December 26, 2022 • 42 mins
Ben roasts the Denver Broncos, who have been a complete, utter failure this season, specifically Russell Wilson. Ben feels that Wilson’s inflated ego has been the core problem for the “Donkeys” this season, and feels he was way to hyped going into the season. Now, the Broncos find themselves in a dilemma, because they are on the hook for a ton of money owed to him. Ben feels that they need to reach out to a few teams, and see if any of them will bite on a trade. Plus, a delayed edition of “Maller to the Third Degree,” and “Instant Advice” for Tua Tagovailoa.
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Hello and welcome. It's our number three, Hour three of
our radio program. The Rams and Broncos take the center
stage here an hour number three. And what happened to
Russell Wilson in Denver, not just in this game against
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the Rams a blowout loss, but all season? And how
do the Broncos handle Russell Wilson going forward? Meaning will
we see a trade? Is that even possible? What's the
fallout from this debacle in Denver? And does on the
other side, the ramside, does Baker Mayfield get another shot
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Good to have you hanging out with us and our
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lead this hour coming from La La Land. A word
the wise, the NFL is king. Even a dog food
matchup between two teams that that stink the Rams and
Brocos causes a malar monologue they were hanging out in
the hood up to No Good and Inglewood Sofi Stadium.
The scene Jim Nance and Tony Romo wearing awkward, ugly
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Christmas sweaters. They had the CBS call on this game.
A couple of teams that are lost at c and
Mono Amano Amano as they go at it there and
the latrine matchup. Now, I don't know if you saw
this game, maybe you had family commitments, or he just
found something else to do, but Baker Mayfield striking a
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pose like he was back in college. He threw two
touchdown passes cam Akers rumbling and stumbling and bumbling for
one hundred and eighteen yards and a career high three touchdowns.
Murmur with cam Akers left the Rams and a hullabaloo
earlier in the year, and they were talked that he
was gonna be traded and nobody wanted him, and he
ended up coming back with his tail between his legs
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with the Rams with cam Akers a monster game and
the Ram defense was all over the place and the
Broncos on the wrong end of a RAM fifty one
fourteen wins. Second victory for the lowly Rams. They've been
miserable all year, but since mid October with Baker Mayfield
they have a winning record. LA improves to five and
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ten or two and one in the Baker Mayfield the
era Denver El FLOPPERU for the Broncos as they are
now four and eleven, and the misery continues in the
Mile High City. But the better story is in that
locker room for our purposes, and so that is where
we will begin to. Let us discuss the question what
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happened to Russell Wilson in this game and overall in Denver?
What has happened to this guy? As it was more
business as usual for this year for Russell Wilson, as
he was dreadful. So I've got inflation, human sacrifice and
temptation island, and we will combine all of these things
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together and we are going to make Rocky Mountain oisters,
which I ate because I lost a bet and they're disgusting.
I do not recommend eating them. So let's get into
it right now now. Number one slim pickings for Russell Wilson.
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And if you go back and listen to the old
archive of audio content that we put out here on
the Ben Maller Show, everything saved for posterity's sake. You
know that we expected Russell Wilson to be okay. We
thought he would be average. We did not have him
falling into Dante's inferno on our bingo card. This is
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a dimension that seemed impossible that we were going to
see a lot of Sunday fun days for Russell Wilson.
But here we are, and this is the reality of
the situation. Russell Wilson apologist, the Russell Wilson marching and
showder society. They're the ones that are blaming other people.
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We see this with all court backs. It's like, well,
it's not his fault, offensive lone fall, it's the skill players,
it's the culture staff, it's that altitude in Denver, there's
no accountability, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah. So I believe I got theory on this.
I don't think it's the coach's fault. I don't think
it's the skilled players of the offensive line. I believe
it's called an inflation situation, as in the inflation of
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Russell Wilson's he gout right, he got money and fame.
Mitigating factors Now, Russell Wilson had a taste of that
in Seattle. But the way the people of the Rocky
Mountains kissed his tookis as the hero, the messiah when
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he arrived in Colorado, and oh that was jet fuel,
the center of attention, the center of attention for Russell Wilson,
and he soaked it all up. And he's not he's
not the same. He's not the scratching claw, overachieving quarterback
that he was when he came on the scene in
Seattle as he started how many people started out this way, humble,
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hard working, and he's still pointdexter. He's still a nerd
Bod's He's more than that, not just point deexter. He's
mister unlimited, all that nonsense, riding the wave. Of course,
it's a tidal wave with Sierra. The fact that Russell Wilson,
this is a great stat that sums up how Russell's
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gone a little past the humble stage of live as
he came out of nowhere in NFL circles and became
the guy like a bull in a china shop when
he came on the scene there in Seattle. But Russell Wilson,
all right, He's now had another touchdown pass in this
blowout loss to the Rams. That means he's now got
twelve touchdown passes. That's a great accomplishment. He now has
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matched the number of bathrooms that he has in his
mansion in Colorado, his humble abode in Denver as his
home there has twelve bathrooms. He now has one touchdown
pass for everyone of those bathrooms when he gets back
to his palace in Colorado. So he got paid. The
Broncos got played. They signed up site unseen, and there's
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a great lesson that will not be followed by future teams.
But the lesson here is rather obvious. This is a
teachable moment. No matter how good an athlete looks, when
you acquire them in a trade, you have to make
sure that the puzzle piece fits the jigsaw puzzle. And
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everyone in Colorado was so giddy they got their franchise quarterback.
They didn't let the dust settle, and they were blinded
by the dopamine, the hit of dopamine from getting their
franchise quarterback. And they couldn't wait. God forbid, God forbid.
They waited a little bit, and see how this plays out.
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So they paid Russell Wilson top dollar and now they
are on the hook. They are on the hook the
Denver Broncos. As they thought he was riding in on
a white horse. It turned out that was a Trojan horse. Now, Pato,
So how did the Broncos handle Russell Wilson? Going forward?
It's gonna be a fascinating story that will continue to
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eat up much of our time on the air waves
of the Ben Maller Show. So the first move here,
I got it all mapped out in my head. I
want to run this by it all right, I'm gonna
buy it. So the first move will be to look
for a guardian angel. Will they be able to find
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a sucker, someone gullible enough to take a shot at Russ? Yeah,
you have to find a willing trade partner, someone who
is also delusional enough to absorb the one hundred and
four million Aaron ted for a falling star. Don't let
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a falling star fall on you. And that's how much
money Russ has between twenty twenty three and twenty twenty five.
So my unsolicited advice for le Broncos, you reach out
to the Colts, the Commanders, and the Bucks, among others.
Throw the Texans them there if you want to see
if anyone is biting nothing. Nothing is impossible. Now we
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have seen Carson Wentz, Jared Goff, and Nick Foles traded
with massive contracts. Players that signed contracts they said they
were immovable. We heard it on these airways. But those
teams that had those contracts were able to get over
the hun So you could sell Russell Wilson to a
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team desperate to get a franchise quarterback for nothing. Change
of scenery two point the Great Awakening. They would hire
a former confidant of Wilson, say somebody that was on
the staff in Seattle with Pete Carroll that knows how
to squeeze out success, recreate the Pacific Northwest magic. Now,
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when that door closes, and we doubt that's going to happen,
you then pivot to human sacrifice. What is that you ask, Well,
that would be Nathaniel Hackett going to the guillotine. His
ass is grass. The Broncos will fire. They're in competent coach.
