Hour 1 - Stupidity In the Desert

Ben Maller talks about the Patriots blowing their game against the Raiders with some very ill-advised laterals, if this game sinks the Patriots playoff chances, and much more!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our name, bar One, our one
of our radio program, and oh what a weekend it
was in the NFL. We are recapping all that. We
start with the lead story, don't bear the lead moment,
the Raiders and the Patriots, a game that we will

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remember years and years from now. You don't say that
about most NFL games, They just fall into the backdrop,
but this is one we'll remember. Who's to blame for
the Patriots final play to bacle as Jakobe Myers throws
a ladder hole that is picked off and returned for
a Raider touchdown by Chandler Jones. How come the officials

(00:41):
ruled earlier that Keenan Cole of Vegas is game tying
touchdown was inbounds? And does this game sink officially the
Patriot battleship in terms of the postseason, we'll talk about
that and more right now here. It is our number one.
The heist in the Desert, the stupidity in the Desert.

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at it again here a brand new week is upon
us and our lead this hour coming from Sins City. Now,
why is this night different than all of the nights,
Because normally we would start out with the Sunday night
football game, but now the Giants end commandos will have
to take a backseat, as we will start out with

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that thriller in Lost Wages, Nevada, it was billed as
the teacher versus the student, the pupil would he get
the best of the old man? There the marquee matchup
there Bill belishek Josh McDaniels. That ended up being secondary.
If you didn't watch the game here, chances are you

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found out by now what happened. But my god, defensive
end Chandler Jones, who's been a bust for the Raiders
this year, but given the gift from the football gods.
There he grabbed a bizarre, illogical, ridiculous lateral from Jacobe Myers,
who should go work as a lawyer somewhere, not play

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receiver in the NFL anymore. After that play, what a
dumb dumb as Jacobe Myers tossed a pault down the
field recklessly behind the lateral, and Jones was there. He
picked it out of the air. Final play returned at
forty eight yards for a touchdown, and that gave the
Raiders a thirty twenty four victory over the Patriots in

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a Sunday late afternoon thriller. With the game tied at
twenty four, all the Patriots decided we're gonna run the
ball series of pitches of the last ditch attempt there
they call it to Stanford band play, and the band
is on the field and trying to avoid overtime. But

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that's that's when things obviously took a turn to the
wild side. And we're gonna break it down frame by
frames with Brewder film style here. And the better story, though,
is in the losing locker room. So let us discuss
the Vegas Shenanigans. So the question who is to blame
the blame game on that final play debacle. So I've

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got dinner reservations, malpractice, and opera, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make a migraine headache, which I'm going to assume the
position that Bill Belichick has that migraine headache. He's chasing
Don Shula. What if he comes up one game short
and this is the game? Wow? All right? So number right,

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You do not have to think long hard. The good
thing about what we do is most of these things
are not I'm not programming the Internet. You don't have
to think long and hard about this one. Jacobe Myers,
if I was running the Patriots and I was allowed
to do it, would have to hitchhike his way back
to New England. Not even a greyhound bus ticket. He
would have to hitchhike his way back to New England.

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Myers did the thing you can't do at the time.
You cannot do it. Coughed up the old hair ball
right there, playing hero balls. It reminded me of in basketball.
It's not really something you see in football much. But
in basketball, we're at the end of the game. I'm
gonna I'm gonna make the big play. I'm gonna be
the one to make the big play. Now you're not

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Collie Catfish Batman. What was that? I mean, goodness, great,
great balls of fire. Now the faithful play, which we'll remember,
I mean a lot of these things will forget. You know.
We sit here and talk every Sunday night into a
Monday morning about what we just saw in the NFL,
and ninety nine percent of what we watch will be

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just evaporator in the fit air. But this is one
of those plays that you'll remember, right up there with
the Music City fraud play that was a playoff game
the Titans and the Bills. The illegal forward passed by
Frank Whitchek in that game, that's on the list of
great moments that you recall. But in this game Raiders Patriots,

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Remandre Stevenson, who was having a day, he runs and
he pitches the ball back. So the first mistake was
actually Remandra Stevens, So that was like the first mistake,
but he gets a pass because the only one we
remember is Jacoby Myers. Jacobe Myers there for some reason
only he knows. Heaved the ball across the fields, we said,

