September 18, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about the level of concern for the Bengals as Joe Burrow has another underwhelming performance, Chargers coach Brandon Staley snapping at reporters, Insta-Advice Line, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our dumb ber three, our three
ready to go, and we start out in the natty
Cincinnati and Baltimore in a key AFC North matchup. What
is your level of concern for the Bengals as they
take it on the chin yet again and their quarterback
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is hurt Joe Burrow? Uh oh? Also, what is your
perspective on the oer and two Chargers another overtime loss
and Brandon Staley snapping at a reporter after that game.
We'll discuss that and how much of the Cowboys two
and zero start is because of Mike McCarthy. Jerry Jones
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thinks it's a big part of the Dallas start. We'll
discuss all of those storylines and much more right now here.
It is our number three. You're riding high with the
pundits and come crashing down when the regular season and begins.
Is that the story in Cincinnati? It certainly appears to
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here in the late night hours. But our lead to
begin this hour number three is from the Queen City,
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and that would be an AFC North slobber knocker, Joe
Burrow and the Ben Goals looking for redemption against Lamar
Jackson's Raven Cincinnati played miserable football against the Cleveland Browns
in the opener, and you figure out how they'll bounce
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back at home against the Ravens and trying to avoid
the zero to two start. That was the build up
that was the lead up to this game. I don't
know if you saw it or not, possibly not, but
not much of a performance by the Cincinnati ben Gals
offense here, Lamar Jackson accounting for two hundred and ninety
one total yards and not one but two touchdown passes,
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Baltimore holding off the Bengals twenty seven to twenty four
to the final. The Poets get the win. The Ravens
improved the two and oh they didn't look very good
against the Texans and the opener. They still won that
game by a wide margin, but they get to win
here in a three point game. Better story in the
losing locker room, where Cincinnati does indeed fall to all
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in two. Holy crap all in two now. Joe Burrow
had another stink bomb performance in this game, after opening
up the season with new levels of suckage, one of
the worst games in the last decade in the NFL,
where he attempted thirty plus passes, had less than one
hundred yards passing, and only a couple of other players
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have been able to pull that off in the NFL
in the last decade. So let us discuss what is
your level of concern for the Cincinnati Bengals only two weeks,
only two weeks in the NFL season, We're gonna turn
to the patented map scale of concern one to ten,
with ten being our season is already sunk. You've sunk
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our battleship. That would be a ten. And I'm gonna
raise the alarm bells on the Cincinnati Bengals. I am
going to an eight point five. Eight point five is
where I'm going for the Cincinnati Bunals. And here's why. Okay,
I've got Yogi, Baywatch and Leprechaun, and we'll combine all
of these things together, and we are going to make
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a pair of sunglasses, not the kind Dionne Sanders wears
in night games, just a pair of regular sunglasses who
wear during the day. All right, So number on the
season has already started to come apart at the seams.
Is that hyperbole? Is that shock chalk radio guy speaking
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about the Cincinnati Bengals. I don't think it is. You
were given a gift here early in the year Cleveland,
which is below you talent wise. In Game one, No
it rained, Oh, who gives a crap? You're supposed to
play in the city where it gets bad weather in
Cincinnati and you're complaining about the rain in Cleveland. That's embarrassing.
And then you come home, you're playing a Ravens team
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is still trying to figure things out. They didn't look
particularly great against the Texans. You're again it. You're at home,
this should be a two and oh start, and you
go out there and it turns out to be a
total boondoggle. To begin the year zero to two, Cincinnati
with that roster loaded to bear. They've been right on
the doorstep of winning a championship in one of the
top teams in the AFC the last couple of years.
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It's Kansas City, Cincinnati, and then Buffalo in that order.
And what happened? And Cincinnati goes out there and they
have sucked at a time you cannot suck Sunday afternoon,
and they've got all the tools, and yet you look
around and foo bar a foo bar performance. Mister reliable
has been mister unreliable. Joe Burrow has been the weakest link.
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Who expected that I did not have that on my
Bengo card, that Joe Burrow would be a problem. Now
I was optimistic. I was Benny brightside that Joe Burrow
would have a redemption situation against the Ravens going into
this weekend, because I assumed the position that Joe Burrow
he just had an off game in the opener and
he would figure things out going into week two. This
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was not some kind of underlying medical condition. Well, surprise, surprise, surprise.
Now you look and you're like, wait a minute, and
you take a couple of steps back and you look around.
It was only week two. They played seventeen weeks. Who
had a lot of time left. But Joe Burrow's got
an issue, right, the calf thing flared up. Supposedly he's
hopping around there, he's limping. So he got Joe Burrow
on a pogo stick. And then you're like, you're owing
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two in that old Yogi barrel line that it gets
late early out there. And two losses in a row
is a kin in a baseball to ten losses. Every
loss in football is like ten losses in baseball. So
if a baseball team started the year zero to twenty,
would we say things are going well or not? Well,
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that's a rhetorical question, right, So I mean, whoever you like,
if you're a red Sox fan or Dodger fan or
Twins fan, whatever, and they start out zero to twenty,
you're probably not expecting the playoffs at that point. Right now,
I don't want to speak for you. Maybe maybe you're
just a cock eyed optimist and you think they're gonna
make the playoffs. But oh, in two in the division,
the Ravens are two and oh. Not in the division,
but two and oh. And you got the Joe Burrow
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calf injury flaring up, which means he will likely not
be able to play Cincinnati in the coming game. Anyway,
Cincinnati's offense has two touchdowns in eight quarters of football. Now, again,
I did not play in the NFL. I don't have
a resume of coaching in the NFL. But I just
do the overnight show. That's that doesn't seem good. That
does not seem good. And they got the Rams up next.
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You say, all the Rams you thought would be an
easy win. Not an easy win, not an easy win anymore.
The Rams. They'll make mistakes with Matthew Stafford, but they're
going to scratch and claw and all of a sudden,
that's a Monday night game. That's what's next for Cincinnati
and the backup quarterback is Jake Browning. Jake, I'd rather
have Tom Browning. Well, I don't think's with us anymore,
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the old Cincinnati Red pitcher from back to the day. But
Jake Browning is the backup quarterback. Would you take Jake
Browning and the Bengals against the Rams in the Monday
night game. I would not. Now, the Bengals are favored
by six points in that game, so the oddsmakers must
expect Joe Burrow to play. I do not expect Joe
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Burrow to play in that game. But this is quickly
turning into an avalanche for the Cincinnati football team. Now
page two. Speaking of avalanches, let's go to Nashville where
Nick fulk the folk hero, and he kicked a forty
one yard field goal in overtime in the rain and
the Tennessee Titans edge the Chargers twenty seven to twenty four.
Derek Henry had eighty yards on the ground and a
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score Tennessee now one and one. But the better story
in the losing locker room, we have a coaching kerf
Fluffele to talk about the Chargers zero to two. They
blew an eleven point lead. Eleven point lead against the
team that is inferior talent wise to them, and after
the game, Brandon Staley had, by his standards, a meltdown
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at the dais now Brandon Staley pretty boring as an interview.
He's not in our top ten, not in our top twenty.
This says says nothing interesting, nothing interesting ever. But Brandon
Staley melted down. He was asked about the Jacksonville game,
and that led to Brandon Staley exploding like a rocket
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as he tried by his standards. Again, you got adjusted
these things by Brandon Staley standards. But take a listen
to the Charger coach. We've got the audio here is
Brandon Staley getting a little testy with the line of questioning.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I'm not worried about the Jacksonville loss. The Jacksonville loss
hasn't carried on to the season whatsoever. If you've seen
our training camp or you've seen the way we've played
in the first two games, it hasn't had an impact
on our team whatsoever. Our team has connected, Our team
has played as hard out in two games, lost two
tough games, but has nothing to do with the Jacksonville game.
