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September 26, 2023 • 38 mins

Ben Maller talks about Baker Mayfield's career renaissance screeching to a halt against the Philadelphia Eagles on MNF, how much damage this game does to the Bucs, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our numb Bert. We walked the
plank on the pirate ship as Philadelphia scores an easy
win over Tampa Bay in the game Monday Night. What
happened to the career renaissance? It lasted two weeks of
Baker Mayfield. Also, how much damage did this game do

(00:23):
to the bucks zeitgeist? And did Jalen Hurts completely crush
that narrative that he struggles to read defenses. We'll talk
about all of these angles and many more branches of
the topic tree right now in our number two a

(00:43):
bird feast if you will on a pirate ship. Welcome
and not beginning of another hour the Ben Mather Show.
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Monday Night Football. We talked last hour. If you were
listening about the Cincinnati LA game, you can hear that

(01:48):
archived shortly after we get done. The podcast will be
up our thoughts on that, but we would expand now
this hour on what happened in Tampa formerly known briefly
as Tampa Bay. But Tom Brady ain't fucking back through
that door. No, he's not. The first leg of the
Monday night football doubleheader, the Eagles and the upstart Buccaneers

(02:09):
coming in. You look at the record, You're like, wait,
what's going on here? Tampa Bay playing better than expected,
the Eagles off to the goods start, even though they
hadn't played that well, the beneficiary of a number of turnovers.
So locking horns at the pirate ship, what happened in
the game? Get to the game? We need the game.
Get to the game. So shiver me timbers, shall we say?

(02:30):
Jalen Hurts. He threw for a touchdown, he ran for
another touchdown. There were some bumps along the way, but
the Eagles get a victory on an end of game
drive that went over nine minutes. The end of game
drive for the Philadelphia offense went more than nine minutes,
and so the Eagles remain unbeaten twenty five to eleven.

(02:52):
The final over Tampa Bay. The Birds off to the
three to zero start for consecutive seasons for the first
time since the early nineties, over a generation ago in
the early nineties. But the better story is where that's right,
the losing locker room. So that is where we start.
Let us discuss the question what the heck happened? What

(03:17):
the heck happened to the career renaissance of one Baker Mayfield.
Baker doing so well, Oh he is so good. Baker
Mayfield this, that and the other. He played pretty well
against Minnesota in week one, didn't snak up the joint
in week two. You're like, there's something going on here.
So I've got dinner menu, aptitude test, and kryptonite, and

(03:42):
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make Cuban cigars. Now, I used to
work with a guy here at Fox Sports Radio named
Tony Bruno who spent a lot of time in Tampa.
In fact, he moved to Florida, lives there now, but said,
the greatest Cuban cigars in Tampa. Also the Cuban sandwich.
Also I've never had the Cuban sandwich, but good there anyway.

(04:05):
So number one, Yes, what happened to the career renaissance
of Baker Mayfield. Well, we can hit the pause button
on the remote control, will pause the rebirth of Baker Mayfield.
Their life does apparently come at you fast in the NFL. Now,
we believe, foolishly, we believe that Baker Mayfield had turned

(04:27):
some kind of imaginary corner, that he was in a
new environment with good receivers and things were clicking. Things
were clicking there after struggling for the last couple of
years with the Browns, Rams Panthers. That Baker Mayfield had
found the secret recipe that was hidden in a sofa

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underneath one of the pillows on the sofa, that he
had found what he needed in Florida, and he was
starting to cook a little bit for the bucks over
the first two weeks. Now, Baker Mayfield coming into the
game Monday night was the NFL's fifth highest rated quarterback.
He had a higher quarterback rating than Patrick Mahomes and

(05:10):
Lamar Jackson. Now you knew that wasn't going to last.
But at the same time, you did not expect what
you got in the game on Monday night because Philadelphia defensively,
they had been dreadful at stopping the pass. How bad
had they been the first couple weeks of the year,
and the game against Minnesota and the Patriots and Mac

