Hour 2 - Whatchu Talkin Bout Willis?

Ben Maller talks about Titans QB Ryan Tannehill getting ruled out for the rest of the season and what it means for the team as they shift over to rookie QB Malik Willis, 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.
We're serving up a big bowl of snapcrack will pop
an hour two as the Tennessee Titans will be without
Ryan Tannehill or quarterback rest of the season as he
was injured, and so that means Malik Willis will start
thumbs up, thumbs down? Are the Titans doomed without Ryan

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Tannehill as their quarterback? And how do you evaluate overall
the Tennessee NFL squad at this particular point, and one
of the odds that Ryan Tannehill returns to the Titans
in twenty twenty three. We'll talk about all that and
more here in our number two A Titan Tumble not

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thumble tumble. Well come, in the beginning of another hour
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And so our lead this hour coming from the wacky
and crazy world of the NFL. As the news does

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not stop. Our lead actually coming from the Music City.
There was no miracle in the Music City. We have
a changing of the guard in Nashville. If you have
not heard, perhaps not, the Tennessee Titans currently leading their division.
They would be a playoff team should the season end.
Right now, the Titans are expected to be without their

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starting quarterback Ryan Tannehill this weekend and for the remainder
of the season because of snap crackle pop the right
ankle injury. He's gonna need surgery. That's based on the
scuttle butt around the NFL. So Tannehill suffered the injury,
he reinjured it on Sunday against the Chargers. Khalil Mack

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the Mac attack landing on the right foot of the
Tennessee quarterback on that first offensive drive. Tannehill came out
of the game for a brief period and he ended
up going back in He's out now and the backup
warming up now in the bullpen playing long toss Malik Willis.
So Malik Willis is expected to start not only this

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we agin but the rest of the year for the Texans.
There's only three games to go. Willis taking first team
snaps on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Titans also desperate to
add another quarterback. They were dumpster diving off other practice
squads and they added Joshua Dobbs, who's bounced around the NFL.
So he's on the active roster now in Tennessee. But

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let's discuss the question, are you gonna go thumbs up
or thumbs down? Are the Titans dude without Ryan Tanhill.
So I am gonna go thumbs down on this one.
I've got thumbs down. Greyhound, pep Boys and Megalopolis, and

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we will combine these things together and we are gonna
make some cowboy boots and we'll go to the Grand
Old Opry and we'll dance at the Grand ol Opry.
So number one, that's fair to say Tennessee has issues.

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We're not gonna sit here behind these microphones and and
and downplay this is things are not going well for
Mike Rabel's team. That is an understatement. Now that said, though,
all right, Ryan Tannehill being out the balance of the
regular season will not, will not be the reason that
the Titans come apart at the seams. You know why

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they've already come apart of the seams. And Ryan Tannehill,
if you look at this season and you are objective,
and the one place you come for objectivity is Overnight
Sports Radio, Ryan Tannehill was a Greyhound bus writer. He
was not driving the bus, the Titans bus rounding and

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round and rounding and round and rounding and round and
round and round. The Titans wheels on the bus go.
But it was not because of him. You know that.
I know that, And the Tennessee Titans know that. Now.
Normally the quarterback is the king, but not in Nashville,
not this year. Ryan Tannehill. His resume this season spotty, spotty, spotty, spotty, spotty, spotty,

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And the Titans coming in now have lost four consecutive
games at this point. They lost to the Chargers last week, Jacksonville, Philadelphia,
and the Cincinnati Bengals, so they have gone an entire
month without winning a game and still find themselves in
first place. Because of the division they're in, the NFC
South or the AFC South rather just just dreadful, absolutely

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dreadful as a division. But to say that Tannehill his
absence is going to be the defining moment, I don't
buy that, because again, he's been irrelevant. Tennessee is a
passing offense, is back in the Bronze Age. They are
ranked twenty nine in passing yards per game. Only Carolina
Atlanta and the Chicago Bears, who wear leather helmets, are

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worse Tannehill thirteen touchdowns, six interceptions in twelve games. This
is not the guiding light, this is not the pace
car and now is another opportunity for the backup, the
much ballyhood Malik Willis, who looked like he had never
held a football before in his life when he played

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earlier this season. He was completely in over his head
drowning to get another opportunity, and he started two games
he's attempted this season. Malik will his thirty eight passes,
completing less than forty five percent of them, averaging less
than five yards per attempt, and his passer rating is
below fifty. A good passer ratings above ninety really goods