You gotta have a fall guy, you gotta have it,
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you know, and I know right this guy's been in
over his head from the very beginning. Now, Hackett will
be what's known as collateral damage Denver. We'll get a
new coach and a new coaching staff, and this will
be a salvage and recovery mission. Is what's gonna happen here.
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That's what I see in my crystal ball as a
distant relative of Nostredamis and friend of No Studinus. A
right final point, and No Studinas is giddy with schadenfreude
because No Studinas lives in the Seattle area and he
is loving every mistake by Russell Wilson. Now final point.
Turn the page over to the L. A. I Ams.
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Does Baker Mayfield, based on his recent play, get another
shot at being the man a starting quarterback in the
NFL circa twenty twenty three And so we're at a
fork in the road in Baker Mayfield's career. So the
arrow is indicating that he will get another opportunity. Mayfield
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has shown enough spark that someone will call him up
and say, hey, we'd like you to play quarterback for us.
He's been commendable, not over the top grade. People forget
that game against the Raiders. For ninety percent of that game,
Baker Mayfield was bad. And then you only remember the
ending of the game and the late couple of drives
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the game winner against the Raiders, and in Green Bay
he was pretty much useless in that game, and he
put on a masterpiece theater performance against the Broncos. But
this was really more about Denver not being interested in
playing and having the Christmas blues and just not shown
up with the old stink bomb. But the question of
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does this sparkling performance cover up a season of mostly misery,
and I think the answer is yes, that all that
crap that he had in Carolina that Sean McVay has
been able to polish the turd Baker Mayfield here. It's
not a full resurrection, but it's a bit of a rebirth.
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And this makes Baker Mayfield the forbidden fruit on Temptation Island.
And after a dog food performance with the Carolina Panthers,
man was he bad? He was wicked bad? Does Baker
Mayfield go down the garden path again? And this is
where it's on Baker, because you have to make the call.
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And you went to a bad Browns team and you
made the postseason one year, you go to a dreadful
Carolina Panther team and you end up getting released asking
for your release before the season ends. Now you're on
a bad Rams team. Is Baker Mayfield willing to re
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engage with a dumpster fire type team? Is he willing
to drive the garbage truck again for the Texans of
the Falcons, the Cardinals who need a quarterback because their
little pint size quarterbacks gonna be hurt for most of
next year, or the Bucks when Tom Brady goes somewhere else.
So there's plenty of possibilities out there. They're mostly bad teams.
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Would he be better off staying with a team that
has a chance to be at least mediocre like the
Rams as they get their guy back next year as
a high end backup, and also an insurance policy with
a better coach. And you know that Matthew Stafford, even
if he comes back and plays next year, is very
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fragile and likely to miss a bunch of games, and
you could continue to learn the ropes under Sean McVeigh.
That would seem to be the road to go. But
you want to play. What fun is football when you're
not playing? So it's gonna be very interesting to watch
how this all plays out. Will Baker get horn swoggled
into going to another dumb, dumb organization, bad team under
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the false advertising that things are going to be different,
where if you go to the Atlanta Falcons on it's
not the same old Falcons, but then it is Or
does he end up going to a team that already
has a quarterback like the Rams we use them as
an example, or another team that's projected to be at
least a mid level contender in the NFL and they
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can sweeten the pot for you and give a chance
to be the backup and knowing that in a seventeen
game season, you're going to have the chance to play.
All Right, It is the Bande Maller Show. If you'd
like to comment on any of that, we'll take your
calls at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, also
on Twitter at Bandon Maller. We'll have coming up in
a bit. We've got Mallard of the third degree. We'll
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push that back a few Here's the Maller Riddle, the
Mallor Riddle of the night. Here it is Dallas Mavericks
star Luca don Chick was upset he forgot to accessorize
his pregame cowboy outfit with his new pet Blank again
Dallas Mavericks star Luca don Chick was upset he was
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kidding around with the media. He said he forgot to
accessorize his pregame cowboy outfit with his new pet Blank.
That is the Maller riddle. If you know the answer,
send me a message on Twitter. Follow me on Twitter
at Ben Maller. Will you have the answer to that?
And Mallard of the third degree. We'll get to it
and we will do it next. He blew me off
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to all of that content and later this hour the
instant AdviceLine the Mallar Riddle. Though Mavericks star Luca don
Chick as the NBA had a bunch of Christmas Day games,
but Luca don Chick of the Mavericks was upset he
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forgot to accessorize his pregame cowboy outfit with his new
pet blank. According to Luca, he was he was bummed
out he did not have that. That is the Mallard
riddle of the night. And let's see if anybody knows
the answer. Bengal fan Bryan says he forgot his chia
pet as the answer. Ferg Doug says his pet Arnie
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Spanier was the way to go. Donkey sausage going with
pet anaconda as the answer. Robin Minnesota says his new
pet hairless mole rat as the answer. Mallor prop guy
clearly cheating, got it right? Badge up by him? Let's
see here, tightened up? Also cheated, Justin in Cincinnati going
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with a hooker and something else? What else do we have?
Page down? A lot lizard guests by Sean in Portland.
A skunk guess by the Texas Trucker. Who else do
we have? Page down? Lad? I can't read that on
the air. Pink Tutu guests by Ozzi waz armadillo from
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Eke in Rosheem, Minnesota. And Joe in Okinawa went with
a version of a pet snake, but not quite what
you were thinking there. Who else do we have page down?
Page down? I can't read that on there? All right, Nick,
do you have an answer here? Nick? You want to
take a guess? Maverickstar Luca don Chick upset he forgot
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to accessorize his pregame cowboy outfit with his new pet
blank how about a porcupine? Porcupine? All right? Fine? Answer?
Is it a porcupine. Is that the correct answer. No,
that is not the No, that is not the correct answer.
The correct answer. Luca said he was upset he forgot
to accessorize his pregame outfit with a horny toad. He
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said he forgot his horny toad at his house. And
when somebody said, are you talking about TCU Texas Christian
the horn Frogs, he said no. And somebody asked him
why he had a horny toad, and he said, because
I'm Texan. Because I'm a Texan, that's why. So with
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that in your pipe and smoke, it's the third degree
time right now, hit that button right there. Here we go.
Hit that button. That's the one right there. Third degree
Mallets maller, how about that to the third degree? This
is one big Ben gets grilled and Brandon producing the
radio program. Here he is the man, the myth, the legend,
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all right. Ben. Lions quarterback Jared Goff rips Panthers home
field conditions below NFL standard. He said, Ben, do you
think Goff has a point? Well, I saw some of
this game and I had Caroline in the game because
of the weather conditions. He has a point, not a
good one. You're the road team, it's not your home stadium.
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It's called adversity. And I thought it helped you grow
hair on your chest. What happened to the mantra that
will play anywhere in any conditions. It doesn't matter matter
whether it's a muddy, abandoned lot across the street. It
doesn't impact how we're going to play. You adapt to
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your situation. But Jared Goff's like, well, let's call for
a congressional investigation because the field was icy. This is
an atrocity. It's ridiculous. And last I checked, the field
conditions in Charlotte were the same for both teams, and
it was an act of God. An act of God.
And Jared Goff is a terrible cold weather quarterback. And
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the Lions are very lucky they play in a dome.