(05:31):
Jones tore up the Eagle defense pretty well. In the
middle part of that Week one game, the Vikings got
a bunch of big touchdowns, big pass plays against the
Eagle defense. The Philadelphia pass defense was ranked thirtieth in
the NFL coming in, so you had small sample size
Baker Mayfield the two week wonder and then you had
the Eagles on the other side that couldn't get it

(05:53):
done defensively, and only the Seahawks and Chargers worse than
Philadelphia stopping the pass to begin So what the heck
happened on Monday Night? Well, we had a regression to
the mean and the side of Baker Mayfield. So essentially
we got bamboozled and hoodwinked and hornswaggled and all those

(06:13):
big words. It was skulduggery, is what happened to us.
We were the victims of skulduggery because Baker Mayfield served
up a classic dinner menu item that he has served
up many times in his days in Cleveland and in
Carolina and briefly with the Rams. Baker Mayfield served up
dead meat loaf. That's what he was. He was dead
meat loaf out there on the field. Just terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible.

(06:39):
One hundred and forty eight passing yards averaged less than
six yards per attempt seven is average, a touchdown had
the interception, Baker was trying to for most of the
game drink out of a fire hose, and good luck
on that against the Eagles defense. So has the glass
slipper now turned back into a crappy shoe for Baker Mayfield.

(07:01):
We're not quite there yet. But if you take a
look at the big picture here, Tampa Bay in a
division with a bunch of also runs like that is
a bad division. I know they've won some games here
early in the year, but Tampa Bay, they've got New Orleans,
which is a winnable game in Week four. Then they
have their bye, but they still have games against Buffalo

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and the forty nine ers down the line, and they
have to play some tougher competition as we go for it.
So the Baker Mayfield story not going very well right now.
Now page two here, how much damage? How much damage
did this loss on Monday night due to the bucks
pirate ship at this point. So now the positive side

(07:48):
would say, that's only one game, big deal. You know
you're not gonna play perfect every game. He just chucked
that up to a bad performance. But everything will be okay.
But I disagree. This is an aptitude test. This was
an aptitude test. Philadelphia one of the top teams in
the NFC. They hadn't really played that well to begin
the year, even though they were two and oh. So
it's an aptitude test. You're living the island life, as

(08:08):
we like to say. This is an island game. Everyone
was watching. It was the first of a doubleheader, and
you had the exclusive television window to drink my ties
and lay in your hammock and enjoy the spotlight there
at the beginning for the first hour or so of
the game, and a chance to validate the two and
oh start and say, see this is legit that it

(08:29):
wasn't just that we were playing the Bears and the
Vikings that were good and show that you can compete
and maybe not when the game, but hang around one
of the upper crust teams in the NFC. So how
did that go exactly for the Buccaneers. Well, I'm glad
you asked, because a trap door. If you saw the game,
you know it's a trapdoor opened up and below it
we were sharks that hadn't eaten in like a month,

(08:54):
and they were really hungry. And you had a little
cut and there was blood, and these great white sharks
were like, man, I'm really hungry. That's some good, good meat,
good eating, and I want some of that. Because Tampa
they failed in all possible categories in this game. Across
the board. They get f's across the board like the
Chicago Bears, the triangle of doom, the triangle, and the

(09:16):
defense allowed four hundred and seventy two yards of offense
twenty seven first downs. That's the Tampa defense to the
Philadelphia offense. The Birds kept converting third downs, They did
whatever they wanted. They held possession of the ball. That
last possession was over nine minutes. They had the ball
for over thirty eight minutes of a sixty minute game.

(09:38):
So double your pleasure, double your fun. Now the final
point here, did Jalen Hurts completely crush the narrative that
has been going around that he cannot read defenses? He
struggles to read defense. This is this story we talked
about in a previous episode of the show. There were
some comments made by Ron Jaworski, former Eagles legend back

(10:01):
in the day, a commentator somewhere Ron Jaworski and also
a couple of years ago, caught on a open mic
Todd Bowles, now the head coach in Tampa. He was
the defensive coordinator back during a Tampa Bay Philadelphia playoff game.
So to answer the question, did Jalen Hurtz completely blow
to smithereens the struggles to read defenses? That argument, I'm

