September 21, 2023 • 38 mins
Big Ben talks about Justin Fields accusing the media of taking his comments out of context, the Browns going back to Kareem Hunt after the injury to Nick Chubb, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and more!
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Here the NonStop sweat shop of sports talk open for business.
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
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we're kind of going with it. And then there's other
days we get served the meatballs and that's 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
(02:16):
don't know if you did or not. I don't know
if you did it not, but it was great. What
a great store. 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 (02:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Oh, and I'm photo ready unless i'm not.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
So.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
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 pundits
who were massaging his toes and how great he was
going to be, but that that take really didn't do
so well right Justin Field's talk with the media about
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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 not making that up here
is that part of Justin Field's ran. Here, here's Fields
(03:25):
explaining what I just say.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
What do you say thinking lass, What do you think
was causing you to think so much? Maybe thinks much?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
You know it could be uh 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 you know,
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 at that point,
so thinking less and you know, playing more.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Well, that was actually the second sound by that was
what we call the money sound. Like 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.
(04:18):
So after that, sir, 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 listen.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
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 we
just say that, if you paint the picture on the
inside out, like y'all are trying to split up, split
us up at the tea.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
As I'm not blaming anything on the coaches.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I'm never gonna blame anything on the coaches, never gonna
blame anything on my teammates. I will take every whatever
happens in the game, I will take all the blame.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I don't care to drop past. It should have been
a past. Put it on me.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
But never we hear anything come out of my mouth
to where I will blame it on somebody else in
this organization, my teammates.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Never will you hear that.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
So I just want to cry that out and just
know that, like I need to play better. That's it,
point blank. If y'all's that's what I should have said
in the first place. But you know, I was trying
to give y'all more details cause 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 drop So I'm gonna do that and in the future, Like,
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but I ask you guys, just to put the whole
quote out, don't cut it up into words and pieces
to make it seem like I'm saying something that I'm not.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
So Justin Fields now is given 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. We just played
it for you. So I've got Cherry Tree, Indiana Jones,
and Iceberg, and we will combine all of these things
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together and we are going to make a Wanna get
away kind of a day, which it was for the
Chicago Bears PR department who were working overtime in the
spin zone, Spin Spin Spin, and also Justin Field's agent.
He got all these endorsement deals based on idiots on
ESPN saying he was gonna win the MVP and he sucks,
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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
into a demonic sinkhole as the day went on here
and he made a fatal flaw. Now what was the
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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
gave a frank answer, and just like the legend, which
of course is not sure, it was a fable that
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George Washington, you know 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
Bear's front office confronted mister Fields and they probably told
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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,
just the beginning part. Listen to the question and Justin
Field's response. Here, listen to what he said very closely,
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but just the beginning part. What do you say thinking less?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
What do you think was causing you to think so much?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Maybe thinks much?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
You know, could be oh, that's up right, then Jack
cout Jack, then Justin Fields. He ends up using the
old gas light 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
(08:40):
the page, but not turning it too far. What's really
going on with Justin Fields at hallis Hall?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Now?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
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 Comedy 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
someone asked Indy what he's going to do next? And
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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 Field in a very small
(10:12):
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 Yaphemi and all the legends
(10:53):
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
(11:15):
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 the head coach, Matt Eberflus, is going to take
(11:36):
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. 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
(12:17):
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 taboo 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
he's actually telling the truth and he's got some medical
condition of 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
(13:02):
is in absolute mid season four. It is a poop fest.
The Bears have the third most missed tackles in the
NFL and they have given up the fourth most yak
in the league yards after the catch which costed. They
miss a lot of tackles. And you can complete short
passes against Chicago and run run run, run, run, Run
(13:27):
run run run. Bavoom goes the wide receivers past. Yeah
say a hot mess.
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Let's spun quite a bit on hump Day. And if
you were not keeping track, because you have a life
good for you, you have a job good for you,
or you were just lazy, perhaps you missed it. So
the Cleveland Browns needed a running back. Nick Chubba lub
blub is gone, unfortunately having that breakfast of not champions,
(15:09):
the snap, crackle, pop variety of the knee going a
direction that should not have gone. So Nick Schubb is
out and the Browns have made a move to replace him.
And it turns out you can go home again as
Kareem Hunt is the player they picked. He returns to
his hometown team, the team he played for in recent years.
(15:30):
While the Vikings also lit up the transaction wire, they
made a move. They acquired running back Cam Akers in
a deal with the Rams, and not much of a trade,
more of a giveaway. So why don't we start in
Northern Ohio. We'll start with the move that we mentioned
first year. So let us discuss the question why did
(15:53):
the Browns go back to Kareem Hunt? Why Kareem Hunt?
So I've got Needle Point, Doyle Brunson, and Garbage Pale Kids,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a Canadian salad poutine. That's
what we're gonna make. So number one, the Browns decided
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they wanted to go back to the comfort zone. Nepotism
is a big thing, and people get upset by nepotism.
They get annoyed by it. But it goes on in
every business. I work in the radio business. I see
people getting hired because they know people, not necessarily because
they're the most important or the top person for the job,
but because they happen to know something. But nepotism is
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the word of the day here. It's not what you know,
it's who you know. And Kareem Hunt played in Cleveland.
He's in his happy place. They're they're happy with him.
Cleveland parted ways though this interesting note. They parted ways
with Kareem Hunt because they didn't think he was worth
the money. They assumed the position that they could replace
him with a cheaper labor option, shall we say, right,
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as someone who's inexperienced but cost effective at the running
back position. And now that Nick Chubb is in crutches,
the Browns have decided to circle back to Hunt, even
though his resume is pot marked so on the Mallor
report card, the Cleveland Browns get a C plus on
the Malor report card for this signing. It's a slightly
(17:28):
above average signing. Slightly above average. Didn't give it a
second look when you take a glimpse a little snapshot
of his recent performance. Kareem Hunt had some big runs
back in the day with Kansas City early on in Cleveland,
but as they say in France, he has been lacking
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the genes sequah. Regardless though, ultimately this is a needle
point situation for the Cleveland football team. They are putting
together a patchwork quick. They've lost some offensive line power.
