March 21, 2023 • 37 mins
Big Ben talks about Roger Goodell getting a contract extension from NFL owners, Frank Reich addressing the Panthers options with the No. 1 pick, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Gary Oldman Edition, and more!
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That is the global headquarters of the NFL, the football Mafia,
located in midtown Manhattan. Why are we starting there, Well,
there's some news that came out of the global offices
of the NFL that hass been bouncing around and it
popped up on our radar, and so that is where
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we are going to begin here. It involves the job
status of Roger Goodell, the job status of Roger Duff.
You've not heard yet, perhaps not the long tenured NFL
commissioner Roger Goodell. Is he about to lose his gig? Now?
The opposite. Roger Goodell expected to receive a multi year
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contract extension as soon as next week. All that has
left is crossing the t's dotting the eyes. The NFL
owners will get together for a powwow in the Valley
of the Sun. They will be staying at a very
nice resort in Scottsdale, and they will pat each other
on the back. Adam Schefter tells us the extension will
be worth three years, three years and a bunch of money.
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Goodell is making about sixty five million per year. Two
of Roger Goodell's previous contracts were for three years as well.
So if you do the math. Goodell, who's been the
commissioner since way back in twenty oh six, this will
complete by the time this new contract has done. Over
twenty years. He replaced Paul taglia Boo, who had the
reputation of being Paul taglia Boo boo and a snore.
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And since then Goodell has gotten multiple contract extensions to
continue on as the commissioner. So let us discuss the
question what are the NFL owners telling you and me
telling us by giving Roger Goodell another extension. So I've
got cigarette brand, Chameleon and New England clam chowder, and
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we'll put all of these things into the basket. What's
into basket we'll figure out. We'll put it all the
other to make it work, all right. So a Roger
Goodell about to get an extension on the cusp of
an extension is proof proof that the Peter principle is
alive and will you reach your highest level of incompetence
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and then you stay there. It also shows that NFL
owners are cold blooded. It's not personal, it's just business.
In recent years, the NFL has tossed out all kinds
of slogans and catchphrases, and they've had a lot out
of themes to the season. If you paid attention here,
and when you watch the NFL, you're convention. They're gonna
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fix all of life's problems. It's classic heartstrings marketing by
the NFL. We are more compassionate. That's the NFL. But
ultimately the compassion is all about the green and Roger
Goodell and the owners who pay Roger Goodell. They're worried
about one thing. It's not the popularity of Roger Goodell.
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If that was what mattered here, if it was a
popularity contest, then there would be a change in the
commissioner's position. But they don't care if the customers like
the commissioner or not. That is irrelevant. Roger Goodell is
a rock star when it comes to revenue, and that's
what all these big conglomerates want. It's all about the revenue.
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The employees don't necessarily matter that much. They're not the priority.
It's all about the revenue. It's how you do it,
and it makes sure everyone one's happy. And you're happy
when you make a lot of money in terms of
the corporate umbrella and all that and so that's where
we are. Goodell, the rock star of revenues. The NFL
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is shown, and certainly more so in recent years, that
they are a recession proof business. That Goodell was hired
to increase profits in twenty zero six, he has taken
that to unforeseen financial levels. And Roger Goodell's essentially smoking
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away a certain cigarette brand, Lucky Strike, because everything he
lights up rains down money. He's had a case of
the Lucky's with every business deal. But is it really
because of Roger Goodell? Could you have put a Country
Bumpkin as commissioner and would you have made similar amounts
of money? We'll never know, but in another dimension that
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likely did happen. But the NFL right now is more
powerful than Disney, more powerful than Comcast, Netflix, Sony, whatever
big media company you want to tie us out. They
are the biggest content creators in America. What's my evidence?
My evidence would be if you look at the television
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numbers in twenty twenty one, the NFL accounted for seventy
five of the one hundred most watch TV programs. In
twenty twenty two, the last year we have data for,
the NFL accounted for eighty two of the one hundred
most watched TV broadcast in the United States, eighty two
percent of the top one hundred was an NFL product.
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Now is that because again, is that because a good
Dell but happened under his watch and so he benefits
from that. You know how difficult it is to get
people to watch or in my case, listen to content.
It's not the easiest thing. But the NFL's proprietary blend.
Obviously it's worked out. Now pay two here, where does
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this Roger Goodell extension leave the NFL. Well, for the
short term, you got the short term and the long term.
The short term, they're traveling down the yellow brick road.
And Roger Goodell is the conductor of the j money train.
Jitche Yeah, he's the perfect commissioner at the perfect time
for the NFL. He's equal parts shady, smug, punching bag,
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human shield. All that and a bag of chips for
sixty four million dollars per year to be the phrase
of the NFL. And Goodell is a Rhodes scholar as
a weasel, he's mastered the weasel Verbers. Now, what's my evidence.
I'll give you some some evidence we've used from time
to time. But gambling, now, I'm gonna be fully transparent here.
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I'm a gambler. I support gambling. I think everything in
moderation is fine. As long as you don't get carried
away with and start chasing losses, and you pick your spots,
you're fine. I'm not supposed to say that because many
of the gambling houses want you to lose all of
your money. But I believe if you do things as
a responsible adult, you can actually gamble and it's not
gonna kill you and all that. There's always certain people
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to get carried away, just like with alcohol. But Roger Goodell,
this guy was on the bully pulpit a couple of
years ago preaching about the evils of gambling. Among the quotes,
these are actual quotes. I'm not making these up. You
can look them up, you can verify them, you can
vet them yourself. Goodell said year's back that gambling was
a threat to the integrity of our league and the
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public good. He stated. He said gambling threatened No, I'm
not done. He said gambling threatened the character of team sports.
He said, with sports gambling, our games would instead represent
the fast buck, the quick fix, the desire to get
something for nothing, Goodell said to a bunch of politicians.
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And here's the cherry on top of the poop. Sunday
Goodell said years ago, he said, our players cannot be
expected to serve as healthy role models for youth if
they are made to function as participants in gambling enterprises.
That was Roger Goodell in a nutshell. But we know
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that Goodell's a chameleon, right, He's chameleon like. He's Macavellian
as well. Ever changing Roger Goodell, he'll say and do
whatever he thinks will pacify the wants and needs of
the owners. Gambling was the boogame man until the NFL
found a way to get their hand in the pocket
of the gambling world. All of a sudden, now they
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have gambling all over in NFL broadcast. In fact, it's
encouraged on the pregame shows and during the game to
bet in game. It's wild considering where they were now.
The last word here, how come the owners have yet
to hand pick Roger Goodell's replacement through all, he's in
his mid sixties now. The NFL owners. My theory on
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this is they have a fear of the unknown own
much like the popular catchphrase or the era we live in.
You can literally do anything you want as a big corporation.