And if you ask anyone in our locker room. It
has nothing to do with the Jacksonville game. And that's
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just the truth. It's a convenience storyline for you and
for everybody else, but it's not the truth. We've lost
two tough games. But the guys in that locker room,
the men in that locker room, they are finishers and
they have what it takes and we're excited to prove ourselves.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Coach, it's Ben Mallar, Fox Sports Radio. You've had two
chances to prove yourself and you've puked all over the
field in those two games. Mad hell, And haven't you
done the same thing you did in Jacksonville in that
playoff game. I love how the coach is like, well,
that's a convenient storyline for you. It's an accurate storyline.
You dummy, all right, you should be fired. You shouldn't
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have been back this year. You suck. I don't know
what happened. You were supposedly a great defensive coordinator with
the rams you learn from Vic Fangio. Brandon Staley is
a zero as a head coach. The fact that he's
still coaching the Chargers is a byproduct of the fact
the ownership's too cheap to get rid of him, because
then they got to pay him and they got to
pay another coach. So instead they just continue with mediocrity.
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It's insane. And and you know, they need a lifeguard.
It's like Baywatch. They got to bring a lifeguard out
there to save the Chargers because they drown on a
weekly basis. And the fact that he'said, well, you know,
it's a convenience storyline. That really that really rubbed me
the wrong way. It is accurate, the charge. This is
what they do. They blow awe, they lose close gainst
bad teams, lose close games. It's like the Twilight Zone.
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The Chargers get hyped up. They have all this talent.
Justin Hurt. We paid him. He's the greatest thing in
the world. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Chargers
go out blow games they're supposed to win. They blow games.
That's what the Chargers do. Rinse, washed, repeat, that's it.
And Brandon said, it's like, I don't know what he did.
Maybe he broke a mirror the day he signed the
contract with the Chargers. He's got seven years bad luck
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certainly seems that way. And the Chargers now they meet
their match. You talk about the Jinks matchup Chargers and
Minnesota Vikings in week number three. The Vikings have lost
two close games, blew a game against the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers at home. Now that the game in Philadelphia was
really not all that close. They got a backdoor push
in that particular game. But these are two teams that
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both own hexes, and so we'll see what happens in
that game. By the way, if you're wondering what the
the gambling market says about that game, the Chargers open
to two point five. They are favored by one in
Minnesota in that game. Now, final stop on this merry,
go round, round and round and round and round the NFL.
We're gonna go to Dallas where how about them Cowboys.
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Cowboys the fifth team we are told in the Super
Bowl era to have at least seventy points and then
allow ten or fewer. In the first two games of
the season, they have absolutely roasted the New York Giants
and the New York Jets. So they owned the Tri
state area. There, the Dallas Cowboys and owner Jerry Jones
was gushing with praise, telling reporters that the head coach
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might Mike McCarthy deserves credit for that, he said, quote,
I like the way Mike meeting McCarthy was very visible today,
his approach to how we're going to be offensively all
the way around. He had this charted out. Jerry Jones said,
with a cocky smile on his face. He said, I
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can't say enough about Mike McCarthy here, y'all to prove
he's really Jerry Jones, one of the cowboyies. He said,
y'all give him his due here. He's got a lot
to do with how these two games have come out close.
Quote Now, the last part of that is obviously the
money part, that y'all give him his due. Like we
need to throw flowers at Mike McCarthy. I think Mike
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would rather have us throw turkey sandwiches at him than flowers.
But what do I know. Anyway, Listen, here's how much
credit I will give Mike McCarthy. Right, well, ask the question,
how much do you give? How much credit do you
give Mike McCarthy. The Cowboys are off to a touno
start this year. So after a thorough, minutes long review
of both Dallas Cowboy games, I am going to give
Mike McCarthy, And I'm being fair here. I'm not gonna
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be like the radio shockjock guy. Zero percent zero percent
of the Dallas Cowboys credit Mike McCarthy. The defense has
been great, but it's also more of how pathetic the
Giants were not ready to play to start that game
and this Jets game. I mean, who are we kidding here? Right?
The Cowboys have the Leprechaun on their side. So far
this year, they have been eating their lucky charms. They
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have Lady luck is shining down on Dallas. Location. Location location.
It's when you play teams. They play the Giants who
were not ready to play. I guess they had something
else going on to begin the year, and then the
Jets who were sleepwalking. I expected the Jets to come
out and compete and all that, and I saw the
Cowboys kick a lot of field goals. I don't know
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that we praise Mike McCarthy when you're kicking a lot
of field goals. What was it five field goals for
the Dallas Cowboys in this game. I wouldn't get two
worked up about that. They're living a charm life. And
if only you can keep playing opponents like that, and
the Cowboys have another another softy on the schedule, the
Arizona Cardinals coming up. So are we gonna have to
kiss Mike McCarthy's ass again next week? Probably? So Cowboys
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are a double digit road favorite in that game. They're
favored by twelve and a half on the opening line.
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Ben mallor The year is zooming by. This is the
two hundred and sixty first day of the year. We
only have one hundred and four days left in twenty
twenty three and then we'll flip the calendar again. So
wild man, it's like on a high speed roller coaster
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going through the year. Nutso nuts so time now for
the Mallor Riddle of the day. And here's the Mallar
riddle of the day. NFL Network reporter Tom Pelisero gave
a report over the weekend from Detroit. He was wearing
a blank. Again. From the NFL Network, Tom Pelisero gave
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a report from Detroit. He was wearing a blank. That
is the Mallor riddle of the day. The answer, We'll
get to it. We will do it next.
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Cooper and he's at u H. Bronco Fan Coop Bronco
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Speaker 1 (17:19):
It's a classic, the all time great songs. That's what
I do. And when I have a bad that's right,
that's life. When I have a bad segment, which happens
every other segment, I get right back off and I
start talking talk. Gotta do it, yeah, gotta do it.
And if I have a take that doesn't work, I
just block the take out and I move on to
my next take. Like I had some really bad takes
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on the NFL this weekend. It really blew up in
my face like firecrackers that went off too soon. But
I just you know what I said. I dust myself
off and I say, that's it. We'll move on to
better takes. There's another.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Cry in the corner.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
It's it's life in the take business. Eddie is your wife? Okay,
I'm worried about your wife, Edie. She's a Charger fan,
diehard Charger fan. I'm very concerned here. This is not
going well. She's very tough. She's been a Charger fan
for twenty five years. Okay, I'm just saying, she got
a good chin. Would she like to fill in as
the interim coach? Eddie, she your wife? Would she not
want that job? It pays pretty well, though.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I'm sure it does. She's not qualified for that job.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Oh, neither's the guy coaching right now qualified based on
the results. Funny, are you gonna defend him? Going? I
gotta hear this, all right, go ahead, defend Brandon Stately,
Go ahead, Eddie, I gotta hear this. Go ahead? No,
I could just what do you think he's doing a
good job?
Speaker 4 (18:33):
I think he's I think he's had his ups and downs.
I think he's as down.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
What are the ups?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
They went to the playoffs last year? Is that doesn't
count for anything?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
No, it doesn't not. When you lose a game.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
That under that grating scale, then I guess he's he's
not good.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah. There have been some terrible coaches that made the playoffs.
Absolute horrific coach, of course, of course, yeah, they have.
There happened, been horrible. Didn't Wayne Fonce make the playoffs
with the Detroit lines? He was as terrible that the
old reference, but he was bad. Uh? More recent the Chargers. Uh,
the coach I was a guy's name that was the
Cowboys assistant for those years and he took over Norvel Turner.
