August 22, 2023 • 37 mins
Ben Maller talks about Bill Belichick addressing reports that the Patriots called about an Aaron Rodgers trade, what led Josh Jacobs to end his contract holdout, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our n to Our two is
upon us. Did the Patriots really consider an Aaron Rodgers trade?
Bill Belichick address that we're gonna parse the words of
coach Belichick. Also, what led to Josh Jacobs planning to
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end his contract holdout with the Raiders? And what are
your reactions to the Sam Howell hype train leaving the
station in Washington after an exhibition performance against the Baltimore
football team. We'll talk about all of those things and
more right now here. It is our number two, a
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Way tire Buying should be in our lead this hour,
coming from Foxborough and not from New York City, a
mister Rodgers neighborhood, but indirect, I said, indirect way to
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get to mister Rodgers neighborhood. So there, there's a story
that we talked about several months back that has popped
back up on Raider. What is that story? Well, the
story which originated from Craig Carton, the guy that quit
radio to go do the TV thing at Fox so
he's got a show. He reported that the Patriots attempted
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to trade for airon Rogers, that the effort was made.
Now Rogers was said to be not interested in playing
in New England. That was the reporting, and the story
stopped right there, and we moved on with our lives,
and that was that. Well, not everyone moved on with
their lives. Rogers is playing with the Jets. And Bill
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Belichick was asked in his weekly paid radio spot on
EI there in Boston, was asked about the rumor about
Bill Belichick having interest in Aaron Rodgers, and Belichick himself
was asked, if you didn't hear what he had to say,
maybe not, maybe you missed it. The Patriot coach Bill
Belichick swears swears that he did not read out directly
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to Green Bay. Let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I personally couldn't speak to that. Look, there's a lot
of conversations in the off season between our personnel people
other executives. I mean, I don't know what what he's
really talking about. I personally didn't talk to the Packers
about Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Now certainly makes this division tougher.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, well no, I mean, look, it's not I'm not
saying about I mean, Aaron Rodgers is a great player,
but that's not really you know, that wasn't anything that
we were that I was aware of.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, you listen closely to the word six. We're going
to parse the words. So let us discuss the question
how believable how believable was Bill Belichick in the SoundBite
you just heard right there with his Aaron Rodgers trade denial.
So I have custom embroidery, national Goose Protection Coalition, and
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two ounce cup, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are gonna make a moneyball because
I am moneyball, mallorh just like that. So to begin here,
Number why waiting for Christ A little late? On there
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be quicker number. Why So Bill Belichick was unconvincing is
the word I will use. He was unconvincing with his
dialogue when asked about the Aaron Rodgers trade. Which is
not surprising the commentary from Bill Belichick here, This was
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the only way you could answer the question. If Belichick
does not answer the question, gives a no comment, and
does that, which he's also done many times, that implies
that he's covering something up that he knows about, so
he doesn't want to talk about it. If he confirms
the the Patriots tried to get Aaron Rodgers, well that's
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a humdinger of a story. That also shows that you
have qualms about Mac Jones, that you're not keeping up
with the Joneses, your own quarterback. So what Bill Belichick
did is he practiced some custom embroidery. Now what do
we mean by that. It means that Bill Belichick attempted
to thread a needle, little needle point action, threading a needle,
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if you will. And Belichick used weasel words pop goes
Louise all, Yeah, weasel words. He said he personally did
not engage the Packers. He never said the Patriots did
not engage the Green Bay Packers. He just said he
personally did not do it. That does not mean that
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Belichick did not deputize some underling to have dialogue with
the Green Bay Packers and do the dirty war. For Belichick,
he's much too important to have to make those phone calls.
Don't you know who he is? So that gives Bill
Belichick plausible deniability, well, plausible deniability. And he wasn't technically
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lying when he said that he personally did not reach
out to Green Bay. He just omitted some things that
actually took place. So, if you haven't figured out yet,
I believe that the Patriots did consider Aaron Rodgers. Why
would they not. They don't have a quarterback. Mac Jones
is a stiff, and so Rogers is someone that Bill
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Belichick has slobbered all over for many, many years. Why
would you not consider that possibility. It would be negligence
by the Patriots to not consider that possibility. Now, page two,
turning to lost wages. Nevada the gambling mecca of North America.
But the gambling world is everywhere these days, sports gambling
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in particular. But we are told that Josh Jacobs, he's
our running back Josh Jacobs has decided he will put
the kibosh on his issues with the Las Vegas football team.
Jacobs expected to report the camp before the Raiders open
the regular season. Of course, it is unknown when when
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exactly that will be. For Jacobs, who led the NFL
in rushing yards last season breakout year and wanted to
get paid a lot of money, the Raider said, we're good,
we don't want to pay a lot of money over
long term. Sorry about that, and so he has to
show up by week one otherwise he will start giving
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back money. And that's the rub on this. So let
us discuss what has led here to Josh Jacobs planning
to end his contract. Kerf Fluffel with, So, I'm going
to blame the National Goose Protection Coalition. Why am I
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blaming the National Goose Protection Coalition? Because Jacobs is looking
to protect the Golden Goose and he wants that four
to oh one k within the margins. And the way
you do that is you show up the camp. Otherwise
Jacobs would have had to give back a game check
every week some of that ten point one million dollars
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of the franchise tag that the Raiders gave him and
you don't give back money that's yours, that has your
name on it. We all know that, and so Jacobs decided,
I'm not going to do that. Now. Soon as he
ends the stalemate and reports to duty for the Raiders,
Jacobs will have to, of course, put his tail between
his legs and walk into the Raider facility. What kind
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of attitude is he going to bring? Is he gonna
bring the tude? Will we will find out? Does Jacobs
bring hostil inside the bill? Will he be an enemy
combatant upset that he did not get a new contract,
did not get the money that he wanted from the Raiders?
Is he going to bring that inside the facility? Or
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will Jacobs be able to compartmentalize calm down right? Does
this spill into more turmoil for the Silver and Black,
Because I'm all there for the turmoil. I get a
big bucket, big bucket of popcorn. I'm right there for
the turmoil. We will see now. Final point, final point.
So let's go to Washington. And we mentioned this last
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hour in the B block, but we'll mention it now.
If he did not watch, it was a Monday night
exhibition game, and I got suckered into that I've flipped
over from the baseball for a little bit watched a
little piece of it. Sam Howell, the Great Sam Howell,
was officially named the starting quarterback of the Commanders last Friday.
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We were away from the watchtower here at Fox Sports
Radio on Friday, but the Washington football team announced that
the Great Sam Howe would be starting. Where have you gone,
Joe thisman? Well, now you've got Sam Howell as your quarterback.
