October 2, 2023 • 38 mins
Big Ben talks about the Jets losing a close game to the Chiefs thanks in part to the refs, the Dolphins getting blown out by the Bills, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and more!
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Close but no victory for the Jets. Wel gome in
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swamp land of New Jersey. We survived another weekend and
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we were rewarded with whatever that was that was played
on Sunday in the NFL, But it was the Travis
Kelcey Ken City Chiefs Roads Circus. They have become a
traveling circus here with a bunch of a list B lists,
C list celebrities, ratcheting on to the Chiefs Purkis band wagon.
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So the Chiefs visiting to play Zach Wilson and the
Jets always a date you look forward to because that's
pretty much a guaranteed victory. Mike Turrico, Chris Collinsworth, they
were there for NBC. Taylor Swift did show up there
with Ryan Reynolds and a bunch of other celebrities that
got a wee bit of attention, although the other celebrities
is like an afterthought. But if you didn't see the game,
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if you missed it, you did not watch and you
missed out. It was a seventeen nothing, seventeen nothing Chiefs
lead and Mahomes then didn't really play all that well
after that, and the Jets defense made some plays, but
in the end, Canza City able to get a three
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point win as the Rutgers product back in New Jersey,
Isaiah Pacheco running for one hundred and fifteen yards. He
had a touchdown as well. So the Chiefs are three
to one, they get the victory and the Jets drop
to one in three on the season one and three.
The better story, though, is in the losing locker room.
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So that is where we'll we will go. We will
start on the Jets side of things. So let's discuss
the question is is it now safe for the Jets
to believe in Zach Wilson? Oh, Zack Wilson at a
good game. He's arrived. It's like it's bar mitzvah Zach
Wilson out there for the Jets. So to answer the
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question is it now safe to believe in Zach Wilson,
I am shaking my head. No. That would be a
capital end and a capital on that. I will be
the voice of reason in the darkness. And on this
one we've got Subway Rat, Tim Donahey and Thermostat and
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we will combine all of these things together and we
will pour the concrete that will be the foundation of
this male of monologue. So a h as you've likely
heard over the years, and maybe you believe in this
as well. Everything is relative, right, everything is relative. So
Zach Wilson had a good stat line in some areas, right,
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some areas considering where Zach Wilson had been. But it
did come in a game where the Chiefs were leading
seventeen to nothing and then the Jets worked their way
back into a tie. But when you take a couple
of steps back, right, it's nothing to get fired up
about and get excited about that this is some kind
of coming out party for Zach Wilson, that he's out
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of the closet now and the Duns closet, and now
he's going to be be good. There's no evidence that
Kansas City played a C level game. Can we all
agree on that they were sloppy, They were lethargic, they
were plumb for the taken there, they were ripe for
the picking in this game, and they still ended up
with four hundred and one yards of offense against that
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Jets defense, even not playing particularly well. He still had
over forty yards off barely but Patrick Mahomes keep this
in mind. Had Patrick Mahomes decided to run the football
into the end zone rather than slide down inside the
five yard line with less than two minutes to go,
the Chiefs still would have covered the point spread because
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they would have won by ten. They were nine and
a half point favors. Now I did have the Jets,
so I was happy that he decided to do that,
and I would like to thank him for that as
someone that does a fledgling gambling show on television. Now
it does help, So thank you for doing that. But
had all things been the same, and he goes into
the end zone, the Jets don't score again, the Chiefs
win by ten, and we're having a much different conversation.
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But the excitement, this is a teachable moment. The excitement
about Zach Wilson is a reminder of what a deep
dark place he finds himself in. Right, it's reality. This
guy has been the epitome of a subway rat, Zach
Wilson the way that he has played in his career,
and the Jets know he sucks. They went out and
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got Aaron Rodgers because they knew they had nobody at quarterback.
Rogers got hurt, so now they're playing him. And if
I was the Jets and I had a chance today
to acquire a halfway decent quarterback, I would do it.
I would even after this game. Maybe this helps you,
This should help the Jets. They can now tell some
other dumb team. Look, look he's coming around. Take Zach
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Wilson off her hands. But man, I mean he's so desperate.
You're looking for anything to latch onto. If you're the Jets,
I get it. But when you put it under a microscope,
they were down seventeen to nothing early in the game.
They had a couple of good drives the Jets. Overall
Zach Wilson. When you take the microscope out and analyze it,
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Zach Wilson still averaged less than six and a half
yards per past attempt. Seven is average, and he was
at six point three yards per attempt. He also had
the backbreaking turnover late in the game. Are we supposed
to forget about that? Maybe we are? I don't know,
all right, is that how this works? Now let's get
to the good stuff. Now, not that that wasn't good stuff,
but let's now get to the good stuff. There was
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one play in particular, one play that stands out like
a throbbing thumb in the Sunday Night game, and it
caused the New York Jets coach there to have a
nuclear meltdown on the sidelines. He had a coronary Robert Salah,
the Jets coach here, following a controversial penalty flag that
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went against New York's defense with a late in the
fourth quarter, and after Patrick Mahomes had thrown what would
have been an interception had it stood, an official penalized
Sauce Gardener. He got Saucy the referee penalizing Sauce Gardenal Gardner.
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It was a very questionable situation there, and that return
possession to Kansas City gave him a first down. Now
Robert Sala was I rate, he was inflamed. He lost
as cool. There. People were going nuts. The penalty flag
wiped out what would have been the third interception of
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the day for Patrick Mahomes. If you want to know
how the Jets were able to stay in the game
and would have given the ball to the Jets had
the interception stood about their own thirty yard line, down
by three, they would have had the ball just needing
a field goal to tie the game. Instead, the Chiefs
were given a fresh set of downs and they would
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not would not screw that up. They pretty much ran
the clock out after that they ran the clock out
of that was it. The game was over. So the
question here on this particular interaction between Robert Salah and
the referees, how did you see it? As a neutral part?
How did you see this particular call the official throwing
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the flag on saut Gardener. This this is right out
of the NBA world. This reminds me of a Tim
donnahe like situation here, meddling by the referees and the thing.
And there's no way the NFL can spin this at all.
It was so obvious even to our blind listeners know
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how bad this call was. And I'll tell you why. Right,
this is what you see in basketball. And we don't
talk as much basketball on the show as other shows
do because of these kind of calls that happen all
the time in the NBA. That and the players don't
actually like playing in the NBA. But in this particular situation,
if you go back and go frame by frame so
Bruder film style and analyze what happened on the call,
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the referee waited one to one thousand two, one thousand three,
one thousand. He waited until the pass was picked off,
which means had the Chiefs converted the first down and
kept possession of the ball, there would have been no penalty.
