December 26, 2022 • 42 mins
Ben opens up the second hour of the show discussing the abysmal performance from Tua Tagovailoa on Christmas against the Green Bay Packers. Ben wonders if Miami will take the opportunity this offseason to move on from Tua, rather than make the same mistake the Cardinals did by locking themselves into a deal with a bad QB. He also analyzes the Packers chances to make the playoffs, plus Pam Oliver’s migraines and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our name Bert. Hour two of
our radio show, we talk all things NFL. The big
game between the Dolphins and Packers on Christmas Day. How
would you describe to a tongue of Byloa's performance or
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lack thereof in the fourth quarter for the Miami Dolphins
as the Dolphins go down. It was to a turn
the ball over in the fourth quarter there in that game.
Also is to a really the long term answer for Miami.
A month ago he was the MVP dark horse candidate.
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Now people questioning whether he will even be there in
Miami going forward. And are the Packers the Green Bay
Packers gonna close the gap and make the postseason They've
won three in a row. We'll tell you why we
are not sold on Aaron Rodgers team. We'll get to
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tire buying should be So I leave this hour coming
from South Beach. You think sun and fun in Miami, Miami, Miami,
but that was not not the keys on Christmas, at
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least by Florida standards. Aaron Rodgers and the Packers bringing
a wintry mix to the South Florida area, the Dolphins
kicking off in forty sixth degree whether, oh my god,
it's forty six the grad zukout it zukout. Well, if
you live in Florida, you would say that the coldest
game in Miami since way back in nineteen eighty nine. Wow,
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holy conoli. All right, So, I don't know if you
saw this game or night it was on Fox. Perhaps
you missed it, but do not worry. Do not worry.
Here we watch so you would not have to. Green
Bay was in a dog fight with Miami, and it
ended up picking off not one, not two, but three
two a tongue of Blowa passes in the fourth quarter
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as Ain Ridgers and the Packers rallyback on the brink
of a dark loss on the road. But the Packers
end up beating the Dolphins twenty six to twenty and
it couldn't be happier. As a result, they keep their
playoff hopes alive. Rogers two hundred and thirty eight yards.
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He had a touchdown, also had an interception for the Packers,
who are still under five hundred. I was told when
you're under five hundred, you're not worth a damn. The
Packers at seven and eight. They have won three in
a row. Miami, Miami, Miami Miami. They got the hipster coaching.
They're eight and seven. They've lost now four straight, four
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straight games. They go oh for the month of December
and now must win their final two to make the postseason.
The better story in the losing locker room, the sky
is a falling on top of the Miami Dolphins. So
let us discuss the question. We start at the quarterback position,
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because the play of the quarterback, he's the beautiful people. Quarterbacks,
when they don't play well, they're not so beautiful. So
how would you describe to a tongue of elo his
performance of late for the Dolphins. So I've got trapdoor,
remote control, and style points, and we will combine all
of these things together and we're gonna make a big,
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giant box that we're gonna return later today. All right,
So a to a tongue of our law was not
only a quarterback, but he was also lousy. Now it
wasn't lousy the entire game, and we mentioned this earlier.
If you were not listening midway through, things were going
very well for Ta. In fact, the speed demons for
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the Dolphins were barbecuing the Green Bay Packers secondary. They
were enjoying the nice, soft cheese defense of the Packers.
And if you watched only the first half and then
had something else to do, whatever that might be, whether
it's a family commitment or you had to take a
nice nap, or like me, go out and get some
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Chinese food, whatever you were doing, all right, whatever you're
doing there, if you only watch the first half, you're
likely wondering what the hullabaloo is. At halftime, Ta was
averaging nineteen yards per a tempt. You only attempted twelve
passes in the first half, completed nine of them for
an average of nineteen yards per attempt, had a touchdown,
a passer rating of one hundred and forty four plause,
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and he had a couple of darts that he connected with.
Jalen Waddle had an eighty four yard catching run touchdown
Tyreek Hill fifty two yard reception. And so you get
to nineteen yards per at Temple when you get those
big pass plays. And then in the second half and
specifically the fourth quarter. All of a sudden, and I'm
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not sure exactly when it happened, but this trap door
opened up and Ta fell into a pit of anacondas
and he sucked at a time you cannot suck. Now,
how bad was You'd like to think, if you're a
dolphin apologist, that this was a rock bottom situation because
twa after starting nine of twelve in the first half,
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in the second half, he was nine of thirteen, so
it was about the same as one one more attempt,
same number of completions, but only eighty one yards passing
in the second half. That's six point two yards per
attempt and no touchdowns. And the three interception at Brod
three interceptions forty six passer rating, those three turnovers happening
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on the final three drives for the Dolphins. Good afternoon,
good evening, and good night, turn out the lads. The
parties over, at least it was on this day for
the Dolphins. Now, Page two is to a tongue of iloa,
really the long term answer for Miami, and you have
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to pause for a second. This flatulence continues a free
fall for the Dolphins quarterback, and there's a saying that
in professional sports and really life in general. But we
worry about sports in this part of the radio. So
life happens very fast in the NFL. In one month.
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One month, and we still ain't even done with the month.
But the Dolphins who've done playing this month of December
TWA went from high for looton MVP candidate doing the walk,
the bench McMahon walk, and he's had his chess stiles.
I Hey, look at met You said I was out
bum and you Papa lazers. You had those arrogant Dolphin
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fans who were feeling their oats, who were bragging about
two of this, two of that and all that stuff.
He was in MVP candidate, not the favorite, but he
was strolling around as an MVP candidate and he was
held in high regard. And in the span of one
month he has gone from MVP candidate to rinky dink
quarterback bedraggled Torah up from the floor up. December the
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month of dumpster diving for Tua. How bad has it been.
I'm glad you guys. The last four games the month
of December he has been obliterated. TOUA the completion percentage
barely over fifty six touchdowns, five interceptions in a fumble,
so that is one touchdown for every turnover and a
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passer rating of below eighty one. Now, remember in the
mid nineties is good. One hundred plus is really good.
So that would be a player who is not the
long term answer any lies detected, I say there are
no lies detected in that. Now, the question that has
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to be answered before everyone goes stir crazy associated with
in Miami Pro football. Is this merely a speed bump
for the Dolphins or has the NFL now feed gured
out toa that the Dolphins were fun to watch and
all that, But now they've gone from from drinking out
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of a sink to a fire hose. It's not going
so well. And so have people figured out the gimmicky
Dolphin offense? And now what you're seeing here is to
a tongue of by law has been been figured out.
And so at the bare minimum this will cause Miami
brass to grab the remote control and hit the pause button.
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In terms of the big picture, you would you would
assume the position that they're not gonna be dumb dumbs
like the Arizona Cardinals, the stooges there who lock themselves
up with that pint size punk Kyler Murray who stinks
and is hurt right now? Are the Dolphins gonna make
that same mistake? Are they gonna go down that road?
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You would say no, But Ta's got one year left
on his rookie contract, so that'll keep busy for another year.
But the Dolphins are going to have to decide sooner
than later whether or not they want to pick up
the fifth year option, the dreaded fifth year option, And
so two US still has time. There's a couple of
games left to rewrite the ending. But he's dragging the
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Dolphins down by his performance here, and he's got two
up more opportunities to secure a playoff spot. It's not
looking very good right now. And I would recommend that
somebody in his stocking gave him some mouthwash because he's
suffering from halitosis. But he's got really bad breath. The
two games left for the Dolphins, they played the Patriots
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in Foxborough. I'm sure the weather will be great this weekend,
and the Dolphins a one and a half point road
favored in that game. The early line Dolphins favored, and
then they close it out at home with the Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets,
and the rotting carcass of Zach Wilson or whoever ends
up playing quarterback by week a team for the Jets.
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So a couple of divisional games for the Dolphins to
close it out, all right, last words, So let's turn
the paint and we'll go to the Green and Gold,
the Green Bay Packers. So are the Packers going to
make the postseason? They won three games in a row.
They certainly have a path to salvation in the playoff nation.
