18:14):
will you expose the salary cap conspiracy live? And said
all of us fans free. Well, Frankie, I've talked about
this many times. You've exposed yourself for not listening to
the show. Bad job by you, But real quick, the
salary cap is a myth. It isn't a work of fiction.
It is what NFL teams use when they don't want
to pay someone. They want a veteran player, They want
(18:36):
to get rid of them. So we have to get
rid of the player because of the salary cap reasons
when they want to pinch pennies, right and uh, if
they don't want to add a player, they say I
can't afford him because of the salary cap. But trust me,
all right, it's just moving numbers around. It's salary cap,
salary cap economics. It's a voodoo, is what it is.
(18:57):
And you can you can move a numbers here, decimal
points over there to get the desired result you want.
Your restructure contracts, you turn salaries into roster bonuses, signing bonuses, etc. Etc.
You avoidable years. There's all these loopholes and all these
slides to get out of the salary camp. So again,
if you want, if you want to keep someone, you
can do it. And if you don't want to keep someone,
(19:19):
you know it's it's no different than any business. I've
worked in radio, and I've I've worked in radio a
long time, and I know there's certain people. If you
get a lot of ratings, they find a way to
come up with money. If you don't get ratings, we
can't afford you. You're out of the budget. This is
the way it is. So anyway, all right, what else
do you have to see? Page down? Here? Page down? Uh?
(19:39):
Stevie me balls enjoyed my toilet paper analogy. There's too
many words, though, I can't read all that on the air.
No strudinas says, Wow, that toilet paper analogy is spot on.
Ben completely describes the Seattle Seahawks going from Russell Wilson
to Geno Smith. At least that was the thought. Well,
that that was the thought. No Streudinus before the year.
Aguil Fire says, I remember crying Craig he called in
(20:02):
the last hour and why he got the name. I
also remember Jeff Deurey, Miranda and Julio there you go,
good times. Well, those those were all references from a
previous hour of the show. Let's get back to the calls,
though we have not taken a call in sometime. Bad
job by us. I saw a van the one legged
man on hold, but he's not there anymore. Let's go
to Andrea in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, Welcome Andrea. I
(20:34):
think Andrea fell asleep. Yeah, I think he fell asleep. Yeah,
he's a teacher. He's gonna be up in a few
hours to teach the the kiddos. All right, well, thank
you on the effort, was there. I'll give you an
a for effort. I will not mark you absence. You
will not be absent. No truancy for Andrea. You did
check it. You fell asleep. You were dreaming of Xander
Bogart's in a Padre uniform eating a fish taco. So
(20:56):
that means the movie the Pinders is gonna move for
Nando to tease to the outfield, Isn't That is not
the plan there that they'll have ye center field, right field.
M m. The next guy they pays gotta be Soto.
They gotta keep him, right, that's the next guy they pay.
But they would, but he's gonna go to free agencies.
There's not a lot that he's gonna resign there. He's
a Boris guy. They can't resign him before he hits
(21:18):
free agency because that's not what Boris does. Well, he's
good as gun. He said, he's not gonna stay in
San Diego, no anything. We'll go to them. Yeah, he
gonna go dog so many teams the Dodgers think they
do get him. All right, Let's go to Nye Meni
Mini Moll. Let's say hello to Andrea the sports Sorcerer.
(21:39):
She's hanging out and she's in mourning right now because
the San Francisco Giants. She's not a Giants fan, but
she does live in the Bay and the Giants were
this close to getting Aaron Judge, and then Arson happened.
Hello Andrea, Hello Ben, how are you happy? Full Moon?
If I was any better, I'd be a judge, but
(22:00):
not Aaron Judge because I wouldn't know what to do
with all that money. And it's a lot of money. Yeah,
I know. You know it's funny you said that. One
of the local news channels were like saying something like, well,
what would you do with three hundred and sixty million?
And they said something like, well, that's one hundred and
eighty dollars per second for his baseball career. I mean,
it was just outrageous. But be even as it may,
(22:22):
I'll tell you, you know, I'm pretty intuitive. I really
didn't think he was going to go to the Giants.
I think he was using them as leverage. And you know,
I mean he's from Sacramento, California, but I really think
he was just using them. And then I don't know,
if you heard the eleventh hour, the Padres came in.