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NORML Turner stinks, but he made the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
I mean, yeah, I wouldn't say that.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
You think he's a good coach too, I was, okay,
I want to I'm a coach. I want you as
a fan, Eddie. You have no standards. No, my god,
no standards.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Realistic about this.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
So you think everyone's doing a good job. There's no
bad coaches.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
No, I didn't say that.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
That's a terrible fan, Eddie.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Yes, what what what was their record last year?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
What did they start the Chargers?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Did they start like one.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
And one so negative? I don't I don't recall with you, Sam, Okay,
I'm just curious. I feel like I'll have to look
it up. What they I canna look it up right now?
What do you what are you getting last year? I'm
s curious if they started zero and two last year?
Art last year? No, they beat the Chargers in twenty
twenty two, beat the Raiders in Week one and then
lost two games, and then they they won one and
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one start. They were four and two after six weeks.
They were four and two after six weeks, and they
won a bunch of games in the second half and
then in the playoffs. How'd that go? Not good? Thirty
one thirty two to Jacksonville. Anyway, Time to pay off
the riddle of the day. And here's the Mallard riddle
of the day. Here it is see if you get
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this one right. So Tom Pellisero, he's a reporter for
the NFL network. He gave a report from Detroit over
the weekend and he was wearing a blank and many
people we were stunned by this. What was he What
was he wearing? That is the riddle of the day.
Donkey Sausage says, a bra and panties. Well, that would
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be shocking on the NFL network. Calm down, Eddie Freddie
says he was wearing a Ben Mahler shirt. That would
also be as shocking as a bra and panties. Who
else do we have? A kneecap necklace from Stevie Meatballs
in Florida. Ossie waz Western Australia, very active listening to
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the entire show. He's going a Baywatch swimsuit as his answer.
A free cologne sample from Late night drug tester Fergcat
says he was wearing I'm with stupid shirt pointing up
interesting a red hat Society hat from courtesy Flusher. A
(21:22):
cod piece from alf the Alien Opiner. I never knew
what that was until the late Great Frank Pollock worked here.
We named him. Frank was one of our old engineers
passed away a few years back, but we named him
the Big Codpiece and it was a great tribute to
He was a big fisherman. Frank Pollock, May he rest
in peace. Was part of the Compton Fishing Club. And yeah,
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there's a fishing club in Compton. And I didn't know
that until til Frank told me about that. Who else
do we have? Clam says a blind Scott fat head
cut out a too Legit to Quit t shirt from
Mason Mason and Onion the beach Let leeder hoosen from
Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. That would be good for Octoberfest.
You get to wear the leader hose it a man
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purse from Fudgie. Donkey Sausage says that the NFL Network
reporter was wearing a Detroit style pizza pan as he
was doing the report. Robbie the Mariner fan says he
was honoring Justin Cooper by wearing a giant tampon costume.
That's what he had on a fanny pack and man
crocs from Rob in Minnesota, a kilt guessed by Double
(22:32):
O Mexican in San Diego. Mystic Spiral says he was
in Detroit. He was wearing a bulletproof vest under ruse
from Sean in the Valley of the Sun. A blue
speedo from Sports Study Big Panda got it right, obviously
cheating Chip and the que says a tutu, Eddie, do
you have an answer to the Mallard riddle of the day.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
I want to say he was wearing a Berry Sanders jersey.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
A Berry Sanders jersey. Wasn't a Bear Sanders jersey? Uh No,
it was not. NFL network reporter Tom Pellisero gave a
live report from Detroit wearing a blue ski mask, Eddie,
a blue ski mask. He was ready to rob a bank.
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See that's that's an inside lion singing Eddie. Yeah, he
wore the blue ski C. J. Gardner Johnson late of
the Philadelphia Eagles, the defensive back there, he got it.
He put that on and he wanted the fans to
wear blue ski masks.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
And did it have I assume it had the holes
for the eyes in the mouth.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. Well that's otherwise it
would just be just wouldn't be the scheme. Man. The
ski mask is the eyes in the mouthful. Well that's it.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Sometimes they don't cover up the mouth, I think.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Really, Yeah, you ever warn a ski mask before?
Speaker 4 (23:50):
No, I don't go to cold weather?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Are we are we still allowed to wear masks and
ski masks like I love? That was one of my
favorite things during like COVID when people would walk into
banks wearing ski mask you know, so it's a wild
you might get some looks. Yeah, you know, you might
get a little tension from it.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Another mask over it and yeah yeah yeah if you
wore the skis.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, I'm double masking. Yeah, I have an abundance of caution,
you know that. Or I'm robbing the bank, you know,
either one or both. I don't know anyway. So there
you go this video if you want to see in
photos of him, quite the report, Quite the report there
and very nice.
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Speaker 4 (25:13):
The Commanders beat the Broncos in Denver thirty five thirty three,
washed into and oh Denver, oh and two. Now, the
Broncos did score on a hail Maryate's and regulation, but
they needed the two point conversion to tie it and
send it overtime. They did not convert. I had been
told on social media that I need to say that
there was not a non pass interference called on that
two point conversion. We told you that in the overtime.
(25:35):
Who told you to say that? A couple different people
on Twitter and Coop has not chimed in on it,
so I don't know if if he wants to, but
I did see the replay. It did absolutely look like
there was past inferits on that play.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Well, I think the officials just decide certain things they're
not going to call, like the motion the Dolphins were
moving all kinds of guys around. They just let them
do that. And they remember the first game of the
year the Lions and the Chiefs, that lineman for the chackle.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Yeah, back starting early in lining up in the backfield
pretty much every play. We do have some baseball. Dodgers
clinched the NLS on Saturday, we had a couple of
teams getting into the playoffs clinching spots. On Sunday, Orioles
beat the Rays five to four and eleven. Baltimore is
in the postseason. With that win, They've got a two
game lead on Tampa Bay, a top the Al East.
Rangers lose to the Guardians nine to three. Texas swept
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in the series and their loss clinches a playoff spot
for Tampa Bay. Astro is over the Royals seven to one.
Houston a game and a half up on Texas for
first in the AL West. Mariners were swept by the
Dodgers with a six to one loss. On Sunday, Seattle's
a game back of Texas for the last wildcard spot
in the American League. Two and a half back in
Houston in the Al West, Dowma backs to beat the
Cubs six to two. Arizona gets the three games sweep.
They are Chicago's now dropped five in a row. Marlins
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crushed the Braves sixteen to two. Miami the three games sweep.
There's tied with Chicago for the final wildcard spot in
the National League. Reds fall out of a wildcard spot,
losing the Mets eight to four of their half game
back Giants outscore the Rockies eleven to ten. San Francisco
two back in that wildcard race in the National League.
Now back to Ben mallerin Thetirack dot Com Fox It's
Radio studio.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
So Chris Consworth upsetting people, which is like a weekly thing,
get very annoyed. So NBC did a graphic package a
side by side at one point and they were comparing
to a tongue of Biloa with Dan Marino. So rather
shocking considering two is not Hall of Famer and not
(27:21):
at all time great. He's just a guy and he's
also left handed and Dan Marino is right handed. So
they put a graphic package together and they reversed the video.
The production team decided they would show to a throwing
with Marino, and they said the style is very similar,
but you have to reverse the video, and so they
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they did that and they showed the side by side comparison,
and that annoyed people quite a bit. They were very upset.
Old timers were angry and new people were angry also
annoyed by that. One thing people seem to you universally
loved though from the Sunday Night game was not a
(28:02):
graphics package. It was Bill Belichick attempting to throw the
flag late in the game, the replay flag, the challenge flag.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
There.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
There was a play in the third quarter New England
Miami there Belichick was unhappy with the spot. It was
a third and short play and so he wanted to
challenge it and they had the shot in Belichick, he
keeps the challenge flag in his sock, so he he
reached down and then he spiked it right in front
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of the referee.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
But it was it was.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Great, like the whole timing there he's holding it bam
right right the guy's like the the referees like kneeling
down and Belichick throws it right in front him, discuss
like you stiffs, he chucks it down there anything else
that was it? Now? I was upset they reversed the spot.
