Hour 1 - Coaching Carosuel

Ben Maller talks about the Carolina Panthers hiring Frank Reich to be their next head coach, lawyers from Steve Wilks saying that there is a "legitimate race problem" in the NFL, NFL Pick'em, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number one, our number one
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in our number one of the Ben Maller Show, the
coaching carousel goes round and round. The first salvo from

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Carolina frank Reich gets the Panthers head coaching gig. How
do you grade the hire for Carolina? And what was
the key for Frank Wright winning the Panthers job over
Steve Wilkes? And what do you make of the interim
coach Steve Wilkes's lawyer saying there is legitimate, a legitimate
race problem in the NFL after the Panthers hired someone

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other than their client. We'll talk about that and more
right now here. It is clear the way we're our
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these guys bails, we will decide who is going to
win the NFC Championship Game as only we can do
under the cover of darkness in the middle of the night.
We have a diehard forty nine er Hawk in one
corner at the Alameda lou and in the other corner
one of the nut job Philadelphia Eagle fans, the one

(02:56):
of the craziest guys we have in the Mallar Militia.
He's lit himself on fire. He's insane to the membrane
fats from Philadelphia. So we're gonna have these guys duke
it out and they're gonna make their case why their
team is going to win on Sunday. And we are
still efforting to get a Bengals fan. Justin thinks he's

(03:17):
too good for this bit in Cincinnati. So Justin, our
regular p one there says he's too good for it.
And the other guys in Cincinnati they don't like the
Bengals because the Bengals have sucked up until recently. And
I think we can find a Chiefs fan. I think
we can find somebody in Kansas City, but we definitely
have the NFC Championship game Battle Royal scheduled for the

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bottom of the hour. But our lead here at the
top comes from the tar Heel State. The Panthers have
made the first head coaching hire. So exciting. Oh, I
can't believe it, first offseason hiring the new coaching cycle.
If you've not heard yet, perhaps you've been living in
a cave down by the river and you missed it.

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So we learned that Frank Reich, remember him, Yeah, Frank Reich,
he's back. He won the Sweepstakes or should I say
the Booby Prize, and he will be the next boss,
the field general of the Carolina Panthers, right sixty one
years young, fired as the coach or the Colts late

(04:20):
in the twenty twenty two season. A very lack luster
tenure in Indianapolis, where they rotated quarterbacks every year. Sounds
like he's in for more of that in the Carolinas
and four plus seasons with the Colts and a one
in two playoff record in Indie. The Panthers, we are

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told by those that claim to know what they're talking about,
were initially smitten kittens with the Lions offensive coordinator. All
about Ben as in Ben Johnson, not the disgraced former
Olympic star from a previous generation, but Ben Johnson, the
whiz kid of Detroit offense. But he chose to day
in Michigan. So the Panthers are also considered running it

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back with Steve Wilkes, and they said, no, we want
something new, we want something fresh, so they hired a retread.
All right, so let us discuss the question, how do
you grade the hire of Frank Wright for Carolina. So
we go to the report card, and on the Mallard
report card, I am giving the Panthers and the hiring

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of Frank Wright a D. They get the D in Carolina,
they do. I'll give m a D plus. I'll give
a D plus. So I've got drip, cronyism, and course,
and we will tie all of these things together and
we're gonna make tobacco road. That's what we're gonna move

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in the Carolina's all right, So hey, listen, Frank Wright,
for my purposes as a talk show host, he does
not move the needle. But even if I wasn't in
the chair that I'm in right now, I would not
be giddy with excitement despite the Panthers using a bunch
of useful idiots in the media to try to upsell

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the higher I mean we heard all because they were
laying it on thick, like extra thick frosting, which I
like on the k all right, he attended seminary in
Charlotte after his playing career. He has a home there.
He still spends the off seasons in the Charlotte area.
One of his kids started working for the Panthers, so
he's got family bloodlines there with the team. His brother

