January 5, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about why Robert Saleh continues to back Zach Wilson as the Jets QB of the future, the odds of Zach Wilson having a ressurection, #AskBen, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome. It's our Numeber three, hour three of
our radio show, and we go to Jersey where the
Jets are selling and selling and selling their beleaguered quarterback.
Why does Robert Salo of the Coach continue to issue
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sweet nothings to Zach Wilson regarding his future with the Jets?
And is it true that there is a hidden meaning
to Robert Salo's recent rant about his troubled quarterback Zach Wilson?
And what are the odds that Zach Wilson has a
resurrection in a Jets uniform in this three ring circus.
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We'll talk about that and much more right now here.
It is Tell a friend, Tell a friend our number three,
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while most people are sleeping, right, most people are not
paying attention. We talk about the news of the day, right,
we don't know when one of the cool things about
the job. People have asked me over there's like, how
do you do this for so long? It must be
so boring You've done the same nonsense. And my argument
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is always that no, every day there's something new, and
I don't know when I go to bed what's going
to happen when I wake up. And it's actually a
lot of fun because, for example, I did not anticipate
that I would be doing a deep dive on the
jets who have been eliminated from playoff consideration. And this
particular story is popped up on our radar again. But
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here we are all right here. We are in the
big chair. So the Jets, who have the longest active
stretch of futility in the NFL, they have not been
able to cut the mustard with twelve straight seasons missing
the playoffs, and they continue to feed the content kitty. Now,
a ringing endorsement has been issued, a ringing endorsement pushing
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the boundaries of believability and has gone to the Jets quarterback. Now,
if you did not hear, perhaps not, the Jets coach
Robert Salah, as the worm turns, has issued a glowing
testimonial for the embattled quarterback Zach Wilson, who's underseas. Now.
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Salah garroteep that the Jets will develop Zach Wilson through
hell or high water. Those are his words. And he
said that the demoted quarterback who's been sent out to
the penalty box, he has to regain his swagger this offseason. Now,
just to prove that I am not lying, let's go
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to the audiotape. Here's Robert Salah talking about the confidence,
the confidence that he has in the guy that he benched,
and through hell or high water, we're going to figure
out how to how to get him to where we
know he can be. Yeah, okay, you might want to
watch out there, Coach Salak, because there's a bomb cyclone
right now. All right, but wait, there's more so Coach
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Salah also said, and this is the one that's kind
of interesting here. He says, Zach Wilson, you know what
he needs to do. He's got to figure out his priorities.
Take a list, Go read a book, go do something,
get away from this game. Just just reset. You know.
I think the greatest strength and greatest gift you can
give yourself as a humans to figure out what's important
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to you, what do you value, and how can you
stick to those values day in and and day out. That
is the greatest gift you can give yourself is to
discover yourself. And I think Zach needs to get away,
read a book and figure that out. Go read a
book that's outstanding. All right, So let us discuss, Okay
that I've questioned here, why does Robert Salak continue with
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his machete to swashbuckle his way through the jungle, supporting
publicly Zach Wilson and his future with the Jets, even
though his actions have been too big. Zach Wilson multiple times.
So I've got handcuffed rainbow and medicine cabinet, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
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going to make gridlock on the Jersey Turnpike. That's what
we're gonna make. So first of all, okay, Robert Sala,
who I don't know how long this cat's gonna be
coaching the Jets. Everyone he was with the Niners as
their defensive guru. He got a lot of TV time
they were building them up, and doesn't seem it like
anything special, as I checked the receipts from his time
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with the Jets. But Robert Sala has no other choice
in this equation. In this little Shakespearean drama, Salah's coaching
style is not gruff and tough and rough. He's mister Sunshine.
Some of it is also merchandising. It's marketing. Stand by
your player. And if the Jets hope to recoup their losses,
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they need to be positive publicly before they get into
the off season. And then once we get into the
offseason and get closer to the NFL Draft and the
trading season is underway, there's there's too many teams that
need quarterbacks and not enough quarterbacks. So you have a
supply shortage. I blame Putin, but you have a supply shortage.
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And so if you're the Jets and you know, you
get close to the draft and you're like, well, listen,
I don't we see if the Colts will take a
chance on Zach Wilson or the Commanders or the Texans
or whoever. More importantly, though, Robert Salad is also part
of the regime, and this is probably the most important part.
He's part of the regime that hand picked Zach Wilson.
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So if you connect the dots for better or worse,
he's handcuffed to his quarterback. He's the chosen one. The
Jet scouts passed on bona fide stars right now. Jamar
Chase was in that draft, Micah Parsons. These are big
time guys who were in that draft. And the Jets said,
you know what, we need our forever quarterback, and it's
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Zach bleep and Wilson. And under any reasonable measurement, he's
been a failure. The coach said, through hell or high water.
Right now, there's a atmospheric river of poop all around
Zach Wilson. They're not singing Kumbaya. They're not doing that.
And this cat we mentioned this in a previous episode
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of the show, but this cat, Zach Wilson, has become
the first quarterback in over fifty years to finish with
the worst passer rating in the NFL back to back seasons.
Congratulations as you slog through the mud of the NFL. Now, second,
is it true that there is a hidden meaning to
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the rant about the book from Robert to Salad towards
Zach Wilson. So this is a not so hidden message,
right Sala's spelled it out pretty good defending the skills set,
which is a way to say, hey, we really scouted
this guy. Great, we know this guy's got the skills
to be a big time quarterback. But he also implied
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that Wilson is shall we say primitive, that the way
this was painted that Wilson's a meadead, he's clueless, he's uncultured,
he's raw, terrible leader of men. You know when your
coach is telling your quarterback who's been benched multiple times
that he needs to find the rainbow. And I'm talking
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about not the pot of gold at the rainbow. I'm
talking about the reading rainbow that listening to Robert Salas speak,
it sounds every time I hear this guy talk, it
sounds like he's got a master's degree from Tony Robbins,
that he just owns it, like all those positive traits
and all the phrases and all that. I have a
sneaking suspicion that Sala's gonna say, I want you to
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read a book. I've got one for you. Awaken the
giant within. That'll be the book, and then he'll give
him a copy also of the Art of Happiness from
the Dalai Lama and all those big buzzwords right, sharpened,
the saw, cynergize, prioritize, be proactive, begin with the end
in mind, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. All those terms that people
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use when they're trying to sell positivity and how they
live a proper life and all so fur them. Now
Salah also is in so many words. He actually explained
in another part of this news converence, he explained that
Zach Wilson blows as a pocket passer. So I want
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to play this clip for you. Take a listen, because
this is to me as as meaningful as anything. But
here's Robert Salah explaining the part of the game that
his quarterback needs to improve one. I'll read a book,
I'll do something, get away from this game, just just reset,
you know. I think the greatest strength and greatest gift
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you can give yourself as a human is to figure
out what's important to you, what do you value and
how can you stick to those values day and dale.
