September 21, 2023 • 37 mins
Ben Maller talks about Justin Fields seemingly throwing his coaches under the bus, then gathering the media to "clarify" his comments, the Bears defensive coordinator resigning, MLB Pick'em, and more!
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We start out with the story of the day in
the NFL. Do you believe Justin Field's original statement when
he called out the Bears coaching staff or his clarification? Also,
what is really going on with Justin Fields over at
Hallas Hall? And is there more to the story. The
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Bears also lost their defensive coordinator he resigned. Is there
more to that story? It's all Bears, all the time.
You give us fifteen minutes, we'll give you a lot
of Chicago Bears takes.
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And here it is.
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So our lead, I love this story. You know, some
days we come in here and we're throwing spaghetti against
the wall and we're seeing what will stick, and then
we're kind of going with it. And then there's other
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days we get served the meatballs and that's kind of cool.
So the lead out of the Windy City and oh
what a day was in the life of the bad
news bears of the NFL. Oh my, oh my. Yeah.
I hope you had a chance to follow along. I
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don't know if you did or not. I don't know
if you did it not, but it was great. What
a great stort. So they give you a thumbnail recap.
We actually have audio to take us through this story,
which makes it even better because all we have is audio.
We don't have photos in the radio world, although there
is a camera here in the studio that is documentary
documenting everything for the YouTube.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Oh, and I'm photo ready unless I'm not so. Justin Fields,
I'm told that's a quarterback. You wouldn't know that by
the way he's playing, but they say he's plausibly a quarterback.
There were a lot of NFL punits who were massaging
his toes and how great he was going to be. Boy,
that take really didn't do so well anyway. Justin Field's
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talk with the media about how he had felt robotic
on the field this season in the Windy City and
he wasn't playing his game. He added that he's at
his best when he's playing off just instinct and not
thinking too much. In fact, to prove that we are
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not making that up here is that part of Justin
Field's ran. Here, here's Fields explaining what I just say,
What do you say? Thinking less?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
What do you think was causing you to think so much?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Maybe he thinks much, you know, could be a coaching
I think, but you know, at the end of the day,
it makes it. You know, they're doing their job when
they're giving me, you know, what to look at and
stuff like that. But at the end of the day,
I can't be thinking about that when the game comes.
I prepare myself throughout the week, and then when the
game comes, it's you know, it's time to play free
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at that point, so thinking less and you know, playing more.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Well, that was actually the second sound by that was
what we call the money sound. I guess we just
wanted to get to the money sound, but we didn't
need the lead in. That was Justin Fields, as you
heard blaming the coach, right, that was him. But you
heard the quote right there. I wasn't expecting it. You
probably weren't either, but he said, you know, could be coaching,
I think, is what he said. That was the quote.
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So after that's or so we're gonna jump ahead eye,
I was SAMs. Hopefully you played right one year. So
after this that story made the rounds. It bounced all
over the place. Justin Fields came back later on and
spoke to the media for a second time. In a
unplanned locker room scrum. He got the media around him
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and he attempted to clarify the point that he had
made earlier that had taken off all around the NFL
media circles. Let's go to the audio tape and take
a list.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I love you guys, but you know I get that
you guys' jobs are to get clicked. So it's like
when you take my quote out of context, when when
you just say that, if you paint the picture on
the inside out, like y'all are trying to split us
up as a team.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I'm not blaming anything on the coaches.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
I'm never gonna blame anything on the coaches, never gonna
blame anything on my teammates.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I will take every.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Whatever happens in the game, I will take all the blame.
I don't care to drop.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Pass or it should have been a past put it
on me. But never we hear anything come out of
my mouth to where I will blame it on somebody
else in this organization. My teammates never hear that. So
I just want to cry that out and just know that,
like I need.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
To play better.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
That's it point, Like if y'all's that's what I should
have said in the first place. But you know, I
was trying to give you all more details because you know,
I appreciate y'all for doing what y'all do, and I
try to give you all the information y'all want for
you guys job. So I'm gonna do that and in
the future, Like but I ask you guys, just to
put the whole quote up. Don't cut it up into
words and pieces to make it seem like I'm saying
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something that I'm not.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah, so Justin Fields now is giving a journalism class
to the media. That's a that's a fresh stake. So
let us discuss the question do you believe Justin Field's
original statement or the clarification that he made.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
We just played it for you.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
So I've got Cherry Tree, Indiana Jones, and Iceberg and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make a want to get away kind
of a day, which it was for the Chicago Bears
PR department who were working over time in the Spin
zone Spins Spin and also Justin Field's agent. He got
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all these endorsement deals based on idiots on ESPN saying
he was gonna win the MVP and he sucks. And
so that now now he's out there that's the coach's fault,
all right. So we got cherry Tree, Indiana Jones, Iceberg
A Justin Fields. I would recommend calling someone for help.
I'm not sure who to call. But he was sinking
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into a demonic sinkhole as the day went on here,
and he made a fatal flaw. Now what was the
fatal flaw? He let his guard down. He did the
thing you can't do at the time. You can't do it.
He was honest, right, he audibled. He went into the
George Washington cherry tree myth. He spoke with candor, he
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gave a frank answer, and just like the legend, which
of course is not sure it's a fable that George Washington.
You know I've all heard that story. He got a
hatchet as a gift. He's a little kid, and he
went down there and damaged his dad's favorite cherry tree,
and he fathered in front of him, and Washington supposedly said,
I cannot tell a lie. In that fable, when the
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Bear's front office confronted mister Fields, and they probably told him,
you can tell a lie, and you are about to
tell a lie. And he must have claimed that he
was a victim of malicious slander by the evil media.
But I want to go back again to the Can
we play that first clip that you played iosam here,
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just the beginning part. Listen to the question and Justin
Field's response here, listen to what he said very closely,
but just the beginning part. What do you say thinking less?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
What do you think was causing you to.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Think so much? Maybe he thinks much?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
You know, it could be.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Oh, that's up right down Cojack coutjac. Then Justin Fields
he ends up using the old gaslight trick, claiming that
his words were taken out of context, the medium manipulated
his words, which, to quote Dion Sanders, is bull junk
is what that is? He said what he said, and
that's it. Now turning the page, but not turning it
too far. What's really going on with Justin Fields at
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hallis Hall?
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Now?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I had very low expectations. I killed them on the
first episode of Benny Versus the Penny this season, and
that's one of the few things I've gotten right. But
looking at the evidence, Justin Fields by his own words
here and tell me if I'm crazy on this. Justin
Fields is admitting to the world he's uncoachable that the
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Chicago Bears coaches. You might think they're incompetent boobs, and
maybe they are, but the Bears coaches are trying to
help him. They're trying to get him to that elite
level at quarterback. I'm pretty confident the Bear's coaching staff
is not out there like, well, let's see how we
can totally f up Justin Fields. I don't think that's
the goal. They think what they're doing is helping him.