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above a hundred, he's below fifty in limited sample size. Nevertheless,
going from Ryan Hill, who's been a bumm, the guy's
a bumm to Malik Willis, that is a lateral move.
Slight downgrade, but a lateral move. And Derrick Henry he
is the bell cow. And that's the fact that we

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that's obvious, captain obvious. That's the way I'm now page two.
How do you evaluate overall the Tennessee squad, not just
the offense, but overall, So Tannehill has been playing, or
whether he's played or not, he's played hookie because he
hasn't made a lot of plays. But the bigger problem

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in my minutes long investigation of the Tennessee Titans the secondary.
And I know this from handicapping the games on Benny
versus the Penny, which will drop on Friday again this weekend.
Every week as we provide marginal handicapping on every NFL game,
We've done pretty well this year, and the defense for

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the Titans, the secondary has been the pressure point. To
the untrained eye, you'll say it was not a problem overall.
The Titans are twelfth in the NFL in scoring defense,
for example. However, over the last month, they're twenty eight.
They're allowing almost thirty points per game, but much of
that is because of the fatal flaw in the secondary.

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And I recommend calling pet Boys because they need Manny,
Moe and Jack in the secondary. They would help the
defensive back to the Tennessee is at the very bottom
l sticko. They are the worst past defense in the NFL.
They're thirty second out of thirty two teams. Even the
wretched Minnesota Vikings are ahead of the Tennessee Titans. And

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that past defense cannot stop anything. And the last month
they've gotten even worse, if that's possible. They played better
teams Philadelphia and that the Bengals, but also Jacksonville and
the Chargers and allowing almost three hundred and fifty passing
yards per game. That is the cryp oh night, the
kryptonite for the Titans and the Jags. We'll see them

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on Thursday night tonight, Jacksonville and the Jets. And Jacksonville's
got a golden opportunity. They'll probably have it up, but
they've got a great opportunity to sneak in the back
door and grab the division from right under the nose
of the Tennessee Titans in the flame heads, they'll be like,
I don't know what happened. I don't I don't get it.
But four losses in role you got the Texans, which

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you figure you win that game, but who knows. The
Texans have played more competitive football Alaska weeks for the
worst team in football, Dallas, and then Jacksonville. So if
Jacksonville wins out, they will win the tiebreaker with Tennessee
and they will win the division. So the division is
in control of Jacksonville, not Tennessee because of this four

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game losing steak. All right, final point. So let's let's
take a couple steps back and look at the big picture.
What are the odds. What are the odds that Ryan
Tannehill hearns to the Titans in twenty twenty three. So
I'm gonna set the Mallards sportsbook odds on this at
plus nine fifty. Now that implies a less than ten

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percent chance that we will see Ryan Tannehill take another
staff another snap in Nashville. Now, I'm headed to the
megalopolis known as Splitsville, because that's where Ryan Tannehill and
the Titans are going. They're going to divorce cord Tannehill
was already on borrowed time. This was, hey, prove you
still belong. This season, he's proven he doesn't belong. Abject failure.

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We know in the postseason. This guy's an absolute dog.
In the postseason when the Titans have needed him to
step up and make a play, he's gone a wall.
He's gone a wall. And now Tennessee's got an escape patge.
They gave him the four year extension years ago. The
Titans have an out after this season if they choose

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to activate. I don't know why they wouldn't. They would
have to swim follow a marginal salary cap hit eighteen million.
But I'm a salary cap truther. That is manageable. He
just moved some numbers around. You can make the arithmetic work.
It's small potatoes in the high stakes game of the NFL.
And even if Malik Willis is too raw, too rough

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around the edges, unable to play and can't beat the
guy in twenty twenty three, then there's plenty of other options.
You can go ahead and get a stopcap. Whether it's
Jared Goff who's gonna be let go likely by the
Lions and be free to move around the NFL or
Jimmy Garoppolo from the forty nine ers. There are options.
There are examples of people out there you can get
for a year or two and plug them in, plug

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and play and move on. And it's not Tannehill, anybody
but Tannhill. So he he out of there. He will
not play another game, Ryan Tannehill for the Tennessee Titans.
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Ben Mallard this hour, ranting about the Tennessee Titans, Bird
Dog and Ryan Tano. He's out for the year. Burg

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Dog writes and says great back to back monologues. Ben,
You're not mailing it in with something like lazy such
as what free asient do you want for Christmas. Yeah,
well that's gonna pop up all weekend long and for
the next like ten days. On radio, it's like, what
are you grateful for? In sports? What are you not
grateful for? Right? Who gets a lump of coal under

