All Episodes

September 27, 2023 • 41 mins

Big Ben talks about the message sent by Davante Adams to the Raiders, Mike Martz taking shots at Justin Fields, Maller to the Third Degree, The Iowa Minute w/ Iowa Sam, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mark as Played
Transcript

Episode Transcript

Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Maler
Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight
from two to six Eastern eleven pm to three am
Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and to find your local
station for the Benmathers Show at Foxsports Radio dot com.
You can find it there or stream us live every
night on the iHeartRadio app by searching FSR.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
The Adams Family. If you will, welmeme in the beginning
of another edition of the Ben Malor Show. But it
is a extra special edition. We'll tell you why. As
we are in the air everywhere using audio frequency as

(00:52):
we have takes as sharp as glass. Be careful, stay
away you might get cut stuck coast, border to border
and beyond on the vast and universally powerful microphones of
fsre ammnating live from point as in point Match, we

(01:14):
are broadcasting live from the ti rak dot com studios.
Tyract dot com will help you get there and unmatched selection,
fast free shipping, free road hazard protection at over ten
thousand recommended installers. Ti raq dot com, The Way tire
Buying shoot be and so no calls right now, but

(01:37):
later on we do open up the phone lines. Tonight
an extra special night, newby Knight. It's newby Knights Night,
neby Night, Nibbies nibbies.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
You might say, who cares about that? Well, we care,
that's who that We are the ones that care. It's
an extra special night because this night different than all
of the nights that we normally do. We will go.
It's like star Search. It's a reality radio. We're trying
to find the next great wave of zany crazy overnight college.
But you don't have to be zany. You don't have
to be crazy. You can have a job and a

(02:15):
family in a stable house and all that in call up,
or you can have none of those things in callup.
It doesn't really matter. But our lead this hour coming
from the desert hot springs, if you will, and things
heating up, the fallout from a Las Vegas losing back
to back to the Bills in a route or route
depending on where you grew up, and then losing a

(02:36):
heartbreak hotel game against the Steelers because the head coach
of the Raiders, Josh McDaniels, decided to do the thing
you can't do at the time, you can't do it,
and it kicked a very bizarre field goal. But more
on that later. But Devonte Adams, he's the franchise for

(02:57):
the Raiders and he's not happy again and grumbling in
the locker room. You know that raises the high crimes
and misdemeanors on this show. When you have a player,
a star player in the NFL, one of the top
at his job, who is unhappy, that's good talk radio.
And so if you didn't hear this, and maybe not
and we didn't hear about it. It happened over the

(03:20):
weekend after the Raider game. But some viral quotes from
DeVante Adams making the rounds now the Raiders star receiver
saying that the Raiders have failed to establish a winning culture.
Just to prove I am not lying, let's go to
the audio tape. Take a listen.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
You look at all these analytics and all these things,
teams that have won with the you know, the turnover
bettle and all these things, and they don't mean you
go out there and we play ball, and we just
we having a tough time consistently doing that. Right now,
I don't act like it's all crazy, as you know,
it's week three.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
I don't that kind of weight around. You know, it's
not a personal thing. I mean, it is a personal thing,
but it ain't just about me.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
I mean, it's not my mentality to sit here and
trying to take all season to figure it out, to
use these other games.

Speaker 5 (04:05):
I just to establish actudy.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
And we're not doing things the right way to establish
a winning.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
Culture early in the season.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
So we gotta do something to turn that around, all right.
So that was DeVante Adams the key part of that here.
It's not personal, but it is personal, and that last
dagger at the end, the winning culture that is a
shot across the bow is what that is. So let
us discuss the question what message is Davante Adams sending

(04:34):
with his rant as the Raiders go down in their
last game against Pittsburgh. So what message is Davonte Adams sending.
I've got Marine camis Netflix and Johnsonville, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to lay the path to sports radio salvation is what

(04:57):
we're going to lay, all right. So a listen, Vante
Adams is shouting from the top of the mountain, or
in this case, the top of the Belagio. He's shouting
down here. He's fed up. He's sick and tired of
what's going on with the Raiders. He went there, he
went there for the money. He got the money and
he got paid. The team blows and he knows it.