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But in all honesty, unpopular opinion. I am now going
to give an unpopular opinion. I'll get away from the
microphone here in a moment. But in all honesty, I'm
not impressed with the Green Bay Packers. I'm not impressed.
That says flawed football team to me. And I know
everyone's going crazy for the Packers and they're back, and
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I don't want to be a prison of the moment.
I'm not getting caught up in the tidal wave of
media hyperbole and everyone's tickling the ivories with how great
the Packers are. All of a sudden, I take a
step back, and I give you no style points, all right.
The Chiefs Heads have three wins in a row against
the Bears, Rams, and Dolphins. Two of those games were
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gift wrapped put under the tree by the opposing quarterbacks.
The Bears had a big lead and then Josh Fields
a couple of interceptions in the fourth quarter. Where have
we seen that? I don't know to a three interception
of the fourth quarter. The Bears are a wretched team
and the Packers needed two interceptions by Fields in order
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to win that game, a team they normally dominate. And
Ta and the Dolphins right now, in this moment, the
Dolphins are not a good football team. That you heard
the sound Timber, Yeah, the tree is falling, tim Yeah,
and right now to a tongue of Byla, he actually
fell into the tree of suck and I think he
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hit every branch in the tree of suck on his
way down there. So that's not as impressive win for
the Packers. So they don't have any impressive wins. And
the Ram game, the Ram players, when I saw the
look on that Ram sidelines when they walked out on
the field in that cold chili weather at Green Bay.
They had lost because of the weather at Lambeau field.
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So listen, the Packers are in the right place at
the right time. They are the beneficiaries, the Benny beneficiaries
of this. But I'm not going to extol the virtues
of the green Bay Packers. Now, the Packers, they will
be favored the final two games of the year at
home against the Vikings and the Lions. A couple of
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NFC North Dome teams teams said, even though they play
in cities where it gets chili, they play in the
great indoors. Now they've got to play in the great outdoors.
And so that's what's left on the table for the
green Bay Packers. They also need the need a little
bit of help here because they lost to both Washington
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and the New York Giants, and as a result, they
have to be ahead of them. If they're tied, the
tie goes on the head to head tiebreaker to Washington
and the Giants. So it's not a garrong te that
they will stick the landing here, the Packers and make
the playoffs. But if you think the NFL is scripted,
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if you're one of those that believe it's all scripted,
then it's it's a great storybook situation. Nor is he
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is up? What is that all about? We'll get to
it and we will do it next. Hey, this is
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time to follow Roberto on Twitter at Raider Underscore Rob
twenty four say what's on your mind? Now back to
Ben Maller, Hey, we'll take some costs here. Also react
shaudon from the Mallard Militia, the leader of the hour
two model, all about Tua Tongueabloah and the green Bay
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Packers as they lose, or the Tell and the Dolphins
as they lose to the green Bay Packers and mister
Luciano right since this ten out of ten on the
mon monologue, Benjamin, although green Bay has won a couple
of games in a row, they are not going to
make it to the playoffs, and that goes the same
for the Miami Dolphins. So he so he says. Jason says,
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re Listening to the best of the Mallard Show last
night makes me think Eddie ended up like Michael Jordan
when he left the NBA for baseball, especially with the
fact he may have been as dirty as the ass Jos. Well,
thank you, Jason, and I'm glad we got to replay that.
It was one of the darkest days on the show
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here in the year twenty twenty two. Eddie a man
who likes to brag about integrity and being the voice
of reason on the show, and he was dragged down
and that I don't know what caused Eddie to use
one of his pavloft dog techniques there to get Justin
and Cincinnati to go down that despicable road, but it
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was quite embarrassing, and it was a dark moment on
the show. And we'll move on from that. Let's go
to the phones and we'll say hello to any meany
miny mo. Let's say hello to Emmet in Olympia, Washington,
an aka Blind Emmett the Seahawk Fan. Hello Emmett, Welcome,
Hello Big Ben. Happy holidays. I know a Christmas, which
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was technically yesterday, was I believe the last day of Hanuka, though,
you know, I had to throw that in there for
you and shout out for Roberto Brandon and Nick for
working to day. But hey, I was gonna call about
the Tom Brady, you know, if he washed topic. But
after this two a monologue I had to call on
rant on tour because this game was so winnable for
the Miami Dolphin, right it was. You know, that's twenty.
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They dropped twenty points in the first task. And you know,
they dropped as much points as you or I have
dropped in the NFL in the second half A zero nothing,
not a right. I just think it's embarrassing. Three picks
in the fourth quarter for two a top of viola bent,
just embarrassing. He costs his team the game. And you know,
I was watching the game with the family, and you know,
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my Grandpa Keet saying like they were seeing my pretty
obvious ball that you know two us. It wasn't you know,
it was all too as fault. Basically, I just think
he went airmail. He went airmail, Brandy. But the ball,
the ball was sam on him. It's like he the
Packers are playing these exotic defenses he had never seen before,
which I find, yeah, hard to believe here. But yeah,
more importantly, how did you do with the Christmas gifts here? Brian?
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Did you did you get hooked up? Emmett? Did they
are you too old now? How you aged out of
the cool gifts? Or are they still spoiling you? The family. Now,
I didn't really want much this year, Like there wasn't
much on the list, but you know, the main thing
I really asked for his money and that's what I got.
So see you now, you're old man. You just want money.
You're not kid, you know, kid want your toys? Want
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from candy. That's pretty solid. Yeah candy. It's like, oh yeah,
it's not bad candy there. Yeah. Well one more thing
here quickly. I agree with you on the Packers. I
just think I can't buy into them. You know, Miami
completely choked that game away. So Brandon, the producers, you know,
you made him do the Autumn you know, the Autumn
Win the Raiders song. We should get Brandon to do
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some other singing of you know another song. I think
that would be great to add a wonderful idea. What
would you what would you like to hear? And I
think one of the very talented people hear Foxbus Radio,
Brandon and Little Misguided with the teams he likes. But
what what songs would you like to see him sing? Anything?
In protect you? I know that Dolphins have a fight song,
which is kind of that would be a pretty funny
thing to have Brandon sing that. We don't play that
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on the show though. That's the problem. The Dolphins have
a lot of NFL teams have these old nineteen seventies
fight songs. They all sound the same, but it'd be
it'd be funny if you think of something. Let let
us know him and how about that hay Nick? Nick?
Oh oh yeah, this is your dream? This is where
Emmett he's got like on your big board, Emmett, where's
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Nick rank on your your anchor big board? Is he
near the top in the middle. He's a he's a
Bay Area sports fan, so he likes a Niners. I
don't know how I feel about that big band. But
my question for Nick was, if you could choose the
song for Brandon the thing on the radio, what would
it be? Oh? Oh man, you're assuming Nick, this is
the music gene. You don't know? You don't know? Nick?
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Are you a music guy? Are you? I mean? I
wouldn't say music guy, more sports guy than music guy.
But um, I'm gonna have to think about this. Maybe
like a classic Lady Gaga poker face that'd be a
classic with your here Brandon sing that brand? Now? Are
you all like Justin Bieber and sorry or something like that.
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He gets some get those ooze in there, and yeah,
that could be good. Brandon, are you open to anything here? Brandon?
Are you willing to sing? I don't know. Maybe I
could pull off some Berry White. Oh that would be
even better. All Berry White. Oh that's the all time
Berry White who used that. There is a show on
radio called love Line and they'd have Barry on there
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and just him talking. The ladies would get all excited.
It was amazing. All right, all right, I Emmett, thank you,
all right, YouTube, there's a great Emmett checking in. It
is the Bandit Mallard Show. As we continue on through
the overnight, we do have Mallard to the Third Degree
coming up a little bit later in the hour. But
I always love a good mistake, because I make many
of them. If you hear this show, you know there's
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one mistake after another. I bring that up because over
the weekend, the Pittsburgh Steelers played the Lost Wages Nevada
Raiders in a primetime NFL game, and the NFL social
media department made a small mistake. Did anyone catch the
mistake here? This is quite the mistake. So the they
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posted a photo on social media and it showed an
umber thirty two banner that had been hung in the
stadium formerly known as Hines Field there in Pittsburgh, the
House of the Steelers, and it said right but by
right next to it was a flag that had been
unferrelled right next to the Franco Harris number thirty two.
