Hour 1- Steelers Sneaking in?

Ben Maller talks about the Steelers at Ravens game and what it now means for the Steelers franchise after the win. He gives his opinion on who should take the blame for the Ravens blowing this lead/ questions what happened to the Ravens defense at the end. Ben checks in with the Maller Militia to wish them a Happy New Year!

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listening to Fox Sports Radio. Hello and welcome in. It's
our numby one hour one of our podcast, A New
Year is a Possible? We had a great New Year's celebration.
Is I know it's still a holiday today, but it's
twenty twenty three. We're still doing the show. It's alive

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and well. And we begin here where they look back
at the Steelers and the Ravens. Who takes the blame
for the Ravens blowing a double digit lead in a
defensive struggle in the second half. What happened to that
highly touted Baltimore raven defense as they were emasculated in

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the late stages of this game? And what is the
lessons The Steelers are staying alive. They are still in
the playoff mix heading into Week eighteen, despite that miserable
start as Kenny Pickett with back to back dramatic wins
for the Steelers. We'll talk about that and more right
now in our number one here. It is a poetic ending,

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but not for the poets. Welcome in the beginning of
a brand new week of the Ben Mallor Show. We
are in the air everywhere together as we keep our
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wrapped up the car We still have the Monday night
game to go. But as far as the weekend activity,
the Steelers roadshow caravanning their way what two hundred fifty

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miles or so from Pittsburgh to Baltimore, a rivalry for
the ages. Just ask Chris Collinsworth and he'll tell you
on television. Now, I don't know if you saw this
or not. Maybe we're still hung over from the New
Year's Eve celebration and the extended partey. Perhaps you missed it,
but do not. All right, we watched it so you
would not have to. And Baltimore leading most of this game,

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but then late Kenny Pickt connecting with Nage Harris on
a ten yard pass play short pass run into the
end zone with about a minute to go, and the
Steelers hold on. There was no game time kicked by
Justin Tucker to force the game into overtime. The Steelers

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making some plays on defense in the final seconds and
they beat the Ravens sixteen thirteen, and they keep the
dream alive for the playoffs, Pittsburgh improving to eight and eight,
Baltimore dropping to ten and six on the season as
they played again without Lamar Jackson, who has been persona

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non grata in Baltimore, some going as far as to
say he's milking the injury because of his contractual situation.
More on that later, but let us discuss the question
who takes the blame for the Ravens blowing a lead
early in the third quarter that was at ten points

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in a defensive struggle. So I've got VIP, Salisbury steak,
and trucking, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make some pathetic some pathetic.
Oh there's I was waiting for the bell, some pathetic
seafood right out of the harbor there in Baltimore. So, ay,

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I wonder what happened to the bell? If I may,
we retired the bell. It's twenty twenty three, now, I
thought maybe the bell went. Now the bells still there.
We still have the bell bells of Hell, all right.
So a plenty of culpability on the Baltimore side. But
the most important position we're told about this all the
time is the quarterback position. And so I have the

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arrow pointing at Tyler Huntley, the backup quarterback there as
he got out of the gates, asked Huntley. In the
first half, by his standards, he was seven of nine passing,
had a touchdown in the first half, not a lot
of yards, but a passer rating of over one hundred
and twenty. Not great, but good enough. He converted. The

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Ravens did as a team, most of it on the ground,
but they converted on fifty percent of their third downs,
and so the Poets were leading ten to three at
the midway point as they stopped and had orange slices
and had some juice. And then the backup quarterback for
the Ravens was completely hornswoggled in the second half as

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he had a VIP ticket on the vomit comment. In
the second half Huntley seven of twelve and the second
half no touchdowns. The Ravens did not get in the
end zone in the second half. Hard to have a
touchdown pass and one interception. It works out to a
passer rating of below fifty. But that only tells you
part of the story, not the whole story. You saw