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into the arms of Chandler Jones, who then stiffed armed
mac Jones, proving that mac Jones is not really a
football player. He tackled like a kicker. What OUs, Mac Jones?
What OUs? My god? Way to make a play, way
to make a play. And then after that there was
nothing but daylight, the open field for Chandler Jones to

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run it back. The pandemonium. The crowd goes wild. The
crowd goes wild. Right, Oh, Mike, hysterical, hysterical watching Matt
Jones try to tackle us. So good afternoon, good evening,
and good night. Jacoby Myers has a dinner reservation. Now
with other legendary goof ups in sports history. Now the

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legend A lot of these things have cool names, like
Fred and Merkel. You might not know who that is,
but his old baseball player Fred Merkel had a base
running boo boo, and that was known as one of
the all time horrific individual plays. Jim Marshall in Minnesota,
Viking legend, had a sixty six yard wrong way touchdown.
J R. Smith dribbled out the clock in an NBA

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Finals game. In a tie game, he decided I want
to play for overtime rather than take the game winning shot.
But we got to come up with a good nickname
here for Jacoby Myers. In this situation, neither one of
these teams is going to make the playoffs. Unfortunately, it
would have been a much better story had one of them,
you know, conceivably made the play The Patriots were in
position to make the playoffs. But I mentioned Fred Merkel,

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this old baseball player from the New York Giants back
in the day, and his play was known as Merkel's boner.
One of the all time great baseball plays, a bone
head play by Fred Merkel. So some ideas we just
like can spitball. Here's some possibilities here. You can go
with Jacoby's Toady or something like that. You could do

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Myers Quagmire, something along those lines. You can put the
Pats into it. There's different ways you can go Myers,
grease Fire, something along those lines. But it's gotta come
up with a name. I haven't seen anything that really
popped to me now Page two. All right, So as
we rant about the Raider Patriots game, there's a lot
to unpack on this that the play that also will

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be lost not only the Romandre Stevenson lateral to Myers
that then led to the fateful lateral to Chandler Jones,
but the officials earlier with thirty something seconds on the clock,
thirty two seconds of the clock, Keelan Cole had the
game tying touchdown and he was ruled in bounds and

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watched the replay there and I was like, wait a
minute here, this is some funny business going on. So
how come the officials they made the call in the field,
then they didn't reverse the call on the game tying
touchdown saying he's inbounds. And that part of the story
also gets lost here. And there's there's different angles and
perspectives on this here. But but what if I told

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you the game should have never had the Jacobe Myers
grew up because the Raiders that game tying touchdown with
thirty two seconds to go in the game, on that play,
the officials they methodically look over every possible angles, camera
angles everywhere up to wazoo and Keelan Cole's feet one

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of them, the left foot came down out of bounds,
the right foot was in bounds on the thirty yard
pass play. The TV replays, which is what they based
this off of, showed angles that clearly indicated, without a
shadow of a doubt, that the toe of one foot there,
the left foot, was clearly over the line, meaning that

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out of bounds, no touchdown. Officials said it was not
conclusive enough to uphold uphold the call. Say what. The
NFL issued a prepared statement online. They said the ruling
on the field was a touchdown after review, there was
no clear and obvious visual evidence to overturn the on

(10:37):
field ruling. The NFL senior VP of Officiating, some bozo
named Walt Anderson, claimed that there was no down the
sideline video of the play. So I guess they got
rid of the pylon cam. They don't have that anymore.
Spoiler alert, you don't really need the down the sideline
video on this, and I'll tell you why. The Fox
broadcast clearly showed that Cole's a f foot was barely touching,

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but it does count out of bounds and that makes
that officiating malpractice. Now, to make it even more head scratching,
you actually, in one of the video clips that I
was sent by one of our listeners in the Commonwealth.
There you could see the white chalk coming up, which
would appear to be irrefutable proof based on the video
of the Fox game. And of course the NFL does

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not want, doesn't want, not want you to believe your
lying eyes on. Now keep in mind here that in
the big picture of the Patriots will gladly trade this
bullpucky in favor of the talk rule from years ago,
which started the whole thing. That was the point, the