That is the greatest gift you can give yourself is
to discover yourself. And I think Zach needs to get away,
read a book and figure that out. That's a great
soundbody that's not the one I wanted. Robert Salah he
went on a rant mentioning that Zach Wilson, he's terrible
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on third down and in two minute situations. Was the rant,
and he talked about that's that's when games are one, right,
that's when games are one or lost. In the pocket
was the sound. But we don't have it apparently, but
not the razmataz, not the running plays, not the quarterback keeper. No.
Robert Salah's point that he was making was that Zach
Wilson has to get it done in the pocket. And
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this is something that I've I preached about from my
bully pulpit. Over the years, is that when I see
the quarterback that dazzles everyone by by running up and down,
they can get it done on third down? Can they
get it done in the two minutes drill from the pocket?
Because late in the season, and certainly in the playoffs,
We've watched enough football that no matter how crazy you
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go and you go zonkers running the ball late in
the year, you play better teams in the playoffs, obviously,
and they are able to contain you from running wild.
All right, final thought, So one of the odds that
Zach Wilson has a resurrection in a Jets uniform. So
we are gonna go extremely low, extremely low the Malorus
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sports Book odds plus twenty five hundred. Now that implies
a less than four percent chance, less than four perchance,
four percent chance. I'll tell you why Wilson is right now.
He's buried in the back of the medicine cabinet for
the Jets. You know, you know that you put your
medicine back then, and by the time you get to
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middle age, you've got like tons of medicine back there
that it's all expired, and all that's Jack Wilson. It's
a bitter pill to swallow. New York is going to
sign a veteran free agent quarterback during the roster shopping season. Now,
much like some of these other pod who raiders are
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gonna have. We don't know who the Jets are gonna add,
but it's it's going to be a group from a
group of Derek car Jimmy Garoppolo, Jared Goff possibly or
player X. Everybody will be looked at, Somebody will be signed.
Anybody's an upgrade over Zach Wilson, who's a nobody. He
was drafted as a somebody, but he's played like a nobody. Now.
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If that new quarterback, the new quarterback coming in here, succeeds,
then Zach Wilson will be fully excommunicated from the Jets.
And there's still a chance he gets traded in this offseason.
But assuming he's back and to have a resurrection, a
rebirth there, it's highly unlikely because they're bringing in a
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veteran quarterback and should that player stink, guess what happens
in that part of the story, ding Ning, Ning, Ding Ding,
that's right. You know that the Jets ownership will then
fire Robert Sala and the general manager. They'll hit the
reset button again, which means they'll bring in a new
coach in a new GM, and that new coach, that
new GM. It's the cat and mouse game. They will
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want to flush away the floaters they're just floating around
like Zach Wilson, leave them behind, and so that means
bye bye to Zach Wilson. There is only one scenario,
one scenario where it's not carved in stone, where there's
a Disney esque happy ending. You want to take a guess. Yeah,
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here's the way this works in my head. So let's
say in this parallel dimension, the Jets sign a guy
like Jimmy Garoppolo all right or Derek Carter matter, and
that player starts the year, does the job. Zach Wilson's
the backup, and Garoppolo as a Jet gets hurt out
of the realm of possibility. It's right there in front
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of your nose. He gets hurt, and then Zach Wilson
puts his cape on, steps in as a brock Purty
Kurt Warner Nick Foles type of story and then changes
the narrative. But outside of that, there's a very obese
woman who's warming up her vocal cords and She's gonna
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sing a nice lullaby for Zach Wilson. So that's the
reality of the situation as I see it at this point.
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the Mallar Riddle of the night. No cheating, no cheating, no, no,
no cheating. All right, here we go. So an SEC
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college basketball game was delayed after Texas A and M
forgot blank at the hotel. A Southeastern Conference college basketball
game was delayed after Texas A and M forgot blank
left it back at the hotel. That is the Mallar
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the day. A Southeastern Conference college basketball game was delayed
delayed after Texas A and M forgot blank. They left
it back at the hotel. That is the question. What
is the answer? Mark the Walker says, cash for referees
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is the answer. Ferg Dog says they forgot their lucky
under ruse. That that's the answer. Page down, page down.
They left their book of Aggie jokes guess by Lister Mason.
In Huntington Beach, Stevie mean Ball says, photos of Ryan
Tannehill's hot wife, they left that back at the hotel.
Who else do we have? Page down? A page down?
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I don't know if I'll read that one on the air.
Thank you for that. Alf the Alien opiner Johnny A.
Slick says they left their balls back at the hotel.
Sharon giving a great tribute to Andrea. In Berkeley, the
Sports Sorceress says that Texas A and M forgot their
astrological charts. Black Steve the Second in North Carolina says
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they left all of their black players at the hotel.
We'll come on, Black Steve, how dare you what else
do we have? Page down? Page down? They forgot their
CBD gummy's. That's a solid answer for Miguel all on fire.
Page down, page down. We've got a lot of the
jokesters with things I don't think we're allowed to read
on the air. Here Blue Gatorade guests by each chip
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in the Q says they forgot their coach. That that's
what happened there. What else do we have? Page down?
All right? Do you have an answer, Eddie? Please to
the mallow riddle of the day. This is very important.
We do have asked Ben coming up. Your questions are answers. Yes,
they forgot their jock straps. No, the jockstraps. I hate
when that happened. Now it's incorrect, Eddie. The correct answer
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this is outstay. I love this story. So Texas A
and M was playing Florida in the Southeastern Commerts. The
game was delayed because the Aggies forgot their uniforms at
the hotel. They showed up without their uniforms. In professional sports,
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you have your equipment managers there to take care of
all that stuff. I assume they had that for major
division when call football and basketball program. I would like
to think so, Eddie. But Texas A and M was
assessed a technical foul with the game being delayed because
they left the uniforms at the hotel. You had one job,
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is I believe the term that's used in that situation,
but don't. Well here's the other thing. Don't you get
there early enough before the game to warm up and
to do some practice and what I can know that
you don't have the uniforms. They're like, yeah, it wouldn't
they be like hanging up in their locker or like,
don't you know that an hour and a half, two
hours before the game, Like, you don't have the depletement uniforms.
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It's outstanding. Oh can you imagine the conversation when the
coach found out, Hey, coach, we can't take the court.
We don't have the uniforms. I'm sure he was very
reasonable and understanding. That's okay, we'll just take a technical foul.
No problem. Oh man, all right, let's go to the phones.
We'll say hello to Andy, who's in pacity. This is
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your I think this is your comic book, buddy Eddie.