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And the NFL on their social media channel posted Franco's
Italian Army and then they had the heart logo there
as a side and Indians. There was there was one
mistake there, there was not They thought the NFL thought
that this was the Italian flag. That difference, there's a yeah,
it's a small, small difference. This was not the Italian flag.
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This was the Mexican flag that had been unferrelled there.
And I uh, I don't know, Roberto, I'm going out
on a limb here. That might have been a group
of raider fans that might have made the trip to
Pittsburgh that might have had the flag there with them. Possibly,
I don't know. But lots of Mexican people from Mexico, uh,
make the trek out Pittsburgh. Yeah, there are a lot
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of sea fans in Mexico. Okay, All right, well, whatever
the case. Uh, somebody brought a big Mexican flag, and
and in the NFL some the intern. We're not intern,
but you know the NFL, let's just say the old people.
The NFL hire young people to do the social media
because they don't really understand how it all works. And
it was a very nice gesture. It was it would
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have been perfect if it had been the Italian flag,
but it was not. The it was not the Italian flag.
Racist in the NFL quickly deleted that and were I
think we're good on that. So there you there you go.
And uh, of course there the difference between the Italian
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flag and the Mexican flag would be the logo in
the middle. There, that's the big, the big difference. Other
than that, I mean to be fair here, Roberto, and
I'm not a flag guy, but to be fair, the
eagle on top of the cactus will at the snake
in his mouth. Yes, I don't think they have cactus
in Italy, but maybe they don't. I've never been in Italy.
I've had a lot of Italian food, but I've never
been there. But they had the logo in the middle
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of the dead giveaway Dad giveaway. So that's the big
blooper over the weekend, and oh what a blooper it is.
We'll take some more calls. We have Mallard of the
third degree coming up in a little bit. Also the
answer to a great broadcasting mystery over the weekend. If
you're watching the aforementioned Dolphin Packer game, you probably saw
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Pam Oliver. Pam Oliver, veterans sideline reporter for Fox, who
was having some issues. People were wondering whether or not
she had been hitting the mini bar and she was
slurring her words during the Christmas Day broadcast. But now
we know the rest of the story and what that
was all about. We'll get to it. We'll take some
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more calls. But right now, let's get over to the
Sporting News desk and here he is with all the
scores are man Nick. And the good thing about Christmas
tons of game, tons of games, tons of games, more
more so this year than ever. Yeah, with the NFL
on a on a Sunday, it was very nice. Didn't
have to watch as many people. Nick at the NBA
very concerned when the ratings come out that they are
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going to get smoked. They will get smoked in the
ratings because I mean, you know, the Buccaneers and Cardinals
games wasn't exactly that wasn't a great game, but at
the end it was compelling. Nonetheless, you go to overtime,
you have your Tom Brady comeback and no one's watching him.
Get some sons, the Rams Broncos, two teams not going
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to the playoffs. Who yes, just bad football. Yeah, you
know the way the NFL does it. They they they
screw up and they get more people to watch. It's fascinating,
it's it's amazing. But as you were talking about too
a tongue of Iloa with the Maller monologue, what did
his head coach have to say, Mike McDaniel, You know,
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the ball just kind of got away from Tah which
is not characteristic for him by any means. He was,
you know, executing at a pretty high level, you know,
to start the game, and you know, I don't know
where that went, but that's something that will him and
I will really comb over. And you know, remember Ben
in the offseason, a lot of concern about his arm
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strength that maybe all those overthrows he's just trying to
prove everybody wrong. It's fair point he's trying to get
the next Sizzle video. And I like when he threw
the ball into triple coverage down that one interception. That
was bold. You know, you gotta be a risk taker
sometimes in life. Gun Slinger two a tongue of Iloa.
Three guys wearing with the gold Packer helmets there just
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truck the ball. See what happens. Maybe they able to
drop it or something bounced to your guy twenty six
twenty the final score and that result had ramifications in
the AFC playoff picture. It sets up the Chargers with
an opportunity. Now on Monday Night, they beat the Colts,
they're in the playoffs. Also at the same time, it
keeps the Steelers and Raiders alive at least four the
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time being had the Buccaneers keeping themselves a tomp the
nc health as they mounted a ten point fourth quarter
come back. They forced over time and then Ryan suck
Up kicked a field goal for the winner. Nineteen sixteen
Bucks over the Cardinals in Arizona. Tampa can clinch the
division next weekend with a win over the Panthers. And
you talked about the Rams and Broncos fifty one to fourteen.
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The final score. Cam Akers ran for three touchdowns Russell
Wilson through three interceptions. Wilson says, it's a low moment
right now. We're at a low moment right now. I
don't fear low moments because I know that every time
I've been in a low moment, I've always come to
the other side of it. And that's in life. Losing
my dad, that's in life, going through obstacles and stuff.
That's in life, your career, whatever it may be. And
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all I know is to keep fighting, keep battling. And
that's what I'm gonna give. I'm gonna give everything I
have every day. Yeah, but he's been saying that all year. Yeah,
it hasn't quite worked out. Last time Baker Mayfield was
part of a team that scored fifty one points? Was
it was it? Back in college. I remember that the
Browns had that big playoff game against the Steelers. I
don't think there's no way scored fifty one. That was
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the game that Roethlisberger threw a bunch of interceptions in
the first half, and it was it was crazy. I mean,
the Browns won big against the Steers, but I don't
think they put fifty one points up. That has to go.
You gotta go back to Oklahoma. I would think the
last time a Baker Mayfield quarterback team put up fifty
one points offense. All right, you're you're good. Forty eight
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was close close, but yeah, you probably have to go
back to that um that Georgia game when they played
in the Rose Bowl in the playoffs or something that
was probably both teams I think got in the fifties
are just about look at you college football knowledge right there.
All right? That was that was as good a game
as we've seen in the last ten years. Probably by
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the way. We do have some clinching scenarios for the
NFC next week. Philly clinches the one seed and the
division with a win. They've got the Saints. Giants clinch
a playoff spot with a win against the Colts and
the Bucks. As we mentioned, they clinched the NFC South
with a win against the Panthers. Panthers meanwhile, if they
win out, they would win the division and the NBA
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Nuggets meet the Suns in overtime one twenty eight to
one twenty five. NICOLEA. Yokich had another triple double, eighty
third of his career forty one points, fifteen rebounds, fifteen assists.
Warriors handled the Grizzlies one twenty three to one on nine. Now,
this basketball game was compelling then because these two teams
are starting to develop a real hatred on the court.
(30:27):
Jordan pull at thirty two points, but he got ejected
to the fourth quarter. Golden State racked up six technical
fouls in the game. Yeah, well, they're trying to show
some fight here because that was a home game, though
they don't. They don't have any fight on the road
and no steph current theory is they hate each other.
That's why they don't play well in the records. At home,
you can avoid people. You can kind of go out
(30:49):
your own speed at home, But when you're on the road, planes, trains,
and automobiles, when you travel with the team professionally, you
gotta stay at the same hotels, you gotta same team buses,
the whole deal. It's a big painting that took us, yes,
and so at home you can avoid that. You don't.
You can be there, you know, you gotta be show
up at a certain time and all that, but you
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don't have to be around the people as much. The
people that you don't like. Yeah, where is that? Had
the Celtics taken down the Bucks one thirty nine to
one eighteen. That was a meeting of the top two
teams in the Eastern Conference. Dallas Mavericks unveiled a statue
for Dirk Navitsky and they had a big third quarter
against the Lakers to pull away one twenty four to
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one fifteen. Luka don Chiz thirty two points. Lebron was
one off before they knocked that statue down by Dirk Davitsky.
You know, he probably did something he shouldn't have done.
And how many generations we have to get to before
they knocked that statue down. Oh, that'd be terrible to
come on, Okay, I'm just saying I hope none down
the line, all these statues get knocked down the way
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of the world. Man tear that statue down, all right?
