August 4, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about the idea that Dak Prescott is not respected by his teammates, the latest in the Jonathan Taylor saga, the Lions selling out Ford Field, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number two, our two, and
talking about those cowboys again, cowboy players not respecting Dak Prescott.
This after some trash talking in practice. Do you believe
it or not? Also, how do you assess the latest
wrinkles in the Jonathan Taylor folk tale with the Colts?
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And what is the lesson from the Lions selling out
all their season tickets at Ford Field. We'll cover all
of those stories and much more right now here. It
is our number two. A bigger meaning. No, no, there's
actually a bigger meaning to this. Welcome in the big
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we go back to Jerry's world. That's where we go.
The top primetime soap opera in the NFL, creating new
subplots every day, and we're there to eat them up.
Just like the old TV series. The plot usually revolves
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around a very affluent group of football players that are feuding.
They're a family, they are united as a football family,
and they love to feud with each other. Now, Big
d is the spot, and it's actually in California where
the Cowboys are training. But if you have not heard
the latest, maybe not. There are some rumlins out there
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and your belly that Dak Prescott not only is he
a starting quarterback in the NFL, he is not respected
by his Cowboy teammates. Say what Yeah? That is some
of the fallout from the now viral clip that has
bounced all over the place and been seen millions of
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times of Dak getting into it with defensive back Travon Diggs.
They were doing the little square dancing the Doc do
and they were having a great time, having a wonderful time.
After that video went around the Dallas defense. If you
didn't see the clip, the Dallas defense had stopped Dak
in practice and Diggs was talking some trash, which is
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standard fair and it was kind of like the smack Off,
you know, and that old Jim Rome show back in
back in the day. So they went back and forth
and people have been obsessing with it. We actually have
some reaction from Dak Prescott. So let's hear what Dak
had to say on this topic. Let's go to the
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audio tape.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Very healthy banter between two teammates. That's a guy that
I spent a lot of time with. We're always going
back and forth. And when you're competing at a high level,
when you're competing and you believe that your side's better
than the other side, and that's mutual, and that's iron
and sharpen and iron. So words are words.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
So he went to the Bible, iron sharpening iron, obviously downplaying,
trying to minimize mitigate what happened. Not everyone Noo agrees.
Lashawn McCoy, who played in the NFL and now Moonlight's
at Fox doing a talk show on television. He recently
said that when he was playing in the NFL, and
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he talked about how he bounced around, he played with
my Michael Vick in Philadelphia, Tom Brady and Tampa played
with Patrick Mahomes talked about the top quarterbacks in the NFL.
He said, nobody on the teams he played for would
even fix their lips to say something like what Trayvon
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Diggs said to Dak Prescott. He said, they wouldn't even
do it. It wouldn't do it to any of those quarterbacks.
So let us discuss the question. You know what the
implication is the question the down playing aside, you expected that,
you expected Dak Prescott to belittle what happened and attempt
to downplay it. That aside cowboy players not respecting Dak Prescott.
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Do you believe it or not? And I am not
agnostic on this. I am a believer, a true believer.
I am. I'm all choked up. I've got sand Castle,
water balloon and Broadway musical and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
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some Texas toast is what We're going to make. Yes,
delicious Texas toast, which hopefully for Stefan Diggs brother, his
brother there is Ravon Digs will not be Texas toast
burned Texas toast because Diggs has a reputation of always
going for the home run and quite often getting burned,
baby burned. All right, so number okay, I agree with
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Shady McCoy. Where there is smoke, there is a fire
person putting the fire out, and Trayvon Diggs is gunning
to win a smack off. That is what he's doing. Here,
Grab a vine. Welcome to the jungle. Stuff happens, I
get it. Stuff happens in the heat of training came
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and that's as old as the hills. The trash talk
that goes on, that's not up for debate. I don't
know anyone who's got an IQ above forty who would
argue against that. We all agree that's just part of
training camp. However, in this situation, the vibe, it's highlighted
in neon yellow marker, neon yellow marker. Dak Prescott is
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not held in high regard in the cowboy locker room.
He's not. That's the way I interpret what happened. Your
trash talk is allowed. It goes on all the time,
but it is verboten to if you reach a certain
level of rarefied air verboten. Dak Prescott is not that guy, pal,
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He's not that guy. There's no worshiping going on of
Dak Prescott. Why would there be. He's lacking the genesi
quah if you will. Dallas players do not have breathless
reverence for Dakota. That stuff has earned you win a
lot of trophies and medals and pendants and things like
that is not just given. And even though Dak has
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taken a lot of Jerry's money and played eight mediocre seasons,
at least in terms of winning big games. Dak Prescott,
you know what he's like. He's like a sand castle.
He looks sturdy. You're like, okay, we got something here.
You played, put up decent numbers and all that, and
right up until the playoffs, and when the playoffs come around,
that Dak Prescott sand castle with a nice moat out
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in front, right there on the front of the playoffs. Yeah. Yeah,
when the playoffs come around and then high tide comes around,
those waves, what do the waves do to that nice
sand castle. Yeah, it goes back to his flat sand
There's something to this noise. And I'm not dismissing. I'm not.
And this is part of the problem. Dak has a
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history of going haywire. Something malfunctions in the plays. Now
this past year, something, well, he had a perfect game
against Tampa Bay. That was not a playoff game. It's
a sub five hundred team. You play a sub five
hundred team, and you're hanging your hat on that performance.
When Dak played a good team, the forty nine ers
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the next week, what happened. He took a ride on
the vomit comment. Now, page two, there's another round of
chutter about the disgruntled star of the Indianapolis football team.
And this is our obligatory Malard monologue on the conflicting
stories regarding the level of interest around the NFL in
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Jonathan Taylor, Now get you up to speed. Earlier this
week we talked about on the show, but maybe you
were not listening. We were preaching away here. Earlier in
the week, there was a story that was going around
saying that half the NFL, at least half of the
NFL wanted a deal for the Indianapolis running back. Well,
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now we have had a change in direction. Instead of
going to the right, we are going to the left.
So we're going the other direction. And while the horseshoes
have not dismissed dealing the sour puss Runner. The new
reports indicate that those stories about there being a bull
market are actually blowney is what they are. And we
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are now told the latest chatter is that the list
of teams that are actually interested in acquiring Jonathan Taylor
is quote not long. So do not expect a bidding
war to drive up the price. So how do you assess?
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How do you assess the latest wrinkles in the Jonathan
Taylor folk tale with the colts? So it is a
whale of a tail, such a great story. It would
not have been a great story if we hadn't heard
this week that jim Irsay is planning on burning twenty
million dollars to fly a whale from Miami to Seattle.
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That just makes this next level out of this galaxy.