I think this is your guy. Hello, Andy, welcome, Yes
it is me. Hello, good evening or good morning, I
guess yes, hello hello, Yeah. Hey. I just wanted to
point out to start. Last time we spoke, the Sabers
were eight points out of a playoff spot. Now they're
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only four and in that time they've toppled the first
place Bruins and Alexander Ovechkin, both in their own house.
So just pointing that out, point that out as we continue.
They did, they did lose to the Autawa Senators. Though
you didn't want to bring that up there, did you know?
It was against the excuses excuses you got to be
fair and balanced. You're if you're gonna tweet me with
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all these uh you know, sabers propaganda, I want to
see when they lose as well. All right, noted, is
this a hockey Chris fluffle that's going on right now?
Between No, No, we do have a bet go Savers,
but no, I actually wanted to mention um as a
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Bills fan obviously, I'll think Buffalo fan. The Jamar Hamlin
thing is absolutely insane, incredibly intense and scary, as we've
all talked about. But reading today, you know the Bengals
continued football operations today, what's going to happen with that game?
I wanted to throw something out there into the ether.
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My take on this. First of all, there's no fair
way this can be settled. Obviously, no matter what happens,
it's gonna suck for somebody, most likely the Bills. And
I say that because this entire season as a Bills fan,
you talk to any Bill fan, any player. All we've
been thinking about since the Super Bowl. It's how that
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Casey game ended last year. And I don't know if
you know this, but the last five times the Bills
have played the Chiefs, it's been in freaking Kansas City,
and we are sick entire two regular season games. Oh,
I see, you got the anxiety about having to go
back to Arrow. I got you, I got you right.
But how about this weekend? I was doing some handicapping.
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I got Benny versus the pain. I know you're not
concerned about this, but I am. So I'm like trying
to handicap the Bills Patriots game, assuming it's going to
be played, and we assume at this point they will
play the game as schedule on Sunday afternoon in Buffalo.
So the way I look at this game for the Bills,
there's one of two ways this goes. Either they come
out there like gangbusters right, trying to rally around the
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situation and play the game of their lives, or they
come out completely flat and the Patriots win. By two touchdowns.
I don't see a scenario in the middle. I don't.
I think either they either come out there and they're
like it's like a Disney movie where they rally around
their falling teammate and play great, or they just they
didn't practice this week and they weren't into it and
they just get roasted. I think we're gonna get roasted.
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I would like to remind you that the Bills have
had two games this year where they've at no practice.
We had to go to they had to go to
Detroit and play a home game in Detroit through a snowstorm,
a true snowstorm, with no practice. That's the second time
this year that's happened. But my suggestion would be this,
if the Bills win on Sunday, and if the Chefs
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lose the Raiders on Sunday, the Bills Bengals game does
not need to take place because there is no way
any other team, regardless of how that Bills Bengals game
would turn out, could claim the one seed in the
in the AF. Well, Andy, there, I promise you, like
I'll be sleeping, but by the time I wake up,
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the NFL will make an announcement today about what they're
gonna do, and one way or another they're gonna make
a final, final announcement. They're supposedly sleeping on it. All right,
Thank you, Andy, Stay safe in the bombs cyclone you're
driving around it. I love the the weather terminology, so good,
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to the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller on the iHeartRadio app,
Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast. We mentioned
Bobby Petrino the other night, talked about him maybe getting
back into coaching. Well he's been hired by Texas A
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and M officially Jimbo Fisher, bringing in the former Arkansas,
Louisville and Atlanta Falcons head coach Bobby Petrino to be
the team's new offensive coordinator. Eddie, not to touch up
your work, but you buried the lead on this month.
Well tell me what I buried. So Bobby Petrino had
been hired a few months ago at UNLV, right right.
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He was at UNLV for a month and left to
go to Texas A and M. Does that not remind
you of something that Patrino has done in the past there, Eddie, Well, yes,
he left the Atlanta found he accepted the offensive coordinator
job at UNV, and there's some guy named Barry Odam
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I don't know who that is. A month ago. Yeah,
and then he got a better job he left, he left. Yeah,
I'm are you surprised? Not surprised, I hope, But I
think that's the that's the I mean, un LV compared
to UH in Texas A little rather live in Vegas
or college. I'd rather live in Vegas. Yeah I would too,
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But I'm guessing his money will go a lot farther
in UH in Texas than I think he figures like
he if he does well here with Jimbo and they
avoid slice brand, then they'll end up he'll get he'll
end up getting another big time job, or they don't,
you know, Jimbo doesn't do well, and they're like, well,
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let's just give the let's give the team to the
guy who used to coach. And he's right, there is
an interim coach. Yeah, but Petrino has got to be
getting up there in age now. I don't know how
old he is, but he's been around a while. So
think he still ride motorcycles. You think he's still hanging
out with co eds. I don't know he's going. You know,
he's back and he's back there in college and they're around,
so you know, so watch out. That was a wild
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night when Patrino quit. He left a letter in the
locker lockers was do you leave one letter or did
he leave a letter in each locker? I thought it
was a letter in each locker. Yeah, I think that's right.
Of course, you know, you just had the one letter
and then went to the copy machine. And yeah, he
probably had some low level intern for the Falcon Yeah, right,
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the Hey, can you write this can you copy this?
You need to put this in everyone? Well, what's that? Coach?
Don't don't worry about it, just copy do what I
tell you and that's it. Now you're good. But that
was when was? When did he leave the the Falcons?
When was that? How long that was? That was probably
fifteen years ago, maybe longer than that, but we were
I was here. I remember we talked about it was
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a wild wild the couple of nights of sports radio.
Who does that? You don't leave an NFL job in
the middle of the deal. Wow, two thousand and seven?
Could that be right? Well, that's that's sixteen years ago?
Now right my mouth, my mouth, old mind is working.
Oh yeah, it was the It was ed coach of
the Falcons in two thousand and seven. Where has the
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time gone? Feels like it was yesterday? What a dumb
dumb you know? All right? It is the Bennett Maller Show,
The Ben Maller Show. As we continue on, and it
is time right now for some hot Q and A.