(05:20):
He knows the team stinks. And someone should have let
Davonte Adams know though that it's not like the Silver
and Black had been great prior to his arrival. Okay,
they were not. And he's put up his numbers. He's
got his stats, if that means anything. They're like empty
calories at this point for Davonte Adams. He's producing at

(05:40):
twenty five catches over three hundred yards, three touchdowns through
three games. Those are rock solid numbers. They could be better,
but they're rock solid. Vegas is one and two. They
barely beat the Broncos in hindsight, considering what has happened
to the Denver football team, man, is that not a
good look to barely win that game? And if you

(06:02):
take a deeper look, really, what DeVante Adams is doing.
He's doing some cosplay. He's wearing marine camis is what
he's doing. Now, What don't mean by that? He's the Woodlands,
kind of of the camo that the Marines wear there,
he's camouflaged the daily double. What is the daily double. Well,
he's hit the daily double. It's a shot at Josh McDaniels.

(06:25):
It is absolutely a shot at Josh mcdanie's When he's
say winning culture. The common belief in the football business,
this is proper etiquette, is that the coach helps to
cultivate the winning culture. And Josh McDaniels clearly has not
been able to do that and that is a blight
on his resume. He's failed everywhere he's been outside of

(06:48):
New England. Josh McDaniels has been an abject failure. He
sucked with the Broncos when he coached there. He was
an embarrassment with the Saint Louis Rams when he was
on that coaching staff. And now he's out on his
own again and he is drowning. It is drowning. He's
sinking in quicksand out in the Nevada desert. It is
not going good. And so also in addition to that,

(07:10):
it's it works as an SOS signal. So mentioned there's
the daily double. So not only do you take a
shot at your head coach. But you also send out
an SOS signal. It's a Morse code for distress, is
what it is, and it's get me out of here.
I would like to enter the transfer portal and I
want to go somewhere else. I'm not happy with the Raiders.

(07:31):
I like the money, but I want to go somewhere else.
I want to win, and then this team's I gotta
win a bunch of losers and I want to go
somewhere else where they have a winning culture. And I
believe the NFL trade deadline is on Halloween. And as
they say in Vegas, if you cannot handle the losing,
then you should get out of the casino. He would
like to get out of the Raiders practice facility. And

(07:54):
he'll deny it and Alaska follow up and they'll say,
I didn't mean that, But that's exactly what he meant.
That's what he implied with the commerce. Now, speaking of oddities,
the thriller on the strip, Man, what is going on here?
Every day? This story gets Zenier and Zanier. It's like
tada abra cadabra. We're talking about the story involving Chandler Jones.

(08:17):
The Raiders defensive end who made one of the most
ridiculous defensive players courtesy of his current teammate Jacobe Meyers
last year in that Raider Patriots game in Vegas. But
Chandler Jones hasn't played, and he wrote this week on
social media that he was taken to a hospital, he

(08:38):
said quote against my will by the fire department in Vegas,
and he was later transferred to a health facility, a
behavioral health facility. Now Jones put on the non football
illness list last week. Can you make sense of the
latest revelations in the Chandler Jones story with the Raiders?

(09:02):
So we only get bread Crumb's social media experts have
already determined, Hey, heyay, schizophrenia, some kind of mental illness.
I don't know that, but that's the diagnosis from the
geniuses on social media. What we do know is whatever's
really going on, which we're not privy to. Maybe we
shouldn't be privy to it, but whatever is actually going
on with Chandler Jones is going to make for one

(09:25):
hell of a Netflix untold documentary. Man, is that going
to be good? This guy on the path through the
Hall of Fame, Chandler Jones, he had an incident with
the Patriots, now with the Raiders man and based on
what Chandler Jones put out there, it would appear that
the Raiders had him fifty one to fifty, that he

(09:45):
was taken on a involuntary seventy two hour cycle. That's
what it sounds like. I don't think I'm wrong, but
as I understand the evidence that was presented to me,
that's what it sounds like to me. And Jones is
losing one million dollars every game that he does not
appear in for the Raiders. And he's also saying in
this manifesto that was sent out that he tried to

(10:07):
contact Dave Ziegler, the GM for the Raiders, a number
of times, but he will not return calls. Will not
return calls. Now the last word, We're gonna do this
because I it's my guilty pleasure. Okay, We're gonna go
to Pittsburgh, the Petsburgh's Taylors. So Mike Tomlin addresses the
fourth Estate a couple of times a week and he

(10:29):
gives us these gems. Every single week. There's a gem
from Mike Tomlin. It's so good, what a tremendous sound.
But I could listen to the debonair Mike Tomlin. This
guy's a maestro of communication and I could learn from him.
So I am watching the news covers and I slept
through it, but I watched it on the interweb. So