(10:26):
going to push back on that. I'm going to push
back on that. Now. He certainly did nothing negative. I mean,
there were a couple of throws that were not the
greatest throws in the world. Tampa in this game was
warm fertilizer. That was their defensive performance. And so we
saw even in this game, you know, there was some
little bit of kryptonite. A little bit of kryptonite that

(10:48):
came in there, a couple of mistakes, miscommunication that's on
the quarterback miscommunication, and now he's up to four turnovers.
Jalen hurts and that was that was the secret sauce
last year for Jalen Hursey. He did not turn the
ball over very much. Now it hasn't come back to
bite the Eagles in the nest, but you keep turning

(11:12):
the ball over like that, it's gonna come back. And
when you play a better team, like say the forty
nine Ers down the line of the playoffs, and you're
turning the ball over, that becomes more costly unless the
quarterback of the forty nine ers goes snap, crackle pop.
But the Eagles get saw every time I watch the
Eagles in these primetime games and the Viking game, this game,
and even the first game against the Patriots which was

(11:33):
not a primetime game, Like if they get to a
third and one or a fourth down and one, they're
gonna get the first down every time with that tushy pushy.
It's the most dominating play and they run it better
than everyone else. The tush push you gotta keep them
on third down and four or five. You get them

(11:53):
down to third down and one or two yards, they're
gonna get the first down, especially the one yard situations.
It's ridiculous. We have some postgame flavor for you. Here's
Baker Mayfield. The aforementioned Baker Mayfield career renaissance on hold.
Here is Baker talking in a big picture, not individual,

(12:16):
big picture perspective. Here's Bake. We just weren't good as
a whole skill group wise. We weren't good enough to
get the ball out quickly for our guys up front.
We knew they were going to bring some pressure, and
I know everybody's probably going to take a little bit
of blame on this one. So we just have to
be better as a unit. There's no doubt about that. No,
he did not single himself out, although he was at
the very top. If you were to look at the
totem pole of suck, he would be at the top

(12:38):
of the totem pole of suck. But he didn't want
to name himself. So we losers a team. We win
as individuals. We losers a team. Here's more here. How
about Todd Bowles, usually a straight shooter. Here is Todd Bowles.
What did he have to take away from the Buccaneers
performance against the Eagles. Let's go to the audio tape.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
We played hard. Congratulations the mistakes we didn't make the
first two game, we made this game, and a lot
of hass to do with them and give them credit.
I mean, Nick does a great job. Those guys did
a great job preparing. They came in here and then
they beat us pretty good and we own that.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
So play the beginning, Todd Bowles, this is this analysis
of the Buccaneers, a professional football team. Play the first part,
we played hard. We played hard. That's it. We played hard.
Played again, we played hard. We played hard. Does that
even need to be spoken? If you say you played hard,
that would mean there are games you don't play hard,
but you don't talk about those games you don't play

(13:32):
like I would say the Denver Broncos didn't play hard
against the Miami Dolphins. But did Sean Payton come out
and say we didn't play hard. I don't think he
said that. I don't think so. Here's more from Todd Bowles,
and he also laments the fact that the Buccaneers, we're
playing a bunch of guys that were not very good.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
We'rein right now. You know, we're playing backups right now.
But those guys understand the game plan. We got to
do a better job of executing certain things. But it's
their first time of guy's first time playing, so we
got to get used to that. But they gotta make plays.
We got young guys. You know, nobody's gonna feel sorry
for us, and we're not gonna feel sorry for anybody.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yeah, I don't feel sorry for you. Twelve first downs,
one hundred and seventy four total yards of offense in
a three hour games. Hard to get a lot of
yards of offense when you don't have the ball. But
what do I know. I just do the overnight show
around here. If you'd like to be part, you can
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(14:29):
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All right, straight ahead for us. We'll take your calls

(14:50):
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Speaker 1 (15:58):
Coming up later this hour. Mall a third degree. We've
got that for you. Also just bust a move. We'll
get to that as well. Music by Iowa Sam. We
have a sound request from just Josh in Cincinnati, says
sounds like a good time for the new Tony from
the Bay Area drop start with the Todd Bowles comment,

(16:20):
followed by for he's a jolly good fellow. For he's
a dolly good fellow. Do we have that ready to go?
Iowa Sam, can we go from Todd Bowles? This is
by request just Josh in Cincinnati. He wants to hear
Todd Bowles coach of the Buccaneers, and then go boom
transition into our new favorite sound by Tony from the
bass singing, He's a jolly good fellow, all right, For.