The bad news is they have to play outdoors in
Chicago and outdoors in Green Bay most years. Jared Goff
sucks in cold weather. Next, all right, Commander's head coach
Ron Rivera didn't name a starting quarterback for Week seventeen
in the NFL season, So Ben, does it matter if
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it's Taylor Heineke or Carson Wentz starting for the Commanders. Well,
yes it does. Number one, Taylor Heineke should be the quarterback.
Washington was bragging about his Pixie dust a few weeks ago.
Now they believe he's a lump of coal after a
bunch of turnover worthy plays. But neither one of these
Mama Luke's will be the quarterback next season. So it's
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a futile way to look at things. I'm whington the
fact that they have a chance to make the plus
they have no quarterback. My gut tells me it'll be
Heineke if the Commanders can save a couple of shekels
on the Carson Wentz contract. And also the fact that
they also are worried about draft compensation. I think we've
passed that threshold. But it's a bad situation there in Washington.
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Heineke makes a lot of reckless throws, but Carson Wentz
the locker room doesn't like it. So you're damned if
you do, you're damned if you don't. Next all right,
Golden States Draymond Green recently said he thinks the Warriors
are very fragile. Fragile after their latest horrendous road trip. Yeah,
then why is this the case? Well, it's fragility. No, listen,
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Draymond Green is the arsonist. He's the guy who lit
the whole thing on fire with the punch herd round
the NBA world on Jordan Pool. That was the record
scratch moment. And now he's like, well, I don't understand.
We're a very fragile team. I don't get it. Golden
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States has had multiple infestations. You've got Draymond and Pool
internal issues there, the haymaker in practice, the disease of
me bubbling up internally. The team wins the title, certain
guys who are secondary players like what about me? I'm underappreciated.
That creates tension and the whole thing's a hot mess. Now.
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The great thing about the NBA is the season goes
on for like seven years, and so there's plenty of
time for them to figure it out. But right now,
in this moment, they are a hot mess. And it's started.
It was started, much of it by Draymond Green. There
it is mallet to the third degree. How did we do?
Brandon the pot Yankee fan, Well, it is Christmas. You failed,
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You failed, Ben, It's one thirty. This stead have been
over a long time ago. This is for ratings. Roberto,
you don't jump in on this, ROBERTA. Brandon Brandon. Were
you influenced by Roberto? Was he an evil influence on you? Yeah? Roberto,
what's wrong with you? You fail? It's one thirty one,
but I don't have been there to our thirty in
the morning where most people are. It doesn't matter, all right.
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This is a ratings winner, is what this is? All right?
Let me tell you something. It downloads on the podcast
for this gonna be out through the roof, through the
bleeping roof. You fail, you know, you fail, You just
like your raiders fail. Okay, he sucks. Yeah, Well that's
your quarterback, that's your guy. There you go. You better
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be happy that the Patriots gave that game away us
you'd already be eliminated and that all right. Anyway, we
will have the instantute it's ad Viceline coming up later
in the hour. We will take calls. I promise that's
an entire segment of calls. But right now, let's get
over to Nick and he'll get you caught up on
everything going on as you cope with the overnight. Yes,
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we are all coping here as exactly. The Buccaneers are coping.
At least that's what it looks like when they play ugly,
but they win nineteen sixteen in overtime over the Cardinals.
Had to erase a ten point fourth quarter deficit in
order to do it. But now Tampa can clinch the
division next weekend with a win over the Panthers. On
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the flip side, Carolina can clinch the division and go
to the playoffs if they are able to win next
week and then win their final game of the season.
Packers are still live for the playoffs as they won
their third straight knocking off the dolphinse twenty six to twenty.
Actually shut out Miami in the second half. It was
a fourth quarter to forget for two A tongue of
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virus souls, Douglas hands is your Tucker Packers Radio Network
with the call. Three interceptions in the fourth quarter for
two a tongua vloa. Miami's now lost four in a row.
That result keeps the Steelers and Burtos Raiders alive for
the playoffs at least for the time being, and it
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gives the Chargers a chance to clinch a playoff spot
Monday Night with a win over the Colts and the
other than the final game, I should say in the NFL,
Rams blew out the Broncos fifty one to fourteen. Cam
Akers ran for three touchdowns, Russell Wilson was picked off
three times. And how about this, now, Baker Mayfield had
four incompletions in the game, the Broncos had their quarterbacks
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had four interceptions. But it's a fun fact. That's a
fun fact. You did not ask for that fun fact,
but that's a fun fact. What was also fun is
listening to Russell Wilson. We played this couple hours ago.
But since you had the Mallar monologue talking about Russell Wilson,
let's revisit his postgame moments. We're at a low moment
right now. I don't fear low moments because I know
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that every time I've been in a low moment, I've
always coming to the other. He has to include that's
in life losing my dad, that's in life going through
You don't need to bring up or whatever. That's a
bad job. All I know. I don't bring my dad
into what he died too. But I don't bring my
I have a bad show. I don't play my dad.
Did you see when he's talking with the offensive lineman
kneeling down and he's holding a football in front of
his mouth as if it's like his version of holding
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the playsheet if he's a coach calling plays in front
of It was so weird, like what well? Also, you
had to embarrass me. You had the backup quarter Brett
Rippon coming over there to hold the offensive line, what
are you doing? And good for the offensive lineman saying
get the heck out of here, like we're not standing
for this. It's another great moment right up there with
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Russ High stepping down the middle aisle on the transcontinental
flight to London and when he was on the sidelines
trying to get everyone to go, uh you know, run
past they run? Yeah, run pass on the sidelines? Is
it we're talking Pop Warner football? That was Oh my god.
He Hey, he's been bad, but his content generating abilities
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have been outstanding. He's more than worth the money based
on the content he's provided me. The Broncos are four
and eleven, but we've talked about them quite a bit
more than if they were eleven and four. Remember when
the Broncos beat the Niners, like the second week of
the season. That's one of the more bizarre results. Did
they beat the Yeah, that did they? Yeah, it was
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in debt. It was the ugly It was like thirteen
to twelve or something. It was. It was a dreadful game.
But that's pretty much what Denver does. That was Sunday
night game. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, that's a a stunner.
I forgot about that. That's so far. I was back
in September. The Bears beat the Niners too, I know,
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well that was because they had Trey Lance. But Garoppolo
played the game against the Bronchos. Yes, I think that
was his first, his first start of the year, and
Russell Wilson was bad in that game. Yeah, the Broncos
still won. But yeah, I scored eleven points. So how
good could your quarterback you when you score eleven points?
I think I think he had just one drive where
he finally put it together in that game, if memory serves, Yeah,
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you're Niners. Are you gonna get a Brock Purtty jersey? Now?
Are you? I'm not excited. I am pretty excited. I
mean the way that Kyle Shanahan schemes things up I mean, yeah,
he's been good, but he's had wide open guys to
throw it too. It doesn't remind me of Jared Goff,
Like you don't know if he's really that good or not,
because Sean McVeigh kind of spoon fed Jared Goff and
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the Niners are doing the same thing with will you
can you can get to a souper. The Rams got
to a Super Bowl with Jared Goff. It's true, he's
not very good. Yeah, Look, the Niners have more of
a downfield passing game than they did with Jimmy That
that much is clear. They are They're pushing the ball
down the field a little bit more so. From that standpoint,
I'm encouraged. There you go, a little Niner propaganda for you. Yeah.
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To the NBA. Nuggets and Sons needed overtime. Denver prevailed
one twenty eight one twenty five. Nicolee. Yokich had another
triple double forty one points, fifteen rebounds, fifteen assists. He
had a forty point triple double less than a week ago.