While his running back is asking for the owner to
throw him a bone or a couple of bones, and
the Owner's like, I know you're having a conniption fit,
but what about the orca? What about the Orca? So
this Jonathan Taylor story, the way it has played out
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this week, it is like a defective water balloon. It's
a leaker. It is a leaker. There are three sides
to every story I'm a big believer in this. In
this one, there's three sides to this story. You've got
Taylor's side widespread interest. You've got the Colt side, nobody
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wants him, the guy's a bum. The third side, that's
the that's the tough part to figure out. So you
have a misinformation campaign from the agent. You always try
to look at the source of these things, like who's
the one that leaked the story, who's the one that
benefits from the story. This is rather simple. This is
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a starter course, the appetizer. So the agent contacts some
friends or somebody representing a conduit to the agent represents
you know or knows people in the media. So they
contact people to me, They're like, hey, listen, seventeen teams
will like to get their hand on this guy. Yeah,
I mean they love them. It's a happy hunting ground.
And then the Colts contact some of their pals and
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they're like, nobody wants this guy. He's he's rotting. He's
like a rotting corpse. Nobody wants him. And and so
there you go. So you gotta wind back the clock.
All right, final point, let's go to the motors city.
Now we took a phone call the other night from
a Lions fan who is trying to figure out whether
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or not this real or mirage. When I say real
or mirage, the expectations of the Detroit football team are
rather high. Rather high. They're gonna drop their latest album,
their twenty twenty three album. It drops on early September
against the fact first game of the year against Kansas
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City at Arrowhead. For the first time, I read this
and my eyeballs popped out of my head A little bit.
Not surprising, but still when you think about how many
years it's been, it's rather crazy. It's the first time
since ford Field opened way back in twenty oh two
that the Detroit Lions have sold out of season tickets.
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I was a little boy in twenty oh two. I
barely remember twenty oh two, and that's the last time
the Lions President CEO, resident big shot Ron Wood bringing
the lumber. He announced there will now be a shocking
way they will have a Green Bay Packer like waiting
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list to buy tickets to watch the Lions. Yes, the Lions,
who were the Booby prize of Thanksgiving every year you
had to watch the Lions, but then you got the
cowboy game later got the Cowboy game. Later you watch
the you Gotta Get Through the Lions game, and then
the Cowboy game would come up a little bit later.
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So what is the lesson? What is the lesson from
selling out the Lions, selling out Ford Field. So it
is the twilight zone. That's right, twilight zone. For the
first time since before YouTube, Facebook and the iPhone, the
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Lions in the eyes of the natives matter, They're relevant.
Twenty oh two. YouTube didn't exist. Facebook did not exist,
the iPhone was not around. We were many years away
from some of the other social media that's out there
now and inundating many people's lives, turning them into zombies.
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But at least in the courtroom of public opinion, it
is like a Broadway musical from years ago, South Pacific
and that song cock eyed Optimist. Many of the media,
and this shows you the power of the media, even
with all the social media taken over, but the requirements
of old media and old media being radio, television, not
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so much newspapers anymore. But the old media types who
have been selling the lions and are the roar of
the lions. And I'm actually buying into a point. We
talked about this in the previous episode show I'm buying
in that there is some truth to this. This is
not completely imagic, that Detroit is absolutely a contender the NFC.
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Not that great playoff spots are up for auction in
the NFC and it's on like donkey kot Now, I
do have my resid about Jared Goff. He scares the
hell out of out of you because he's had some real, real,
big hiccups in his grip. But nobody's perfect. No team
is perfect. But this is a refresher course on the
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power of positivity. That's actually sound of Dan Campbell. He's
sleeping right now. Most people yawn, they sound normal. He
sounds like that when he's when he's snoring. Yeah, there's
areas Again, perception is reality. I heard that before. And
the perception is Detroit is going to be a playoff team,
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or at least a playoff contender, and so people are
excited about that, and it's it's it's nice, good to
see and all those people that promised me. When Dan
I did a monologue, a fanboy monologue, I was like,
you know those Taylor Swift has the Swifties. I was
a Campbell eese or whatever they call Dan Campbell fan
because people were goofing on Dan Campbell. This guy's a
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meat head. Why did they hire him? You know, all
the racemonger are the race hustlers were like, he's a
white guy, that's why they hired him. Yeah, but Dan
Campbell appears to know a thing or two about coaching,
and we'll find out. Now. The lions could go out
there and get in the fetal position and start sucking
their paw, and that could be that. But it certainly
looks pretty good, all right. Ben Maler Shaw on Fox
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At Ben Mallard Mallard prop guy writes in on X
he says, another Mallard monologue as solid as a football
blocking sled on shag carpet. Not a fan, Mallard prop
guy says of the Detroit Lions, per se what neither
of mine? However, I am very happy for the franchises fans.
And then he says to Chris, who's in tonight hitting
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all the buttons? He says, Chris, they did not lower
the number of season tickets available, did they?
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Man?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
That's a no, they did not. That is a left
handed question, is what that is?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Man?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Oh boy, that would be funny if they lowered the
number down by ten thousand, just to say that.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
I still remember, like I think it was about ten
years ago, one of the last times they actually had
a primetime game on ESPN. They had a sound meter
out there. Because it's a dome. It gets really loud
in Ford Field when you pack it.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I've never been there. Have you been to some games?
I have been.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
I've been to several Lions games. I covered a what's
the name of the college bowl game up there? I
think it's a quick lane bowl. I nearly caught pneumonia
covering that Bowl one time.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
First of all, you don't need a name. You don't
need to learn the name of the bowl because they
change every couple of years. This is unless you're an
iconic bowl. And then even when you change the name
of it, we still call it like that the Paul
and Weed Eater Bowl.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Well, I don't think its name has changed for a
while because nobody wants to really sponsor a bowl game
in Detroit, but.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Not because it was that.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
It was that video like a few years ago, the
kids seeing if they would go to a bowl game
in Detroit or the Bahamas and like celebrating when they
saw they got selected to the Bahamas Bowl.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah, well you're a USC guy. That's like the Trojan
football players when they usually tank at the end of
the year and have to go to the Sun Bowl
and they're like, you're going to all pass all.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
And then get the.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Exactly exactly but USC for four years. I'm going to
passo for the third time. No, but Ford.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Field is a it's it's an older dome, but it's
it's very nice. I enjoy it up there. They actually
have some pretty fun food.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Twenty zero two, it's it's twenty years old. That's old.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
I know, well, what is it that guy the owner drink.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
It's barely old enough the drink, the guy, the guy.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
I don't think they're going to replace anytime soon. I'm
just saying, but like you know, you know NFL owners,
like the guy who owns the Panthers, he built that
stadium in like ninety six, and he's already talking about
trying to tear.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
It down because they're stupid. And you look at the
years as you're talking about soccer, they I love that
they have stadium. In fact, that show we were talking
about Wrexham, the stadium they played in or they still play.
It's like the oldest stadium in Oh.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Yeah, they've been playing that for like almost like one
hundred and like thirty years or something.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yea, it was more than that. It was in the
eighteen late eighteen hundreds. I think you're right. Yeah, I
looked it up. It's the oldest stadium in use, at
least I could find. I don't know, maybe maybe there's
some stadium in Afghanistan that's it's been around longer. I
don't know.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
I feel bad though, because Detroit's kind of torn down.
