October 4, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Raiders owner Mark Davis arguing with fans and whose side he's on, Brian Dabol's failures with the Tush Push, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our numb Bert two and here
an hour two. Whose side are you on? In the
rubar between Mark Davis, the man that likes PF. Chang's
and the Raider fans Davis sparring with the Raider fans?
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Whose side are you on? Also? How do you explain
Brian Dables giants failure with the tushy Pushey? And do
you believe the Bears would really fire Matt Eberflus with
a loss a big loss to Washington this week? Peter
King spreading Matt rumor. We react right now, and we'll
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also play the which FSR employee? Do you believe? Game?
Always a fun game? We'll get to that as well.
Right now here it is our number two melting in
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we begin this hour with the silver and Snap if
you will. I know that's like tons of fun with
Iowa Sam, but anyway, I mean, it's our lead does
come from lost wages Nevada Indirectly. The Raiders are yet
again circling the drain. So if you're a Raider hater,
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things are going very well for you. Another lost season
on the Raiders docket ahead of them. Now the owner
of that particular team making some headlines. So this has
been bouncing around. It went viral and if you don't
know what we're talking about here, maybe you don't. Hopefully
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you don't. The Raiders owner, Mark Davis, he's the guy
with the funny hair. Yeah, Mark Davis melted down and
he was upset. What triggered Mark Davis? Was it the
incompetence of the fill in quarterback for the Raiders. Was
it the coaching of Josh McDaniels. What was it? What
was it that caused Mark Davis, the owner of the
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Raiders to lose it? Well, that would be none of
the above. It was a group of passionate fans of
the writers. You see in a candid camera moment to
Mark Davis exploding, say that for dramatic purposes, But he
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was unhappy because a group of fans walked by his
throne and said, hey, fire Josh McDaniels. The guy's a bump.
I added that part, But fire Josh McDaniels. This is
during the Charger Raider game there. I think it was
moments after now. In a video posted on TikTok, now,
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I have a TikTok advisor, Alf, the Alien of Potter.
I'm not on TikTok, but Alf is and so anything
good on TikTok, Alf will send my way. He's my
he's my liaison. Alf is with with TikTok Anyway, the
video posted on the TikTok, Mark Davis was overheard yelling
at the pack of angry fans to smarten up wallet
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Sofi Stadium in the hood in Inglewood. So let us
discuss the question. You know, only pick one. Whose side
are you on in the Mark Davis sparring match with
a group of upset Raider fans? Are you on the
side of Mark Davis? Are you on the side of
the fan? So the scales on this one are leaning
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heavily on the side of the customer. On the side
of the customer, that is what the right side of
this is. Now, I've got Gillette clown shoes and Morton salt,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a sour puss, which is
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what Mark Davis looks like, a sour puss in all this. So,
first of all, Mark Davis did the thing you can't
do at the time. You can't do it. You are
the one in power. You can't have that happen. You
just can't do it. Now. You can go behind closed
doors and mf the fans all you want, but you
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can't have that reaction. You are the owner of an
NFL franchise worth over five billion dollars. That's the value
of the Raiders. You're sitting high at top in the
aristocrats suite there with some other uber rich people. Good
for you. You won the lottery. Congratulations, you won the
genetic lottery because your dad had all the money. But
you're sitting in a lap luxury there and you are
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worried about Joe six pack. You are concerned about Joe
Schmoe yelling at you. That's what you're worried about.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
That is unbecoming. That is unbecoming. Davis needs to contact
the people that did the marketing for Jillette back in
the day, because this is the perfect deodorant commercial. Never
let them see your Mark Davis violated that. He let
everyone see and he had sweaty armpits. Sweaty armpits for
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Mark Davis, you're the billionaire. Remain Come, remain, Come and
find a way to deal with the university. And this
is a huge win for the fan. It's a huge
win for the fan because you're not aloof You don't
have apathy. You care, right, you care. The raiders mean
somebody and Mark Davis looking at his reaction, My theory
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is rather simple that Mark Davis realizes he f this
up right, but he's dug himself a hole. He's worried
about having to pay John Gruden a bunch of money
because John Gruden's suing the NFL, and there's questions about
whether or not the Raiders and the NFL are going
to have to cook up some money for John Gruden
for wrongful termination, and so that'll cost some money, and
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so they're worried about that, and Davis doesn't want to
have to fire McDaniels and then pay another coach, which
will be a third coach. But he also realizes at
this point that Josh but daniels is not it like
he's got the cooties. He don't know what he's doing.