It was a phantom call by the official to screw
over the Jets. I don't know why. Yeah, I could.
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I could come up with some assumptions. Why in basketball
that kind of call happens. It's a superstar league. You
gotta protect the superstars. Is that what was going on here?
But even if you think it was the right call,
the call was not made right away. One to one thousand, two,
one thousand three, one thousand. Then you throw the flag,
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Then you throw the flag after that. Hey, I'm not
a Jets fan, I'm not a Chiefs fan. I just
I'm telling you what I saw. It's like they were
covering from a home. You can't have my homes throw
a third interception here. Cannot do it. Cannot do it
because then maybe Taylor's swift. If the Chiefs lose, we
won't have Taylor at our games anymore. They'll think she's
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a jinx. They won't let her out there. Now, I
am convinced it was unnecessary. I'm convinced that Jets would
have screwed up anyway, that Zach Wilson would have worked
his magic and that would have been great, they say,
ty ty game, jets tie it up. Whatever. He would
have screwed it up in the end. But we didn't
get that. We did not get that at all. All Right,
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now the last ward here, where does this particular game
leave this performance? Where does this performance leave Andy Reid's Chiefs.
As they win, they don't win by a gazillion. They
were big favorites on the road in the swamp lands
of New Jersey. So it's actually one of those things
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we coaches love this kind of stuff. Coaches like go
crazy for this, right because the Chiefs won, but they
played a C minus level game. And so when you
play a C minus level game and Andy Reid, you're like, wow,
we got a lot of work to do, you know,
all that crap that coaches like to say. So Andy's
got to go back into the sorcerer's workshop or the
donut shop or wherever he works, and he's got to
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figure out how to get some things in order. Now,
I don't know what Andy Reid can do because I
look at the Chiefs when we see them play a lot.
They're in the national television you know, big games, Island games,
all the time, and I watched the Chiefs and I'm like,
their offensive line, their tackles stink. Guy Taylor, I mean
he's number seventy four, man, that guy sucks. And then
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you look at the receivers for the Chiefs and you're
going up and down. You're like, well, that guy's no good.
They've got one person that can catch passes, Travis Kelcey,
but he's a tight end. They don't have a single
receiver on that team worth their salt. Not Marquez Valdez, Scantling,
he's no good name, long name, a lot of letters, production, no, no,
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not there. And you go up and down the depth
chart at receiver, at receiver, there's just nothing there. So
the trade deadline is on Halloween, and it should be
a rather spooky Halloween for the Chiefs. Get some help,
get an offensive linement, get a tackle who cares about
your draft picks. You're gonna be drafting near the end
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of every round anyway, So go out improve the roster.
You gotta do it, you gotta do it anyway. It
is the Ben Mahlors Show. I don't have my computer up,
but I think we have Robert Sala. So, uh, here's
Robert sala and his reaction. You hear the question and
the answer. Here's Robert Salah commenting on the play we
were just talking about a few minutes ago. Here the
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phantom penalty that was not called until after the pass
was intercepted. One one thousand to one thousand, three one thousand.
Here's the Jets code, Robert, you talk about in a
holding call on saus Gardner. I'm not gonna comment on that.
I've already upset about calls for the county. Oh, come on,
give me more than that, Robert, you got all worked
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up into a ladder on the sidelines. Oh, I'm not
going to comment on this ridiculous. Uh. Now, one thing
that Robert Salad is really good at is giving a
shoulder rub and a manny and a petty to Zach Wilson,
even when Zack doesn't deserve it. Uh, Zach's so bad.
He had an average game and people are all excited
about him. Here's Robert Salah giving a bubble bath to
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his quarterback. Take a Liz, I thought he was really good.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Oh yeah, gave us a chance to win the game,
brought us back.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
If he plays like that, we're going to a lot
of potball games. Yeah, if you're in the CFL, you
want a lot of games.
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out another opportunity to slice and dice the NFL and
our lead to this hour coming from Western New York. Now,
if you were listening last hour, we took a phone
call from an orgasmic Andy, the comic book guy who's
on cloud nine. It was an AFC East showdown for
the Ages, the much anticipated matchup between the front runner
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for the MVP race to a tongue of Iloa. After
three games he was the leading MVP candidate and the
Dolphins taking on the Bills. Now, I don't if you
saw this game. Much build up for this big deal,
kind a kind of a big matchup and got a
lot of attention going into the weekend. Josh Allen, through
not one, nine, two, not three, but four touchdown passes
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he ran for a score in Buffalo ended up taking
Miami to the woodshed and they win this game, not
even close. Twenty eight point win for Buffalo, the final
score forty eight to twenty. The Bills a small favorite
at home. This comes a week after Miami had one
of the biggest wins in NFL history margin wise. They
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won a game by fifty points. I just believed the
first time ever team's won by fifty one week and
then lost by twenty eight the next. Of course, it's
easy to look up not that many teams ever win
by fifty points in the NFL. So the Bills they're
three to one, the Dolphins are three and one, but
Buffalo based on the head to head, they are now
in the catbirds seat in the AFC East. So the
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Bills mafia on tops to Fawn Diggs catching a big,
a big day in the statue. He had not one,
not two, three touchdowns. He had six catches for one
hundred and twenty yards and Josh Allen over three hundred
yards passing. He only had four incompletions against that soft
Miami defense and Josh Allen four passing touchdowns. As the
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Buffalo Bills get the win. So let us discuss the
question on this one. Who gets the blame fish taco?
Who gets the blame fish taco for the Dolphins as
they go down? And they go down big in Buffalo.
So I've got Irish spring unicorns and Jim Mora, and
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we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make checkmate, which is what the Miami
Dolphins suffered. They suffered a checkmate loss at the hands
of the Buffalo Bills. Buffalo getting the win big so
number w yes to a tongue of Byloa had all
the charisma. He had all the confidence coming in, but
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let's start with him. His numbers were not particularly amazing.
In fact, they were not horrific. They were kind of
like an old tour performance of the past. He was,
as we mentioned, the MVP front runner coming into this game.
He is no longer the front runner for the MVP
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after this game. Three weeks of goodness and does one
bad performance wash it all away? Toua lost a fair
amount of swagger, the belief that Tua had turned things
upside down on the perception of him, that it was
a totally different player than he had been. Now that
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kind of looked like the old tour, not kind of it?