Now they've lost Nick Chubb and they have to run
the ball. They have to make this work in Cleveland
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with Kareem Hunt and Ford in the backfield. Because Deshaun
Watson is a vacuum. He sucks the energy out of
the room. There at quarterback. More on Deshaun Watson later.
There's a great Deshaun Watson's story bouncing around the echo
chamber that we'll get to in a later hours, so
hopefully you'll be able to hear that. Now page two,
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we go to Los Angeles. Hello, we learned that the
Rams decided they cannot ram it all day and ram
it all night with cam Acres anymore. The disgruntled running
back has been shipped off to the land of ten
thousand Lakes, even though there's many more than ten thousand lakes.
Hopefully cam Acers before he finds a home there, will
stay at the Mermaid. That's where we had the big
(18:53):
Mallard meet and greet in the Twin Cities. Fine location,
although you got to go the speed limit. Very active
local law enforcement there that love to write tickets. Now,
Adam Schefter tells us that Minnesota and LA agreed to
a late round pickswap in twenty twenty six, whatever that
means as part of the deal. So let's break it
(19:14):
down somewhat scientifically. What does the cam Akers trade to
the Vikings? Tell us? So a couple of thoughts here
follow the breadcrumbs as the Godfather of poker. The late
Doyle Brunson would have said, this is a tell. It
is a tell. Actions speak louder than words, and what
the Vikings are saying by making this trade is Alexander Madison,
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you are not carrying the water. You're not getting it done.
And the Vikings thought that they would be okay without
Dalvin Cook, who isn't lighting the world on fire with
the Jets. But they thought okay, Dalvin Cook had reached
his expiration date. So we're gonna go. We're gonna go
with Alexander Madison. We got a whole bunch of other
running backs who are not named brand running backs. And
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to out that they have been wrong Minnesota. Their backfield
has been a flophouse and it has really been terrible.
It's only two games, so that's all we have. The
judges on the Vikings are the worst running team in
the NFL. They have a league were sixty nine rushing
yards that against almost seven hundred passing yards. Their second
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in the entire NFL in passing yards. But they can't
run the ball. Now, some of that is the offensive line,
but there have been If you watched the game last
Thursday against Philadelphia, there were some holes that were not
exploited against that Eagles defense because Madison and the other
running backs we're not able to circumvent around the would
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be tacklers. In addition, though this is another nepotism situation,
it's good to have friends. Cam Akers had worn out
as welcome in La La Land. Drafted out of Florida State,
Uber talented like everyone who's drafted in the first or
said round, and he has provided a spotty performance in
his NFL career. And so Sean McVay sent a text
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message over to his old powell, Kevin O'Connell, the coach
in Minnesota, and Presto Shazam Acres is reunited and it
feels so good with his old coach, Kevin O'Connell, who
was with him with the Rams as an assistant to
Sean McVay. And the Rams traded him for a half
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eaten baloney sandwich. That's what they got from the Vikings,
a half eaten blooney sandwich, which is a sixth or
a seventh round pick whatever it turns out to be
a pick swap in twenty twenty six. And so this
is the ultimate change of scenery. And I watched over
the last couple years cam Akers play, not recently because
he's been in Sean mcvay's doghouse, but when I've seen him,
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he's got the talent, he just hasn't been able to
get it done. He does not have that explosion that
he had in college at Florida State. And so this
is a resurrection in situation, there's a lot to tidy up.
Scrub a dub dub. Now we head to Sin City
better known as Lost Wages, Nevada, where all the casinos
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are hacked, and they're having a nightmare over there in Vegas.
But we are hearing now the Raiders also having a nightmare.
They have placed defensive end Chandler Jones on time out.
Chandler Jones has been put on the Non Football Illness List.
Jones had multiple social media rants that were from bizarro World.
(22:33):
Right there in Bizarro World, directly criticizing the owner Mark Davis.
He did not attack Mark Davis's love of PF. Chang's,
but he did attack him in much more personal ways.
Also the GM Dave Ziegler and head coach Josh McDaniels.
He might have even ripped JT the brick I don't know.
Maybe he did. Now publicly, the team is standing behind
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Chandler Jones, the ex pat. They have not ruled out
in statements that he could return to the team if
the situation improves. So how come the Raiders are not
cutting ties with Chandler Jones. Clearly his actions are that
of someone that you would say needs to be fired
from their job. If I sent out those kind of comments,
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I would not be put on time out. I would
be given a pink slip and that's it. So this
is a little dicey year because it's simply a pr game,
it's a public relations game. Social media experts have already
diagnosed that Chandler Jones has either CTE or mental health.
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I've read schizophrenia. I read that there's twelve other illnesses
that all of the experts on social media have handed out.
So you can't get rid of a guy who's having
an issue. And I don't doubt there's stuff going on
with Chandler Jones. He had issues with the New England
Patriots and we don't really know what those issues are,
and by the way, either to you. But it's all
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about spitball. When you break it down, further though, the
Silver and Black are following what we call the doctrine
of pigskin. You never give up on talent. If Chandler
Jones right, if Chandler Jones was one of the garbage
pale kids, chin up, Chandler, the Raiders would have said,
(24:24):
bye bye, see you later, you garbage pale kid, get
out of here. But Chandler Jones has in his career
been a very good player, and his name in this
era of the NFL defensively at what he does rushing
the passer has been very good. And so the Raiders
are like, oh, you know what I'm saying, there's a
chance we'll leave the door open just in case the
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doctors give him a whole bag of pharmaceuticals and whatever
goodies they give him. There he'll find the magic beans
and be able to come back and help the the Raiders.