(10:51):
I'm watching the news conference and I loved this interaction.
Now a lot of people are making a big deal
because Mike Tomlin said, We're not gonna use the style
over in Kansas City as a distraction this week as
Pittsburgh takes on Houston. But one of the reporters asked
Mike Tomlin a follow up question on his quote from

(11:11):
last week about the Steelers' offense having lost its mojo
from the preseason, and Mike Tomlin's response was outstanding. And
I want you to take a listen. Let's go to
the audio tape.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Here we go.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
I'll be really transparent with you. I didn't mean it
last week when I said it. You guys asked me
the question repeatedly in a bunch of different ways, and
I've given you the same answer, and so sometimes I
just give you a colorful answer with a word like mojo,
just so you guys can run with it and we
all can move on with our day. The guys that
know me, they know is nothing mystical about performance from

(11:46):
my mentality or our mentality. We work, we improve, and
then we go play. Sometimes, man, that cycle doesn't come
quick enough. We got to stand in settings like this
and absorb a lot of questions. They get repetitive, and
so I gave you a little something. I don't subscribe
to mojo and are intangible like things and all of that. Bs.

(12:09):
We just gotta work harder. We got to put together
better plans that guys got to understand those plans and
make subsequent plays. But oftentimes when I'm asked questions along
those lines, those are the answers I give, and you
guys keep asking the same questions, And so I just
give you something like mojo so you can run with it.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
There you So Mike tom just I loved I loved
his answer there. It was a little long, but I
wanted to play the whole thing for you because I
think it's that good. So what did you enjoy most
about the Mike Tomlin SoundBite we just played here? I
loved all of it. I loved all of it. It
is wonderful. Every single word was great, and Tomlin continues
to be charismatic and charming and equal parts of both

(12:50):
those things. And he essentially told the media in this
SoundBite that he's giving them bogus quotes so they will
stop asks king the same questions. And the media slobber
it up. They're like, this is great. Listen, Mojo's a
good quote. Tomlin's been around long enough. He knows that's

(13:10):
gonna make for a nice little post on X or
some social platform, and it'll be a good little headline
on the sports blogs. And so you throw you'll throw
the mojo out. Mike Tomlin took us to the Johnsonville plant, right,
and here's here's how we make the kilbasa.

Speaker 5 (13:30):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
And it was so great because he also at the
end there tossed in something that I've said. He I
didn't believe in mojo and in tangibles, and and that's
what I've been ranting about here for years. People get
all upset. You don't believe in momentrum. What's wrong with you?
There's momentdrum and there's no such thing as momentum. It's
bull crap. It's something that sports writer made up early.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
You know.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
Grantlin Rice, one of the original Sports writers made it
up and people just ran with it. It's bull crap. Uh,
and he just gets repeated uh. And here's Tomlin. I'm like, yeah,
he agreed, no such thing as that stuff. I loved it.
It was great and it also reminded me in the
early days of Fox Sports Radio. We had some NFL
coaches that worked here and I did some shows with

(14:12):
a few of them, and obviously much younger, but one
of them told me that pretty much the same thing.
Tomlin just said. It's like, yeah, you know, we just
twist some words around and manipulate things and just to
give the writers a quote and they'll write whatever we
tell them, and they've got their story and whether it's
true or not, well, that's up for the person to decide.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mallor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Is a clipboard in your future. What does the magic
eight ball say? Wel ume and not beginning of another
hour of The Ben Mahler Show. We are in the
air everywhere as we are on the river of life,

(15:06):
and we do not just inspire off we create awe
four hours a night, coast to coast, border the border
and beyond on the vast and unfathomably powerful microphones of
fsre emmating live from the breath, the breath of fresh

(15:26):
hot air as we are broadcasting live from the tyraq
dot com studios. Tyraq dot com will help you get
there in unmatched selection, fast free shipping, free road hazard protection,
and over ten thousand recommended installers. Tireraq dot com the
way tire buying should.

Speaker 6 (15:47):
Be.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
And our lead this hour on a newbye night. Hooray
for newbies. You can become a nube. You can call
on a newby night. Lines are open, operators are standing by.
We'll think more calls coming up after the Mallard monologue.
But our lead this hour coming from Chicago. Why we
are ambulance chasers in talk radio. We love a good
car accident. And this is like an eighteen car pile

(16:09):
up on the side of the expressway there in Chicago.
The bad news Bears of the NFL. And now this
is about a former Bears coach, not a head coach,
a former Bears offensive coordinator who has laid down the
gauntlet on everyone's favorite punching bag. Justin Fields who won