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lives in the areas, has been a coach at Wingate
University forever and ever. He played for the Panthers when
they were an expansion team. I mean they were pulling
out all the stops. No, I have nothing against Frank, right,
I hear he's a very nice guy, and a lot
of media people that I run across say nothing but
nice things about him. He's debonair if you will. But

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I am simply judging the man off the body of
work that I have seen on the football field with
the Colts, and they should put a sign up instead
of Welcome the Charlotte it should read welcome to Dullsville.
Mister melk Toast is now the coach of the Carolina Panthers.
So on the Malle report card, which is out of

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one hundred percent possible, the Frank Reich hire gets a
sixty seven, which is a D. I'll give a d
plaus as I said there. Typically you look to excite
the electorate when you hire a new coach, like get
people really jones up. Either you hire somebody that's a
proven winner or some hot shot, can't believe it future

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star coach, or at least you sell them as that. Right,
this a franchise revival. You wanna make a splash, a
splish splash. You want to get some buzz going. You
get a little buzz on on this platform, sports radio,
on social media, in the public square. Hiring Frank Wright
as your coach is not a splish splash. It's a drip.

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Drip is what it is. It's a drip. It's a
drop into an empty bucket. And Withindye, he did become
the Rhodes scholar at staring at his playsheet blankly when
they showed him on the TV there and then after
the Colts imploded, he would tell the media not to worry,

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not to panic, everything would be okay. Just trust him.
So that's the kind of guy that you've got. And
this is not someone who we were clamoring to watch
coach again. But we don't own the Carolina Panthers. We
have no skin in the game. Now, page two. What
was the key here for Frank Wrych weaning the Panther's

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job over Steve Wilkes. So he is seen as a
quote safe hire, right, not a slam dunk, not a
slam dunk, but more of all like a layoup line.
All right. I don't know that Frank Wright condunct, but
it's like a layup line. You know what you're gonna
get with Frank w Reich. You're going to get the

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calming presence that he's been around five hundred most of
the time. And it's not his first roadio. Now, Steve
Wilkes also had coached. He was a debacle with the Cardinals.
Clearly did a better job here with Carolina as an
interim coach this year. But the key ingredy for Frank

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Reich is chronyism. And that's the word here, chrony ism. Right.
Reich is sixty one years old, He's got a lot
of friends in positions of authority. He's been around the block.
He's seen and done it all as a player and
a coach, up and down the ladder, the Pro football ladder,
and cronyism is prevalent in all of these sports, just

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like politics. Right, Reik was able to use the influence
to help push him across the finish line. All things
being equal, he ended up winning. Every time a retread
gets hired, we are told the same thing. You know,
exactly what we're told when they hire a retrade coach.
We're told, well, Bill Belichick was a retread coach. Look

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how that worked out, right? He sucked with the Browns,
but then with the Patriots, man and Pete Carroll. He
was bad for two teams, the Jets and the Patriots,
and then he went to Seattle and kaboom. Of course,
what is left out on the cutting room floors were
never reminded of Norville Turner or Dave Wonstead or Jack
del Rio or Herm Edwards or Mike Mularkey or any

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other coaches. They got multiple jobs that blew everywhere they went.
Because they don't like to drop the truth bomb. They're
building up the mythology of the new coach. Now the
last word here, you might want to put on your
hazmat suit. We're going third rail on my m third rail.
So many pigskin media types are up in arm Hire

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that the Panthers they hired Frank Reich, they passed over
the interim coach, Steve Wilkes, and they were not alone,
by the way, after Reich was hired, despite Wilkes getting
a second interview the interim coach and you know, the
chance to drop the interim tag. His lawyer ripped the
Panthers for this decision. His lawyers, the lawyers that Wilkes

(11:23):
are paying. He's paying them or I don't if they're
paying them. Maybe they're going pro bono, but they're representing
him either way, and so your lawyer speaks for you
as a client. His lawyers said that Wilkes did a
quote incredible job and implied that Caroline owner David Tepper
is a racist. That's a that's the way I read it.