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the game, you know, and if you're Baltimore aficionato, in
the fourth quarter in particular, that is where the level
of stinkage rose up up up nay, three of eight
passing for the backup quarterback there in Baltimore in the
fourth quarter twenty seven yards and a seven point eight

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passer rating. That is how you crap your pants right
there in the fourth quarter. And keep in mind, though,
the Ravens running this rudimentary passing attack, and I get
that this is the backup Tyler Huntley, and since he's
the backup, he gets a pass. But I excuse my
French here, as Jay Scoop likes to say, that is bullpucky, right,

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This is a professional ball player. It was a golden
opportunity in prime time to make a couple of plays.
That performance was worthy of a Dunce cap down the stretch,
the reigning defensive player that your T. J. Watt, he
had him smoked a little bit, right, Huntley, he was overthrowing,

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underthrowing receiversn't even tempt that many throws. Now, that only
works that style of play when you are playing the
really terrible teams. And the Steelers are not a terrible team.
They're an average team. They're not a good team. They're
an average team. They're in the middle. They're in the middle,
all right now, Page two, What about the Baltimore defense.

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What happened to the Ravens defense? And as much as
we've goofed on Huntley the backup quarterback, the Baltimore defense
has known mia culpa in this game, with Lamar Jackson
out seemingly not coming back anytime soon. To the lineup,
He's out for the long haul here. That means the fallback.
I don't think I'm wrong in saying this. The fallback.

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The meeting potatoes or the Ravens is the defense, right,
that's the defense in the second half and down the stretch,
they were rot all right, meeting potatoes. It was a
Salisbury steak and lumpy mashed potatoes with flies hovering overhead.
The defensive line was shoved around. There's no other way

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to say it, right. You didn't give the kid glove
treatment if you want. The Steelers were the more physical team.
They've ran right down the throat of the defense in
Baltimore and did whatever they want. I had one hundred
and ninety eight yards on the ground on forty one carries.
That's almost five yards per carry against what is supposed
to be a top notch Ravens defense, and as a

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result Baltimore, you combine the defense with the dereliction of
duties at the quarterback position down the stretch, unable to
protect a ten point third quarter lead, and just make
a couple of plays, just a couple of plays with
the game on the line, nursing the lead. Didn't do that.
And the rookie quarterback. He's a rookie although they played

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pretty much all year at this point. Kenny Pickett again
with a hey man performance late in the game. I'll
be the Guardian Angel seven of twelve passing for one
hundred yards and a touchdown in the fourth quarter of
this game, most of that coming at the very end. There.
Second consecutive week now that Pickett has played hero ball

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in a primetime game. Last week it was against the
Raiders and what turned out to be the final game
for Derek Carr as a Raider. But in that game,
Pickett maybe had a ten play seventy six yard drive
paving the way and he capped that one off to
George Pickens a game winning touchdown. And then on Sunday
here an eleven play eighty yard drive on the road,

(09:35):
moving mountains and the eventual game winner there with just
about a minute to go in the game. And so
we will see what happens next season, because while Pickett
has been pretty good at the end of these games,
he has not been overall great throughout the games. And
you want to see the progression because It's a little
bit of a smoke and mirror situation here at the

(09:57):
end of the games, because if you don't play well
for the first seventy five percent of the games and
you play well at the end, that's great, but it'd
be a lot easier. You won't have to come back
with ten plus play drives for seventy five plus yards
if you make a few more plays in the first
and the second and the third quarter. But you already
knew that. You already knew that, all right, last word here,
So what is the lesson from the Steelers remaining alive?