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But Justin Fields would rather do improv at the open
mic at Chuckles co Club on a Sunday afternoon. And
it reminds me of that. Remember that scene from the
first Indiana Jones movie. I know they've made a million
of these things, but I only watched the first few
because I'm old. But the first Indiana Jones movie when
when someone asked Indy what he's going to do next,
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and he remember what he said in the response, he said,
I don't know. I'm making it up as we go along.
That is what Justin Fields just said. He's like, ah,
you know, you guys can give me all these x's
and l's and tell me to throw go roots and
all these other you know, I will do what I
want to do. That's Justin Fields in a very small
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photo of what's gone on here. Then the Bears coaches,
ultimately they have no choice but to let it rip
against Kansas City this weekend and going forward because as
a franchise, Chicago hitched their wagon to Justin Fields thinking
he was a thoroughbred and at this point they hitched
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their wagon to a donkey. Is what they've done there.
Good luck with that now. The last word, We're gonna
stay with the theme of deep dish Chicago pizza as
we blatantly suck up to our many Chicago listeners, guys
like Eugene in Chicago and Yuphimi and all the legends
(11:18):
there in the Windy City. I'd say Doc Mike, but
he hardly calls anymore anyway. So the last part is,
while Justin Fields was being charboiled for blaming the coaches,
one of the Chicago coaches exited stage right. You probably
don't know who this is because he's not a household name,
but a guy named Alan Williams, who we are told
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was the defensive coordinator of the Bears. I thought they
didn't have a defensive coordinator because they really haven't played
any defense in years. But this guy Williams submitted a resignation,
a letter of resignation. This is a week after he
took a leave of absence, a personal leave of absence.
Now they head coach Matt Everflews is going to take
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over the play calling there for the defense for the
remainder of the season. But is there more to the
story of the Bears defensive coordinator resigning after two weeks
of the regular season. So the answer here is one
thousand percent yes. And my analysis of this, I'm gonna
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go with what we call the Iceberg hypothesis. Now, what
is the iceberg hypothesis here? It is that the iceberg
you only see about ten percent or less of the iceberg.
That's what did in the Titanic. But under this narrative,
only about ten percent is out in the public theater.
The rest has yet to see, the light has yet
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to go above water. And in a seven sentence statement
prepared statement which likely did not even come from Alan Williams,
maybe his attorney or someone from the Bears, he said
he's taking a step back to take care of his
health and his family. Now there's all kinds of boo rumors,
very tawdry rumors involving the federal government being involved if
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you look close enough in the Naked City which never sleeps,
but eventually, eventually, whatever happened, And maybe it's benign and
and he's actually telling the truth and he's got some
medical condition and something like that, or it's in a
very dark place, but it's going to come out in
the wash. And what we do know is the Chicago
Bears defense is in absolute mid season form. It is
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a poop fest. The Bears have the third most misstackles
in the NFL and they have given up the fourth
most yak in the league. Yards after the catch which missed,
they miss a lot of tackles. And you can complete
short passes against Chicago and run run, run, run, run, run,
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run run run bavoom goes to the wide receivers pass. Yeah,
say a hot mess. But is the Ben Malor Show.
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news guy, you're announcer guy. I'm at Eddie on Fox.
I just got five more words for you. Go to hell, king, Eddie,
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Speaker 1 (15:33):
I heard that voice in a long time.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Kind of took me aback a bit.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Eh exited stage left there, but bye. Yeah, he was
giving and boy, what a way to go out too,
ripping me when my dad died. Quite the quite the
way to go, but there you go.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I used to call the show all the time.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Aside from that legendary caller.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yes, we did have some great moments. He's a you know.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I did say he'd come back in like a year
or six months or something like that, but he chose
not to come back. And I don't think we've really
missed him. The show has been fine, but anyway, I
have not missed him.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Eddie, would you like to give me Yeah, you did
do a duet together.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, well we had a falling out, you know how scoop.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, Well, all great romances, that's right, Eventually they flame
out at some point. But Eddie, but I felt I
thought that my Justin Field's take was exceptional.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
It was tremendous.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I don't know that anyone else has that take that
Justin Fields.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
See.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Everyone's getting carried away with the thing that he said
about the coach. But the big takeaway, and this is
why I believe it's a first class take that other
people are going to steal the take, is that Justin
Fields is admitting that he's uncoachable, that he can't follow
a game plan because he just needs to go out
there and add lib and just run around and do
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whatever the hell he wants. And it doesn't matter or
whether you have a dumb down playbook or whatever. He
doesn't want to run your swing passes, your bubble screens.
He wants to do the old playground offense. And that
isn't that what he's saying. I mean, that's what it
sounded like to me. I mean, maybe he'll be fine
to you in it. Some guys have been able to
pull it up, but he would like to be a
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riverboat gambler type of quarterback and he doesn't want to
follow your little pesky, you know, offensive system.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
So yeah, it sounds like it's like, yeah, okay, you
can draw up a play, I'll think about it. But
when I snapped the ball, it's basically just me doing
what I want.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yeah yeah, I mean I I'll get you downfield, but
I'm not gonna follow.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I mean, if I snap the ball and the guy
you want me to throw it to his open, I'll
give it to him. But otherwise just let me do
any thing.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah. So, so the way, and here's how I relate
to Justin Field.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
So when I start the show, I have a pretty
good plan, like of what's gonna happen, and then crap
happens and it changes, like things change, and then it's
like trench warfare at that point, audio trench warfare where
we have to into our bunker, our fox hole and
then survive all the exotic things that take place. And
and so we do that on a on a nightly basis.
(18:09):
That Justin field story was wonderful, what a great story.
The star of the NFL offseason, and he was the
MVP of the offseason. I think we'd all agree on
that nobody got more love than Justin Fields.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I mean, he man.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
He was like Hugh Hefner back in the day at
the Playboy Mansion. The Grotto, he was getting all the
love from the media. Christen de Moin writes in He's
a big Chicago Bears fan. He says, Ben, I'd love
to call in and talk about that disaster. It is
Bears football, but I would prefer to simply get drunk
and hide under my covers for now. Completely understandable, Completely
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understandable now. The Rick Flair account says that Justin Fields
is more of a bust than the great JaMarcus Russell,
And yeah, I want to push back on that. Russell
was the number one overall pick on my big board.