Aaron Gordon had that big dunk to help seal the game.
At the end, Warriors handled the Grizzlies one twenty three
to one oh nine. Golden State had six technical fouls
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called against them as Jordan Pool scored thirty two. Jason
Tatum dropped forty one. Celtics pulled away from the Bucks
one thirty nine to one eighteen. That was a matchup
of the top two teams in the Eastern Conference. Mavericks
unveiled the statue for Durk Navitski and they beat the
Lakers one twenty four to one fifteen. Six Ers won
their eighth in a row as they ran away from
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the Knicks of the fourth quarter one nineteen to one twelve.
Of the final score Joel embiid with thirty five points
and by the way, Ben to close this out. I
know people were wondering if Eddie was going to be
back tomorrow with the Chargers playing. Eddie will be back
in the chair tomorrow night, forty sure about that. He
might get the charger flew, he might have charger flu
it safe, he calls out or not? Okay, Big game
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It is the Ben Maller show. Well for the Charges,
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egg dot com. Anthony in Anaheim, Hello Anthony, Welcome big
Ben Maller. A true American working on holidays man. That's
why I love this show. Yes, the show will be here, Anthony.
No matter what you know, shows they run their crappy
replays or their best of but not You've been You know,
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you're the hardest working man that show business. And I
think Fox needs to put your faith on more billboards. Well,
one would be a good start. I think one would
be a really good way to start that. And that's
a great idea, Anthony. I mean I really have very
I'm very photogenny, because you know, Anthony, you've met me
several times. You know, I'm very photogenny. You know, I
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remember when when you were the round mound of rebound. Man.
You you've you know, you've, you've, you've gotten a lot better,
you know. Oh, well, thank you. That's like a backhanded
compliment radio. You don't have a faith for radio anymore.
I'd say you have a faith for you know, local
TV sports anker guy. I could see that. I could
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do like a medium sized market sports anchor guy. I
could I can handle that. Anthony, No Dallas cowboy. Wait,
no Miami dolphin propaganda. Rather you are aren't you a dolphin? Apologies?
Oh god, you know it's just, um, it's the same
crap every year. You know, I learned it from you Ben.
When they start caring, that's when I'll start caring. I'm
(34:19):
not going to any game, I'm not buying any merchandise.
When they decided to win a playoff game, you know,
it's only been twenty something years, you know, to win
a freaking playoff game, but you know, playoffs. You know,
it's just it's just it's some good attitude. Anything more
more importantly, Now, when you called last time or I
don't even even call you text in, you said you
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were you were trying to kill a rat. I believe
it was. I got an update. I got a huge update.
It's a big guy. We hold On said, we'd like
to alert all the affiliates down the line. We're now
going to get an update on the domestic issues for
Anthony Anaheim. So it gets better. So the next day,
I'm at work and I get a call from frantic
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Laurence saying that she sees the rat, that it's outside
by the door. What should she do? Well, I have
a fourteen year old son who happens to have a
baby gun. So I showed her how to use it
over FaceTime and she shot that thing. Oh she did?
She killed the rat? Yeah, wow, I did not know
(35:23):
that happened. Okay, all right, No she traumatized by this?
Does feel they dropped it off? Man? Did she feel
terrible that she had killed a living creature? She's like no,
all right. He was so happy, she asked our neighbor.
And our neighbor is some hippie dippie weirdo who loves
might who knew so he didn't want to kill it.
So she said, never mind, I'll take him out to
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the field, and then she just really shot him. Was good,
all right, look at that. That's how you do it
back in the old country, Anthony, that's how you do it.
But you call a winner right there, Ben, that's right,
a winner for a wife. That's a good wife that
she's willing to kill kill for you. Yeah, and she
saved you a lot of money, Anthony. If you had
had to call uh somebody to come out there and
kill it, that would have cost you. They only wanted
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four hundred. They only wanted four hundred dollars to steal
up a couple of holes. Four hundreds, not even to
get rid of the rats, just to steal up the holes. No, man,
you could you could have done that. Gone down to
home depot or lows yourself. You could have done that
for Hey, we got it done for less than a
hundred bucks. Then there you go, a couple of babies.
All right, thank you, Anthony, al Right, I love you, Ben, alright,
big fan, all right, go away, there's Anthony in Anaheim.
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Let's say hello to Mark the full name guy in Medford. Hello,
Mark the full name Beller Harry is he's in a
great movie. He celebrated the Christmas HOLLI they our friend
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Mark the full name guy. You know I love stories
about shooting the ratts. Wow, that was really just that
made my whole day. Well, back when you lived in
the Tenderloin district, you were probably surrounded by rats back
in those days, right, Uh yeah, yeah on two legs. Actually,
(37:13):
you should have seen their beaty red eyes lightening up
with those crack pipes they had. Sorry, what's going on
that is? You know? I was hitchhiking in uh Tennessee once,
somewhere between Memphis and Nashville, and uh, I had to
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step off the side of the road over to a
bush to take a whiz, and uh, man, if I
taken one more step, I looked down there was a
snake pit. There must have been about three dozen copperheads
in this. Wow. Wow yeah wow. Bro. So I'd much
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rather hear about this than the wife had shot there. Yeah,
I wish I had had that. V be good if
only you had some kind of Yeah, but if you
had a knife, you could have gone in there with
a knife like Ramo. You know, No, you don't go
after three dozen comprehends with a knife. No, No, that's
(38:23):
a bad idea. That's bad advice. Yeah yeah, I don't
know about your survival skills, but I think I know
a little better than that. Stay. I stay indoors. I
don't get out very much. Avoid I I gotta go, Mark,
I gotta, I gotta all right, thank you. The instant
Advice Line un which you'll probably have Mark calling up
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and yelling at me for not giving him enough time.
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We'll get to that, and we'll open up the phone line.
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It's pretty obvious this weekend to a tongue of byloa
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the Miami Dolphins. He was an MVP candidate, and then
December came around and the Dolphins owing four two a
not one, not two, but three interceptions in a row
as Miami blew a lead against the Green Bay Packers
on Christmas Day. So your advice to to a tongue
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I'm coming in here on a damn holiday and I
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Hello and welcome. It's our number three, Hour three of
our radio program. The Rams and Broncos take the center
stage here an hour number three. And what happened to
Russell Wilson in Denver, not just in this game against
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the Rams a blowout loss, but all season? And how
do the Broncos handle Russell Wilson going forward? Meaning will
we see a trade? Is that even possible? What's the
fallout from this debacle in Denver? And does on the
other side, the ramside, does Baker Mayfield get another shot
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lead this hour coming from La La Land. A word
the wise, the NFL is king. Even a dog food
matchup between two teams that that stink the Rams and
Brocos causes a malar monologue they were hanging out in
the hood up to No Good and Inglewood Sofi Stadium.
The scene Jim Nance and Tony Romo wearing awkward, ugly
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Christmas sweaters. They had the CBS call on this game.
A couple of teams that are lost at c and
Mono Amano Amano as they go at it there and
the latrine matchup. Now, I don't know if you saw
this game, maybe you had family commitments, or he just
found something else to do, but Baker Mayfield striking a
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pose like he was back in college. He threw two
touchdown passes cam Akers rumbling and stumbling and bumbling for
one hundred and eighteen yards and a career high three touchdowns.