I don't know if he saw the end of this
game here, but the there was a desperation fourth down
(28:57):
play and the Patriots received did not get to the
line to gain. He then lateraled the ball back to
on the offensive lineman for the Patriots, who then it
looked like he got the first down. But they went
to instant replay and they denied the fat man of
getting the first down. It's not right to me. It
looked like I was watching in real time. It looked
(29:18):
like the fat guy got the first down of the
offensive lineman's strange, and they did not give him the
first down. Let's go to the phones. We'll say hello
to Let's go to Mike, who's listening to us in
Troy in Alabama? What's going on? Mike? Welcome? Hmm? Are
you there? Mike? Wake up? Mike? All right, Mike's gone.
(29:38):
Let's go to Andrea in Berkeley. The sports sorceress is
sitting by Hello, Andrea. Hello, if I was any better,
I would be a bear, but not a Chicago bear
because they're zero and two.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
Yeah. Well, first thing first, I enjoyed this second installment
of your show.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
It's very entertaining you.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
And if you bet against me, you made a lot
of money this weekend. So if you bet on the
penny and not me, you made a lot of money.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Well that's not really my path, but I do it
at your show. Oh and was there a Miss Cleo reference?
Did I catch that?
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Well, we always support the greats, the legends, and then
Miss Cleo an all time legends.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
Yeah, well that was pretty cool. So yeah, actually yesterday
was my virgo birthday.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Oh, happy, happy birthday.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Thank you. And yeah, a lot of sports today, well
September seventeenth was my birthday, So a lot of sports
and yeah, you know, it was interesting with obviously we
talked about Aaron Rodgers and how more injuries occurred during
Mercury Retrograde and Zach Wilson kind of taking the helm
(30:50):
and he's young, he's August third, nineteen ninety nine, and
they said he's got a lot of swag, and sure enough,
he's a Leo. So I know for their swag.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Well, he might have a lot of swag in his home,
but on the field, he doesn't have any swag. He's
lacking in the swag gag. He's got a lot of gag,
not a lot of swag.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
Yeah, he's having some challenging transit Jupiter square Uronis, which
is like one foot on the gas, one foot on
the brake. And what was interesting, he had a Jupiter
return in Taurus, which was what brought him there in
the first place to even be in this position. But
he's not quite ready, no, And.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
The reality you could tell watching this game, the reality
started sinking into the Jets players that they have. They
are totally toast. They got no chance to do anything
this year. Their season is ruined. And all these guys
that were running around New York going to Broadway shows
and going to Rangers games and Knicks games and having
their ass kiss because Aaron Rodgers. Now it's the same
(31:51):
old pathetic Jets. They suck And that's the reality. And
the reason they have no chance is because of Zach Wilson.
That's it. They got somebody else, and maybe they will,
I doubt they'll get anybody any good. But that's the problem.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
Well, it's interesting because you know Aaron Rodgers, you know
who's interviewed after the surgery. He said, I wouldn't rule
out coming back. I mean, I'll look at this heady.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Come back you can. The Jets won't be in the playoffs,
So it was gonna come back for.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
It was not really worth his while. And I was
listening to Sporting at New York and they interviewed Zach
Wilson and he said he's excited for the challenge. Everyone
here believes in each other.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Well, he'd be excited for the challenge. But the problem
is you can't play anyway. I leave it there, Andrew,
but thank you. There's our friend Andrea Virgo in service
on Twitter X whatever the hell that is today, I
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send me something better, I'll go with that. We will
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Speaker 3 (33:34):
Hey you sports figure guy or girl?
Speaker 4 (33:37):
The hell were you talking to?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Sons?
Speaker 6 (33:39):
Here?
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Some instant advice?
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Hold that thought.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
No one's paid attention to me for ten whole seconds,
and if you don't like it.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
And no way we go. It is the advice line
unscreened radio. The safety net is off and as of
the phones, we go. Who needs our advice this week?
So as the bet is, I was gonna get braid
and stay some advice, but I don't know what do
you wanna do with that? The story here is Zach Wilson.
Because the Jets are absolutely losing their mind. These all
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these guys on the Jets that thought they were gonna
be big time contenders in the AFC. The reality is
sinking in that he ain't it, and any idea that
he got better, he didn't get any better. He's the
same stiff that he was last year for the Jets.
So what is your advice to the Jets, Zach Wilson?
As the Jets are off to the one and one start,
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but he got his first start of the year against
the Dallas Cowboys and was horrific three interceptions in that game.
You're live on the air when you hear my voice
at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. We'll start
with you on line one. Your advice to Zach Wilson
of the Jets. Line one. Okay, thank you, Yes, line too,
(34:53):
you're on the airline too. We're giving advice to the Jets,
Zach Wilson. Line too.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
I tell Jack, mister, but mister Roper is a better character.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Okay, thank you for that, eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox. Line three is next, Hello, line three?
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Why are we talking all this begos season football when
we have w NBA playoffs going on.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
I know, I know, it's a bad job. Jonas is
going to cover that in the next show. Here, let's
go to you. Line four. Hello, Line four, Sorry, you
called me a bad time. Okay, I'm sorry, callbackser please
all right. Line five Hello, Line five.
Speaker 6 (35:28):
Fire brand in Staley Higher, Brandon Tufa.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
There you go, all right. Line six, you're your next.
Line six, you are on the air. We're giving advice
to the Jets. Zach Wilson. Line six, you're live on
the air.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
Hello, Zach Wilson, tres objects like.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Women's Okay, wow, all right, we'll go to you on
line one. Line one is next. It's the instant advice
line for the Jets, Zach Wilson at eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox. There is no call screener. This
is the unwashed, the hoy ploy putting them on the air,
just like this guy on line one. Hello, line one,
I hear your breathing. Line one talk. I'm the real Higher. Okay,
(36:08):
that's that's not the real That was a fake. That
was imposter. Line two. Your next line too, Hello, I
couldn't understand that. What was that? Was that angry bill?
Line three? That's your line three? Hello? Nice? Is that true? Yeah?
(36:31):
All right, let's see who's next. Let's go to a
line number four. Hello, Line four, Hey, suck Suckah. There
you go. All right, By the way, this is a
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advice to the Jets. Zach Wilson, Tess suck suck sucks.
Let's go to you on line six. Hello, line six,
(37:12):
tell his mom to call me. Okay, thank you out
Line one, She just text me she doesn't want something
to do with you. Line one, Hello, like CHOPERL thank
you what that was all about? Line two, you're on
the Airline two, Hello, kin, how are you? Oh? Thank
(37:34):
you for that. I love hearing that. Line three is next.
You're on the airline three. Go go play in Mural's
brother e'xcavision one football. Yeah, there you go. Line four
you're on the airline four. Okay, there you go, Nick
van xill call again. Line five. Hello, Line five.
Speaker 6 (37:55):
Can I get a last five with pizza and the coke?
Speaker 4 (37:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Let me put you on hold. We're very busy right now.
Would you like some chicken? All right? Coop pick the
final call, Coop, hurry up. Line three. Line three. You're
on the air Line three.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Go.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Line three. Not fast enough, Line three. Bad job by you.
Hello and welcome. It's our dumb ber three, our three
ready to go, and we start out in the natty
Cincinnati and Baltimore in a key AFC North matchup. What
is your level of concern for the Bengals as they
take it on the chin yet again and their quarterback
(00:22):
is hurt Joe Burrow? Uh oh? Also, what is your
perspective on the oer and two Chargers another overtime loss
and Brandon Staley snapping at a reporter after that game.