I don't know if that's it flew him, the Potters
(22:44):
flew him to San Diego to hang out and meet
some good food there and millions they offered him. And
then the thing is he wanted to be, you know,
when I tune into his Taurus energy in the pantheon
of Yankees greatness whatever that means. I mean, I grew
up a met Fans, so it is what it is.
But you know, I think, as you know I have,
I have Taurus rising, you're Taurus. I don't think Tauris
(23:07):
really seeks out change necessarily unless they have to. So
I think he was pretty comfortable, Um, you know, being
in New York when push comes to shove with the
sixty two home runs and did you hear how Steinbrenner
born December third did this eleventh hour phone call and
told him how much he's appreciated. Wasn't he eating pasta
(23:28):
in Italy or something like that and he'd called him
up and He's like, let me put down my spaghetti
and I would like to talk to you. Yeah, it's
like the rich get richer. So I think he was
just really, you know, kind of using the Giants's leverage.
You know, we won't hold it against him, you know, well,
I thought he was gonna go to the Giants. I
thought he was gonna Yeah, because he didn't, the Yankees
screwed him over. Supposedly, you know, one hundred and forty
(23:51):
six million dollars more. But I thought he's leaving. He's
from northern California, his hometown team, all that, and if
he wanted to stay with the Yankees, I figured he
would have just signed the contract with the Yankees prior
to going through free agency. But he's back right, Well,
the fans boot him, do you remember when that happened. Yeah,
they'll booy you anywhere though that doesn't really yes, but
that's New York. I mean they'll booyo in the Milwaukee.
(24:14):
They boot Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay, sneepy green Bay.
So great after taxes? How much is you think he's
gonna end up with after he pays all? You know,
that's a good point to actually mentioned that on the
show when they were cheasing about the money, because we
have sky high, um, you know taxes in California, but
New York does too, right, Yeah, so I think the
(24:37):
math I was reading this earlier. So the agent gets
five percent, the federal tax rates thirty seven percent, So
the federal government's gonna get one hundred and thirty three
point two million of that contract. The New York state
taxes ten point nine percent, So that's thirty nine. I'm
given a lot of numbers out, Andrea, I've given too
(24:58):
many numbers out, but they there's the New York City
tax rate, which is three point eight percent. One hundred
and thirty three million dollars of that contract goes to
the two. Yeah, that's a federal tax, thirty seven percent taxes,
and Judge is gonna have to pay tax on when
the Yankees play on the road in different locations, You're
gonna have to pay tax on that. That's gonna be
about ten million. So after all of that, I think
(25:22):
we don't need to hold the bakesale for Aaron Judge.
But he's actually gonna end up clearing after he pays
all the taxes and fees one hundred and forty five
point six million dollars, it'll be his. That's really enlightening.
Then I did not know the nuances of that. There
you go, that's you know it. Well, that's a ballpark.
I mean it might be might be a little war,
might be a little less, but it's around one hundred
and forty five and fifty million. Yeah. No, I was,
(25:44):
you know, watching the Yankees, Hot Stove METSPTNET New York.
You know, they were all like, well, we knew he
was going to sign here, sooner rather than later. You know,
they all all seem kind assure themselves. And again to me,
Taurus doesn't really like, you know, major changes, unlet's say,
to unless they instigate them. Man, his sad a return,
you know, turning thirty endings a new beginnings. So the
(26:05):
new beginning it's just more money. Yeah, and I all right, Well, Andrea,
thank you so much. I appreciate you. Happy fullon. There
she goes where she goes, only she knows. Happy full moon, Ben,
How are you celebrating the full moon, Roberto for a
Raider game? That's right, You're gonna hang out and imagine
a full moon of a full moon and a stadium
(26:30):
pack with Raider fans because the Ram fans don't want
to show their face the way the Rams are playing,
so it'll be all Raider fans and oh my god,
what a madhouse. Will be lots of Mexicans in there. Yeah,
well you think so? He thinks would be like a
Dodger game. Do you think you'd be like a Dodger
crowd out? Yeah, yeah, yeah, a lot of like Dodger
fans of Raider Face. I've noticed that there's a crossover
(26:50):
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Covino en Rich give me a hell Yeah? Did you
see remember that guy the punt God? Remember Buffalo Bills?