Murmur with cam Akers left the Rams and a hullabaloo
earlier in the year, and they were talked that he
was gonna be traded and nobody wanted him, and he
ended up coming back with his tail between his legs
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with the Rams with cam Akers a monster game and
the Ram defense was all over the place and the
Broncos on the wrong end of a RAM fifty one
fourteen wins. Second victory for the lowly Rams. They've been
miserable all year, but since mid October with Baker Mayfield
they have a winning record. LA improves to five and
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ten or two and one in the Baker Mayfield the
era Denver El FLOPPERU for the Broncos as they are
now four and eleven, and the misery continues in the
Mile High City. But the better story is in that
locker room for our purposes, and so that is where
we will begin to. Let us discuss the question what
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happened to Russell Wilson in this game and overall in Denver?
What has happened to this guy? As it was more
business as usual for this year for Russell Wilson, as
he was dreadful. So I've got inflation, human sacrifice and
temptation island, and we will combine all of these things
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together and we are going to make Rocky Mountain oisters,
which I ate because I lost a bet and they're disgusting.
I do not recommend eating them. So let's get into
it right now now. Number one slim pickings for Russell Wilson.
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And if you go back and listen to the old
archive of audio content that we put out here on
the Ben Maller Show, everything saved for posterity's sake. You
know that we expected Russell Wilson to be okay. We
thought he would be average. We did not have him
falling into Dante's inferno on our bingo card. This is
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a dimension that seemed impossible that we were going to
see a lot of Sunday fun days for Russell Wilson.
But here we are, and this is the reality of
the situation. Russell Wilson apologist, the Russell Wilson marching and
showder society. They're the ones that are blaming other people.
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We see this with all court backs. It's like, well,
it's not his fault, offensive lone fall, it's the skill players,
it's the culture staff, it's that altitude in Denver, there's
no accountability, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah. So I believe I got theory on this.
I don't think it's the coach's fault. I don't think
it's the skilled players of the offensive line. I believe
it's called an inflation situation, as in the inflation of
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Russell Wilson's he gout right, he got money and fame.
Mitigating factors Now, Russell Wilson had a taste of that
in Seattle. But the way the people of the Rocky
Mountains kissed his tookis as the hero, the messiah when
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he arrived in Colorado, and oh that was jet fuel,
the center of attention, the center of attention for Russell Wilson,
and he soaked it all up. And he's not he's
not the same. He's not the scratching claw, overachieving quarterback
that he was when he came on the scene in
Seattle as he started how many people started out this way, humble,
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hard working, and he's still pointdexter. He's still a nerd
Bod's He's more than that, not just point deexter. He's
mister unlimited, all that nonsense, riding the wave. Of course,
it's a tidal wave with Sierra. The fact that Russell Wilson,
this is a great stat that sums up how Russell's
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gone a little past the humble stage of live as
he came out of nowhere in NFL circles and became
the guy like a bull in a china shop when
he came on the scene there in Seattle. But Russell Wilson,
all right, He's now had another touchdown pass in this
blowout loss to the Rams. That means he's now got
twelve touchdown passes. That's a great accomplishment. He now has
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matched the number of bathrooms that he has in his
mansion in Colorado, his humble abode in Denver as his
home there has twelve bathrooms. He now has one touchdown
pass for everyone of those bathrooms when he gets back
to his palace in Colorado. So he got paid. The
Broncos got played. They signed up site unseen, and there's
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a great lesson that will not be followed by future teams.
But the lesson here is rather obvious. This is a
teachable moment. No matter how good an athlete looks, when
you acquire them in a trade, you have to make
sure that the puzzle piece fits the jigsaw puzzle. And
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everyone in Colorado was so giddy they got their franchise quarterback.
They didn't let the dust settle, and they were blinded
by the dopamine, the hit of dopamine from getting their
franchise quarterback. And they couldn't wait. God forbid, God forbid.
They waited a little bit, and see how this plays out.
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So they paid Russell Wilson top dollar and now they
are on the hook. They are on the hook the
Denver Broncos. As they thought he was riding in on
a white horse. It turned out that was a Trojan horse. Now, Pato,
So how did the Broncos handle Russell Wilson? Going forward?
It's gonna be a fascinating story that will continue to
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eat up much of our time on the air waves
of the Ben Maller Show. So the first move here,
I got it all mapped out in my head. I
want to run this by it all right, I'm gonna
buy it. So the first move will be to look
for a guardian angel. Will they be able to find
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a sucker, someone gullible enough to take a shot at Russ? Yeah,
you have to find a willing trade partner, someone who
is also delusional enough to absorb the one hundred and
four million Aaron ted for a falling star. Don't let
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a falling star fall on you. And that's how much
money Russ has between twenty twenty three and twenty twenty five.
So my unsolicited advice for le Broncos, you reach out
to the Colts, the Commanders, and the Bucks, among others.
Throw the Texans them there if you want to see
if anyone is biting nothing. Nothing is impossible. Now we
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have seen Carson Wentz, Jared Goff, and Nick Foles traded
with massive contracts. Players that signed contracts they said they
were immovable. We heard it on these airways. But those
teams that had those contracts were able to get over
the hun So you could sell Russell Wilson to a
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team desperate to get a franchise quarterback for nothing. Change
of scenery two point the Great Awakening. They would hire
a former confidant of Wilson, say somebody that was on
the staff in Seattle with Pete Carroll that knows how
to squeeze out success, recreate the Pacific Northwest magic. Now,
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when that door closes, and we doubt that's going to happen,
you then pivot to human sacrifice. What is that you ask, Well,
that would be Nathaniel Hackett going to the guillotine. His
ass is grass. The Broncos will fire. They're in competent coach.
You gotta have a fall guy, you gotta have it,
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you know, and I know right this guy's been in
over his head from the very beginning. Now, Hackett will
be what's known as collateral damage Denver. We'll get a
new coach and a new coaching staff, and this will
be a salvage and recovery mission. Is what's gonna happen here.
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That's what I see in my crystal ball as a
distant relative of Nostredamis and friend of No Studinus. A
right final point, and No Studinas is giddy with schadenfreude
because No Studinas lives in the Seattle area and he
is loving every mistake by Russell Wilson. Now final point.
Turn the page over to the L. A. I Ams.
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Does Baker Mayfield, based on his recent play, get another
shot at being the man a starting quarterback in the
NFL circa twenty twenty three And so we're at a
fork in the road in Baker Mayfield's career. So the
arrow is indicating that he will get another opportunity. Mayfield
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has shown enough spark that someone will call him up
and say, hey, we'd like you to play quarterback for us.
He's been commendable, not over the top grade. People forget
that game against the Raiders. For ninety percent of that game,
Baker Mayfield was bad. And then you only remember the
ending of the game and the late couple of drives
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the game winner against the Raiders, and in Green Bay
he was pretty much useless in that game, and he
put on a masterpiece theater performance against the Broncos. But
this was really more about Denver not being interested in
playing and having the Christmas blues and just not shown
up with the old stink bomb. But the question of
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does this sparkling performance cover up a season of mostly misery,
and I think the answer is yes, that all that
crap that he had in Carolina that Sean McVay has
been able to polish the turd Baker Mayfield here. It's
not a full resurrection, but it's a bit of a rebirth.
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And this makes Baker Mayfield the forbidden fruit on Temptation Island.
And after a dog food performance with the Carolina Panthers,
man was he bad? He was wicked bad? Does Baker
Mayfield go down the garden path again? And this is
where it's on Baker, because you have to make the call.