We'll discuss that and how much of the Cowboys two
and zero start is because of Mike McCarthy. Jerry Jones
(00:44):
thinks it's a big part of the Dallas start. We'll
discuss all of those storylines and much more right now here.
It is our number three. You're riding high with the
pundits and come crashing down when the regular season and begins.
Is that the story in Cincinnati? It certainly appears to
(01:05):
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actually have to go to bed, or maybe you're working
here in the late night hours. But our lead to
begin this hour number three is from the Queen City,
(02:19):
and that would be an AFC North slobber knocker, Joe
Burrow and the Ben Goals looking for redemption against Lamar
Jackson's Raven Cincinnati played miserable football against the Cleveland Browns
in the opener, and you figure out how they'll bounce
(02:39):
back at home against the Ravens and trying to avoid
the zero to two start. That was the build up
that was the lead up to this game. I don't
know if you saw it or not, possibly not, but
not much of a performance by the Cincinnati ben Gals
offense here, Lamar Jackson accounting for two hundred and ninety
one total yards and not one but two touchdown passes,
(03:01):
Baltimore holding off the Bengals twenty seven to twenty four
to the final. The Poets get the win. The Ravens
improved the two and oh they didn't look very good
against the Texans and the opener. They still won that
game by a wide margin, but they get to win
here in a three point game. Better story in the
losing locker room, where Cincinnati does indeed fall to all
(03:24):
in two. Holy crap all in two now. Joe Burrow
had another stink bomb performance in this game, after opening
up the season with new levels of suckage, one of
the worst games in the last decade in the NFL,
where he attempted thirty plus passes, had less than one
hundred yards passing, and only a couple of other players
(03:45):
have been able to pull that off in the NFL
in the last decade. So let us discuss what is
your level of concern for the Cincinnati Bengals only two weeks,
only two weeks in the NFL season, We're gonna turn
to the patented map scale of concern one to ten,
with ten being our season is already sunk. You've sunk
(04:07):
our battleship. That would be a ten. And I'm gonna
raise the alarm bells on the Cincinnati Bengals. I am
going to an eight point five. Eight point five is
where I'm going for the Cincinnati Bunals. And here's why. Okay,
I've got Yogi, Baywatch and Leprechaun, and we'll combine all
of these things together, and we are going to make
(04:30):
a pair of sunglasses, not the kind Dionne Sanders wears
in night games, just a pair of regular sunglasses who
wear during the day. All right, So number on the
season has already started to come apart at the seams.
Is that hyperbole? Is that shock chalk radio guy speaking
(04:51):
about the Cincinnati Bengals. I don't think it is. You
were given a gift here early in the year Cleveland,
which is below you talent wise. In Game one, No
it rained, Oh, who gives a crap? You're supposed to
play in the city where it gets bad weather in
Cincinnati and you're complaining about the rain in Cleveland. That's embarrassing.
And then you come home, you're playing a Ravens team
(05:13):
is still trying to figure things out. They didn't look
particularly great against the Texans. You're again it. You're at home,
this should be a two and oh start, and you
go out there and it turns out to be a
total boondoggle. To begin the year zero to two, Cincinnati
with that roster loaded to bear. They've been right on
the doorstep of winning a championship in one of the
top teams in the AFC the last couple of years.
(05:34):
It's Kansas City, Cincinnati, and then Buffalo in that order.
And what happened? And Cincinnati goes out there and they
have sucked at a time you cannot suck Sunday afternoon,
and they've got all the tools, and yet you look
around and foo bar a foo bar performance. Mister reliable
has been mister unreliable. Joe Burrow has been the weakest link.
(06:00):
Who expected that I did not have that on my
Bengo card, that Joe Burrow would be a problem. Now
I was optimistic. I was Benny brightside that Joe Burrow
would have a redemption situation against the Ravens going into
this weekend, because I assumed the position that Joe Burrow
he just had an off game in the opener and
he would figure things out going into week two. This
(06:21):
was not some kind of underlying medical condition. Well, surprise, surprise, surprise.
Now you look and you're like, wait a minute, and
you take a couple of steps back and you look around.
It was only week two. They played seventeen weeks. Who
had a lot of time left. But Joe Burrow's got
an issue, right, the calf thing flared up. Supposedly he's
hopping around there, he's limping. So he got Joe Burrow
on a pogo stick. And then you're like, you're owing
(06:43):
two in that old Yogi barrel line that it gets
late early out there. And two losses in a row
is a kin in a baseball to ten losses. Every
loss in football is like ten losses in baseball. So
if a baseball team started the year zero to twenty,
would we say things are going well or not? Well,
(07:04):
that's a rhetorical question, right, So I mean, whoever you like,
if you're a red Sox fan or Dodger fan or
Twins fan, whatever, and they start out zero to twenty,
you're probably not expecting the playoffs at that point. Right now,
I don't want to speak for you. Maybe maybe you're
just a cock eyed optimist and you think they're gonna
make the playoffs. But oh, in two in the division,
the Ravens are two and oh. Not in the division,
but two and oh. And you got the Joe Burrow
(07:25):
calf injury flaring up, which means he will likely not
be able to play Cincinnati in the coming game. Anyway,
Cincinnati's offense has two touchdowns in eight quarters of football. Now, again,
I did not play in the NFL. I don't have
a resume of coaching in the NFL. But I just
do the overnight show. That's that doesn't seem good. That
does not seem good. And they got the Rams up next.
(07:46):
You say, all the Rams you thought would be an
easy win. Not an easy win, not an easy win anymore.
The Rams. They'll make mistakes with Matthew Stafford, but they're
going to scratch and claw and all of a sudden,
that's a Monday night game. That's what's next for Cincinnati
and the backup quarterback is Jake Browning. Jake, I'd rather
have Tom Browning. Well, I don't think's with us anymore,
(08:09):
the old Cincinnati Red pitcher from back to the day. But
Jake Browning is the backup quarterback. Would you take Jake
Browning and the Bengals against the Rams in the Monday
night game. I would not. Now, the Bengals are favored
by six points in that game, so the oddsmakers must
expect Joe Burrow to play. I do not expect Joe
(08:30):
Burrow to play in that game. But this is quickly
turning into an avalanche for the Cincinnati football team. Now
page two. Speaking of avalanches, let's go to Nashville where
Nick fulk the folk hero, and he kicked a forty
one yard field goal in overtime in the rain and
the Tennessee Titans edge the Chargers twenty seven to twenty four.
Derek Henry had eighty yards on the ground and a
(08:52):
score Tennessee now one and one. But the better story
in the losing locker room, we have a coaching kerf
Fluffele to talk about the Chargers zero to two. They
blew an eleven point lead. Eleven point lead against the
team that is inferior talent wise to them, and after
the game, Brandon Staley had, by his standards, a meltdown
(09:13):
at the dais now Brandon Staley pretty boring as an interview.
He's not in our top ten, not in our top twenty.
This says says nothing interesting, nothing interesting ever. But Brandon
Staley melted down. He was asked about the Jacksonville game,
and that led to Brandon Staley exploding like a rocket
(09:34):
as he tried by his standards. Again, you got adjusted
these things by Brandon Staley standards. But take a listen
to the Charger coach. We've got the audio here is
Brandon Staley getting a little testy with the line of questioning.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I'm not worried about the Jacksonville loss. The Jacksonville loss
hasn't carried on to the season whatsoever. If you've seen
our training camp or you've seen the way we've played
in the first two games, it hasn't had an impact
on our team whatsoever. Our team has connected, Our team
has played as hard out in two games, lost two
tough games, but has nothing to do with the Jacksonville game.