If you put the following words out there. There are
a number of words. You put them together. There are
six words. You put these together, and I'm convinced that
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you can do anything you want and no one will
question you. Those words the most powerful words in the
year twenty twenty three. Are you ready for them? I'm
gonna give them to you here. They are out of
an abundance of caution. If you say that you can
do anything, I robbed that bank out of an abundance
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of caution. I stole this, I stole that, but it
was out of an abundance of caution. Now they would
like and they're doing this by giving the extension unless
there's some kind of staff foo, last minute staff foo.
The NFL owners would like to kick the new England
clam chowder chunky soupcan down the row and wish they
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could clone Roger Goodell and Goodell's sixty four years old.
They would prefer to just continue with the status quo here. Now,
if you look at the previous two commissioners, Paul taglia
Boo was done at age sixty five. Pete Roselle, the
man that oversaw the boom in the NFL, the original boom.
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He stepped down when he was sixty three. But at
some point the NFL owners are going to have to
pick a new sheriff, and it will be a public
private quagmire because publicly, I promise you, the NFL owners
will feel pressure from their media friends to hire and
make an altruistic hire to break some kind of glass ceiling,
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and that the perception is out there that that's what
the NFL is going to do with their next commissioner.
There's already a list of people that a bunch of
intellectuals and act people from academia that the NFL would
hire who are outside the NFL umbrella. But from what
I understand and the things that I've heard from people
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who are plugged in, that's not what's going to happen
in the NFL ownership side. The people that actually have
the vote in this, they want to keep this thing
in house. Privately, the owners continuing down the ruthless Barbarian
pass path, they would want another a swashbuckler, but they
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would prefer to have it in the family. And there
are people that work as underlings underneath Roger Goodell, people
that we don't know their names, many of them they're
behind the scenes people. But it is more likely than
not when this ultimately does happen, and who knows, maybe
even next week, at the moment they hire Goodell or
they extend Goodell, they'll say, well, we have so and
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so as the commissioner and waiting, and this commissioner in
waiting is gonna bird dog Roger Goodell, and then we're
gonna get a new commissar and this will be the
person and they're going to spend the next three four
years learning under Goodell, and then will be a smooth
transition of power. But the smart money says, if the owner,
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if what I'm hearing is accurate, it is going to
be somebody from inside the building there on Park Avenue.
That's who they want, and that's what they're going to
end up doing, because that way they can. They think
they can just continue Goodell, because Goodell will transition. That's
a big term these days, but he will be and
he will become a liaison, a high paid consultant, no
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longer the day to day commissioner of the NFL. Be
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Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio AP A panther on the
prowl for a quarterback. Well come man, the beginning of
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on the clock. The late April NFL Draft in Consas City,
Carolina with the number one overall pick, and we are
less than a couple of months away. We are a
little over a month away from that f round of
the NFL Draft, and so we have heard for the
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first time since the big trade with Chicago. Frank Reich
the Reich stuff. The coach is spoken with the assembled
media about the top selection. Now what did he say?
What did the coach say? The former Indianapolis coach coach, Well,
if you didn't hear this, didn't see it. Maybe note
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we actually have the audio. The Panthers coach Frank Reich
says that he has not ruled out any of the
four quarterbacks at the very top of the mock draft board,
and if you have not paid attention, you've not updated
your mock draft. Those include Bryce Young from Alabama, ce
J Stroud from the Ohio State University dot the I.
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Will levis he's the guy that eats bananas without taking
the skin off to bananas, and Anthony Richardson he's the
guy that sucked statistically at Florida, but because he's seen
a gifted athletically, he still could be drafted and near
the very top of the job. Anyway, Frank Wright was
asked what he was looking for at quarterback, and rather
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than me read you a bunch of quotes, as Warner
Wolf used to say, let's go to the audiotape. Here's
Frank Wright on what matters in quarterback, evaluate Sean, if
there's ten categories that you look at quarterback or any
player for that matter, the real question is not how
to evaluate each of those categories that I mean, that's
a part of the question. A big part of the
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question is how much are you going to wait each
of those categories? Okay, so they're all a factor, everything's
a factor, But ultimately it really comes down to being
a playmaker, you know, being a guy who can make
plays all over the field. And that happens a lot
of different ways. So if you thought the Carolina was
not looking for a playmaker, boy, are you in for
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a surprise. That's a hot take right there. But wait,
there's more. And here is the head coach of the
Carolina Panthers asked what specifically he looks for yet again
in a quarter Yeah, I mean I would be like
given the proprietary formula for Kentucky Fried chicken, right, you know,
I mean, I'm sorry, I don't know why that just
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came out like that. Not not that I want to
put my evaluation of quarterbacks, you know, on that level
of you know, God forbid, no, But that's what that's
what's unique about every club, right, I mean, we all
waited slightly different. Does he know that the recipe of
eleven herbs and spices is now readily available on the internet.
You can recreate Kentucky fried chicken? Well, yeah, you can.
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You should do that, Roberto this weekend. Why don't we
both make Kentucky fried chicken. The recipe the eleven herbs
and spices is on there boom, we can recreate it.
All right? I wait, there's one more from the coach
of Carolina, and he there's a popular believe among those
that pay attention that the coach would like someone who
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is very stout, someone who's very tall at quarterback. Here's
Frank Reich asked about that theory. Everything matters, All those
conversations matter, especially when it's you know, Scott Fitter. You know,
it's the jam was talking at a guy like Russell Wilson.
M yeah, who. By the way, I had a very
high grade on don't don't You don't have to read
anything drafted. But I don't mind telling you you're not
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drafted from Russell Wilson. Okay, but don't read anything into it.
I'm just saying that, don't read any day all all
these all these people are putting this label on me
that I only work with big quarterbacks. Don't read anything
into that. So that was a comment about the pint
size quarterback at Alabama, Bryce Young, who is had been
projected and there would pick all right. So the question
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on this one do you buy or sell? Frank Wright
not ruling out Bryce Young because of his small stature.
So I am selling that. I'm not buying it. I'm
selling it. I've got measuring, tape, putting, and rule of drama,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a nice plate of fry ravioli.
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Why not very good fried ravioli. So, first of all,
if it's up to Frank Reich to pick the quarterback,
I don't believe for a second that Bryce Young is
going to be the person that he picks. And I
know early on in this process or process, if you
follow the gambling market, originally Bryce Young was projected as
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the betting favorite to be the number one pick. But
the NFL Draft, We've learned this over the years. You've
got the combine leading up to the draft and the
different pro days. It's all just one giant cattle auction,
and Bryce Young, as a result of what has taken
place here, has been down graded down, down, down, down down.
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Now he's still likely going to be picked in the
first round, but as it stands right now behind these microphones,
I would be genuinely surprised if Bryce Young goes to
Carolina at the number one pick, and the draft is
based on the raw numbers, and so you get out
the measuring tape, you poke, and you prod. It's all
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about the measurables. The bigger, stronger, faster player has drafted higher.