I did, Yes, yeah, he high high draft picked by
the Bills, was gonna win the job going to the season,
and then some allegations came out that when he was
at San Diego State, he was involved in a gang rape. Yes, well,
(27:56):
you know, allegedly, yeah, lge. You know, well it never
happened to me when I was in college, but I
couldn't get one person asleep with events, all right. Anyway, Yeah,
The San Diego County District Attorney's Office has decided to
not pursue charges against matt Areiza or his former teammates, saying, quote,
(28:18):
prosecutors determined as clear the evidence does not support the
filing of criminal charges and there is no path to
a potential criminal conviction. Yeah. So this guy's been destroyed
because he's he's out of the NFL. He says he
wants to keep playing. He released a statement through some
representative that he wants to continue on and all that.
I know this guy CJ coach Tip and he's busting
(28:41):
my balls at that guy. He was like, hey, you
got to apologize to this guy. And I'm like, well,
first of all, I don't have to apologize, so I
don't think I I buried him like some other people.
But he's not out of the woods yet, Eddie, because
he's still matt Arise is still facing a civil lawsuit,
so he's not completely out of it. Will he get
another opportunity because I Trevor Bauer. We'll talk more about
(29:05):
him later. But the Dodgers pitcher, well, well he's tied
into the Dodger story because Bauer is suspended. But it's
it's sounding like everyone thinks that's gonna get overturned and
he's gonna be back. But he was not charged with
any crime. There was an investigation that took several months,
and there was a civil thing that went went away,
and then he's suing everybody. Bauer, he's gone scorched earth
(29:28):
trying to get his name back and all that and so,
but he would he be allowed back? Bauer not charged
with a crime. Stay tuned dot dot dot. Inquiring minds
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Come on, just Josh as If Andre spent half as
much time putting his lesson planned together then sitting on
hold on the Mallard Show, maybe his students wouldn't have
to take his class again next year. Shots fired, Benito
the Cowboys fans. This shout out to the Mexicados who
will be at the Raider game tonight. He says, there's coy.
(30:36):
He's not a Raider fan. He's a Cowboy fan. That guy,
how dare you? Uh? Let's see page down, page down.
No Studina says, Ben just gave a masterclass on reading.
Listener comments, Yes I did, no studinis, Yes I did, absolutely,
That's why we're here. Let's go back to the phones. Jed,
who fled? Is next? Hello? Jed? Masterclass holidays? I got
(31:02):
the landline charging. I don't want to not get in
next hour, so I'm just holding the cell phone kind
of stuff. All right, I'll put you back on. I'll
put you back on. Let's go to Rick and now
he wants to be at all put them on Rick
in Nashville. What's going on? Rick? What's going on? Gentlemen? Welcome? Well,
that first hour you were saying, how the mystique of
(31:23):
I want to stick around to be a Yankee that
you have people talking about these major teams, these blue bloods.
I kind of relate to a degree. I don't know
if you could. I guess Apple's orders to a sense.
I signed up to be a marine at a high
school and going through a couple of tours. The Army
was paying serious money for combat marines to come over
(31:46):
and uh sign contracts with them, give you a big
sign of bonus everything else, and I mean way bigger
than what the Marine Corps offering to stay in. Yeah,
did you did you go to the art? I couldn't.
I I was lined up. I couldn't do it. I
can not trade my Marine Corps uniform, man, and nothing
against the Army. Each branch is eliting him own sense,
(32:08):
my brothers and my sisters. But it wasn't. It wasn't
the marine uniform. It ain't the same. So yeah, well
I disagree with you. I mean, that's you, and you
made a choice. That's great for you. But I the world.
I mean with professional sports. I don't think that exists
where you're like, I'm gonna if if the if the
(32:29):
Yankees hadn't matched Judges contract, he would have been a giant.