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point that said, all this off, this Patriot run, which
is no longer They're no longer a dynasty. But when
they had the twenty years of success that was started
in large part because of the talk rule and a
but that's not the point. Keeling goals foot based on
the replays was was out of us? Well, they about
the still photo. Okay, I've looked at the video. I'd

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I go by the video, the still photo by probably
a deep fake. And I've seen that bouncing around. I
saw two different camera angles that show white chalk coming up.
That's all I need. No touchdown, no touchdown? All right? Now,
final point? Now, does this game sink the battleship for
the Patriots to make the postseason? And it was going

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to be a rather ridiculous path to get to the
postseason anyway, So yes you can. I'm nodding my head
that this does sink the battleship and the Patriots will
will have to overcome a tremendous hitch in their guinea up.
It's not only their schedule, it's everything else. Bill Belichick
is going to need other teams to implode and lose

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games to teams like the Raiders and Stubb there to
otherwise forget about it, forget about it right realistically, it's
playoff arm getting for the Pats as they're back to
being the Patsies, and they're right now sitting in the
upper deck at the opera and the Fat Lady is
stretching and warming her vocal cords, getting ready to sing

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a nice lullaby to Bill Belichick and Matt Jones, who
should be playing somewhere else, not with the Patriots. New
England falls back into the number eight spot. Top seven
get in, so the Chargers of the number six seed,
the Dolphins, who lost to the Bills in a game
that was falsely marketers a snow game that was bullcrap.
Whether it was fine for most of that game, just cold.

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But the Dolphins are the number seven seeds, so they're
both eight and six the Patriots. They not only need
multiple losses or at least one loss here, there and everywhere.
But the Patriots have a buzz saw of a schedule.
They still have to play the ben Gals, who have
been very good, and the Dolphins, who have not been

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very good, and the Bills. So the Dolphin game obviously
helps you out because that's in Foxboro, but you gotta
beat the Bengals at home, and then you have to
find a way. Likely now, maybe the Bills will have
anything wrapped up by then, it won't matter, But that's
also on the agenda. And the three losses, the three
strikes against the Patriots. To lose to the Raiders in

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this game, inexcusable, lost to a bad packard team at
lambeau Field, and the biggest of them all, to lose
to the Bears, dub Bears in a game in Foxboro.
So bad team, man, bad bleeping team. I. Meanwhile, the
postgame Shenan against her Bill Belichick, the verbose Bill Belichick

(14:42):
here commenting on the situation and the end of game.
This is something that people who love the Patriots will
always brag about situational football. They're so good. They never
make these mistakes. The other teams make these mistakes, not
the Patriots. Here's Bill Belichick as about all that. On
that final play and it was draw play? Was it

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was an instinctive armandre Was he given the green light
to pitch it if he had? You know, just just
mumble and move on, all right? Mac Jones who tackled
how would you describe mac Jones tackle? My guy? What
an embarrassment to every quarterback that's ever played quarterback. What

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a disgrace. Mac Jones should have his helmet taken away
from him and his shoulder pads taken away from him.
It was so bad, so so terrible. Are we have?
We have audio on the top. I want to hear
the audio on the tackle. I would like to hear that.
That's here. Let's hear the breakdown on the tackle. That
was Ola La La the matador. Yeah, I gotta tackle

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the guy, and it's on me, and it's my fault.
We tackle him then or I tackle him then we
play for overtime. So it's on me. I gotta make
that not good enough by me? Why do you you
know what here's what Mac Jones should do. Blame Matt Patricia.
It's Matt Patricia's fault. Blame the fat guy. You always
blame the fat guy, Mac Jones. He's fat shaming losing

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all right. Anyway, here's more from mac Jones. I always
love this. Right. It's clear and obvious the Patriots lost
the game in the end because Jacoby Myers did the
thing you can't do at the time. You can't do it,
but God forbid you say that. No, no, no, right,
Mac Jones. Jacoby said just a few minutes ago to
Porters in the locker room that he was just trying

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to be a hero, trying to do too much. I
guess how much do you feel for him on that play? Hell? Yeah,
I think Jacoby's one of the best teammates I've ever had.
I mean, he's a fighter and because everything you can
to try and help the team. At the end of
the day, the guys out there fighting and trying to
compete to win the game. And there's a lot of
things I could have done better in the game, like
I said earlier, So we're not even in that situation.
So it's tough. But I love Jacoby and I love