Last score for his six Ers won their eighth in
a row. They beat the Knicks one nineteen to one twelve.
Joel Embiid thirty five points. James Harden had a double
double twenty nine points, thirteen rebounds. Back to you, Ben,
all right, Spam Malli show we roll on. We'll have
Mallard to the third degree. In the moment, we'll take
some more phone calls. Also get to that Pam Oliver
story as the Internet was going crazy. What's going on
(32:13):
with Pam Oliver on the sidelines. We'll tell you what
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(32:56):
She'll call in on the weekends. She's been doing that
a long time. Even back when I was on the
weekends with Looney Tunes and we did an NFL show,
we talked to Pam quite a bit, and so she
was doing the sidelines for the Packer game and people
noticed something was a little amiss here. What's going on?
We need to know. Inquiring minds would like to know
(33:17):
the great Pam Oliver mystery. What is this all about?
So anyway, during the game, people were hearing her slur
her words, and most of us associate that with being drunk,
but apparently that is not the case. Pam Oliver was
not wasted on the sidelines so much to the dismit,
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at least if you believe the theory that she was
not giving updates on whiskey and bourbon and scotch on
the sidelines, but instead. Pam Oliver suffers from a migraine
chronic migraine headache condition which sporadically will cause her when
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she gets the headaches, to slur her words and sound
like she's schnockered. That is the story. She's talked about
this and the passage in an interview not that long
ago where she says per month she's she's averages. At
one point she was averaging five or six debilitating my
grand headaches, and as of about a year ago she
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was down to three per month. But when she gets them,
they end up causing her to have nausea and vomiting
and sickness and whatnot. But she that's the story anyway,
So I'm not her doctor, neither are you. I would
assume the position though, having worked in media long enough
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that if Pam Oliver was boozing it up on the
sidelines and sounded like that, she would not be continuing
on the sidelines. And she's had a long run, so
I tend to buy that she was suffering from some
kind of situation on with the migraine headaches, which is if,
unfortunately I get bad headache. I don't get the migraines,
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but I get the bad headache every once in a while,
normally when I take a call and then and then
I want to bang my head against the wall and
all that. Justin and Cincinnati does not believe the story
going around that Pam Oliver suffers from the migraine headaches.
Of course, Justin the last person you would want to
go to on that. Let's go to the phone slow
(35:27):
right now, and we'll say hello, any meany mighty mo Fillmore,
Mike is in where else but Filmore? Hello, Philmore, Mike, welcome, Hey,
what's up? Hey? On behalf of the black community, Pam.
Pam Oliver's hair is not a proved by the black community.
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How are you the spokesman for the black community here,
Mike wa When did that happen? Hey man, I'm just
letting you know. I'm a black man, a proud black man.
Hell On behalf of all my cousins, the sister because
his sisters. And then they all be like, what is
Pam Oliver doing with her hair down? Melika Andrew. It's
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a whole different story. Okay. If you were talking about kay,
you're talking about the NBA. Hey man, Okay, I didn't
care about done. Now your phone's dying here filmore phones dying.
You don't You didn't care about these games, But you
were gonna say something, Yes, what were you gonna say? No?
I was just gonna say that fact that the games
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from the NFL work cool. But people that like the
NBA lood NBA. Don't talk about the NBA like it's
a dying sport. This saint baseball. Now. The NBA is
a bad product, and I'm not into the NBA. I'll
be in here when the playoffs come around because that's
when the players will actually try and they'll show up
to work, but you can't Filmore Mirke, Listen, I've loved
the NBA over the years. I've supported the NBA, but
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I can't anymore. These guys take way too much time off.
They don't treat the regulacies. And it's not just the players,
it's the coaches and the teams. It's an organizational philosophy.
It's this disease that has gotten into the NBA where
they don't give a crap about the fans. And years
ago when I when I'm back in the old days,
when I was coming the NBA, guys would literally feel
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bad when they missed a game on the road if
they were on an Eastern Conference team. They came to
the West because fans paid a lot of money to
watch them play and they knew they were the product. Now,
the players the mindset changed so much. Filmore Mike that
they don't give a crap. They don't care when they
don't show up and people pay a lot of money
to watch them perform. It's embarrassing. I totally agree with that.
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I think it as well. Good think of it as well.
I totally agree, But what the hell is going on?
It's to me, honestly, it's soft. It's hell a week.
And I don't care about Chef Curry being good seven
years from now. I've seen him for thirteen years. That's
all I need, straight up. I don't care about who
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cares if if they go, oh, it's gonna be good
at eight years. The Warriors may not be good at
eight years. And man, what is what is Stephtory playing
trixy games? Mean nothing because he ain't gonna be playing
in the playoffs. That's right, listen, I'm right there with you,
and it's fool's gold. We saw this a couple of
years ago. The Lakers rested Anthony Davis, a bunch of
the Clippers rested Kawhi Leonard. They both got hurt in
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the playoffs. Anyway, so you can't you can't. It's just
and I hope that Colma that smarter people, uh get
get get their head around the NBA, because it's it's
a shame what's gone on to that sport. It's really pathetic.
And and anyway, all right, well, I think for timing reasons,
(38:44):
we're gonna bump back Mallard of the third dude. I
think that's the proper thing to do. For ratings purposes
because there's you know, there's big ratings the day after Christmas. God,
this is very important. Any reason, thank you well? If
blating fillmore, Mike, he got me started. Here's the I'll
blame me. I'll pass the buck to him. Ripping Pam
Oliver's hair. I don't know all right anyway, here's the
(39:05):
Insta trivia. Forty nine a rookie brock Purty. He was
at the Warrior Game. I believe he got a nice slebation.
Brock Purty joined Blank as the only quarterbacks since nineteen
fifty with at least two touchdown passes and a passer
rating of one hundred or higher in each of his
first three career starts. Again, brock Purty forty nine are
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rookie joined Blank as the only quarterback since nineteen fifty
with at least two touchdown passes and a passer rating
of one hundred or higher in each of his first
three career starts. That's the Insta Trivia. The answer next.
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show and Ben Maller and exciting news here. For ratings purposes,
we are going to shift the third degree portion of
the show coming up next hour. That'll be massively important.
I did see Mark the walker who says he suffers
from migraine headaches. He buys into what the story is about,
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Pam Oliver. Here's the Insta trivia forty nine ers rookie
brock Purty joined Blank as the only quarterback since nineteen
fifty with at least two touchdown passes and a passer
rating of one hundred or higher in each of his
first three career starts. That is the question. What is
(40:55):
the answer? Let's see does anyone in the Mallar Militia
know the answer? We go page down, page down, Kathy
in Madison had a Pam Oliver take. We have Jordan
in Ohio, who's going with Panthers legend Baker Mayfield as
his answer. David says Gordon with the poster dunk in
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overtime for the win, although he wrote poser dunk, I
think that's a faux paw. Anthony and Anaheim says it
is broken. Carlos Correa that is the answer. Brooklyn Decker
from the Dixter parody account, Saint Nicholas from Fergdog, Texas
Trucker Kent going with Tim Couch as his answer. Schuman
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Do says it's got to be steaming. Willie Beeman, Jay
Schrader from polyde that's his answer. Jim Zorn guts by
Rob in Minnesota, Mario Lemieux from Our Friend Alf the
Alien Opiner in Springfield, mass home of the Pro Basketball
Hall of Fame where Mufett McGraw is enshrined. Sean in
the Valley of the Sun up listening to us on
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the holiday weekend, going with Zeke Brodkowski. Josh Fields from
Drip Heart the correct answer. We're short on time, so
Nick's out of the show. The correct answer is Hall
of famer Dan Marino,
Hello and welcome. It's our name Bert. Hour two of
our radio show, we talk all things NFL. The big
game between the Dolphins and Packers on Christmas Day. How
would you describe to a tongue of Byloa's performance or
(00:20):
lack thereof in the fourth quarter for the Miami Dolphins
as the Dolphins go down. It was to a turn
the ball over in the fourth quarter there in that game.