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Staying alive, staying alive for a playoff spot heading into
Week eighteen, the final week of the regular season. So
it's a teachable mall meet for those that are addicted
to the NFL Draft star row. You perseverance pays off. Now,
even if Pittsburgh comes up short here and they fail

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to make the postseason and they still have to have
a lot of things break their way, it doesn't matter.
They showed moxie here. That's a good job. And I've
always not a Steeler fan. I mean I lapdog through
the Seelers, but that's a team that does not give up.
And I appreciate that in a world where everyone and
their uncle give up. Right, Oh, I'll just play for

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draft picks. We'll play for the data. That would have
been very easy to toss in the sponge. Mike Thomlins
team at one point required oxygen. And we're going back many,
many weeks, a couple of months. But Pittsburgh was sitting
at two and six heading into the week nine. By pe,
you what stinks that would be the Steelers, And you

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remember the conversation the talking heads. The recommendation was tank
tank tank, tank, tank tank, castic tank the season, get
a higher draft pick, hit the reset button, blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah. And what did the Steelers do?
They said, I realized this is a hail Mary situation.
But they rejected. They rejected the idea that they would

(11:53):
throw games and try to get a higher draft pick.
And they kept on trucking. And you keep on trucking
down the road there and now there is a path
to playoff salvation. Since the two and six start, the
Steelers are six and two. My computer like brain tells
me that that is eight and eight. They are one
of eight teams in the NFL that are eight and eight. Overall,

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there are thirteen of the thirty two teams that have
either seven or eight wins heading into the final week
of the regular season. That is a forty percent mediocrity index,
which is just what the NFL script riders want. They
want everyone around seven, eight, nine wins. That's what they want.
They want everyone kind of in the middle there. It's

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like that big thing out in the Pacific with all
the trash circling around in the middle of the Pacific.
That's what the NFL wants. They want a lot of
trash going in a vortex in the middle of the ocean.
But here's how the Steelers can get in the playoffs. Now,
they got to win. If they don't win, forget about
they play. They play the pervert the Browns quarterback there,
the creepy quarterback. Who I understand Lebron James likes a

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lot about that. There's a surprise. I thought Lebron was
for truth justice in the American way. No, no, no,
he's cuddling up with a creepy quarterback. Anyway, the Steelers
have to beat the Browns, but they then have to
have the Bills take down the Patriots. But that's not all.
Then they have to have the anemic Jets beat the Dolphins,

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who we think will be on their third string quarterback
in that game. But you question the motivation of the
Jets as they will not be going to the playoffs.
The Bills if the perfect scenario here is depending on
what happens in the money Night game for the Bengals
and the Bills, and then if Cincinnati were to win

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that game, Kansas City were to lose their game, there's
a scenario where the Bills do not gain anything and
could likely stand down and rest a bunch of starters
for the playoffs and all that nonsense, And so that
would clear the path for the Patriots to win the games.
It's not it's an interesting a couple of days here

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the end of the the year, Saturday and Sunday of next week.
We've got to get to that point here. But there
is a path to sneak in to the playoffs, all right. Now,
mean one, let's hear from inside the locker room little
postgame flavor, and we'll start with the Ravens, who blew
a ten point lead in the second half and John
Harbaugh tough weekend for the Harballs. Jim Harbaugh takes it

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in the shorts there against the TCU and the College
Football Playoff. John Harball's team blowing the lead here, and
he points out that the offense had a few issues,
a few issues from beginning to end in this one.
We didn't do a great job of finding a way
to make plays. We had a few here and there,
but you know, we were behind the change too much.

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They were ahead of the change pretty much the whole game. See,
it's all about the chain gang. Got to stay on
top of the chain gang. Right. Here's one more from
John Harball who points out this was not and oil
painting for the Baltimore Ravens, not one of our better
performances at all. Coaching staff, start with that, start with me,
Start with the coaching staff. Game plan haul of it.

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Not good enough, very disappointing. We got we gotta bounce back.
I'll bet you dollars to donuts. That's not what John
Harbaugh said to his team in the locker room, that
it starts with the coaching I've been I'm gonna go
out on him that he did not say that. Now,
the other coach, Mike Tomlin of the pets. Big Steelers
always an interesting sound by. Here's Mike Tomlin pointing out

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that the Steelers they knew, they knew what they had
with their quarterback. I just think that we benefited so
much from close proximity and evaluation process. I don't think
none of us are surprised by what he does from
an intangible standpoint, and the proximity to him at Pitt
really kind of gave us that comfort. It's all about proximity.