And so that news came out, and then Sam Howe
went out and had a monster mash of a first
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half for the Washington football team. I don't know if
you saw it or not, or you saw the box
score and the Commanders moving the ball, matriculating the ball
up and down the field, Sam Howe playing the entire
first half for the Raiders or for the raven against
the Ravens, for the Commanders, get the team's right, but
for the Commanders against the Ravens, and Sam Howe attempted
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twenty five passes he can played nineteen of them for
one hundred and eighty eight yards, had a great passer rating,
solid numbers across the board. Washington led the game at
halftime when Howell exited stage left, and they would go
on to win the game on a late field goal
against Baltimore, ending that twenty four game practice season winning
streak for the Ravens. And immediately this led to over
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the top gushing about Sam how they found something, He's
got the magic. These are the kind of comments that
we're bouncing around the echo chamber after an exhibition game,
not a regular season game. Not a regular season game.
We're talking about an exhibition game. So what are your
reactions to Sam Howell getting hyped up there in Washington?
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So my initial reaction is the P word predictable. This
is a predictable situation. The over reaction machine gets cranked up,
and that happens all the time. But how looked like
a cool customer. We also sounded like a total meathead
in his interview. He got interviewed on the Monday night broadcast.
I thought, boy, this guy has the the I think
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Marcel could could beat him in the IQ test. Unbelievable anyway.
So with that being said, yeah, I know, calm down, Marcell.
I'll give you a shout out. Okay, he played well,
So I give Sam Howe whatever. I don't give him
credit because it's a practice game. And the one thing
I've learned as a degenerate gambler over the years is
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to not put any stock in exhibition football. You just
get a little confidence. So it's like somebody leading the
Cactus League in home runs and saying they're going to
lead the American League in home runs. It generally speaking,
does not happen. And so I take all of this
with a two ounce cup of mouthwash, and it's a
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dummy run. You gargle and you spit it out. You
gargle your rinse, you spit it out and get ready
for the regular season. The Ravens were throwing out vanilla
bean defense and the Ravens opponent, the Washington football team,
was playing a very generic brand of offense and defense.
And that's what's supposed to happen. Now, let's see Sam
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Howell has a very good start to the season. He
has another practice game in the regular season September tenth.
The Washington football team opens up with the team projected
to be the worst team in the NFL this year,
the Arizona Cardinals. So if Sam how does not dominate
the Arizona Cardinals, you got something wrong with that. And
then they I believe played the Broncos in week number two,
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Washington does, so that's two winnable games. So Washington has
a shot to get out to a good start this
year and Sam Howe can get some confidence. But does
that mean it's going to happen because he played well
against the Ravens. No, of course not.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
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Why were they ready to storm the cockpit. We'll get
to that, and we will do it next.
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Speaker 1 (15:23):
Femi in Minnesota. The Great Uber Eats delivery driver says
another excellent buffet of tantalizing sports talk with that monologue,
Man mister Rogers may have effectively ended Belichick's career by
moving to the AFC East. No way the Patriots win
that division or even come in second. I'll argue this though, Femi,
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as far as the AFC East is concerned, I don't
think the Patriots of fishing last place. So between Buffalo,
the Jets, and the Dolphins, one of those three teams
is going to take a dramatic pratfall. Not sure which one.
I could see a scenario where each of them fall apart.
Buffalo's got Stefon Diggs, who's a ticking time bomb and
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could go self destruct at any moment. The Jets have
old Man Aaron Rodgers, and the Miami Dolphins are a
concussion away from a tongue of bailoa to having all
of those playmakers be useless for the offense. So there's
a scenario where all three of those teams fall apart.
But that's what it's gonna take for the Patriots, Femi
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to end up rising up in the AFC. He's chipping
the ques rights in, he says a plus on the
mount of monologue, how do you know Bill Belichiat is
fibbing because if you listen close to his response, you
can hear Geppeto saying Pinocchio in the background, just just
like that. Who else do we have? Yeah? All right,
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and you can join us on Twitter at Ben mallor
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You can join the fun. I do see we have
a first time call. But first let's go to is
it trucker Nate? Is that right? My correct onner nav?
All right, Trucker Nab. Hello, Trucker Nab driving around Arkansas? Hello,
trucker Nab. Welcome.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Hey, what's up bed?
Speaker 7 (17:17):
Long time? Good to call back again.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Thank you, welcome back. Where have you been? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Yeah, be hey hey trucking?
Speaker 4 (17:25):
That's what?
Speaker 7 (17:26):
But is that is Sam How? He's got nothing to
prove to h to me, you're somebody. He's gotta show
up against the Cardinals and the Broncos. He did this
last year and that last game against the Cowboys, he
played the biggest fraud to be a game manager, Dakota Prescott.
He kicked Jerry Jones in the face. And that's so
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called Cowboys generational defense. They had no answer for him.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
But trucker. Now that's wait seventeen, truck, and now come
on week seventeen, it's sweet seven. It does matter. It
matters to me. It matters to me. You can't form
a judge. That's like a player on the Washington Nationals
who suck a batting five hundred in the last month
of the baseball season then saying, Okay, the guy's gonna
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win the batting title next year. No, it's it's late
season baseball, last week of the NFL. Same there's a
correlation between those two things.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
Okay, but hey, let me ask you something else. Did
or did not The Cowboys have something to play for?
Didn't they have a position in the in the playoff hunt?
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yeah, they could have gained a different matchup in the
playoffs if they had won that game exactly. Who cares?
Speaker 7 (18:41):
Yeah? Okay, well I tell you what.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Who cares?
Speaker 7 (18:44):
Hey, Jim irsay, Hey, I'm gonna give him a shout
out for making that comment. If I died tonight and nobody.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
That's very deep. But what do you think he was
What do you think he was smoking or drinking at
the time he said that. What do you think? Oh?
Speaker 7 (18:58):
I don't know, but hey, I'm gonna put him my mind.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
All Madden, there you go. They should have an all
Madden like for owners. They could have an all Madden
owner thing, and ersay would be high up there. All right,
we'll be safe out there driving around truck or nad
be careful man, All right, all right, calls again, All right,
go away, hang up on you. Let's go to Dan
in Madison. First time.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Dan, Hello, Dan, Ben Ben mallor how you doing? Dan?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I love that you have the music. You have the
radio turned all the way up in the background. That
is wonderful silence.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
I know I'm stuck in Madison, Wisconsin, but you know
I when I compare Mordecai with Sam Harmon, out of order,
Dame two quarterbacks, elite, elite, elite, elite.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Why are you now, Dan? Before we get into the
media call, which I'm sure is gonna be riveting.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
What I'm working?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Oh, you are working? What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Well? Actually I work at a serving job at Chili's.
But that's not there.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Anyone is there? Anyone at Chili's right now at to
thirty in the morning, almost.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
They're all Badger fans. I'm surrounded by a storm of
pure red and white.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
And what's the number one item people buy at the
Chili's in Madison, Wisconsin.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Not too sure about that, but I can tell you something.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You don't know what what you worked at. You said
you you worked there. I thought you worked there.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
The baby back round baby, first time server at Chili's.