Are you ready for it? I know you're ready. Here
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We're gonna start off with a question from late night
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wallet is returned to you after losing it, do you
reward the person that found it? Yes, although I have
multiple time for some reason, I've lost my wallet multiple
times and I've gotten it back. Like I dropped it
in the parking lot at the grocery store one time,
not that long ago. One time I dropped I was
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checking out in the store and I like it. I
was so dumb that I left it at the count
I'm such an idiot. And I came back and got it,
and I and each time I offered a reward, and
each time the people said, no, it's store policy, we
can't accept the reward. So I tried so it was
always a an employee that found it, never just well
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one time it was somebody else who found it and
then in the parking lot and then turned it into
the store. But they still I don't know who's who
it was. And by the time I went to the
store to get it, they I kept trying to shove
money into their hands and they wouldn't take it. I'm like,
what the hell you know? I mean, giving your money here,
and you saved me a lot of heartache from having
to go to the DMV and get my credit cards
(30:46):
canceled and all that. Anyway, what about you, Eddie, Yeah,
that's pretty good luck with this as well. I've lost
my wallet twice, one of them at Disneyland when I
was in high school, and both times someone turned turned
it in and everything was was in there, so I
never had the chance to thank them or you know,
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give them a reward. So what I have chosen to
do is that when I've found myself in that situation,
I have paid it forward. And probably the most famous
one was at a gas station where someone had dropped
their like money clip and it was like eighty dollars
and I went inside to the attendant there and I'm like, hey,
somebody dropped this out there. And he looked at me.
(31:29):
He was like, oh, good for you, and I was
like no, I'm like no, I'm I'm giving it to
you in case they come back. And asked if someone
turned it in, and he looked at me like I
was insane. And I have no doubt he put it
in his pocket after I left. But I did what
I did, and then you know, he did what he did.
I'm sure that reminds me. Last time I was in Vegas,
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I was in a sports book and I saw a
lot of cash under the table at one of the
tables in the sports book and I went over there
and I and my head's racing. I'm like, wait a minute,
is this a trap. There's cameras everywhere, right, there's cameras everywhere.
So what I did was I sat at the table
(32:11):
and I put my foot on the Yeah, that's the
way to do it. No, no, I did. And so
the thing I said, I said, I'm gonna wait here
for forty minutes and forty minutes or now, and if
nobody comes to claim the money, it's mine, right, I'll saying, listen,
you know whatever. So I and the guy showed up.
The guy showed up after like half an hour, and
(32:32):
I didn't get the money. You were you like, oh, yeah,
I'm keeping it safe here under my foot for you. Yeah, yeah,
I was. I wondered who that was. I was listening.
I saw it down there. Yeah yeah, I was Mark.
You want to play our game? I asked, man, have
you ever given a reward for your a wallet you
lost along the way? Never gave the award, but I
would to go get my water if i'm another place.
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When I got home, I couldn't find my wild at
that word. Oh, they go back to the store where
I was just that, and there it was. There you go.
It's a great feeling, oh bro. Yeah. The worst is
when you drive back to the store and you're like, oh, wait,
where did I leave it? Maybe you're going on And
then when you're walking it's like very dramatic whether they
have the wallet or not, and they gotta go to
like the back of the store to the lost and found.
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It's like a whole big dedude, what about you? Real quick?
I was gonna say, I left my phone at a
Dicks Sporting goods and when I sprinted back to the store,
like I was running from my lost child or something. Yeah,
and it was still sitting there where I left it.
But I was passicked for a while. Yeah, that's a
really bad feeling. You're like, oh, no, what's going on?
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What about your coop? Shockingly, I have not lost my
wallet or I guess left my wallet somewhere that I
you know, I've lost it in my house, but I
have not like left it somewhere since like middle school.
But that happened twice in middle school. Once I left
it on the floor of a Blockbuster. I was like,
I don't know. I was like kneeling down, reading like
(33:57):
the titles on the bottom shelf, and I just like
put it down on the floor and then got up
and left. That time I came back and it was
still there. And the other time I left it at
a like a rolling roller skate rank during a school
like field trip, and that I just did not get back.
That was just gone. That is unfortunate. Yep. But all right,
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we have a question from furg Dog here for the crew.
Is it for Finley or for us? It's for everybody? Okay.
If your life depended on winning a board game, which
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one would you go with? Shoots and Ladders? I was
very good at shoots and Ladders when I was a kid,
Very good at that. I did well on Monopoly as
I was a game. I was before v video games
and the Stone Age when I was born. Battleship's another one.
Pretty good at battleship. What about you, Eddie? I don't
know that we I mean I played board games. You
(36:09):
didn't do well. You didn't dominate like me, Bennie. Board
game I don't know. Is trivial pursuit? Is that a
considered a board game? Yeah? It is. Yeah, I have
to go with that one. I'm pretty good at trivia.
I used to kick your ass all the time in
that trivia crap game online. No you didn't. I let
you win for your You have low self esteem. It
(36:31):
they changed that. I used to love that game. They
changed that. I stopped playing that game. Yeah, I haven't
played anytherre in a long time. Yeah, um mark, any
anything there that I'll just say, thank you somebody's battleship. No, okay, pal,
take down your battleship. What about you, Coop? I was
gonna say, I was gonna say clue or or like risk,
(36:54):
but Edi Edy picked a good one. I forgot about
trivial pursuit. I'm I'm pretty good at yes, So I
think I'd go with that humble Bragg. You're doing a
humble bragg. They're bad? Yeah about you? All right? What
is next? Year? It is? Ask Ben? Your questions are answers?
This one's let's do this one from Jeff. He wants
(37:14):
to know do you think dogs think that we are
really tall dogs? Or did they think that they are
really short people? I think dogs are the smartest creatures
out there. They figured out how to manipulate human beings right.
Think about they need food and water they and all
they have to do is wag their tail and stick
their tongue out and smile at you, and they get
(37:36):
as much food and as much water as they want.
They've got the whole system figured out. It's a wonderful thing.
These dogs have. What about you, Eddie, Well, to answer
the question, I'm gonna say that dogs think that they
are just short people. But my mother in law, God
bless her, eighty seven years old, went on a rant
about dogs the other day. It was hilarious because when
she was younger, you know, dogs never came in the house.
(37:59):
They were just kind of around. You know. It is
like she just can't wrap her head around the fact
that my wife and I have two dogs, that we
have a dog sitter that stays with them when we
go on vacation, that we have pet insurance, yeah, and
all these things. That's just like you've turned dogs into people.
They are not people. They're dogs, the dogs. There are
(38:21):
things a little much for me. But you know it's
I hear you, all right, market any quickly anything and dogs.
Dogs are just happy to have food and be pet
That's right, That's what I'm saying. What about you, Coop,
I think I'm kind of with you, But I think
they're smart. They know. I think they know that we're people,
that they're dogs. They know they were different. But you know,
I think they've evolved, They've evolved, they've figured out the system.
(38:43):
It's brilliant these dogs, I mean they one thinks dogs
are stupid, but no, they get what they need in life.
Hello, and welcome. It's our Numeber three, hour three of
our radio show, and we go to Jersey where the
Jets are selling and selling and selling their beleaguered quarterback.
Why does Robert Salo of the Coach continue to issue
(00:22):
sweet nothings to Zach Wilson regarding his future with the Jets?