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And you went to a bad Browns team and you
made the postseason one year, you go to a dreadful
Carolina Panther team and you end up getting released asking
for your release before the season ends. Now you're on
a bad Rams team. Is Baker Mayfield willing to re
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engage with a dumpster fire type team? Is he willing
to drive the garbage truck again for the Texans of
the Falcons, the Cardinals who need a quarterback because their
little pint size quarterbacks gonna be hurt for most of
next year, or the Bucks when Tom Brady goes somewhere else.
So there's plenty of possibilities out there. They're mostly bad teams.
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Would he be better off staying with a team that
has a chance to be at least mediocre like the
Rams as they get their guy back next year as
a high end backup, and also an insurance policy with
a better coach. And you know that Matthew Stafford, even
if he comes back and plays next year, is very
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fragile and likely to miss a bunch of games, and
you could continue to learn the ropes under Sean McVeigh.
That would seem to be the road to go. But
you want to play. What fun is football when you're
not playing? So it's gonna be very interesting to watch
how this all plays out. Will Baker get horn swoggled
into going to another dumb, dumb organization, bad team under
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the false advertising that things are going to be different,
where if you go to the Atlanta Falcons on it's
not the same old Falcons, but then it is Or
does he end up going to a team that already
has a quarterback like the Rams we use them as
an example, or another team that's projected to be at
least a mid level contender in the NFL and they
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can sweeten the pot for you and give a chance
to be the backup and knowing that in a seventeen
game season, you're going to have the chance to play.
All Right, It is the Bande Maller Show. If you'd
like to comment on any of that, we'll take your
calls at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, also
on Twitter at Bandon Maller. We'll have coming up in
a bit. We've got Mallard of the third degree. We'll
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push that back a few Here's the Maller Riddle, the
Mallor Riddle of the night. Here it is Dallas Mavericks
star Luca don Chick was upset he forgot to accessorize
his pregame cowboy outfit with his new pet Blank again
Dallas Mavericks star Luca don Chick was upset he was
(16:41):
kidding around with the media. He said he forgot to
accessorize his pregame cowboy outfit with his new pet Blank.
That is the Maller riddle. If you know the answer,
send me a message on Twitter. Follow me on Twitter
at Ben Maller. Will you have the answer to that?
And Mallard of the third degree. We'll get to it
and we will do it next. He blew me off
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to all of that content and later this hour the
instant AdviceLine the Mallar Riddle. Though Mavericks star Luca don
Chick as the NBA had a bunch of Christmas Day games,
but Luca don Chick of the Mavericks was upset he
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forgot to accessorize his pregame cowboy outfit with his new
pet blank. According to Luca, he was he was bummed
out he did not have that. That is the Mallard
riddle of the night. And let's see if anybody knows
the answer. Bengal fan Bryan says he forgot his chia
pet as the answer. Ferg Doug says his pet Arnie
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Spanier was the way to go. Donkey sausage going with
pet anaconda as the answer. Robin Minnesota says his new
pet hairless mole rat as the answer. Mallor prop guy
clearly cheating, got it right? Badge up by him? Let's
see here, tightened up? Also cheated, Justin in Cincinnati going
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with a hooker and something else? What else do we have?
Page down? A lot lizard guests by Sean in Portland.
A skunk guess by the Texas Trucker. Who else do
we have? Page down? Lad? I can't read that on
the air. Pink Tutu guests by Ozzi waz armadillo from
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Eke in Rosheem, Minnesota. And Joe in Okinawa went with
a version of a pet snake, but not quite what
you were thinking there. Who else do we have page down?
Page down? I can't read that on there? All right, Nick,
do you have an answer here? Nick? You want to
take a guess? Maverickstar Luca don Chick upset he forgot
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to accessorize his pregame cowboy outfit with his new pet
blank how about a porcupine? Porcupine? All right? Fine? Answer?
Is it a porcupine. Is that the correct answer. No,
that is not the No, that is not the correct answer.
The correct answer. Luca said he was upset he forgot
to accessorize his pregame outfit with a horny toad. He
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said he forgot his horny toad at his house. And
when somebody said, are you talking about TCU Texas Christian
the horn Frogs, he said no. And somebody asked him
why he had a horny toad, and he said, because
I'm Texan. Because I'm a Texan, that's why. So with
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that in your pipe and smoke, it's the third degree
time right now, hit that button right there. Here we go.
Hit that button. That's the one right there. Third degree
Mallets maller, how about that to the third degree? This
is one big Ben gets grilled and Brandon producing the
radio program. Here he is the man, the myth, the legend,
(21:28):
all right. Ben. Lions quarterback Jared Goff rips Panthers home
field conditions below NFL standard. He said, Ben, do you
think Goff has a point? Well, I saw some of
this game and I had Caroline in the game because
of the weather conditions. He has a point, not a
good one. You're the road team, it's not your home stadium.
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It's called adversity. And I thought it helped you grow
hair on your chest. What happened to the mantra that
will play anywhere in any conditions. It doesn't matter matter
whether it's a muddy, abandoned lot across the street. It
doesn't impact how we're going to play. You adapt to
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your situation. But Jared Goff's like, well, let's call for
a congressional investigation because the field was icy. This is
an atrocity. It's ridiculous. And last I checked, the field
conditions in Charlotte were the same for both teams, and
it was an act of God. An act of God.
And Jared Goff is a terrible cold weather quarterback. And
(22:30):
the Lions are very lucky they play in a dome.
The bad news is they have to play outdoors in
Chicago and outdoors in Green Bay most years. Jared Goff
sucks in cold weather. Next, all right, Commander's head coach
Ron Rivera didn't name a starting quarterback for Week seventeen
in the NFL season, So Ben, does it matter if
(22:51):
it's Taylor Heineke or Carson Wentz starting for the Commanders. Well,
yes it does. Number one, Taylor Heineke should be the quarterback.
Washington was bragging about his Pixie dust a few weeks ago.
Now they believe he's a lump of coal after a
bunch of turnover worthy plays. But neither one of these
Mama Luke's will be the quarterback next season. So it's
(23:12):
a futile way to look at things. I'm whington the
fact that they have a chance to make the plus
they have no quarterback. My gut tells me it'll be
Heineke if the Commanders can save a couple of shekels
on the Carson Wentz contract. And also the fact that
they also are worried about draft compensation. I think we've
passed that threshold. But it's a bad situation there in Washington.
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Heineke makes a lot of reckless throws, but Carson Wentz
the locker room doesn't like it. So you're damned if
you do, you're damned if you don't. Next all right,
Golden States Draymond Green recently said he thinks the Warriors
are very fragile. Fragile after their latest horrendous road trip. Yeah,
then why is this the case? Well, it's fragility. No, listen,
(23:59):
Draymond Green is the arsonist. He's the guy who lit
the whole thing on fire with the punch herd round
the NBA world on Jordan Pool. That was the record
scratch moment. And now he's like, well, I don't understand.
We're a very fragile team. I don't get it. Golden
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States has had multiple infestations. You've got Draymond and Pool
internal issues there, the haymaker in practice, the disease of
me bubbling up internally. The team wins the title, certain
guys who are secondary players like what about me? I'm underappreciated.
That creates tension and the whole thing's a hot mess. Now.
(24:42):
The great thing about the NBA is the season goes
on for like seven years, and so there's plenty of
time for them to figure it out. But right now,
in this moment, they are a hot mess. And it's started.