Also is to a really the long term answer for Miami.
A month ago he was the MVP dark horse candidate.
(00:42):
Now people questioning whether he will even be there in
Miami going forward. And are the Packers the Green Bay
Packers gonna close the gap and make the postseason They've
won three in a row. We'll tell you why we
are not sold on Aaron Rodgers team. We'll get to
(01:02):
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A packer Backer. Welcome in the beginning of a number
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tire buying should be So I leave this hour coming
from South Beach. You think sun and fun in Miami, Miami, Miami,
but that was not not the keys on Christmas, at
(02:57):
least by Florida standards. Aaron Rodgers and the Packers bringing
a wintry mix to the South Florida area, the Dolphins
kicking off in forty sixth degree whether, oh my god,
it's forty six the grad zukout it zukout. Well, if
you live in Florida, you would say that the coldest
game in Miami since way back in nineteen eighty nine. Wow,
(03:21):
holy conoli. All right, So, I don't know if you
saw this game or night it was on Fox. Perhaps
you missed it, but do not worry. Do not worry.
Here we watch so you would not have to. Green
Bay was in a dog fight with Miami, and it
ended up picking off not one, not two, but three
two a tongue of Blowa passes in the fourth quarter
(03:45):
as Ain Ridgers and the Packers rallyback on the brink
of a dark loss on the road. But the Packers
end up beating the Dolphins twenty six to twenty and
it couldn't be happier. As a result, they keep their
playoff hopes alive. Rogers two hundred and thirty eight yards.
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He had a touchdown, also had an interception for the Packers,
who are still under five hundred. I was told when
you're under five hundred, you're not worth a damn. The
Packers at seven and eight. They have won three in
a row. Miami, Miami, Miami Miami. They got the hipster coaching.
They're eight and seven. They've lost now four straight, four
(04:27):
straight games. They go oh for the month of December
and now must win their final two to make the postseason.
The better story in the losing locker room, the sky
is a falling on top of the Miami Dolphins. So
let us discuss the question. We start at the quarterback position,
(04:51):
because the play of the quarterback, he's the beautiful people. Quarterbacks,
when they don't play well, they're not so beautiful. So
how would you describe to a tongue of elo his
performance of late for the Dolphins. So I've got trapdoor,
remote control, and style points, and we will combine all
of these things together and we're gonna make a big,
(05:15):
giant box that we're gonna return later today. All right,
So a to a tongue of our law was not
only a quarterback, but he was also lousy. Now it
wasn't lousy the entire game, and we mentioned this earlier.
If you were not listening midway through, things were going
very well for Ta. In fact, the speed demons for
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the Dolphins were barbecuing the Green Bay Packers secondary. They
were enjoying the nice, soft cheese defense of the Packers.
And if you watched only the first half and then
had something else to do, whatever that might be, whether
it's a family commitment or you had to take a
nice nap, or like me, go out and get some
(06:00):
Chinese food, whatever you were doing, all right, whatever you're
doing there, if you only watch the first half, you're
likely wondering what the hullabaloo is. At halftime, Ta was
averaging nineteen yards per a tempt. You only attempted twelve
passes in the first half, completed nine of them for
an average of nineteen yards per attempt, had a touchdown,
a passer rating of one hundred and forty four plause,
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and he had a couple of darts that he connected with.
Jalen Waddle had an eighty four yard catching run touchdown
Tyreek Hill fifty two yard reception. And so you get
to nineteen yards per at Temple when you get those
big pass plays. And then in the second half and
specifically the fourth quarter. All of a sudden, and I'm
(06:43):
not sure exactly when it happened, but this trap door
opened up and Ta fell into a pit of anacondas
and he sucked at a time you cannot suck. Now,
how bad was You'd like to think, if you're a
dolphin apologist, that this was a rock bottom situation because
twa after starting nine of twelve in the first half,
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in the second half, he was nine of thirteen, so
it was about the same as one one more attempt,
same number of completions, but only eighty one yards passing
in the second half. That's six point two yards per
attempt and no touchdowns. And the three interception at Brod
three interceptions forty six passer rating, those three turnovers happening
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on the final three drives for the Dolphins. Good afternoon,
good evening, and good night, turn out the lads. The
parties over, at least it was on this day for
the Dolphins. Now, Page two is to a tongue of iloa,
really the long term answer for Miami, and you have
(07:53):
to pause for a second. This flatulence continues a free
fall for the Dolphins quarterback, and there's a saying that
in professional sports and really life in general. But we
worry about sports in this part of the radio. So
life happens very fast in the NFL. In one month.
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One month, and we still ain't even done with the month.
But the Dolphins who've done playing this month of December
TWA went from high for looton MVP candidate doing the walk,
the bench McMahon walk, and he's had his chess stiles.
I Hey, look at met You said I was out
bum and you Papa lazers. You had those arrogant Dolphin
(08:38):
fans who were feeling their oats, who were bragging about
two of this, two of that and all that stuff.
He was in MVP candidate, not the favorite, but he
was strolling around as an MVP candidate and he was
held in high regard. And in the span of one
month he has gone from MVP candidate to rinky dink
quarterback bedraggled Torah up from the floor up. December the
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month of dumpster diving for Tua. How bad has it been.
I'm glad you guys. The last four games the month
of December he has been obliterated. TOUA the completion percentage
barely over fifty six touchdowns, five interceptions in a fumble,
so that is one touchdown for every turnover and a
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passer rating of below eighty one. Now, remember in the
mid nineties is good. One hundred plus is really good.
So that would be a player who is not the
long term answer any lies detected, I say there are
no lies detected in that. Now, the question that has
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to be answered before everyone goes stir crazy associated with
in Miami Pro football. Is this merely a speed bump
for the Dolphins or has the NFL now feed gured
out toa that the Dolphins were fun to watch and
all that, But now they've gone from from drinking out
(10:08):
of a sink to a fire hose. It's not going
so well. And so have people figured out the gimmicky
Dolphin offense? And now what you're seeing here is to
a tongue of by law has been been figured out.
And so at the bare minimum this will cause Miami
brass to grab the remote control and hit the pause button.
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In terms of the big picture, you would you would
assume the position that they're not gonna be dumb dumbs
like the Arizona Cardinals, the stooges there who lock themselves
up with that pint size punk Kyler Murray who stinks
and is hurt right now? Are the Dolphins gonna make
that same mistake? Are they gonna go down that road?
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You would say no, But Ta's got one year left
on his rookie contract, so that'll keep busy for another year.
But the Dolphins are going to have to decide sooner
than later whether or not they want to pick up
the fifth year option, the dreaded fifth year option, And
so two US still has time. There's a couple of
games left to rewrite the ending. But he's dragging the
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Dolphins down by his performance here, and he's got two
up more opportunities to secure a playoff spot. It's not
looking very good right now. And I would recommend that
somebody in his stocking gave him some mouthwash because he's
suffering from halitosis. But he's got really bad breath. The
two games left for the Dolphins, they played the Patriots
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in Foxborough. I'm sure the weather will be great this weekend,
and the Dolphins a one and a half point road
favored in that game. The early line Dolphins favored, and
then they close it out at home with the Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets,
and the rotting carcass of Zach Wilson or whoever ends
up playing quarterback by week a team for the Jets.
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So a couple of divisional games for the Dolphins to
close it out, all right, last words, So let's turn
the paint and we'll go to the Green and Gold,
the Green Bay Packers. So are the Packers going to
make the postseason? They won three games in a row.
They certainly have a path to salvation in the playoff nation.
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But in all honesty, unpopular opinion. I am now going
to give an unpopular opinion. I'll get away from the
microphone here in a moment. But in all honesty, I'm
not impressed with the Green Bay Packers. I'm not impressed.
That says flawed football team to me. And I know
everyone's going crazy for the Packers and they're back, and
(12:43):
I don't want to be a prison of the moment.
I'm not getting caught up in the tidal wave of
media hyperbole and everyone's tickling the ivories with how great
the Packers are. All of a sudden, I take a
step back, and I give you no style points, all right.