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the Christmas tree? Oh? I love that. I love to
mock that kind of radio. The ultimate sign your talk
show host did no prep and rolled in there and
just wanted to put the feet up and go on
cruise control. Frankie says, Ryan tanne will one be back
next year. But the Titans are gonna make a move
to draft a quarterback in the first round. They just

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drafted a quarterback, you know, he was the first round pick.
But Tanny. I'll bet you, Frankie, I'll bet you if
Frankie that Tannehill's gone all right, supermarcut Steve says, the
problem with Malik Willis instead of Ryan tanne as he
runs that stupid run option play and every now and
then takes the all out of their MVP's hands. Derrick Henry, Yeah,

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well remember the game, the first game that he started,
Molik Willis was against the Houston Texans, and that game
was in Houston, and they attempted ten passes in the game. Now,
Tennessee won that game. Derrick Henry went over two hundred
yards rushing against the Houston Texans back I forgot. I

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think that was Week eight of the NFL season. And
to win a game with ten pass attempts, My god.
All right, let's go to the phones and we'll take
some calls here, any meany mighty mo. Let's say hello
to Andrea these sports sorceress. He's standing by in the

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Bay Area with heartache, anger, rage, anarchy blanketing the Giant fans.
They are covered in angst, but mixed emotions for Andrea
because she's a native New Yorker and she grew up
a metsman. Hello Andrea, welcome, Yes, a low band blessed

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winter Solstice. I just sent you your newsletter in joy.
Thank you. All right, that's that's the first night, first
day of winter here? Is that correct? Yes, exactly, the
longest night of the year, and saying, oh no, every
night's law, every nights and the longest night of the year.
What are you talking about? No kidding? Yeah, so yeah,
I know, quite eventful. Um yeah, so light is returning

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even though it is the darkest hour. And what's really interesting.
You know, it was trending on Twitter. As a Mets fan,
you know, I'm disappointed this Carlos Korea thing. Remember wherever
you go there you are Neptune is opposing his son,
which is low energy, you know, just like lowered vitality.

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Check it out. Things that are hidden come to light.
So this is really um You know, the Mets fans
have to manage their expectations. I mean, you know what
I expect. I had a dream, actually, I yeah, I
had a dream about this, Like when the Mets show
up the opening day and in the first game in Queens,
mister Mets gonna come out with an Oscar the Grouch

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like costume on. He's gonna have a trash can on
when he comes out there to greet Carlos Corea, to
make him feel comfortable like he's back in Houston. Yeah, yeah, No,
New York fans have a sense of humor. And uh,
you know, I just think this there's a lot of
suspicion and mistrust with his chart. Not true story, now
true story. Andrew, I'm friends with the celebrity fan marlins Man, right,

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so he he text me and we were talking about
some of the big you know, he's a huge baseball fan.
Obviously goes to all the games. He travels all through
through the year. And we were talking about the craziness
of the Mets offseason and I told him, I said,
you better be careful because Marlin's man, he's living in
Florida long times, his families from New York. I said,
this guy, Stephen Cohen's gonna bring you to New York.

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And instead of you know, Marlin's man, you'll be Mets
man and you'll be sitting there in all the Mets games.
We're in a bright orange Mets jersey. You better watch out.
It's gonna happen, right. I mean he can't buy everything
as much as he tries, but yeah, he's you know,
everyone's got a price. Andrea, and I bet you right
now you love the Bay Area. You've lived there a
long time, right, you got your your your spot. But

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if the Mets owner called you up and said, listen,
I need you to come to Flushing, I need you
on the payroll, I need you every game sitting right
behind on't play, you gotta put a spell on the
other team, you would do it. I don't think so
I like it. What's your what's your price though? What's
your price? In everyone's got a price, every every man
and woman's got a price, you know, I don't think so.