And if you ask anyone in our locker room. It
has nothing to do with the Jacksonville game. And that's
(10:07):
just the truth. It's a convenience storyline for you and
for everybody else, but it's not the truth. We've lost
two tough games. But the guys in that locker room,
the men in that locker room, they are finishers and
they have what it takes and we're excited to prove ourselves.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Coach, it's Ben Mallar, Fox Sports Radio. You've had two
chances to prove yourself and you've puked all over the
field in those two games. Mad hell, And haven't you
done the same thing you did in Jacksonville in that
playoff game. I love how the coach is like, well,
that's a convenient storyline for you. It's an accurate storyline.
You dummy, all right, you should be fired. You shouldn't
(10:43):
have been back this year. You suck. I don't know
what happened. You were supposedly a great defensive coordinator with
the rams you learn from Vic Fangio. Brandon Staley is
a zero as a head coach. The fact that he's
still coaching the Chargers is a byproduct of the fact
the ownership's too cheap to get rid of him, because
then they got to pay him and they got to
pay another coach. So instead they just continue with mediocrity.
(11:05):
It's insane. And and you know, they need a lifeguard.
It's like Baywatch. They got to bring a lifeguard out
there to save the Chargers because they drown on a
weekly basis. And the fact that he'said, well, you know,
it's a convenience storyline. That really that really rubbed me
the wrong way. It is accurate, the charge. This is
what they do. They blow awe, they lose close gainst
bad teams, lose close games. It's like the Twilight Zone.
(11:28):
The Chargers get hyped up. They have all this talent.
Justin Hurt. We paid him. He's the greatest thing in
the world. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Chargers
go out blow games they're supposed to win. They blow games.
That's what the Chargers do. Rinse, washed, repeat, that's it.
And Brandon said, it's like, I don't know what he did.
Maybe he broke a mirror the day he signed the
contract with the Chargers. He's got seven years bad luck
(11:51):
certainly seems that way. And the Chargers now they meet
their match. You talk about the Jinks matchup Chargers and
Minnesota Vikings in week number three. The Vikings have lost
two close games, blew a game against the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers at home. Now that the game in Philadelphia was
really not all that close. They got a backdoor push
in that particular game. But these are two teams that
(12:13):
both own hexes, and so we'll see what happens in
that game. By the way, if you're wondering what the
the gambling market says about that game, the Chargers open
to two point five. They are favored by one in
Minnesota in that game. Now, final stop on this merry,
go round, round and round and round and round the NFL.
We're gonna go to Dallas where how about them Cowboys.
(12:36):
Cowboys the fifth team we are told in the Super
Bowl era to have at least seventy points and then
allow ten or fewer. In the first two games of
the season, they have absolutely roasted the New York Giants
and the New York Jets. So they owned the Tri
state area. There, the Dallas Cowboys and owner Jerry Jones
was gushing with praise, telling reporters that the head coach
(12:59):
might Mike McCarthy deserves credit for that, he said, quote,
I like the way Mike meeting McCarthy was very visible today,
his approach to how we're going to be offensively all
the way around. He had this charted out. Jerry Jones said,
with a cocky smile on his face. He said, I
(13:22):
can't say enough about Mike McCarthy here, y'all to prove
he's really Jerry Jones, one of the cowboyies. He said,
y'all give him his due here. He's got a lot
to do with how these two games have come out close.
Quote Now, the last part of that is obviously the
money part, that y'all give him his due. Like we
need to throw flowers at Mike McCarthy. I think Mike
(13:43):
would rather have us throw turkey sandwiches at him than flowers.
But what do I know. Anyway, Listen, here's how much
credit I will give Mike McCarthy. Right, well, ask the question,
how much do you give? How much credit do you
give Mike McCarthy. The Cowboys are off to a touno
start this year. So after a thorough, minutes long review
of both Dallas Cowboy games, I am going to give
Mike McCarthy, And I'm being fair here. I'm not gonna
(14:05):
be like the radio shockjock guy. Zero percent zero percent
of the Dallas Cowboys credit Mike McCarthy. The defense has
been great, but it's also more of how pathetic the
Giants were not ready to play to start that game
and this Jets game. I mean, who are we kidding here? Right?
The Cowboys have the Leprechaun on their side. So far
this year, they have been eating their lucky charms. They
(14:28):
have Lady luck is shining down on Dallas. Location. Location location.
It's when you play teams. They play the Giants who
were not ready to play. I guess they had something
else going on to begin the year, and then the
Jets who were sleepwalking. I expected the Jets to come
out and compete and all that, and I saw the
Cowboys kick a lot of field goals. I don't know
(14:49):
that we praise Mike McCarthy when you're kicking a lot
of field goals. What was it five field goals for
the Dallas Cowboys in this game. I wouldn't get two
worked up about that. They're living a charm life. And
if only you can keep playing opponents like that, and
the Cowboys have another another softy on the schedule, the
Arizona Cardinals coming up. So are we gonna have to
kiss Mike McCarthy's ass again next week? Probably? So Cowboys
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are a double digit road favorite in that game. They're
favored by twelve and a half on the opening line.
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Ben mallor The year is zooming by. This is the
two hundred and sixty first day of the year. We
only have one hundred and four days left in twenty
twenty three and then we'll flip the calendar again. So
wild man, it's like on a high speed roller coaster
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going through the year. Nutso nuts so time now for
the Mallor Riddle of the day. And here's the Mallar
riddle of the day. NFL Network reporter Tom Pelisero gave
a report over the weekend from Detroit. He was wearing
a blank. Again. From the NFL Network, Tom Pelisero gave
(16:22):
a report from Detroit. He was wearing a blank. That
is the Mallor riddle of the day. The answer, We'll
get to it. We will do it next.
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Cooper and he's at u H. Bronco Fan Coop Bronco
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Speaker 1 (17:19):
It's a classic, the all time great songs. That's what
I do. And when I have a bad that's right,
that's life. When I have a bad segment, which happens
every other segment, I get right back off and I
start talking talk. Gotta do it, yeah, gotta do it.
And if I have a take that doesn't work, I
just block the take out and I move on to
my next take. Like I had some really bad takes
(17:41):
on the NFL this weekend. It really blew up in
my face like firecrackers that went off too soon. But
I just you know what I said. I dust myself
off and I say, that's it. We'll move on to
better takes. There's another.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Cry in the corner.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
It's it's life in the take business. Eddie is your wife? Okay,
I'm worried about your wife, Edie. She's a Charger fan,
diehard Charger fan. I'm very concerned here. This is not
going well. She's very tough. She's been a Charger fan
for twenty five years. Okay, I'm just saying, she got
a good chin. Would she like to fill in as
the interim coach? Eddie, she your wife? Would she not
want that job? It pays pretty well, though.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I'm sure it does. She's not qualified for that job.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Oh, neither's the guy coaching right now qualified based on
the results. Funny, are you gonna defend him? Going? I
gotta hear this, all right, go ahead, defend Brandon Stately,
Go ahead, Eddie, I gotta hear this. Go ahead? No,
I could just what do you think he's doing a
good job?
Speaker 4 (18:33):
I think he's I think he's had his ups and downs.
I think he's as down.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
What are the ups?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
They went to the playoffs last year? Is that doesn't
count for anything?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
No, it doesn't not. When you lose a game.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
That under that grating scale, then I guess he's he's
not good.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah. There have been some terrible coaches that made the playoffs.
Absolute horrific coach, of course, of course, yeah, they have.
There happened, been horrible. Didn't Wayne Fonce make the playoffs
with the Detroit lines? He was as terrible that the
old reference, but he was bad. Uh? More recent the Chargers. Uh,
the coach I was a guy's name that was the
Cowboys assistant for those years and he took over Norvel Turner.