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It's all about location, location, location, Where Kenny Pickett and
the Steelers all right? Is the Maller shown. It's still
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(18:11):
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I can't cough up a lougie. I flew on a
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This in professional radio show? How dare you? Well? I'll
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save that, Roberto, save that I need we need that

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for the archive. Yes, you're on that all he's working,
he's efforting that. Well, what a beginning here? I hope
it was a big green, gooey lugie that you spit
up as we beginning a new Here is Cowboy John
Bad would say. Our first maiden broadcast for the new
year of twenty twenty three, who who? Not a great

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day for me? Gambling in the NFL That was painful, painful,
Some teams deciding not to show up. Take the day
off brutal. You fee me from Chicago, writes, and he says, hey, Mallard,
five out of five Italian beef sandwiches. On the monologue,
Pickett made Baba Gush of the Ravens so called top

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three defense on a Brady esque drive. Good job by him,
says you fee me. The Burner account writes in and says,
thank you Jesus, Welcome back, Mallard. I say we kicked
the year off right with a nickname rundown. All fifty
nicknames this time. How about it, Benjamin. I'll give you

(19:41):
an A plus on the Malard monologue, but only if
you give the full rundown. Let me check with the
Roberto Roberto. I think we're good on the full like
nickname run now, we haven't done We haven't done it
this year. No, no, all right, well listen the listeners
always No, it's great radio, it's it's who the hell's
why wouldn't we listen today? Are you kidding me? Come on?

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We just had a guy cough upa luki when he
was doing a line. Read anyway, listen, I am known.
There's the sound of Kevin. I'm known as the spin Master.
Of misinformation, the bannering broadcaster. I've been called the Beethoven
of bs, Curmudgeon of commentary, the Chasm of sarcasm, Zane Bazar,
Orgasm of Zany, the Dark Night a week night sports radio,

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which is what we're doing right now. See him, Mogul
of mischief, Benny the Brazen King of Zing money Ball Mallard.
Everyone loves the donkey, and I like being the donkey.
Benny the Bopper, facetious Fox, lofty lord in Lord, let's
do it of insulting, the sham of schadenfreude, duping Jack

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of wisecrack, insight of over and he blew me off.
Medicine man, Map of the nigh, Bob of negativity, Sage
of outraged, Pinnacle of cynical, Prince of preposterous, Professor of propaganda,
Bizarre of hyperbole, and the mad hatter of my right

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hand was getting a workout. Big burly guys like that,
you know, big burly guys. And now that's only part
of my nicknames. I actually have another twenty six. I'm
up to fifty one official nicknames. Bad job by the
burner account saying that I only had fifty nicknames. I
a nice Sallust, I have fifty one. I have also
been called over the years, the Baron of balded Ash,

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Big gall bladder Ben just gotta eat a poop sandwicher,
Captain Niejerk, Duke of the North North. You know I've
seen Peter king is underwear? Do you know that that's true?
A general of degenerates, tycoon of tease, master of disaster,
the hustler of philibuster. Can I see your ball? Shard?

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Like to of Nightlife, Pamela of Producers, Benny Brightside, you
manage tom on a thousand donards all endorse a gay
magazine of insanity? What's wrong with that? Marconi Maller, money
Line Mallard, the emissary of embellishment, Weeknight Windbag, Wizard of Wacky,
slayer of Naysayers, the grand Goober of gab Oligark I

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used to play of after Dark Tower of Babylon, Honest,
the Donna's nocturnal c cleanest ass, the underdog of Monologue,
and the Holy Pope of the Slippery Slope. Right exciting.
I know it's all the nicknames, all the official nicknames.

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We don't do shout outs, so I cannot shout out
this guy that used to call the show from Detroit
named Richard the Racehorse. Many of those nicknames were given
to me by Racehorse. Well, he's this guy that would
call sports radio years ago, and I don't know he's
still around. I haven't heard from him in a long time.
But he would call up and give me random nicknames.