That's how That's how you have a guy like the
quarterback from Florida, Anthony Richardson, who mostly sucked for the Gators,
didn't play that much, but teams are like, whoa, he
looks and he's throws and he runs and it does
all this crap like most quarterbacks you want to you
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would you get out of central casting. And so that's
why he's getting a lot of Bryce Young was officially
measured at five foot ten weighs two hundred eight pounds
at the combine. That that was the measurement, and that
is not working in his favor. If you look, we've
had some outlier picks in the recent years, Kyler alligator
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Arms Murray and to a tongue of eye lower non
traditionally sized quarterbacks that were picked near the very top.
Both have struggled to stay on the field. Injuries have
haunted them. In the case of Kyler Murray, he acts
like a child. He's a gadget quarterback. His own teammates
hate his guts, and teams have figured out his weaknesses. Now,
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ta didn't play all that well and last year he
played like gamebusters and then we know what happened. He
could not stay on the field because a concussion here,
a concussion there. Now. Secondly, what is the evidence that
Frank Reich likes the supersized quarterback? Well, very simple. If
you look at this objectively, people are creatures of habit
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always have been, always will be, and there are exceptions.
But this is not an exception. Exceptions do not change
the rule. The resume speaks for itself, and when you
look at what Frank Reich has done as a coach,
the proof is in the pudding. Taste the pudding. If
you look at the Pro Football Reference page, Frank Reich
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has exclusively worked with vertically gifted quarterbacks. If you look
at his track record, starting out as a coach with
the Colts an assistant where he helped Peyton Manning who's
six foot five. After six years in Indy, he had
a gap year in Arizona he was a wide receiver
coach for that doesn't count. Then he became the offensive
coordinator for the Chargers for six foot five Philip Rivers.
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And then he went to Philly and coach six foot
five Carson Wentz. But wait, there's more, all right. That
was the guy that he had helped the Eagles select
with the number two pick, Carson Wentz. And then he
went back to Indy as head coach six foot four
Andrew Luck until Andrew Luck quit right before the season.
Then he went to Jacoby Brissette, who's also six foot four.
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Did you see a pattern here? And then he went
back to Philip Rivers and Carson Wentz yet again, and
then eventually Matt Ryan. And that's how it went. And
so that is what he is coached. That is what
he's comfortable with, and it's why the gambling market has
adjusted the numbers. And following the trade see j Stroud
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became the odds on betting favorite to be the top
pick following the transaction with dub Bears. All right, final thought,
So when will the Panthers announce this is our quarterback,
this is the person that we want. Well, the smart
money says they already have decided, they decided before they
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made the trade. But looking up at the draft board,
yeah have CJ. Stroud six foot three, Will Levis at
six four, Anthony Richardson at six ft four as well,
and they're all at the preferred height. And then you
have down the board, page down, page down. They vertically
challenged aforementioned quarterback Bryce Young at five ft ten. But
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that's it. I expect Carolina to slow walk this. This
is not our first circus. We've done these shows over
the years, and what I have learned, I know you're
dying to know that this is the showcase event of
the NFL office season. Cliffhangers are good for business. NFL
thespians follow the rule of drama. The rule of drama.
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Things are going to be much more drawn out, much
more messy, unpredictable and complicated than they need to be.
So the pick would be, should be, could be ought
to be? See Jay Stroud based on what he showed
at the Ohio State University. Not a great, long, storied
Broughten as the Buckeyes quarterback, but very accurate, strong arm,
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not the biggest arm of all time, but the most
important skill. The late Mike Leech taught me this. The
most important skill for a quarterback is accuracy. It's all
about accuracy. That's the secret sauce. You'd rather have the
accurate quarterback than the one that can throw the ball
eighty yards in the air on a perfect spiral. Because
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the quarterback that sets up the receiver for yak and
e yak it doesn't fight back yards after catch. And
based on what I have seen, c J. Strout is
that guy. Be that guy, Pal, You should be that guy.
And he's that guy, Pal, He's that guy. Be sure
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GA Star Jalen Carter had been considered a top five
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pick at the end of the college but since that
time he has been hit with two criminal charges and
had a horrible pro day. Now over the weekend, former
GM Michael Lombardi said that he'd have a lot of
concern picking Carter, but how far do you think he
will fall? I think he'll fall all the way to
the top five of the NFL drab. These guys talk
a good game. They're like, oh, there's got a mark
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against him, and ultimately nine out of ten times it's
all bullcrap. Ultimately, the decision is you never give up
on talent that you hear that every year, and you
overlook character flaws. You justify it. This is a pretty
big one. Jalen Carter is living a charmed life. He
was drag racing over one hundred miles in the Sticks
of Georgia. The person's car he was drag racing crashed
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and people died, and he left the scene and he
got probation for that. That seems like a pretty sweetheart deal,
But temptation island NFL executives. They'll claim that he's learned
from this and he's a better person, and look at
all the tape and all he'll be fine next. The
Carolina Panthers have been busy this offseason, essentially flipping Dj
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Moore for the number one overall pick and signing a
former Eagles running back Miles Sanders, and now X Viking
Adam feeling Bend. Should Panthers fans be excited about the
direction of the team, Well, you can be excited because
these are players that haven't sucked as a Carolina Panther yet.
They're perfect, but these are not earth shattering moves. Adam
Feelin is on the backside of his career. He hasn't
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been nearly as productive of the the last couple of years
in Minnesota, so maybe he'll have a renaissance in Carolina.
I wouldn't hold my breath on that. So he's a
downgrade from Dj Moore and Miles Sanders. Good luck to him,
but I don't think he's gonna be better than what
they had with Christian McCaffrey and then Deonta Foreman, who
played well the final six or seven games of the season,
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whatever that was. And Frank Reicher is such a vanilla
coach with his approach. I do not have catch scratch
fever with the Carolina Panthers. I do not have that
based on these moves. But different. So that's cool, but
that's it. Next now, talking about his grand Slam to
put USA ahead of Venezuela, Trey Turner called it the
biggest hit of his career and the loudest he's ever
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heard a crowd. Ben, do you think with the success
of the WBC that we could see baseball return to
the Olympics. Well, I liked the Trey Turner who my memory.
I know he played well last year in the playoffs
with the Dodgers, but my memory of Trey Turner is
not getting the job done in postseason games in Dodger Blue.
But the International Olympic Committee which eliminated baseball from the
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Olympics in twenty twelve and twenty sixteen, and that's why
the World Baseball Classics started. It was back kind of
in twenty twenty but nobody paid attention because it was
twenty twenty and all that the twenty twenty Tokyo Olympics.
But from what I understand, it's gonna come back to
It's gonna skip Paris, and then when it's back in
Los Angeles in twenty twenty eight, baseball will be back.