(11:44):
That's what it's. It reads like the statement that was released. Now,
let's discuss you what do you make of Steve Wilkes
lawyers saying, and I'll use the verbiage they used saying
there is a quote legitimate race problem in the NFL
after the Panther's hired Frank Reich over their client, Steve Wilkes. So,

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as they say in the golfing world, this is par
for the course. The most predictable headline of the sporting
day is this from the lawyer. Now, the lawyers got
invested interest. The lawyers should be happy, right, because this
actually helps the case. There's an active lawsuit that Steve
Wilkes is a part of with Brian Flores against the

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NFL that they're racist, So the lawyers should be happy.
As a clam this is like the greatest thing ever
for the lawyer. Steve Wilkes did, by the way, did
not do an incredible job. He did the word I
will use as an admirable job. As the temporary coach.
He went six and six, beat a lot of bad
teams against better teams. Did not do so well final

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twelve games there in the regular season. Let's not confuse
that with the second coming of Lombardi. Now, this statement
by the law firm repping Steve Wilkes answers the question
in part as to why he was not hired. The
man has an active lawsuit against the NFL, and his

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own lawyers believe he should have been hired. It sounds
the way they said it because he's a minority, he
should have been I mean, what kind of huts was that?
As my grandfather would say. So listen the fact that
Wilkes has a job in the NFL. He'll get a
job somewhere else as an assystem if he wants it,
And Brian Flores is working for the Steelers and he
might be promoted to defensive coordinator in Minnesota or somewhere else.

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I don't know. I work in radio, so I really
know the radio business. I've had about a handful of
people in my career, which is somehow keep adding on
years too. I don't know how that happens, but because
I suck at this, But I've had many people that
not made a handful that have sued, whether companies I
work for or other companies, and I don't know any

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of them that have still been employed by the company
that they sued. So the fact that Wilkes and Floors
still about job in the NFL is rather stunning to
me because it doesn't work that way in my business.
I didn't think it would work that way in the
in the NFL, but but here we are, so all
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If we were very excited about this, this verbal I
wasn't really an octagon. It's like a I gotta come
up with a new name for it because it's not
full octagon like. It's not the verbal octagons. Verbal octagons different.
The verbal octagon's beef versus beef, caller versus caller. This
is representing your team. So we got to try to
find a catching name for that. But I am looking

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forward to it, and it be coming up at the
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an hour three. Mallard of the thirty Green. We're still
efforting to find a Chiefs fan and a Bengal fan
for the AFC version, but we know we have the
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(16:09):
bit repackaged. We will decide who's going to win the
NFC Championship Game. Will it be the forty nine ers
on the road or a homestanding Philadelphia Eagles less than
ten minutes away from fats in Philly and Lou Alameda

(16:30):
Lou squaring up in a barn burner, and I did
see Lou said that he just witnessed the clip of
Fats and Philly lighting himself on fire. He had no
idea that he was dealing with such a lunatic. So
Alameda Louse sounds a little concerned. I think he should be. Yeah,

(16:52):
I contacted Fats. I said, hey, Fats, this guy, we
need somebody to lose. This guy Lou wants to take
on an Eagle fan. You're our Eagle fan or resident
an Eagle fan. And he said, okay, he said, but
I'm probably gonna have to go to the basement. I'm
gonna wake up my wife, so he's gonna be screaming
like a banshee. So we've got that to look forward to.