And is it true that there is a hidden meaning
to Robert Salo's recent rant about his troubled quarterback Zach Wilson?
And what are the odds that Zach Wilson has a
resurrection in a Jets uniform in this three ring circus.
(00:46):
We'll talk about that and much more right now here.
It is Tell a friend, Tell a friend our number three,
the Zach Attack. It's not back, but you wouldn't know
that from listening. Welcome, In the beginning of another hour
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that gang, that NFL gang gang greet and as you
all by listening to the show on a semi regular basis,
while most people are sleeping, right, most people are not
paying attention. We talk about the news of the day, right,
we don't know when one of the cool things about
the job. People have asked me over there's like, how
do you do this for so long? It must be
so boring You've done the same nonsense. And my argument
(02:18):
is always that no, every day there's something new, and
I don't know when I go to bed what's going
to happen when I wake up. And it's actually a
lot of fun because, for example, I did not anticipate
that I would be doing a deep dive on the
jets who have been eliminated from playoff consideration. And this
particular story is popped up on our radar again. But
(02:39):
here we are all right here. We are in the
big chair. So the Jets, who have the longest active
stretch of futility in the NFL, they have not been
able to cut the mustard with twelve straight seasons missing
the playoffs, and they continue to feed the content kitty. Now,
a ringing endorsement has been issued, a ringing endorsement pushing
(03:03):
the boundaries of believability and has gone to the Jets quarterback. Now,
if you did not hear, perhaps not, the Jets coach
Robert Salah, as the worm turns, has issued a glowing
testimonial for the embattled quarterback Zach Wilson, who's underseas. Now.
(03:24):
Salah garroteep that the Jets will develop Zach Wilson through
hell or high water. Those are his words. And he
said that the demoted quarterback who's been sent out to
the penalty box, he has to regain his swagger this offseason. Now,
just to prove that I am not lying, let's go
(03:46):
to the audiotape. Here's Robert Salah talking about the confidence,
the confidence that he has in the guy that he benched,
and through hell or high water, we're going to figure
out how to how to get him to where we
know he can be. Yeah, okay, you might want to
watch out there, Coach Salak, because there's a bomb cyclone
right now. All right, but wait, there's more so Coach
(04:07):
Salah also said, and this is the one that's kind
of interesting here. He says, Zach Wilson, you know what
he needs to do. He's got to figure out his priorities.
Take a list, Go read a book, go do something,
get away from this game. Just just reset. You know.
I think the greatest strength and greatest gift you can
give yourself as a humans to figure out what's important
(04:28):
to you, what do you value, and how can you
stick to those values day in and and day out. That
is the greatest gift you can give yourself is to
discover yourself. And I think Zach needs to get away,
read a book and figure that out. Go read a
book that's outstanding. All right, So let us discuss, Okay
that I've questioned here, why does Robert Salak continue with
(04:50):
his machete to swashbuckle his way through the jungle, supporting
publicly Zach Wilson and his future with the Jets, even
though his actions have been too big. Zach Wilson multiple times.
So I've got handcuffed rainbow and medicine cabinet, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
(05:11):
going to make gridlock on the Jersey Turnpike. That's what
we're gonna make. So first of all, okay, Robert Sala,
who I don't know how long this cat's gonna be
coaching the Jets. Everyone he was with the Niners as
their defensive guru. He got a lot of TV time
they were building them up, and doesn't seem it like
anything special, as I checked the receipts from his time
(05:34):
with the Jets. But Robert Sala has no other choice
in this equation. In this little Shakespearean drama, Salah's coaching
style is not gruff and tough and rough. He's mister Sunshine.
Some of it is also merchandising. It's marketing. Stand by
your player. And if the Jets hope to recoup their losses,
(05:58):
they need to be positive publicly before they get into
the off season. And then once we get into the
offseason and get closer to the NFL Draft and the
trading season is underway, there's there's too many teams that
need quarterbacks and not enough quarterbacks. So you have a
supply shortage. I blame Putin, but you have a supply shortage.
(06:22):
And so if you're the Jets and you know, you
get close to the draft and you're like, well, listen,
I don't we see if the Colts will take a
chance on Zach Wilson or the Commanders or the Texans
or whoever. More importantly, though, Robert Salad is also part
of the regime, and this is probably the most important part.
He's part of the regime that hand picked Zach Wilson.
(06:45):
So if you connect the dots for better or worse,
he's handcuffed to his quarterback. He's the chosen one. The
Jet scouts passed on bona fide stars right now. Jamar
Chase was in that draft, Micah Parsons. These are big
time guys who were in that draft. And the Jets said,
you know what, we need our forever quarterback, and it's
(07:07):
Zach bleep and Wilson. And under any reasonable measurement, he's
been a failure. The coach said, through hell or high water.
Right now, there's a atmospheric river of poop all around
Zach Wilson. They're not singing Kumbaya. They're not doing that.
And this cat we mentioned this in a previous episode
(07:29):
of the show, but this cat, Zach Wilson, has become
the first quarterback in over fifty years to finish with
the worst passer rating in the NFL back to back seasons.
Congratulations as you slog through the mud of the NFL. Now, second,
is it true that there is a hidden meaning to
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the rant about the book from Robert to Salad towards
Zach Wilson. So this is a not so hidden message,
right Sala's spelled it out pretty good defending the skills set,
which is a way to say, hey, we really scouted
this guy. Great, we know this guy's got the skills
to be a big time quarterback. But he also implied
(08:14):
that Wilson is shall we say primitive, that the way
this was painted that Wilson's a meadead, he's clueless, he's uncultured,
he's raw, terrible leader of men. You know when your
coach is telling your quarterback who's been benched multiple times
that he needs to find the rainbow. And I'm talking
(08:36):
about not the pot of gold at the rainbow. I'm
talking about the reading rainbow that listening to Robert Salas speak,
it sounds every time I hear this guy talk, it
sounds like he's got a master's degree from Tony Robbins,
that he just owns it, like all those positive traits
and all the phrases and all that. I have a
sneaking suspicion that Sala's gonna say, I want you to
(08:59):
read a book. I've got one for you. Awaken the
giant within. That'll be the book, and then he'll give
him a copy also of the Art of Happiness from
the Dalai Lama and all those big buzzwords right, sharpened,
the saw, cynergize, prioritize, be proactive, begin with the end
in mind, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. All those terms that people
(09:21):
use when they're trying to sell positivity and how they
live a proper life and all so fur them. Now
Salah also is in so many words. He actually explained
in another part of this news converence, he explained that
Zach Wilson blows as a pocket passer. So I want
(09:41):
to play this clip for you. Take a listen, because
this is to me as as meaningful as anything. But
here's Robert Salah explaining the part of the game that
his quarterback needs to improve one. I'll read a book,
I'll do something, get away from this game, just just reset,
you know. I think the greatest strength and greatest gift
(10:01):
you can give yourself as a human is to figure
out what's important to you, what do you value and
how can you stick to those values day and dale.