Of course, the way the Raiders are going, man, man,
a life that is not looking particularly great. There not
one of the better vintages of Raider football.
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Been Andy the comic book guy was just talking about
the Miami Dolphins and he also mentioned the Denver Broncos. Well,
the Denver Broncos go on the road for their first
road game of the season to face the Miami Dolphins.
If the Broncos lose and go zero to three, is
their season over?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Uh, well, there's seasons already over. But historically Sean paid.
If you based Sean Payton on what he did in
New Orleans, his teams usually didn't play very well the
first couple of games, and then three or four they
started cranking things up. But I actually kind of like
the Broncos. I'll make my pick on Benny versus the
Penny this weekend. But the Broncos are a mess anyway.
They're not really going anywhere, so you know that Kooper Loop.
(26:47):
You don't need me to tell you that. And Andy
the comic Bye and the comic book guy would like
the Broncos to help his team out and beat the
Miami Dolphins. Good luck on that. But I actually think
that points spreads a little inflated in the Miami Denver
game because your Broncos did look they showed like they
could move the ball a little bit, and the Dolphins
defense is not very good. So at least Denver should
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be able to put some points up in Miami if
nothing else. All right, what is next?
Speaker 6 (27:12):
We've talked about the chances of Deon Sanders leaving for
the NFL, but what about other college another college program.
Colorado legend Chad Brown told TMZ that he doesn't think
Dion would leave for anyone other than maybe Michigan, Ohio State,
Alabama or Florida State.
Speaker 7 (27:27):
Ben, do you agree?
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I do not agree with Chad Brown. The hot rumor
of the week is that Dion's going to go other
some other university leave Colorado behind. But Dion, He's not
gonna stay at Colorado long term. This is just a
stopover in Colorado. And the highest level of college football
is the SEC and the Big Ten and the glamour schools. Yeah,
(27:49):
that would be kind of cool. But I could see
Dion Sanders going to a place like Auburn or Tennessee
or somewhere like that and dominate. Imagine him on Rocky
re reigniting the Tennessee football program. Dion right now is
the hottest thing in college football. And you know, we'll
see what happens after they get vaporized by Oregon and USC.
(28:11):
How hot he is next.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
Since winning Defensive Rookie of the Year in twenty twenty,
Chase Young has only appeared in thirteen games for the Commanders.
He made his season debut last week and had a
big impact with one and a half sacks and seven
quarterback pressures. Ben, how important is Chase Young to Washington's success.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Oh, he's a good player, but it's limited. Washington's a
middling team and they am not impressed with how they've started,
even though they're too And oh, but he's a guy
that one or two plays a game. He can he
can change the course of the game. How do we
do cope?
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Man, No way we go to ask Ben. Your questions
are answered for the rest of the hour. To say
appetizer to get us started, get us in the mood,
and the reading of the questions from the cop Bell loop.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
Cowboy Killer wants to know how old were you when
you went on your first date and was it chaperone
by any parents.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I was thirty five years old when I went on
my first No, h I think, well like they weren't
successful when I was in high school. No, it was
not chaperone by my parents, and I was at the mall.
We just have these things called malls. They were indoor malls,
and that's where we'd hang out, us kids. We'd hang
out the mall. That was a lot of fun. What
(29:44):
about you, Eddie? What about you, Eddie?
Speaker 3 (29:46):
It was not chaperone. I'm sure it was a school
dance in high school.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I never went to those.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Well, those are chaperone, weren't they Well, not by like
parents or anything. I mean they had like teachers there
to make sure there was no drinking, fighting or I.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
Don't know if that counts as a first date.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Yes, it doesn't count.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
No, you got someone putting a beach ball or a
balloon in between you. And because I mean because there's
because everybody's there, the whole school's there. It's got to
be if you're specifically going with someone, isn't that that's
your date for the party?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Not dance.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
J The jury's decided, not a date.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
I've never been on a date. Then, I guess, okay,
what about.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
You might want to take your wife out it, come on,
take her around? What about you?
Speaker 6 (30:28):
I was Sam, I'd say probably my first day was
like eighth grade, you know, thirteen years old. Fourteen, twelve
thirteen going to ice skating with a girl named April
and then she moved away.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Wait a minute, what's the difference between going to a
dance or going ice skating.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
Well, we've met each other there and hands while we're
ice skating.
Speaker 7 (30:48):
It's just it's it's not like it's not a school
for function.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
What does that have to do with it?
Speaker 1 (30:54):
But that's not a date.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
This is at a mall too.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
It's at the Coral Ridge Mall in Coralville. Ile I
a protest me. You're you have to go somewhere.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
With with I did go somewhere.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I would go every day. No, which it's the frequency?
Speaker 3 (31:09):
And what if Sam went to the mall every day?
Speaker 1 (31:12):
No, take the l eddie coop please.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
I was twelve.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Wow, cool starting young. Huh Hollywood boy, that's right. The
ladies were all over and.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
You had the cash. I brought uh. This girl megan
to miscongeniality.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
At the the movie.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
Yes, the movie at the at the Pacific Theaters in
uh when THECA Pacific Theater.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yeah, that's impressive.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Cool, were like stre.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
There was some hand holding and I just I remember thinking,
like God, my hand is so sweaty, but like you
don't want to, you don't want to let let go.
But yeah, my dad, my dad drove us and picked
us up, but it was not chaperone.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
You're gonna protest on that eddie because his dad. You
said to the l yeah you did take the All right,
why don't we pause with the causeway A long giant
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And we continue spitting in the wind. It is asked Ben,
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what is next?
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Cool?
Speaker 1 (32:56):
All right?