The big question is does the World Baseball Classic continue?
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Of if baseball's back in the Olympics. I say yes
because there's a lot of good buzz, but the stars
will not be invited. How did we doubt on Mallard
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And away we go Mallard's mind of money. We've got
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Good morning band. It sounds like on the podcast yesterday
that all the members of the corps coming to the
northeast and skipping over right over Brooklyn. A chance that
all you can eat. To say with myself, it's hard
to believe that the noodles and noodles not quite working out,
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but you never know. All right, Uncle Mole, Hold on
a sec. You're gonna play. I got a full board
of people who want to play the game. So I
am blindly going to go to the board, and I
am randomly going to pick and eany meany mighty mo.
Let's see here once. All right, Eddie can't see the board,
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so one, two, three or four? Eddie, let's go with
number four. All right, you have picked in a surprise,
baker Keith from Utah. Hello, Baker Keith, Hey Ben, what
it is? What it was? Here? You go, Eddie, that's
the guy. You pick, This guy, Keith. He's ready to go.
He's fired up. What are you baking right now? Keith?
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French bread going in next, Brett. I love French bread.
That's a delicious bread. All right, very good? Hold on
a sec, and you guys on hold. You want to
stay on hole just in case one of these guys
flame out. You never know, Uncle Mo, who would you
like to partner up with Uncle Mo. Need a racist drapper.
I'd like to put partner up with you Ben, all right,
we're in it to win it? And Banker Banker Keith.
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I think I know who you want to partner up with.
But who would you like to team up with? Here? Oh?
I didn't I thought you were going coop? All right,
surprised there? All right, let's very good. Let's play the
game here, Coop. What is the categories we have here?
We'll get right to the game. Here we go. All right,
this is Mallard's Mountain of Money, Gary Oldman edition. He
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turned sixty five years old today, have your birthday. The
categories are State of Grace, JFK, Hannibal and Tinker Taylor,
Soldier Spy Uncle Mo. Which category would you like? Yes?
J JF all right? Very good? Right? What about you
Keith Hannibal? All right? Okay, So Mo and Ben are
(31:54):
up first. The category is JFK. These athletes were All
Star in nineteen sixty three when JFK was assassinated. That's
all right, don't relax. All stars, you know, year old
pick the nineteen sixty three category. Okay, I'm old. I
wouldn't even around with all right, let's do it. Five
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seconds on the clock. Begin, all right, guys scored one
hundred points in an NBA game. Yes, all time home
run king, non steroid category. Hank Aaron, known as mister
Clutch for the Lakers. He was a great GM for
the Lakers everywhere, yes correct, iron coach of the eighty
five Bears. He was a tight end yes uh, known
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for his assist in the NBA Triple Double. Guy for
the Cincinnati Royals. A guard, yes uh. Willie May's sidekick
with the San Francisco Giants. There's a cove named after him.
He played first base for the San yes uh, Giants
quarterback in the nineteen sixties. We thought he was dead,
wait before he actually died. Hall of Famer number fourteen
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for the Giants. White guy from Texas. He played for
the forty nine ers. Got it? Hey, got it? Hey? God,
why the man's alleged the guy's alleged unbelievable como? Yes
you did. But after today, after today, you were no
(33:17):
longer allowed to select ban as your partner. That if
you ever want to play the is incorrect. Stop that
that is incorrect. It is that is erroneous. It is
because you every single time he calls into play, because
you know he's gonna pick you and then you're gonna win.
You do not pick me every time over the way,
Coop callous, he's jealous of our greatness. Keith, your category,
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turn your minke that's you know what that is. That's
the gremlins attacking you. That's carma all because you trash.
Don't Como and Keith and Eddie. He just say co
couve his name there, I said Cole. I didn't say
his name. Keith. I mean coves there are right right, Keith,
Keith and Eddie, that's your category as canniball. These athletes
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are all partially disfigured through accident or birth. Here that Keith, Yeah,
all right. Forty five seconds on the clock. Begin. Greatest
NBA player of all time with the Chicago Bulls, Michael
Jordan's current head coach of the University of Michigan football team.
(34:26):
Pad Uh, defensive end for the New York Giants, had
the sack record. He's got a gap tooth. He's on
Good Morning America. Former forty nine ers hard hitting safety
cut off his pinky Uh. He was at USC. Yes,
he was a defensive end for the Giants and the Buckeers.
He blew off his hand in the fireworks accident. Uh
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picture for the picture. For the Angels, he had one hand.
He threw a no hitter pad kicker for the same
he had the longest field. What terrible clues by Eddie.
But in his defense Baker Keith, he's making great French
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bread right now. So all right, that's eighty points. Jason Pierre, Paul,
Ronnie Lott, Jim Harbaugh, coach that you missed them. Uh so, Keith,
would you like state of grace or Tinker Taylor soldier
spy dat grace? Oh okay, these athletes all have Irish heritage.
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Forty five seconds on the clock begin greatest quarterback in
the NFL. He won Tuber Bowls with the Patriots and Buccaneers.
By m M a fighter from Ireland. Pat h the
greatest strikeout picture in modern history for the Astros Rangers
through a bunch of no ners punched out Robin Ventura
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uh old school NBA player. He shot free throws underhand.
His sons played in the NBA. Yes, former NBA star
White Guy for the Golden State Warriors. He played at
Saint John's. He coached Saint John's part of Yes. Former
quarterback for the Raiders, he got killed by the Buccaneers
(36:23):
and the Super Bowl. Literally he didn't literally didn't really
kill him. Figuratively. It was a better showing, but still
not enough to play. Let's right up the score. Uncle,
that's not nice. You're sucking his head. The athletes have
all come out of retirement of time quarterback before Aaron
Rodgers and Green Bay. Yeah. Tight end for Tom Brady
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with the Patriots. He just returned. Yes from the Seahawks.
Beast Mode from the Seahawks. Marshawn Lynn Broadway quarterback for
the Jets. In the sty left hand pitch, I want
to play games, play for easy years. We also played
for the Astros All Star yes uh a box uh nicknames, No,
(37:11):
you can't get you and runing our fun Cobo. You're
the greatest game show. You won the Gaddy. We have
to use the Golden Ticket to talk about why the
Arizona Coyotes never losing. All you guys are all jealous,
You're all haters. You hate greatness, all of you, all
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That is the global headquarters of the NFL, the football Mafia,
located in midtown Manhattan. Why are we starting there, Well,
there's some news that came out of the global offices
of the NFL that hass been bouncing around and it
popped up on our radar, and so that is where
(01:49):
we are going to begin here. It involves the job
status of Roger Goodell, the job status of Roger Duff.
You've not heard yet, perhaps not the long tenured NFL
commissioner Roger Goodell. Is he about to lose his gig? Now?