I haven't even started yet. Oh, but it's the same comparison,
tantamount to what Panamort guy is gonna do with the
Wisconsin Badgers this year. I think the Wisconsin Badgers and
they look bick are going to be something to be
reckon live, not to be reckonless.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Pardon any other talking points you'd like to get in,
anything else, Any other talking points you want to get
in to pump up the Badgers? Anything else?
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Nothing else at this point besides school of Vikings and
I'm a big fan. That's all.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Okay, thank you, Okay, that's a terrible phone call. Thank
you for that. Okay, might have to go call her free.
Might have to be caller free here, Carvey, hang up
on everyone else who's on hold here. Just start fresh.
I feel like I need a shower after that. I mean,
the guys I work at the Chili's, you know, well,
what's the number one item I just started? I think
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you made that up his nose? What's growing? I need
a cold showered Yeah, I think so.
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an open letter from eighty six former Northwestern athletes criticizing
school administrators for the lack of due process prior to
the firing of head coach Pat Fitzgerald. I'm sure that's
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gonna change a lot of things. But there you go
not only the team still at Northwestern supporting Pat Fitzgerald,
but the former players as well, trying to support the
former head coach.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
So there all people freak out and there's lawsuits coming down.
They lose their lunch, and they immediately go into a
defensive posture. And I have no idea what happened at Northwestern.
If it was that bad, or if this was a
effort to try to get some money. I don't know.
I have no idea what happened, but I guess they'll
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try to figure it out. Although I don't trust the
people that investigate these things. I think they are not
the brightest minds in the world. They have great resumes,
but I learn And when Baseball investigated the Astros and
said they are not doing anything wrong, and people were
accusing them of cheating, and they said, oh, there's nothing
going on. And then it was only after one of
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Progressive dot com and storming the NFL's cockpit. This comes
out of the paranoia department. Oh, I got to tell you.
It's not outrageous paranoia. I understand. So there was video
that was posted online. You didn't see the story involving
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Brandon Cooks. There has been a revolt among dull A
Cowboy fans towards Brandon Cooks. The well traveled wide receiver,
played with the Saints, the Patriots, the Rams, the Texans.
He's bounced all over the place. He's currently residing in
Jerry's world. And so the Cowboys were playing an exhibition
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football game in Seattle, and boy, when those teams get
together in an exhibition game, man alive, what a great
matchup that is. And so they played in Seattle over
the weekend. But prior to the game, on the afternoon,
leading into the game, Dalvin not Brandon cook My Cook's
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mixed up. Brandon Cooks said, you know, I want to
go out. I would like to see the beautiful skyline.
Seattle does have a great skyline. It's really beautiful there.
If you've ever been in Seattle, it's very impressive, just wonderful.
So Brandon Cooks got into a private small one of
those prop planes. He happens to be a licensed pilot,
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and he said, you know, I don't want to go alone.
Why don't I bring a couple of my teammates. And
so he had Stefan Gilmore, the old pat and Carolina Panther,
and then he also had Micah Parsons. So he grabs
a couple of teammates, Micah Parsons and Stefan Gilmore, and
they go up on it looks like the kind of plane.
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It's hard to tell exactly what kind of plane is,
but it's it's small plane, and it looks like the
kind of plane you have to like use your feet
like the flintstones that old cartoon to get it started,
you know, and get yeah. Anyway, So it shows them
flying around there and looking at all the sites, and
they flew over what used to be a coolly named stadium,
but now it's called Lumen Field. I guess in Seattle
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so they flew over the stadium on that so people
are freaking out. Cowboy fans are like, oh my god,
Oh my god, I can't believe that. I kind of
get it. I kind of get it. There have been
in my lifetime many a professional athlete that has died
in a small all plane accident. You know. The most
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famous one would be the captain of the Yankees, Thurman Munson,
back before my time, but Thurman Munson. And then you
think of the humanitarian efforts of Roberto Clemente who died
in that was an accident to take a humanitarian mission
where his aircraft came down. There was also a picture
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for the Yankees and the Phillies named Corey Litel. And
the only reason I remember that one he crashed into
like a building in New York if I remember correctly.
But my old intern is a TV personality in Philadelphia,
and she did a story on Corey Lytel and she
went up in the plane like like not that long
before he crashed and was like flying around with him.
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So I remember that one, but there'd been other ones,
So I mean, this is you know, this happened. And
I remember I had a buddy of mine years ago.
That was a he's a pilot, and he said that
flying is the safest thing in the world. He says,
when you when you're flying around, it's very safe. He says.
The dangerous parts are landing and taking off, he said,
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but other than that, the actual one you're in the air,
it's it's tremendously safe. Uh and all that. But the
cowboy fans are freaked out. Is that is I don't
know if that's illegal though, is it? I don't think
it's illegal. Why would it be illegal, Well, because you
can't like go on a on a jet ski and
things like that, right the NFL contract, you know, a
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private plane.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
You know, think I would say I would say that
that's legal.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Well, and that's what I'm saying. I think it is legal.
I'm just saying, like, I don't know, it's obviously legal.
He was doing it, and he posted the video. I'm
thinking he's been around the NFL enough to know what's
allowed and what's not allowed. And he's posted other videos
branding Cooks has posted other videos and whatnot. So I
never really had an interest in being a pilot, Eddie
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you want to be a pilot flatplane?
Speaker 6 (27:56):
When I was a kid, I did want to be
a pilot. And then I found out math was involved,
and I said, well, that dream has died.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Yeah, it seems when you're young like a kind of
a cool job like our guys SLSO is a flight
attendant and works for the airlines and flies around, and
it would be a pilot and stuff. But then now
that I'm of the age I'm at now in my
place in life, I think, what a pain in the
ass that must be to have to fly around all
the time and all that.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
I wanted to fly like fighter jets when I was
a kid, Oh, like for the Blue Angels. Yeah, and
then I found out that you can't have bad vision, So.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
That's that's out. That's out the window. Yeah, I found
out I wanted. I love the movie Top Gun, and
I thought, boy, that'd be kind of cool to be
like in Top Gun. You know, the chicks like you,
you know, you fly the planes and all that and
be cool. And then have you ever seen a fat pilot?
Have you ever seen an obese pilot? Does that happen?
Does the Air Force? Is there a military that has
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fat pilots?
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Changes zone?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
The Air Force does? No, I don't think I've seen that.
You've never seen that, right, show me a fat.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Pilot, not a fighter pilot, at least.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Not a fighter because you wouldn't fit in the cockpit, right,
you wouldn't create in that little thing there.