That is the greatest gift you can give yourself is
to discover yourself. And I think Zach needs to get away,
read a book and figure that out. That's a great
soundbody that's not the one I wanted. Robert Salah he
went on a rant mentioning that Zach Wilson, he's terrible
(10:25):
on third down and in two minute situations. Was the rant,
and he talked about that's that's when games are one, right,
that's when games are one or lost. In the pocket
was the sound. But we don't have it apparently, but
not the razmataz, not the running plays, not the quarterback keeper. No.
Robert Salah's point that he was making was that Zach
Wilson has to get it done in the pocket. And
(10:47):
this is something that I've I preached about from my
bully pulpit. Over the years, is that when I see
the quarterback that dazzles everyone by by running up and down,
they can get it done on third down? Can they
get it done in the two minutes drill from the pocket?
Because late in the season, and certainly in the playoffs,
We've watched enough football that no matter how crazy you
(11:09):
go and you go zonkers running the ball late in
the year, you play better teams in the playoffs, obviously,
and they are able to contain you from running wild.
All right, final thought, So one of the odds that
Zach Wilson has a resurrection in a Jets uniform. So
we are gonna go extremely low, extremely low the Malorus
(11:32):
sports Book odds plus twenty five hundred. Now that implies
a less than four percent chance, less than four perchance,
four percent chance. I'll tell you why Wilson is right now.
He's buried in the back of the medicine cabinet for
the Jets. You know, you know that you put your
medicine back then, and by the time you get to
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middle age, you've got like tons of medicine back there
that it's all expired, and all that's Jack Wilson. It's
a bitter pill to swallow. New York is going to
sign a veteran free agent quarterback during the roster shopping season. Now,
much like some of these other pod who raiders are
(12:14):
gonna have. We don't know who the Jets are gonna add,
but it's it's going to be a group from a
group of Derek car Jimmy Garoppolo, Jared Goff possibly or
player X. Everybody will be looked at, Somebody will be signed.
Anybody's an upgrade over Zach Wilson, who's a nobody. He
was drafted as a somebody, but he's played like a nobody. Now.
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If that new quarterback, the new quarterback coming in here, succeeds,
then Zach Wilson will be fully excommunicated from the Jets.
And there's still a chance he gets traded in this offseason.
But assuming he's back and to have a resurrection, a
rebirth there, it's highly unlikely because they're bringing in a
(12:58):
veteran quarterback and should that player stink, guess what happens
in that part of the story, ding Ning, Ning, Ding Ding,
that's right. You know that the Jets ownership will then
fire Robert Sala and the general manager. They'll hit the
reset button again, which means they'll bring in a new
coach in a new GM, and that new coach, that
new GM. It's the cat and mouse game. They will
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want to flush away the floaters they're just floating around
like Zach Wilson, leave them behind, and so that means
bye bye to Zach Wilson. There is only one scenario,
one scenario where it's not carved in stone, where there's
a Disney esque happy ending. You want to take a guess. Yeah,
(13:41):
here's the way this works in my head. So let's
say in this parallel dimension, the Jets sign a guy
like Jimmy Garoppolo all right or Derek Carter matter, and
that player starts the year, does the job. Zach Wilson's
the backup, and Garoppolo as a Jet gets hurt out
of the realm of possibility. It's right there in front
(14:04):
of your nose. He gets hurt, and then Zach Wilson
puts his cape on, steps in as a brock Purty
Kurt Warner Nick Foles type of story and then changes
the narrative. But outside of that, there's a very obese
woman who's warming up her vocal cords and She's gonna
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sing a nice lullaby for Zach Wilson. So that's the
reality of the situation as I see it at this point.
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the Mallar Riddle of the night. No cheating, no cheating, no, no,
no cheating. All right, here we go. So an SEC
(15:13):
college basketball game was delayed after Texas A and M
forgot blank at the hotel. A Southeastern Conference college basketball
game was delayed after Texas A and M forgot blank
left it back at the hotel. That is the Mallar
(15:33):
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at the half thing. Anyway, here's the Mallar Riddle of
the day. A Southeastern Conference college basketball game was delayed
delayed after Texas A and M forgot blank. They left
it back at the hotel. That is the question. What
is the answer? Mark the Walker says, cash for referees
(18:04):
is the answer. Ferg Dog says they forgot their lucky
under ruse. That that's the answer. Page down, page down.
They left their book of Aggie jokes guess by Lister Mason.
In Huntington Beach, Stevie mean Ball says, photos of Ryan
Tannehill's hot wife, they left that back at the hotel.
Who else do we have? Page down? A page down?
(18:27):
I don't know if I'll read that one on the air.
Thank you for that. Alf the Alien opiner Johnny A.
Slick says they left their balls back at the hotel.
Sharon giving a great tribute to Andrea. In Berkeley, the
Sports Sorceress says that Texas A and M forgot their
astrological charts. Black Steve the Second in North Carolina says
(18:50):
they left all of their black players at the hotel.
We'll come on, Black Steve, how dare you what else
do we have? Page down? Page down? They forgot their
CBD gummy's. That's a solid answer for Miguel all on fire.
Page down, page down. We've got a lot of the
jokesters with things I don't think we're allowed to read
on the air. Here Blue Gatorade guests by each chip
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in the Q says they forgot their coach. That that's
what happened there. What else do we have? Page down?
All right? Do you have an answer, Eddie? Please to
the mallow riddle of the day. This is very important.
We do have asked Ben coming up. Your questions are answers. Yes,
they forgot their jock straps. No, the jockstraps. I hate
when that happened. Now it's incorrect, Eddie. The correct answer
(19:31):
this is outstay. I love this story. So Texas A
and M was playing Florida in the Southeastern Commerts. The
game was delayed because the Aggies forgot their uniforms at
the hotel. They showed up without their uniforms. In professional sports,
(19:53):
you have your equipment managers there to take care of
all that stuff. I assume they had that for major
division when call football and basketball program. I would like
to think so, Eddie. But Texas A and M was
assessed a technical foul with the game being delayed because
they left the uniforms at the hotel. You had one job,
(20:15):
is I believe the term that's used in that situation,
but don't. Well here's the other thing. Don't you get
there early enough before the game to warm up and
to do some practice and what I can know that
you don't have the uniforms. They're like, yeah, it wouldn't
they be like hanging up in their locker or like,
don't you know that an hour and a half, two
hours before the game, Like, you don't have the depletement uniforms.
(20:39):
It's outstanding. Oh can you imagine the conversation when the
coach found out, Hey, coach, we can't take the court.