(17:13):
Man oh man, all right, let's see what do we
have here. Talked to about the Carolina Panthers hiring their
new coach. By the way, Steamy meat Ball says we
should call the bit verbal factagan. I think that's what
he meant to say. I don't know about that. I

(17:34):
don't know jibberish. There there were some other ones that
were halfway decent. Battle of the Fanboys guests by Rob
in Vegas. I don't know if that works. A verbal
duel of fates from Double O Mexican in San Diego.
It's got to have some rhythmic ability to it. Euphemie

(17:56):
in Chicago on the monologue says, A plus and four
bags of flaming hots. On the Malar monologue, Sean Payton
turned down Infianite Wall Street money from Carolina. Now they
get generic fire after three years. Frank Reich as head coach.
Some places don't need NFL franchises, He states, who else

(18:17):
do we have a burner account? Says okay, mallar monologue, Benjamin,
but we all know a Carolina Bobcats monologue does not
move the needle. We all tune in to hear the
verbal slang from both of those jamots. I'm setting the
odds right now. Fats from Philly will be the first
to drop a curse word. Who you got? I would

(18:40):
not I would not bet on that because Alameda Lou
a Boo boo yesterday. He let it slip. He let
the f words slip Alameda Lou on the show yesterday.
So about that, Daniel the actor says, how about Fantastic
Feud super fan showdown? He says, as an idea, Milkman,

(19:04):
Mike and Colorado checks and Mallard Militia deathmatch could work
as a temporary at least until we find something better.
Bourbon Badger says, as a long suffering Carolina Panther fan
and someone who saw Frank Reich play, I give this
higher a C minus on the Bourbon Badger report card.
Three things the Panthers have in common with Old Frank

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since he left the team the first time. Predictable, mediocrity, insignificance.
All right, let's go to the phones. It is plausibly
a call in radio program, and we will start it
off with let's see your sir scratch off the highways

(19:50):
and byways Arkansas. Hello, before I get down to my
serious stuff here. You know, everybody out to can't say
he just loved like the old man said the other day.
But we got a real problem. We got a caller,
a madam militia and dude, he's unknown where he's at.
He's been real sick, he can't breathe real john. Everybody's

(20:15):
lost track of him. Somebody's got to find out and
he he's okay. You know, we're being married to nurse
for a long time. I kept telling what you need
to do is go the doctrine things, and brother, he's
been real quiet. We just google. Well, we'll effort to
get ahold. You're talking about John. We call him John
the pie guy on the show. He's been we've met him.

(20:36):
He's been in studio with us over the years. We
used to have uh pie. Uh. He'd bring a pie
and he was always supposed to get there at the
beginning of the show, and he'd usually get there after
the show and then we just hang out in the
studio and eat pie. So we hope after Man, he
gives you get gray all the time. You ain't feet
out there. Man, he's only man. We've got a bunch

(20:56):
of good guys out there. Brother, you know, we gotta
look out for a boy. And we all you're we
all got back. Ben, why don't you give me some food?
I got you back then, Okay, so I just have
to feed you and then that's just give me some
search scraph offs. You know, Hey, bat he's up about
just say going on this weekend, I got to go
to the the Eagles all the way through and all the
way out. I'm gonna look about thirty four, about seventeen.

(21:17):
I think Jay is gonna have a good weekend. He's
on a mission forty nine. You believe the forty nine
Ers defense is gonna give up thirty four points to
the Philadelphia. You know, I thought it was gonna take
care of Cowboys. But I feel more about this than
I did that anyway I did. Do you know I
got cowboy I mean watch Cowboys fans now. I know

(21:42):
we're months away from this. It's a summer the big
event of the summer. Huh. And that's the the very
popular Mallard Palooza. Will you be singing this year for us?
You all? I had a good Christa song. This is
like last few months ago. Nobody else I'm playing with. Man,
It's like my video that night that was custing. That

(22:03):
video was a little there was a little cursing. That
was a good video. Though you went nuts on that.
That was pretty I appreciate you being you know, I
tried to best be good out here. I'm not the
best color in the world. Everybody not found that out
you know. And I always love my blow up. You know,
I haven't been a little joke for a long time.
I have to put me in their jokes. But I'm
all good. You're looking for people to goof on you

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and the jokes. Okay, we'll see if what he w
does I I gotta go thank you? All right? We
will get to a stay thirst. Why don we do
that right now? So an NFL player is trending on
TikTok because random women are allegedly thirsting for this NFL player.
That NFL player is you know, you gotta guess the answer.