Speaker 5 (16:43):
He's a jolly good heello, for he's a jolly good hello.
For he's a jolly good paro.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
Wish no one can see, Sam, You've already screwed up,
So I said, play the Todd Bowles cut first, and
then play the jolly see you following direction. It's not
always the easiest thing in the world.

Speaker 6 (17:02):
There, I just react. I mean I think directions on the.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
Did I not? Did I misspeak? I don't think I spoke.
I think I just clearly play the Todd bowles and
then go right in. Do he's a jolly good fellow Nazi? Yeah? Yeah,
Well that's kind of a yeah. Do we have to
tell you want to try now? Or is the moment
passed it?

Speaker 2 (17:20):
We played hard, and we made some mistakes, you know,
the mistakes we didn't make the first two games. We
made this game, and a lot of ass to do
with them and give them credit. I mean, Nick does
a great job. Those guys did a great job preparing.
They came in here and then they beat us pretty
good and we owned that all right.

Speaker 5 (17:35):
Uh. For he's a jolly good for he's a jolly
wish no one can tonight.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
I don't think we needed the full Todd Bulls comment.
And also do we need play the jolly goodfel Do
we need him going at the beginning of the drop?
I don't think that bake your castrole to play it again.
There's awe at the beginning. Who needs awe as a
filler word? It's he goes, all right, uh no, we
don't need that. That No, that's dumb. No, we don't

(18:07):
need we just need it's stupid. Him singing is stupid.
Play play See that's better?

Speaker 4 (18:15):
Better?

Speaker 5 (18:16):
Yeah, no one can and I see that's.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
Perfect right there. There you go.

Speaker 6 (18:20):
Anything else, Yeah, give me to renew your driver's license
as well.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
I can do that.

Speaker 6 (18:29):
Mine's about to expire, so I should get on that.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
I just drive with an expired license. You know, wrong,
nothing could go wrong? Well, speaking of that, the story
we were were teasing here from the l A a
f C football team quite the story there involving one
of their big free agent pickups. A couple of years ago,
j C. Jackson of the Chargers there had be able

(18:57):
to play. I don't know this. This shows you Belichick
knows something. Either that or as soon as J. C.
Jackson left New England he completely forgot how to play football.
But he signed a relatively big free agent contract. And
there was a big story out on Monday that an
arrest warrant. I guess he's got to bust a move.
An arrest warrant was issued for J. C. Jackson, the

(19:17):
defensive back who I believe was a healthy scratch in
the charges game against the Vikings, which would not be
a problem if J C. Jackson was not making a
Buco box. There was an expectation you are going to play,
maybe stop someone. But an arrest warrant issued in the
Commonwealth there as J. C. Jackson did not appear at

(19:41):
a probation violation hearing and this is in a court
in Attleborough District Court on Friday, and so now there
is a straight warrant out for his arrest. So there
you go.

Speaker 6 (19:54):
He did not straight warrant. What's that? Well, that's different.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
As opposed to a crooked warrant. But I wonder how
much the warrant is because I've heard if it's not
that much, they won't really mess up. It's got to
be worth a decent amount of money for them to
bother with it, you.

Speaker 6 (20:07):
Know, for Dog the bounty hunter to come after you.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yeah, I mean it was like, you know, a couple
hundred bucks or something like that, and I don't think
they're gonna worry about it. But if it's you know,
ten thirty one hundred thousand. They'll come and I track you. Now,
he was originally charged with speeding. How about this became
he's we've all sped, right, we all speed and anyway,
he had charged with a speeding violation. He did not

(20:31):
abide by the terms of the probation. He must have
been going really fast right to get us to get
that kind of a violation. I wonder how fast he
was going. Let's go to the phones. Good luck to J. C. Jackson.
He's got a lot of problems. Let's go to Lance,
although money is not one of them. Lance. Hello, Lance, Welcome.