The Chiefs Heads have three wins in a row against
the Bears, Rams, and Dolphins. Two of those games were
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gift wrapped put under the tree by the opposing quarterbacks.
The Bears had a big lead and then Josh Fields
a couple of interceptions in the fourth quarter. Where have
we seen that? I don't know to a three interception
of the fourth quarter. The Bears are a wretched team
and the Packers needed two interceptions by Fields in order
(13:28):
to win that game, a team they normally dominate. And
Ta and the Dolphins right now, in this moment, the
Dolphins are not a good football team. That you heard
the sound Timber, Yeah, the tree is falling, tim Yeah,
and right now to a tongue of Byla, he actually
fell into the tree of suck and I think he
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hit every branch in the tree of suck on his
way down there. So that's not as impressive win for
the Packers. So they don't have any impressive wins. And
the Ram game, the Ram players, when I saw the
look on that Ram sidelines when they walked out on
the field in that cold chili weather at Green Bay.
They had lost because of the weather at Lambeau field.
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So listen, the Packers are in the right place at
the right time. They are the beneficiaries, the Benny beneficiaries
of this. But I'm not going to extol the virtues
of the green Bay Packers. Now, the Packers, they will
be favored the final two games of the year at
home against the Vikings and the Lions. A couple of
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NFC North Dome teams teams said, even though they play
in cities where it gets chili, they play in the
great indoors. Now they've got to play in the great outdoors.
And so that's what's left on the table for the
green Bay Packers. They also need the need a little
bit of help here because they lost to both Washington
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and the New York Giants, and as a result, they
have to be ahead of them. If they're tied, the
tie goes on the head to head tiebreaker to Washington
and the Giants. So it's not a garrong te that
they will stick the landing here, the Packers and make
the playoffs. But if you think the NFL is scripted,
(15:17):
if you're one of those that believe it's all scripted,
then it's it's a great storybook situation. Nor is he
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time to follow Roberto on Twitter at Raider Underscore Rob
twenty four say what's on your mind? Now back to
Ben Maller, Hey, we'll take some costs here. Also react
shaudon from the Mallard Militia, the leader of the hour
two model, all about Tua Tongueabloah and the green Bay
(17:03):
Packers as they lose, or the Tell and the Dolphins
as they lose to the green Bay Packers and mister
Luciano right since this ten out of ten on the
mon monologue, Benjamin, although green Bay has won a couple
of games in a row, they are not going to
make it to the playoffs, and that goes the same
for the Miami Dolphins. So he so he says. Jason says,
(17:27):
re Listening to the best of the Mallard Show last
night makes me think Eddie ended up like Michael Jordan
when he left the NBA for baseball, especially with the
fact he may have been as dirty as the ass Jos. Well,
thank you, Jason, and I'm glad we got to replay that.
It was one of the darkest days on the show
(17:48):
here in the year twenty twenty two. Eddie a man
who likes to brag about integrity and being the voice
of reason on the show, and he was dragged down
and that I don't know what caused Eddie to use
one of his pavloft dog techniques there to get Justin
and Cincinnati to go down that despicable road, but it
(18:11):
was quite embarrassing, and it was a dark moment on
the show. And we'll move on from that. Let's go
to the phones and we'll say hello to any meany
miny mo. Let's say hello to Emmet in Olympia, Washington,
an aka Blind Emmett the Seahawk Fan. Hello Emmett, Welcome,
Hello Big Ben. Happy holidays. I know a Christmas, which
(18:34):
was technically yesterday, was I believe the last day of Hanuka, though,
you know, I had to throw that in there for
you and shout out for Roberto Brandon and Nick for
working to day. But hey, I was gonna call about
the Tom Brady, you know, if he washed topic. But
after this two a monologue I had to call on
rant on tour because this game was so winnable for
the Miami Dolphin, right it was. You know, that's twenty.
(18:57):
They dropped twenty points in the first task. And you know,
they dropped as much points as you or I have
dropped in the NFL in the second half A zero nothing,
not a right. I just think it's embarrassing. Three picks
in the fourth quarter for two a top of viola bent,
just embarrassing. He costs his team the game. And you know,
I was watching the game with the family, and you know,
(19:18):
my Grandpa Keet saying like they were seeing my pretty
obvious ball that you know two us. It wasn't you know,
it was all too as fault. Basically, I just think
he went airmail. He went airmail, Brandy. But the ball,
the ball was sam on him. It's like he the
Packers are playing these exotic defenses he had never seen before,
which I find, yeah, hard to believe here. But yeah,
more importantly, how did you do with the Christmas gifts here? Brian?
(19:42):
Did you did you get hooked up? Emmett? Did they
are you too old now? How you aged out of
the cool gifts? Or are they still spoiling you? The family. Now,
I didn't really want much this year, Like there wasn't
much on the list, but you know, the main thing
I really asked for his money and that's what I got.
So see you now, you're old man. You just want money.
You're not kid, you know, kid want your toys? Want
(20:02):
from candy. That's pretty solid. Yeah candy. It's like, oh yeah,
it's not bad candy there. Yeah. Well one more thing
here quickly. I agree with you on the Packers. I
just think I can't buy into them. You know, Miami
completely choked that game away. So Brandon, the producers, you know,
you made him do the Autumn you know, the Autumn
Win the Raiders song. We should get Brandon to do
(20:24):
some other singing of you know another song. I think
that would be great to add a wonderful idea. What
would you what would you like to hear? And I
think one of the very talented people hear Foxbus Radio,
Brandon and Little Misguided with the teams he likes. But
what what songs would you like to see him sing? Anything?
In protect you? I know that Dolphins have a fight song,
which is kind of that would be a pretty funny
thing to have Brandon sing that. We don't play that
(20:46):
on the show though. That's the problem. The Dolphins have
a lot of NFL teams have these old nineteen seventies
fight songs. They all sound the same, but it'd be
it'd be funny if you think of something. Let let
us know him and how about that hay Nick? Nick?
Oh oh yeah, this is your dream? This is where
Emmett he's got like on your big board, Emmett, where's
(21:06):
Nick rank on your your anchor big board? Is he
near the top in the middle. He's a he's a
Bay Area sports fan, so he likes a Niners. I
don't know how I feel about that big band. But
my question for Nick was, if you could choose the
song for Brandon the thing on the radio, what would
it be? Oh? Oh man, you're assuming Nick, this is
the music gene. You don't know? You don't know? Nick?
(21:27):
Are you a music guy? Are you? I mean? I
wouldn't say music guy, more sports guy than music guy.
But um, I'm gonna have to think about this. Maybe
like a classic Lady Gaga poker face that'd be a
classic with your here Brandon sing that brand? Now? Are
you all like Justin Bieber and sorry or something like that.
(21:49):
He gets some get those ooze in there, and yeah,
that could be good. Brandon, are you open to anything here? Brandon?
Are you willing to sing? I don't know. Maybe I
could pull off some Berry White. Oh that would be
even better. All Berry White. Oh that's the all time
Berry White who used that. There is a show on
radio called love Line and they'd have Barry on there
(22:10):
and just him talking. The ladies would get all excited.
It was amazing. All right, all right, I Emmett, thank you,
all right, YouTube, there's a great Emmett checking in. It
is the Bandit Mallard Show. As we continue on through
the overnight, we do have Mallard to the Third Degree
coming up a little bit later in the hour. But
I always love a good mistake, because I make many
of them. If you hear this show, you know there's
(22:32):
one mistake after another. I bring that up because over
the weekend, the Pittsburgh Steelers played the Lost Wages Nevada
Raiders in a primetime NFL game, and the NFL social
media department made a small mistake. Did anyone catch the
mistake here? This is quite the mistake. So the they
(22:54):
posted a photo on social media and it showed an
umber thirty two banner that had been hung in the
stadium formerly known as Hines Field there in Pittsburgh, the
House of the Steelers, and it said right but by
right next to it was a flag that had been
unferrelled right next to the Franco Harris number thirty two.
(23:17):
And the NFL on their social media channel posted Franco's
Italian Army and then they had the heart logo there
as a side and Indians. There was there was one
mistake there, there was not They thought the NFL thought
that this was the Italian flag. That difference, there's a yeah,
it's a small, small difference. This was not the Italian flag.