The opposite. Roger Goodell expected to receive a multi year
(02:14):
contract extension as soon as next week. All that has
left is crossing the t's dotting the eyes. The NFL
owners will get together for a powwow in the Valley
of the Sun. They will be staying at a very
nice resort in Scottsdale, and they will pat each other
on the back. Adam Schefter tells us the extension will
be worth three years, three years and a bunch of money.
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Goodell is making about sixty five million per year. Two
of Roger Goodell's previous contracts were for three years as well.
So if you do the math. Goodell, who's been the
commissioner since way back in twenty oh six, this will
complete by the time this new contract has done. Over
twenty years. He replaced Paul taglia Boo, who had the
reputation of being Paul taglia Boo boo and a snore.
(03:01):
And since then Goodell has gotten multiple contract extensions to
continue on as the commissioner. So let us discuss the
question what are the NFL owners telling you and me
telling us by giving Roger Goodell another extension. So I've
got cigarette brand, Chameleon and New England clam chowder, and
(03:24):
we'll put all of these things into the basket. What's
into basket we'll figure out. We'll put it all the
other to make it work, all right. So a Roger
Goodell about to get an extension on the cusp of
an extension is proof proof that the Peter principle is
alive and will you reach your highest level of incompetence
(03:44):
and then you stay there. It also shows that NFL
owners are cold blooded. It's not personal, it's just business.
In recent years, the NFL has tossed out all kinds
of slogans and catchphrases, and they've had a lot out
of themes to the season. If you paid attention here,
and when you watch the NFL, you're convention. They're gonna
(04:06):
fix all of life's problems. It's classic heartstrings marketing by
the NFL. We are more compassionate. That's the NFL. But
ultimately the compassion is all about the green and Roger
Goodell and the owners who pay Roger Goodell. They're worried
about one thing. It's not the popularity of Roger Goodell.
(04:26):
If that was what mattered here, if it was a
popularity contest, then there would be a change in the
commissioner's position. But they don't care if the customers like
the commissioner or not. That is irrelevant. Roger Goodell is
a rock star when it comes to revenue, and that's
what all these big conglomerates want. It's all about the revenue.
(04:50):
The employees don't necessarily matter that much. They're not the priority.
It's all about the revenue. It's how you do it,
and it makes sure everyone one's happy. And you're happy
when you make a lot of money in terms of
the corporate umbrella and all that and so that's where
we are. Goodell, the rock star of revenues. The NFL
(05:12):
is shown, and certainly more so in recent years, that
they are a recession proof business. That Goodell was hired
to increase profits in twenty zero six, he has taken
that to unforeseen financial levels. And Roger Goodell's essentially smoking
(05:32):
away a certain cigarette brand, Lucky Strike, because everything he
lights up rains down money. He's had a case of
the Lucky's with every business deal. But is it really
because of Roger Goodell? Could you have put a Country
Bumpkin as commissioner and would you have made similar amounts
of money? We'll never know, but in another dimension that
(05:56):
likely did happen. But the NFL right now is more
powerful than Disney, more powerful than Comcast, Netflix, Sony, whatever
big media company you want to tie us out. They
are the biggest content creators in America. What's my evidence?
My evidence would be if you look at the television
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numbers in twenty twenty one, the NFL accounted for seventy
five of the one hundred most watch TV programs. In
twenty twenty two, the last year we have data for,
the NFL accounted for eighty two of the one hundred
most watched TV broadcast in the United States, eighty two
percent of the top one hundred was an NFL product.
(06:40):
Now is that because again, is that because a good
Dell but happened under his watch and so he benefits
from that. You know how difficult it is to get
people to watch or in my case, listen to content.
It's not the easiest thing. But the NFL's proprietary blend.
Obviously it's worked out. Now pay two here, where does
(07:01):
this Roger Goodell extension leave the NFL. Well, for the
short term, you got the short term and the long term.
The short term, they're traveling down the yellow brick road.
And Roger Goodell is the conductor of the j money train.
Jitche Yeah, he's the perfect commissioner at the perfect time
for the NFL. He's equal parts shady, smug, punching bag,
(07:26):
human shield. All that and a bag of chips for
sixty four million dollars per year to be the phrase
of the NFL. And Goodell is a Rhodes scholar as
a weasel, he's mastered the weasel Verbers. Now, what's my evidence.
I'll give you some some evidence we've used from time
to time. But gambling, now, I'm gonna be fully transparent here.
(07:47):
I'm a gambler. I support gambling. I think everything in
moderation is fine. As long as you don't get carried
away with and start chasing losses, and you pick your spots,
you're fine. I'm not supposed to say that because many
of the gambling houses want you to lose all of
your money. But I believe if you do things as
a responsible adult, you can actually gamble and it's not
gonna kill you and all that. There's always certain people
(08:10):
to get carried away, just like with alcohol. But Roger Goodell,
this guy was on the bully pulpit a couple of
years ago preaching about the evils of gambling. Among the quotes,
these are actual quotes. I'm not making these up. You
can look them up, you can verify them, you can
vet them yourself. Goodell said year's back that gambling was
a threat to the integrity of our league and the
(08:32):
public good. He stated. He said gambling threatened No, I'm
not done. He said gambling threatened the character of team sports.
He said, with sports gambling, our games would instead represent
the fast buck, the quick fix, the desire to get
something for nothing, Goodell said to a bunch of politicians.
(08:54):
And here's the cherry on top of the poop. Sunday
Goodell said years ago, he said, our players cannot be
expected to serve as healthy role models for youth if
they are made to function as participants in gambling enterprises.
That was Roger Goodell in a nutshell. But we know
(09:14):
that Goodell's a chameleon, right, He's chameleon like. He's Macavellian
as well. Ever changing Roger Goodell, he'll say and do
whatever he thinks will pacify the wants and needs of
the owners. Gambling was the boogame man until the NFL
found a way to get their hand in the pocket
of the gambling world. All of a sudden, now they
(09:35):
have gambling all over in NFL broadcast. In fact, it's
encouraged on the pregame shows and during the game to
bet in game. It's wild considering where they were now.
The last word here, how come the owners have yet
to hand pick Roger Goodell's replacement through all, he's in
his mid sixties now. The NFL owners. My theory on
(09:57):
this is they have a fear of the unknown own
much like the popular catchphrase or the era we live in.
You can literally do anything you want as a big corporation.
If you put the following words out there. There are
a number of words. You put them together. There are
six words. You put these together, and I'm convinced that
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you can do anything you want and no one will
question you. Those words the most powerful words in the
year twenty twenty three. Are you ready for them? I'm
gonna give them to you here. They are out of
an abundance of caution. If you say that you can
do anything, I robbed that bank out of an abundance
(10:40):
of caution. I stole this, I stole that, but it
was out of an abundance of caution. Now they would
like and they're doing this by giving the extension unless
there's some kind of staff foo, last minute staff foo.