Speaker 10 (29:07):
I haven't seen really many like fat, like uh, just
regular commercial airline pilots either, No, that's true.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Yeah, I've seen a few chubby ones, but I wouldn't
call it fat.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Yeah, gotta imagine you're kind of you know, walking all
those air airport terminals.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
You gotta be walking up and down. That's got to
be a lot of walking. That's a fair point. That's
a good point too.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
But the at all hours, not a lot of sleep.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
The other thing too, about like the airline uh, you
know business. And how soon before somebody Susan said, well
I want to be fat, I want to be a pilot,
you know, and then they got to like make everything
bigger and all that. I'm sure that'll it'll happen at
some point. Anyway. It is the Bean Mallard Show. We
are just minutes away from Mallard to the third degree.
(29:50):
How exciting is that? You You're you're excited, you should
be excited. Time now for the instat trivia, the Insta trivia.
We're gonna go to baseball for the institute. You can
try to answer this on the Twitter machine at Ben Malor.
Every time I look up, I see that Looney commercial
where he's a referee. It's for Dickens. I see him
(30:10):
more now than I work with him. For Dickens. Anyway,
here is the Insta trivia. The modern era record for
the most past balls in a single season is thirty
five in one season, set by Blank. Again, the modern
era record for the most past balls in a single
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season in Big League history in the modern era is
thirty five, set by Blank. That is the Insta trivia.
The answer. We'll get to it, and we will do
it next.
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Speaker 1 (31:26):
Time now for the Insta trivia. Do you know the answer? Well,
we haven't given the question yet, so you don't know
the answer. The modern era baseball record for the most
pass balls in a single season is thirty five, set
by Blank. That is the question, and what is the answer?
(31:50):
Bean boot Maker, Bob Says, Ronald Charles Say nicknamed the Penguin.
Who else do we have? Josh Allen in the playoff,
Gus Justin in Cincinnati, Julier Caesar Chavez from Cowboy Killer,
Paige Down Page Down, the Grand Wizard from Alf the Alien, Opiner,
(32:11):
Matt the Warrior Raider as fan got it right, Robbie
the Mariner fans going with the Big Dumper as his answer,
Bob Ucker and Jesse the Body Ventura guest by Art Puffin.
Who else we have? Larry Di Saz Taylor Swift, a
Taylor Swift fan. Bill Belichick is the answer? Who else
(32:32):
we have former Twin, Brian Harper guest by a Riek
in Minnesota, Mike Piazza from Callagan Tim in Michigan, cal Raley,
nice video there that Justin in the enchanted forest found
Jason Veritec from Rob in Minnesota. Roger McDowell from Mala
prop guy, Well that's about right there. Who else do
(32:55):
we have? Steve Jaeger guest by Wally in Florida, Mark
par from Chris in the Morning, Good old Padre knowledge
by you. Who else do we have? Page Damn the
Rebel Alliance Pilot Porkins from Milkman Mike in Colorado. Well,
that's that's Hollywood. That's not real. It's not that's not real.
(33:19):
He found the one fat guy in the cockpit in
a Hollywood movie. Spoiler alert.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
He Di Darth Vader took him out.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Hobby Bobby, Yeah, you got it right, Eddie. Do you
have an answer, Eddie, I do.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
It's former New York Metropolitan's legend Mackie Sasser.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Macky Sass Or he couldn't throw the ball back to
the mount. That is incorrect, Eddie. The correct answer. Let's
see if I can give you some name. Let's see
if can get this right, Eddie nineteen eighty seven Texas Rangers.
Charlie Huff was the pitcher. The catcher was same my name, Yeah,
(33:56):
I think like Odamin McDowell, Steve Bouchelle. Was it Padd
O'Brien or not pad O'Brien. No, it was Gino Petrolia.
Speaker 6 (34:07):
I do know.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Thick Mustache. He was the catcher for the Rangers. Had
thirty five pass balls. That is still the record in
the modern era.
Speaker 6 (34:18):
So was Bruce Bouchi an old catcher for the Rangers or.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Was remember him playing for the Rangers? He might have
at the end of his crew, but I don't remember that.
Here was It's Maller? How about that?
Speaker 5 (34:28):
To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets
grilled man.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
The Coop dal Loup Justin Cooper.
Speaker 10 (34:37):
Now, it's been a couple of years since the NBA
selected their seventy fifth anniversary team, but Stan Van Gundhy
apparently still has a problem with it. Making a recent
podcast appearance, Van Gundy said that Dwight Howard should have
made the team over Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Is he right, Ben? Yeah, So I'm gonna agree with
Stan Van Gundy. A lot of people have dismiss Stan
Van Gundy, saying he's compromised because he coached Dwight Howard
in his salad days there in Orlando. But I disagree. Listen,
Van Gundy watched Howard dominate the league in the Sunshine
State to a level that we have not seen Anthony
(35:12):
Davis consistently dominate the NBA all these years, and pound
for pound, I would take Dwight Howard in his prime.
He had more dog in him. Anthony Davis is more
of a kiddy cat, and not that either of them
was the ultimate alpha, but I would rather have Dwight
Howard next.
Speaker 10 (35:33):
Now, on the back of an insane four game tear
from Julio Rodriguez and now they're on a seven game
win streak, the Seattle Mariners are in a wild card
spot and only a few games out of the Al
West lead. Ben, do you think Seattle can make some
noise in the playoffs?
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Yes, every year.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
We see a team like this. The Atlanta Braves couple
years ago or not that great, they ended up winn
the World Series. The Washington Nationals the year that they
won the World Series. Same thing last year the Phillies
got to the World Series. They weren't a particularly great
team the American League. Number one is wide open. There
are two good teams in baseball this year. They're the
Braves and the Dodgers. They're in the Nationally like the
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Orioles and Rangers are fine teams in the American League,
but they're not unbeatable teams. The Braves and Dodgers of
the power, but the Mariners the way Julio Rodriguez and
Cal Raley are going to some of these starting pitchers
mashing and getting it done on the mount George Kirby
Luis Castillo as anchors of that rotation, absolutely Seattle can
get all the way to the World Series and be
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the last team that hasn't been to the World Series
to cross that off the list.
Speaker 10 (36:34):
Next, Oriols shortstop Gunner Henderson was only a single away
from the cycle on Sunday when he came up with
a base hint. Baltimore was already up ten to one
in the contest, but instead of completing the cycle, Henderson
strolled into second for a double, much to the dismay
of his teammates.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Bend you a pod Henderson for this move. Well, he's
in the one percent of baseball players ninety nine percent
would have stopped at first base and done a dance
after they hit for the cycle, so I give him credit.
But yeah, I mean a cycle is a cool thing
to have, very rare things. How do we do kummelos?
That is a win? Put it on the board. Yes,
whoo
Hello and welcome. It's our n to Our two is
upon us. Did the Patriots really consider an Aaron Rodgers trade?
Bill Belichick address that we're gonna parse the words of
coach Belichick. Also, what led to Josh Jacobs planning to
(00:23):
end his contract holdout with the Raiders? And what are
your reactions to the Sam Howell hype train leaving the
station in Washington after an exhibition performance against the Baltimore
football team. We'll talk about all of those things and
more right now here. It is our number two, a
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visit to mister Rogers neighborhood in an indirect way. Welcome.