(23:41):
This was the Mexican flag that had been unferrelled there.
And I uh, I don't know, Roberto, I'm going out
on a limb here. That might have been a group
of raider fans that might have made the trip to
Pittsburgh that might have had the flag there with them. Possibly,
I don't know. But lots of Mexican people from Mexico, uh,
make the trek out Pittsburgh. Yeah, there are a lot
(24:02):
of sea fans in Mexico. Okay, All right, well, whatever
the case. Uh, somebody brought a big Mexican flag, and
and in the NFL some the intern. We're not intern,
but you know the NFL, let's just say the old people.
The NFL hire young people to do the social media
because they don't really understand how it all works. And
it was a very nice gesture. It was it would
(24:23):
have been perfect if it had been the Italian flag,
but it was not. The it was not the Italian flag.
Racist in the NFL quickly deleted that and were I
think we're good on that. So there you there you go.
And uh, of course there the difference between the Italian
(24:45):
flag and the Mexican flag would be the logo in
the middle. There, that's the big, the big difference. Other
than that, I mean to be fair here, Roberto, and
I'm not a flag guy, but to be fair, the
eagle on top of the cactus will at the snake
in his mouth. Yes, I don't think they have cactus
in Italy, but maybe they don't. I've never been in Italy.
I've had a lot of Italian food, but I've never
been there. But they had the logo in the middle
(25:06):
of the dead giveaway Dad giveaway. So that's the big
blooper over the weekend, and oh what a blooper it is.
We'll take some more calls. We have Mallard of the
third degree coming up in a little bit. Also the
answer to a great broadcasting mystery over the weekend. If
you're watching the aforementioned Dolphin Packer game, you probably saw
(25:29):
Pam Oliver. Pam Oliver, veterans sideline reporter for Fox, who
was having some issues. People were wondering whether or not
she had been hitting the mini bar and she was
slurring her words during the Christmas Day broadcast. But now
we know the rest of the story and what that
was all about. We'll get to it. We'll take some
(25:50):
more calls. But right now, let's get over to the
Sporting News desk and here he is with all the
scores are man Nick. And the good thing about Christmas
tons of game, tons of games, tons of games, more
more so this year than ever. Yeah, with the NFL
on a on a Sunday, it was very nice. Didn't
have to watch as many people. Nick at the NBA
very concerned when the ratings come out that they are
(26:11):
going to get smoked. They will get smoked in the
ratings because I mean, you know, the Buccaneers and Cardinals
games wasn't exactly that wasn't a great game, but at
the end it was compelling. Nonetheless, you go to overtime,
you have your Tom Brady comeback and no one's watching him.
Get some sons, the Rams Broncos, two teams not going
(26:32):
to the playoffs. Who yes, just bad football. Yeah, you
know the way the NFL does it. They they they
screw up and they get more people to watch. It's fascinating,
it's it's amazing. But as you were talking about too
a tongue of Iloa with the Maller monologue, what did
his head coach have to say, Mike McDaniel, You know,
(26:52):
the ball just kind of got away from Tah which
is not characteristic for him by any means. He was,
you know, executing at a pretty high level, you know,
to start the game, and you know, I don't know
where that went, but that's something that will him and
I will really comb over. And you know, remember Ben
in the offseason, a lot of concern about his arm
(27:14):
strength that maybe all those overthrows he's just trying to
prove everybody wrong. It's fair point he's trying to get
the next Sizzle video. And I like when he threw
the ball into triple coverage down that one interception. That
was bold. You know, you gotta be a risk taker
sometimes in life. Gun Slinger two a tongue of Iloa.
Three guys wearing with the gold Packer helmets there just
(27:34):
truck the ball. See what happens. Maybe they able to
drop it or something bounced to your guy twenty six
twenty the final score and that result had ramifications in
the AFC playoff picture. It sets up the Chargers with
an opportunity. Now on Monday Night, they beat the Colts,
they're in the playoffs. Also at the same time, it
keeps the Steelers and Raiders alive at least four the
(27:55):
time being had the Buccaneers keeping themselves a tomp the
nc health as they mounted a ten point fourth quarter
come back. They forced over time and then Ryan suck
Up kicked a field goal for the winner. Nineteen sixteen
Bucks over the Cardinals in Arizona. Tampa can clinch the
division next weekend with a win over the Panthers. And
you talked about the Rams and Broncos fifty one to fourteen.
(28:18):
The final score. Cam Akers ran for three touchdowns Russell
Wilson through three interceptions. Wilson says, it's a low moment
right now. We're at a low moment right now. I
don't fear low moments because I know that every time
I've been in a low moment, I've always come to
the other side of it. And that's in life. Losing
my dad, that's in life, going through obstacles and stuff.
That's in life, your career, whatever it may be. And
(28:39):
all I know is to keep fighting, keep battling. And
that's what I'm gonna give. I'm gonna give everything I
have every day. Yeah, but he's been saying that all year. Yeah,
it hasn't quite worked out. Last time Baker Mayfield was
part of a team that scored fifty one points? Was
it was it? Back in college. I remember that the
Browns had that big playoff game against the Steelers. I
don't think there's no way scored fifty one. That was
(29:02):
the game that Roethlisberger threw a bunch of interceptions in
the first half, and it was it was crazy. I mean,
the Browns won big against the Steers, but I don't
think they put fifty one points up. That has to go.
You gotta go back to Oklahoma. I would think the
last time a Baker Mayfield quarterback team put up fifty
one points offense. All right, you're you're good. Forty eight
(29:22):
was close close, but yeah, you probably have to go
back to that um that Georgia game when they played
in the Rose Bowl in the playoffs or something that
was probably both teams I think got in the fifties
are just about look at you college football knowledge right there.
All right? That was that was as good a game
as we've seen in the last ten years. Probably by
(29:44):
the way. We do have some clinching scenarios for the
NFC next week. Philly clinches the one seed and the
division with a win. They've got the Saints. Giants clinch
a playoff spot with a win against the Colts and
the Bucks. As we mentioned, they clinched the NFC South
with a win against the Panthers. Panthers meanwhile, if they
win out, they would win the division and the NBA
(30:07):
Nuggets meet the Suns in overtime one twenty eight to
one twenty five. NICOLEA. Yokich had another triple double, eighty
third of his career forty one points, fifteen rebounds, fifteen assists.
Warriors handled the Grizzlies one twenty three to one on nine. Now,
this basketball game was compelling then because these two teams
are starting to develop a real hatred on the court.
(30:27):
Jordan pull at thirty two points, but he got ejected
to the fourth quarter. Golden State racked up six technical
fouls in the game. Yeah, well, they're trying to show
some fight here because that was a home game, though
they don't. They don't have any fight on the road
and no steph current theory is they hate each other.
That's why they don't play well in the records. At home,
you can avoid people. You can kind of go out
(30:49):
your own speed at home, But when you're on the road, planes, trains,
and automobiles, when you travel with the team professionally, you
gotta stay at the same hotels, you gotta same team buses,
the whole deal. It's a big painting that took us, yes,
and so at home you can avoid that. You don't.
You can be there, you know, you gotta be show
up at a certain time and all that, but you
(31:09):
don't have to be around the people as much. The
people that you don't like. Yeah, where is that? Had
the Celtics taken down the Bucks one thirty nine to
one eighteen. That was a meeting of the top two
teams in the Eastern Conference. Dallas Mavericks unveiled a statue
for Dirk Navitsky and they had a big third quarter
against the Lakers to pull away one twenty four to
(31:30):
one fifteen. Luka don Chiz thirty two points. Lebron was
one off before they knocked that statue down by Dirk Davitsky.
You know, he probably did something he shouldn't have done.
And how many generations we have to get to before
they knocked that statue down. Oh, that'd be terrible to
come on, Okay, I'm just saying I hope none down
the line, all these statues get knocked down the way
(31:51):
of the world. Man tear that statue down, all right?