Speaker 7 (32:56):
Cool?
Speaker 6 (32:57):
Mort wants to know, Hi, Mort, do you do you
dunk your cookies and milk.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I'm not a big milk guy, but back in the day,
I was the number one person in the mallor and
my mom. She's not with us anymore, but she could verify.
I was the number one person at the Oreo cookie
dip and also chocolate chip cookies. I ate a lot
of cookies. I was a fat ass. I loved yes,
But as an adult, I haven't done it in years. Eddie.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
There's only one cookie that I really enjoyed dunking, and
that was the chips Ahoy cookie. Solid choice because it
was it was kind of a hard cookie, but it
really soaked up like the milk. It really kind of
almost like a sponge. So that was my go to
cookie to dunk in the milk.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
There.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
That was really the only one I would do it too.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Yeah, that made you feel pretty good, you know that
particular cookie. Yeah, all right, what about you? Cool? I
was saying, I was.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
I like milk.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
I still drink milk usually I just put it in
coffee or no, just answer the question.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
No, I do not dunk cookies really. Now do you
drink milk? Because of the milk marketing campaign that you know,
milk does a body good and all that stuff.
Speaker 7 (34:09):
I drink milk because I like the taste.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
I'm kind of like Jim Harby. Because you're an I
from Iowa. You're a hearty Iowan and you like to
taste of milk.
Speaker 7 (34:16):
Yeah, I like taste of milk.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
And also I don't have Actually a lot of people
have like gastro intestinal problems, like it'll cause them to
have you know, they might be lactose in tolerant later
in life, maybe get some gas and stuff. It actually
does the opposite for me. If I have like heartburn,
it'll immediately put that out. And so if I have
some you know, a hot stomach so to speak, I
will drink some milk and it'll just soothe my my gut.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
So that's all it takes. Right, What about you?
Speaker 7 (34:43):
I am not a cookie dunker.
Speaker 6 (34:46):
I also enjoy milk, but I don't want little like
pieces of stuff falling off into the milk.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Little black pieces of chocolate. Don't You don't want any floaters?
Speaker 6 (34:59):
Correct, It's kind of nice at the end, though, you
got to chunks at the bottom and then you just
kind of swill them all. No, No, I love I
love having a glass of milk with chocolate chip cookies,
but like separate, I can do that.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Okay, all right, it's a great conversation. What is next here?
What do we have? What is next?
Speaker 6 (35:18):
Just Josh wants to know. This is for Iowa. Sam.
Have you ever shucked an ear of corn while playing
a banjo with your feet?
Speaker 4 (35:28):
No?
Speaker 7 (35:28):
I haven't.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Anyone that's like your bar mitswood Iowa when you turn thirteen?
Is that what you have to do?
Speaker 6 (35:35):
I use my toes and my feet for some things
that I use my hands for, like you know, you
got your hands full. You got your hands full, and
you have to like open up a door, so you know,
use your you know. But I've never been able to
play an instrument with my feet. So more of that
banjo music.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Any let's go that's bad.
Speaker 6 (35:56):
Yeah, late night drug Tester. For the Late night drug Tester,
he wants to know, would you rather be in a
zombie apocalypse or a robot apocalypse?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Let's think about that. I think robots because you like
pour water on them and stuff and kind of master rhythm.
So I think I get like a fire hose and
I go after the robots. I don't know what to
do with zombies. How do you How do you stop
a zombie?
Speaker 3 (36:23):
That's a tough one because zombies are not very intelligent.
I don't think their brains have been whereas you know,
robots could be supercomputers? How do you out smart that?
Speaker 1 (36:32):
It'd be kind of cool to come back when we
die itty as a zombie. Wouldn't that be fun?
Speaker 3 (36:36):
No, I wouldn't enjoy that. Actually maybe you would, though,
I'm gonna go zombie.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
That's bad answer, bad take by you. What about Iowa say?
Speaker 6 (36:47):
I feel like robots might have like superhuman strength. You know,
they think it out terrible, like the AI stuff is.
It's really crappy.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
They're talking about it is not good yet, so they
can't even right.
Speaker 7 (37:01):
Eddie's got the right answer.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Yes, I do zombies. You're wrong.
Speaker 7 (37:05):
Definitely got to go.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
What is next that you guys hit.
Speaker 7 (37:07):
Him over the shovel?
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (37:10):
Ferg Cat would like to know. Have you ever won
an kitty?
Speaker 6 (37:13):
Have you ever won anything from a claw machine?
Speaker 1 (37:17):
I have not, But my brother, the poet who lives
in Appleton, Wisconsin. Now, when we were kids, he was
the master of the claw and so we he was
my my younger brother still is, and so we would
always get him any any pizza place. We would go
to Chuck e Cheese with round table, Shaky's. We would
get him to go to the claw machine. Even when
(37:38):
he's like a little kid, he was always the master.
So yes, when not me, but my my brother was
my go to Eddie quickly.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Uh no, but I've seen videos how you hack them
and get prizes. I want to try it.
Speaker 6 (37:50):
That's cheating, I was saying, Yes I have, and it's
a scam. You have to put a certain amount of
money into it before you get a prize.
Speaker 7 (37:55):
All right, cool, Yes, yes I have.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Yeah. Sometimes those things are rig though, and they put
the things in wrong and you can shake that.
Speaker 7 (38:02):
You can shake the there you can't get them.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Well, no, you can shake the machine sometimes and you're
not supposed to do that. But on tilt
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Here the NonStop sweat shop of sports talk open for business.