I still have JaMarcus and the Purple Drank and the
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greatest story ever told about an NFL quarterback, the famous
JaMarcus Russell game tape story. If you haven't heard that,
it's a classic where JaMarcus was struggling, as the story goes,
and the coaches gave him a CD. I think at
the time they gave him a CD. Was it a
CD or it must have been a CD at that time,
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was a DV a DVD whatever, he gave him DVD
and they wanted him to watch tape of the other
team they were playing, and they had the game plan
and the way the story goes, Uh, they maybe it
was online because they were able to determine that. When
he got back, he they they asked him, they said,
did you did you watch it? He said, yeah, I
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watched everything. I'm good, I'm ready to go. And then
they determined that he hadn't even put it again and
looked at it like nothing or it was was it blank?
Was it that it? They gave him a DVD on.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
The blank DV Yeah, and the legendaries.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
The gist of it is they gave him something and
he didn't look at it, but he said he looked
at it and kind of like Johnny Manzel, who also
admitted he never watched any tape because he hated playing
in the NFL. Chip and the Q says a plus
on the Mallard monologue, I think Fields is just trying
to transition from quarterback to defensive back by all the
backpedaling that he has been doing. Just Josh in the
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Natty rights and says Justin Field said, could be coaching,
and both you and I know that is weasel terminology.
Justin Field's only mistake here was honesty. Besides bad quarterback play.
Next time he should go with no comment, No, I disagree.
I love that he did this. I got an entire
Mallard monologue out of this. We need more of this,
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We don't need less of this. We should encourage more honesty.
Of course we don't get honesty because then you have
to apologize and say you're just chasing Clout. Isn't everyone
chasing Cloud? You think Justin Fields isn't chasing Clout getting
all these endorsements. Of course he's doing the same thing
the media's doing. They're all doing the same thing. It's
all click and he click clickbait. That's what it is.
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Midnight Walker writes In says the bad News Bears need
a new quarterback. Though Fields is a physical freak, the
Bears really need a new man under center. Perhaps they
can sign Kelly Leak. Look at you, bad News Bears
and Kelly Leak, way to go. G maned bad job
by me not mentioning him in the monologue. GM Manage
in Chicago's a great monologue. Band. The Bears organization has
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been more of an embarrassment to Chicago than it's politics.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
For a very long time.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Ownership, management, coaches, players, it's always something, and he points
out Rebok execs must be doing shots right now. Yes,
they signed Justin Fields as the brand ambassador to put
them back in the spotlight. That Rebok is gonna take
some of that market share away from Nike with Justin Fields.
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Man Shane of des Moines right, since it has been
that iowa in it from the previous show was longer
than the list of Deshaun Watson accusers when it should
have been shorter than Kyler Murray's arms A plus and Sam,
he says, A plus and then a plus plus.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I haven't checked my Twitter mentioned since yesterday.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
I have been letting it cool down a little bit.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Were blowing up. Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Twitter probably burned up there.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
You could burn.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Too many gigabytes, used too much space on there.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
They were.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Late night drug tester Rights Since says, I think it's
if Fields was going to distract from a terrible presser.
Tipping off the FBI is the wrong way to go.
Let's take some kids out on an early Christmas shopping
spree and get all the news outlets to join you.
Oh well, that's my favorite press release. When the team
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send me, you know, player X whatever star player will
be at Walmart handing out toys from two to three
o'clock and you can get b roll here or you
can interview player X right here. But the player will
be leaving at exactly three o'clock, so make sure you're.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
There on time. He has other things to do.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Milkman, Mike and Colorados's great first hour monologue of Fields
believes that he performs best when he plays it on
the fly, than the Bears need to drop him off
at an arc show and start over, so he said.
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Well, he got in the doghouse with Sean McVay and
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Swift is like the hottest person in music, right, that's
a big deal. And she's right in the middle of
this crazy global tour, raking in money everywhere she goes.
And the source on this is Jason Kelsey, who probably
was joking when he said it, but it doesn't matter
(26:35):
if you're joking, We run with it anyway.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
He said that the rumors.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Of his brother dating Taylor Swift are one hundred percent true.
And then a report that came out later in the day,
and I just saw this shortly before I came into
the studio here from another tabloid called The Messenger. I
(27:00):
have no idea what that is. I do not know,
but they say that they are dating. But the story
is that probably came from a publicist for Taylor Swift
because they kind of couched it and put all these
big words in there and kind of downplay the whole
(27:23):
thing because I think they were annoyed that Travis Kelcey
his side was throwing a lot of stuff out there
in the NFL media. We're having an absolute field day,
an absolute field day with that. Now, as far as
the tin foil turf conspiracy, that would be from Green Bay,
(27:47):
where the Packers have a star offensive lineman. There aren't
that many star offensive linemen, but David Bachtiari is one
of those. We know who he is because he can
shot gun beers at Milwaukee Bucks games and so that's
kind of cool. That's quite the skill to have. So
get to the point, please. So this guy, David Bactieri,
(28:09):
there's a rumor and internet conspiracy theory that the allegation
is that he did not play in the Green Bay
Packers game this past week because the game was on turf.
And he's thirty one years old, he's been the NFL
for over a decade. He has been a big critic
(28:33):
of playing on artificial turf. He hasn't hid from the
fact that, even though he's been in the NFL a
long time, he hates playing on artificial surfaces. And so
people are saying that he intentionally did not play in
the game in the Dome in Atlanta because of the
turf that Bachdiari said, I'm out. He played Week one
(28:55):
against the Chicago Bears, and after Aaron Rodgers is bff.
Aaron Rodgers got hurt with the Jets, Bochtiari came out.
He spoke out again against the turf and all that stuff. Well,
of course, when asked about this, he went on a
rant and he said, if I wasn't going to play
on turf, I'd probably make more of a ruckus. Bactieri said,
(29:20):
that's only a small part of it. That's only a
small part of it, and then.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Went on and on.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Talking about the the drama. I guess his brother got
in on this. His brother posted something on social media.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Claimed he was messing around.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Bactiari said he was just messing around and all that
did the old f around and find out thing. He's
what he did do. I think it's conceivable that a
Green Bay Packer offensive lineman here missed the game because
he didn't want to play a turf hundred percent, one
hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
I think it's absolutely possible.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
But the first rule of doing this is you can't
promote it because you'll get in trouble. The NFL would
condemn that and say, all right, you don't want to play, okay,
we are going to find you for something. We'll find
some small fine print in the NFL rule book, and
you are sc rude. You are done, Skis.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
We're gonna find you some money and so hey, listen.
I mean, maybe it was a joke.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
I don't know, but.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I generally believe most at least part of most conspiracy.