(19:11):
NORML Turner stinks, but he made the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
I mean, yeah, I wouldn't say that.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
You think he's a good coach too, I was, okay,
I want to I'm a coach. I want you as
a fan, Eddie. You have no standards. No, my god,
no standards.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Realistic about this.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
So you think everyone's doing a good job. There's no
bad coaches.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
No, I didn't say that.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
That's a terrible fan, Eddie.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Yes, what what what was their record last year?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
What did they start the Chargers?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Did they start like one.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
And one so negative? I don't I don't recall with you, Sam, Okay,
I'm just curious. I feel like I'll have to look
it up. What they I canna look it up right now?
What do you what are you getting last year? I'm
s curious if they started zero and two last year?
Art last year? No, they beat the Chargers in twenty
twenty two, beat the Raiders in Week one and then
lost two games, and then they they won one and
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one start. They were four and two after six weeks.
They were four and two after six weeks, and they
won a bunch of games in the second half and
then in the playoffs. How'd that go? Not good? Thirty
one thirty two to Jacksonville. Anyway, Time to pay off
the riddle of the day. And here's the Mallard riddle
of the day. Here it is see if you get
(20:20):
this one right. So Tom Pellisero, he's a reporter for
the NFL network. He gave a report from Detroit over
the weekend and he was wearing a blank and many
people we were stunned by this. What was he What
was he wearing? That is the riddle of the day.
Donkey Sausage says, a bra and panties. Well, that would
(20:41):
be shocking on the NFL network. Calm down, Eddie Freddie
says he was wearing a Ben Mahler shirt. That would
also be as shocking as a bra and panties. Who
else do we have? A kneecap necklace from Stevie Meatballs
in Florida. Ossie waz Western Australia, very active listening to
(21:02):
the entire show. He's going a Baywatch swimsuit as his answer.
A free cologne sample from Late night drug tester Fergcat
says he was wearing I'm with stupid shirt pointing up
interesting a red hat Society hat from courtesy Flusher. A
(21:22):
cod piece from alf the Alien Opiner. I never knew
what that was until the late Great Frank Pollock worked here.
We named him. Frank was one of our old engineers
passed away a few years back, but we named him
the Big Codpiece and it was a great tribute to
He was a big fisherman. Frank Pollock, May he rest
in peace. Was part of the Compton Fishing Club. And yeah,
(21:47):
there's a fishing club in Compton. And I didn't know
that until til Frank told me about that. Who else
do we have? Clam says a blind Scott fat head
cut out a too Legit to Quit t shirt from
Mason Mason and Onion the beach Let leeder hoosen from
Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. That would be good for Octoberfest.
You get to wear the leader hose it a man
(22:09):
purse from Fudgie. Donkey Sausage says that the NFL Network
reporter was wearing a Detroit style pizza pan as he
was doing the report. Robbie the Mariner fan says he
was honoring Justin Cooper by wearing a giant tampon costume.
That's what he had on a fanny pack and man
crocs from Rob in Minnesota, a kilt guessed by Double
(22:32):
O Mexican in San Diego. Mystic Spiral says he was
in Detroit. He was wearing a bulletproof vest under ruse
from Sean in the Valley of the Sun. A blue
speedo from Sports Study Big Panda got it right, obviously
cheating Chip and the que says a tutu, Eddie, do
you have an answer to the Mallard riddle of the day.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
I want to say he was wearing a Berry Sanders jersey.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
A Berry Sanders jersey. Wasn't a Bear Sanders jersey? Uh No,
it was not. NFL network reporter Tom Pellisero gave a
live report from Detroit wearing a blue ski mask, Eddie,
a blue ski mask. He was ready to rob a bank.
(23:17):
See that's that's an inside lion singing Eddie. Yeah, he
wore the blue ski C. J. Gardner Johnson late of
the Philadelphia Eagles, the defensive back there, he got it.
He put that on and he wanted the fans to
wear blue ski masks.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
And did it have I assume it had the holes
for the eyes in the mouth.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. Well that's otherwise it
would just be just wouldn't be the scheme. Man. The
ski mask is the eyes in the mouthful. Well that's it.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Sometimes they don't cover up the mouth, I think.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Really, Yeah, you ever warn a ski mask before?
Speaker 4 (23:50):
No, I don't go to cold weather?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Are we are we still allowed to wear masks and
ski masks like I love? That was one of my
favorite things during like COVID when people would walk into
banks wearing ski mask you know, so it's a wild
you might get some looks. Yeah, you know, you might
get a little tension from it.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Another mask over it and yeah yeah yeah if you
wore the skis.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, I'm double masking. Yeah, I have an abundance of caution,
you know that. Or I'm robbing the bank, you know,
either one or both. I don't know anyway. So there
you go this video if you want to see in
photos of him, quite the report, Quite the report there
and very nice.
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Speaker 4 (25:13):
The Commanders beat the Broncos in Denver thirty five thirty three,
washed into and oh Denver, oh and two. Now, the
Broncos did score on a hail Maryate's and regulation, but
they needed the two point conversion to tie it and
send it overtime. They did not convert. I had been
told on social media that I need to say that
there was not a non pass interference called on that
two point conversion. We told you that in the overtime.
(25:35):
Who told you to say that? A couple different people
on Twitter and Coop has not chimed in on it,
so I don't know if if he wants to, but
I did see the replay. It did absolutely look like
there was past inferits on that play.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Well, I think the officials just decide certain things they're
not going to call, like the motion the Dolphins were
moving all kinds of guys around. They just let them
do that. And they remember the first game of the
year the Lions and the Chiefs, that lineman for the chackle.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Yeah, back starting early in lining up in the backfield
pretty much every play. We do have some baseball. Dodgers
clinched the NLS on Saturday, we had a couple of
teams getting into the playoffs clinching spots. On Sunday, Orioles
beat the Rays five to four and eleven. Baltimore is
in the postseason. With that win, They've got a two
game lead on Tampa Bay, a top the Al East.
Rangers lose to the Guardians nine to three. Texas swept
(26:20):
in the series and their loss clinches a playoff spot
for Tampa Bay. Astro is over the Royals seven to one.
Houston a game and a half up on Texas for
first in the AL West. Mariners were swept by the
Dodgers with a six to one loss. On Sunday, Seattle's
a game back of Texas for the last wildcard spot
in the American League. Two and a half back in
Houston in the Al West, Dowma backs to beat the
Cubs six to two. Arizona gets the three games sweep.
They are Chicago's now dropped five in a row. Marlins
(26:43):
crushed the Braves sixteen to two. Miami the three games sweep.
There's tied with Chicago for the final wildcard spot in
the National League. Reds fall out of a wildcard spot,
losing the Mets eight to four of their half game
back Giants outscore the Rockies eleven to ten. San Francisco
two back in that wildcard race in the National League.
Now back to Ben mallerin Thetirack dot Com Fox It's
Radio studio.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
So Chris Consworth upsetting people, which is like a weekly thing,
get very annoyed. So NBC did a graphic package a
side by side at one point and they were comparing
to a tongue of Biloa with Dan Marino. So rather
shocking considering two is not Hall of Famer and not
(27:21):
at all time great. He's just a guy and he's
also left handed and Dan Marino is right handed. So
they put a graphic package together and they reversed the video.
The production team decided they would show to a throwing
with Marino, and they said the style is very similar,
but you have to reverse the video, and so they
(27:42):
they did that and they showed the side by side comparison,
and that annoyed people quite a bit. They were very upset.
Old timers were angry and new people were angry also
annoyed by that. One thing people seem to you universally
loved though from the Sunday Night game was not a
(28:02):
graphics package. It was Bill Belichick attempting to throw the
flag late in the game, the replay flag, the challenge flag.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
There.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
There was a play in the third quarter New England
Miami there Belichick was unhappy with the spot. It was
a third and short play and so he wanted to
challenge it and they had the shot in Belichick, he
keeps the challenge flag in his sock, so he he
reached down and then he spiked it right in front
(28:33):
of the referee.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
But it was it was.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Great, like the whole timing there he's holding it bam
right right the guy's like the the referees like kneeling
down and Belichick throws it right in front him, discuss
like you stiffs, he chucks it down there anything else
that was it? Now? I was upset they reversed the spot.