It was started, much of it by Draymond Green. There
it is mallet to the third degree. How did we do?
Brandon the pot Yankee fan, Well, it is Christmas. You failed,
(25:03):
You failed, Ben, It's one thirty. This stead have been
over a long time ago. This is for ratings. Roberto,
you don't jump in on this, ROBERTA. Brandon Brandon. Were
you influenced by Roberto? Was he an evil influence on you? Yeah? Roberto,
what's wrong with you? You fail? It's one thirty one,
but I don't have been there to our thirty in
the morning where most people are. It doesn't matter, all right.
(25:24):
This is a ratings winner, is what this is? All right?
Let me tell you something. It downloads on the podcast
for this gonna be out through the roof, through the
bleeping roof. You fail, you know, you fail, You just
like your raiders fail. Okay, he sucks. Yeah, Well that's
your quarterback, that's your guy. There you go. You better
(25:47):
be happy that the Patriots gave that game away us
you'd already be eliminated and that all right. Anyway, we
will have the instantute it's ad Viceline coming up later
in the hour. We will take calls. I promise that's
an entire segment of calls. But right now, let's get
over to Nick and he'll get you caught up on
everything going on as you cope with the overnight. Yes,
(26:07):
we are all coping here as exactly. The Buccaneers are coping.
At least that's what it looks like when they play ugly,
but they win nineteen sixteen in overtime over the Cardinals.
Had to erase a ten point fourth quarter deficit in
order to do it. But now Tampa can clinch the
division next weekend with a win over the Panthers. On
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the flip side, Carolina can clinch the division and go
to the playoffs if they are able to win next
week and then win their final game of the season.
Packers are still live for the playoffs as they won
their third straight knocking off the dolphinse twenty six to twenty.
Actually shut out Miami in the second half. It was
a fourth quarter to forget for two A tongue of
iloa snap two I'm looking right pizza right side, sup
(26:57):
virus souls, Douglas hands is your Tucker Packers Radio Network
with the call. Three interceptions in the fourth quarter for
two a tongua vloa. Miami's now lost four in a row.
That result keeps the Steelers and Burtos Raiders alive for
the playoffs at least for the time being, and it
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gives the Chargers a chance to clinch a playoff spot
Monday Night with a win over the Colts and the
other than the final game, I should say in the NFL,
Rams blew out the Broncos fifty one to fourteen. Cam
Akers ran for three touchdowns, Russell Wilson was picked off
three times. And how about this, now, Baker Mayfield had
four incompletions in the game, the Broncos had their quarterbacks
(27:42):
had four interceptions. But it's a fun fact. That's a
fun fact. You did not ask for that fun fact,
but that's a fun fact. What was also fun is
listening to Russell Wilson. We played this couple hours ago.
But since you had the Mallar monologue talking about Russell Wilson,
let's revisit his postgame moments. We're at a low moment
right now. I don't fear low moments because I know
(28:03):
that every time I've been in a low moment, I've
always coming to the other. He has to include that's
in life losing my dad, that's in life going through
You don't need to bring up or whatever. That's a
bad job. All I know. I don't bring my dad
into what he died too. But I don't bring my
I have a bad show. I don't play my dad.
Did you see when he's talking with the offensive lineman
kneeling down and he's holding a football in front of
his mouth as if it's like his version of holding
(28:27):
the playsheet if he's a coach calling plays in front
of It was so weird, like what well? Also, you
had to embarrass me. You had the backup quarter Brett
Rippon coming over there to hold the offensive line, what
are you doing? And good for the offensive lineman saying
get the heck out of here, like we're not standing
for this. It's another great moment right up there with
(28:48):
Russ High stepping down the middle aisle on the transcontinental
flight to London and when he was on the sidelines
trying to get everyone to go, uh you know, run
past they run? Yeah, run pass on the sidelines? Is
it we're talking Pop Warner football? That was Oh my god.
He Hey, he's been bad, but his content generating abilities
(29:10):
have been outstanding. He's more than worth the money based
on the content he's provided me. The Broncos are four
and eleven, but we've talked about them quite a bit
more than if they were eleven and four. Remember when
the Broncos beat the Niners, like the second week of
the season. That's one of the more bizarre results. Did
they beat the Yeah, that did they? Yeah, it was
(29:30):
in debt. It was the ugly It was like thirteen
to twelve or something. It was. It was a dreadful game.
But that's pretty much what Denver does. That was Sunday
night game. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, that's a a stunner.
I forgot about that. That's so far. I was back
in September. The Bears beat the Niners too, I know,
(29:51):
well that was because they had Trey Lance. But Garoppolo
played the game against the Bronchos. Yes, I think that
was his first, his first start of the year, and
Russell Wilson was bad in that game. Yeah, the Broncos
still won. But yeah, I scored eleven points. So how
good could your quarterback you when you score eleven points?
I think I think he had just one drive where
he finally put it together in that game, if memory serves, Yeah,
(30:14):
you're Niners. Are you gonna get a Brock Purtty jersey? Now?
Are you? I'm not excited. I am pretty excited. I
mean the way that Kyle Shanahan schemes things up I mean, yeah,
he's been good, but he's had wide open guys to
throw it too. It doesn't remind me of Jared Goff,
Like you don't know if he's really that good or not,
because Sean McVeigh kind of spoon fed Jared Goff and
(30:36):
the Niners are doing the same thing with will you
can you can get to a souper. The Rams got
to a Super Bowl with Jared Goff. It's true, he's
not very good. Yeah, Look, the Niners have more of
a downfield passing game than they did with Jimmy That
that much is clear. They are They're pushing the ball
down the field a little bit more so. From that standpoint,
I'm encouraged. There you go, a little Niner propaganda for you. Yeah.
(30:59):
To the NBA. Nuggets and Sons needed overtime. Denver prevailed
one twenty eight one twenty five. Nicolee. Yokich had another
triple double forty one points, fifteen rebounds, fifteen assists. He
had a forty point triple double less than a week ago.
Aaron Gordon had that big dunk to help seal the game.
At the end, Warriors handled the Grizzlies one twenty three
to one oh nine. Golden State had six technical fouls
(31:22):
called against them as Jordan Pool scored thirty two. Jason
Tatum dropped forty one. Celtics pulled away from the Bucks
one thirty nine to one eighteen. That was a matchup
of the top two teams in the Eastern Conference. Mavericks
unveiled the statue for Durk Navitski and they beat the
Lakers one twenty four to one fifteen. Six Ers won
their eighth in a row as they ran away from
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the Knicks of the fourth quarter one nineteen to one twelve.
Of the final score Joel embiid with thirty five points
and by the way, Ben to close this out. I
know people were wondering if Eddie was going to be
back tomorrow with the Chargers playing. Eddie will be back
in the chair tomorrow night, forty sure about that. He
might get the charger flew, he might have charger flu
it safe, he calls out or not? Okay, Big game
(32:05):
with the Horseshoes, Big old game. Unless it's not all right.
It is the Ben Maller show. Well for the Charges,
it is not for the Colts and Nick Foles back
is the quarterback starting in the NFL. Yet again, Will
he call the Philadelphia Special? Will he call that play?
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egg dot com. Anthony in Anaheim, Hello Anthony, Welcome big
Ben Maller. A true American working on holidays man. That's
why I love this show. Yes, the show will be here, Anthony.