The NFL owners would like to kick the new England
clam chowder chunky soupcan down the row and wish they
(11:02):
could clone Roger Goodell and Goodell's sixty four years old.
They would prefer to just continue with the status quo here. Now,
if you look at the previous two commissioners, Paul taglia
Boo was done at age sixty five. Pete Roselle, the
man that oversaw the boom in the NFL, the original boom.
(11:24):
He stepped down when he was sixty three. But at
some point the NFL owners are going to have to
pick a new sheriff, and it will be a public
private quagmire because publicly, I promise you, the NFL owners
will feel pressure from their media friends to hire and
make an altruistic hire to break some kind of glass ceiling,
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and that the perception is out there that that's what
the NFL is going to do with their next commissioner.
There's already a list of people that a bunch of
intellectuals and act people from academia that the NFL would
hire who are outside the NFL umbrella. But from what
I understand and the things that I've heard from people
(12:07):
who are plugged in, that's not what's going to happen
in the NFL ownership side. The people that actually have
the vote in this, they want to keep this thing
in house. Privately, the owners continuing down the ruthless Barbarian
pass path, they would want another a swashbuckler, but they
(12:28):
would prefer to have it in the family. And there
are people that work as underlings underneath Roger Goodell, people
that we don't know their names, many of them they're
behind the scenes people. But it is more likely than
not when this ultimately does happen, and who knows, maybe
even next week, at the moment they hire Goodell or
they extend Goodell, they'll say, well, we have so and
(12:50):
so as the commissioner and waiting, and this commissioner in
waiting is gonna bird dog Roger Goodell, and then we're
gonna get a new commissar and this will be the
person and they're going to spend the next three four
years learning under Goodell, and then will be a smooth
transition of power. But the smart money says, if the owner,
(13:10):
if what I'm hearing is accurate, it is going to
be somebody from inside the building there on Park Avenue.
That's who they want, and that's what they're going to
end up doing, because that way they can. They think
they can just continue Goodell, because Goodell will transition. That's
a big term these days, but he will be and
he will become a liaison, a high paid consultant, no
(13:33):
longer the day to day commissioner of the NFL. Be
sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show
weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox
Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio AP A panther on the
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(14:41):
on the clock. The late April NFL Draft in Consas City,
Carolina with the number one overall pick, and we are
less than a couple of months away. We are a
little over a month away from that f round of
the NFL Draft, and so we have heard for the
(15:03):
first time since the big trade with Chicago. Frank Reich
the Reich stuff. The coach is spoken with the assembled
media about the top selection. Now what did he say?
What did the coach say? The former Indianapolis coach coach, Well,
if you didn't hear this, didn't see it. Maybe note
(15:23):
we actually have the audio. The Panthers coach Frank Reich
says that he has not ruled out any of the
four quarterbacks at the very top of the mock draft board,
and if you have not paid attention, you've not updated
your mock draft. Those include Bryce Young from Alabama, ce
J Stroud from the Ohio State University dot the I.
(15:46):
Will levis he's the guy that eats bananas without taking
the skin off to bananas, and Anthony Richardson he's the
guy that sucked statistically at Florida, but because he's seen
a gifted athletically, he still could be drafted and near
the very top of the job. Anyway, Frank Wright was
asked what he was looking for at quarterback, and rather
(16:06):
than me read you a bunch of quotes, as Warner
Wolf used to say, let's go to the audiotape. Here's
Frank Wright on what matters in quarterback, evaluate Sean, if
there's ten categories that you look at quarterback or any
player for that matter, the real question is not how
to evaluate each of those categories that I mean, that's
a part of the question. A big part of the
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question is how much are you going to wait each
of those categories? Okay, so they're all a factor, everything's
a factor, But ultimately it really comes down to being
a playmaker, you know, being a guy who can make
plays all over the field. And that happens a lot
of different ways. So if you thought the Carolina was
not looking for a playmaker, boy, are you in for
(16:49):
a surprise. That's a hot take right there. But wait,
there's more. And here is the head coach of the
Carolina Panthers asked what specifically he looks for yet again
in a quarter Yeah, I mean I would be like
given the proprietary formula for Kentucky Fried chicken, right, you know,
I mean, I'm sorry, I don't know why that just
(17:11):
came out like that. Not not that I want to
put my evaluation of quarterbacks, you know, on that level
of you know, God forbid, no, But that's what that's
what's unique about every club, right, I mean, we all
waited slightly different. Does he know that the recipe of
eleven herbs and spices is now readily available on the internet.
You can recreate Kentucky fried chicken? Well, yeah, you can.
(17:33):
You should do that, Roberto this weekend. Why don't we
both make Kentucky fried chicken. The recipe the eleven herbs
and spices is on there boom, we can recreate it.
All right? I wait, there's one more from the coach
of Carolina, and he there's a popular believe among those
that pay attention that the coach would like someone who
(17:53):
is very stout, someone who's very tall at quarterback. Here's
Frank Reich asked about that theory. Everything matters, All those
conversations matter, especially when it's you know, Scott Fitter. You know,
it's the jam was talking at a guy like Russell Wilson.
M yeah, who. By the way, I had a very
high grade on don't don't You don't have to read
anything drafted. But I don't mind telling you you're not
(18:14):
drafted from Russell Wilson. Okay, but don't read anything into it.
I'm just saying that, don't read any day all all
these all these people are putting this label on me
that I only work with big quarterbacks. Don't read anything
into that. So that was a comment about the pint
size quarterback at Alabama, Bryce Young, who is had been
projected and there would pick all right. So the question
(18:35):
on this one do you buy or sell? Frank Wright
not ruling out Bryce Young because of his small stature.
So I am selling that. I'm not buying it. I'm
selling it. I've got measuring, tape, putting, and rule of drama,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a nice plate of fry ravioli.
(19:01):
Why not very good fried ravioli. So, first of all,
if it's up to Frank Reich to pick the quarterback,
I don't believe for a second that Bryce Young is
going to be the person that he picks. And I
know early on in this process or process, if you
follow the gambling market, originally Bryce Young was projected as
(19:22):
the betting favorite to be the number one pick. But
the NFL Draft, We've learned this over the years. You've
got the combine leading up to the draft and the
different pro days. It's all just one giant cattle auction,
and Bryce Young, as a result of what has taken
place here, has been down graded down, down, down, down down.
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Now he's still likely going to be picked in the
first round, but as it stands right now behind these microphones,
I would be genuinely surprised if Bryce Young goes to
Carolina at the number one pick, and the draft is
based on the raw numbers, and so you get out
the measuring tape, you poke, and you prod. It's all
(20:07):
about the measurables. The bigger, stronger, faster player has drafted higher.