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And then other people started giving me nicknames, and one
thing led to another, and then then the whole thing
went to hell. So that's how that works. Furg Dog
writes in from Socaliss, bad news, Ben, the forecast is
predicting scattered showers in Pasadena. Address appropriately. If you plan
on going to the Rose Parade from furg Dog, well,

(23:24):
thank you for that. I will not be attending the
Rose Parade. That will not happen. Alex the Cynical rites,
and he says, sources tell me that Eddie was seen
wearing his Charger jersey during the Steeler game before his
wife turned off the TV. That's according to Alex Cynical,
a fan of the cheating as Rose the Snake from Albany,

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New York. Right since says another a plus Mallard monologue,
Big Band, Happy New Year to you, and the overnight team.
Are you rooting for Jared Golf to lead the Lions
to the playoffs because he's an ex Ram or do
you not care? Well, Hey, I don't care, b I
actually like the Lions coach who will eat your kneecaps
off and all that. So I am pulling for the

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Lions to make the playoffs. I would like to see
the Lions, because of Dan Campbell make the plus. And
it is a nice reward to the good people to
Detroit for giving the Rams a super Bowl win. The
Lions aren't going to win the Super Bowl this year.
The Rams did, though they did last year they won
the Super Bowl, So very nice of the Lions to
give La a championship like that. So I would like
to see the Lions make the playoffs here and they

(24:29):
get their little draft picks and they could be all
excited about that and so yes, but Jared Goff very
slim chance he's back. Is the Lions quarterback? Very slim
chance that he's back, because the Lions will be in
position with the pick that they have and the Rams
pick to trade up and get one of the top
quarterbacks in the draft. Eugene and Chicago says, oh yeah, Hey, Washington.

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How did Carson Wentz play? Yeah, that streak that you
saw in your in the shorts, that that was Carson
Wentz's boy, what a what a de bockle. That guy's
not on my list. We're not doing a Mallard monologue
on the Washington football team. We'll get to the bell
of the coaching ball and celebrating a grocery store. Celebrating

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a grocery store. But right now, over to a man.
You gotta listen because he might he might cough up
Alogie right in the middle of it. He's standing by
at the news desk, our man, Kevin coughing, Kevin, I
have sufficiently cleared my throat, at least for now, So
let's get through this here inditing, all right. We have
a cough button if you'd like to use that. It's

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a fun thing. Yeah, we go. Week seventeen, NFL Action
Sunday Night Football. The Steelers keep their postseason hopes alive
with a sixteen sixteen thirteen win over the Ravens. Pick
it in the gun, gets the snap, he looks chased
out of the pocket, steps out of a tackle Trojer
for the gold line touch down. Rogie Harris Rogie from

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ten yards out Pecke Houdini to make that point. Nazi
Harris got that game winning touchdown catch with just fifty
six seconds to go to clinch the win for Pittsburgh.
The forty nine Ers are down ten to the Raiders
in the second half, but rally to force overtime where
the defense would make one last big play. Collins goes
in motion left to right off set out of the

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right Johnson. I had a Jacob scrap drop by Stead
I'm gonna throw out and left for Davante Adams's intercepted.
They're through the ball, run to to Shawn Gibson running
back the other run thirty twenty ten. Fiveies out of
five That fifty six yard interception were turned by Tayshawn
Gibson set up the game winning field goal where the

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forty nine Ers would win at thirty seven thirty four.
They've won nine in a row. The Eagles had a
chance to clinch the division the number one seed in
the NFC in the first round, by that comes with it.
All they had to do was get by a six
win Saints team. However, the New Orleans defense stepped up
in a big way in a twenty to ten win
in which Philadelphia did not score till a third quarter.