A lot of it's old like Tiger Stadium was as
old as Fenway and and Wriggly and Wrigley, and they
just tore it down to make America and they blew
up Joe Lewis and they tore down the Dallas.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I would have I would have gone. I've only been
to the airport in Detroit for stopovers, but I would
have gone to uh Tiger Stadium to check out. Even
if it was I know they kept it around for
a while after they closed it. I would have gone
just to check it out.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Yeah, my my uncle, my uncle used to go to
games there. He'd get dollar single dollar tickets because he'd
get what's called obstructed view seating, which is basically these
seats that are that were like behind the poles. You
couldn't fold them out, so they gave away the tickets discount.
And he would always tell me, like when they packed
that place or when it's a playoff game, that the
place would rock, physically rock, physically shake because it was
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so old.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
There you go an old, old old barn, old barn.
Anthony Anaheim says, when I hear you say Jonathan Taylor,
I'm expecting you to say Jonathan Taylor. Thomas Well I'm
sorry to disappoint you. Yeah, sorry disappoint you. Now, I
got a bunch of cowboy lapdogs who are very upset,
and they're angry with my Dak Prescott analysis. But I'm
telling you I'm never wrong about these things. Bam bam.
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Cam says players fight with each other at camp, literally
every team does. He says everyone is making a bigger
deal more. He says Jeff Saturday cussed out Peyton Manny.
He says, Jacob's all upset with me. He says, the
only people making a big deal out of that video
or the hot take artist. Oh, you're calling me an artist, Jacob.
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I'm an artist. Jacob thinks I'm an artist? Thank you,
thank you for that. What kind of artist am I?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Well?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
You think of the great artists of our time, right am?
I like Picasso, Rembrandt. Where do I fall on the
spectrum of artists? I'm very artistic, I really am. When
I was in school, I was very good at coloring
with the crayons. I was very good at that, and
not so good at finger painting back in the day. Yeah,
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hot take artist. Can I put that on my LinkedIn page?
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I've been called an artist a bull. But Hot take Artists,
thank you, Jacob, very.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Enough, masters of fine arts. Hot Takes.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Jacob also says Shady doesn't know what the f he's
talking about. He points out, so here I know, so
now it's attack Shady. But he won two Super Bowls,
not really playing. He was a backup. But at the
end of his career, last two years he was a
backup in Kansas City, backup in Tampa Bay. Worked out
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pretty well. Alf the Alien Potter says, Hey plus on
the football monologue, F minus for me on my vacation
sleeping skills. I feel your pain. Alf, I'm right there,
right there with you, and mix in a time zone
change while you're at it, if you could do he
didn't change time zones, Ouf, but if you do that,
it's even more fun, even more fun. Midnight Walker says,
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running backs hate at an all time high. They'll just
go out and they'll draft the next guy for Jonathan Taylor.
It's quite a sad tail. They spent all this money
on saving a whale. Yeah, that's a beautiful whale. Though
it's a solid looking whale. That is a hot whale.
It is absolutely Kevin says the oldest Stadium, Kevin and
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Flordes is. The oldest stadium still in the use is
the Melbourne Cricket Grounds, built in eighteen fifty four. It
says the oldest English football grounds is Liverpools and Fields Stadium,
built in eighteen eighty four. Accord to the Web, you
don't need to touch up my work, Kevin. There's no
need to come in here and clean up what I've done.
It's a bad job by you. I Pross. We'll take
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some calls. Gettle carried away there. We will take some calls,
and boy do I see some legends. I see some
absolute legends that are in the on deck circle. So
we'll get to them. We also have Mallard of the
third degree next hour, the lame jokes of the week
Right now, though, we'll get you caught up on all
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Speaker 4 (25:23):
Throw the red flag. I don't remember that one.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah, we we added that you had a hissy fit
because you lost the game show and you scream throw
the red flag. You were demanding a review of the
game show. It's convenient that you forgot that because I
didn't forget it, Eddie.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
We forgot it because you know you cheat every game.
So it's just like it all together at some.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Point, gas you're gas lighting Eddie and you're.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Truth.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
My building is Altuve is your nickname. They call you Altu.
Check buzzer, Hey, check them for the buzzer.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Everyone knows that you're the biggest cheater in Fox Sports
calls you. No, she doesn't.
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Speaker 4 (26:41):
I bet you were talking about little things that go
on in training camp, little uh trash talking, little pushing, shoving,
things like that. Did you see that the Tennessee Titans
released offensive lineman Jamarco Jones reportedly for starting multiple fights
in practice. Although I'm guessing that might have been the headline,
(27:02):
I'm gonna say he was released probably because he wasn't
very good and he was starting no intver happened. Yeah,
it's uh, it's I mean they're trying to I don't know,
they're trying to spin the story that that's why he
really got released.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I mean yes, because sure, because you're gonna click on.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
If Aaron Donald starts multiple fights in practice, I'm sure
the Rams are thinking about, we got to get rid
of this guy. I mean, this isn't good for team chemistry.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Well, it's that old quote from Jimmy Johnson, remember the
one with the nineties Cowboys where he talked about if.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
The guy fell asleep.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, backup, offensive lineman fell asleep in the meeting? What
would you do. I'd release him. Uh. And then if
Troy Aikman fell asleep from Michael Irvin or Emmitt Smith
in the meeting, what would you do. I'd wake him up,
get him a cup of coffee, make sure, make sure
it's good to go, or something like that. Yeah, yeah,
of course, and so yeah, if you're good. It's like
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our business.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
If Colin Cowherd does something and I do the same
thing and it's kind of looked down upon by the company,
they will tell Colin to knock it off. They will
tell me to go leave the building, is what they
will tell me. So I understand. You have to understand
your place in the world. Like if you're a third
string offensive lineman for the Tennessee Titans, you probably if
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they tell you not to fight, you probably should listen. Anyway,
all right, thank you for that. Are you ready for
my burger story? Are you ready for burger talk? All right,
So we talked about this the other day. We have
a follow up the Marlins in Guerrilla marketing. They acquired
a guy from the White Sox named Jake Berger. He's
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beat a bunch of home runs. He's like your typical
modern baseball player, he bats around him and doze a
line which is two hundred and then ends up hitting
a bunch of home runs. Anyway, so Jake Burger is
the guy's name. They picked him up, so they lowered
the price of burgers for his first game to five dollars.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
And what did they lower it from? Do you know?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Was it like I do, I'll we'll get you. That's
the kicker. So the announcement. Now, last Saturday, the Marlins
had thirty two thousand people in attendance at their game.
We are told they sold five hundred and thirty burgers.
That was last Saturday. On Wednesday Nights Marlins game with
(29:24):
many less, fewer, crowd less people there, they sold two thousand,
one hundred burgers at the game. So that is you
can do the math on that the percentage increase of
burger sales from five hundred and thirty to twenty one hundred.
So is the moral of the story aty boy, that
people love Jake Berger? Or is the moral of the
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story your burgers are overpriced because they normally charged thirteen
dollars for a burgl and they lowered it by you know,
let's half less than half at five dollars, so.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
More than half.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I've never understood this, and I've had people who work
in marketing for teams try to explain this to me.
And I'm not that bright, so I don't figure. I
can't figure it out. But they're like I always say, like,
when you just lower the price of the food, people
will buy more food. You'll still make a lot of money.