Did that look like the tour that we've seen where
it's kind of eh, not particularly great, and all the
noise about how wonderful things had been. There the jiu
jitsu training for Tua, and he was going to avoid
getting tackled from opposing defensive players and getting sacked at all,
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well without perfect protection to look like the same tool.
You didn't look any different, right, And you're not going
to play playoff games, big games against good teams having
everything go perfect. That's not how it works. You're going
to have to succeed when there is pressure on you,
and so this is a problem like this is what
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we call an Irish spring type of game. Because there
was a lot of stinky, a lot of stinky for
the Miami Dolphins that fishy smell and outside of the
quarterback Miami, they didn't move the ball pretty well. But
their defense, Holy Canoley, what the heck was that? The
Dolphins also were sloppy. They had eight penalties for ninety
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eight yards, four fumbles, one of them lost, so they
recovered three of the four fumbles they had the interception.
The defense gave up six touchdowns to the Buffalo Bills
forty eight points. They were in the dog doo doo
throughout the afternoon. There. Now on the other side are
Josh Allen? Are Josh Allen? The Buffalo Bills now the
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best team in the NFL? Well, the legal definition of
the term best means as good as all the rest,
So yes, the Buffalo Bills are, by the legal definition,
as good as every other team in the NFL. Now,
most people perceive the term best is better than other
teams in the NFL. Do I have Buffalo better than
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every other team in the NFL? Based on this performance. No,
I don't why I live in the real world. Okay,
I'm not gonna sit here and be a prisoner of
the moment. Was it a fine performance by the Bills? Yes?
Did I expect Buffalo to win this game by four
touchdowns over Miami? No? I did not. But I look
at the Bills and I see the same issues are
gonna pop up for Buffalo, and they're gonna have to
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prove that they've been able to they're able to overcome
those issues. Look at this team, The Buffalo Bills are
designed for warm weather, like a so cow warm weather
dome team, that they are not the kind of team
that is going to be able to matriculate the ball
up and down the field with ease when the weather
turns nasty. So it's this weird thing here in Buffalo
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where you're trying to win as many games as you
can to get home field advantage, but then that's actually
disadvantage for you if you play at home and there's
a lake effect blizzard and you're out there trying to
throw the ball with Josh Allen and Stefan Diggs and
the weather's terrible, and you're screwed and so that's a reality.
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The Buffalo's gonna have to prove, they have to validate
that they can win those games, bad weather games, because
they're not built like a bad weather team. And it's
reminiscent the Bills when they had great teams. If you're old,
then you remember when they had Jim Kelly and Andre
Reid and Thurman Thomas. They were also built like a
dome team. And then but they were at least able
to get through the playoffs in the AFC. And then
they'd get to the Super Bowl and they take a
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ride on the vomit comet. They couldn't even remember their helmet,
some of those guys when they got to the Super Bowl.
So you've got that. But then you look around, you know,
Bill's mafia right now seeing rainbows and you know, at
night and unicorns flying through the sky. It's just wonderful,
those beautiful unicorns that they're seeing. But I get I
will be the voice of reason. Now. If you ask
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me right now, who's the top team in the NFL,
I will tell you it's the forty nine ers. They're
the number one team in the NFL, the San Francisco
forty nine Ers with Christian McCaffrey, brock Purdy, the defense.
They got a little bit of this and a little
bit of that. That's the top team. And if you
look around the NFC, the Cowboys are frauds, they're not legit.
The Eagles are good, but the forty nine ers are
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are believable that they're better than the Eagles. So what
that'll be proven out on the field. That will find
out when they play down the line, if they do
match up, if both teams get to a hypothetical matchup
in the NFC playoffs, we'll find out about that. But
that forty nine ers of the top team on Big
Ben's Big board, which is really the only board that matters,
Big Ben's big board. Can Josh Allen play mistake free
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football long enough when it matters right? Can he do that?
Probably not. Is Stefon Diggs going to be able to
avoid a hissy fit meltdown when things don't go right
for the Bills. It's fine to celebrate and pour beer
on Bill's mafia when you're winning and you're having a
fine time and all that, but we've seen how he
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handles adversity, and your true colors are shown under adversity
and he sulks. He sulks there on the sidelines and
leaves the stadium early, has a hissy fit at training camp.
He's a D the D and all that. So there
are still issues there and we'll see if the Bills
can overcome those. And I would keep an eye on
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Jacksonville next week as they will match up with the Bills,
who are going to have their ass kiss. They've already
had their ass kiss by the Bill's mafia and that
will continue throughout the weekend. By the time they get
to London, they don't even need a plane to get
to London. They've got that blimp, their ego. The blimp
will take them over to London and they'll be on
their way. Now, final point, let's go now to Nashville, Tennessee.
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That's where all the hipsters are moving. Nashville, Tennessee. That's
where the cool people are in the South, and that's
where Joe Burrow and the Bengals were. Now, Joe Burrow
got the big contract, Joe Burrow got paid, and since
that contract was filed with the NFL League Office, the
Bengals have been played by Joe Burrow. They're probably wondering
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what did we do here? My god, Joe Burrow, who
had been so good, has been so horrific. Here Burrow
through for just one hundred and sixty five yards. The
Bengals had to settle for a field goal on their
opening drive and that was the only points they scored
the entire game. They could not even get in the
red zone as they stumbled and bumped the rest of
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the game. And the Tennessee Titans, who have been okay
at home and pretty bad on the road. But Tennessee
wins twenty seven to three. Derrick Henry went over one
hundred and twenty yards had a touchdown for the Titans.
They're two and two. The Bengals dropped to one in three.
And that's where the story is. And the story here
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is Jamar Chase. There's one SoundBite of Jamar Chase here,
who went nutso on the reporters. There was a brief SoundBite,
but Jamar Chase expressing his frustration with the offensive blues
the lack of production. He declared that he believes he
is open on every single route or route he said, quote,
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I'm open. I'm always effing open, is what he said
to a Cincinnati TV station and then he said, excuse
my profanity, sorry, it was what he said. So that
was the money quote from Chase. In fact, just to
prove I'm not lying about that. We have the audio.
So if you have the audio and you're in radio
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and you want to play the audio, you play the audio.
So let's go to the audio tape. I'm open. I'm
always open. Give them up a fan. Yeah, okay, well yeah,
we bleep it. So it's all good. We bleep it.
So how are things going for Jamar Chase and the
Cincinnati football team at this particular point. Well, I think
that SoundBite sums it up right there. That sums it
up right there. We are at the essentially the quarterpol
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mark of the season, the race for the Lombardi and
currently Cincinnati is looking up at a lot of took uses.