(20:54):
That's interesting.

Speaker 4 (20:56):
Dance mix.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
Yeah, what's going on at Lance's place? Which Lance is this? Coop?
It just we have a lot of Lances to call this.
This is not Oh, this is Lance the bus driver.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
I didn't think he would listen to Yeah, anybody there
shake your booty music.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
I don't I don't know. He does have a large booty.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
I don't need to know about that.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
He's been in studio. We've met him before.

Speaker 4 (21:22):
He's been the black Taco guy.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Yeah, okay, all right, we'll put him on. We'll put
him on time out. There there you go go away, Lance, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.
Uh is the Ben Mallor Show. As we continue the
Midnight Walker from Syracuse right so, and he says, there
was blood in the water on Monday night and Tampa

(21:46):
Bay didn't put up a good fighter. Shimmer me timbers
the bucks got spanked. Will this lead to Tampa going
into the tank? There you go. It's from the very
poetic Midnight Walk. Thank you Midnight Walker for that. Let's
see here, can't to read that on the air. We'll

(22:06):
skip over that one. Justin and Cincinnati has be nice
to Sam. It's not our fault you struggle to recognize
the clock. And this had nothing to do with the clock, Justin.
This was merely a editing issue, That's all it was.
It was an editing issue. Let's say hello to the
worst caller that we had. What a lock he gave out.
I hope you won your money there as he told

(22:28):
you to take the Washington Commanders a tremendous pick there, Poppy.
So you were sending me stuff on Twitter, but you
deleted it. I don't blame you. I'd do the same
thing if I were you. But unbelievable Poppy by Sam
Howe really did well there. I knew my battleship was
sunk the moment you gave your endorsement to the Washington commanders.

(22:50):
How dare you?

Speaker 7 (22:52):
Yeah? Well, you know what what you know what what
against my pick? You made some bling blank so that
you guys had a good.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
Little spin, little spin right there, little spin.

Speaker 7 (23:05):
Yeah, you know, and you know it's gonna be a
great name when I wanted to tell you guys, you know,
you know, Benny versus Penny, great picks, you know, But
you know tomorrow, I know what's on my mind. Is
UFC matter?

Speaker 5 (23:19):
Actually?

Speaker 7 (23:20):
Tomorrow's uh? You have s it's uh Dan?

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Does anyone want to hear Poppy breaking down the UFC?
Is that content we need on the show? Do we
need that? Anyone? Anyone? I don't see anyone raising their
hand that we need that Poppy. I don't think we
want that content. Do you have any other content you
can give us other than that?

Speaker 7 (23:39):
Well, you know what, I'm gonna tell you The Fighter
and Danna White and I'm really loving he's from Santa I.

Speaker 4 (23:47):
He just ignores what you say. And it's like I'm
gonna do it anyway.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
No, I mean, I give him an opportunity, right, I said,
do you have any other content? He just continued.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
The answer was no, but he didn't want to say no.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
So you're done. That's it. You don't need to put
you on the air, please ya, Fimi says, coaching Iowa
Sam on cutting Tony from the Bay Area audio drop
wall on the air. That is Marconi level rails. So
people love this Iowa Sam. Ozzie Waz says, has Iowa
Sam been hanging out with Red Breast Paul? He says
this in terms of following directions. We have not heard

(24:18):
from Red Breast Paul the last couple of weeks. I
wonder what's going on with him. Red Breast Paul one
of our more interesting callers. He said he was going
to retire and call us every single day, and then
he's he's working the day shift. Supposed to retire though. Anyway,
it is the Ben Matherers Show. Let's get you caught
up on everything going on in the overnight. We will
have Mallard of the Thirdery coming up in a little

(24:40):
bit and more Travis Kelsey gossip because the tabloids are
all over this Travis Kelsey Taylor Swift story. But right
now over to Eddie Garcia we go. You say you
hate this story, yet now you're bringing up Eddie. Eddie,
I talk about what's out there and with the news
of the day, and it just happens. There's a lot
of news about this. Sorry, I don't like it. No, no,

(25:01):
there's a lot of news.