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all the guys on our team. It's not Jacoby's fault.
You can, you can love him and go on a
nice can get away with him, but listen, it's his fault. Okay,
I mean, what are we doing here? Come on and
not knock it off? Right? And it's not boxing. I
don't care how much fight he has. I don't really
care about that. It's football, not boxing. Dumb, dumb, all right. Anyway,

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something that is missing, we will do a Maller show
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theme song from anyone in the Maller Militia. What's up
with that bad job by them? That's a fair point. Yeah,
clearly bias. And if you had a lot of people
are asking about the Holliday party. Was great to see

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Roberto was there and a bunch of other friends of
mine from over the years in radio and whatnot, my
wife's friends. So if you want to check out photos
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couple of years because of that damn COVID bullcrap. So
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We did have people I've been asking me about the food.
That was all right. We had the raisin caines. We
had the chicken fingers. There was pizza there, so we

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had that as well. Is a decent spread. But I
made a lot of chocolate and some other cookies and whatnot, right, Roberto, Well,
I molded show. I didn't really make the show. I
didn't go out and pick the cocoa bean. Did you
make the cookies? My wife like I did? Yeah, the
old meal raising, Oh you didn't make those. I don't
like old meal raising cookies except for those I don't
usually like them. They were good, my wife said, they

(20:09):
were good. I didn't. I didn't taste the cookies. Why not? Man?
Okays of sugar? Yeah? Is that what you were hitting
all gonna bring to Molly's. But I'm saving those for
um for Thursday? Maybe? Oh is that right? Okay, So
maybe you want to come in on Thursday. I'll have
to check my schedule. You know, I'm very this time
of the year. You know, if you come in tomorrow,
then I'll bring him tomorrow. Yeah, I don't. You know,

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a lot of traffic middle of the night. There's a
lot of traffic getting here, you know, Ben. It's not
my style to uh to create controversy on the show.
But I was at the Charger game today and yeah,
I got a text from from Coop and he said,
are you here? I said, yeah, I'm here. He says,
I am too. Oh. I was like, oh really, where aren't?

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He like? Oh, I'm a sweet Oh wow. He's like, yeah,
I won I won tickets at a holiday party I
was at And I was like, oh, Ben gave away tickets.
Are you talking about we have trouble getting me here?
What are you talking about getting go to my house?
Are you kidding? What kind of high falutin party did
you go to Were you not there any What do

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you mean I went to the Halloween party. I couldn't
go to the Christmas party. Oh I see, I see. Okay,
I actually did have a good excuse, but go ahead. No,
I was curious where did you get your when tickets
to a sweet? Well no, I was already committed to
this party, but it was it was thrown by some
of the people that like throw the poker games that
I go to. So yeah, and they give away prizes

(21:37):
like a sweet to an NFL game. Okay, well, so
first of all, I thought it was a sweet. It
was not a sweet. It was just the VIP section now, No, no,
it was. It wasn't a sweet, but uh no it was.
I mean it was right on the fifty yard line.
Uh you know, the free food and free booze. But yeah,
were you cheering for the Chargers the whole time? No? No,

(22:01):
you missed the Bronco game. I did. I did miss
I did miss the Bronco. Broncos won a game. You
weren't watching, That's why they won. You were not watching.
I was watching on my phone. Kind of Well, Ben,
maybe if you gave away you know, like some tickets
to a suite or something. Maybe you get more people
showing up. No, no, I'm good. I like the people
that show up because they really want to be there.