They're looking up at a lot of took uses because
of where they find themselves at this point. They did
not expect them to be in this territory. The Cincinnati
offense is approaching the horse and buggy territory. What do
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you think about we played four games. I think they
have four touchdowns in four games. We haven't seen a
Bengal offense this bad in a generation, and they've had
some bad offenses, but you gotta go back to the
early two thousands to find an offense more inept than
the Beals offense right now. And keep in mind, Jamar
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Chase was so cocky, he was so sure of himself
coming in. It's so confident about the Bengals and how
good they were. Remember we talked about this during training camp.
At the end of training camp, Jamar Chase said, I
think that Joe Burrow should sit out the first four
games of the regular season. That we are We'll fine,
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We're fine. He shouldn't show up till week five. Just
let him sit out. He'll get healthy, like you think
he'll just magically all of a sudden get healthy. But
Joe Burrow hasn't been practicing much and he's been playing
in the games and not well, not well in the games.
The Bengals don't have a backup quarterback that they got
one guy, and that's Joe Burrow, so they're putting him
out there and he's essentially been a decoy. Joe Burrow
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as the starting quarterback for the Bengals has been a decoy.
How's that working out, don't ask. Not good at all.
But you look at the Bengals here and what they
have been able to do or not do on offense,
and it reminds me of a member of the Fox
Sports Radio Alumni Association, Jim Moore. Because the Bengals they
could not do Diddley Pooh on offense, and it was
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another disgraceful performance. And if you think this team right
now is going to the playoffs, you've lost your bloody mind.
We couldn't do Diddley Pooh offensively. The Bengals should adapt
a different stance. I think this was Joe Madden, who's
been blackballed out of baseball because he didn't follow the Nerds.
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But Joe Madden was trying not to suck. The Bengals
offense should try not to suck at this point right now?
They do they Boy are they bad. They're almost as
bad as when Justin and Cincinnati calls up to play
a game show completely you know, you know what his
mind is. Bush doesn't go very well anyway. Cincinnati fourteen
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first downs, they had two hundred eleven yards, an anemic
two of nine on third down against I would say
average Cincinnati defense. Their past defense in Cincinnati not particularly great.
They have some issues in the secondary. Of course, when
the opposing quarterback just throws the ball within five yards
either behind or ahead of the line of scrimmage, I
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would think that would be pretty easy to defend. Not
that I ever played in the NFL. What do I know.
I just do the overnight show here. But if you
go into the game convinced that the opposing quarterback cannot
complete passes down the field, I think you're in pretty
good shape there that you just have to defend around
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Speaker 4 (31:12):
Mariners catcher Cal Rawley seemingly called out the front office
on Saturday after they were eliminated from the playoffs. He said,
we've got to commit to winning we have to commit
to going and getting the players that use the other
teams going out and getting Ben. Is the front office
to blame here?
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Well, I saw that cow cal Rowley apologized on Sunday,
which tells us he was right with what he originally said.
That's why somebody talked to him said, you got to
apologize here. Uh the Big Dipper, right, isn't that nickname
the Big Dipper there? And or the big dumper cal Raley.
But listen, the Mariners traded a bunch of guys away.
They didn't really add any name brand players at the deadline,
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and so yeah, the players are upset, but ultimately the
players choked for the Mariners. They had They were in
position to make the playoffs and they didn't get it done.
But I'd keep an eye on cal Raley being traded
this offseason. The front office is not like those kind
of comments.
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Next, it was reported this weekend that Blake Griffin is
considering retirement Ben. What is Griffin's legacy? Is he a
top ten power forward all time?
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His legacy, Coop is fun. The Lob City Clippers were
so much fun when he was playing there, and for
five years Blake Griffin was one of the top players
in the NBA and a Hall of He is a
Hall of Famer, but he's not a top ten power
forward of all time. He didn't last long enough. But
you say Clippers, I know, all right, but Blake Griffin
absolutely is outstanding and is a Hall of Famer, not
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a top ten all time power forward.
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Next, well, this question is almost irrelevant now, but Broncos
GM George Payton was in attendance at USC Colorado game
on Saturday.
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Oh you thought that Broncos were gonna lose Coop? I did. Ben.
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Let's say the Broncos end up with the number one
overall pick. I mean, they're about to rattle off like
ten straight wins down. But do you think Caleb Williams
would play for them or opt to return to USC.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Let's see play for the Arizona car I guess the
Cardinals are there. Yeah, of course he'd played for the Broncos.
Absolutely not gonna have the number one pick, though, so win,
Yeah to win. I won the game, just like the Broncos.
I won. They didn't cover, though I covered.
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and he's the worst. We haven't heard him in a while. Yeah,
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more thing time. I saw a girl that looked like
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All right? I never heard that before. Thank you. On
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call him, all right. Line two, Hello, line two.
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Maybe Justin in Cincinnati could be his mess suit.
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Oh well, Justin is looking for work. I understand. Line
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As long as there's no hair pulling or right contact
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swamp land of New Jersey. We survived another weekend and
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we were rewarded with whatever that was that was played
on Sunday in the NFL, But it was the Travis
Kelcey Ken City Chiefs Roads Circus. They have become a
traveling circus here with a bunch of a list B lists,
C list celebrities, ratcheting on to the Chiefs Purkis band wagon.
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So the Chiefs visiting to play Zach Wilson and the
Jets always a date you look forward to because that's
pretty much a guaranteed victory. Mike Turrico, Chris Collinsworth, they
were there for NBC. Taylor Swift did show up there
with Ryan Reynolds and a bunch of other celebrities that
got a wee bit of attention, although the other celebrities
is like an afterthought. But if you didn't see the game,
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if you missed it, you did not watch and you
missed out. It was a seventeen nothing, seventeen nothing Chiefs
lead and Mahomes then didn't really play all that well
after that, and the Jets defense made some plays, but
in the end, Canza City able to get a three
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point win as the Rutgers product back in New Jersey,
Isaiah Pacheco running for one hundred and fifteen yards. He
had a touchdown as well. So the Chiefs are three
to one, they get the victory and the Jets drop
to one in three on the season one and three.
The better story, though, is in the losing locker room.