Speaker 4 (25:02):
God knows. You usually talk about lots of things you
don't like.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
Of course, Idy, I talk about things I despise, But
you know, whatever the news of the day is. That's
the mantra on the show.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
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Did you see this Steelers after the Monday night game
flying back from Vegas to Pittsburgh, but had to make
a stop in Kansas City, dude to mechanical issues.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
Well, they really wanted the Ben Mallard chicken fingers, which
are in Kansas City. And actually I got an early
morning text as this was happening from my friend Bob
Fesco from Fesco.

Speaker 4 (26:18):
In the morning, hanging out of the airport's.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Well, he told me said, hey, the Steelers have stopped
in the town. And we were like, oh, back in
the old days, you know, the old radio bit, if
that something like this happened, you'd send your roving reporter
to the airport too, But nobody has roving reporters anymore.
So no, they canceled that about fifteen years ago.

Speaker 4 (26:37):
But yeah, so they about eight hour delay before they finally.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
Beautiful Kansas City Airport. Have you been to Kansas City?
I've been to Kansas City. Been Have you not been
to Kansas City? The Chargers play there every year.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
Well, the wife doesn't want to go there, so what.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
Does she have against Kansas It's the city of fountains,
It's the Paris of the planes.

Speaker 4 (26:56):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (26:57):
It is?

Speaker 1 (26:57):
There's more, Yes, Kansas City the Paris. You've never heard
that before? It is, No, I haven't. It's kind of
there's a ton of fountains in Kansas City.

Speaker 4 (27:04):
Yeah, it's beautiful.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
It's nice, have a nice downtown there.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
I mean, I just want to go for the barbecue.
To be honest with you. Chicken fingers, No, God, I'm
not going to I can get chicken fingers here.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
You don't get the ben Malla chicken fingers. That's only
in Kansas City. That's our friends in Missouri made some
saw you made them at home. I did make them
at home. I did.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
I can go to your house and get somebody, don't
need to go to kiss.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Came out pretty good, by the way, I look good.

Speaker 6 (27:28):
They look good.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
That's why I sent some food porn out on my
Instagram and Facebook page over the weekend. Eddie, I made
some homemade.

Speaker 4 (27:35):
I saw it. I liked you give the old light
there on it.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, it taste tastes pretty good. I gotta tell you.

Speaker 4 (27:40):
You make your own homemade sauce too.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
Uh No, we didn't. We didn't need to. Chickens made
properly doesn't need sauce sau.

Speaker 4 (27:48):
You got to have some sauce sauce.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
I put pepper in there, ol cayenne pepper. I put
some uh paprika. That's all well and good.

Speaker 6 (28:00):
Cane sauce is the best part about raising cans.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
It's fine. I'm not against the cane sauce. But my
chicken is so good as I'll have you over sometime
to eat fried im.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
Sure it's good. But I'm just saying, if you're giving
me a choice between just the chicken and the chicken
with's a little sauce there, I gotta have some sauce.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
But you're belittling my cooking because you say it in
the sauce. But the chicken was probably just start. There's
nor the star of the show, and there's no ran
need a little lubrications and cane sauce. By the way,
there's not. It's like I know, but the ranch is
great with chicken. Bad take by Coop go to take fifty,

(28:39):
you go to take jail coop take for you, versus y'all,
well you're from the Midwest.

Speaker 9 (28:44):
I was.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Exactly, you love you come out of the womb. They
pour ranch on blue cheese dressing as well, so that's
a cousin of ranch dressing. So that's why French cousin
is disgusting. Paris people like I I it's like Assie
Waz and these different listeners around the country or around
the world. Rather they listen and they're like, what do
you eat? You stupid Americas eating ranch dressing. I mean,

(29:07):
it's just solicious. It's a scam. Ranch dressing is a scam, rotting.
It is rotten. Ranch dressing is rotten. Also, you're wrong.
I'm an expert. I've studied this over the years.