That's how That's how you have a guy like the
quarterback from Florida, Anthony Richardson, who mostly sucked for the Gators,
didn't play that much, but teams are like, whoa, he
looks and he's throws and he runs and it does
all this crap like most quarterbacks you want to you
(20:28):
would you get out of central casting. And so that's
why he's getting a lot of Bryce Young was officially
measured at five foot ten weighs two hundred eight pounds
at the combine. That that was the measurement, and that
is not working in his favor. If you look, we've
had some outlier picks in the recent years, Kyler alligator
(20:48):
Arms Murray and to a tongue of eye lower non
traditionally sized quarterbacks that were picked near the very top.
Both have struggled to stay on the field. Injuries have
haunted them. In the case of Kyler Murray, he acts
like a child. He's a gadget quarterback. His own teammates
hate his guts, and teams have figured out his weaknesses. Now,
(21:09):
ta didn't play all that well and last year he
played like gamebusters and then we know what happened. He
could not stay on the field because a concussion here,
a concussion there. Now. Secondly, what is the evidence that
Frank Reich likes the supersized quarterback? Well, very simple. If
you look at this objectively, people are creatures of habit
(21:31):
always have been, always will be, and there are exceptions.
But this is not an exception. Exceptions do not change
the rule. The resume speaks for itself, and when you
look at what Frank Reich has done as a coach,
the proof is in the pudding. Taste the pudding. If
you look at the Pro Football Reference page, Frank Reich
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has exclusively worked with vertically gifted quarterbacks. If you look
at his track record, starting out as a coach with
the Colts an assistant where he helped Peyton Manning who's
six foot five. After six years in Indy, he had
a gap year in Arizona he was a wide receiver
coach for that doesn't count. Then he became the offensive
coordinator for the Chargers for six foot five Philip Rivers.
(22:16):
And then he went to Philly and coach six foot
five Carson Wentz. But wait, there's more, all right. That
was the guy that he had helped the Eagles select
with the number two pick, Carson Wentz. And then he
went back to Indy as head coach six foot four
Andrew Luck until Andrew Luck quit right before the season.
Then he went to Jacoby Brissette, who's also six foot four.
(22:40):
Did you see a pattern here? And then he went
back to Philip Rivers and Carson Wentz yet again, and
then eventually Matt Ryan. And that's how it went. And
so that is what he is coached. That is what
he's comfortable with, and it's why the gambling market has
adjusted the numbers. And following the trade see j Stroud
(23:01):
became the odds on betting favorite to be the top
pick following the transaction with dub Bears. All right, final thought,
So when will the Panthers announce this is our quarterback,
this is the person that we want. Well, the smart
money says they already have decided, they decided before they
(23:21):
made the trade. But looking up at the draft board,
yeah have CJ. Stroud six foot three, Will Levis at
six four, Anthony Richardson at six ft four as well,
and they're all at the preferred height. And then you
have down the board, page down, page down. They vertically
challenged aforementioned quarterback Bryce Young at five ft ten. But
(23:46):
that's it. I expect Carolina to slow walk this. This
is not our first circus. We've done these shows over
the years, and what I have learned, I know you're
dying to know that this is the showcase event of
the NFL office season. Cliffhangers are good for business. NFL
thespians follow the rule of drama. The rule of drama.
(24:09):
Things are going to be much more drawn out, much
more messy, unpredictable and complicated than they need to be.
So the pick would be, should be, could be ought
to be? See Jay Stroud based on what he showed
at the Ohio State University. Not a great, long, storied
Broughten as the Buckeyes quarterback, but very accurate, strong arm,
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not the biggest arm of all time, but the most
important skill. The late Mike Leech taught me this. The
most important skill for a quarterback is accuracy. It's all
about accuracy. That's the secret sauce. You'd rather have the
accurate quarterback than the one that can throw the ball
eighty yards in the air on a perfect spiral. Because
(24:53):
the quarterback that sets up the receiver for yak and
e yak it doesn't fight back yards after catch. And
based on what I have seen, c J. Strout is
that guy. Be that guy, Pal, You should be that guy.
And he's that guy, Pal, He's that guy. Be sure
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pick at the end of the college but since that
time he has been hit with two criminal charges and
had a horrible pro day. Now over the weekend, former
GM Michael Lombardi said that he'd have a lot of
concern picking Carter, but how far do you think he
will fall? I think he'll fall all the way to
the top five of the NFL drab. These guys talk
a good game. They're like, oh, there's got a mark
(26:19):
against him, and ultimately nine out of ten times it's
all bullcrap. Ultimately, the decision is you never give up
on talent that you hear that every year, and you
overlook character flaws. You justify it. This is a pretty
big one. Jalen Carter is living a charmed life. He
was drag racing over one hundred miles in the Sticks
of Georgia. The person's car he was drag racing crashed
(26:43):
and people died, and he left the scene and he
got probation for that. That seems like a pretty sweetheart deal,
But temptation island NFL executives. They'll claim that he's learned
from this and he's a better person, and look at
all the tape and all he'll be fine next. The
Carolina Panthers have been busy this offseason, essentially flipping Dj
(27:05):
Moore for the number one overall pick and signing a
former Eagles running back Miles Sanders, and now X Viking
Adam feeling Bend. Should Panthers fans be excited about the
direction of the team, Well, you can be excited because
these are players that haven't sucked as a Carolina Panther yet.
They're perfect, but these are not earth shattering moves. Adam
Feelin is on the backside of his career. He hasn't
(27:28):
been nearly as productive of the the last couple of years
in Minnesota, so maybe he'll have a renaissance in Carolina.
I wouldn't hold my breath on that. So he's a
downgrade from Dj Moore and Miles Sanders. Good luck to him,
but I don't think he's gonna be better than what
they had with Christian McCaffrey and then Deonta Foreman, who
played well the final six or seven games of the season,
(27:49):
whatever that was. And Frank Reicher is such a vanilla
coach with his approach. I do not have catch scratch
fever with the Carolina Panthers. I do not have that
based on these moves. But different. So that's cool, but
that's it. Next now, talking about his grand Slam to
put USA ahead of Venezuela, Trey Turner called it the
biggest hit of his career and the loudest he's ever
(28:13):
heard a crowd. Ben, do you think with the success
of the WBC that we could see baseball return to
the Olympics. Well, I liked the Trey Turner who my memory.
I know he played well last year in the playoffs
with the Dodgers, but my memory of Trey Turner is
not getting the job done in postseason games in Dodger Blue.
But the International Olympic Committee which eliminated baseball from the
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Olympics in twenty twelve and twenty sixteen, and that's why
the World Baseball Classics started. It was back kind of
in twenty twenty but nobody paid attention because it was
twenty twenty and all that the twenty twenty Tokyo Olympics.
But from what I understand, it's gonna come back to
It's gonna skip Paris, and then when it's back in
Los Angeles in twenty twenty eight, baseball will be back.
The big question is does the World Baseball Classic continue?