(16:31):
the MVP Award. You might remember ESPN game him the
MVP Award in the off season. Unfortunately, he has not
been able to actually complete many passes at all in
the real season, uh, the one that actually counts. But
he did win the off season, so he's always got
that now. Mike Martz. Yeah, but yeah, but yea, but
you have it. You have it that guy, Mike mart Yeah,

(16:51):
that's it. One of the greatest interactions with the media ever.
Mike Martz coaching the Saint Louis Rams. Yeah, but you
have it. Mark Boulger, Yeah but yeah, but yeah, it
was just wonder So anyway, Mike Martz went on a rant.
He's now a football pundit, and he went on a
rant about Justin Fields. If you didn't hear this, maybe not.
Mike Martz has now called for Justin Fields to take

(17:16):
a clipboard and take his helmet off. Let's go to
the audio tape, take a list.

Speaker 5 (17:23):
I think this whole situation with him has demoralized this team.
I think he's brought it down. If they don't make
a change, I think it's just gonna get worse. If
it's possible to get worse. It's a demoralized football team
that's headed down, you know, and if that's possible, and
I think you're almost forced to make a change at
this point, whether it's Tyson Bagine or whoever it is,

(17:46):
whoever they decide, at this point, I think you do
have to make a change.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
Like butchered the guy's name. It's back get I believe.
But anyway, that point of side, he said, put somebody
else in. Martz also went on, we have another soundbody. Martz.
He said he was asked about like what the problem
is with justin fields, Like what are the issues here
with justin fields? The meat and potatoes of throwing the

(18:10):
football playing quarterback in the NFL. And here's what he said.
Take a listen.

Speaker 5 (18:14):
There's no question was ability to throw a football, wouldn't
question that, But just a cognitive skill, he just doesn't
have it. You know. He's just gonna hold it, hold it,
and hold it. And he's trying to prove that he
can play quarterback in this league. And I think he's
proved that that's probably not the case.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
Oh buddy, blow buddy, blow buddy. Oh man, that was
a shot. He's trying to prove he can play quarterback
in the league, Mike Martz said, and I think he's proved.
He probably probably not the case, all right, So let
us discuss the question, can we help you the consumer,
you the listener, can we help you understand what Mike

(18:50):
Martz is getting at with the justin Fields rant. So
I've got Twilight Zone, surfing and porky Pig, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a nice Chicago style hot dog. That's
what we're gonna make there from the Windy City. So
number which is, by the way, where the Bears will

(19:15):
likely be picking if they keep playing justin Fields, they'll
be picking Number W. So Mike Martz, hey, he loves
kicking a person when they're down, and you know, he's
still bitter about how things went in Chicago. That's part
of this. Not that everything he said wasn't completely accurate,
but Mike Martz felt like he got a raw deal

(19:36):
in Chicago. He thought he was things were gonna work
out better for him there in the Windy City. But
my hypothesis here is that what Mike Martz said is
flawed because he's like, well, we've got a bench him
the Bear. His assumption is the Bears are trying to win.
And I'm of the belief the Bears aren't trying to
win games. If they were trying to win games, they

(19:58):
would have, of course gotten rid of Fields before this season.
He sucked last year. Despite what your favorite bloviating gas
bag or talking head on television had to say, Fields
was one of the worst quarterbacks in the last thirty
years in the NFL last season, and yet the Bears
brought them back. They had the number one pick. Now,

(20:18):
maybe they're right because these quarterbacks in the draft aren't
very good and they're in better position now to draft
one of the top quarterbacks in the next draft, which
is supposed to be better next year. But it's always
a crapshoot. But you knew you had a guy that
couldn't play in justin Fields. You knew it. Everyone said
it that that new football. The idiots on TV, they
don't know football. They were like, oh, this guy's great slapper.

(20:39):
Slap a slap, a slap a slap, but lick click
click click, it was terrible. Uh. And so, based on
what I've seen, the Bears aren't trying to win so
let's get that out. They struggle to block and tackle
the basics of football one oh one, blocking and tackling.
And if you were to base this on the old
school mantra, and Mike Martz is from the old school,

(21:00):
you know, he's eighty five percent of the Chicago Bears
roster would be benched. And I think I'm going low
on that. It's not a meritocracy, certainly not a quarterback meritocracy,
as you play based on your talent, and that's it,
and that's not what's going on at quarterback in Chicago.
Justin Fields is the thirty first ranked quarterback after stinking