Speaker 6 (29:23):
Ranch was.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
It's much like the chicken wing, which nobody wanted, and
then they marketed it as a kind of a cool
bar item, and now people think the chicken wing is
cool or chicken right. Lobster They used to serve prisoners lobsters,
that's the great legend, right that they served.

Speaker 10 (29:39):
And pigs and then they figured out it was incredible,
but it was hard to eat.

Speaker 6 (29:44):
Yeah, you had to boil it. It's a shellfish.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
All right, thank you. It is the Bane Mailer Show.
And continue on hot food talk. You give us seven minutes,
We'll give you some hot food talk. That's how we
do it. Pushback the Travis Kelcey story with Taylor Swift
because why not wait a little bit longer that Owen writes,

(30:09):
and he says the Mariners have to be the worst
pro franchise. He says, in history of all the Big
four leagues, there can't be a worst team over a
forty year history. It's impossible to be worse than this
trash joke of an organization. Their demise is beautiful and
deserve signed Owen. Wow, a little tough there. Let's go

(30:33):
to Let's go to Ryan. Hello Ryan, Pacific Northwest p
NW Ryan, Hello, Ryan, Welcome.

Speaker 9 (30:42):
There you go.

Speaker 7 (30:43):
Hello guys.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
What's on your mind? Ryan? How can we help?

Speaker 9 (30:47):
Well? I wanted to actually pick your guys's mind on.

Speaker 7 (30:53):
Your talking Mariners. I love it?

Speaker 1 (30:56):
Well, how do you love it? How do you love it?
We're ripping them for losing at Home.

Speaker 7 (31:01):
To the East. It happens, but I like.

Speaker 9 (31:07):
To hear harsh criticism. I love Jerry the Poto. Here's
that harsh criticism. I hope he gets. Here's that harsh criticism.
Louis Castillo. Yes, they lost today, but she was throwing gas.
Houston is top dog. But hey, if they could squeak
one maybe two out, they're not out of the race.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
So well, yeah, well it's obviously, but it's the last
it's the last week of the season. It's the last
couple of days.

Speaker 9 (31:39):
But you don't want about Texas.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
You can't. You can't make this up next week. You
know that's it. Don't You don't get it done, you're
out of the playoff race.

Speaker 9 (31:49):
My assault talks about this stretch. What do you call
this stretch? Whatever you call this stretch, you just gotta win.

Speaker 7 (31:57):
Come on.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
I think I think I saw that. Just win baby.
I think I saw that Just win baby. I think
is the much baby, Just win baby. I think I
heard that somewhere alone. That was I got that. These
wore jumpsuits and a chain and he had a projector
and he owned an NFL team back in the day.
All right, thank you for that. It is the Ben
Mallard Show. We are going to have Mallard of the

(32:20):
thirty three time. Now for the Insta trivia. You can
answer this, and you can do it very simply by
sending a message in on the Twitter machine or the
ex machine at Ben Maller. Here we go, Keenan Allen.
Keenan Allen just became the fourth player in NFL history
with at least ten receptions and a touchdown pass in
a single game. He joins to ricohin Pro Football Hall

(32:41):
of Famer Jerry Rice and Blank. Again. Keenan Allen the
Chargers just became the fourth player in NFL history with
at least ten receptions and a touchdown pass in a
single game. He joins Tarek Cohen back in twenty eighteen
for the Bears, Pro Football Hall of Famer Jerry Rice
with the Niners and Blank. That's the Insta tribute. The answer.
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
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(33:35):
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(34:00):
Keenan Allen of the Chargers becoming the fourth player in
NFL history to have at least ten receptions and a
touchdown pass in a single game. He joins to recalling
to the Bears Pro Football Hall of Famber, Jerry Rice
and Blank. And that is the Insta Trivia. What is
the answer. Let's see does anyone listing know the answer?