In fact, you'll make more. They'll just they'll buy more.
And the only teams that really done I remember the
Atlanta Falcons did that. I don't know if they still
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have it, but a couple of years ago they lowered
the concession prices. It's like really really cheap prices. So
I don't know if they still have that or not.
Let's go to the phones. Jed who Fled is in
the Sunshine States, So good job by the Miami fans.
They love their burgers if they're reasonably priced. Hello, Jed
who Fled?
Speaker 7 (30:39):
Oh I got a enough little sandwich for those Miami
Hurricanes fans.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
But that.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
Wow, it's easy for me to say anyway. The Golfy
Stadium ben is a refurbnishment project which brings to the
forefront symbol of national pride in Afghanistan and it was
renovated in twenty eleven. You have the state, so your
taxpayer dollars have made sure that there's not the stadium
that old in Afghanistan. I just want you to know,
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and your next pair of dollars is made sure there's
a Taliban who used to do public executions there and
instead of the new new you're turning a new page
on the stadium. We funded like the faith clift on
the stadium where public executions can go on again. I
mean well, I mean you hear agree, I hearly agree with.
I hearly agree with talk.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Jed. You're on some good stuff tonight, Jed. So I
want to ask you a question here.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
Hey, what's the old drop man? I missed the old
job Jed? Good? Yeah, yeah, not this time.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Take a breath, Okay, listen, listening close. In a couple
of years, at the end actually next year, at the
end of next year, so about a little over a year,
there's a guy out of London who is starting the
performance enhancing Drug Olympics. We would like you to be
part of this, Jed. We would like you to enter
this as an Olympic app that.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
Your former time I've already stound up in the auctioneers,
the auctioneer category. I'm already signed up.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I'll be your manager. Okay, I will be your manager.
I want to see you in this. I think this
would be amazing. You have had years of experience with
performance and dancing drugs, that's what we call them.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
You gonna be like Jimmy Hart. Like Jimmy Hart, you
know what I mean, because I mean that's who a
model my calls after sometimes that guy Jeff, I can't
remember his name, but do you know the oh my god,
the wrestling guy. If you'll be a managers like you
know occasionally, if I'm better lose a match like whip
me out of aluminum chair from underneath the fold, I
will definitely hire you as a manager.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
We're in what events? You said you would do the
auction you'd be the auctioneer, any other events? Are you
or are you able to run? Are you fast? You
run by like the wind? What are your skills?
Speaker 7 (32:49):
If there is? If there's a yes, the competition is
you run to a stolen autumn and then from that
point forward your time till until you get it somewhere safe.
Hell yeah, I'm bath dude.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
So my to motivate you, since I'm your manager, dad,
what I what I would do is I would dress
up like a police officer and run after you and
that would get you to put on the after burners.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
Yes, that'd be that'd be great. I mean, I've got
I've hit a couple of girls. You know in my
fans that he's got a suit you could probably bottle.
But I was gonna say, man, that was too good
of a visual. No, you always, Sonny, there's a green
man and believe or not, I have a full body
green spandic suit that I mean that.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
I'll well, I don't even know about your spandex jip,
but I gotta go, thank you. I gotta go thank you.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Jeez.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
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Speaker 1 (35:04):
It's Ben Maler the Atlanta Braves Dynamic due Austin Riley
and Matt Olsen have it six back to back homers
this season. That's a lot teammates Blank and Blank hold
the record for most back to back home runs in
a single season in baseball history. That's the question. Fergkat
just went Barney Gumbel as his answer? Who else do
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we have? A Ferg Dog? Jenkins and Brian Finley guests
by malarpropkap Well, those guys do look look pretty good,
Hank Aaron, Eddie Matthews. A legitimate answer from Midnight Walker
Justin and Cincinnati said Bonds and the A Hole Jeff
Kent Alex Stein guessed by Benito. Who else to have?
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Ace and Gary from Calligan Tink in Michigan, Mark McGuire
and Jose Consago guests by the Palm Desert Rat, Candy
Maldonado from Art Puffin Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz. Good
photos of those two from at the Warrior Raiders fan
tremendous Blind Scott Angry Bill from Milkman Mike in Colorado.
Do you have an answer quickly? It's not kinky in
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the brain guess by Kelvio.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Was actually gonna say Manny and Poppy.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
As well, there were you gonna say Manny and Poppy.
A fine guess, but that is unfortunately incorrect. The correct answer,
Eddie is Andre's Goalorah Kerry Walker Nice the Blate Street
Bombers nineteen ninety seven before I was alive, Eddie nineteen
ninety seven. Here we go, it's maller. How about that?
Speaker 3 (36:31):
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Go.
Speaker 8 (36:38):
Melvin Gordon recently gave out some advice in an interview,
telling young athletes to reconsider playing running back and to
switch positions if athletic enough, Ben, do you think someone
like Derrick Henry will be the last of his kind
an elite running back.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Yes, Melvin Gordon has the Bengali effect, and every Pop
Warner all American will give up the running back position
because Melvin Gordon told them to. Unless nothing is going
to change. Listen, the minimum salary in the NFL seven
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. That's a pretty good salary
and try making that at a regular jobs. I don't stop.
(37:13):
Not much is going to change at all. Next, there was.
Speaker 8 (37:16):
A report this week that those funny looking padded helmets
you see at training camp called Guardian caps have helped
to reduce concussions by fifty three percent. Ben, do you
think we're heading towards guardian caps in the regular season?
Speaker 1 (37:29):
You know how you can spin numbers to fit any
narrative you want. Now there's no chance because this looks
like a total clown show that people wearing the helmets,
and the NFL is a television show. The optics, it
looks bad. People don't They're just not comfortable with those caps.
They'll have them more in practice, but I do not
see them coming to actual games next.
Speaker 8 (37:49):
There's some speculation that the Raiders could use Sakon Barkley's
deal with the Giants as the framework to get Josh
Jacobs back with the team. Ben, do you think a
Jacob's return is imminent?
Speaker 1 (37:58):
I don't think it's imminent, but I do think he
will play when the regular season comes around. Because you're
gonna leave money on the table, You're gonna be a
dumb dumb like Le'Veon Bell. It's great to be noble,
but when push comes to shove, and more importantly, when
the checks start vanishing, he's gonna show up, Jacobs, how
do we.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
Do in a failure?
Speaker 8 (38:16):
What? I didn't like your first answer.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
I think you're right. It's a great answer. Nothing's gonna do.
You think Melvin Gordon's gonna change things? He can't even
hold the ball.
Hello and welcome. It's our number two, our two, and
talking about those cowboys again, cowboy players not respecting Dak Prescott.
This after some trash talking in practice. Do you believe
it or not? Also, how do you assess the latest
wrinkles in the Jonathan Taylor folk tale with the Colts?
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And what is the lesson from the Lions selling out
all their season tickets at Ford Field. We'll cover all
of those stories and much more right now here. It
is our number two. A bigger meaning. No, no, there's
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we go back to Jerry's world. That's where we go.