(21:22):
last year. He's also thirty first in completion rating of
you all kinds of numbers, yere twenty eighth in pass yards.
Justin Fields specifically playing quarterback. I believe he's playing because
he's entitled by the Chicago Bears, right that they have
ulterior motives here. They had this belief that maybe they
were wrong, and all the scouts that said this guy
couldn't play a lick, they were wrong. And this guy's

(21:46):
got a little something, little pixie dust. He's got some
magic to him, and a lot of it is the
social media clout, which is intoxicating. It's the twilight zone.
Imagine if you will, a world where popularity Trump's performance,
We're winning doesn't matter, and notoriety is king justin a

(22:10):
social media creation winning winning many many clicks right back
seat social media users who don't actually watch the NFL,
They just like relac where they re react to highlights.
They look at those fund zone clips of Justin Field
slicing up defense like the defense of the Lions or

(22:31):
the the Minnesota Vikings while the Bears are down by
four touchdowns, but they're like, Wow, that's really impressive, right,
and it plays well on TikTok it does well. The
NFL marketing is invested. People at Rebock they got hornswaggled
into signing Justin Field's is the face of the franchise. Wow,

(22:54):
like to see how these stockholders of that company are
thinking about that decision. But there's all these different variable
when it comes to Justin Fields. Why the Bears are
helpman on sticking with him? So Mike marts Wall, He's correct.
If Fields does deserve to be benched, should be betch
He's not gonna be benched. And the other thing is
the Bears actually have a winnable game. Someone's gonna win

(23:15):
between the Bears and the Broncos this week. Boy, if
the Broncos lose to Justin fields Man all right now,
page two, we head to New York City, where the
Jets have made their move. They've shot their shot story
that has not gotten a lot of attention. I don't
know why the Jets have picked up a veteran quarterback.

(23:35):
And we have learned the New York Jets have agreed
to terms with free agent quarterback Trevor Simeon. Ha ha, Yeah,
Trevor Simeon. He's gonna be on the practice squad. The
expectation is that shortly after he will be on the roster.
Simmy is thirty one years old. He has never been good,

(23:58):
but he joins a quarterback room that smells like sulfur.
You've got Zach Wilson on one side, Tim Boyle on
my ass on the other, and now you add Trevor Simeon.
So what are the Jets saying? What are the Jets
saying by adding Trevor Simeon, They are saying they don't

(24:20):
give a crap about the product on the field. That's
what they're saying they are announcing it from the highest
point they can get to. They're like, Hey, we don't
really care. That's it. We just got are head kicked
in offensively again back to back weeks. And Simeon's a
guy that knows a thing or two about that because
he often ends up in that situation. And Joe Douglas

(24:42):
and Robert sal here's what the analogy. Joe Douglas and
Robert Sala are surfing in a Cat five hurricane named Zach.
Hurricane Zach Cat five wins of one hundred and fifty
seven plus miles per hour, flying debris everywhere, and there's
Hugh Douglas and Robert Sala. The place is flooding, the

(25:03):
Jets facility is flooding, and these two bozos are out
there and they're going Cowabunga, dude. We love this Zach
Wilson guy. And now we added Trevor Simmon, aren't we great?
Watch out for the riptide all right now, final point. Now,
while the Jets play the fiddle as Rome burns, if

(25:24):
you will, there's a notorious figure from the NFL pass
who's knocking on the door, knock knock, And that would
be none other than Colin Kaepernick, or as he was
known at the end of his career at the forty
nine ers, Colin Krappernick, who is under center there for
nobody because he hasn't played in the NFA. He wrote
a letter, and of course the letter was released publicly.

(25:45):
Why wouldn't you release the letter publicly if you're an
attention whore. So the letter was released publicly through j
Cole asking the Jets to add him to the practice squad,
and it bounced around. So why why did Colin Kaepernick
make sure this letter saw the light of the social media?
So this was obviously strategic by Colin Kaepernick. He knows

(26:07):
the Jets don't want him. Woody Johnson's not a fan
of Colin Kaepernicks, you don't want him on a team.
But he also knows, and this is the most important part.
Colin Kaepernick is aware that when he gets something out
there like this where he's interested in going to a team,
he throws something out there that there's certain factions of
the media that eat this stuff up like porky pig

(26:28):
and slop right oink oink. They love it. It's like
going down to the Pigley Wiggly and getting all the
food you want for free. I can't get enough of it.
Colin Kaepernick turns thirty six years old in November, so
he's already passed the date of no return. He hasn't
played in an NFL game in almost seven years. Almost

(26:49):
seven years, so you can say na, na, da da
good bye, but not. He has to keep putting his
name out there because he's got endorsements with Nike other companies,
other woke companies are like, we love Kaepernick. He's good
for business, right and all that stuff. So Kaepernick's got
a bunch of endorsement deals and so he's got to

(27:10):
keep his name out there. Otherwise he's completely irrelevant. But
it really works. You're playing the martyr card and he's
playing the martyr card, so it works out well. See
you You know, they'll make another documentary about Kaepernick or
a movie. He kept trying even when he was fifty
years old and no NFL team would sign him, and
he will list all the NFL teams he wanted to
play for and they all said no.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
To be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
Polly Fosco here with Tony Fusco.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
Yo.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
Of course you know us as the host of the
number one rated show and all the sports talks, The
Polly and Tony Fusco Show.