The guy's a stiff, and so what do you do?
So that's why he reacted the way he reacted was
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smart en up. McDaniels is seven and fourteen as coach
of there is Is there any reason for optimism that
this is going to get better for the Raiders in
the near future. I don't see anything. I'm not Benny
Bright's out on this. I'm a realist. I look at
the Raiders. Well, Garoppolos he go already missed one game,
He'll probably miss three or four more games. If everything
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goes right for Garoppolo, he'll miss three or four games.
He'll lose all four of those You've already lost three games,
so that'll get you up. You know, by the time
you do the math on that, you know everything goes right.
Best case scenarios you end up winning like six games.
You're like six and eleven. That doesn't seem good to me,
all right. Now, Secondly, we go to Jersey. We go
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to Jersey. Now, what's going on in Jersey? The fallout
from the Monday night football game continues to bounce around
the pinball machine of sports chatter, and my, oh my,
oh my. Now Seattle, the Seattle football team took a
cand of whoop ass to the New York NFC football team.
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They're in the swamplands of New Jersey and the depths
of the carnage we are now learning. Giants coach Brian
Dable embarrassingly announced that the tight end for the Giants
someone named Daniel Bellinger. I have no idea who this is,
but Daniel Bellinger and the rookie center John Michael Schmitz,
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May the Schmidz be with you, both suffered injuries trying
to execute the tush push the tush ay pushey. They
were injured by that tush hey pushey. Now Bellinger suffered
a knee injury. This guy Schmidts a shoulder injury. So
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how do you explain Brian Dables giants failure of epic
proportions to execute the tush push. So this is football negligence,
is what it is. And they deserve to be mocked.
Mock them, mock them. They deserve it, all right. The
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Giants can wear the clown shoes. They can wear the
red nose, the puffy red nose on this one. This
is vond It's Vaudvillian, is what it is. It is Vadvillion,
Keystone Cops territory. The tush push is the most straightforward,
but this is one of the most mind bogging things.
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Not all these Philadelphia Eagle pod just will send me
messages those because they've got the great host offensive line
and Jalen hurts and they squats six hundred pounds. I
don't why I hear it. I save it, Save it
all right, Fry Daddy, save it all right. Listen the
qby here's the toushbush. All right, what do I know?
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I just see the over reight yo, the tush push.
The quarterback takes the snap, all right, gets very low,
get low. Do the mumbo, get low all right, begins
to push forward. There's a wall of defensive players, a
wall of humanity that is up against him to try
to stop and they're trying to prevent him from picking
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up the yard of the yard and half and usually
just inches for a first down. So right behind the quarterback,
this is the key part here. You have a combination
of a tight end, a wide receiver, running back and
they're doing the pushy on the tushy. They're doing the
pushy on the tae and so they push and then
all you need is a few inches you'll get the
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first down. And these stumble bumbs with the Giants, they
couldn't even figure it out. Micah Parsons called this a
cheat code. The Cowboys guy said, that's a cheap code,
and so is it nobody else in the NFL squats.
How about you go to a gym and squat a
little bit and do better, be better and have two
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guys injured on same play? What is Poppy and San
Diego their offensive coordinator? All right, now, final fut, last stop,
we go do Sweet Home Chicago, and we have increased
our audience tenfold. We used to only have Doc Mike
in Chicago that was listening to the show. But now
we've got a wild pack of die hard connoisseurs of
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marginal overnight sports radio in the Windy City that have
picked up on the show. And we talked about this
story a little bit the other day. It's back and
we're hearing now that it's It would quote not be
surprising if the Bears fired Matt Eberflus should they lose
on Thursday night to the Commanders. That's the game tomorrow
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in DC. A veteran and an NFL scribe, Peter Kank,
he made that declaration. Now we'll follow up on the
previous male of monologue, see if we have changed our position.