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So that is where we'll we will go. We will
start on the Jets side of things. So let's discuss
the question is is it now safe for the Jets
to believe in Zach Wilson? Oh, Zack Wilson at a
good game. He's arrived. It's like it's bar mitzvah Zach
Wilson out there for the Jets. So to answer the
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question is it now safe to believe in Zach Wilson,
I am shaking my head. No. That would be a
capital end and a capital on that. I will be
the voice of reason in the darkness. And on this
one we've got Subway Rat, Tim Donahey and Thermostat and
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we will combine all of these things together and we
will pour the concrete that will be the foundation of
this male of monologue. So a h as you've likely
heard over the years, and maybe you believe in this
as well. Everything is relative, right, everything is relative. So
Zach Wilson had a good stat line in some areas, right,
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some areas considering where Zach Wilson had been. But it
did come in a game where the Chiefs were leading
seventeen to nothing and then the Jets worked their way
back into a tie. But when you take a couple
of steps back, right, it's nothing to get fired up
about and get excited about that this is some kind
of coming out party for Zach Wilson, that he's out
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of the closet now and the Duns closet, and now
he's going to be be good. There's no evidence that
Kansas City played a C level game. Can we all
agree on that they were sloppy, They were lethargic, they
were plumb for the taken there, they were ripe for
the picking in this game, and they still ended up
with four hundred and one yards of offense against that
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Jets defense, even not playing particularly well. He still had
over forty yards off barely but Patrick Mahomes keep this
in mind. Had Patrick Mahomes decided to run the football
into the end zone rather than slide down inside the
five yard line with less than two minutes to go,
the Chiefs still would have covered the point spread because
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they would have won by ten. They were nine and
a half point favors. Now I did have the Jets,
so I was happy that he decided to do that,
and I would like to thank him for that as
someone that does a fledgling gambling show on television. Now
it does help, So thank you for doing that. But
had all things been the same, and he goes into
the end zone, the Jets don't score again, the Chiefs
win by ten, and we're having a much different conversation.
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But the excitement, this is a teachable moment. The excitement
about Zach Wilson is a reminder of what a deep
dark place he finds himself in. Right, it's reality. This
guy has been the epitome of a subway rat, Zach
Wilson the way that he has played in his career,
and the Jets know he sucks. They went out and
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got Aaron Rodgers because they knew they had nobody at quarterback.
Rogers got hurt, so now they're playing him. And if
I was the Jets and I had a chance today
to acquire a halfway decent quarterback, I would do it.
I would even after this game. Maybe this helps you,
This should help the Jets. They can now tell some
other dumb team. Look, look he's coming around. Take Zach
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Wilson off her hands. But man, I mean he's so desperate.
You're looking for anything to latch onto. If you're the Jets,
I get it. But when you put it under a microscope,
they were down seventeen to nothing early in the game.
They had a couple of good drives the Jets. Overall
Zach Wilson. When you take the microscope out and analyze it,
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Zach Wilson still averaged less than six and a half
yards per past attempt. Seven is average, and he was
at six point three yards per attempt. He also had
the backbreaking turnover late in the game. Are we supposed
to forget about that? Maybe we are? I don't know,
all right, is that how this works? Now let's get
to the good stuff. Now, not that that wasn't good stuff,
but let's now get to the good stuff. There was
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one play in particular, one play that stands out like
a throbbing thumb in the Sunday Night game, and it
caused the New York Jets coach there to have a
nuclear meltdown on the sidelines. He had a coronary Robert Salah,
the Jets coach here, following a controversial penalty flag that
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went against New York's defense with a late in the
fourth quarter, and after Patrick Mahomes had thrown what would
have been an interception had it stood, an official penalized
Sauce Gardener. He got Saucy the referee penalizing Sauce Gardenal Gardner.
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It was a very questionable situation there, and that return
possession to Kansas City gave him a first down. Now
Robert Sala was I rate, he was inflamed. He lost
as cool. There. People were going nuts. The penalty flag
wiped out what would have been the third interception of
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the day for Patrick Mahomes. If you want to know
how the Jets were able to stay in the game
and would have given the ball to the Jets had
the interception stood about their own thirty yard line, down
by three, they would have had the ball just needing
a field goal to tie the game. Instead, the Chiefs
were given a fresh set of downs and they would
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not would not screw that up. They pretty much ran
the clock out after that they ran the clock out
of that was it. The game was over. So the
question here on this particular interaction between Robert Salah and
the referees, how did you see it? As a neutral part?
How did you see this particular call the official throwing
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the flag on saut Gardener. This this is right out
of the NBA world. This reminds me of a Tim
donnahe like situation here, meddling by the referees and the thing.
And there's no way the NFL can spin this at all.
It was so obvious even to our blind listeners know
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how bad this call was. And I'll tell you why. Right,
this is what you see in basketball. And we don't
talk as much basketball on the show as other shows
do because of these kind of calls that happen all
the time in the NBA. That and the players don't
actually like playing in the NBA. But in this particular situation,
if you go back and go frame by frame so
Bruder film style and analyze what happened on the call,
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the referee waited one to one thousand two, one thousand three,
one thousand. He waited until the pass was picked off,
which means had the Chiefs converted the first down and
kept possession of the ball, there would have been no penalty.
It was a phantom call by the official to screw
over the Jets. I don't know why. Yeah, I could.
(10:01):
I could come up with some assumptions. Why in basketball
that kind of call happens. It's a superstar league. You
gotta protect the superstars. Is that what was going on here?
But even if you think it was the right call,
the call was not made right away. One to one thousand, two,
one thousand three, one thousand. Then you throw the flag,
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Then you throw the flag after that. Hey, I'm not
a Jets fan, I'm not a Chiefs fan. I just
I'm telling you what I saw. It's like they were
covering from a home. You can't have my homes throw
a third interception here. Cannot do it. Cannot do it
because then maybe Taylor's swift. If the Chiefs lose, we
won't have Taylor at our games anymore. They'll think she's
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a jinx. They won't let her out there. Now, I
am convinced it was unnecessary. I'm convinced that Jets would
have screwed up anyway, that Zach Wilson would have worked
his magic and that would have been great, they say,
ty ty game, jets tie it up. Whatever. He would
have screwed it up in the end. But we didn't
get that. We did not get that at all. All Right,
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now the last ward here, where does this particular game
leave this performance? Where does this performance leave Andy Reid's Chiefs.
As they win, they don't win by a gazillion. They
were big favorites on the road in the swamp lands
of New Jersey. So it's actually one of those things
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we coaches love this kind of stuff. Coaches like go
crazy for this, right because the Chiefs won, but they
played a C minus level game. And so when you
play a C minus level game and Andy Reid, you're like, wow,
we got a lot of work to do, you know,
all that crap that coaches like to say. So Andy's
got to go back into the sorcerer's workshop or the
donut shop or wherever he works, and he's got to
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figure out how to get some things in order. Now,
I don't know what Andy Reid can do because I
look at the Chiefs when we see them play a lot.