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Way tire Buying should be in our lead this hour,
coming from Foxborough and not from New York City, a
mister Rodgers neighborhood, but indirect, I said, indirect way to
(01:53):
get to mister Rodgers neighborhood. So there, there's a story
that we talked about several months back that has popped
back up on Raider. What is that story? Well, the
story which originated from Craig Carton, the guy that quit
radio to go do the TV thing at Fox so
he's got a show. He reported that the Patriots attempted
(02:15):
to trade for airon Rogers, that the effort was made.
Now Rogers was said to be not interested in playing
in New England. That was the reporting, and the story
stopped right there, and we moved on with our lives,
and that was that. Well, not everyone moved on with
their lives. Rogers is playing with the Jets. And Bill
(02:37):
Belichick was asked in his weekly paid radio spot on
EI there in Boston, was asked about the rumor about
Bill Belichick having interest in Aaron Rodgers, and Belichick himself
was asked, if you didn't hear what he had to say,
maybe not, maybe you missed it. The Patriot coach Bill
Belichick swears swears that he did not read out directly
(03:01):
to Green Bay. Let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I personally couldn't speak to that. Look, there's a lot
of conversations in the off season between our personnel people
other executives. I mean, I don't know what what he's
really talking about. I personally didn't talk to the Packers
about Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Now certainly makes this division tougher.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, well no, I mean, look, it's not I'm not
saying about I mean, Aaron Rodgers is a great player,
but that's not really you know, that wasn't anything that
we were that I was aware of.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, you listen closely to the word six. We're going
to parse the words. So let us discuss the question
how believable how believable was Bill Belichick in the SoundBite
you just heard right there with his Aaron Rodgers trade denial.
So I have custom embroidery, national Goose Protection Coalition, and
(03:57):
two ounce cup, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are gonna make a moneyball because
I am moneyball, mallorh just like that. So to begin here,
Number why waiting for Christ A little late? On there
(04:19):
be quicker number. Why So Bill Belichick was unconvincing is
the word I will use. He was unconvincing with his
dialogue when asked about the Aaron Rodgers trade. Which is
not surprising the commentary from Bill Belichick here, This was
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the only way you could answer the question. If Belichick
does not answer the question, gives a no comment, and
does that, which he's also done many times, that implies
that he's covering something up that he knows about, so
he doesn't want to talk about it. If he confirms
the the Patriots tried to get Aaron Rodgers, well that's
(05:03):
a humdinger of a story. That also shows that you
have qualms about Mac Jones, that you're not keeping up
with the Joneses, your own quarterback. So what Bill Belichick
did is he practiced some custom embroidery. Now what do
we mean by that. It means that Bill Belichick attempted
to thread a needle, little needle point action, threading a needle,
(05:28):
if you will. And Belichick used weasel words pop goes
Louise all, Yeah, weasel words. He said he personally did
not engage the Packers. He never said the Patriots did
not engage the Green Bay Packers. He just said he
personally did not do it. That does not mean that
(05:51):
Belichick did not deputize some underling to have dialogue with
the Green Bay Packers and do the dirty war. For Belichick,
he's much too important to have to make those phone calls.
Don't you know who he is? So that gives Bill
Belichick plausible deniability, well, plausible deniability. And he wasn't technically
(06:15):
lying when he said that he personally did not reach
out to Green Bay. He just omitted some things that
actually took place. So, if you haven't figured out yet,
I believe that the Patriots did consider Aaron Rodgers. Why
would they not. They don't have a quarterback. Mac Jones
is a stiff, and so Rogers is someone that Bill
(06:38):
Belichick has slobbered all over for many, many years. Why
would you not consider that possibility. It would be negligence
by the Patriots to not consider that possibility. Now, page two,
turning to lost wages. Nevada the gambling mecca of North America.
But the gambling world is everywhere these days, sports gambling
(07:01):
in particular. But we are told that Josh Jacobs, he's
our running back Josh Jacobs has decided he will put
the kibosh on his issues with the Las Vegas football team.
Jacobs expected to report the camp before the Raiders open
the regular season. Of course, it is unknown when when
(07:24):
exactly that will be. For Jacobs, who led the NFL
in rushing yards last season breakout year and wanted to
get paid a lot of money, the Raider said, we're good,
we don't want to pay a lot of money over
long term. Sorry about that, and so he has to
show up by week one otherwise he will start giving
(07:44):
back money. And that's the rub on this. So let
us discuss what has led here to Josh Jacobs planning
to end his contract. Kerf Fluffel with, So, I'm going
to blame the National Goose Protection Coalition. Why am I
(08:05):
blaming the National Goose Protection Coalition? Because Jacobs is looking
to protect the Golden Goose and he wants that four
to oh one k within the margins. And the way
you do that is you show up the camp. Otherwise
Jacobs would have had to give back a game check
every week some of that ten point one million dollars
(08:28):
of the franchise tag that the Raiders gave him and
you don't give back money that's yours, that has your
name on it. We all know that, and so Jacobs decided,
I'm not going to do that. Now. Soon as he
ends the stalemate and reports to duty for the Raiders,
Jacobs will have to, of course, put his tail between
his legs and walk into the Raider facility. What kind
(08:51):
of attitude is he going to bring? Is he gonna
bring the tude? Will we will find out? Does Jacobs
bring hostil inside the bill? Will he be an enemy
combatant upset that he did not get a new contract,
did not get the money that he wanted from the Raiders?
Is he going to bring that inside the facility? Or
(09:14):
will Jacobs be able to compartmentalize calm down right? Does
this spill into more turmoil for the Silver and Black,
Because I'm all there for the turmoil. I get a
big bucket, big bucket of popcorn. I'm right there for
the turmoil. We will see now. Final point, final point.
So let's go to Washington. And we mentioned this last
(09:35):
hour in the B block, but we'll mention it now.
If he did not watch, it was a Monday night
exhibition game, and I got suckered into that I've flipped
over from the baseball for a little bit watched a
little piece of it. Sam Howell, the Great Sam Howell,
was officially named the starting quarterback of the Commanders last Friday.
(09:55):
We were away from the watchtower here at Fox Sports
Radio on Friday, but the Washington football team announced that
the Great Sam Howe would be starting. Where have you gone,
Joe thisman? Well, now you've got Sam Howell as your quarterback.
And so that news came out, and then Sam Howe
went out and had a monster mash of a first
(10:16):
half for the Washington football team. I don't know if
you saw it or not, or you saw the box
score and the Commanders moving the ball, matriculating the ball
up and down the field, Sam Howe playing the entire
first half for the Raiders or for the raven against
the Ravens, for the Commanders, get the team's right, but
for the Commanders against the Ravens, and Sam Howe attempted
(10:39):
twenty five passes he can played nineteen of them for
one hundred and eighty eight yards, had a great passer rating,
solid numbers across the board. Washington led the game at
halftime when Howell exited stage left, and they would go
on to win the game on a late field goal
against Baltimore, ending that twenty four game practice season winning
streak for the Ravens. And immediately this led to over
(11:02):
the top gushing about Sam how they found something, He's
got the magic. These are the kind of comments that
we're bouncing around the echo chamber after an exhibition game,
not a regular season game. Not a regular season game.