Speaker 5 (27:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (27:46):
Now, the suits at Fox Sports Radio gave us this
ad time because they wanted us.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
To tell you how great our show is.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Why.

Speaker 7 (27:54):
Yeah, Instead of us doing that, let's just let on
millions of fans do the taka.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
Yeah, play the tape.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
You don't know crap about poor own this crap. Whoa, whoa,
whoa whoa.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
That's the wrong tape, wrong tape. Just forget that.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
Look, listen to the Paully.

Speaker 7 (28:09):
Tony Pusko Show on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever
you get your podcasts.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
It's maller.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
How about that?

Speaker 2 (28:18):
To the third degree? This is one big gets grilled.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Oh right, here we go. Time now for the third degree,
brought to you by Progressive Insurance Progress it makes one
of the easy and affordable get a multi policy discount
by combining your motorcycle, RB, boat, ATV and more all
your protection in one place, by the land save at
Progressive dot Com. The cake Eater Justin Cooper. CJ.

Speaker 6 (28:42):
Stroud is the first quarterback in NFL history to have
at least nine hundred passing yards, four passing touchdowns, and
zero interceptions in his first three career starts. Ben, did
the Texans hit a home run with Stroud? Well, it's
too soon to say that they hit a home run
with CJ.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Stroud. He's off to a good start the Jacksonville game.
I did not expect that. I did not expect that.
Now this is a real test here this weekend with TJ.
Watt and the Pittsburgh's theater. So I'm gonna say no,
but he's better than I expect. He's certainly better than
these other quarterbacks at this point. He's statistically been one
of the better rookie quarterbacks we've seen in years. Next.

Speaker 6 (29:20):
Doug Peterson said after the Jags loss on Sunday that
the weight of expectations at least partly to blame for
Jacksonville's slow start to the season.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Ben, where does this blame actually go? So Doug Peterson
needs to find players that are lactose intolerant. I guess
I guess he has found because they're eating the cheese.
They ate the cheese Coop and they believe the hype.
Guys like me on television, I did a whole tribute,
a testimonial to how great Jacksonville was going to be
this year on Benny Versus the Penny, and they have

(29:49):
made me look like a total schmuck. The way they
have played so far this year, it's embarrassing. It's the
same old Jags, right. They got talent, but they don't
put it together. But Doug Peterson's got His job is
to make sure that the players perform and don't buy
into all the nonsense. So that's on him next.

Speaker 6 (30:09):
So far this season, Derrick Henry has averaged only a
little over three yards per carry. Has Henry already fallen
off the running back cliff or other factors to blame?

Speaker 1 (30:17):
No, No, you know who's falling off the cliff, Ryan Tannehill.
That guy sucks. How about opening? How about complete some
damn passes down the field, open some things up? How
about that for the Tennessee Titans. And here's the thing,
Derek Henry's not past the expiration date. The trade deadline
in the NFL is coming up on Halloween. How about
a Derrick Henry tree. He's gonna be a free agent

(30:38):
at the end of the season, I believe, So why
how about that as a possibility there, I'm not writing
them off yet? Mal a third degree? How do we
down passin? I want god fork Catt? I won for
Cat I was.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio
dot com and with it the iHeartRadio app search FSR
to listen.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
Live and away we go.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
Hey got a minute?

Speaker 1 (31:08):
Hey heaven?

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Oh Iowa like you give a damn? Now presenting the
most up to date happenings from Iowa's four Division one teams,
ladies and gentlemen, cows and pinks. It's the Iowa Minute.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Here's Iowa sam alright. Clock is one minute, one minute,
one minute.