No matter what you know, shows they run their crappy
replays or their best of but not You've been You know,
(33:13):
you're the hardest working man that show business. And I
think Fox needs to put your faith on more billboards. Well,
one would be a good start. I think one would
be a really good way to start that. And that's
a great idea, Anthony. I mean I really have very
I'm very photogenny, because you know, Anthony, you've met me
several times. You know, I'm very photogenny. You know, I
(33:35):
remember when when you were the round mound of rebound. Man.
You you've you know, you've, you've, you've gotten a lot better,
you know. Oh, well, thank you. That's like a backhanded
compliment radio. You don't have a faith for radio anymore.
I'd say you have a faith for you know, local
TV sports anker guy. I could see that. I could
(33:58):
do like a medium sized market sports anchor guy. I
could I can handle that. Anthony, No Dallas cowboy. Wait,
no Miami dolphin propaganda. Rather you are aren't you a dolphin? Apologies?
Oh god, you know it's just, um, it's the same
crap every year. You know, I learned it from you Ben.
When they start caring, that's when I'll start caring. I'm
(34:19):
not going to any game, I'm not buying any merchandise.
When they decided to win a playoff game, you know,
it's only been twenty something years, you know, to win
a freaking playoff game, but you know, playoffs. You know,
it's just it's just it's some good attitude. Anything more
more importantly, Now, when you called last time or I
don't even even call you text in, you said you
(34:40):
were you were trying to kill a rat. I believe
it was. I got an update. I got a huge update.
It's a big guy. We hold On said, we'd like
to alert all the affiliates down the line. We're now
going to get an update on the domestic issues for
Anthony Anaheim. So it gets better. So the next day,
I'm at work and I get a call from frantic
(35:01):
Laurence saying that she sees the rat, that it's outside
by the door. What should she do? Well, I have
a fourteen year old son who happens to have a
baby gun. So I showed her how to use it
over FaceTime and she shot that thing. Oh she did?
She killed the rat? Yeah, wow, I did not know
(35:23):
that happened. Okay, all right, No she traumatized by this?
Does feel they dropped it off? Man? Did she feel
terrible that she had killed a living creature? She's like no,
all right. He was so happy, she asked our neighbor.
And our neighbor is some hippie dippie weirdo who loves
might who knew so he didn't want to kill it.
So she said, never mind, I'll take him out to
(35:44):
the field, and then she just really shot him. Was good,
all right, look at that. That's how you do it
back in the old country, Anthony, that's how you do it.
But you call a winner right there, Ben, that's right,
a winner for a wife. That's a good wife that
she's willing to kill kill for you. Yeah, and she
saved you a lot of money, Anthony. If you had
had to call uh somebody to come out there and
kill it, that would have cost you. They only wanted
(36:06):
four hundred. They only wanted four hundred dollars to steal
up a couple of holes. Four hundreds, not even to
get rid of the rats, just to steal up the holes. No, man,
you could you could have done that. Gone down to
home depot or lows yourself. You could have done that
for Hey, we got it done for less than a
hundred bucks. Then there you go, a couple of babies.
All right, thank you, Anthony, al Right, I love you, Ben, alright,
big fan, all right, go away, there's Anthony in Anaheim.
(36:29):
Let's say hello to Mark the full name guy in Medford. Hello,
Mark the full name Beller Harry is he's in a
great movie. He celebrated the Christmas HOLLI they our friend
(36:49):
Mark the full name guy. You know I love stories
about shooting the ratts. Wow, that was really just that
made my whole day. Well, back when you lived in
the Tenderloin district, you were probably surrounded by rats back
in those days, right, Uh yeah, yeah on two legs. Actually,
(37:13):
you should have seen their beaty red eyes lightening up
with those crack pipes they had. Sorry, what's going on
that is? You know? I was hitchhiking in uh Tennessee once,
somewhere between Memphis and Nashville, and uh, I had to
(37:36):
step off the side of the road over to a
bush to take a whiz, and uh, man, if I
taken one more step, I looked down there was a
snake pit. There must have been about three dozen copperheads
in this. Wow. Wow yeah wow. Bro. So I'd much
(38:02):
rather hear about this than the wife had shot there. Yeah,
I wish I had had that. V be good if
only you had some kind of Yeah, but if you
had a knife, you could have gone in there with
a knife like Ramo. You know, No, you don't go
after three dozen comprehends with a knife. No, No, that's
(38:23):
a bad idea. That's bad advice. Yeah yeah, I don't
know about your survival skills, but I think I know
a little better than that. Stay. I stay indoors. I
don't get out very much. Avoid I I gotta go, Mark,
I gotta, I gotta all right, thank you. The instant
Advice Line un which you'll probably have Mark calling up
(38:46):
and yelling at me for not giving him enough time.
We'll have the Instant AdviceLine unscreen calls who needs our advice.
We'll get to that, and we'll open up the phone line.
Take a bunch of calls. We'll get to that, and
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(39:31):
Hey you sports figure guy or girl? Will you talking
two sons? Here's some instant advice. Hold that thought. No
one's paid attention to me for ten whole seconds, and
if you don't like it, to screw you, and away
we go the instead Viceline, unscreened radio. Who needs our advice?
It's pretty obvious this weekend to a tongue of byloa
(39:52):
the Miami Dolphins. He was an MVP candidate, and then
December came around and the Dolphins owing four two a
not one, not two, but three interceptions in a row
as Miami blew a lead against the Green Bay Packers
on Christmas Day. So your advice to to a tongue
of balo. This is unscreened radio. When you hear my voice,
you're live on the air at eight seven seven ninety
(40:15):
nine on Fox Call early and often we go through
a lot of phone calls. We'll start out with you
on line one. Your advice to to a tongue of bloa.
Line one, too much, Master bab al right, Line two,
thank you. Line two, you're on the airline too Please
advice to Tua don't fill Ben on Mallard to the
third degree for stupid reasons. That was that that's right,
(40:36):
damn right for a dog. And this is bull crap.
I'm coming in here on a damn holiday and I
get a denial of my and Roberto Roberto was the
guy that was behind that. Hello you online. Line three,
you're on the airline three. Hello, Okay your prayers and
eat your vitamins. Brother, there you go. All right, there's
a theme there. Head Line four. You your next at
(40:57):
eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. You want to here?
Is many any new voices as we can advice to
to a tongue of Byloa. As the Dolphins have lost
four in a row. Hello, you're on the air. Morning
time clan does need a quarterback? All right, that's great
advice to to a tongue of by Looa. Go to Washington.
Line six, you're on the airline sex go to a
(41:17):
plane like he was playing like number two. That's a
good yes, that's Sean, the hood guy. I recognize that
a line one. Let's go back to line one. You're
on the air. To a tongue of by Loa. Line one.
I would tell him that my girlfriend can't wrestle, but
you should see her box. Yeah, she's a heckier boxer.
And it is boxing day, so quite the day. Line two. Hello,
(41:43):
oh Roberto, watch out, the guy got your bar. Roberto.
All right, let's go to line three. You're on the
airline three. Go he needs a song from J. Scoop. Oh,
that's right. We need women at that's Tammy and Montana.
All right, we'll do one more, Only one more if
it's good. All creditive, non obeying producer Brandon, who's gonna
pick the final call? Go ahead, Brandon, pick a line
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Line five. You're on line five. You're on the airline five, Go, Hi, damn,
how are you? Oh it's Andrea. Look at that, all
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