(22:56):
Joe Burrow of the Cincinnati Ben Gals. What yeah, paranthe
these easy on the eyes for the ladies. They like him,
Joe Burrow? Who knew? Who knew? When was the last
time it was a boomera size f in the last
Bengal quarter Maybe Carson Palmer. I don't know the last
Bengal quarterback people were longing for. I don't know if

(23:20):
anything on TikTok's real, but that I read that that
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Some injury news from the NFL Sanranceisco four hundred twenty
by Christian McAffrey sat out practice on Thursday because of
a shin injury. Buddy said, there is zero chance, zero

(24:24):
chance you will miss Sunday's NFC Championship game. Well, that's
good to I will not miss it either. I'd like
to let everyone know that I will be part of
that event. You will, Yes, I will be a silent
member of that game. I will be watching. I may
get hemorrhoids again, Eddie from sitting on my ass watching
the game. What don't need anything. You don't don't even

(24:45):
know about that? All right? Oh, thank you fair enough,
so I want to point that out, all right, thank
you for that. It is the Benemaller Show. As we
continue on here, as we get to just minutes away here,
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So the Mallard Mad House, this is gonna decide who
wins the NFC Championship game. And it is gonna be stunning.

(25:31):
And we don't need any big open Why don't we
start our first combatant? None, We don't hold one. We
don't have either one. Wait wait wait wait wait wait
wait wait hold on. I gave you fatism you had
lose number, right, you got both their number. What's what's
going on here? What's going on? Coup? It's going straight

(25:57):
to voicemail though number that you gave me for fats
What about louis new there. I didn't try him since
some facts. Why not if lou shows up, then forty
nine ers win. If one team doesn't show up, the
other team four fits. All right, right, I'll call hello,
come on now, I got I got an email. Why

(26:18):
does this always happen to me, Eddie? This doesn't happen
to the other shows. There's no fight, Roberno, no, he said, no, listen,
if you know what, I'll get somebody the last minute.
You don't boxing, no, no, no. If somebody wants to
call up right now, eight seven seven ninety nine. If
lose there and you want to represent the Eagles, I
don't even care. If you can name one guy in

(26:38):
the Eagles, we'll do this. Baju on the Eagles, fats
bad Juju there? All right, all right, let's go, let's go.
It is on now into the fun house we go.
And are you ready? Are you not? Everyone's ready to
the Mallard madhouse? Are you heading? Myself and Alama from

(27:03):
the bay? Are you there? ALUs? Bats on the line.
I can't wait, Let's go. All right, he's representing the
forty nine. How long do you go back with the niner?
Who's the first forty nine Er memory that you have there, Lou, Oh,
first memory is a forty nine Ers game versus the
Falcons a Candlestick Park with my best friend Connor across
the street. There you go. Who is playing for the

(27:24):
Niners at day? Love Connor Socker? Jeff Garcia. Jeff Garcia
was the quarterback. He probably wouldn't be like six or
seven years old, maybe a little, all right, and I
we used to goof on Garcia a lot because he
had a sound bite where he said the word crisp
and it was really funny the way he said it,
and that got a lot of play on sports radio.
All right, So yeah, all right, so we got Alamia

(27:46):
Lou representing the forty nine. Let's go. Now, let's check
in one more time. Is Fats from Philly? There? You
want to double check that number, make sure it's correct.
Oh no, all right, whole honest here. Yeah, let me
let me go back. Well, no, I copied and pasted it.
I'm gonna send it to you again. Here. This is

(28:07):
the I don't know, he's walking back from the WALLA
hold on, This is the number that he sent me.
That's the number. Yeah, that's the one I'm calling try
it one more time, cool, last chance, and then we
will declare by no show from the Philadelphia. They don't
even gonna show up to the NFC Championship game. The
Niners are gonna win in a route one more call.