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The Packers will out the Vikings forty one seventeen, and
the game wasn't even that close, as Minnesota had ten
points in garbage time. And what seemed unthinkable a few
weeks ago has come to fruition. If the Packers beat
the Lions next week, they are in the playoffs, regardless
of what anyone else does. At twelve and four, the
Vikings have a negative nineteen point differential. Giants clips a

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playoff spot in the thirty eight ten win over the
Colts Daniel Jones two passing touchdowns two rushing touchdowns. Buccaneers
come back to meet the Panthers as they win the
NFC South Seahawks Dale alive with a twenty three to
six win over the Jets. New York has been eliminated.
Lions mall the Bears forty one ten is Detroit still
has a chance at a postseason berth Chiefs hold off

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the Broncos twenty seven, twenty four, Patriots over the Dolphins
twenty three twenty one. Chargers win the Battle of La
over the Rams thirty one ten. Jaguars will out the
Techs and thirty one to three, and the Browns beat
the Washington Commanders twenty four to ten. Back to you,
Big Ben. All right, very good. As we press on here,
chopping down the overnight, we'll take some calls. As Jonathan
from Delaware writes in he says, the nickname Rundown is

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always great radio rock on A plus on the Mallard second.
A lot of nicknames, A lot of nicknames, A lot
of nicknames. All right, let's go to the phones and
we'll say, hello, who's gonna bat lead off? Here? A
man who sold out, a man that went to the
dreaded day shift and left this show behind. Chris any Houston,

(28:31):
the den of inequity. Hello, Christopher, Welcome to the Ben
Maller Show. What happened New year, Ben malla and happy
New Year to you. Chris. What's coming? Man? You must
be big time. You must be off from work later today, right,
you must not have to work today. That's why you're
staying up late. I'm part of corporate. I'm like Eddie Garfield,

(28:54):
I'm shot too. Cooper here. I was like, oh my god,
Coople you're here. Oh yeah, I'm like, why well you think? Wait?
Wait wait wait, wait, wait wait, Chris, who's you think
Justin Cooper is working on the show? Is that right? Yeah?
I just talked to Coop. What wasn't it cool? Probably
like Ethan? Ethan, turn on your Ethan? Do you sound

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anything like Justin Cooper? Do Justin Cooper have a Philadelphia accent?
All of a sudden, I don't think so. I don't
think so. I even said Ethan Fox Sports Radio, that's
my gus. I didn't. I didn't hear you though. Also
he went corporate too. Okay, Chris, I didn't speak to doctor.
Go to your doctor there. Okay, man, look here, look here,

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I'm calling Luca and look at I've been here. You
talked that man, this guarding our championships when you guys
keep over there side of our little cheatahs. But you know,
I ain't gonna get too much. All them cheaters, what
not the Mets so you're talking about you're talking about
the Dodgers, all them cheaters? Please stop? Oh yeah, JD. Martinez,
you know you just let me let me check you.
I go to Baseball ORF. It's not part of the

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twenty seventeen Astros, but part of the twenty eighteen Boss
Red Sox. So do the point this all began. You
don't understand, Chris, and you're getting me up. I'm in
a bad mood. You know. I don't want to be
in a bad mood. Chris. All of that cheating began
with the Astros, and then the disease spread to the
Red Sox with the as one thousand two, one thousand holes.

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Stop being a low information fan being because you're the
guy to call up, Chris. You were the guy when
the story called, Chris, you were the guy I'll never
forget this phone call till I die. You were the
guy that called up the night the story broke and
said it was all photo shop. It was all video
after video of trash kids being banged upon at Astro games,

(30:47):
and you said, oh, it's just people trying to tear
down the Astros. It's all faked people. Chris. Minute, wait
a minute. In my defense, I'm a married man, I deny,
deny all the way out, and I still deny again.
So you should know that when you're married, you deny, deny,
deny everything. Look at even when you're even when you're

(31:09):
called out and they got they got everything to take
out everything, you still deny it now, I mean, yes, touche.
So let let's get to this Drake. Let's get to
this trash. Okay, I want to talk about this trash. Okay,
the Texans this is, this is this is the biggle
we go. You know, they're trying to bring back bringers,
give excuse to bring back Levy Smith and like, who