We're talking about an exhibition game. So what are your
reactions to Sam Howell getting hyped up there in Washington?
(11:26):
So my initial reaction is the P word predictable. This
is a predictable situation. The over reaction machine gets cranked up,
and that happens all the time. But how looked like
a cool customer. We also sounded like a total meathead
in his interview. He got interviewed on the Monday night broadcast.
I thought, boy, this guy has the the I think
(11:48):
Marcel could could beat him in the IQ test. Unbelievable anyway.
So with that being said, yeah, I know, calm down, Marcell.
I'll give you a shout out. Okay, he played well,
So I give Sam Howe whatever. I don't give him
credit because it's a practice game. And the one thing
I've learned as a degenerate gambler over the years is
(12:10):
to not put any stock in exhibition football. You just
get a little confidence. So it's like somebody leading the
Cactus League in home runs and saying they're going to
lead the American League in home runs. It generally speaking,
does not happen. And so I take all of this
with a two ounce cup of mouthwash, and it's a
(12:30):
dummy run. You gargle and you spit it out. You
gargle your rinse, you spit it out and get ready
for the regular season. The Ravens were throwing out vanilla
bean defense and the Ravens opponent, the Washington football team,
was playing a very generic brand of offense and defense.
And that's what's supposed to happen. Now, let's see Sam
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Howell has a very good start to the season. He
has another practice game in the regular season September tenth.
The Washington football team opens up with the team projected
to be the worst team in the NFL this year,
the Arizona Cardinals. So if Sam how does not dominate
the Arizona Cardinals, you got something wrong with that. And
then they I believe played the Broncos in week number two,
(13:13):
Washington does, so that's two winnable games. So Washington has
a shot to get out to a good start this
year and Sam Howe can get some confidence. But does
that mean it's going to happen because he played well
against the Ravens. No, of course not.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
All right?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
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Why were they ready to storm the cockpit. We'll get
to that, and we will do it next.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
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Speaker 1 (15:23):
Femi in Minnesota. The Great Uber Eats delivery driver says
another excellent buffet of tantalizing sports talk with that monologue,
Man mister Rogers may have effectively ended Belichick's career by
moving to the AFC East. No way the Patriots win
that division or even come in second. I'll argue this though, Femi,
(15:48):
as far as the AFC East is concerned, I don't
think the Patriots of fishing last place. So between Buffalo,
the Jets, and the Dolphins, one of those three teams
is going to take a dramatic pratfall. Not sure which one.
I could see a scenario where each of them fall apart.
Buffalo's got Stefon Diggs, who's a ticking time bomb and
(16:11):
could go self destruct at any moment. The Jets have
old Man Aaron Rodgers, and the Miami Dolphins are a
concussion away from a tongue of bailoa to having all
of those playmakers be useless for the offense. So there's
a scenario where all three of those teams fall apart.
But that's what it's gonna take for the Patriots, Femi
(16:32):
to end up rising up in the AFC. He's chipping
the ques rights in, he says a plus on the
mount of monologue, how do you know Bill Belichiat is
fibbing because if you listen close to his response, you
can hear Geppeto saying Pinocchio in the background, just just
like that. Who else do we have? Yeah? All right,
(16:54):
and you can join us on Twitter at Ben mallor
if you want to be part that's at Ben Mahllor.
You can join the fun. I do see we have
a first time call. But first let's go to is
it trucker Nate? Is that right? My correct onner nav?
All right, Trucker Nab. Hello, Trucker Nab driving around Arkansas? Hello,
trucker Nab. Welcome.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Hey, what's up bed?
Speaker 7 (17:17):
Long time? Good to call back again.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Thank you, welcome back. Where have you been? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Yeah, be hey hey trucking?
Speaker 4 (17:25):
That's what?
Speaker 7 (17:26):
But is that is Sam How? He's got nothing to
prove to h to me, you're somebody. He's gotta show
up against the Cardinals and the Broncos. He did this
last year and that last game against the Cowboys, he
played the biggest fraud to be a game manager, Dakota Prescott.
He kicked Jerry Jones in the face. And that's so
(17:47):
called Cowboys generational defense. They had no answer for him.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
But trucker. Now that's wait seventeen, truck, and now come
on week seventeen, it's sweet seven. It does matter. It
matters to me. It matters to me. You can't form
a judge. That's like a player on the Washington Nationals
who suck a batting five hundred in the last month
of the baseball season then saying, Okay, the guy's gonna
(18:14):
win the batting title next year. No, it's it's late
season baseball, last week of the NFL. Same there's a
correlation between those two things.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
Okay, but hey, let me ask you something else. Did
or did not The Cowboys have something to play for?
Didn't they have a position in the in the playoff hunt?
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yeah, they could have gained a different matchup in the
playoffs if they had won that game exactly. Who cares?
Speaker 7 (18:41):
Yeah? Okay, well I tell you what.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Who cares?
Speaker 7 (18:44):
Hey, Jim irsay, Hey, I'm gonna give him a shout
out for making that comment. If I died tonight and nobody.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
That's very deep. But what do you think he was
What do you think he was smoking or drinking at
the time he said that. What do you think? Oh?
Speaker 7 (18:58):
I don't know, but hey, I'm gonna put him my mind.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
All Madden, there you go. They should have an all
Madden like for owners. They could have an all Madden
owner thing, and ersay would be high up there. All right,
we'll be safe out there driving around truck or nad
be careful man, All right, all right, calls again, All right,
go away, hang up on you. Let's go to Dan
in Madison. First time.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Dan, Hello, Dan, Ben Ben mallor how you doing? Dan?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I love that you have the music. You have the
radio turned all the way up in the background. That
is wonderful silence.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
I know I'm stuck in Madison, Wisconsin, but you know
I when I compare Mordecai with Sam Harmon, out of order,
Dame two quarterbacks, elite, elite, elite, elite.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Why are you now, Dan? Before we get into the
media call, which I'm sure is gonna be riveting.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
What I'm working?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Oh, you are working? What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Well? Actually I work at a serving job at Chili's.
But that's not there.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Anyone is there? Anyone at Chili's right now at to
thirty in the morning, almost.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
They're all Badger fans. I'm surrounded by a storm of
pure red and white.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
And what's the number one item people buy at the
Chili's in Madison, Wisconsin.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Not too sure about that, but I can tell you something.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You don't know what what you worked at. You said
you you worked there. I thought you worked there.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
The baby back round baby, first time server at Chili's.