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
(01:53):
we're kind of going with it. And then there's other
days we get served the meatballs and that's 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
(02:16):
don't know if you did or not. I don't know
if you did it not, but it was great. What
a great store. 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 (02:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Oh, and I'm photo ready unless i'm not.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
So.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
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 pundits
who were massaging his toes and how great he was
going to be, but that that take really didn't do
so well right Justin Field's talk with the media about
(03:03):
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 not making that up here
is that part of Justin Field's ran. Here, here's Fields
(03:25):
explaining what I just say.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
What do you say thinking lass, What do you think
was causing you to think so much? Maybe thinks much?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
You know it could be uh 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 you know,
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 at that point,
so thinking less and you know, playing more.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Well, that was actually the second sound by that was
what we call the money sound. Like 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.
(04:18):
So after that, sir, 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
(04:41):
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 listen.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
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 we
just say that, if you paint the picture on the
inside out, like y'all are trying to split up, split
us up at the tea.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
As I'm not blaming anything on the coaches.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I'm never gonna blame anything on the coaches, never gonna
blame anything on my teammates. I will take every whatever
happens in the game, I will take all the blame.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I don't care to drop past. It should have been
a past. Put it on me.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
But never we hear anything come out of my mouth
to where I will blame it on somebody else in
this organization, my teammates.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Never will you hear that.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
So I just want to cry that out and just
know that, like I need to play better. That's it,
point blank. If y'all's that's what I should have said
in the first place. But you know, I was trying
to give y'all more details cause 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 drop So I'm gonna do that and in the future, Like,
(05:50):
but I ask you guys, just to put the whole
quote out, don't cut it up into words and pieces
to make it seem like I'm saying something that I'm not.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
So Justin Fields now is given 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. We just played
it for you. So I've got Cherry Tree, Indiana Jones,
and Iceberg, and we will combine all of these things
(06:21):
together and we are going to make a Wanna get
away kind of a day, which it was for the
Chicago Bears PR department who were working overtime in the
spin zone, Spin Spin Spin, and also Justin Field's agent.
He got all these endorsement deals based on idiots on
ESPN saying he was gonna win the MVP and he sucks,
(06:44):
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
into a demonic sinkhole as the day went on here
and he made a fatal flaw. Now what was the
(07:06):
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
gave a frank answer, and just like the legend, which
of course is not sure, it was a fable that
(07:27):
George Washington, you know 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
Bear's front office confronted mister Fields and they probably told
(07:50):
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,
just the beginning part. Listen to the question and Justin
Field's response. Here, listen to what he said very closely,
(08:11):
but just the beginning part. What do you say thinking less?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
What do you think was causing you to think so much?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Maybe thinks much?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
You know, could be oh, that's up right, then Jack
cout Jack, then Justin Fields. He ends up using the
old gas light 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
(08:40):
the page, but not turning it too far. What's really
going on with Justin Fields at hallis Hall?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Now?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
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
(09:08):
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,
(09:30):
but Justin Fields would rather do improv at the open
mic at Chuckles Comedy 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
someone asked Indy what he's going to do next? And
(09:51):
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 Field in a very small
(10:12):
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
(10:33):
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 Yaphemi and all the legends
(10:53):
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
(11:15):
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 the head coach, Matt Eberflus, is going to take
(11:36):
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
(11:56):
go with what we call the Iceberg hypothesis. 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
(12:17):
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 taboo rumors,
very tawdry rumors involving the federal government being involved if
(12:41):
you look close enough in the Naked City which never sleeps,
But eventually, eventually, whatever happened, and maybe it's benign and
he's actually telling the truth and he's got some medical
condition of 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
(13:02):
is in absolute mid season four. It is a poop fest.
The Bears have the third most missed tackles in the
NFL and they have given up the fourth most yak
in the league yards after the catch which costed. They
miss a lot of tackles. And you can complete short
passes against Chicago and run run run, run, run, Run
(13:27):
run run run. Bavoom goes the wide receivers past. Yeah
say a hot mess.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
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App Ending the Hunt, it was not a very long hunt,
but it's now over. Welmeme. In the beginning of another
hour of The Ben Mallor Show, we are in the
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Let's spun quite a bit on hump Day. And if
you were not keeping track, because you have a life
good for you, you have a job good for you,
or you were just lazy, perhaps you missed it. So
the Cleveland Browns needed a running back. Nick Chubba lub
blub is gone, unfortunately having that breakfast of not champions,
(15:09):
the snap, crackle, pop variety of the knee going a
direction that should not have gone. So Nick Schubb is
out and the Browns have made a move to replace him.
And it turns out you can go home again as
Kareem Hunt is the player they picked. He returns to
his hometown team, the team he played for in recent years.
(15:30):
While the Vikings also lit up the transaction wire, they
made a move. They acquired running back Cam Akers in
a deal with the Rams, and not much of a trade,
more of a giveaway. So why don't we start in
Northern Ohio. We'll start with the move that we mentioned
first year. So let us discuss the question why did
(15:53):
the Browns go back to Kareem Hunt? Why Kareem Hunt?
So I've got Needle Point, Doyle Brunson, and Garbage Pale Kids,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a Canadian salad poutine. That's
what we're gonna make. So number one, the Browns decided
(16:23):
they wanted to go back to the comfort zone. Nepotism
is a big thing, and people get upset by nepotism.
They get annoyed by it. But it goes on in
every business. I work in the radio business. I see
people getting hired because they know people, not necessarily because
they're the most important or the top person for the job,
but because they happen to know something. But nepotism is
(16:43):
the word of the day here. It's not what you know,
it's who you know. And Kareem Hunt played in Cleveland.
He's in his happy place. They're they're happy with him.