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I don't want to give crap away to get people
to people. This way, I had people, we were talking,
we had there were a few cards or whatever, but
it wasn't anymore than that. But uh, but yeah, no,
it was great. We had Uh one of my old
mentors and radio is there telling crazy stories about Larry
King and Tomlcas and all these old radio people from
back in the day. It's really only if you're a

(22:45):
radio nerd would you have appreciated it. But I was
laughing my ass off at some of the stories that
were being told there. So and our friend Futterman was
there and he was waxing poetic about some nonsense. Was
it was cool. It was great to see everybody that
it took the time show up. So we were began
this our ranting about the ending of the Patriots Raiders game,

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and oh what an ending it was, and one of
those games you remember, you file it away, you can
remember that from years and years and years now. Some
of the reaction here listener, Jerry and Rhode Island, she writes,
and she says, I'm so sick and tired of hearing
Mac Jones say, I gotta watch the tape get better.
It's freaking week fifteen. That's a good point. Seasons over

(23:29):
now because stupid decisions, etc. Does he need glasses his
eyes checked? Obviously looking at the tape to get better?
Is going in reverse? Think he has my blinding eye disease.
Jerry says, no, it's great. Well, it's the ultimate deflection.

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And we see it all the time from coaches. I
gotta watch the tape. And then when you asked them
the next day, what did you see on the tape,
they usually give you some other deflection. Well, you know,
we're gonna move on. We'll make some corrections, we'll move on.
It's it's always about deflecting and moving on. Now, this
dope Don Rode in, this loser Don, and he says,
for your information, the Music City Miracle play was reviewed

(24:13):
and the ruling was made. You are obviously a Bills fan,
so prejudice to the facts. That's a light on. I
am not a Bills fan. But that was an illegal
That was an illegal forward passed by Frank Whitchek until
my last breath in this mortal coil. It was bull crap,
it was, and it robbed us of That was a

(24:34):
Rob Johnson starting game. I still remember was ranting and
raving there the Doug Flutie had been benched for Rob Johnson.
And you remember who the coach of the Buffalo Bills
was at that time, do you remember? You don't remember?
That's right, Wade Phillips. And if they'd won that game,
way would still be coaching in Buffalo today. It'd still
be that coach that game. That's not that's irrelevant. He

(24:57):
very absolutely let's call the phones. And now I think
he's actually we'll go to the phones. I mean, I
look at the clock here, we carried away on the clock. Here,
I am buy the clock for the clock. Plock goes
by fault. I talked about this. That is corrects my fault.
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you get your podcast. Now we go to the phones,
and I think I found this guy on Twitter is
the king of Cape Cod. I believe Andre in the Commonwealth, Hello, Andre, Welcome.
What we saw this evening was clear and definitive in
terms of the end of the Patriots way. It's over.

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It's done, and there's no two ways about it. There's
no way in the world that Ja Kobe Myers did
not know what the score is. Furthermore, why in the
heck would those guys be laddering laddering the ball in
the first place, and for him to throw the ball
all the way across the field all right to a
player that could do nothing with it. This, to me

(26:27):
speaks to the boiling tensions that have been existing since
Week one in terms of the Patriots team A and
their offense. More specifically, I think players are fed up.
You have guys like wide receiver Born, who's been bench
mac Jones, who's clearly showing frustration in terms of the offense.

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And I just think it's gotten to a point, Ben,
We've never seen something like this in NFL history. And
who did it happen to? It happened to Bill Belichick
and New England Patriots? And when did it happen in
the dark ages after Tom Brady's departure. Listen to debate
about Belichick versus Brady over well hold sack by the way, Uh,

(27:11):
Tom Brady ain't doing that well either, Pale, Okay, he's not.
And when they he's now surrounded by a lesser team
and he looks terrible, Like the Bucks roster is not
as good all of a sudden, Brady doesn't look that good.
So how much of it was Brady? How much of
that was the Buck's roster? But the point of demarcation
for the Patriots though, forget this. They got blown out
of the water at home by the Chicago Bears, who

(27:32):
suck in their own stadium. That's that's him. That's the
next level of embarrassment. You're correct them, But I'm just
saying here in the Commonwealth, Robert Robert Kraft has intimated
that game against Arizona where they got to pass because
Kyler wasn't there, and this game against the Raiders. Robert
crafts at the beginning of the year, I expect to

(27:53):
make the playoffs. Patriots are not making the playoffs A
and B. They did it an unbelievable, shameful fashion, fatorite way.
It's over the players who they're not buying. Well, maybe
the players are bad. How about how about the active
players are bad? Do you ever think about that that
Mac Jones can't play quarterback at a high level in
the NFL is out of possibility? Yeah he is that, okay,