I haven't even started yet. Oh, but it's the same comparison,
tantamount to what Panamort guy is gonna do with the
Wisconsin Badgers this year. I think the Wisconsin Badgers and
they look bick are going to be something to be
reckon live, not to be reckonless.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Pardon any other talking points you'd like to get in,
anything else, Any other talking points you want to get
in to pump up the Badgers? Anything else?
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Nothing else at this point besides school of Vikings and
I'm a big fan. That's all.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Okay, thank you, Okay, that's a terrible phone call. Thank
you for that. Okay, might have to go call her free.
Might have to be caller free here, Carvey, hang up
on everyone else who's on hold here. Just start fresh.
I feel like I need a shower after that. I mean,
the guys I work at the Chili's, you know, well,
what's the number one item I just started? I think
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you made that up his nose? What's growing? I need
a cold showered Yeah, I think so.
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an open letter from eighty six former Northwestern athletes criticizing
school administrators for the lack of due process prior to
the firing of head coach Pat Fitzgerald. I'm sure that's
(22:16):
gonna change a lot of things. But there you go
not only the team still at Northwestern supporting Pat Fitzgerald,
but the former players as well, trying to support the
former head coach.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
So there all people freak out and there's lawsuits coming down.
They lose their lunch, and they immediately go into a
defensive posture. And I have no idea what happened at Northwestern.
If it was that bad, or if this was a
effort to try to get some money. I don't know.
I have no idea what happened, but I guess they'll
(22:49):
try to figure it out. Although I don't trust the
people that investigate these things. I think they are not
the brightest minds in the world. They have great resumes,
but I learn And when Baseball investigated the Astros and
said they are not doing anything wrong, and people were
accusing them of cheating, and they said, oh, there's nothing
going on. And then it was only after one of
(23:11):
the players on the Astros from inside the locker room
said you know, we're a bunch of cheaters. Only then
did they change their position. It is the Bennett Mahler Show.
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Progressive dot com and storming the NFL's cockpit. This comes
out of the paranoia department. Oh, I got to tell you.
It's not outrageous paranoia. I understand. So there was video
that was posted online. You didn't see the story involving
(23:55):
Brandon Cooks. There has been a revolt among dull A
Cowboy fans towards Brandon Cooks. The well traveled wide receiver,
played with the Saints, the Patriots, the Rams, the Texans.
He's bounced all over the place. He's currently residing in
Jerry's world. And so the Cowboys were playing an exhibition
(24:18):
football game in Seattle, and boy, when those teams get
together in an exhibition game, man alive, what a great
matchup that is. And so they played in Seattle over
the weekend. But prior to the game, on the afternoon,
leading into the game, Dalvin not Brandon cook My Cook's
(24:39):
mixed up. Brandon Cooks said, you know, I want to
go out. I would like to see the beautiful skyline.
Seattle does have a great skyline. It's really beautiful there.
If you've ever been in Seattle, it's very impressive, just wonderful.
So Brandon Cooks got into a private small one of
those prop planes. He happens to be a licensed pilot,
(25:00):
and he said, you know, I don't want to go alone.
Why don't I bring a couple of my teammates. And
so he had Stefan Gilmore, the old pat and Carolina Panther,
and then he also had Micah Parsons. So he grabs
a couple of teammates, Micah Parsons and Stefan Gilmore, and
they go up on it looks like the kind of plane.
(25:20):
It's hard to tell exactly what kind of plane is,
but it's it's small plane, and it looks like the
kind of plane you have to like use your feet
like the flintstones that old cartoon to get it started,
you know, and get yeah. Anyway, So it shows them
flying around there and looking at all the sites, and
they flew over what used to be a coolly named stadium,
but now it's called Lumen Field. I guess in Seattle
(25:41):
so they flew over the stadium on that so people
are freaking out. Cowboy fans are like, oh my god,
Oh my god, I can't believe that. I kind of
get it. I kind of get it. There have been
in my lifetime many a professional athlete that has died
in a small all plane accident. You know. The most
(26:03):
famous one would be the captain of the Yankees, Thurman Munson,
back before my time, but Thurman Munson. And then you
think of the humanitarian efforts of Roberto Clemente who died
in that was an accident to take a humanitarian mission
where his aircraft came down. There was also a picture
(26:25):
for the Yankees and the Phillies named Corey Litel. And
the only reason I remember that one he crashed into
like a building in New York if I remember correctly.
But my old intern is a TV personality in Philadelphia,
and she did a story on Corey Lytel and she
went up in the plane like like not that long
before he crashed and was like flying around with him.
(26:47):
So I remember that one, but there'd been other ones,
So I mean, this is you know, this happened. And
I remember I had a buddy of mine years ago.
That was a he's a pilot, and he said that
flying is the safest thing in the world. He says,
when you when you're flying around, it's very safe. He says.
The dangerous parts are landing and taking off, he said,
(27:07):
but other than that, the actual one you're in the air,
it's it's tremendously safe. Uh and all that. But the
cowboy fans are freaked out. Is that is I don't
know if that's illegal though, is it? I don't think
it's illegal. Why would it be illegal, Well, because you
can't like go on a on a jet ski and
things like that, right the NFL contract, you know, a
(27:28):
private plane.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
You know, think I would say I would say that
that's legal.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Well, and that's what I'm saying. I think it is legal.
I'm just saying, like, I don't know, it's obviously legal.
He was doing it, and he posted the video. I'm
thinking he's been around the NFL enough to know what's
allowed and what's not allowed. And he's posted other videos
branding Cooks has posted other videos and whatnot. So I
never really had an interest in being a pilot, Eddie
(27:55):
you want to be a pilot flatplane?
Speaker 6 (27:56):
When I was a kid, I did want to be
a pilot. And then I found out math was involved,
and I said, well, that dream has died.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Yeah, it seems when you're young like a kind of
a cool job like our guys SLSO is a flight
attendant and works for the airlines and flies around, and
it would be a pilot and stuff. But then now
that I'm of the age I'm at now in my
place in life, I think, what a pain in the
ass that must be to have to fly around all
the time and all that.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
I wanted to fly like fighter jets when I was
a kid, Oh, like for the Blue Angels. Yeah, and
then I found out that you can't have bad vision, So.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
That's that's out. That's out the window. Yeah, I found
out I wanted. I love the movie Top Gun, and
I thought, boy, that'd be kind of cool to be
like in Top Gun. You know, the chicks like you,
you know, you fly the planes and all that and
be cool. And then have you ever seen a fat pilot?
Have you ever seen an obese pilot? Does that happen?
Does the Air Force? Is there a military that has
(28:52):
fat pilots?
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Changes zone?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
The Air Force does? No, I don't think I've seen that.
You've never seen that, right, show me a fat.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Pilot, not a fighter pilot, at least.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Not a fighter because you wouldn't fit in the cockpit, right,
you wouldn't create in that little thing there.