Do you do you, the respected consumer, do you believe
that the Chicago Bears would actually fire Matt Eerraflus if
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they get run off the field by the Washington football
team on Thursday night. So I am agnostic on this.
I am not a believer. I am a heathen. I
don't buy it. I didn't believe it two days ago.
I didn't believe it a year ago. I don't believe
it now. I don't believe it. Sam, I am I
don't I don't I take this with a grain of
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Morton Salt, which, by the way, is headquartered in Chicago.
Did you know that Morton Salt from Chicago? Yeah? And listen,
seeing is believing and coaching stability is one of the
only things they have at hallis Hall coaching staple. They
that's their claim to fame. It's not winning super Bowls,
it's not having great quarterbacks. God knows, they haven't had
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great quarterbacks and they haven't won many super bowl But
it's all about, Hey, we don't fire coach. That's our thing,
that's our deal. And they've never done it, and I
don't believe they would do it now. And the main
problem here's the flaw, the fly in the ointment, if
you will, for piticking. Who are they gonna hire? Right,
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who are they gonna you? Look around. Matt Eberflus is
not only the head coach, he's the defensive coordinator. So
you fire him, you get rid of your defensive quarteraor
and your hickgard the offensive coordinator. This guy Luke Getsy
apparently doesn't know. I think there's guys playing Madden that
are better at calling plays than Luke Getsy. So he's
the offensive quarter So you can't hire him as the
head coach, can't promote him bad to the bone. And
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then you're like, well, what about the special teams? So
somebody named Richard high Tower. I would rather have the
guy that played High Tower in those old Police Academy
movies than Richard high Tower, which is a dated reference
I know, but just bear with me. But no, the
special teams stink, so you can't hire him. So what
would you do? The only scenario where this would work,
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where the Bears fire their coach, There's only one scenario.
They would have to channel Jim Rsay and hire a
TV guy. Remember when URS fired the Colts coach and
hired Jeff Saturday from ESPN. Yeah, so how about Skip
Bayless as coach of the Chicago Bears. Does anyone say no,
I don't say no? How about Stephen A. Smith coaching
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the Bears, who says no, I don't hell At this point,
hire Craig Carton to coach the Bears? Why not just
go like flip on the TV. Maybe you'll watch Benny
versus a Penny. I'll get a phone call. I don't know,
it might happen, And that's the only path it is.
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a very juicy nugget of information which began in many
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ways right here at the mothership Fox Sports Radio, and
people debating whether it's true or not, What is it?
What's going on? We'll explain all of that. We'll get
to that, we'll take our goals. Also, later this hour
we will have the very exciting Mallad of the third Degree.
We'll get to all that, and we will do it next.
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Speaker 1 (16:16):
Our too leanest ass, toushy pushy. I admit I just
like saying tushy pushy.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
I do.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
It's weird.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
It's so stupid, so dumb. But it's great, isn't it.
I love it? Toshy pushy. Isn't it fun to say
on the radio, toshy pushy. I feel like I'm five
years old again. It's great. The Burner account right say
it says, don't call it a comeback, good comeback, Benjamin,
your monologue had me rolling, So you're RiPP That means
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you're ripping the first hour monologue. How dare you? Burner
account Milkman Mike and Coloradle says, I'm sure if Poppy
wasn't planning the next Malard meet and greet at the
Blue Oyster, he would have been tickled that you mentioned
him in the malle monologue. All right, Freddie says, I
(17:08):
think blind Emmett, the Seahawks fan, would be a better
coach for the Bears. Now, Rory brings up a good point, says,
come on, Ben, if the Bears fired their head coach
mid season, we all know they would try to hire
Mike Harmon as their new head coach. Amen, Yeah, there
you go. Oh, I don't know that Harmon would take
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that job. Of course, a loyal minion here of Fox
Sports Radio, I'm an ass man. Yeah, well he doesn't.