They're in the national television you know, big games, Island games,
all the time, and I watched the Chiefs and I'm like,
their offensive line, their tackles stink. Guy Taylor, I mean
he's number seventy four, man, that guy sucks. And then
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you look at the receivers for the Chiefs and you're
going up and down. You're like, well, that guy's no good.
They've got one person that can catch passes, Travis Kelcey,
but he's a tight end. They don't have a single
receiver on that team worth their salt. Not Marquez Valdez, Scantling,
he's no good name, long name, a lot of letters, production, no, no,
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not there. And you go up and down the depth
chart at receiver, at receiver, there's just nothing there. So
the trade deadline is on Halloween, and it should be
a rather spooky Halloween for the Chiefs. Get some help,
get an offensive linement, get a tackle who cares about
your draft picks. You're gonna be drafting near the end
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of every round anyway, So go out improve the roster.
You gotta do it, you gotta do it anyway. It
is the Ben Mahlors Show. I don't have my computer up,
but I think we have Robert Sala. So, uh, here's
Robert sala and his reaction. You hear the question and
the answer. Here's Robert Salah commenting on the play we
were just talking about a few minutes ago. Here the
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phantom penalty that was not called until after the pass
was intercepted. One one thousand to one thousand, three one thousand.
Here's the Jets code, Robert, you talk about in a
holding call on saus Gardner. I'm not gonna comment on that.
I've already upset about calls for the county. Oh, come on,
give me more than that, Robert, you got all worked
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up into a ladder on the sidelines. Oh, I'm not
going to comment on this ridiculous. Uh. Now, one thing
that Robert Salad is really good at is giving a
shoulder rub and a manny and a petty to Zach Wilson,
even when Zack doesn't deserve it. Uh, Zach's so bad.
He had an average game and people are all excited
about him. Here's Robert Salah giving a bubble bath to
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his quarterback. Take a Liz, I thought he was really good.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Oh yeah, gave us a chance to win the game,
brought us back.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
If he plays like that, we're going to a lot
of potball games. Yeah, if you're in the CFL, you
want a lot of games.
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out another opportunity to slice and dice the NFL and
our lead to this hour coming from Western New York. Now,
if you were listening last hour, we took a phone
call from an orgasmic Andy, the comic book guy who's
on cloud nine. It was an AFC East showdown for
the Ages, the much anticipated matchup between the front runner
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for the MVP race to a tongue of Iloa. After
three games he was the leading MVP candidate and the
Dolphins taking on the Bills. Now, I don't if you
saw this game. Much build up for this big deal,
kind a kind of a big matchup and got a
lot of attention going into the weekend. Josh Allen, through
not one, nine, two, not three, but four touchdown passes
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he ran for a score in Buffalo ended up taking
Miami to the woodshed and they win this game, not
even close. Twenty eight point win for Buffalo, the final
score forty eight to twenty. The Bills a small favorite
at home. This comes a week after Miami had one
of the biggest wins in NFL history margin wise. They
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won a game by fifty points. I just believed the
first time ever team's won by fifty one week and
then lost by twenty eight the next. Of course, it's
easy to look up not that many teams ever win
by fifty points in the NFL. So the Bills they're
three to one, the Dolphins are three and one, but
Buffalo based on the head to head, they are now
in the catbirds seat in the AFC East. So the
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Bills mafia on tops to Fawn Diggs catching a big,
a big day in the statue. He had not one,
not two, three touchdowns. He had six catches for one
hundred and twenty yards and Josh Allen over three hundred
yards passing. He only had four incompletions against that soft
Miami defense and Josh Allen four passing touchdowns. As the
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Buffalo Bills get the win. So let us discuss the
question on this one. Who gets the blame fish taco?
Who gets the blame fish taco for the Dolphins as
they go down? And they go down big in Buffalo.
So I've got Irish spring unicorns and Jim Mora, and
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we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make checkmate, which is what the Miami
Dolphins suffered. They suffered a checkmate loss at the hands
of the Buffalo Bills. Buffalo getting the win big so
number w yes to a tongue of Byloa had all
the charisma. He had all the confidence coming in, but
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let's start with him. His numbers were not particularly amazing.
In fact, they were not horrific. They were kind of
like an old tour performance of the past. He was,
as we mentioned, the MVP front runner coming into this game.
He is no longer the front runner for the MVP
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after this game. Three weeks of goodness and does one
bad performance wash it all away? Toua lost a fair
amount of swagger, the belief that Tua had turned things
upside down on the perception of him, that it was
a totally different player than he had been. Now that
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kind of looked like the old tour, not kind of it?
Did that look like the tour that we've seen where
it's kind of eh, not particularly great, and all the
noise about how wonderful things had been. There the jiu
jitsu training for Tua, and he was going to avoid
getting tackled from opposing defensive players and getting sacked at all,
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well without perfect protection to look like the same tool.
You didn't look any different, right, And you're not going
to play playoff games, big games against good teams having
everything go perfect. That's not how it works. You're going
to have to succeed when there is pressure on you,
and so this is a problem like this is what
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we call an Irish spring type of game. Because there
was a lot of stinky, a lot of stinky for
the Miami Dolphins that fishy smell and outside of the
quarterback Miami, they didn't move the ball pretty well. But
their defense, Holy Canoley, what the heck was that? The
Dolphins also were sloppy. They had eight penalties for ninety
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eight yards, four fumbles, one of them lost, so they
recovered three of the four fumbles they had the interception.
The defense gave up six touchdowns to the Buffalo Bills
forty eight points. They were in the dog doo doo
throughout the afternoon. There. Now on the other side are
Josh Allen? Are Josh Allen? The Buffalo Bills now the
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best team in the NFL? Well, the legal definition of
the term best means as good as all the rest,
So yes, the Buffalo Bills are, by the legal definition,
as good as every other team in the NFL. Now,
most people perceive the term best is better than other
teams in the NFL. Do I have Buffalo better than
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every other team in the NFL? Based on this performance. No,
I don't why I live in the real world. Okay,
I'm not gonna sit here and be a prisoner of
the moment. Was it a fine performance by the Bills? Yes?
Did I expect Buffalo to win this game by four
touchdowns over Miami? No? I did not. But I look
at the Bills and I see the same issues are
gonna pop up for Buffalo, and they're gonna have to
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prove that they've been able to they're able to overcome
those issues. Look at this team, The Buffalo Bills are
designed for warm weather, like a so cow warm weather
dome team, that they are not the kind of team
that is going to be able to matriculate the ball
up and down the field with ease when the weather
turns nasty. So it's this weird thing here in Buffalo
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where you're trying to win as many games as you
can to get home field advantage, but then that's actually
disadvantage for you if you play at home and there's
a lake effect blizzard and you're out there trying to
throw the ball with Josh Allen and Stefan Diggs and
the weather's terrible, and you're screwed and so that's a reality.