(28:59):
Of if baseball's back in the Olympics. I say yes
because there's a lot of good buzz, but the stars
will not be invited. How did we doubt on Mallard
to the third degree? You pass us? That is a winner,
you canti? I won the game? Another one, Oh, I
go is win? I won the game? Who? Fox Sports
(29:20):
Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation.
Catch all of our shows at Fox sports Radio dot
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listen live. Now, Mallard's mounting the money. Do you have
what it takes to get to the top? Probably not,
(29:42):
And away we go Mallard's mind of money. We've got
Uncle mall who's one of our batons. Hello Uncle mall
Good morning band. It sounds like on the podcast yesterday
that all the members of the corps coming to the
northeast and skipping over right over Brooklyn. A chance that
all you can eat. To say with myself, it's hard
to believe that the noodles and noodles not quite working out,
(30:03):
but you never know. All right, Uncle Mole, Hold on
a sec. You're gonna play. I got a full board
of people who want to play the game. So I
am blindly going to go to the board, and I
am randomly going to pick and eany meany mighty mo.
Let's see here once. All right, Eddie can't see the board,
(30:24):
so one, two, three or four? Eddie, let's go with
number four. All right, you have picked in a surprise,
baker Keith from Utah. Hello, Baker Keith, Hey Ben, what
it is? What it was? Here? You go, Eddie, that's
the guy. You pick, This guy, Keith. He's ready to go.
He's fired up. What are you baking right now? Keith?
(30:45):
French bread going in next, Brett. I love French bread.
That's a delicious bread. All right, very good? Hold on
a sec, and you guys on hold. You want to
stay on hole just in case one of these guys
flame out. You never know, Uncle Mo, who would you
like to partner up with Uncle Mo. Need a racist drapper.
I'd like to put partner up with you Ben, all right,
we're in it to win it? And Banker Banker Keith.
(31:08):
I think I know who you want to partner up with.
But who would you like to team up with? Here? Oh?
I didn't I thought you were going coop? All right,
surprised there? All right, let's very good. Let's play the
game here, Coop. What is the categories we have here?
We'll get right to the game. Here we go. All right,
this is Mallard's Mountain of Money, Gary Oldman edition. He
(31:28):
turned sixty five years old today, have your birthday. The
categories are State of Grace, JFK, Hannibal and Tinker Taylor,
Soldier Spy Uncle Mo. Which category would you like? Yes?
J JF all right? Very good? Right? What about you
Keith Hannibal? All right? Okay, So Mo and Ben are
(31:54):
up first. The category is JFK. These athletes were All
Star in nineteen sixty three when JFK was assassinated. That's
all right, don't relax. All stars, you know, year old
pick the nineteen sixty three category. Okay, I'm old. I
wouldn't even around with all right, let's do it. Five
(32:15):
seconds on the clock. Begin, all right, guys scored one
hundred points in an NBA game. Yes, all time home
run king, non steroid category. Hank Aaron, known as mister
Clutch for the Lakers. He was a great GM for
the Lakers everywhere, yes correct, iron coach of the eighty
five Bears. He was a tight end yes uh, known
(32:36):
for his assist in the NBA Triple Double. Guy for
the Cincinnati Royals. A guard, yes uh. Willie May's sidekick
with the San Francisco Giants. There's a cove named after him.
He played first base for the San yes uh, Giants
quarterback in the nineteen sixties. We thought he was dead,
wait before he actually died. Hall of Famer number fourteen
(32:57):
for the Giants. White guy from Texas. He played for
the forty nine ers. Got it? Hey, got it? Hey? God,
why the man's alleged the guy's alleged unbelievable como? Yes
you did. But after today, after today, you were no
(33:17):
longer allowed to select ban as your partner. That if
you ever want to play the is incorrect. Stop that
that is incorrect. It is that is erroneous. It is
because you every single time he calls into play, because
you know he's gonna pick you and then you're gonna win.
You do not pick me every time over the way,
Coop callous, he's jealous of our greatness. Keith, your category,
(33:39):
turn your minke that's you know what that is. That's
the gremlins attacking you. That's carma all because you trash.
Don't Como and Keith and Eddie. He just say co
couve his name there, I said Cole. I didn't say
his name. Keith. I mean coves there are right right, Keith,
Keith and Eddie, that's your category as canniball. These athletes
(34:03):
are all partially disfigured through accident or birth. Here that Keith, Yeah,
all right. Forty five seconds on the clock. Begin. Greatest
NBA player of all time with the Chicago Bulls, Michael
Jordan's current head coach of the University of Michigan football team.
(34:26):
Pad Uh, defensive end for the New York Giants, had
the sack record. He's got a gap tooth. He's on
Good Morning America. Former forty nine ers hard hitting safety
cut off his pinky Uh. He was at USC. Yes,
he was a defensive end for the Giants and the Buckeers.
He blew off his hand in the fireworks accident. Uh
(34:50):
picture for the picture. For the Angels, he had one hand.
He threw a no hitter pad kicker for the same
he had the longest field. What terrible clues by Eddie.
But in his defense Baker Keith, he's making great French
(35:13):
bread right now. So all right, that's eighty points. Jason Pierre, Paul,
Ronnie Lott, Jim Harbaugh, coach that you missed them. Uh so, Keith,
would you like state of grace or Tinker Taylor soldier
spy dat grace? Oh okay, these athletes all have Irish heritage.
(35:37):
Forty five seconds on the clock begin greatest quarterback in
the NFL. He won Tuber Bowls with the Patriots and Buccaneers.
By m M a fighter from Ireland. Pat h the
greatest strikeout picture in modern history for the Astros Rangers
through a bunch of no ners punched out Robin Ventura
(36:01):
uh old school NBA player. He shot free throws underhand.
His sons played in the NBA. Yes, former NBA star
White Guy for the Golden State Warriors. He played at
Saint John's. He coached Saint John's part of Yes. Former
quarterback for the Raiders, he got killed by the Buccaneers
(36:23):
and the Super Bowl. Literally he didn't literally didn't really
kill him. Figuratively. It was a better showing, but still
not enough to play. Let's right up the score. Uncle,
that's not nice. You're sucking his head. The athletes have
all come out of retirement of time quarterback before Aaron
Rodgers and Green Bay. Yeah. Tight end for Tom Brady
(36:47):
with the Patriots. He just returned. Yes from the Seahawks.
Beast Mode from the Seahawks. Marshawn Lynn Broadway quarterback for
the Jets. In the sty left hand pitch, I want
to play games, play for easy years. We also played
for the Astros All Star yes uh a box uh nicknames, No,
(37:11):
you can't get you and runing our fun Cobo. You're
the greatest game show. You won the Gaddy. We have
to use the Golden Ticket to talk about why the
Arizona Coyotes never losing. All you guys are all jealous,
You're all haters. You hate greatness, all of you, all
of you people
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Ben Maller
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