Speaker 10 (29:07):
I haven't seen really many like fat, like uh, just
regular commercial airline pilots either, No, that's true.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Yeah, I've seen a few chubby ones, but I wouldn't
call it fat.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Yeah, gotta imagine you're kind of you know, walking all
those air airport terminals.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
You gotta be walking up and down. That's got to
be a lot of walking. That's a fair point. That's
a good point too.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
But the at all hours, not a lot of sleep.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
The other thing too, about like the airline uh, you
know business. And how soon before somebody Susan said, well
I want to be fat, I want to be a pilot,
you know, and then they got to like make everything
bigger and all that. I'm sure that'll it'll happen at
some point. Anyway. It is the Bean Mallard Show. We
are just minutes away from Mallard to the third degree.
(29:50):
How exciting is that? You You're you're excited, you should
be excited. Time now for the instat trivia, the Insta trivia.
We're gonna go to baseball for the institute. You can
try to answer this on the Twitter machine at Ben Malor.
Every time I look up, I see that Looney commercial
where he's a referee. It's for Dickens. I see him
(30:10):
more now than I work with him. For Dickens. Anyway,
here is the Insta trivia. The modern era record for
the most past balls in a single season is thirty
five in one season, set by Blank. Again, the modern
era record for the most past balls in a single
(30:32):
season in Big League history in the modern era is
thirty five, set by Blank. That is the Insta trivia.
The answer. We'll get to it, and we will do
it next.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
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new member at a time. And now lie from the
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Speaker 1 (31:26):
Time now for the Insta trivia. Do you know the answer? Well,
we haven't given the question yet, so you don't know
the answer. The modern era baseball record for the most
pass balls in a single season is thirty five, set
by Blank. That is the question, and what is the answer?
(31:50):
Bean boot Maker, Bob Says, Ronald Charles Say nicknamed the Penguin.
Who else do we have? Josh Allen in the playoff,
Gus Justin in Cincinnati, Julier Caesar Chavez from Cowboy Killer,
Paige Down Page Down, the Grand Wizard from Alf the Alien, Opiner,
(32:11):
Matt the Warrior Raider as fan got it right, Robbie
the Mariner fans going with the Big Dumper as his answer,
Bob Ucker and Jesse the Body Ventura guest by Art Puffin.
Who else we have? Larry Di Saz Taylor Swift, a
Taylor Swift fan. Bill Belichick is the answer? Who else
(32:32):
we have former Twin, Brian Harper guest by a Riek
in Minnesota, Mike Piazza from Callagan Tim in Michigan, cal Raley,
nice video there that Justin in the enchanted forest found
Jason Veritec from Rob in Minnesota. Roger McDowell from Mala
prop guy, Well that's about right there. Who else do
(32:55):
we have? Steve Jaeger guest by Wally in Florida, Mark
par from Chris in the Morning, Good old Padre knowledge
by you. Who else do we have? Page Damn the
Rebel Alliance Pilot Porkins from Milkman Mike in Colorado. Well,
that's that's Hollywood. That's not real. It's not that's not real.
(33:19):
He found the one fat guy in the cockpit in
a Hollywood movie. Spoiler alert.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
He Di Darth Vader took him out.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Hobby Bobby, Yeah, you got it right, Eddie. Do you
have an answer, Eddie, I do.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
It's former New York Metropolitan's legend Mackie Sasser.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Macky Sass Or he couldn't throw the ball back to
the mount. That is incorrect, Eddie. The correct answer. Let's
see if I can give you some name. Let's see
if can get this right, Eddie nineteen eighty seven Texas Rangers.
Charlie Huff was the pitcher. The catcher was same my name, Yeah,
(33:56):
I think like Odamin McDowell, Steve Bouchelle. Was it Padd
O'Brien or not pad O'Brien. No, it was Gino Petrolia.
Speaker 6 (34:07):
I do know.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Thick Mustache. He was the catcher for the Rangers. Had
thirty five pass balls. That is still the record in
the modern era.
Speaker 6 (34:18):
So was Bruce Bouchi an old catcher for the Rangers or.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Was remember him playing for the Rangers? He might have
at the end of his crew, but I don't remember that.
Here was It's Maller? How about that?
Speaker 5 (34:28):
To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets
grilled man.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
The Coop dal Loup Justin Cooper.
Speaker 10 (34:37):
Now, it's been a couple of years since the NBA
selected their seventy fifth anniversary team, but Stan Van Gundhy
apparently still has a problem with it. Making a recent
podcast appearance, Van Gundy said that Dwight Howard should have
made the team over Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Is he right, Ben? Yeah, So I'm gonna agree with
Stan Van Gundy. A lot of people have dismiss Stan
Van Gundy, saying he's compromised because he coached Dwight Howard
in his salad days there in Orlando. But I disagree. Listen,
Van Gundy watched Howard dominate the league in the Sunshine
State to a level that we have not seen Anthony
(35:12):
Davis consistently dominate the NBA all these years, and pound
for pound, I would take Dwight Howard in his prime.
He had more dog in him. Anthony Davis is more
of a kiddy cat, and not that either of them
was the ultimate alpha, but I would rather have Dwight
Howard next.
Speaker 10 (35:33):
Now, on the back of an insane four game tear
from Julio Rodriguez and now they're on a seven game
win streak, the Seattle Mariners are in a wild card
spot and only a few games out of the Al
West lead. Ben, do you think Seattle can make some
noise in the playoffs?
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Yes, every year.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
We see a team like this. The Atlanta Braves couple
years ago or not that great, they ended up winn
the World Series. The Washington Nationals the year that they
won the World Series. Same thing last year the Phillies
got to the World Series. They weren't a particularly great
team the American League. Number one is wide open. There
are two good teams in baseball this year. They're the
Braves and the Dodgers. They're in the Nationally like the
(36:10):
Orioles and Rangers are fine teams in the American League,
but they're not unbeatable teams. The Braves and Dodgers of
the power, but the Mariners the way Julio Rodriguez and
Cal Raley are going to some of these starting pitchers
mashing and getting it done on the mount George Kirby
Luis Castillo as anchors of that rotation, absolutely Seattle can
get all the way to the World Series and be
(36:31):
the last team that hasn't been to the World Series
to cross that off the list.
Speaker 10 (36:34):
Next, Oriols shortstop Gunner Henderson was only a single away
from the cycle on Sunday when he came up with
a base hint. Baltimore was already up ten to one
in the contest, but instead of completing the cycle, Henderson
strolled into second for a double, much to the dismay
of his teammates.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Bend you a pod Henderson for this move. Well, he's
in the one percent of baseball players ninety nine percent
would have stopped at first base and done a dance
after they hit for the cycle, so I give him credit.
But yeah, I mean a cycle is a cool thing
to have, very rare things. How do we do kummelos?
That is a win? Put it on the board. Yes,
whoo
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