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The Buffalo's gonna have to prove, they have to validate
that they can win those games, bad weather games, because
they're not built like a bad weather team. And it's
reminiscent the Bills when they had great teams. If you're old,
then you remember when they had Jim Kelly and Andre
Reid and Thurman Thomas. They were also built like a
dome team. And then but they were at least able
to get through the playoffs in the AFC. And then
they'd get to the Super Bowl and they take a
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ride on the vomit comet. They couldn't even remember their helmet,
some of those guys when they got to the Super Bowl.
So you've got that. But then you look around, you know,
Bill's mafia right now seeing rainbows and you know, at
night and unicorns flying through the sky. It's just wonderful,
those beautiful unicorns that they're seeing. But I get I
will be the voice of reason. Now. If you ask
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me right now, who's the top team in the NFL,
I will tell you it's the forty nine ers. They're
the number one team in the NFL, the San Francisco
forty nine Ers with Christian McCaffrey, brock Purdy, the defense.
They got a little bit of this and a little
bit of that. That's the top team. And if you
look around the NFC, the Cowboys are frauds, they're not legit.
The Eagles are good, but the forty nine ers are
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are believable that they're better than the Eagles. So what
that'll be proven out on the field. That will find
out when they play down the line, if they do
match up, if both teams get to a hypothetical matchup
in the NFC playoffs, we'll find out about that. But
that forty nine ers of the top team on Big
Ben's Big board, which is really the only board that matters,
Big Ben's big board. Can Josh Allen play mistake free
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football long enough when it matters right? Can he do that?
Probably not. Is Stefon Diggs going to be able to
avoid a hissy fit meltdown when things don't go right
for the Bills. It's fine to celebrate and pour beer
on Bill's mafia when you're winning and you're having a
fine time and all that, but we've seen how he
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handles adversity, and your true colors are shown under adversity
and he sulks. He sulks there on the sidelines and
leaves the stadium early, has a hissy fit at training camp.
He's a D the D and all that. So there
are still issues there and we'll see if the Bills
can overcome those. And I would keep an eye on
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Jacksonville next week as they will match up with the Bills,
who are going to have their ass kiss. They've already
had their ass kiss by the Bill's mafia and that
will continue throughout the weekend. By the time they get
to London, they don't even need a plane to get
to London. They've got that blimp, their ego. The blimp
will take them over to London and they'll be on
their way. Now, final point, let's go now to Nashville, Tennessee.
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That's where all the hipsters are moving. Nashville, Tennessee. That's
where the cool people are in the South, and that's
where Joe Burrow and the Bengals were. Now, Joe Burrow
got the big contract, Joe Burrow got paid, and since
that contract was filed with the NFL League Office, the
Bengals have been played by Joe Burrow. They're probably wondering
(24:37):
what did we do here? My god, Joe Burrow, who
had been so good, has been so horrific. Here Burrow
through for just one hundred and sixty five yards. The
Bengals had to settle for a field goal on their
opening drive and that was the only points they scored
the entire game. They could not even get in the
red zone as they stumbled and bumped the rest of
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the game. And the Tennessee Titans, who have been okay
at home and pretty bad on the road. But Tennessee
wins twenty seven to three. Derrick Henry went over one
hundred and twenty yards had a touchdown for the Titans.
They're two and two. The Bengals dropped to one in three.
And that's where the story is. And the story here
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is Jamar Chase. There's one SoundBite of Jamar Chase here,
who went nutso on the reporters. There was a brief SoundBite,
but Jamar Chase expressing his frustration with the offensive blues
the lack of production. He declared that he believes he
is open on every single route or route he said, quote,
(25:44):
I'm open. I'm always effing open, is what he said
to a Cincinnati TV station and then he said, excuse
my profanity, sorry, it was what he said. So that
was the money quote from Chase. In fact, just to
prove I'm not lying about that. We have the audio.
So if you have the audio and you're in radio
(26:06):
and you want to play the audio, you play the audio.
So let's go to the audio tape. I'm open. I'm
always open. Give them up a fan. Yeah, okay, well yeah,
we bleep it. So it's all good. We bleep it.
So how are things going for Jamar Chase and the
Cincinnati football team at this particular point. Well, I think
that SoundBite sums it up right there. That sums it
up right there. We are at the essentially the quarterpol
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mark of the season, the race for the Lombardi and
currently Cincinnati is looking up at a lot of took uses.
They're looking up at a lot of took uses because
of where they find themselves at this point. They did
not expect them to be in this territory. The Cincinnati
offense is approaching the horse and buggy territory. What do
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you think about we played four games. I think they
have four touchdowns in four games. We haven't seen a
Bengal offense this bad in a generation, and they've had
some bad offenses, but you gotta go back to the
early two thousands to find an offense more inept than
the Beals offense right now. And keep in mind, Jamar
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Chase was so cocky, he was so sure of himself
coming in. It's so confident about the Bengals and how
good they were. Remember we talked about this during training camp.
At the end of training camp, Jamar Chase said, I
think that Joe Burrow should sit out the first four
games of the regular season. That we are We'll fine,
(27:33):
We're fine. He shouldn't show up till week five. Just
let him sit out. He'll get healthy, like you think
he'll just magically all of a sudden get healthy. But
Joe Burrow hasn't been practicing much and he's been playing
in the games and not well, not well in the games.
The Bengals don't have a backup quarterback that they got
one guy, and that's Joe Burrow, so they're putting him
out there and he's essentially been a decoy. Joe Burrow
(27:56):
as the starting quarterback for the Bengals has been a decoy.
How's that working out, don't ask. Not good at all.
But you look at the Bengals here and what they
have been able to do or not do on offense,
and it reminds me of a member of the Fox
Sports Radio Alumni Association, Jim Moore. Because the Bengals they
could not do Diddley Pooh on offense, and it was
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another disgraceful performance. And if you think this team right
now is going to the playoffs, you've lost your bloody mind.
We couldn't do Diddley Pooh offensively. The Bengals should adapt
a different stance. I think this was Joe Madden, who's
been blackballed out of baseball because he didn't follow the Nerds.
(28:42):
But Joe Madden was trying not to suck. The Bengals
offense should try not to suck at this point right now?