(28:30):
I told Fats, I said, listen to thirty in the morning.
Just take into Friday. I said, you gotta answer Coop's
efforting right now. He's calling you. There's a lot on
the line here or the Niners are going to the
super Bowl. So it's it's there. It's pretty much gone conclusion. Yeah,

(28:53):
that's gonna try all right. Last last night he did not, sir,
and I have no show. So we do have somebody
on the line that's claiming to be an Eagles fan. Okay,
but we've talked to this guy before. Marcello from from
Commerce is that Is that the same Marcello? No, Marcello's

(29:16):
a forty nine er fan. Marcello, Marcello, you're you're going undercover.
I know who you are, Marcello. You remember Marcello Eddie,
of course I remember, Yes, he can. He came to
the studio. Uh, mar Marcello is a forty nine all right,

(29:39):
Listen listen, another successful bit we've done on the show.
If you want to know why we're on in the
middle of the night, it's things like this be no
but wait, wait wait wait, I don't know what more
could I have done, Eddie, I got the guy whose
number I got is on the line right now. I'm
just no, no, but a I'm let me read the email.

(30:02):
I'm this is probably something I'm not allowed to read
on the air, but I'm gonna read it on the
air anyway. This is an email from Fats. All right. Uh,
he says, I'm gonna have to set my alarm to
get up and go to the basement so I don't
wake the wife. That's what he wrote back. And he
gave me his number, so I guess he's slept royal

(30:24):
no knowing Fats. He might be passed out in the
gut or somewhere in South Philly, so who knows. But uh,
but anyway, all right, listen, Look, congratulations Alima Lou you
win by no show then, yes, so anybody in the
Philly ASPA see a big fat orange Harry creat for
walking around the creeks a Philly. It's not grady, it's

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bad looking for cell phone service. Okay, see that was
some of your materials. You useing some of here your
material All right, well, Lou, I'm sorry, I apologize, but
you know you didn't show up last time we did
one of these in the NBA Finals, so it's for everybody.
I get exactly, all right, the best idea. But this
would have been amazing radio my god, but it did
not happen. All right, Thank you, Lou, appreciate that. Good

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luck to your nineers. I guess you don't have to
worry about it. And now they're gonna win and it's
gonna be a blowout. Niners in a tweet that out
Coopa Loop tweet that app the Eagles will no show
based on the results of the scientifical Mallard Madhouse where
the Eagles fans did not even show up. I guess
Deebo Samuel is right when he talked about that crowd

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not being a factor in Philadelphia on Sunday, not being
concerned about the environment. All right, we'll turn the pictures.
Let's just between you and I. Let's pretend that didn't happen.
We will have the NFL pick them. The NFL pick them.
We'll get to that coming up here momentarily. Here's the
who am I? Game? Entering this week. Patrick Mahomes has

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been favored in forty seven of his forty eight home starts,
and as of right now, the Chiefs are favored in
that game against the Bengals this weekend. But that's ninety
seven point nine percent of his home starts he has
been favored in. That is the second highest percentage of
any quarterback with at least twenty five starts in the

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Super Bowl era that includes the postseason, only I have
a higher percentage of home starts when I have been favored.
Who am I? In the Super Bowl era? Who am I?
The answer, I'll tell you, And we're gonna have the
NFL pick them. We'll get to that. Congratulations to the
Niners as they've won the NFC championship game. We'll get
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Maller and time now for the always popular Who Am I? Game?
Entering this week. Patrick Mahomes of the Chiefs has been
favored in forty seven of his forty eight home starts.

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It's ninety seven point nine percent of the time, the
second highest percentage of any quarterback that has made at
least twenty five starts at home in the Super Bowl era,
including the playoffs. Only I have a higher percentage of
being favored in home starts than Patrick Mahomes minimum twenty
five home starts. And let's see who has the answer?