He would run the tushy pushy. He would definitely do
that late night drug test. This is the giants getting hurt.
Doing the tushy pushy sounds about as ridiculous as a
kicker getting hurt celebrating a routine extra point. I'm right
there with you. I'm right there with amen. Amen, you're
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preaching the choir ferd Cat writes and says, Ben, you
gave a passionate speech earlier to tell Eddie Garcia he's
a fool for still calling ex Twitter. Well, in the
name of consistency, Firkkat says, I'm afraid you have to
call the tush push the brotherly shove from now on too,
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or you, sir, our hypocrite No. The reason I will
not call it the Brotherly Shove is because that's what
the NFL wants you to call it, the Brotherly Show.
And anything the NFL wants, I go the other direction.
So tush, push, push, push, That's what I'm sticking with.
Let's go to the phones. We'll say hello to Mason
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the Millennial. We have not spoken to Mason the Millennial,
and sometimes hello Mason the Millennial.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Hey man, just push test push, test push.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
And also I would also I would also like to
learn all your philiates down the line. We will have
a response to Robbie the Mariner fan. Robbie famously uh.
We wanted to get his response because the general manager
of the Mariners said that he's doing a good thing
for the Mariner fan by not trying to win. But
what's what have you been up to, Mason. You're back
at work now, not yet.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
I just have physical therapy today, so I'm progressing really well.
So I'm aiming a mid October. You know, I'll be
back then. But I've been listening here and there. It's
a little heart being at home. But whatever, I still
tap in with you. Wen.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Oh, that's right. All over the television of the Bay
Area every weekend.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Yeah, I know, it's so awesome.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
It's so awesome.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
I feel spoiled to be able to have that there.
You know, I record every single one.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Well, thank you. I appreciate that because not everyone, unfortunately
has access to the TV show. So you're one of
the people. Oh, a lot of people have been complaining.
They've been yelling at me Mason via email, So I
guess not really yelling, writing writing nasty notes because they
can't get the show. And I wish everyone could get it,
but it's not on. I don't control as much as
power as I have. I don't work in the distribution
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department at NBC, so I don't really control that.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Yeah, I know it gets you know, ceed, you know,
because of all the affiliates and whatnot. But speaking of
writing angry notes, man, that's kind of what I want
to do as a Bronco fan. You know, I was
really ready to call it quit after we went on three,
and really really ready to throw in the towe off
that seventy to twenty loss. But it's like, you know,
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I would have really you know, tied the news after
the Bear's loss. But we're we're all good on that.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Well, be careful, Mason, be careful. You have lurking in
the grass, the New York Jets. And to lose to
Zach Wilson, like to lose to Zach Wilson, would be
high crimes and misdemeanors, especially after all the trash talk
that Sean Payton gave Nathaniel Hackett and his coaching ability.
So that's a dangerous game. That's a dangerous game. But
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the top unit on the field in that game this
weekend is the Jets defense. That's the top of Ben.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
But but Coop, please cover your ears. I might be
becoming a product of my environment. Ben.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Oh no, no, no, no, you're crossing over the golden.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Gate saying it ain't sold. Listen, No, you're becoming a
Niner fan. Mason, the millennial, Edie Mason, the millennials. He's
leaving the Broncos for the Niners. That is a shocking statement, Judas.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
No, I'm not saying all that. I'm saying that's what.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
It sounds like. Don't don't sugarcoat this.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Don't shooting fifteen minutes away from the stadium in Fremont,
bro Like, I.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Don't care if your fair. You could be across the street,
you know, expective if it's to go to those games, come.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
On, yep?
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
I'm here, man, I see it on game time. Not
a paid sponsor, so don't try. But uh, I see
it on that app and it's like chief is thirty dollars? Really?