Cleveland parted ways though this interesting note. They parted ways
with Kareem Hunt because they didn't think he was worth
the money. They assumed the position that they could replace
him with a cheaper labor option, shall we say, right,
(17:06):
as someone who's inexperienced but cost effective at the running
back position. And now that Nick Chubb is in crutches,
the Browns have decided to circle back to Hunt, even
though his resume is pot marked so on the Mallor
report card, the Cleveland Browns get a C plus on
the Malor report card for this signing. It's a slightly
(17:28):
above average signing. Slightly above average. Didn't give it a
second look when you take a glimpse a little snapshot
of his recent performance. Kareem Hunt had some big runs
back in the day with Kansas City early on in Cleveland,
but as they say in France, he has been lacking
(17:48):
the genes sequah. Regardless though, ultimately this is a needle
point situation for the Cleveland football team. They are putting
together a patchwork quick. They've lost some offensive line power.
Now they've lost Nick Chubb and they have to run
the ball. They have to make this work in Cleveland
(18:10):
with Kareem Hunt and Ford in the backfield. Because Deshaun
Watson is a vacuum. He sucks the energy out of
the room. There at quarterback. More on Deshaun Watson later.
There's a great Deshaun Watson's story bouncing around the echo
chamber that we'll get to in a later hours, so
hopefully you'll be able to hear that. Now page two,
(18:32):
we go to Los Angeles. Hello, we learned that the
Rams decided they cannot ram it all day and ram
it all night with cam Acres anymore. The disgruntled running
back has been shipped off to the land of ten
thousand Lakes, even though there's many more than ten thousand lakes.
Hopefully cam Acers before he finds a home there, will
stay at the Mermaid. That's where we had the big
(18:53):
Mallard meet and greet in the Twin Cities. Fine location,
although you got to go the speed limit. Very active
local law enforcement there that love to write tickets. Now,
Adam Schefter tells us that Minnesota and LA agreed to
a late round pickswap in twenty twenty six, whatever that
means as part of the deal. So let's break it
(19:14):
down somewhat scientifically. What does the cam Akers trade to
the Vikings? Tell us? So a couple of thoughts here
follow the breadcrumbs as the Godfather of poker. The late
Doyle Brunson would have said, this is a tell. It
is a tell. Actions speak louder than words, and what
the Vikings are saying by making this trade is Alexander Madison,
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you are not carrying the water. You're not getting it done.
And the Vikings thought that they would be okay without
Dalvin Cook, who isn't lighting the world on fire with
the Jets. But they thought okay, Dalvin Cook had reached
his expiration date. So we're gonna go. We're gonna go
with Alexander Madison. We got a whole bunch of other
running backs who are not named brand running backs. And
(19:59):
to out that they have been wrong Minnesota. Their backfield
has been a flophouse and it has really been terrible.
It's only two games, so that's all we have. The
judges on the Vikings are the worst running team in
the NFL. They have a league were sixty nine rushing
yards that against almost seven hundred passing yards. Their second
(20:23):
in the entire NFL in passing yards. But they can't
run the ball. Now, some of that is the offensive line,
but there have been If you watched the game last
Thursday against Philadelphia, there were some holes that were not
exploited against that Eagles defense because Madison and the other
running backs we're not able to circumvent around the would
(20:44):
be tacklers. In addition, though this is another nepotism situation,
it's good to have friends. Cam Akers had worn out
as welcome in La La Land. Drafted out of Florida State,
Uber talented like everyone who's drafted in the first or
said round, and he has provided a spotty performance in
his NFL career. And so Sean McVay sent a text
(21:07):
message over to his old powell, Kevin O'Connell, the coach
in Minnesota, and Presto Shazam Acres is reunited and it
feels so good with his old coach, Kevin O'Connell, who
was with him with the Rams as an assistant to
Sean McVay. And the Rams traded him for a half
(21:30):
eaten baloney sandwich. That's what they got from the Vikings,
a half eaten blooney sandwich, which is a sixth or
a seventh round pick whatever it turns out to be
a pick swap in twenty twenty six. And so this
is the ultimate change of scenery. And I watched over
the last couple years cam Akers play, not recently because
he's been in Sean mcvay's doghouse, but when I've seen him,
(21:50):
he's got the talent, he just hasn't been able to
get it done. He does not have that explosion that
he had in college at Florida State. And so this
is a resurrection in situation, there's a lot to tidy up.
Scrub a dub dub. Now we head to Sin City
better known as Lost Wages, Nevada, where all the casinos
(22:12):
are hacked, and they're having a nightmare over there in Vegas.
But we are hearing now the Raiders also having a nightmare.
They have placed defensive end Chandler Jones on time out.
Chandler Jones has been put on the Non Football Illness List.
Jones had multiple social media rants that were from bizarro World.
(22:33):
Right there in Bizarro World, directly criticizing the owner Mark Davis.
He did not attack Mark Davis's love of PF. Chang's,
but he did attack him in much more personal ways.
Also the GM Dave Ziegler and head coach Josh McDaniels.
He might have even ripped JT the brick I don't know.
Maybe he did. Now publicly, the team is standing behind
(22:57):
Chandler Jones, the ex pat. They have not ruled out
in statements that he could return to the team if
the situation improves. So how come the Raiders are not
cutting ties with Chandler Jones. Clearly his actions are that
of someone that you would say needs to be fired
from their job. If I sent out those kind of comments,
(23:18):
I would not be put on time out. I would
be given a pink slip and that's it. So this
is a little dicey year because it's simply a pr game,
it's a public relations game. Social media experts have already
diagnosed that Chandler Jones has either CTE or mental health.
(23:40):
I've read schizophrenia. I read that there's twelve other illnesses
that all of the experts on social media have handed out.