The top primetime soap opera in the NFL, creating new
subplots every day, and we're there to eat them up.
Just like the old TV series. The plot usually revolves
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around a very affluent group of football players that are feuding.
They're a family, they are united as a football family,
and they love to feud with each other. Now, Big
d is the spot, and it's actually in California where
the Cowboys are training. But if you have not heard
the latest, maybe not. There are some rumlins out there
(02:11):
and your belly that Dak Prescott not only is he
a starting quarterback in the NFL, he is not respected
by his Cowboy teammates. Say what Yeah? That is some
of the fallout from the now viral clip that has
bounced all over the place and been seen millions of
(02:32):
times of Dak getting into it with defensive back Travon Diggs.
They were doing the little square dancing the Doc do
and they were having a great time, having a wonderful time.
After that video went around the Dallas defense. If you
didn't see the clip, the Dallas defense had stopped Dak
in practice and Diggs was talking some trash, which is
(02:56):
standard fair and it was kind of like the smack Off,
you know, and that old Jim Rome show back in
back in the day. So they went back and forth
and people have been obsessing with it. We actually have
some reaction from Dak Prescott. So let's hear what Dak
had to say on this topic. Let's go to the
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audio tape.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Very healthy banter between two teammates. That's a guy that
I spent a lot of time with. We're always going
back and forth. And when you're competing at a high level,
when you're competing and you believe that your side's better
than the other side, and that's mutual, and that's iron
and sharpen and iron. So words are words.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
So he went to the Bible, iron sharpening iron, obviously downplaying,
trying to minimize mitigate what happened. Not everyone Noo agrees.
Lashawn McCoy, who played in the NFL and now Moonlight's
at Fox doing a talk show on television. He recently
said that when he was playing in the NFL, and
(03:57):
he talked about how he bounced around, he played with
my Michael Vick in Philadelphia, Tom Brady and Tampa played
with Patrick Mahomes talked about the top quarterbacks in the NFL.
He said, nobody on the teams he played for would
even fix their lips to say something like what Trayvon
(04:18):
Diggs said to Dak Prescott. He said, they wouldn't even
do it. It wouldn't do it to any of those quarterbacks.
So let us discuss the question. You know what the
implication is the question the down playing aside, you expected that,
you expected Dak Prescott to belittle what happened and attempt
to downplay it. That aside cowboy players not respecting Dak Prescott.
(04:43):
Do you believe it or not? And I am not
agnostic on this. I am a believer, a true believer.
I am. I'm all choked up. I've got sand Castle,
water balloon and Broadway musical and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
(05:05):
some Texas toast is what We're going to make. Yes,
delicious Texas toast, which hopefully for Stefan Diggs brother, his
brother there is Ravon Digs will not be Texas toast
burned Texas toast because Diggs has a reputation of always
going for the home run and quite often getting burned,
baby burned. All right, so number okay, I agree with
(05:38):
Shady McCoy. Where there is smoke, there is a fire
person putting the fire out, and Trayvon Diggs is gunning
to win a smack off. That is what he's doing. Here,
Grab a vine. Welcome to the jungle. Stuff happens, I
get it. Stuff happens in the heat of training came
(06:00):
and that's as old as the hills. The trash talk
that goes on, that's not up for debate. I don't
know anyone who's got an IQ above forty who would
argue against that. We all agree that's just part of
training camp. However, in this situation, the vibe, it's highlighted
in neon yellow marker, neon yellow marker. Dak Prescott is
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not held in high regard in the cowboy locker room.
He's not. That's the way I interpret what happened. Your
trash talk is allowed. It goes on all the time,
but it is verboten to if you reach a certain
level of rarefied air verboten. Dak Prescott is not that guy, pal,
(06:48):
He's not that guy. There's no worshiping going on of
Dak Prescott. Why would there be. He's lacking the genesi
quah if you will. Dallas players do not have breathless
reverence for Dakota. That stuff has earned you win a
lot of trophies and medals and pendants and things like
that is not just given. And even though Dak has
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taken a lot of Jerry's money and played eight mediocre seasons,
at least in terms of winning big games. Dak Prescott,
you know what he's like. He's like a sand castle.
He looks sturdy. You're like, okay, we got something here.
You played, put up decent numbers and all that, and
right up until the playoffs, and when the playoffs come around,
that Dak Prescott sand castle with a nice moat out
(07:32):
in front, right there on the front of the playoffs. Yeah. Yeah,
when the playoffs come around and then high tide comes around,
those waves, what do the waves do to that nice
sand castle. Yeah, it goes back to his flat sand
There's something to this noise. And I'm not dismissing. I'm not.
And this is part of the problem. Dak has a
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history of going haywire. Something malfunctions in the plays. Now
this past year, something, well, he had a perfect game
against Tampa Bay. That was not a playoff game. It's
a sub five hundred team. You play a sub five
hundred team, and you're hanging your hat on that performance.
When Dak played a good team, the forty nine ers
(08:17):
the next week, what happened. He took a ride on
the vomit comment. Now, page two, there's another round of
chutter about the disgruntled star of the Indianapolis football team.
And this is our obligatory Malard monologue on the conflicting
stories regarding the level of interest around the NFL in
(08:40):
Jonathan Taylor, Now get you up to speed. Earlier this
week we talked about on the show, but maybe you
were not listening. We were preaching away here. Earlier in
the week, there was a story that was going around
saying that half the NFL, at least half of the
NFL wanted a deal for the Indianapolis running back. Well,
(09:03):
now we have had a change in direction. Instead of
going to the right, we are going to the left.
So we're going the other direction. And while the horseshoes
have not dismissed dealing the sour puss Runner. The new
reports indicate that those stories about there being a bull
market are actually blowney is what they are. And we
(09:27):
are now told the latest chatter is that the list
of teams that are actually interested in acquiring Jonathan Taylor
is quote not long. So do not expect a bidding
war to drive up the price. So how do you assess?
(09:48):
How do you assess the latest wrinkles in the Jonathan
Taylor folk tale with the colts? So it is a
whale of a tail, such a great story. It would
not have been a great story if we hadn't heard
this week that jim Irsay is planning on burning twenty
million dollars to fly a whale from Miami to Seattle.
(10:12):
That just makes this next level out of this galaxy.
While his running back is asking for the owner to
throw him a bone or a couple of bones, and
the Owner's like, I know you're having a conniption fit,
but what about the orca? What about the Orca? So
this Jonathan Taylor story, the way it has played out
(10:35):
this week, it is like a defective water balloon. It's
a leaker. It is a leaker. There are three sides
to every story I'm a big believer in this. In
this one, there's three sides to this story. You've got
Taylor's side widespread interest. You've got the Colt side, nobody
(10:55):
wants him, the guy's a bum. The third side, that's
the that's the tough part to figure out. So you
have a misinformation campaign from the agent. You always try
to look at the source of these things, like who's
the one that leaked the story, who's the one that
benefits from the story. This is rather simple. This is
(11:16):
a starter course, the appetizer. So the agent contacts some
friends or somebody representing a conduit to the agent represents
you know or knows people in the media. So they
contact people to me, They're like, hey, listen, seventeen teams
will like to get their hand on this guy. Yeah,
I mean they love them. It's a happy hunting ground.