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Page down, page down, Cowboy Killers going with Arthur Herbert
Fonzarelli as his answer. Buddy Humphrey from Tortilla Man Tony
page down, the page down of Furd Doug's going with
Fred Rogan's replacement on NBC. Bill Miller, Yes, the Great
Bill Miller, the Sawman says the Sheriff Barney Fife is

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the answer. Page down, page down. I can't read that
on the air. Ben Roethlisberger from Matt the Warrior Raider
A's fan Aaron Brooks is going with Jason in Denver.
Who else do we have? Brock Purty future super Bowl

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Champion from Shane in Des Moines the old stomping grounds
of brock Purty when he was in college. Who else?
Page down, page down? Grover Guess by Alf the Alien
old Piner, Joe Montana from Listener Johnny Jake the Snake
Plumber tossed out by Gus. Who else do we have?
He said, Well, this guy Burner accounts his fats was

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a no show, just like that skateboard dude in Hawaii. Yeah,
remember that guy from Hawaii kept calling Yeah, yeah, yeah,
you're right, Roberto guy. He even had buddy got that
hill and yeah that was months ago. What was that
guy's name again? He was like a hippie guy, like
an old hippie guy that I forget his name already,

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but yeah, boss hog guess by Fudgi Como. We've got
John Beck from Chris in Des Moines. Kyle Boehler from
Rob in Minnesota, Ugandan President, Edie Amine from Justin and Cincinnati.
Who else fats in Philly in a cheese steak coma

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double All Mexicans going with Don King as his answer.
Travis says Trey Street Clothes, Lance Pete Rose Number fourteen
from Rosie Dan Marino, guess by Maverick, Joe Namath from
Sean in the Valley of the Sun, Hvacs going with
Chan Ho Park Eddie, do you have an answer? Eddie?

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Oh yeah, Let's go with Marcello Marty Nyers fan. That
was pretty funny. Marcello called I'll pretend to be an
Eagle fan. Uh No, that is incorrect, Eddie. The correct answer.
You're gonna go all the way back to a cowboy legend,
not Troy Aikman. Roger Staubach was favored in sixty six
of his sixty seven home starts ninety eight point five percent.

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That's the only one better than Patrick Mahome. Time. Now
for the end, fl pick last one we're gonna do
this year because there won't be enough quarterbacks, running backs
and all that for the Super Bowl. So let's get
to it. Here we go. We got a quarterback tight
end two receivers running back, and with the first pick

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the Cooper. Look, I hope I don't jink him. Joe Burrow.
Oh what a terrible first pick. Horrible first. I am
going to take Travis Kelsey, Travis Kelsey, Eddie, let's go
with George Kindle all rights and Roberto the back to back.

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Let's go with the Patrick mahomes o pick, Joe mar
Chase all right, Eddie, Jalen Hurts, all right, I will
take Guiny meany Miny Moe, Christian McCaffrey, Kovalou. I will
go with Dallas Godart is that his name? Daughter? And

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Joe Mixon, Joe Mixon, all right? Back to me, Uh boy, Deebo,
Samuel deep Bow, Samuel great pick Eddie A j Brown,
terrible pick. Um, that's a horrible alright, he's sulky, he's
a deva wide receiver. Roberto please, um, hope this guy

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sucks on Sunday. Isaiah Pacheco, all right, you got him?
And one more? Go ahead, Eddie please? Uh Miles Sanders,
all right, I don't think this guy's been selected. Do
I have jujut? I got the juju are the greatest

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Jewish receiver of all time Juju Smith Schuster, all right,
go ahead there Kopa Loo to back to back Davanta
Smith and t Higgins and my final pick your envy
Pete of the NFC Championship game, Rock Purty. Who here
we go? Purtie? Here we got Purtie? Here we go? Done?

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Who's out? Who was up next? Go ahead? Eddie? Are
we Donearius Tony? Who? Cadarius Tony? Come on it bad?
I don't even give a crap. It's a bad attitude, Eddie.
Hay's the most important thing we do. He's stupid game
hayten Hirst, hayton Hurst. What numbers he wears? No idea?

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You don't even know your Give him the ball, bro Sorrank,
go for Burrow so Racoll, it's gonna happen. First quarter? No,
I don't see that