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I like the Bay Area. It's so much more mellow.
I mean New York it's a good place to be from,
but like boot camp for the rest of the world.
But like going there with life. You can live out
and you live in the suburbs, you live in Terrytown,
you can live in Jersey or Connecticut or something like that.
You don't have to live in the city. Yeah, you know,
I'm just I'm kind of relocated body mind and spirit. Okay,

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look at that. She cannot be bought attention mets. You
cannot have this woman on your payroll. I mean there's Zoom,
there's all these other ways we can go, you know. Um,
you know with all the technology, who are rejecting a
return to Gotham. Well, here's the thing. If Steve Cohen
wants me on the payroll to do sports astrology, I mean,
what's one seventy five per hour to save him three

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hundred and ten million. When you know this mistrust and
misconception and paranoia and low energy, Neptune's going to kick
in two thousand and twenty five, then for two full years.
Like you say, the party's over, right, turn out the light.
It is going to be over a lot sooner than

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Mets fans saying Giants fans will probably get the last laugh.
This is just you know, a not positive long term deal,
and he's just you know, there's just a lot of
confusion here and a lot of unpleasant truth will come
to light, all right, Andrea, And if anybody wants to
contact you on Twitter, virgo in service, if you want

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to lord more. She's got a new flyer. Thank you, Andrea.
As it's the longest night of the year, which is
appropriate because I see Angry Bill on my call screen
and normally when I take his call, it's the longest
call of the night. Hello Angry Bill. So take that
in your pooper and poppet. Yeah, good morning guys. The

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only reason she has to move around is because the
towns the rings out of black dresses and pins there
that's going gloom crap with hers. And now let me
tell you something bench such a hypocrite. Your Dodger's been
doing nothing but trying to buy a Pennant and World
series for the last five years. So now you want
to jump on the mats for what they're doing. None

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of you. I'm not ripping the mats for spending money.
Why how did you interpret that? What's wrong with you?
What you as wrong to spend money? They spend money
on these bums, these cheating blokes from Houston. You big dummy.
It's wrong with you, big dummy. How about how about

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trying to keep your big mouth shut when it comes
to other teams and just keep worrying about your story.
I don't know if you know these blockhead, but it's
it's called talk radio, you moron, And the way this works,
all right, we comment on everything, you insufferable loser. How
about you? How about a Dodger manager that can't go
to the toilet without being told what to do. That's

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your requirement, and Tommy Lessorda is in Blue Heaven. He's
not coming back, so they're stuck with this. This manage
you better right now than this clown. Well, I agree
with you, but unfortunately Dodgers enjoy this. I really did. Yeah,
why don't think go out and get another one sixty two?
Go get Joey Gallow again to match up with your belt.

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Confused I gallos with it. I thought you were like,
I thought you were a Yankee fan, but now you're
sounding like a Mets fan. You're like genuinely hurt that
I've taken some pot shots at the Mets. Would the
first Met game ever played? Okay? And I am a
Mets fan? Okay, So all you're doom and gloom on
the Mets. Very rarely, okay, does one player put a

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team over the top. Very rarely? Okay, So one guy
isn't going to do it. That's why the Giants decided
to get out of the deal. They're so far behind
the Dodgers and the Padres. The one player wasn't going
to do it for three hundred and fifty million dollars,
so they got out of it. Okay, Well, no, they
they he's the wrong player. That's the thing. They realize,

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what have we done wrong? This guy's a loser. I
want nothing to do it. He's the joker in the
deck and I want nothing to do this guy. And
you don't understand that because you're a cheater, all right,
and you don't you don't understand it. Well, the kind
of parasite question, Well, I'm not a cheater. I robbed banks. Okay,

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that's true. What do you think I gonna ask you,
as a guy that robbed banks? Here your opinion of
that celebrity Chiefs fan who was robbing banks to pay
for his lifestyle going to Chiefs gaps. Chief's a haulic?
Your thoughts? The guy's pretty sharp, let me tell you
it's pretty sharp. Yes, wearing allegedly wearing the mask he

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war to go to the games and wonderful. Not a
dingle barrier. All right, thank you, I gotta move on
and I'm done with you. Be sure to catch live
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this band? I know you've been known to place a
wager or two every now and then a huge underdog
pull off a victory. Last night, Yes, yeah, Eastern Illinois
went on the road and knocked off Iowa ninety two
to eighty three. They were thirty one and a half
point underdogs according to Caesar Sports Book. It is the

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biggest underdog win in the last thirty years, according to
something called the Internet. Now, Eddie, that is such a
ridiculous outcome that people are whispering was there some funny
business going on? Now? I don't want to say that, Eddie,
because it's not you know, I didn't see the game.

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I don't know, but that is such a ridiculous outcome
that people are wondering will there be some kind kind
of FBI investigation? I recall years ago I did do
a postgame show I'm Gonna Date Myself on a college
football game that was so crazy the outcome that the
FBI did investigate because there were rumors the game was thrown.