We don't have the uniforms. I'm sure he was very
reasonable and understanding. That's okay, we'll just take a technical foul.
No problem. Oh man, all right, let's go to the phones.
We'll say hello to Andy, who's in pacity. This is
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your I think this is your comic book, buddy Eddie.
I think this is your guy. Hello, Andy, welcome, Yes
it is me. Hello, good evening or good morning, I
guess yes, hello hello, Yeah. Hey. I just wanted to
point out to start. Last time we spoke, the Sabers
were eight points out of a playoff spot. Now they're
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only four and in that time they've toppled the first
place Bruins and Alexander Ovechkin, both in their own house.
So just pointing that out, point that out as we continue.
They did, they did lose to the Autawa Senators. Though
you didn't want to bring that up there, did you know?
It was against the excuses excuses you got to be
fair and balanced. You're if you're gonna tweet me with
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all these uh you know, sabers propaganda, I want to
see when they lose as well. All right, noted, is
this a hockey Chris fluffle that's going on right now?
Between No, No, we do have a bet go Savers,
but no, I actually wanted to mention um as a
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Bills fan obviously, I'll think Buffalo fan. The Jamar Hamlin
thing is absolutely insane, incredibly intense and scary, as we've
all talked about. But reading today, you know the Bengals
continued football operations today, what's going to happen with that game?
I wanted to throw something out there into the ether.
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My take on this. First of all, there's no fair
way this can be settled. Obviously, no matter what happens,
it's gonna suck for somebody, most likely the Bills. And
I say that because this entire season as a Bills fan,
you talk to any Bill fan, any player. All we've
been thinking about since the Super Bowl. It's how that
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Casey game ended last year. And I don't know if
you know this, but the last five times the Bills
have played the Chiefs, it's been in freaking Kansas City,
and we are sick entire two regular season games. Oh,
I see, you got the anxiety about having to go
back to Arrow. I got you, I got you right.
But how about this weekend? I was doing some handicapping.
(23:11):
I got Benny versus the pain. I know you're not
concerned about this, but I am. So I'm like trying
to handicap the Bills Patriots game, assuming it's going to
be played, and we assume at this point they will
play the game as schedule on Sunday afternoon in Buffalo.
So the way I look at this game for the Bills,
there's one of two ways this goes. Either they come
out there like gangbusters right, trying to rally around the
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situation and play the game of their lives, or they
come out completely flat and the Patriots win. By two touchdowns.
I don't see a scenario in the middle. I don't.
I think either they either come out there and they're
like it's like a Disney movie where they rally around
their falling teammate and play great, or they just they
didn't practice this week and they weren't into it and
they just get roasted. I think we're gonna get roasted.
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I would like to remind you that the Bills have
had two games this year where they've at no practice.
We had to go to they had to go to
Detroit and play a home game in Detroit through a snowstorm,
a true snowstorm, with no practice. That's the second time
this year that's happened. But my suggestion would be this,
if the Bills win on Sunday, and if the Chefs
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lose the Raiders on Sunday, the Bills Bengals game does
not need to take place because there is no way
any other team, regardless of how that Bills Bengals game
would turn out, could claim the one seed in the
in the AF. Well, Andy, there, I promise you, like
I'll be sleeping, but by the time I wake up,
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the NFL will make an announcement today about what they're
gonna do, and one way or another they're gonna make
a final, final announcement. They're supposedly sleeping on it. All right,
Thank you, Andy, Stay safe in the bombs cyclone you're
driving around it. I love the the weather terminology, so good,
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Bobby Petrino the other night, talked about him maybe getting
back into coaching. Well he's been hired by Texas A
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and M officially Jimbo Fisher, bringing in the former Arkansas,
Louisville and Atlanta Falcons head coach Bobby Petrino to be
the team's new offensive coordinator. Eddie, not to touch up
your work, but you buried the lead on this month.
Well tell me what I buried. So Bobby Petrino had
been hired a few months ago at UNLV, right right.
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He was at UNLV for a month and left to
go to Texas A and M. Does that not remind
you of something that Patrino has done in the past there, Eddie, Well, yes,
he left the Atlanta found he accepted the offensive coordinator
job at UNV, and there's some guy named Barry Odam
(26:29):
I don't know who that is. A month ago. Yeah,
and then he got a better job he left, he left. Yeah,
I'm are you surprised? Not surprised, I hope, But I
think that's the that's the I mean, un LV compared
to UH in Texas A little rather live in Vegas
or college. I'd rather live in Vegas. Yeah I would too,
(26:50):
But I'm guessing his money will go a lot farther
in UH in Texas than I think he figures like
he if he does well here with Jimbo and they
avoid slice brand, then they'll end up he'll get he'll
end up getting another big time job, or they don't,
you know, Jimbo doesn't do well, and they're like, well,
(27:10):
let's just give the let's give the team to the
guy who used to coach. And he's right, there is
an interim coach. Yeah, but Petrino has got to be
getting up there in age now. I don't know how
old he is, but he's been around a while. So
think he still ride motorcycles. You think he's still hanging
out with co eds. I don't know he's going. You know,
he's back and he's back there in college and they're around,
so you know, so watch out. That was a wild
(27:32):
night when Patrino quit. He left a letter in the
locker lockers was do you leave one letter or did
he leave a letter in each locker? I thought it
was a letter in each locker. Yeah, I think that's right.
Of course, you know, you just had the one letter
and then went to the copy machine. And yeah, he
probably had some low level intern for the Falcon Yeah, right,
(27:52):
the Hey, can you write this can you copy this?
You need to put this in everyone? Well, what's that? Coach?
Don't don't worry about it, just copy do what I
tell you and that's it. Now you're good. But that
was when was? When did he leave the the Falcons?
When was that? How long that was? That was probably
fifteen years ago, maybe longer than that, but we were
I was here. I remember we talked about it was
(28:13):
a wild wild the couple of nights of sports radio.
Who does that? You don't leave an NFL job in
the middle of the deal. Wow, two thousand and seven?
Could that be right? Well, that's that's sixteen years ago?
Now right my mouth, my mouth, old mind is working.