So you can't get rid of a guy who's having
an issue. And I don't doubt there's stuff going on
with Chandler Jones. He had issues with the New England
Patriots and we don't really know what those issues are,
and by the way, either to you. But it's all
(24:01):
about spitball. When you break it down, further though, the
Silver and Black are following what we call the doctrine
of pigskin. You never give up on talent. If Chandler
Jones right, if Chandler Jones was one of the garbage
pale kids, chin up, Chandler, the Raiders would have said,
(24:24):
bye bye, see you later, you garbage pale kid, get
out of here. But Chandler Jones has in his career
been a very good player, and his name in this
era of the NFL defensively at what he does rushing
the passer has been very good. And so the Raiders
are like, oh, you know what I'm saying, there's a
chance we'll leave the door open just in case the
(24:47):
doctors give him a whole bag of pharmaceuticals and whatever
goodies they give him. There he'll find the magic beans
and be able to come back and help the the Raiders.
Of course, the way the Raiders are going, man, man,
a life that is not looking particularly great. There not
one of the better vintages of Raider football.
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Speaker 6 (26:08):
Been Andy the comic book guy was just talking about
the Miami Dolphins and he also mentioned the Denver Broncos. Well,
the Denver Broncos go on the road for their first
road game of the season to face the Miami Dolphins.
If the Broncos lose and go zero to three, is
their season over?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Uh, well, there's seasons already over. But historically Sean paid.
If you based Sean Payton on what he did in
New Orleans, his teams usually didn't play very well the
first couple of games, and then three or four they
started cranking things up. But I actually kind of like
the Broncos. I'll make my pick on Benny versus the
Penny this weekend. But the Broncos are a mess anyway.
They're not really going anywhere, so you know that Kooper Loop.
(26:47):
You don't need me to tell you that. And Andy
the comic Bye and the comic book guy would like
the Broncos to help his team out and beat the
Miami Dolphins. Good luck on that. But I actually think
that points spreads a little inflated in the Miami Denver
game because your Broncos did look they showed like they
could move the ball a little bit, and the Dolphins
defense is not very good. So at least Denver should
(27:07):
be able to put some points up in Miami if
nothing else. All right, what is next?
Speaker 6 (27:12):
We've talked about the chances of Deon Sanders leaving for
the NFL, but what about other college another college program.
Colorado legend Chad Brown told TMZ that he doesn't think
Dion would leave for anyone other than maybe Michigan, Ohio State,
Alabama or Florida State.
Speaker 7 (27:27):
Ben, do you agree?
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I do not agree with Chad Brown. The hot rumor
of the week is that Dion's going to go other
some other university leave Colorado behind. But Dion, He's not
gonna stay at Colorado long term. This is just a
stopover in Colorado. And the highest level of college football
is the SEC and the Big Ten and the glamour schools. Yeah,
(27:49):
that would be kind of cool. But I could see
Dion Sanders going to a place like Auburn or Tennessee
or somewhere like that and dominate. Imagine him on Rocky
re reigniting the Tennessee football program. Dion right now is
the hottest thing in college football. And you know, we'll
see what happens after they get vaporized by Oregon and USC.
(28:11):
How hot he is next.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
Since winning Defensive Rookie of the Year in twenty twenty,
Chase Young has only appeared in thirteen games for the Commanders.
He made his season debut last week and had a
big impact with one and a half sacks and seven
quarterback pressures. Ben, how important is Chase Young to Washington's success.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Oh, he's a good player, but it's limited. Washington's a
middling team and they am not impressed with how they've started,
even though they're too And oh, but he's a guy
that one or two plays a game. He can he
can change the course of the game. How do we
do cope?
Speaker 7 (28:39):
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Speaker 6 (29:17):
Cowboy Killer wants to know how old were you when
you went on your first date and was it chaperone
by any parents.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I was thirty five years old when I went on
my first No, h I think, well like they weren't
successful when I was in high school. No, it was
not chaperone by my parents, and I was at the mall.
We just have these things called malls. They were indoor malls,
and that's where we'd hang out, us kids. We'd hang
out the mall. That was a lot of fun. What
(29:44):
about you, Eddie? What about you, Eddie?
Speaker 3 (29:46):
It was not chaperone. I'm sure it was a school
dance in high school.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I never went to those.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Well, those are chaperone, weren't they Well, not by like
parents or anything. I mean they had like teachers there
to make sure there was no drinking, fighting or I.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
Don't know if that counts as a first date.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Yes, it doesn't count.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
No, you got someone putting a beach ball or a
balloon in between you. And because I mean because there's
because everybody's there, the whole school's there. It's got to
be if you're specifically going with someone, isn't that that's
your date for the party?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Not dance.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
J The jury's decided, not a date.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
I've never been on a date. Then, I guess, okay,
what about.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
You might want to take your wife out it, come on,
take her around? What about you?
Speaker 6 (30:28):
I was Sam, I'd say probably my first day was
like eighth grade, you know, thirteen years old. Fourteen, twelve
thirteen going to ice skating with a girl named April
and then she moved away.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Wait a minute, what's the difference between going to a
dance or going ice skating.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
Well, we've met each other there and hands while we're
ice skating.
Speaker 7 (30:48):
It's just it's it's not like it's not a school
for function.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
What does that have to do with it?
Speaker 1 (30:54):
But that's not a date.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
This is at a mall too.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
It's at the Coral Ridge Mall in Coralville. Ile I
a protest me. You're you have to go somewhere.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
With with I did go somewhere.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I would go every day. No, which it's the frequency?
Speaker 3 (31:09):
And what if Sam went to the mall every day?
Speaker 1 (31:12):
No, take the l eddie coop please.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
I was twelve.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Wow, cool starting young. Huh Hollywood boy, that's right. The
ladies were all over and.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
You had the cash. I brought uh. This girl megan
to miscongeniality.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
At the the movie.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
Yes, the movie at the at the Pacific Theaters in
uh when THECA Pacific Theater.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yeah, that's impressive.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Cool, were like stre.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
There was some hand holding and I just I remember thinking,
like God, my hand is so sweaty, but like you
don't want to, you don't want to let let go.