They do they Boy are they bad. They're almost as
bad as when Justin and Cincinnati calls up to play
a game show completely you know, you know what his
mind is. Bush doesn't go very well anyway. Cincinnati fourteen
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first downs, they had two hundred eleven yards, an anemic
two of nine on third down against I would say
average Cincinnati defense. Their past defense in Cincinnati not particularly great.
They have some issues in the secondary. Of course, when
the opposing quarterback just throws the ball within five yards
either behind or ahead of the line of scrimmage, I
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would think that would be pretty easy to defend. Not
that I ever played in the NFL. What do I know.
I just do the overnight show here. But if you
go into the game convinced that the opposing quarterback cannot
complete passes down the field, I think you're in pretty
good shape there that you just have to defend around
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Speaker 2 (31:04):
To the third degree? This?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
Mariners catcher Cal Rawley seemingly called out the front office
on Saturday after they were eliminated from the playoffs. He said,
we've got to commit to winning we have to commit
to going and getting the players that use the other
teams going out and getting Ben. Is the front office
to blame here?
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Well, I saw that cow cal Rowley apologized on Sunday,
which tells us he was right with what he originally said.
That's why somebody talked to him said, you got to
apologize here. Uh the Big Dipper, right, isn't that nickname
the Big Dipper there? And or the big dumper cal Raley.
But listen, the Mariners traded a bunch of guys away.
They didn't really add any name brand players at the deadline,
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and so yeah, the players are upset, but ultimately the
players choked for the Mariners. They had They were in
position to make the playoffs and they didn't get it done.
But I'd keep an eye on cal Raley being traded
this offseason. The front office is not like those kind
of comments.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Next, it was reported this weekend that Blake Griffin is
considering retirement Ben. What is Griffin's legacy? Is he a
top ten power forward all time?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
His legacy, Coop is fun. The Lob City Clippers were
so much fun when he was playing there, and for
five years Blake Griffin was one of the top players
in the NBA and a Hall of He is a
Hall of Famer, but he's not a top ten power
forward of all time. He didn't last long enough. But
you say Clippers, I know, all right, but Blake Griffin
absolutely is outstanding and is a Hall of Famer, not
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a top ten all time power forward.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Next, well, this question is almost irrelevant now, but Broncos
GM George Payton was in attendance at USC Colorado game
on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Oh you thought that Broncos were gonna lose Coop? I did. Ben.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Let's say the Broncos end up with the number one
overall pick. I mean, they're about to rattle off like
ten straight wins down. But do you think Caleb Williams
would play for them or opt to return to USC.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Let's see play for the Arizona car I guess the
Cardinals are there. Yeah, of course he'd played for the Broncos.
Absolutely not gonna have the number one pick, though, so win,
Yeah to win. I won the game, just like the Broncos.
I won. They didn't cover, though I covered.
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Speaker 1 (33:25):
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Hold that though no one's paid attention to me for
ten whole seconds.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
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It's the instant advice line unstreamed radio. The safety net
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A lot of you seem to think I was gonna
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do the Chicago Bears again, but we've we flogged that
dead bear enough. Ryan, Good job by Ryan in Maine.
He knows where I'm going here. There's one game left
in Week four. The bye week start next week. There's
one game left in Week four, that's tonight the Giants
and the Seahawks. And as of this moment, do you
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know who the lowest rated quarterback in the NFL. Do
you know who's dead last in yards per pass attempt
in the entire NFL? That what Joe Burrow? Yes, Joe
Burrow it's no longer Zach Wilson, or, as our friend
ROBERTA would say, Borrow is a quarter So advice to
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Joe Burrow, who, currently, despite the big contract, is the
worst quarterback statistically in the NFL eight seven, seven ninety nine.
On Fox, you're on the air line one. Hello, it's
the instant advice line for Joe Burrow. Hello, line one.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
If you're whinding about your team losing, fuck off.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
All right, thank you for that. We're off to a
flying start. Tony from the Bay. Nobody heard that. Line two.
You're on the airline two, Okay, everybody from Des Moines?
Is it bad that I recognize everyone's voice that calls up?
Is that a bad sign? That gift new people? Line
your bullet?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Fedley crushed his debut.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
They had to be the best woman's volleyball game. Line
that was That was numb nuts from southern California. There
a line four. Hello, Line four, Ferd Cat, Hello, line four,
mister Staley, keep thinking that it's okay, a fourth down.
That's super Marcus Steve Eddie. Maybe I've known everyone that's
(35:36):
called so far? What with my streak? Can I run
the board? Line five? Hello? Line five? He needs his
own swiftly, I don't recognize that guy. Line six. You're
on the ever giving advice to Joe Burrow at this
moment with one game left and week four. Joe Burrow,
and he's the worst. We haven't heard him in a while. Yeah,
a worst call, worst quarterback we've had this season in
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terms of quarterback rating and also yards per attempt. Hello,
line six.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
He needs to get help from the bad news there
to leave how to know how to throw the ball
and pass the ball and hand the.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Ball off right? Okay, thank you. Line one, you're on
the Airline one, Hello you Okay. On line two, your
next line two. We're giving advice on screened advice. That's
why we have a screener. Unscreened advice to Joe Burrows,
now the NFL's lowest rated quarterback after signing that big
(36:31):
contract in Cincinnati. Hello, line number two. Okay, thank you?
Can you use your inside voice? Line three is next? Hello,
line three. I'm the real I'm who players with. There's
only one fudgie and you're not it. Line four. Hello,
(36:53):
Line four, rivet rivet rivet rivet ribb it ribb it.
Line five is next. Hello, Line five, line five, not
paying attention. We're going to line six. Hello, line six, Yeah,
more thing time. I saw a girl that looked like
Taylor Swift at the Jet game. Oh is that right? Interesting?
All right? I never heard that before. Thank you. On
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line one, do you know that Eddie? Oh we're gonna
call him, all right. Line two, Hello, line two.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Maybe Justin in Cincinnati could be his mess suit.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Oh well, Justin is looking for work. I understand. Line
line three. Hello, line three.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
As long as there's no hair pulling or right contact
is not gay?
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Okay? Oh yes, absolutely, sir. On line four, hello, line four,
I didn't understand. Well, yes, absolutely, direct deposit Line five. Hello,
call Andrea the sports Sorceress. That's right, all right, we'll
do one more, and only one more. Coop quickly picked
(38:01):
the final call for Joe Burrow. Line three, line three,
you're on the Airline three, go got a dime bck,
not a dime back? Not a dime.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
That's an old that's right, old Yukon coach Jim Calhoun.
I like that
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