Most conspiracy theories, sports conspiracy theories are great.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I love them.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I've had a probably fifteen year running argument with one
of my radio friends, Sports with Coleman, because I absolutely
believe the great Cal Ripken conspiracy with Kevin Costner, which
man that might go back even longer than fifteen years
probably does, probably goes back Man almost twenty years. Wow. Anyway,
(30:58):
that conspiracy. They shut the lights out at Camden Yards.
There was a power outage only in the neighborhood where
the ballpark was. The rest of Baltimore had power, but
only in that neighborhood. They had no backup generator to
turn the lights on, so the Orioles had to They
canceled the game. At the time, it was against a
very good Mariner team. This is when they had Griffy.
(31:19):
I think a Rod was there. Randy Johnson had some
very good players on that team, if I remember correctly.
And they canceled the game. And the conspiracy was that
Cal Ripken had gotten into a dust up with Kevin
Costner and Costner was staying at Ripkin's house and something
(31:41):
rather scandalous happened where Ripkin went to the ballpark he
forgot something. He came back to the house, he walked
in and saw something that was probably better he didn't
see and then got into a little bit of a
dust up and then that, oh yeah, and then the
game all of a sudden was canceled. So I totally
(32:02):
believe that because that was so important to Major League
Baseball for him to break the iron Man record, the
Lou Garrick record.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Totally by it. Something happened. I don't know exactly what happened.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Something happened, we got to cancel the game.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Well, how we got to cancel the game?
Speaker 1 (32:15):
There's no rain, I know, power outage only at the ballpark.
That's it. And actually heard that. The reason, the main
reason I believe that story is I heard it the
night the power outage, or the night after the power
outage happened. A friend of mine approached me and said, hey,
you're not gonna believe this, And I got a friend
of a friend and here's what happened. Anyway, all of
(32:37):
that starting from a David Bachtiari story about allegations he
avoided playing on turf time. Now for the who Am
I Game, we'll go to Major League Baseball and we'll
have the MLB pick him as well.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Here's the who am I?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Game? Bro, I'm risking My Life, bro Blake Snell has
a one point two six ERA in his last twenty
two starts for the Pod Squad. I'm the only other
with an ERA that low and a single season twenty
two start span since the mound was lowered back in
nineteen sixty nine. Who Am I? The answer?
Speaker 2 (33:09):
We'll get to it, and we will do it next.
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Speaker 1 (33:53):
And time now for the who Am I?
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Game?
Speaker 1 (33:55):
A blatant attempt to get you to listen a little
bit longer it appears that it worked. We will have
the MLB Pickham coming up. But here's the who am
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(34:18):
I'm risking my life. Bro, I ain't playing unless I
get mine. Blake snell On, a lousy Padre team going
nowhere in meaningless games, has a one point twenty six
ERA in his last twenty two starts. I am the
only other pitcher with an earned run average that low
in a single season twenty two start span since the
(34:38):
mound was lowered way back in nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Who am I?
Speaker 1 (34:46):
That's the question. What's the answer to Tia Antoni? Says
Jeffrey Dahmer, Great picture for the Brewers.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Who else do we have? Double ow? Mexican and San Diego?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Says El Toro Fernando Valnezuela is the correct answer, Bert
Blyi Levin from Splenda. John Tudor, tossed out by Ryan Rory,
is going with Ben Sheets Ozzie Waz says, it's General Booty.
Fun fact, I did one high school football game a
(35:14):
couple of years back, and General Booty was playing in
a high school. He went to like four or five
high schools, and I happen to call one of his
football games in southern California.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Let's see who else do we have?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Bear's great cap Bozo guests by Big Lou in the LBC.
Skeeter in Montana says Festus Hagen is the answer, Joe
Barry Carroll from Shane of Des Moines? Is that what
he looks like now? Is that?
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Is that I don't know?
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Keith Oberman from Spock's Weed, That's his answer. Francisco Leriano
guests by Arike in Minnesota, Oral Hrscheiser from Matt the
Warrior Raider fan Shawn and Portland says Carlos Sambrano, Chris
into Moines going with cal Eldred Ruber Waedell from ekeon Roseville, Minnesota,
(36:06):
Scottie and Rhode Island's going with Barney from the Simpsons.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
I can go on.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I we got a bunch of other answers here. Eddie,
do you have an answer?
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Eddie? Do you have an answer.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Yes, it's former Saint Louis Cardinals pitcher Donovan Osborne.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Is it Donovan Osborne?
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
All right, Mason Honeybee, says Taylor Swift. But that's also wrong.
The correct answer Jake Arietta of the twenty fifteen Chicago Cubs.
Who Jake Arietta. Yeah, he came out of nowhere and
then things kind of went all right for him. There
time now four the m l B pickham Woo, all.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Right with the first pick. Team? Now I won I'm
going first.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
How about that? I will take I got two good choices.
I'm gonna take Garrett Cole of the Yankees, Cooper Loop,
Max Freed, board has held Iowa, Sam Ranger, Souarez bad pick,
Eddie zach Eflin and Matt Olsen interesting and Matt or
(37:12):
Sam rather Sam, go ahead, Matt, I'll take Fred Freeman,
all right, and Cooper Loop. I'll take Aaron Judge. Okay,
give me Ronald Acuna Junior. And I will also take
Trey Turner of the Fight in Phils Go ahead, Coope,
Kyle Schwarmer, Sam Dansby Swanson, Eddie, we got plenty of
(37:33):
Take your time, Eddie, we got plenty now we don't
have any time. See we had time, and now the
time's gone. I'm on time, Mallor
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We start out with the story of the day in
the NFL. Do you believe Justin Field's original statement when
he called out the Bears coaching staff or his clarification? Also,
what is really going on with Justin Fields over at
Hallas Hall? And is there more to the story. The
(00:40):
Bears also lost their defensive coordinator he resigned. Is there
more to that story? It's all Bears, all the time.
You give us fifteen minutes, we'll give you a lot
of Chicago Bears takes.
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And here it is.
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So our lead, I love this story. You know, some
days we come in here and we're throwing spaghetti against
the wall and we're seeing what will stick, and then
we're kind of going with it. And then there's other
(02:20):
days we get served the meatballs and that's kind of cool.
So the lead out of the Windy City and oh
what a day was in the life of the bad
news bears of the NFL. Oh my, oh my. Yeah.
I hope you had a chance to follow along. I
(02:41):
don't know if you did or not. I don't know
if you did it not, but it was great. What
a great stort. So they give you a thumbnail recap.
We actually have audio to take us through this story,
which makes it even better because all we have is audio.
We don't have photos in the radio world, although there
is a camera here in the studio that is documentary
documenting everything for the YouTube.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Oh, and I'm photo ready unless I'm not so. Justin Fields,
I'm told that's a quarterback. You wouldn't know that by
the way he's playing, but they say he's plausibly a quarterback.