Oh okay?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
All right, I didn't know who knew. I thought they
were very yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Alright, no, but I mean that's the only reason. And
you know you said that they're the best team in
the NFL.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
They are, but they are until Christian McCaffery gets hurt
and then Brock Purty, you know, starts throwing interceptions. But
until then, Yes, the Niners, I don't even think it's close.
I don't even I mean, maybe we'll talk about that
on the TV show, but I don't even think it's close.
The Niners are just ahead of everyone.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Yeah, yeah, I mean right now, if anyone face them,
it wouldn't be close.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I mean, but you're both guarding all the airtime, Mason,
I thank you, all right, hang up, go go away,
all right. It is the Ben Malo Show. So FSR
kind of creating the story here, and is there something
to it or not. We'll play they who do you Believe? Game,
which is always a fun game. We also have Mallard
of thirty degree, more of these riveting phone calls, and
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Robbie the Mariner fans response to the general manager of
his Seattle Mariners announcing that he's doing a good thing
for the fan by not trying to win the world Sir,
if I own the team, I'd fire him right now.
He'd be done. I don't own the team.
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Hey, this is Tom Berducci from Fox Sports, MLB Network
and Sports Illustrated.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
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to talk a little bit about managerial decisions and what
may have accredit to a dugout maybe in the nineteen eighties.
It's the Book of Joe Podcasts. I can't wait for this, Joe.
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We're going to dive into what goes on in the
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Speaker 4 (23:49):
And I did see Michael Jordan MJ the first professional
athlete former professional athlete to make the Forbes list of
the four hundred Richest people in America. MJ's net worth
is three billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Does he send checks to Sonny Vcaro? Does he? Is
he still around Sonny Vicaro?
Speaker 4 (24:13):
He is still around. Yeah, we found that out when that, uh,
that movie came out that Matt Damon.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
We got him on for an interview a couple of
months ago.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Okay, yeah, well yeah, but back in the I mean,
he was on sports radio all the time in the
nineties and we used to have him on. I mean,
I he's a great guest. You asked Sonny Vcaro one
question and he will just talk talk talk talk talk, talk, talk,
talk talk, wonderful guest on sports radio. And he's gab,
very eloquent, right, not a lot of brevity, but he's
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very eloquent the way he speaks. And he's the guy
that convinced Michael Jordan, if you believe all the thing
that to go to Nike, didn't Jordan want to go
to converse.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
That is correct. Yeah, it's a good movie. I don't
know how factual it was. It was a good movie.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Well they take those.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Sure, it's like money.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
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So interesting story here that originated in our house, in
our shop here at Fox Sports Radio as a story
bouncing around the echo chamber indicating that a very prominent
college football coach is going to interview for the Michigan
state coaching job. And this came from our friend and
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a guy that occasionally fills in for me, Bernie Fratto,
And he's a Michigan man, Bernie Fratto, very connected in
Detroit and he knows people. And he reported that Urban
Meyer is going to interview for the Michigan state head
coach job. He said, stay tuned. He did include as smiley.
He include a smiley emoji with the love eyes Eddie.
(26:08):
That's a big sign from Bernie love eyes emoji. He said,
it's real, It's possible. He has a lot of backers,
So we'll see where this goes. Urban Mayer Erbaner. Now
interesting to note that another member of our team, this
is Fox Sports Radio on Fox Sports Radio Crime, another
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member of our team, the great Brady Quinn, who may
or may not do television with Urban Meyer. He said,
I've heard otherwise. He used emoji and a different emoji
and said, but I'm sure you're better connected, which I
think might have been sarcastic. I don't know. That sounds
a little sarcastic me.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
So Brady has been known to swing some sarkas.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Right, Let's play the game here.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Who you believe?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Now, I'm not ripping either one of these guys, because
God knows, I don't need to get called into HR.
But who do you believe?
Speaker 4 (26:58):
More?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Do you believe Bernie Fry report that Urban Meyer's going
to interview for the Michigan State job, or seemingly a
denial from Brady Quinn, who's one of our hosts on
the morning show, who says I've heard otherwise. So I'll
go first here, Ready, I believe Bernie. I believe Bernie,
And here's my belief. My belief is that Bernie's connected.