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What game was that? That was UCLA versus the University
of Miami in a hurricane makeup game at the Orange Bowl.
And this is so long ago. Edger and James was
playing for Miami. Most famous UCLA loss in their history
usually had a seventeen point lead late they would have

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gone to BCS title game. Guess who did Bruin talk
after that game? Yeah, yours truly, Eddie. I was doing
the postgame show for some reason. I was filling in
for somebody who got fired and I was on the
post game. And let's just say the the gutty little
Bruin fans from Westwood were not real happy that day, Eddie.
They were not really high. Imagine, we'll see what comes
of that that Iowa game, and maybe it's just a

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kosher upset and the Iowa guys were ready for Christmas
break and they weren't ready to play. And I hope
that's just the case, and I hope there's no other
funny business going on. But these things are when they
see improprieties. And really the big thing will be see
if anybody wagered a ton of money against Iowa and
whether or not. It's hard to keep track of that
because there's so many different states now that have the gambling.

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Before it was can find legal gambling was in Nevada,
but now you can if you want, you got a
network of people, you can put a bet down here, there,
and everywhere, and it's a little bet here, a little
bit there, a little bit and it adds up. So
all right, and if you if you bet below a
certain amount, it does not raise any red flags with
the the wise guys from from what I've been told.

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But I'm not a wise guy, so I don't know.
Maybe they're lying to me. Mabybe they give me some
bad information. It's the Ben Maller Show on Fox, and
let's go to the phones, and let's go now. The
ratings are about to spike up. And we go now
to the state of Rhode Island and we say hello
to none other than Paul in Rhode Island. Better know

(27:02):
on this show is plastered Paul. Hello, Paul, how why
are you? Ben bel thank you for thinking my call?
And uh, Roberta and in your crew, listen, before I
get into the Raiders Patriots game, I want to say this, Uh,
there's no reason for why we have this kind of

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NFL program, And it's impossible to say that the NFL
is not fixed. Okay, what what? Uh the NFL. I'm
telling you right now that somebody, somebody fixed this game
between the Patriots and the Raiders. Now we know that

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La the La market once again in A and six,
and you know very well as well as I do, okay,
that that they want the Chargers to see this own boy,
Hebert to be in the playoffs. Now, Paul, listen yours.
You know what kind of elf you are? Your tipsy

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elf is what you are. My god, here you put
the you put the wizard lady before me. I mean,
what do you expect me in a straight lady? What
that help ward for me? Why do you see your
name on the board. I don't know. As soon as
your name popped up, I took your call. What do
you want me to do here? Well, you're talking about

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you talking my phone call a little too late because
I'm disgusting. What how much money? PAULA, Paul, come back ahead?
How much money? I know your bomb? But how much
money did you lose on the Patriots game? How much money?
One thousand dollars? You lost? Four grand? Oh my god,
imebriated to you lost four thousand. In the Paul and

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all the pages. It was to go overtime, kick a
field goal, win the game. You win the four grand?
Oh my god. I took my money from the Celtics.
The Game five in the Celtics, and I put it
on this game because I hate I hate them so
much and I don't hate McDaniels, that I hate them
so much that they paralyzed one of my players, that

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I hate him so much that I wanted to visit
the seven. He's still holding the grudge. Ed. This is
amazing here, this h what a story from plastered Paul.
Paul kind of paint the picture, Paul. So you're watching
the Pats game, right they score the late touchdown, so
you're like, Okay, we'll at least the worst case, we
got overtime here, and they tell me something and then

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the play happens, and what's going on at your Are
you at home when this is going on? Like, what's
going on while you're watching in my home? And my home?
Tell me you a quarterback since high school? You throw
a ball. You throw a ball to a monster in
the middle of the field. And the last man on
hand was mad Joe. I don't care if you crush

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your teeth with his shoelaces. His shoelaces he could have
dragged you. I wish I could have been in the
rooms into you mege on that play. Oh my god,

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he should all thank you, Paul. We'll move on. But
it was a good call. It lasted. Thank you, Paul
oh Man. Is he bomb oh Man? That was wild? Wow,
he's seeing pink spiders right now? Blasted Paul, Holy canoli?
All right? This that was amazing. Make that a promo.