Oh yeah, it was the It was ed coach of
the Falcons in two thousand and seven. Where has the
(28:36):
time gone? Feels like it was yesterday? What a dumb
dumb you know? All right? It is the Bennett Maller Show,
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Are you ready for it? I know you're ready. Here
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the questions, the reading of the question. All right, Ben,
We're gonna start off with a question from late night
drug tester. He wants to know from everybody. If your
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wallet is returned to you after losing it, do you
reward the person that found it? Yes, although I have
multiple time for some reason, I've lost my wallet multiple
times and I've gotten it back. Like I dropped it
in the parking lot at the grocery store one time,
not that long ago. One time I dropped I was
(30:03):
checking out in the store and I like it. I
was so dumb that I left it at the count
I'm such an idiot. And I came back and got it,
and I and each time I offered a reward, and
each time the people said, no, it's store policy, we
can't accept the reward. So I tried so it was
always a an employee that found it, never just well
(30:25):
one time it was somebody else who found it and
then in the parking lot and then turned it into
the store. But they still I don't know who's who
it was. And by the time I went to the
store to get it, they I kept trying to shove
money into their hands and they wouldn't take it. I'm like,
what the hell you know? I mean, giving your money here,
and you saved me a lot of heartache from having
to go to the DMV and get my credit cards
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canceled and all that. Anyway, what about you, Eddie, Yeah,
that's pretty good luck with this as well. I've lost
my wallet twice, one of them at Disneyland when I
was in high school, and both times someone turned turned
it in and everything was was in there, so I
never had the chance to thank them or you know,
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give them a reward. So what I have chosen to
do is that when I've found myself in that situation,
I have paid it forward. And probably the most famous
one was at a gas station where someone had dropped
their like money clip and it was like eighty dollars
and I went inside to the attendant there and I'm like, hey,
somebody dropped this out there. And he looked at me.
(31:29):
He was like, oh, good for you, and I was
like no, I'm like no, I'm I'm giving it to
you in case they come back. And asked if someone
turned it in, and he looked at me like I
was insane. And I have no doubt he put it
in his pocket after I left. But I did what
I did, and then you know, he did what he did.
I'm sure that reminds me. Last time I was in Vegas,
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I was in a sports book and I saw a
lot of cash under the table at one of the
tables in the sports book and I went over there
and I and my head's racing. I'm like, wait a minute,
is this a trap. There's cameras everywhere, right, there's cameras everywhere.
So what I did was I sat at the table
(32:11):
and I put my foot on the Yeah, that's the
way to do it. No, no, I did. And so
the thing I said, I said, I'm gonna wait here
for forty minutes and forty minutes or now, and if
nobody comes to claim the money, it's mine, right, I'll saying, listen,
you know whatever. So I and the guy showed up.
The guy showed up after like half an hour, and
(32:32):
I didn't get the money. You were you like, oh, yeah,
I'm keeping it safe here under my foot for you. Yeah, yeah,
I was. I wondered who that was. I was listening.
I saw it down there. Yeah yeah, I was Mark.
You want to play our game? I asked, man, have
you ever given a reward for your a wallet you
lost along the way? Never gave the award, but I
would to go get my water if i'm another place.
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When I got home, I couldn't find my wild at
that word. Oh, they go back to the store where
I was just that, and there it was. There you go.
It's a great feeling, oh bro. Yeah. The worst is
when you drive back to the store and you're like, oh, wait,
where did I leave it? Maybe you're going on And
then when you're walking it's like very dramatic whether they
have the wallet or not, and they gotta go to
like the back of the store to the lost and found.
(33:16):
It's like a whole big dedude, what about you? Real quick?
I was gonna say, I left my phone at a
Dicks Sporting goods and when I sprinted back to the store,
like I was running from my lost child or something. Yeah,
and it was still sitting there where I left it.
But I was passicked for a while. Yeah, that's a
really bad feeling. You're like, oh, no, what's going on?
(33:36):
What about your coop? Shockingly, I have not lost my
wallet or I guess left my wallet somewhere that I
you know, I've lost it in my house, but I
have not like left it somewhere since like middle school.
But that happened twice in middle school. Once I left
it on the floor of a Blockbuster. I was like,
I don't know. I was like kneeling down, reading like
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the titles on the bottom shelf, and I just like
put it down on the floor and then got up
and left. That time I came back and it was
still there. And the other time I left it at
a like a rolling roller skate rank during a school
like field trip, and that I just did not get back.
That was just gone. That is unfortunate. Yep. But all right,
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the Kopa loop for the reading of the questions. All right, Ben,
we have a question from furg Dog here for the crew.
Is it for Finley or for us? It's for everybody? Okay.
If your life depended on winning a board game, which
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one would you go with? Shoots and Ladders? I was
very good at shoots and Ladders when I was a kid,
Very good at that. I did well on Monopoly as
I was a game. I was before v video games
and the Stone Age when I was born. Battleship's another one.
Pretty good at battleship. What about you, Eddie? I don't
know that we I mean I played board games. You
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didn't do well. You didn't dominate like me, Bennie. Board
game I don't know. Is trivial pursuit? Is that a
considered a board game? Yeah? It is. Yeah, I have
to go with that one. I'm pretty good at trivia.
I used to kick your ass all the time in
that trivia crap game online. No you didn't. I let
you win for your You have low self esteem. It
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they changed that. I used to love that game. They
changed that. I stopped playing that game. Yeah, I haven't
played anytherre in a long time. Yeah, um mark, any
anything there that I'll just say, thank you somebody's battleship. No, okay, pal,
take down your battleship. What about you, Coop? I was
gonna say, I was gonna say clue or or like risk,
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but Edi Edy picked a good one. I forgot about
trivial pursuit. I'm I'm pretty good at yes, So I
think I'd go with that humble Bragg. You're doing a
humble bragg. They're bad? Yeah about you? All right? What
is next? Year? It is? Ask Ben? Your questions are answers?
This one's let's do this one from Jeff. He wants
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to know do you think dogs think that we are
really tall dogs? Or did they think that they are
really short people? I think dogs are the smartest creatures
out there. They figured out how to manipulate human beings right.
Think about they need food and water they and all
they have to do is wag their tail and stick
their tongue out and smile at you, and they get
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as much food and as much water as they want.
They've got the whole system figured out. It's a wonderful thing.
These dogs have. What about you, Eddie, Well, to answer
the question, I'm gonna say that dogs think that they
are just short people. But my mother in law, God
bless her, eighty seven years old, went on a rant
about dogs the other day. It was hilarious because when
she was younger, you know, dogs never came in the house.
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They were just kind of around. You know. It is
like she just can't wrap her head around the fact
that my wife and I have two dogs, that we
have a dog sitter that stays with them when we
go on vacation, that we have pet insurance, yeah, and
all these things. That's just like you've turned dogs into people.
They are not people. They're dogs, the dogs. There are
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things a little much for me. But you know it's
I hear you, all right, market any quickly anything and dogs.
Dogs are just happy to have food and be pet
That's right, That's what I'm saying. What about you, Coop,
I think I'm kind of with you, But I think
they're smart. They know. I think they know that we're people,
that they're dogs. They know they were different. But you know,
I think they've evolved, They've evolved, they've figured out the system.
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It's brilliant these dogs, I mean they one thinks dogs
are stupid, but no, they get what they need in life.
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