I don't know if he saw the end of this
game here, but the there was a desperation fourth down
(28:57):
play and the Patriots received did not get to the
line to gain. He then lateraled the ball back to
on the offensive lineman for the Patriots, who then it
looked like he got the first down. But they went
to instant replay and they denied the fat man of
getting the first down. It's not right to me. It
looked like I was watching in real time. It looked
(29:18):
like the fat guy got the first down of the
offensive lineman's strange, and they did not give him the
first down. Let's go to the phones. We'll say hello
to Let's go to Mike, who's listening to us in
Troy in Alabama? What's going on? Mike? Welcome? Hmm? Are
you there? Mike? Wake up? Mike? All right, Mike's gone.
(29:38):
Let's go to Andrea in Berkeley. The sports sorceress is
sitting by Hello, Andrea. Hello, if I was any better,
I would be a bear, but not a Chicago bear
because they're zero and two.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
Yeah. Well, first thing first, I enjoyed this second installment
of your show.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
It's very entertaining you.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
And if you bet against me, you made a lot
of money this weekend. So if you bet on the
penny and not me, you made a lot of money.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Well that's not really my path, but I do it
at your show. Oh and was there a Miss Cleo reference?
Did I catch that?
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Well, we always support the greats, the legends, and then
Miss Cleo an all time legends.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
Yeah, well that was pretty cool. So yeah, actually yesterday
was my virgo birthday.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Oh, happy, happy birthday.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Thank you. And yeah, a lot of sports today, well
September seventeenth was my birthday, So a lot of sports
and yeah, you know, it was interesting with obviously we
talked about Aaron Rodgers and how more injuries occurred during
Mercury Retrograde and Zach Wilson kind of taking the helm
(30:50):
and he's young, he's August third, nineteen ninety nine, and
they said he's got a lot of swag, and sure enough,
he's a Leo. So I know for their swag.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Well, he might have a lot of swag in his home,
but on the field, he doesn't have any swag. He's
lacking in the swag gag. He's got a lot of gag,
not a lot of swag.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
Yeah, he's having some challenging transit Jupiter square Uronis, which
is like one foot on the gas, one foot on
the brake. And what was interesting, he had a Jupiter
return in Taurus, which was what brought him there in
the first place to even be in this position. But
he's not quite ready, no, And.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
The reality you could tell watching this game, the reality
started sinking into the Jets players that they have. They
are totally toast. They got no chance to do anything
this year. Their season is ruined. And all these guys
that were running around New York going to Broadway shows
and going to Rangers games and Knicks games and having
their ass kiss because Aaron Rodgers. Now it's the same
(31:51):
old pathetic Jets. They suck And that's the reality. And
the reason they have no chance is because of Zach Wilson.
That's it. They got somebody else, and maybe they will,
I doubt they'll get anybody any good. But that's the problem.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
Well, it's interesting because you know Aaron Rodgers, you know
who's interviewed after the surgery. He said, I wouldn't rule
out coming back. I mean, I'll look at this heady.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Come back you can. The Jets won't be in the playoffs,
So it was gonna come back for.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
It was not really worth his while. And I was
listening to Sporting at New York and they interviewed Zach
Wilson and he said he's excited for the challenge. Everyone
here believes in each other.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Well, he'd be excited for the challenge. But the problem
is you can't play anyway. I leave it there, Andrew,
but thank you. There's our friend Andrea Virgo in service
on Twitter X whatever the hell that is today, I
don't know. Check it out the Insta advice line. Who
needs our advice in the world of sports. If you
would like to recommend somebody send me a message on
that X machine. I have an idea, but if you
(32:48):
send me something better, I'll go with that. We will
get to it. The Insta Advice line. We get to that,
and we do it next.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
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Speaker 3 (33:34):
Hey you sports figure guy or girl?
Speaker 4 (33:37):
The hell were you talking to?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Sons?
Speaker 6 (33:39):
Here?
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Some instant advice?
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Hold that thought.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
No one's paid attention to me for ten whole seconds,
and if you don't like it.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
And no way we go. It is the advice line
unscreened radio. The safety net is off and as of
the phones, we go. Who needs our advice this week?
So as the bet is, I was gonna get braid
and stay some advice, but I don't know what do
you wanna do with that? The story here is Zach Wilson.
Because the Jets are absolutely losing their mind. These all
(34:08):
these guys on the Jets that thought they were gonna
be big time contenders in the AFC. The reality is
sinking in that he ain't it, and any idea that
he got better, he didn't get any better. He's the
same stiff that he was last year for the Jets.
So what is your advice to the Jets, Zach Wilson?
As the Jets are off to the one and one start,
(34:28):
but he got his first start of the year against
the Dallas Cowboys and was horrific three interceptions in that game.
You're live on the air when you hear my voice
at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. We'll start
with you on line one. Your advice to Zach Wilson
of the Jets. Line one. Okay, thank you, Yes, line too,
(34:53):
you're on the airline too. We're giving advice to the Jets,
Zach Wilson. Line too.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
I tell Jack, mister, but mister Roper is a better character.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Okay, thank you for that, eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox. Line three is next, Hello, line three?
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Why are we talking all this begos season football when
we have w NBA playoffs going on.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
I know, I know, it's a bad job. Jonas is
going to cover that in the next show. Here, let's
go to you. Line four. Hello, Line four, Sorry, you
called me a bad time. Okay, I'm sorry, callbackser please
all right. Line five Hello, Line five.
Speaker 6 (35:28):
Fire brand in Staley Higher, Brandon Tufa.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
There you go, all right. Line six, you're your next.
Line six, you are on the air. We're giving advice
to the Jets. Zach Wilson. Line six, you're live on
the air.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
Hello, Zach Wilson, tres objects like.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Women's Okay, wow, all right, we'll go to you on
line one. Line one is next. It's the instant advice
line for the Jets, Zach Wilson at eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox. There is no call screener. This
is the unwashed, the hoy ploy putting them on the air,
just like this guy on line one. Hello, line one,
I hear your breathing. Line one talk. I'm the real Higher. Okay,
(36:08):
that's that's not the real That was a fake. That
was imposter. Line two. Your next line too, Hello, I
couldn't understand that. What was that? Was that angry bill?
Line three? That's your line three? Hello? Nice? Is that true? Yeah?
(36:31):
All right, let's see who's next. Let's go to a
line number four. Hello, Line four, Hey, suck Suckah. There
you go. All right, By the way, this is a
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depth team coverage. It's the instant advice line. The American people,
Canadian people, and anybody who's listening who calls in giving
advice to the Jets. Zach Wilson, Tess suck suck sucks.
Let's go to you on line six. Hello, line six,
(37:12):
tell his mom to call me. Okay, thank you out
Line one, She just text me she doesn't want something
to do with you. Line one, Hello, like CHOPERL thank
you what that was all about? Line two, you're on
the Airline two, Hello, kin, how are you? Oh? Thank
(37:34):
you for that. I love hearing that. Line three is next.
You're on the airline three. Go go play in Mural's
brother e'xcavision one football. Yeah, there you go. Line four
you're on the airline four. Okay, there you go, Nick
van xill call again. Line five. Hello, Line five.
Speaker 6 (37:55):
Can I get a last five with pizza and the coke?
Speaker 4 (37:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Let me put you on hold. We're very busy right now.
Would you like some chicken? All right? Coop pick the
final call, Coop, hurry up. Line three. Line three. You're
on the air Line three.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Go.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Line three. Not fast enough, Line three. Bad job by you.
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