Last score for his six Ers won their eighth in
a row. They beat the Knicks one nineteen to one twelve.
Joel Embiid thirty five points. James Harden had a double
double twenty nine points, thirteen rebounds. Back to you, Ben,
all right, Spam Malli show we roll on. We'll have
Mallard to the third degree. In the moment, we'll take
some more phone calls. Also get to that Pam Oliver
story as the Internet was going crazy. What's going on
(32:13):
with Pam Oliver on the sidelines. We'll tell you what
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television forever and ever and ever and ever on the
sidelines and you hear her semi regularly on Fox Sports Radio.
(32:56):
She'll call in on the weekends. She's been doing that
a long time. Even back when I was on the
weekends with Looney Tunes and we did an NFL show,
we talked to Pam quite a bit, and so she
was doing the sidelines for the Packer game and people
noticed something was a little amiss here. What's going on?
We need to know. Inquiring minds would like to know
(33:17):
the great Pam Oliver mystery. What is this all about?
So anyway, during the game, people were hearing her slur
her words, and most of us associate that with being drunk,
but apparently that is not the case. Pam Oliver was
not wasted on the sidelines so much to the dismit,
(33:38):
at least if you believe the theory that she was
not giving updates on whiskey and bourbon and scotch on
the sidelines, but instead. Pam Oliver suffers from a migraine
chronic migraine headache condition which sporadically will cause her when
(33:59):
she gets the headaches, to slur her words and sound
like she's schnockered. That is the story. She's talked about
this and the passage in an interview not that long
ago where she says per month she's she's averages. At
one point she was averaging five or six debilitating my
grand headaches, and as of about a year ago she
(34:22):
was down to three per month. But when she gets them,
they end up causing her to have nausea and vomiting
and sickness and whatnot. But she that's the story anyway,
So I'm not her doctor, neither are you. I would
assume the position though, having worked in media long enough
(34:44):
that if Pam Oliver was boozing it up on the
sidelines and sounded like that, she would not be continuing
on the sidelines. And she's had a long run, so
I tend to buy that she was suffering from some
kind of situation on with the migraine headaches, which is if,
unfortunately I get bad headache. I don't get the migraines,
(35:05):
but I get the bad headache every once in a while,
normally when I take a call and then and then
I want to bang my head against the wall and
all that. Justin and Cincinnati does not believe the story
going around that Pam Oliver suffers from the migraine headaches.
Of course, Justin the last person you would want to
go to on that. Let's go to the phone slow
(35:27):
right now, and we'll say hello, any meany mighty mo Fillmore,
Mike is in where else but Filmore? Hello, Philmore, Mike, welcome, Hey,
what's up? Hey? On behalf of the black community, Pam.
Pam Oliver's hair is not a proved by the black community.
(35:48):
How are you the spokesman for the black community here,
Mike wa When did that happen? Hey man, I'm just
letting you know. I'm a black man, a proud black man.
Hell On behalf of all my cousins, the sister because
his sisters. And then they all be like, what is
Pam Oliver doing with her hair down? Melika Andrew. It's
(36:10):
a whole different story. Okay. If you were talking about kay,
you're talking about the NBA. Hey man, Okay, I didn't
care about done. Now your phone's dying here filmore phones dying.
You don't You didn't care about these games, But you
were gonna say something, Yes, what were you gonna say? No?
I was just gonna say that fact that the games
(36:32):
from the NFL work cool. But people that like the
NBA lood NBA. Don't talk about the NBA like it's
a dying sport. This saint baseball. Now. The NBA is
a bad product, and I'm not into the NBA. I'll
be in here when the playoffs come around because that's
when the players will actually try and they'll show up
to work, but you can't Filmore Mirke, Listen, I've loved
the NBA over the years. I've supported the NBA, but
(36:54):
I can't anymore. These guys take way too much time off.
They don't treat the regulacies. And it's not just the players,
it's the coaches and the teams. It's an organizational philosophy.
It's this disease that has gotten into the NBA where
they don't give a crap about the fans. And years
ago when I when I'm back in the old days,
when I was coming the NBA, guys would literally feel
(37:16):
bad when they missed a game on the road if
they were on an Eastern Conference team. They came to
the West because fans paid a lot of money to
watch them play and they knew they were the product. Now,
the players the mindset changed so much. Filmore Mike that
they don't give a crap. They don't care when they
don't show up and people pay a lot of money
to watch them perform. It's embarrassing. I totally agree with that.
(37:41):
I think it as well. Good think of it as well.
I totally agree, But what the hell is going on?
It's to me, honestly, it's soft. It's hell a week.
And I don't care about Chef Curry being good seven
years from now. I've seen him for thirteen years. That's
all I need, straight up. I don't care about who
(38:02):
cares if if they go, oh, it's gonna be good
at eight years. The Warriors may not be good at
eight years. And man, what is what is Stephtory playing
trixy games? Mean nothing because he ain't gonna be playing
in the playoffs. That's right, listen, I'm right there with you,
and it's fool's gold. We saw this a couple of
years ago. The Lakers rested Anthony Davis, a bunch of
the Clippers rested Kawhi Leonard. They both got hurt in
(38:24):
the playoffs. Anyway, so you can't you can't. It's just
and I hope that Colma that smarter people, uh get
get get their head around the NBA, because it's it's
a shame what's gone on to that sport. It's really pathetic.
And and anyway, all right, well, I think for timing reasons,
(38:44):
we're gonna bump back Mallard of the third dude. I
think that's the proper thing to do. For ratings purposes
because there's you know, there's big ratings the day after Christmas. God,
this is very important. Any reason, thank you well? If
blating fillmore, Mike, he got me started. Here's the I'll
blame me. I'll pass the buck to him. Ripping Pam
Oliver's hair. I don't know all right anyway, here's the
(39:05):
Insta trivia. Forty nine a rookie brock Purty. He was
at the Warrior Game. I believe he got a nice slebation.
Brock Purty joined Blank as the only quarterbacks since nineteen
fifty with at least two touchdown passes and a passer
rating of one hundred or higher in each of his
first three career starts. Again, brock Purty forty nine are
(39:29):
rookie joined Blank as the only quarterback since nineteen fifty
with at least two touchdown passes and a passer rating
of one hundred or higher in each of his first
three career starts. That's the Insta Trivia. The answer next.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
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(39:51):
you up at night more than the authentic sound of
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Amplify the Mallard brand. Now let's get back to the
(40:13):
show and Ben Maller and exciting news here. For ratings purposes,
we are going to shift the third degree portion of
the show coming up next hour. That'll be massively important.
I did see Mark the walker who says he suffers
from migraine headaches. He buys into what the story is about,
(40:34):
Pam Oliver. Here's the Insta trivia forty nine ers rookie
brock Purty joined Blank as the only quarterback since nineteen
fifty with at least two touchdown passes and a passer
rating of one hundred or higher in each of his
first three career starts. That is the question. What is
(40:55):
the answer? Let's see does anyone in the Mallar Militia
know the answer? We go page down, page down, Kathy
in Madison had a Pam Oliver take. We have Jordan
in Ohio, who's going with Panthers legend Baker Mayfield as
his answer. David says Gordon with the poster dunk in
(41:21):
overtime for the win, although he wrote poser dunk, I
think that's a faux paw. Anthony and Anaheim says it
is broken. Carlos Correa that is the answer. Brooklyn Decker
from the Dixter parody account, Saint Nicholas from Fergdog, Texas
Trucker Kent going with Tim Couch as his answer. Schuman
(41:42):
Do says it's got to be steaming. Willie Beeman, Jay
Schrader from polyde that's his answer. Jim Zorn guts by
Rob in Minnesota, Mario Lemieux from Our Friend Alf the
Alien Opiner in Springfield, mass home of the Pro Basketball
Hall of Fame where Mufett McGraw is enshrined. Sean in
the Valley of the Sun up listening to us on
(42:03):
the holiday weekend, going with Zeke Brodkowski. Josh Fields from
Drip Heart the correct answer. We're short on time, so
Nick's out of the show. The correct answer is Hall
of famer Dan Marino,
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