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But a player throwing the ball halfway across the field
for no good reason to lose you a game on
national television, that's a whole level of awfulness. No, Jacobe
Meyers gets to where the Dunes caps. It's it's a
moronic play, but it's not, you know, I don't know
how much deeper meaning there is a crazy with the
Deffer meeting moronically intentional, okay, and it's the end of

(28:36):
an error. Thank you so much, all right, thank you
the great go to bed hun. Oh yeah, you're off
this week. Probably don't have to worry about it. I
think I don't know. I don't know the school schedule.
We're andre teachers. I have no idea, all right, So
Ben Mallers showing Fox. So the conspiracy which is bouncing around,
several members of the Mallar militia sent this to me,
says there's something to this. So the NFL has an
officiating account on the Twitter. NFL Officiating is the account,

(29:01):
and it has been highlighted by multiple fans of the
show that they went back and they did some due
diligence here. They examined who the NFL officiating account follows,
trying to figure out if there's something too this year.
And so they were looking around and this is the account,
the NFL officiating account. Let me get it up right here,
so I have it in front of me, and they

(29:23):
sent out the tweet that said it explained why the
touchdown which was did not appear to be a touchdown
on any of the video evidence. There were two clear
shots of what appears to be the foot out of
bounds of the Raider receiver. It was called a touchdown.
And so the NFL issued a statement and all that

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stuff on their Twitter account. It was noted that they
follow on NFL the officiating account they follow and every
single NFL team except one thirty one of the thirty
two teams. The only one they don't follow is the
New England Patriots. So of course I would want to

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make a big deal about this. But I saw at
one of the recent games I attended. I was sitting
in the press box behind the Miami Dolphins traveling party,
and they have what appears to be a couple of
people fresh out of college that are running their social media.
So I assume the NFL hierarchies the same way. Like
I don't think that there's some like Ed Hockey is

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in charge of the NFL officiating account, you know what
I'm saying. I think it's some intern out of Harvard,
or some newly employed young person out of Syracuse or
something like that. All Right, it is the Ben Mallard Show,
and we'll give you the who am I game? Here Momentarily.

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least five sacks in his first four career games. Joining
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since two thousand with at least five sacks in his

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It's Ben Maller rim and here's the who am I? Game?
Lions linebacker James Houston becoming the second player since the

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year two thousand way back then with at least five
sacks in his first four career games. He joins, me,
who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
A lot of Andre is a bum needs go to bed.
That was from Alf the Alien Opider, Adam Sandler from
our friend Kathy in Madison, Wisconsin. Steve the Stanford Guys

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going with George Plimpton as his answer. Deacon Jones from
Sean and the Valley of the Sun, Benito the Cowboy
Fan going with Andre the Giant Javon Curse from Eke
in Roseville, Minnesota. Justin in Cincinnati's going with the iconic
voice of Dodger Baseball Charlie Steiner as his answer. Darth

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Vader from the courtesy Flusher. Who else do we have?
Page down? Evil Knievel guests by Bean boot Maker, Bob
Bobby Or from Willie the Mess Ed Wynn Incarnacione guests
by the American therapist. That's his answer. Who else do
we have, page down, page down? Jason Momoa from alf

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Danielle Hunter from Riek in Minnesota. Eddie, do you have
an answer? It does not Fred Bonehead and Merkle. No,
that that's Paulib's guest. That's a silly guest. Now the
the answer is former Packers defensive lineman BJ Rogie. Oh Bj, No,
it's not Bj. That is incorrected. Warren and fort Worth

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said it is the Dallas Cowboys Dusty Trophy case. That
is not correct either. The correct answer the name of
an icon, the name of a legend in music. Bronco
linebacker Elvis Dummerville. You remember him, Eddie Ville. I called
him Dumberville, but Dumerville I do remember him. Louisville. He
played with the forty nine ers. Also, he had five

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sacks in his fourth first four games. That was back
in twenty oh six, so agent forgot to fax over
his contract. There you go, great moments and Broncho history
and James Houston, who you couldn't pick this guy out
of a lineup, but he's played well for the Lions.
And you know the keys they got rid of those
floaters now was on the all time great quotes, Dan Campbell.

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We got to get rid of the floaters, the guys
that are the turns that are just floating around. They did,
and they're winning now and winning some games