There were a lot of NFL punits who were massaging
his toes and how great he was going to be. Boy,
that take really didn't do so well anyway. Justin Field's
(03:25):
talk with the media about how he had felt robotic
on the field this season in the Windy City and
he wasn't playing his game. He added that he's at
his best when he's playing off just instinct and not
thinking too much. In fact, to prove that we are
(03:45):
not making that up here is that part of Justin
Field's ran. Here, here's Fields explaining what I just say,
What do you say? Thinking less?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
What do you think was causing you to think so much?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Maybe he thinks much, you know, could be a coaching
I think, but you know, at the end of the day,
it makes it. You know, they're doing their job when
they're giving me, you know, what to look at and
stuff like that. But at the end of the day,
I can't be thinking about that when the game comes.
I prepare myself throughout the week, and then when the
game comes, it's you know, it's time to play free
(04:17):
at that point, so thinking less and you know, playing more.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Well, that was actually the second sound by that was
what we call the money sound. I guess we just
wanted to get to the money sound, but we didn't
need the lead in. That was Justin Fields, as you
heard blaming the coach, right, that was him. But you
heard the quote right there. I wasn't expecting it. You
probably weren't either, but he said, you know, could be coaching,
I think, is what he said. That was the quote.
(04:43):
So after that's or so we're gonna jump ahead eye,
I was SAMs. Hopefully you played right one year. So
after this that story made the rounds. It bounced all
over the place. Justin Fields came back later on and
spoke to the media for a second time. In a
unplanned locker room scrum. He got the media around him
(05:05):
and he attempted to clarify the point that he had
made earlier that had taken off all around the NFL
media circles. Let's go to the audio tape and take
a list.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I love you guys, but you know I get that
you guys' jobs are to get clicked. So it's like
when you take my quote out of context, when when
you just say that, if you paint the picture on
the inside out, like y'all are trying to split us
up as a team.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I'm not blaming anything on the coaches.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
I'm never gonna blame anything on the coaches, never gonna
blame anything on my teammates.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I will take every.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Whatever happens in the game, I will take all the blame.
I don't care to drop.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Pass or it should have been a past put it
on me. But never we hear anything come out of
my mouth to where I will blame it on somebody
else in this organization. My teammates never hear that. So
I just want to cry that out and just know that,
like I need.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
To play better.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
That's it point, Like if y'all's that's what I should
have said in the first place. But you know, I
was trying to give you all more details because you know,
I appreciate y'all for doing what y'all do, and I
try to give you all the information y'all want for
you guys job. So I'm gonna do that and in
the future, Like but I ask you guys, just to
put the whole quote up. Don't cut it up into
words and pieces to make it seem like I'm saying
(06:21):
something that I'm not.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah, so Justin Fields now is giving a journalism class
to the media. That's a that's a fresh stake. So
let us discuss the question do you believe Justin Field's
original statement or the clarification that he made.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
We just played it for you.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
So I've got Cherry Tree, Indiana Jones, and Iceberg and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make a want to get away kind
of a day, which it was for the Chicago Bears
PR department who were working over time in the Spin
zone Spins Spin and also Justin Field's agent. He got
(07:02):
all these endorsement deals based on idiots on ESPN saying
he was gonna win the MVP and he sucks. And
so that now now he's out there that's the coach's fault,
all right. So we got cherry Tree, Indiana Jones, Iceberg
A Justin Fields. I would recommend calling someone for help.
I'm not sure who to call. But he was sinking
(07:24):
into a demonic sinkhole as the day went on here,
and he made a fatal flaw. Now what was the
fatal flaw? He let his guard down. He did the
thing you can't do at the time. You can't do it.
He was honest, right, he audibled. He went into the
George Washington cherry tree myth. He spoke with candor, he
(07:45):
gave a frank answer, and just like the legend, which
of course is not sure it's a fable that George Washington.
You know I've all heard that story. He got a
hatchet as a gift. He's a little kid, and he
went down there and damaged his dad's favorite cherry tree,
and he fathered in front of him, and Washington supposedly said,
I cannot tell a lie. In that fable, when the
(08:07):
Bear's front office confronted mister Fields, and they probably told him,
you can tell a lie, and you are about to
tell a lie. And he must have claimed that he
was a victim of malicious slander by the evil media.
But I want to go back again to the Can
we play that first clip that you played iosam here,
(08:29):
just the beginning part. Listen to the question and Justin
Field's response here, listen to what he said very closely,
but just the beginning part. What do you say thinking less?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
What do you think was causing you to.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Think so much? Maybe he thinks much?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
You know, it could be.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Oh, that's up right down Cojack coutjac. Then Justin Fields
he ends up using the old gaslight trick, claiming that
his words were taken out of context, the medium manipulated
his words, which, to quote Dion Sanders, is bull junk
is what that is? He said what he said, and
that's it. Now turning the page, but not turning it
too far. What's really going on with Justin Fields at
(09:12):
hallis Hall?
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Now?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I had very low expectations. I killed them on the
first episode of Benny Versus the Penny this season, and
that's one of the few things I've gotten right. But
looking at the evidence, Justin Fields by his own words
here and tell me if I'm crazy on this. Justin
Fields is admitting to the world he's uncoachable that the
(09:33):
Chicago Bears coaches. You might think they're incompetent boobs, and
maybe they are, but the Bears coaches are trying to
help him. They're trying to get him to that elite
level at quarterback. I'm pretty confident the Bear's coaching staff
is not out there like, well, let's see how we
can totally f up Justin Fields. I don't think that's
the goal. They think what they're doing is helping him.
(09:54):
But Justin Fields would rather do improv at the open
mic at Chuckles co Club on a Sunday afternoon. And
it reminds me of that. Remember that scene from the
first Indiana Jones movie. I know they've made a million
of these things, but I only watched the first few
because I'm old. But the first Indiana Jones movie when
when someone asked Indy what he's going to do next,
(10:16):
and he remember what he said in the response, he said,
I don't know. I'm making it up as we go along.
That is what Justin Fields just said. He's like, ah,
you know, you guys can give me all these x's
and l's and tell me to throw go roots and
all these other you know, I will do what I
want to do. That's Justin Fields in a very small
(10:36):
photo of what's gone on here. Then the Bears coaches,
ultimately they have no choice but to let it rip
against Kansas City this weekend and going forward because as
a franchise, Chicago hitched their wagon to Justin Fields thinking
he was a thoroughbred and at this point they hitched
(10:57):
their wagon to a donkey. Is what they've done there.