But yeah, my dad, my dad drove us and picked
us up, but it was not chaperone.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
You're gonna protest on that eddie because his dad. You
said to the l yeah you did take the All right,
why don't we pause with the causeway A long giant
segment of ask Ben, keep the questions coming in hashtag
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And we continue spitting in the wind. It is asked Ben,
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(32:54):
what is next?
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Cool?
Speaker 1 (32:56):
All right?
Speaker 7 (32:56):
Cool?
Speaker 6 (32:57):
Mort wants to know, Hi, Mort, do you do you
dunk your cookies and milk.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I'm not a big milk guy, but back in the day,
I was the number one person in the mallor and
my mom. She's not with us anymore, but she could verify.
I was the number one person at the Oreo cookie
dip and also chocolate chip cookies. I ate a lot
of cookies. I was a fat ass. I loved yes,
But as an adult, I haven't done it in years. Eddie.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
There's only one cookie that I really enjoyed dunking, and
that was the chips Ahoy cookie. Solid choice because it
was it was kind of a hard cookie, but it
really soaked up like the milk. It really kind of
almost like a sponge. So that was my go to
cookie to dunk in the milk.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
There.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
That was really the only one I would do it too.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Yeah, that made you feel pretty good, you know that
particular cookie. Yeah, all right, what about you? Cool? I
was saying, I was.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
I like milk.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
I still drink milk usually I just put it in
coffee or no, just answer the question.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
No, I do not dunk cookies really. Now do you
drink milk? Because of the milk marketing campaign that you know,
milk does a body good and all that stuff.
Speaker 7 (34:09):
I drink milk because I like the taste.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
I'm kind of like Jim Harby. Because you're an I
from Iowa. You're a hearty Iowan and you like to
taste of milk.
Speaker 7 (34:16):
Yeah, I like taste of milk.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
And also I don't have Actually a lot of people
have like gastro intestinal problems, like it'll cause them to
have you know, they might be lactose in tolerant later
in life, maybe get some gas and stuff. It actually
does the opposite for me. If I have like heartburn,
it'll immediately put that out. And so if I have
some you know, a hot stomach so to speak, I
will drink some milk and it'll just soothe my my gut.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
So that's all it takes. Right, What about you?
Speaker 7 (34:43):
I am not a cookie dunker.
Speaker 6 (34:46):
I also enjoy milk, but I don't want little like
pieces of stuff falling off into the milk.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Little black pieces of chocolate. Don't You don't want any floaters?
Speaker 6 (34:59):
Correct, It's kind of nice at the end, though, you
got to chunks at the bottom and then you just
kind of swill them all. No, No, I love I
love having a glass of milk with chocolate chip cookies,
but like separate, I can do that.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Okay, all right, it's a great conversation. What is next here?
What do we have? What is next?
Speaker 6 (35:18):
Just Josh wants to know. This is for Iowa. Sam.
Have you ever shucked an ear of corn while playing
a banjo with your feet?
Speaker 4 (35:28):
No?
Speaker 7 (35:28):
I haven't.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Anyone that's like your bar mitswood Iowa when you turn thirteen?
Is that what you have to do?
Speaker 6 (35:35):
I use my toes and my feet for some things
that I use my hands for, like you know, you
got your hands full. You got your hands full, and
you have to like open up a door, so you know,
use your you know. But I've never been able to
play an instrument with my feet. So more of that
banjo music.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Any let's go that's bad.
Speaker 6 (35:56):
Yeah, late night drug Tester. For the Late night drug Tester,
he wants to know, would you rather be in a
zombie apocalypse or a robot apocalypse?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Let's think about that. I think robots because you like
pour water on them and stuff and kind of master rhythm.
So I think I get like a fire hose and
I go after the robots. I don't know what to
do with zombies. How do you How do you stop
a zombie?
Speaker 3 (36:23):
That's a tough one because zombies are not very intelligent.
I don't think their brains have been whereas you know,
robots could be supercomputers? How do you out smart that?
Speaker 1 (36:32):
It'd be kind of cool to come back when we
die itty as a zombie. Wouldn't that be fun?
Speaker 3 (36:36):
No, I wouldn't enjoy that. Actually maybe you would, though,
I'm gonna go zombie.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
That's bad answer, bad take by you. What about Iowa say?
Speaker 6 (36:47):
I feel like robots might have like superhuman strength. You know,
they think it out terrible, like the AI stuff is.
It's really crappy.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
They're talking about it is not good yet, so they
can't even right.
Speaker 7 (37:01):
Eddie's got the right answer.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Yes, I do zombies. You're wrong.
Speaker 7 (37:05):
Definitely got to go.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
What is next that you guys hit.
Speaker 7 (37:07):
Him over the shovel?
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (37:10):
Ferg Cat would like to know. Have you ever won
an kitty?
Speaker 6 (37:13):
Have you ever won anything from a claw machine?
Speaker 1 (37:17):
I have not, But my brother, the poet who lives
in Appleton, Wisconsin. Now, when we were kids, he was
the master of the claw and so we he was
my my younger brother still is, and so we would
always get him any any pizza place. We would go
to Chuck e Cheese with round table, Shaky's. We would
get him to go to the claw machine. Even when
(37:38):
he's like a little kid, he was always the master.
So yes, when not me, but my my brother was
my go to Eddie quickly.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Uh no, but I've seen videos how you hack them
and get prizes. I want to try it.
Speaker 6 (37:50):
That's cheating, I was saying, Yes I have, and it's
a scam. You have to put a certain amount of
money into it before you get a prize.
Speaker 7 (37:55):
All right, cool, Yes, yes I have.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Yeah. Sometimes those things are rig though, and they put
the things in wrong and you can shake that.
Speaker 7 (38:02):
You can shake the there you can't get them.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Well, no, you can shake the machine sometimes and you're
not supposed to do that. But on tilt
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