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who wants to bring I mean, what has he done
this ship that says, hey, I need to come back
for another year. I mean, can't you explain to me
what you may crystal ball out or you wanna you wanna, Yeah, listen, love,
here's the They keep changing coaches the Texans every every
other year. Here, this was well they had numb nuts
this coach for a long time, but since then it's

(31:51):
been a revolving, revolving Who would you like to see
as the coach of the Houston Texans? There, Chris, I
like to see new ownership really bad and look at
that happen. How bad? But how bad the horizon? Yeah?
How bad? Is you can't but you can't even secure
it down the number one pick because the Chicago Basso
who wasted a draft pick on a quarterback still stink.

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Speakers about it worse than we do, like like, come on, well,
well that's actually actually argument for love is that at
least the Texans were trying to win at the end.
They took the Cowboys to the end, they took Kansas
City to the end. They were trying to win games again.
But let's see, I was talking to another fan about
this music, like what we're supposed to be trying to win?

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I'm like, dude, after going through a whole season of
getting our book kicked all around the stadium, wouldn't you
want to get the number one pick now? Like? Why
would you want to start? Let's start winning now? Like, well,
they're gonna come over that, They're gonna end up getting
the number one thing. Nothing worry about, Okay, the Texans. Ways,
we're gonna win this weekend. Why they're gonna win the

(32:57):
weekend and give it to the sorry d Bears, I'm
telling you. And that game that'll be the Colts and
the Texans in Indianapolis Week eighteen, and that first one
to score three points wins of the game. How about that.
I'll take that bet. I'll take that, bad man. I'm
playing my trip for this summer. We should be back

(33:17):
out there again. All right, there's christ in Houston. Our
friend Chris Say, illusional cheating stro fan, So we can
rest It'll be the last question I'll answer about pitch
tipping or or pitch stealing. Yeah, that's the manager of
the team while they were cheating in the playoffs against

(33:38):
the Yankees. Uh being offended, laughing at the very idea
that they could be cheating. All right, So the bell
of the coaching ball, that would be none other than
Jim Harball as Michigan. You saw it happen to them.
They fell behind, came back, but not enough as they
lose the TCU in the College Football playoff over the weekend.
So now the expectation is that Jim Harball is gonna

(33:59):
exit and harbor and go back to the NFL. The
Denver Broncos, owned by members of the Walmart family. Is
it true that they're going to give Jim Harball a
blank check to go to the Rocky Mountains and try
to salvage salvage the quarterback Russell Wilson who appears to

(34:21):
have completely lost his way. But it's not just not
just the Denver Broncos that are hot and heavy interested
and have suppose already reached out to Jim Harbaugh to say, hey,
we'd love to make sweet romance together. But you've also
have the Indianapolis Colts who are expected to be interested
hardballs in the Ring of Honor for the Colts. And

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I would imagine there's you think about how many coaching
jobs gonna be open. There's probably six or seven coaching
jobs that'll be opened up by the time this is
all done in the NFL, depending on guys that leave
for television jobs or just quit or retire. And so
Harball Jim Harbor, who wanted the Vikings job last year,
and he made sure to let everyone know that he
was interviewing for the job, thought he was gonna get

(35:06):
the job. He didn't get the job, obviously, there was
a disagreement. They were loggerheads at the end. But Jim Harbaugh,
the name, the name, the name, the name be keeping on.
Everyone's all excited about that. In the NFL circles. Here's
the who am I? Game? Here we go? The who
am I? Game? This is where I pretend to be
somebody else, always a crowd pleaser, the who am I game?
Here it is Austin, Austin Eckler. He plays in a

(35:31):
Charger uniform. Austin Eckler has one thousand, five hundred sixty
seven scrimmage yards eighteen scrimmage touchdowns. That's thirteen rushing, five
receiving this season for the other team in LA and
joined me as the only undrafted players with at least
fifteen hundred scrimmage yards and fifteen touchdowns in consecutive seasons