Good luck with that now. The last word, We're gonna
stay with the theme of deep dish Chicago pizza as
we blatantly suck up to our many Chicago listeners, guys
like Eugene in Chicago and Yuphimi and all the legends
(11:18):
there in the Windy City. I'd say Doc Mike, but
he hardly calls anymore anyway. So the last part is,
while Justin Fields was being charboiled for blaming the coaches,
one of the Chicago coaches exited stage right. You probably
don't know who this is because he's not a household name,
but a guy named Alan Williams, who we are told
(11:40):
was the defensive coordinator of the Bears. I thought they
didn't have a defensive coordinator because they really haven't played
any defense in years. But this guy Williams submitted a resignation,
a letter of resignation. This is a week after he
took a leave of absence, a personal leave of absence.
Now they head coach Matt Everflews is going to take
(12:01):
over the play calling there for the defense for the
remainder of the season. But is there more to the
story of the Bears defensive coordinator resigning after two weeks
of the regular season. So the answer here is one
thousand percent yes. And my analysis of this, I'm gonna
(12:21):
go with what we call the Iceberg hypothesis. Now, what
is the iceberg hypothesis here? It is that the iceberg
you only see about ten percent or less of the iceberg.
That's what did in the Titanic. But under this narrative,
only about ten percent is out in the public theater.
The rest has yet to see, the light has yet
(12:42):
to go above water. And in a seven sentence statement
prepared statement which likely did not even come from Alan Williams,
maybe his attorney or someone from the Bears, he said
he's taking a step back to take care of his
health and his family. Now there's all kinds of boo rumors,
very tawdry rumors involving the federal government being involved if
(13:06):
you look close enough in the Naked City which never sleeps,
but eventually, eventually, whatever happened, And maybe it's benign and
and he's actually telling the truth and he's got some
medical condition and something like that, or it's in a
very dark place, but it's going to come out in
the wash. And what we do know is the Chicago
Bears defense is in absolute mid season form. It is
(13:30):
a poop fest. The Bears have the third most misstackles
in the NFL and they have given up the fourth
most yak in the league. Yards after the catch which missed,
they miss a lot of tackles. And you can complete
short passes against Chicago and run run, run, run, run, run,
(13:51):
run run run bavoom goes to the wide receivers pass. Yeah,
say a hot mess. But is the Ben Malor Show.
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news guy, you're announcer guy. I'm at Eddie on Fox.
I just got five more words for you. Go to hell, king, Eddie,
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Speaker 1 (15:33):
I heard that voice in a long time.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Kind of took me aback a bit.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Eh exited stage left there, but bye. Yeah, he was
giving and boy, what a way to go out too,
ripping me when my dad died. Quite the quite the
way to go, but there you go.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I used to call the show all the time.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Aside from that legendary caller.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yes, we did have some great moments. He's a you know.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I did say he'd come back in like a year
or six months or something like that, but he chose
not to come back. And I don't think we've really
missed him. The show has been fine, but anyway, I
have not missed him.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Eddie, would you like to give me Yeah, you did
do a duet together.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, well we had a falling out, you know how scoop.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, Well, all great romances, that's right, Eventually they flame
out at some point. But Eddie, but I felt I
thought that my Justin Field's take was exceptional.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
It was tremendous.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I don't know that anyone else has that take that
Justin Fields.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
See.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Everyone's getting carried away with the thing that he said
about the coach. But the big takeaway, and this is
why I believe it's a first class take that other
people are going to steal the take, is that Justin
Fields is admitting that he's uncoachable, that he can't follow
a game plan because he just needs to go out
there and add lib and just run around and do
(16:57):
whatever the hell he wants. And it doesn't matter or
whether you have a dumb down playbook or whatever. He
doesn't want to run your swing passes, your bubble screens.
He wants to do the old playground offense. And that
isn't that what he's saying. I mean, that's what it
sounded like to me. I mean, maybe he'll be fine
to you in it. Some guys have been able to
pull it up, but he would like to be a
(17:18):
riverboat gambler type of quarterback and he doesn't want to
follow your little pesky, you know, offensive system.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
So yeah, it sounds like it's like, yeah, okay, you
can draw up a play, I'll think about it. But
when I snapped the ball, it's basically just me doing
what I want.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yeah yeah, I mean I I'll get you downfield, but
I'm not gonna follow.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I mean, if I snap the ball and the guy
you want me to throw it to his open, I'll
give it to him. But otherwise just let me do
any thing.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah. So, so the way, and here's how I relate
to Justin Field.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
So when I start the show, I have a pretty
good plan, like of what's gonna happen, and then crap
happens and it changes, like things change, and then it's
like trench warfare at that point, audio trench warfare where
we have to into our bunker, our fox hole and
then survive all the exotic things that take place. And
and so we do that on a on a nightly basis.
(18:09):
That Justin field story was wonderful, what a great story.
The star of the NFL offseason, and he was the
MVP of the offseason. I think we'd all agree on
that nobody got more love than Justin Fields.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I mean, he man.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
He was like Hugh Hefner back in the day at
the Playboy Mansion. The Grotto, he was getting all the
love from the media. Christen de Moin writes in He's
a big Chicago Bears fan. He says, Ben, I'd love
to call in and talk about that disaster. It is
Bears football, but I would prefer to simply get drunk
and hide under my covers for now. Completely understandable, Completely
(18:44):
understandable now. The Rick Flair account says that Justin Fields
is more of a bust than the great JaMarcus Russell,
And yeah, I want to push back on that. Russell
was the number one overall pick on my big board.
I still have JaMarcus and the Purple Drank and the
(19:04):
greatest story ever told about an NFL quarterback, the famous
JaMarcus Russell game tape story. If you haven't heard that,
it's a classic where JaMarcus was struggling, as the story goes,
and the coaches gave him a CD. I think at
the time they gave him a CD. Was it a
CD or it must have been a CD at that time,
(19:26):
was a DV a DVD whatever, he gave him DVD
and they wanted him to watch tape of the other
team they were playing, and they had the game plan
and the way the story goes, Uh, they maybe it
was online because they were able to determine that. When
he got back, he they they asked him, they said,
did you did you watch it? He said, yeah, I
(19:48):
watched everything. I'm good, I'm ready to go. And then
they determined that he hadn't even put it again and
looked at it like nothing or it was was it blank?
Was it that it? They gave him a DVD on.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
The blank DV Yeah, and the legendaries.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
The gist of it is they gave him something and
he didn't look at it, but he said he looked
at it and kind of like Johnny Manzel, who also
admitted he never watched any tape because he hated playing
in the NFL. Chip and the Q says a plus
on the Mallard monologue, I think Fields is just trying
to transition from quarterback to defensive back by all the
backpedaling that he has been doing. Just Josh in the
(20:23):
Natty rights and says Justin Field said, could be coaching,
and both you and I know that is weasel terminology.