And then the Colts contact some of their pals and
(11:39):
they're like, nobody wants this guy. He's he's rotting. He's
like a rotting corpse. Nobody wants him. And and so
there you go. So you gotta wind back the clock.
All right, final point, let's go to the motors city.
Now we took a phone call the other night from
a Lions fan who is trying to figure out whether
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or not this real or mirage. When I say real
or mirage, the expectations of the Detroit football team are
rather high. Rather high. They're gonna drop their latest album,
their twenty twenty three album. It drops on early September
against the fact first game of the year against Kansas
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City at Arrowhead. For the first time, I read this
and my eyeballs popped out of my head A little bit.
Not surprising, but still when you think about how many
years it's been, it's rather crazy. It's the first time
since ford Field opened way back in twenty oh two
that the Detroit Lions have sold out of season tickets.
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I was a little boy in twenty oh two. I
barely remember twenty oh two, and that's the last time
the Lions President CEO, resident big shot Ron Wood bringing
the lumber. He announced there will now be a shocking
way they will have a Green Bay Packer like waiting
(13:04):
list to buy tickets to watch the Lions. Yes, the Lions,
who were the Booby prize of Thanksgiving every year you
had to watch the Lions, but then you got the
cowboy game later got the Cowboy game. Later you watch
the you Gotta Get Through the Lions game, and then
the Cowboy game would come up a little bit later.
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So what is the lesson? What is the lesson from
selling out the Lions, selling out Ford Field. So it
is the twilight zone. That's right, twilight zone. For the
first time since before YouTube, Facebook and the iPhone, the
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Lions in the eyes of the natives matter, They're relevant.
Twenty oh two. YouTube didn't exist. Facebook did not exist,
the iPhone was not around. We were many years away
from some of the other social media that's out there
now and inundating many people's lives, turning them into zombies.
(14:05):
But at least in the courtroom of public opinion, it
is like a Broadway musical from years ago, South Pacific
and that song cock eyed Optimist. Many of the media,
and this shows you the power of the media, even
with all the social media taken over, but the requirements
of old media and old media being radio, television, not
(14:25):
so much newspapers anymore. But the old media types who
have been selling the lions and are the roar of
the lions. And I'm actually buying into a point. We
talked about this in the previous episode show I'm buying
in that there is some truth to this. This is
not completely imagic, that Detroit is absolutely a contender the NFC.
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Not that great playoff spots are up for auction in
the NFC and it's on like donkey kot Now, I
do have my resid about Jared Goff. He scares the
hell out of out of you because he's had some real, real,
big hiccups in his grip. But nobody's perfect. No team
is perfect. But this is a refresher course on the
(15:14):
power of positivity. That's actually sound of Dan Campbell. He's
sleeping right now. Most people yawn, they sound normal. He
sounds like that when he's when he's snoring. Yeah, there's
areas Again, perception is reality. I heard that before. And
the perception is Detroit is going to be a playoff team,
(15:36):
or at least a playoff contender, and so people are
excited about that, and it's it's it's nice, good to
see and all those people that promised me. When Dan
I did a monologue, a fanboy monologue, I was like,
you know those Taylor Swift has the Swifties. I was
a Campbell eese or whatever they call Dan Campbell fan
because people were goofing on Dan Campbell. This guy's a
(15:57):
meat head. Why did they hire him? You know, all
the racemonger are the race hustlers were like, he's a
white guy, that's why they hired him. Yeah, but Dan
Campbell appears to know a thing or two about coaching,
and we'll find out. Now. The lions could go out
there and get in the fetal position and start sucking
their paw, and that could be that. But it certainly
looks pretty good, all right. Ben Maler Shaw on Fox
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It's Ben Mallor and next hour, we'd like to learn
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Drug tester writes, Sin says, great monologue. And now I
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At Ben Mallard Mallard prop guy writes in on X
he says, another Mallard monologue as solid as a football
blocking sled on shag carpet. Not a fan, Mallard prop
guy says of the Detroit Lions, per se what neither
of mine? However, I am very happy for the franchises fans.
And then he says to Chris, who's in tonight hitting
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all the buttons? He says, Chris, they did not lower
the number of season tickets available, did they?
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Man?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
That's a no, they did not. That is a left
handed question, is what that is?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Man?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Oh boy, that would be funny if they lowered the
number down by ten thousand, just to say that.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
I still remember, like I think it was about ten
years ago, one of the last times they actually had
a primetime game on ESPN. They had a sound meter
out there. Because it's a dome. It gets really loud
in Ford Field when you pack it.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I've never been there. Have you been to some games?
I have been.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
I've been to several Lions games. I covered a what's
the name of the college bowl game up there? I
think it's a quick lane bowl. I nearly caught pneumonia
covering that Bowl one time.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
First of all, you don't need a name. You don't
need to learn the name of the bowl because they
change every couple of years. This is unless you're an
iconic bowl. And then even when you change the name
of it, we still call it like that the Paul
and Weed Eater Bowl.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Well, I don't think its name has changed for a
while because nobody wants to really sponsor a bowl game
in Detroit, but.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Not because it was that.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
It was that video like a few years ago, the
kids seeing if they would go to a bowl game
in Detroit or the Bahamas and like celebrating when they
saw they got selected to the Bahamas Bowl.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah, well you're a USC guy. That's like the Trojan
football players when they usually tank at the end of
the year and have to go to the Sun Bowl
and they're like, you're going to all pass all.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
And then get the.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Exactly exactly but USC for four years. I'm going to
passo for the third time. No, but Ford.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Field is a it's it's an older dome, but it's
it's very nice. I enjoy it up there. They actually
have some pretty fun food.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Twenty zero two, it's it's twenty years old. That's old.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
I know, well, what is it that guy the owner drink.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
It's barely old enough the drink, the guy, the guy.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
I don't think they're going to replace anytime soon. I'm
just saying, but like you know, you know NFL owners,
like the guy who owns the Panthers, he built that
stadium in like ninety six, and he's already talking about
trying to tear.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
It down because they're stupid. And you look at the
years as you're talking about soccer, they I love that
they have stadium. In fact, that show we were talking
about Wrexham, the stadium they played in or they still play.
It's like the oldest stadium in Oh.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Yeah, they've been playing that for like almost like one
hundred and like thirty years or something.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yea, it was more than that. It was in the
eighteen late eighteen hundreds. I think you're right. Yeah, I
looked it up. It's the oldest stadium in use, at
least I could find. I don't know, maybe maybe there's
some stadium in Afghanistan that's it's been around longer. I
don't know.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
I feel bad though, because Detroit's kind of torn down.
A lot of it's old like Tiger Stadium was as
old as Fenway and and Wriggly and Wrigley, and they
just tore it down to make America and they blew
up Joe Lewis and they tore down the Dallas.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I would have I would have gone. I've only been
to the airport in Detroit for stopovers, but I would
have gone to uh Tiger Stadium to check out. Even
if it was I know they kept it around for
a while after they closed it. I would have gone
just to check it out.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Yeah, my my uncle, my uncle used to go to
games there. He'd get dollar single dollar tickets because he'd
get what's called obstructed view seating, which is basically these
seats that are that were like behind the poles. You
couldn't fold them out, so they gave away the tickets discount.