(34:23):
Page down? Here, Page down Mike Quick guess by Malibu Rubin.
It's his answer. I can't read that. Joe Washington Baltimore
Colts Legend Joe Washington from The Midnight Walker Stoned Big
Bird from courtesy Flusher Aronde Gatston of the Dolphins from

(34:44):
Late Night Drug Tester, Matthew Hatchett Viking legend from Areek
in Minnesota. Big Red is the answer from Benito, the
long suffering cowboy fan and truck driver. Randy Johnson the
Big Unit from mister nice Guy. Peter Pan from ferg Cat.
We know he's eating some Peter Pan peanut butter right now.
Marcus Colston from Ozzie Waz in Western Australia, Tamrius Thomas

(35:09):
from Milkman Mike in Colorado, Justin Cooper's hay drop from
Alf the Alien o Piner. Steve Henson, the inventor of
ranch dressing is the answer from Yaphimi. Phil mcconchney from
the k C car Haller. Who else we have? Zion
Williamson looking lean and mean from Justin and Cincinnati. The

(35:32):
Iron Chic tossed out by Donkey Sausage fair Hooker Brown's
legend from Tom Eddie. Do you have an answer, Eddie?

Speaker 4 (35:41):
Yes, it's former Green Bay Packers Tight end, Bubba Franks.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
Great Bubba Franks. Is it Bubba Franks for the win? No,
that is incorrect. The correct answer, Eddie, you got it
wrong is Buck's legend James Wilder back in the day
in nineteen eighties eighty four to.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
Be zac Keame, it's maller.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
How about that?

Speaker 3 (36:06):
To the third degree, this is one big gets grail.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
And we say hello to the Kooper loop.

Speaker 10 (36:16):
Before the broncos embarrassing loss to the Dolphins, Rex Ryan
had blasted the Denver defense, saying the problem is on
the other side of the ball, where they were supposed
to be the best in the league. Had somebody taken
the job, he was referring to himself. Yes, of course, yes, Ben.
Do you think the Broncos d would have been better
under Rex Ryan?

Speaker 1 (36:33):
Well, considering the historical nature of the Broncos defensive performance,
they could not have been any worse. So you could
have gone down to the to the Morgue with Hayes
and gotten a cadaver and you probably would have done
about as well seventy points seven hundred plus yards. Of course,
Rex Ryan is making it all about Rex Sexy. Rexy.

(36:54):
He wanted the Bronco job he didn't get enough money,
and so it's just the hubris of Rex Ryan. But
Rex has proving to be a pretty good defensive coordinator.
But the way the Broncos played it looked like they
just didn't give a damn And it wouldn't have mattered
whether Rex Ryan was a defensive coordinator or Vince Lombardi. Next.

Speaker 10 (37:15):
Before the season, most people picked the Cardinals as the
team that would get the number one overall pick in
next year's draft, Ben, do you have a different pick now?

Speaker 1 (37:23):
Well, based on the first three weeks of the NFL season,
the Cardinals are actually putting some effort in. They're actually trying,
and that goes a long way to being decent. I mean,
they're not gonna be decent. They'll win three or four
games by the time it's all done. But to get
the number one pick, you gotta be three or less
to get the number one pick. So, based on the
first three weeks of the year, your Denver Broncos Coop

(37:45):
and the Chicago Bears are in a neck and neck
race to be the worst of the worst.

Speaker 10 (37:49):
Next, the seventy six ers reportedly reached out to the
Blazers about a Damian Lillard trade, Ben, do you think
Lillard would push that team into championship territory?

Speaker 1 (37:59):
Well, make them better. He's a pillar of winning. I'm
a big fan of Damian Lillard, but the Joellenbiid and
James Harden, they have this this niche of this knack
I should say knack of just being vaporized in big
moments there. So I don't know how Lillard's gonna change
that he would make them better. But there's all kinds

(38:20):
of rumors that Lillard's about to be traded somewhere, but
not likely to Miami. There it is Mallard of the
third degree. How did we do?

Speaker 9 (38:29):
That?

Speaker 1 (38:29):
Is a win? Another one put it on the board.
I won the game, and I was same, I won
the game. I was saying I won
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