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are benching Matt Ryan for the rest of the year.
Nick Foles going to start. Matt Ryan has, we are told,
a seventeen million dollar bonus guarantee if he cannot pass
a physical in the early part of next year. So

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the Colts don't want to make any chance. They don't
want to take any chances when the new league year
begins in March. They're worried that Ryan will get hurt
and then he won't pass the physical, and then they'll
have to pay him seventeen million. They're gonna get rid
of him, and so as a proactive move, they are
benching him now in favor of Nick Foles. We have
Mallard to the third degree coming up. Here's the inch

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to trivia. Blank is the quarterback that has the highest
sack percentage his first two seasons minimum twenty starts in
NFL history all time. Blank the quarterback that owns the
highest sack percentage times a percentage of being sacked in
his first two seasons, minimum twenty starts in NFL history.

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That's the instant trivia, the answer and Mallard of the
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don't worry. We'll be here for you. Here's the instant trivia.
Blank is the quarterback with the highest sack percentage in
his first two seasons in NFL history. That is the question.
What is the answer, And let's see if anybody knows
the answer? Will check in with Mallard of the third
degree warming up in the bullpit, Dave Stewart Guess by

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mister nice Guy. Page down a page down plastered Paul's
hopes and dreams from fur Dog, Oh God, All the
ways to lose a game that's not on the radar.
Glenn Foley from a late night drug tester. That's Glenn
Foley of the Jets. Foghorn Leghorn from Bean boot Maker Bob.

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That's his answer. Who else do we have? Page down?
Warren sap guests by Justin in Cincinnati, Terry hand Raddy
from Eke in Roseville in Annesota, Black Steve the second,
not to be confused with Black Steve the first, going
with panther legend Dan Morgan. Who else do we have?
Page down? Page down? Warren in Fort Worth is going

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with Vinnie Barberino as his answer. Jason Campbell from Rob
in Minnesota. Mason in Huntington Beach. She listener Mason going
with the iconic Hanka Harry as his answer. Well, I
was a little boy, I always looked forward to Hanaka
Harry who show up and unlike Santa Claus, Hanka Harry
would go go eight days, eight days. All right? Do

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you have an answer, Eddie? Please? I need an answer. Yes,
it's former knuckleballer Robert Allan Dickey Art Roy Dickey R. A. Dickey.
Is that the answer? No, It's I correct, Eddie. It's
also not David Cargus by Jay Nava from San Antonio.
The correct answer, Eddie is Justin Fields of the Chicago

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Bears right now thirteen point one percent sack percentage, highest
all time, ahead of Steve Fuller back in the seventies
and fran Tarkington, Frank Tarkington back in his days. Well a, right,
here we go, here we go, here we go. How
about that? To the third degree, this is one big
band gets grilled the Coop Dollard. Speaking of Justin Fields,

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he complains on Tuesday about the lack of calls that
he gets for late hits on him after he slides.
He said he plans to just get on the refs
and beg every time it happens, and hopefully he will
start getting those calls. Will his strategy work? No, Justin Fields,
you gotta understand that if you build it, the calls
will come. By begging and whining to the refs, You're

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just going to annoy them and it's going to delay
things even further. The NFL calls on the way the
calls work in the NFL, it's like a sliding skill.
Do you play for a glamour team? Are you a
headline player? The NFL powerbrokers decide who gets special leeway,
and Justin Fields is ascending, but he's not anywhere in

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that rarefied air like Patrick Mahomes and players like that.
So you gotta pay your dues and no ounce of
whining is going to get you there. The NFL calls
are not even. It's not a level playing field. Next,
Reggie Bush sent a warning of sorts to the nc
Double A and outgoing president Mark Emmett. He implied that
the NC Double A paid eight million dollars to cover

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up mistakes that they made in the USC investigation years ago. Ben,
do you think anything will come of this? No, it's
it's not zero, but it's like one percent chance. The
NCAA they're barely holding onto what little power they have.
And if Reggie Bush ever gets his highsman back, he'll
be really old or dead. So and Reggie Bush, the
greatest college player I ever saw was Reggie Bush. But

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he's not He's not getting that trophy back. Next, Currently,
the Sunday Night football game for Week seventeen. It's slated
to be Chargers versus Rams, but we know that'll probably
be flexed out normally. Decision on what game will have
been put there will have been made by now, but
the NFL is opted to delay that. Which matchup do
you think they'll go with? Ben? So it's not a
good card. In Week seventeen, I would say, looking at
the card Vikings, Packers, Patriots, Dolphins, one of those two

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most likely will be the game. But that's depending on
what happens this weekend, like if Miami loses, if New
England loses, that changes it obviously, But those are the
two that stand out. Oh, there's a lot of lopsided
matchups that week. How do we do you pass this edition?
That is anyone that you can put it on the floor. Yes,