Speaker 7 (31:33):
Yes, the IOA Minute marches on on his second week
on the Ben Mallory Overnights. And remember, folks, the i
A Minute may in fact the clips sixty times seconds.
And if you tweeted it, uh, if you tweeted last
week about the Iowa Minute or at me, my apologies,
I still haven't gotten to your adoration and or scorn.
I will eventually. I think sometimes it's just best to

(31:54):
avert your eyes, Ben, Yes, Iowa, just to update our listeners,
very important that everyone knows this.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
What's right.

Speaker 7 (32:01):
We are just a few days into fall. Fall in
the Midwest is a special time.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Why is it special? I was saying, well, uh.

Speaker 7 (32:10):
According to Monday's report from the US Department of Agriculture,
about nine percent of the state's corn crop has been
harvested for grain and eleven percent of soybeans. Much work
to do, so enjoy Grandma's scotch row. You like Scotch crews, Ben?
What is what is scotch? It's like a It's like
a baked dessert. Bake desserts. Is there frosting on it?

Speaker 1 (32:30):
Kind of? It's like a it's like a butter Scotch frosting.
I'd probably like that. Yeah, I think I would go
for that.

Speaker 7 (32:36):
We'll make you some Scotchew's all right, let's start with
our FCS brethren of the Iowa Minute Drake, the team
of des Moines, not Drek Drake. Well, they're still Drekt
but the Thankfully the own three Bulldogs had a bye
week in preparation for Morehead State. This Saturday, they'll head
down to head Morehead Chance rythmic chanting the family. I'll

(32:57):
head down to Morehead, Kentucky. I see what you take
on the Eagles of Moorhead where one and two and
they own a victory over West Virginia State. West Virginia State.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
Not the Mountaineers other one.

Speaker 7 (33:10):
Okay, now let's check in on our panthers in Cedar Falls.
You and I also on a bye week this past weekend.
That is that is the Penguins of Youngstown State visit
the Unidome this Saturday.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
I like, I like that in Pittsburgh Penguins. But yeah,
like Don Juwarski's alma mater. Is that right? Jaws? Jaws?
All right?

Speaker 6 (33:33):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (33:33):
And Ben, yes, I was saying I went to bed
Saturday night graduation.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
I did too, And I had a really bad dream
you did.

Speaker 7 (33:43):
It was more like a It's more like a nightmare.
I dreamt that Iowa was shut out, shut out for
the first time in twenty three years.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
Yeah, wait a second. That wasn't a nightmare, that was reality.
Oh no, I was said, play action Ali wait and
so cot touchdown, Puchstike colel decands have a net wians cash.
I am a takeaway. This is my namemare so Iowa Sam.
I did not see the Iowa mistake game, but I

(34:13):
did turn it on, and I thought of you because
you told me you were planning your day around watching
that game. Yeah, and yes, oh my god, for that single.
In the de fact play action, Alo rolls, White looks,
throws back across the Penzil touchdown Tyler alone, have the

(34:34):
wine up becomes an out of lash. Oh okay, how
do I kill this? Please? That was a chainsaw or
a windship or whatever. Just use your imagination.

Speaker 7 (34:45):
Steve Jones from their field there, Ben looking at this
Iowa Penn State box score his box store, box store.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
Yeah, box dress a new term only Iowa saying has that.
Most people say box score, You say box looking at
this box Scores. That's staring at this. Tom Mooney, you
said a four run home run. Yeah, oh my, are
you really.

Speaker 7 (35:03):
Got ninety seconds left? Ninety seconds? But you know, I
want to listen. I want to speak to Tennessee Titans
fans real quick. You have nothing to be ashamed of.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
Nothing.

Speaker 7 (35:12):
After last week's game in Cleveland, which your Titans accumulated
six first downs and ninety four total yards and a
field goal.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
Nothing to be ashamed of because.

Speaker 7 (35:20):
Iowa turned out we suck again all of four first
downs and seventy six total yards and zero points.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
Did they travel by stage coach to Pennsylvania? Yes, yes, no,
we knock again. Their offense is from the era of
the stage coach.

Speaker 7 (35:36):
Now we go to exclusive audio of Chris in Des
Moines following the loss.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
No God, please, no, no, no no. He then repeated
that the following day watching the Bears, so quite the
week end for him. Yes, okay, let's finish with a winner. Okay,
Iowa State back on track. Yeah, the far hash back
in the shotgun and he throws up the middle man

(36:04):
wide open. Jackson's to the half, his second touchdown of
the day and his second touchdown of his.

Speaker 7 (36:11):
Career, thirty four to twenty seven winners over Oklahoma State.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
Want to know in the Big twelve hot Dog, we
got a lot of times running.