And he would always tell me, like when they packed
that place or when it's a playoff game, that the
place would rock, physically rock, physically shake because it was
(21:39):
so old.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
There you go an old, old old barn, old barn.
Anthony Anaheim says, when I hear you say Jonathan Taylor,
I'm expecting you to say Jonathan Taylor. Thomas Well I'm
sorry to disappoint you. Yeah, sorry disappoint you. Now, I
got a bunch of cowboy lapdogs who are very upset,
and they're angry with my Dak Prescott analysis. But I'm
telling you I'm never wrong about these things. Bam bam.
(22:01):
Cam says players fight with each other at camp, literally
every team does. He says everyone is making a bigger
deal more. He says Jeff Saturday cussed out Peyton Manny.
He says, Jacob's all upset with me. He says, the
only people making a big deal out of that video
or the hot take artist. Oh, you're calling me an artist, Jacob.
(22:23):
I'm an artist. Jacob thinks I'm an artist? Thank you,
thank you for that. What kind of artist am I?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Well?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
You think of the great artists of our time, right am?
I like Picasso, Rembrandt. Where do I fall on the
spectrum of artists? I'm very artistic, I really am. When
I was in school, I was very good at coloring
with the crayons. I was very good at that, and
not so good at finger painting back in the day. Yeah,
(22:54):
hot take artist. Can I put that on my LinkedIn page?
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I've been called an artist a bull. But Hot take Artists,
thank you, Jacob, very.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Enough, masters of fine arts. Hot Takes.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Jacob also says Shady doesn't know what the f he's
talking about. He points out, so here I know, so
now it's attack Shady. But he won two Super Bowls,
not really playing. He was a backup. But at the
end of his career, last two years he was a
backup in Kansas City, backup in Tampa Bay. Worked out
(23:30):
pretty well. Alf the Alien Potter says, Hey plus on
the football monologue, F minus for me on my vacation
sleeping skills. I feel your pain. Alf, I'm right there,
right there with you, and mix in a time zone
change while you're at it, if you could do he
didn't change time zones, Ouf, but if you do that,
it's even more fun, even more fun. Midnight Walker says,
(23:51):
running backs hate at an all time high. They'll just
go out and they'll draft the next guy for Jonathan Taylor.
It's quite a sad tail. They spent all this money
on saving a whale. Yeah, that's a beautiful whale. Though
it's a solid looking whale. That is a hot whale.
It is absolutely Kevin says the oldest Stadium, Kevin and
(24:17):
Flordes is. The oldest stadium still in the use is
the Melbourne Cricket Grounds, built in eighteen fifty four. It
says the oldest English football grounds is Liverpools and Fields Stadium,
built in eighteen eighty four. Accord to the Web, you
don't need to touch up my work, Kevin. There's no
need to come in here and clean up what I've done.
It's a bad job by you. I Pross. We'll take
(24:38):
some calls. Gettle carried away there. We will take some calls,
and boy do I see some legends. I see some
absolute legends that are in the on deck circle. So
we'll get to them. We also have Mallard of the
third degree next hour, the lame jokes of the week
Right now, though, we'll get you caught up on all
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Garcia throw the red flag, glass toe what else? Gaslight
Garcia and the Cookie Crook.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Throw the red flag. I don't remember that one.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah, we we added that you had a hissy fit
because you lost the game show and you scream throw
the red flag. You were demanding a review of the
game show. It's convenient that you forgot that because I
didn't forget it, Eddie.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
We forgot it because you know you cheat every game.
So it's just like it all together at some.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Point, gas you're gas lighting Eddie and you're.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Truth.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
My building is Altuve is your nickname. They call you Altu.
Check buzzer, Hey, check them for the buzzer.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Everyone knows that you're the biggest cheater in Fox Sports
calls you. No, she doesn't.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
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Speaker 1 (26:10):
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Speaker 4 (26:41):
I bet you were talking about little things that go
on in training camp, little uh trash talking, little pushing, shoving,
things like that. Did you see that the Tennessee Titans
released offensive lineman Jamarco Jones reportedly for starting multiple fights
in practice. Although I'm guessing that might have been the headline,
(27:02):
I'm gonna say he was released probably because he wasn't
very good and he was starting no intver happened. Yeah,
it's uh, it's I mean they're trying to I don't know,
they're trying to spin the story that that's why he
really got released.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I mean yes, because sure, because you're gonna click on.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
If Aaron Donald starts multiple fights in practice, I'm sure
the Rams are thinking about, we got to get rid
of this guy. I mean, this isn't good for team chemistry.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Well, it's that old quote from Jimmy Johnson, remember the
one with the nineties Cowboys where he talked about if.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
The guy fell asleep.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, backup, offensive lineman fell asleep in the meeting? What
would you do. I'd release him. Uh. And then if
Troy Aikman fell asleep from Michael Irvin or Emmitt Smith
in the meeting, what would you do. I'd wake him up,
get him a cup of coffee, make sure, make sure
it's good to go, or something like that. Yeah, yeah,
of course, and so yeah, if you're good. It's like
(28:00):
our business.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
If Colin Cowherd does something and I do the same
thing and it's kind of looked down upon by the company,
they will tell Colin to knock it off. They will
tell me to go leave the building, is what they
will tell me. So I understand. You have to understand
your place in the world. Like if you're a third
string offensive lineman for the Tennessee Titans, you probably if
(28:23):
they tell you not to fight, you probably should listen. Anyway,
all right, thank you for that. Are you ready for
my burger story? Are you ready for burger talk? All right,
So we talked about this the other day. We have
a follow up the Marlins in Guerrilla marketing. They acquired
a guy from the White Sox named Jake Berger. He's
(28:45):
beat a bunch of home runs. He's like your typical
modern baseball player, he bats around him and doze a
line which is two hundred and then ends up hitting
a bunch of home runs. Anyway, so Jake Burger is
the guy's name. They picked him up, so they lowered
the price of burgers for his first game to five dollars.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
And what did they lower it from? Do you know?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Was it like I do, I'll we'll get you. That's
the kicker. So the announcement. Now, last Saturday, the Marlins
had thirty two thousand people in attendance at their game.
We are told they sold five hundred and thirty burgers.
That was last Saturday. On Wednesday Nights Marlins game with
(29:24):
many less, fewer, crowd less people there, they sold two thousand,
one hundred burgers at the game. So that is you
can do the math on that the percentage increase of
burger sales from five hundred and thirty to twenty one hundred.
So is the moral of the story aty boy, that
people love Jake Berger? Or is the moral of the
(29:46):
story your burgers are overpriced because they normally charged thirteen
dollars for a burgl and they lowered it by you know,
let's half less than half at five dollars, so.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
More than half.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I've never understood this, and I've had people who work
in marketing for teams try to explain this to me.