Right now, we'd be talking about how many homes and
sucks really bad. Maybe the Yankees stand it would suck
really bad. But at the same point in time. Sometimes
I know it's very rare, and I know it's sports,
but this is more about pride now, I don't. I
think it's about three hundred and sixty million dollars. I
think that's what it's about. And he that's the contract
(32:51):
he wanted. The Giants offered it to him. The Padres
actually offered him more, but he didn't want to live
in San Diego. Whatever. San Diego is a great place
to live, you don't want to live there. And this
became it was either the Yankees and the Giants, and
I don't think the uniform had had That's where the
different meet of things. But yeah, if if the like
(33:14):
like Rick, if the Coastguard called you up and said
we got some money for you here, you know, three
hundred million, you'd you'd be like, all right, you'd be
singing the praise with the Coast Guard, wouldn't you, I'd
you'd be in a submarine right now. You'd be like,
I'll be on the Navy Coastguard. Whatever. Hello, whoa, all right,
(33:38):
thank you? Rick? All right, there he goes. The Padres
deal was only it was just an extra year, so
they had they had to go way over to to
get judged to sign with the Padres. Got I mean,
it's not like totally unheard of for somebody to I mean,
I'm not saying that this is the case with Aaron Judge,
but it's not unheard of for an athlete to show,
you know, loyalty to the team that they were already
with and leave money on the table to stay there.
(34:03):
It's it's happened. I mean, I'm I'm sure it wouldn't
take me long to find some example. Yeah, but those
are outliers. That's not the norm. Oh No, for sure.
For sure, you can always find outliers. But that doesn't
make the rule. It's an outlier anyway. All right, Well,
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So Davis Mills back and he is being thrown into
the fire against the Dallas Cowboys this weekend. I'm sure
that will go well. Unless it does not. We have
Mallard of the third degree. Here's the instant trivia. Mike
Iman's DeAndre Hopkins, Travis Kelsey and Blank are the only
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(36:22):
Kelsey and Blank are the only players with five hundred
plus receiving yards in each of the past nine seasons.
That is the question. What is the answer, And we
do have coming up here in a minute. We'll have
Mallard of the third degree, Dwayne the Rock Johnson from
Rob in Vegas, Jenny McCarthy from the Dixter Parody account,
(36:43):
cousin Eddie from Milkman, Mike Brian Blade's guests by Trucker
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from Jim and Cleveland unless it wasn't Norm Peterson from
rob in In. Where's Rob Goldman? That's the famous Goldman?
(37:06):
DeVante Adams from Double Ow, Mexican. Wally and Florida's going
with TK Metcalf Geronimo Allison from eakon Roseville, Minnesota. What
say you, Eddie? It's former New York Giants wide receiver
Mario Manningham. No, Eddie, it's Brandon Cooks. Brandon Cooks so
they Houston Texans it's Meller. How about that? To the
(37:26):
third degree? This is one big band gets grilled. Speaking
of the Raiders, they have now won three games in
a row and DeVante Adams is starting to dominate. Ben.
Is there any chance that the Raiders sneak into the
playoffs this season? Yeah? So, I don't see the math
working out this way. The Raiders are five and seven.
(37:47):
They should beat the Ramps tonight to get to six
and seven, and they they've gotta shot. They gotta win
out get the ten and seven to have a shot.
The Chargers, Patriots, and Jets are all ahead of them.
And the problem is Vegas still has games at the
end of year with the Niners and the Chiefs, so
the chances of them winning both those games are slim
and none. So I'm going no. That loss to the Colts,
(38:08):
the one to the Saints is gonna kill him next. So,
speaking of teams starting to gel, the defending AFC champ
Bengals have won four games in a row. Is Joe
Burrow firmly back in the MVP race? Well, he's in
the race. He's not the favorite. Mahomes and Jalen Hurts
are ahead of him. But listen, this guy Burrow has
been amazing. I think the last I did this for
(38:28):
the handicapping last seven games, he's got sixteen touchdowns and
three interceptions. He's been absolutely wonderful for the Bengals. He
keeps that up. Yeah, but he's not leading the race.
He's in the race next. Seohn Peyton revealed on Monday
that he expects to coach again sooner than later, if
not this year, hopefully next year, is what he said,
been asking for Broncos fans everywhere. Do you think there's
(38:50):
any chance he comes to Denver? Well, you still have
Russell Wilson right, so no, why would you know? Come on, No,
he's not gonna go to Denver. I think the Charger
job the one he's gonna get because they're gonna they're
gonna change the coaching staff and justin Herbert, everyone's kissing
his asses. God's gift of the quarterback position. That's the
job I think Peyton gets at this point. How did
(39:11):
weak down coat below you fail this edition? What are
you talking? I can't fail? Terrible answer, that's a great answer.
Have you seen Russell Wilson play? Who coaches the Chargers? Paid?
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