Speaker 7 (36:18):
Out and more exclusive audio, this time from Shane in
Des Moines, or, as Ben says, Shane in Demoyd.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
Shane and Demoyd, Uh, here we go really.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
Going to go there?

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Five minutes? Make it in, Eddy, make it in. I'm
knocking out.

Speaker 7 (36:34):
I'm not gonna have time for this last story. We'll
have to save many. He's running into a brick wall here,
all exclusive audio, got you by.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
You gotta hit them the minute grain prices.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
Oh yeah, you gotta hit the post, Iowa, Sam, Yeah,
hit the post. All right. Well that's your eye of
a minute. I'm wrapping it up right now. I need
more pork. Next week. We'll save the star next week.
Thank you very much, thank you. We'll get you jaky
all right.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
and password is password, you idiot? Password the word Game
of the Stars. Here's Ben Meller on a newby night.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
Let's meet our contestants. We say hello to Jack, who's
in Boston. Hello, Jack, welcome. Hey, it's a newbie night, Jack.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
You're a newby, Yes I am.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
You're damn right? Password? All right? What do you think?
I'm Tyreek Hill here? How dare you? All right? Very good?
Hold on, Jack, you're gonna play the game. And Eddie
picked door number one two or three? Eddie number two
number two? All right, you have picked. Jeff in Tennessee. Hello, Jeff, welcome.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
Hey, oh thank you glad to be here.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
You were door number two. So door number one and
door number three. We're not picked. Jeff. What part of
Tennessee are you in? Sir Ego Bell? All right? For
those of us not familiar with Eagleville, what would that
be near.

Speaker 7 (38:01):
That we know about from Nashville?

Speaker 1 (38:05):
Okay, so you're in the suburbs. You're in Clay Travis Territory.
Out there and got you?

Speaker 5 (38:11):
I got you?

Speaker 1 (38:11):
All right, we're very cool. Hold on a sec, Jack,
who do you want to partner up with?

Speaker 4 (38:16):
Jack?

Speaker 1 (38:16):
You can play with me, Ben, Eddie, Iowa, Sam Cooper Loop.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Let's go cool.

Speaker 6 (38:22):
All right.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
It's a bad choice by you, Jack, bad job. All right,
hold on, say all right and we have let's see
you're Jeff in Tennessee. Jeff, who would you like to
partner up with? Jeff? Wasn't summer nuby?

Speaker 2 (38:37):
I'll take you Ben?

Speaker 1 (38:38):
All right, there you go. It's a newbie night.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
All right, here we go.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
You're going down, Coop. We have a list of words
one to ten. You can see the list. You're cheating.
Don't be an astro and here we were a dollar.
You're not playing Eddie. You weren't picked Eddie, sit this
one out. All right, here we go, Jack, picking number
one to ten, please, sir, number you gotta say that, right,

(39:03):
Come on, number one? All right, let's this is easy.
Come on, let's go with. Come on, sorcery. No, uh wizard,
No see, I knew it, all right, listen to me.
Forget that, Jeff, abra cadabra, abra, cadabra.

Speaker 7 (39:30):
Yeah, we got the lead and we are going again.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
All right. Take a number there, Jeff and tennessee outside Nashville.
Two to two to nine. I guess is the list
of number five? All right, let's go with. Let's see here,
how about uh, this is one word I can say this? Uh,

(39:59):
all right, come down, how about Woodland.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
No, it's a blowout.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
It is a blowout, nineteen and nothing. Go ahead, pick
a number, Go ahead, Jack, save some face here, Jack,
you like the Patriots. You're just trying to cover the
spread at this point. Number right, all right, go ahead. No,
that's easy too, Come on, cool, you gotta get that.
I mean that's easy. Chauffeur, Dad, chauffeur, Oh oh oh

(40:39):
bad clue by you, Colt, Jeff. Let's try let's try
a motorist.

Speaker 6 (40:50):
No, no, road.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
Annie. This looks like the dolphins in the fuck out, Jack.
There is such a thing as too much. I'm going
for seventy nows running up this going on. We're out
of time, all right, Jeff, you're the smartest man in
the world. Thank you for that. Appreciate it. You win
a golden ticket. And Jack, I think Jack hung off.

(41:15):
Jack already hung offs. It's a driver. I destroyed you.
Coop oh Man, that was a big win.
Advertise With Us

Host

Ben Maller

Ben Maller

Popular Podcasts

Dateline NBC

Dateline NBC

Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com

The Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club

The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!

Music, radio and podcasts, all free. Listen online or download the iHeart App.

Connect

© 2025 iHeartMedia, Inc.