(35:55):
in the Common draft. Ear again, Austin Eckler big year
or the Charges a couple of big years, and he
joins me as the only undrafted players were at least
fifteen hundred scrimmage yards in fifteen or more touchdowns in
consecutive seasons in the Common Draft era. Who am I
the answer? And we'll get back to it. We'll do

(36:17):
it next. Your dot funkey Chicken and run dot funkey
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am I game? Chargers running back Austin Ekeler now over
fifteen hundred yards from scrimmage in eighteen eighteen scrimmage touchdowns,

(37:28):
thirteen rushing vibe receiving this season, so he joins me
as the only undrafted players with at least fifteen hundred
scrimmage yards in fifteen or more touchdowns and consecutive seasons.
That is in the common draft era. That is the
question what is the answers? We begin anew here in
twenty twenty three. Let's see if anybody in the Maller

(37:50):
Militia knows the answer the pulse of the people. We
go now to the magic Twitter machine to see if
anybody knows the correct answer to today's who Am I? Game,
and will start out with this plastered Paul's burner accounts
as an empty bottle of red breast is the answer.

(38:11):
Chris and de Moine going with Ram Legend Benny Cunningham
as the answer. Sparky Lyle from mister nice Guy and
his Great Mustache. Jason in Denver going with Clancy Pendergast
as the selection. The New Year Baby from furg Dog.
Who else do we have? Robert Bousche Junr from Big

(38:33):
Greg in Iowa. Page down, A page down. Evan the
Mariner fan says Geno Smith is the correct selection, Hack
Saw Jim Duggan from Jason our Palin Rocky Mount, Virginia.
The answer is gab Bagul from Benito the Cowboy fan,

(38:54):
the rock Guest by Alf the Alien opinter Pete and
the Machinist is late with us. He's going with Mike
All stods his answer. Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, says Arian
Foster is the way to go. Edwin Incarnacione from the
American therapist, Steve the misplaced San Diegan slash Stanford guy,

(39:16):
going with Thurman Thomas as the answer. Brianna the long
suffering New Orleans Saints Apologists, going with Leonard Nimoy as
the answer. She's probably speaking klingon as we speak. All right,
does anyone know the end? Roberto? Do you know the
answer this? Roberto? Do you have any idea? You do?
Not right? You're shaking your head. No, Google Sanchez, all right,

(39:37):
fine answer, No, that is incorrect. The correct answer a
man of a higher power. Priest Holmes, Priest Holmes is
the answer. Back in twenty o two and twenty o three,
Priest Holmes weeking was milestones. So I want to congratulate
the Washington football team. I don't know if you had

(39:58):
a chance to see this. Now, there's a lot of
things brewing in Washington. The team gagged against the Cleveland Browns.
Carson Wentz blows he had the coach Ron Rivera, who
was caught not realizing his team could be eliminated from
playoff consideration. But the most embarrassing thing of all, not
Carson Wentz, not Ron Rivera's bad football knowledge, No, no, no.

(40:21):
It was the debut of a new mascot for the
Washington Commanders. They introduced their new cuddly mascot, and if
you didn't see it, let me describe for our blind listeners.
It is a pig named Major Tuddy, a pig mascot.
It looks like if you've ever been to the Pigley Iigley,
you know that that pig the grocery store looks like

(40:43):
the mascot from the Pigley Wigley. Either that or like Porky.
The pig had a grandson, and now the grandson's running
around is the mascot of the Washington football team. It's
odd because it's obviously a play on if you're they
used to be called the Washing Redskins, and they were
their offensive line, the Hogs, but they're not the Washington

(41:06):
Redskins anymore, So why are you going with the pig thing?
The height may be sense, makes no sense, and I
think it's also uh yeah, I don't know that that's
Everyone can eat the pigs, so I don't know that's offensive.
I'm offended by that nickname. How damn oh my god,
oh my god, oh go