Justin Field's only mistake here was honesty. Besides bad quarterback play.
Next time he should go with no comment, No, I disagree.
I love that he did this. I got an entire
Mallard monologue out of this. We need more of this,
(20:43):
We don't need less of this. We should encourage more honesty.
Of course we don't get honesty because then you have
to apologize and say you're just chasing Clout. Isn't everyone
chasing Cloud? You think Justin Fields isn't chasing Clout getting
all these endorsements. Of course he's doing the same thing
the media's doing. They're all doing the same thing. It's
all click and he click clickbait. That's what it is.
(21:04):
Midnight Walker writes In says the bad News Bears need
a new quarterback. Though Fields is a physical freak, the
Bears really need a new man under center. Perhaps they
can sign Kelly Leak. Look at you, bad News Bears
and Kelly Leak, way to go. G maned bad job
by me not mentioning him in the monologue. GM Manage
in Chicago's a great monologue. Band. The Bears organization has
(21:28):
been more of an embarrassment to Chicago than it's politics.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
For a very long time.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Ownership, management, coaches, players, it's always something, and he points
out Rebok execs must be doing shots right now. Yes,
they signed Justin Fields as the brand ambassador to put
them back in the spotlight. That Rebok is gonna take
some of that market share away from Nike with Justin Fields.
(21:56):
Man Shane of des Moines right, since it has been
that iowa in it from the previous show was longer
than the list of Deshaun Watson accusers when it should
have been shorter than Kyler Murray's arms A plus and Sam,
he says, A plus and then a plus plus.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I haven't checked my Twitter mentioned since yesterday.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
I have been letting it cool down a little bit.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Were blowing up. Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Twitter probably burned up there.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
You could burn.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Too many gigabytes, used too much space on there.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
They were.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Late night drug tester Rights Since says, I think it's
if Fields was going to distract from a terrible presser.
Tipping off the FBI is the wrong way to go.
Let's take some kids out on an early Christmas shopping
spree and get all the news outlets to join you.
Oh well, that's my favorite press release. When the team
(22:50):
send me, you know, player X whatever star player will
be at Walmart handing out toys from two to three
o'clock and you can get b roll here or you
can interview player X right here. But the player will
be leaving at exactly three o'clock, so make sure you're.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
There on time. He has other things to do.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Milkman, Mike and Colorados's great first hour monologue of Fields
believes that he performs best when he plays it on
the fly, than the Bears need to drop him off
at an arc show and start over, so he said.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Hey, what's up everybody.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
It's me three time pro bowler Levararrington, and I couldn't
be more excited to announce a podcast called Up on Game?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
What is Up on Game?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
You ask, along with my fellow pro bowler TJ.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
Huschman, Zada and Super Bowl champion Yep, that's right, Plexico Burris.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
You can only name a show with that type of
talent on it.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Up on Game We're going to be sharing our real
life experiences with teachable moments. Listen to Up on Game
with me Lebar Arrington, TJ. Hutch Manzada, and Plexico Burrs
on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get
your podcast from.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
We have a trade involving your Los Angeles rams.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
You can ram it all day, you can ram it
all that. You're welcome Minnesota, Enjoy this.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Minnesota running back Cam Acres shipped off to the Minnesota Vikings.
The team's also swapping late round picks in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
How to turn a second round pick into a pick
swap Cam Akers? The Cam Akers story.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
What happened there with Cam Akers?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Well, he got in the doghouse with Sean McVay and
when he played, he he just he didn't have that elite,
the game breaking ability. It is odd because he was
very good in college and at Florida State, but in
the NFL it just did not work out. And this
guy they got in the middle rounds from Notre Dame
(25:01):
this year has been has been absolutely wonderful. It's only
been two games, so maybe the guy will end up sucking,
but he's put he pushes forward. In the guy's name
Kieran Williams. They got him in I guess they got
him last year in the draft. But he's he's pretty good.
I don't remember. I don't watch too much Notre Dame
football when he was there, but wherever they found him
(25:23):
on I.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Like what I see so far.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
How about that the Rams found two decent players and
they didn't really have any high draft picks.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Shocking.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I thought you only could get good players high in
the draft.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
There you go, good scouts.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I guess, yeah, well, or they just got lucky. It
is the Ben Malor Show. As we continue, and we
have tabloid confirmation, we'll get to that. This portion of
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(25:57):
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Speaker 1 (26:02):
So dueling reports here confirming that the tabloids have it
right that the Taylor Swift and the Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Are an item.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I know this is very important to you, but Taylor
Swift is like the hottest person in music, right, that's
a big deal. And she's right in the middle of
this crazy global tour, raking in money everywhere she goes.
And the source on this is Jason Kelsey, who probably
was joking when he said it, but it doesn't matter
(26:35):
if you're joking, We run with it anyway.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
He said that the rumors.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Of his brother dating Taylor Swift are one hundred percent true.
And then a report that came out later in the day,
and I just saw this shortly before I came into
the studio here from another tabloid called The Messenger. I
(27:00):
have no idea what that is. I do not know,
but they say that they are dating. But the story
is that probably came from a publicist for Taylor Swift
because they kind of couched it and put all these
big words in there and kind of downplay the whole
(27:23):
thing because I think they were annoyed that Travis Kelcey
his side was throwing a lot of stuff out there
in the NFL media. We're having an absolute field day,
an absolute field day with that. Now, as far as
the tin foil turf conspiracy, that would be from Green Bay,
(27:47):
where the Packers have a star offensive lineman. There aren't
that many star offensive linemen, but David Bachtiari is one
of those. We know who he is because he can
shot gun beers at Milwaukee Bucks games and so that's
kind of cool. That's quite the skill to have. So
get to the point, please. So this guy, David Bactieri,
(28:09):
there's a rumor and internet conspiracy theory that the allegation
is that he did not play in the Green Bay
Packers game this past week because the game was on turf.
And he's thirty one years old, he's been the NFL
for over a decade. He has been a big critic
(28:33):
of playing on artificial turf. He hasn't hid from the
fact that, even though he's been in the NFL a
long time, he hates playing on artificial surfaces. And so
people are saying that he intentionally did not play in
the game in the Dome in Atlanta because of the
turf that Bachdiari said, I'm out. He played Week one
(28:55):
against the Chicago Bears, and after Aaron Rodgers is bff.
Aaron Rodgers got hurt with the Jets, Bochtiari came out.