And I'm not that bright, so I don't figure. I
can't figure it out. But they're like I always say, like,
when you just lower the price of the food, people
will buy more food. You'll still make a lot of money.
In fact, you'll make more. They'll just they'll buy more.
And the only teams that really done I remember the
Atlanta Falcons did that. I don't know if they still
(30:21):
have it, but a couple of years ago they lowered
the concession prices. It's like really really cheap prices. So
I don't know if they still have that or not.
Let's go to the phones. Jed who Fled is in
the Sunshine States, So good job by the Miami fans.
They love their burgers if they're reasonably priced. Hello, Jed
who Fled?
Speaker 7 (30:39):
Oh I got a enough little sandwich for those Miami
Hurricanes fans.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
But that.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
Wow, it's easy for me to say anyway. The Golfy
Stadium ben is a refurbnishment project which brings to the
forefront symbol of national pride in Afghanistan and it was
renovated in twenty eleven. You have the state, so your
taxpayer dollars have made sure that there's not the stadium
that old in Afghanistan. I just want you to know,
(31:07):
and your next pair of dollars is made sure there's
a Taliban who used to do public executions there and
instead of the new new you're turning a new page
on the stadium. We funded like the faith clift on
the stadium where public executions can go on again. I
mean well, I mean you hear agree, I hearly agree with.
I hearly agree with talk.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Jed. You're on some good stuff tonight, Jed. So I
want to ask you a question here.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
Hey, what's the old drop man? I missed the old
job Jed? Good? Yeah, yeah, not this time.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Take a breath, Okay, listen, listening close. In a couple
of years, at the end actually next year, at the
end of next year, so about a little over a year,
there's a guy out of London who is starting the
performance enhancing Drug Olympics. We would like you to be
part of this, Jed. We would like you to enter
this as an Olympic app that.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
Your former time I've already stound up in the auctioneers,
the auctioneer category. I'm already signed up.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I'll be your manager. Okay, I will be your manager.
I want to see you in this. I think this
would be amazing. You have had years of experience with
performance and dancing drugs, that's what we call them.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
You gonna be like Jimmy Hart. Like Jimmy Hart, you
know what I mean, because I mean that's who a
model my calls after sometimes that guy Jeff, I can't
remember his name, but do you know the oh my god,
the wrestling guy. If you'll be a managers like you
know occasionally, if I'm better lose a match like whip
me out of aluminum chair from underneath the fold, I
will definitely hire you as a manager.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
We're in what events? You said you would do the
auction you'd be the auctioneer, any other events? Are you
or are you able to run? Are you fast? You
run by like the wind? What are your skills?
Speaker 7 (32:49):
If there is? If there's a yes, the competition is
you run to a stolen autumn and then from that
point forward your time till until you get it somewhere safe.
Hell yeah, I'm bath dude.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
So my to motivate you, since I'm your manager, dad,
what I what I would do is I would dress
up like a police officer and run after you and
that would get you to put on the after burners.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
Yes, that'd be that'd be great. I mean, I've got
I've hit a couple of girls. You know in my
fans that he's got a suit you could probably bottle.
But I was gonna say, man, that was too good
of a visual. No, you always, Sonny, there's a green
man and believe or not, I have a full body
green spandic suit that I mean that.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
I'll well, I don't even know about your spandex jip,
but I gotta go, thank you. I gotta go thank you.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Jeez.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
All Right, we'll press on. We have a Mallard of
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(33:59):
Austin Hilly and Matt Olsen have hit back to back
home runs this season six times, and that is closing
in on the all time record. Teammates Blank and Blank
hold the all time record for back to back home
runs in a single season in baseball history. Again, Austin
(34:20):
Riley Matt Olsen have done it six times. Teammates Blank
and Blank hold the record for most back to back
home runs in a single season in baseball history. That
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Speaker 1 (35:04):
It's Ben Maler the Atlanta Braves Dynamic due Austin Riley
and Matt Olsen have it six back to back homers
this season. That's a lot teammates Blank and Blank hold
the record for most back to back home runs in
a single season in baseball history. That's the question. Fergkat
just went Barney Gumbel as his answer? Who else do
(35:25):
we have? A Ferg Dog? Jenkins and Brian Finley guests
by malarpropkap Well, those guys do look look pretty good,
Hank Aaron, Eddie Matthews. A legitimate answer from Midnight Walker
Justin and Cincinnati said Bonds and the A Hole Jeff
Kent Alex Stein guessed by Benito. Who else to have?
(35:45):
Ace and Gary from Calligan Tink in Michigan, Mark McGuire
and Jose Consago guests by the Palm Desert Rat, Candy
Maldonado from Art Puffin Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz. Good
photos of those two from at the Warrior Raiders fan
tremendous Blind Scott Angry Bill from Milkman Mike in Colorado.
Do you have an answer quickly? It's not kinky in
(36:07):
the brain guess by Kelvio.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Was actually gonna say Manny and Poppy.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
As well, there were you gonna say Manny and Poppy.
A fine guess, but that is unfortunately incorrect. The correct answer,
Eddie is Andre's Goalorah Kerry Walker Nice the Blate Street
Bombers nineteen ninety seven before I was alive, Eddie nineteen
ninety seven. Here we go, it's maller. How about that?
Speaker 3 (36:31):
To the third degree, This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Go.
Speaker 8 (36:38):
Melvin Gordon recently gave out some advice in an interview,
telling young athletes to reconsider playing running back and to
switch positions if athletic enough, Ben, do you think someone
like Derrick Henry will be the last of his kind
an elite running back.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Yes, Melvin Gordon has the Bengali effect, and every Pop
Warner all American will give up the running back position
because Melvin Gordon told them to. Unless nothing is going
to change. Listen, the minimum salary in the NFL seven
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. That's a pretty good salary
and try making that at a regular jobs. I don't stop.
(37:13):
Not much is going to change at all. Next, there was.
Speaker 8 (37:16):
A report this week that those funny looking padded helmets
you see at training camp called Guardian caps have helped
to reduce concussions by fifty three percent. Ben, do you
think we're heading towards guardian caps in the regular season?
Speaker 1 (37:29):
You know how you can spin numbers to fit any
narrative you want. Now there's no chance because this looks
like a total clown show that people wearing the helmets,
and the NFL is a television show. The optics, it
looks bad. People don't They're just not comfortable with those caps.
They'll have them more in practice, but I do not
see them coming to actual games next.
Speaker 8 (37:49):
There's some speculation that the Raiders could use Sakon Barkley's
deal with the Giants as the framework to get Josh
Jacobs back with the team. Ben, do you think a
Jacob's return is imminent?
Speaker 1 (37:58):
I don't think it's imminent, but I do think he
will play when the regular season comes around. Because you're
gonna leave money on the table, You're gonna be a
dumb dumb like Le'Veon Bell. It's great to be noble,
but when push comes to shove, and more importantly, when
the checks start vanishing, he's gonna show up, Jacobs, how
do we.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
Do in a failure?
Speaker 8 (38:16):
What? I didn't like your first answer.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
I think you're right. It's a great answer. Nothing's gonna do.
You think Melvin Gordon's gonna change things? He can't even
hold the ball.
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