He spoke out again against the turf and all that stuff. Well,
of course, when asked about this, he went on a
rant and he said, if I wasn't going to play
on turf, I'd probably make more of a ruckus. Bactieri said,
(29:20):
that's only a small part of it. That's only a
small part of it, and then.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Went on and on.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Talking about the the drama. I guess his brother got
in on this. His brother posted something on social media.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Claimed he was messing around.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Bactiari said he was just messing around and all that
did the old f around and find out thing. He's
what he did do. I think it's conceivable that a
Green Bay Packer offensive lineman here missed the game because
he didn't want to play a turf hundred percent, one
hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
I think it's absolutely possible.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
But the first rule of doing this is you can't
promote it because you'll get in trouble. The NFL would
condemn that and say, all right, you don't want to play, okay,
we are going to find you for something. We'll find
some small fine print in the NFL rule book, and
you are sc rude. You are done, Skis.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
We're gonna find you some money and so hey, listen.
I mean, maybe it was a joke.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
I don't know, but.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I generally believe most at least part of most conspiracy.
Most conspiracy theories, sports conspiracy theories are great.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I love them.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I've had a probably fifteen year running argument with one
of my radio friends, Sports with Coleman, because I absolutely
believe the great Cal Ripken conspiracy with Kevin Costner, which
man that might go back even longer than fifteen years
probably does, probably goes back Man almost twenty years. Wow. Anyway,
(30:58):
that conspiracy. They shut the lights out at Camden Yards.
There was a power outage only in the neighborhood where
the ballpark was. The rest of Baltimore had power, but
only in that neighborhood. They had no backup generator to
turn the lights on, so the Orioles had to They
canceled the game. At the time, it was against a
very good Mariner team. This is when they had Griffy.
(31:19):
I think a Rod was there. Randy Johnson had some
very good players on that team, if I remember correctly.
And they canceled the game. And the conspiracy was that
Cal Ripken had gotten into a dust up with Kevin
Costner and Costner was staying at Ripkin's house and something
(31:41):
rather scandalous happened where Ripkin went to the ballpark he
forgot something. He came back to the house, he walked
in and saw something that was probably better he didn't
see and then got into a little bit of a
dust up and then that, oh yeah, and then the
game all of a sudden was canceled. So I totally
(32:02):
believe that because that was so important to Major League
Baseball for him to break the iron Man record, the
Lou Garrick record.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Totally by it. Something happened. I don't know exactly what happened.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Something happened, we got to cancel the game.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Well, how we got to cancel the game?
Speaker 1 (32:15):
There's no rain, I know, power outage only at the ballpark.
That's it. And actually heard that. The reason, the main
reason I believe that story is I heard it the
night the power outage, or the night after the power
outage happened. A friend of mine approached me and said, hey,
you're not gonna believe this, And I got a friend
of a friend and here's what happened. Anyway, all of
(32:37):
that starting from a David Bachtiari story about allegations he
avoided playing on turf time. Now for the who Am
I Game, we'll go to Major League Baseball and we'll
have the MLB pick him as well.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Here's the who am I?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Game? Bro, I'm risking My Life, bro Blake Snell has
a one point two six ERA in his last twenty
two starts for the Pod Squad. I'm the only other
with an ERA that low and a single season twenty
two start span since the mound was lowered back in
nineteen sixty nine. Who Am I? The answer?
Speaker 2 (33:09):
We'll get to it, and we will do it next.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
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Speaker 3 (33:25):
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(33:47):
and l i from the Tyrack dot Com. Fox Sports
Radio Studios. It's Ben Malor.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
And time now for the who Am I?
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Game?
Speaker 1 (33:55):
A blatant attempt to get you to listen a little
bit longer it appears that it worked. We will have
the MLB Pickham coming up. But here's the who am
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(34:18):
I'm risking my life. Bro, I ain't playing unless I
get mine. Blake snell On, a lousy Padre team going
nowhere in meaningless games, has a one point twenty six
ERA in his last twenty two starts. I am the
only other pitcher with an earned run average that low
in a single season twenty two start span since the
(34:38):
mound was lowered way back in nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Who am I?
Speaker 1 (34:46):
That's the question. What's the answer to Tia Antoni? Says
Jeffrey Dahmer, Great picture for the Brewers.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Who else do we have? Double ow? Mexican and San Diego?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Says El Toro Fernando Valnezuela is the correct answer, Bert
Blyi Levin from Splenda. John Tudor, tossed out by Ryan Rory,
is going with Ben Sheets Ozzie Waz says, it's General Booty.
Fun fact, I did one high school football game a
(35:14):
couple of years back, and General Booty was playing in
a high school. He went to like four or five
high schools, and I happen to call one of his
football games in southern California.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Let's see who else do we have?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Bear's great cap Bozo guests by Big Lou in the LBC.
Skeeter in Montana says Festus Hagen is the answer, Joe
Barry Carroll from Shane of Des Moines? Is that what
he looks like now? Is that?
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Is that I don't know?
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Keith Oberman from Spock's Weed, That's his answer. Francisco Leriano
guests by Arike in Minnesota, Oral Hrscheiser from Matt the
Warrior Raider fan Shawn and Portland says Carlos Sambrano, Chris
into Moines going with cal Eldred Ruber Waedell from ekeon Roseville, Minnesota,
(36:06):
Scottie and Rhode Island's going with Barney from the Simpsons.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
I can go on.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I we got a bunch of other answers here. Eddie,
do you have an answer?
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Eddie? Do you have an answer.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Yes, it's former Saint Louis Cardinals pitcher Donovan Osborne.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Is it Donovan Osborne?
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
All right, Mason Honeybee, says Taylor Swift. But that's also wrong.
The correct answer Jake Arietta of the twenty fifteen Chicago Cubs.
Who Jake Arietta. Yeah, he came out of nowhere and
then things kind of went all right for him. There
time now four the m l B pickham Woo, all.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Right with the first pick. Team? Now I won I'm
going first.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
How about that? I will take I got two good choices.
I'm gonna take Garrett Cole of the Yankees, Cooper Loop,
Max Freed, board has held Iowa, Sam Ranger, Souarez bad pick,
Eddie zach Eflin and Matt Olsen interesting and Matt or
(37:12):
Sam rather Sam, go ahead, Matt, I'll take Fred Freeman,
all right, and Cooper Loop. I'll take Aaron Judge. Okay,
give me Ronald Acuna Junior. And I will also take
Trey Turner of the Fight in Phils Go ahead, Coope,
Kyle Schwarmer, Sam Dansby Swanson, Eddie, we got plenty of
(37:33):
Take your time, Eddie, we got plenty now we don't
have any time. See we had time, and now the
time's gone. I'm on time, Mallor
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