I don't know who his sources. He doesn't tell me that,
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and I don't want to know. It's none of my business.
But my theory is, and this is just my speculation,
that he's connected with some Michigan State boosters and they're
the ones. It's always the boosters that make these moves
behind the scenes, and then the athletic department because the
boosters end up paying for it and the athletic department
has to be So I think what Bernie's hearing is
from prominent Spartan's boosters that that's the guy they want. Eddie,
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who's saddy on on this one?
Speaker 4 (27:45):
I think I am also on team Bernie.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
That's two for Bernie too for Bernie.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Here's why. Okay, this is again pure speculation my part. Obviously,
Brady Quinn hangs out with Urban Meyer and they're shooting
the fat not and he probably is asked, you know
anything going on with you? You're looking to get back
into coaching, and Urban probably told him no, So he
heard it directly from the coach's mouth. That being said,
I think urban Meyer is a liar. So I think
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he would absolutely tell anybody that asked him no, And
I would absolutely not be shocked one bit if he
took another job somewhere.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I mean, all coaches love yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
But that's not Brady's fault. If the guy tells him no,
then you believe him.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I was Sam, Yes or no? Who do you believe?
This is a tough one. I was Sam does not
want to get off the fence on No, that's I'm
going to go with.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
I just have to go uh, by default going to
go with Brady here because you work with Brady and
Bernie Bernie is a friend of mine. Now let me
explain this here. Bernie Bernie spent a long time working
in the state of Michigan.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Is he did He did a Lion's postmar one of
the most depressing jobs you can have in radio. Lions,
Michigan Wolverines.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
You know everybody in that, you know every in the
state college are professional. You know, he seemingly had his
fingers dipped into Uh, he's got his moles. He's deeply
embedded in vegas. He's got his moles.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
But I have to go with the give the benefit
of doubt to what urban Meyer possibly said to Brady. Bernie,
I'm sure you know he's connected to those boosters, But
I'm gonna say Brady here, I'm gonna say Brady, but
we don't.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Know urban Meyer bad take Coop the cloak of certainly
wanted to chime in on this. Coop we're trying now.
Bernie Fratto had the rumor, and then Brady Coyn kind
of shot it down.
Speaker 8 (29:32):
So who's I'm with Eddie on this? His explanation makes
sense to me.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
What about my explanation?
Speaker 7 (29:38):
It doesn't make as much sense.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Why does it? Why does it not make sense that
a booster, that Bernie's connected to a booster, and that
he would tell Bernie this and it came from a
Michigan State boots. That makes perfect sense.
Speaker 8 (29:47):
But yeah, but that's that's kind of what Eddie said.
Plus plus you had the lying thing.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
But but the other thing is a guy like urban
Meyer is not going to announce he's a candidate unless
he's got the job in the back right, because it's
embarrassing if he doesn't get the Michigan State job and
he's a candidate for the job and they don't give
it to him. That makes him look bad. So he's
not until he knows for sure he's gonna get the job,
he's gonna deny it.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
Also, the Boosters may want urban Meyer and they say
we're gonna go hard after him. We're gonna offer him
all this money like Matt Eshpia did to mel Tucker,
and they might think to have a running shot at it,
but it might not happen.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Well.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
The other problem with Michigan State is Urban's got a
lot of skeletons in his closet, and Michigan State's got
a lot of scandals on their recent history of the
athletic department. So that's another problem with Hier urban Meyer.
That you're gonna get killed by the Wolkesters. They're not
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We've got Mallor to the third degree that is warming
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outside of the strike zone during the twenty twenty three
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the most called strikes on pitches out of the strike
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It's the Coop the Loop Justin Cooper, and he's at
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Ali?
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From a tire rac dot com. Fox Sports Radio studios.
Play it again. Hey, it's Ben Malloch.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
One of the greatest lines in the history of the show,
and Coop fell right into the trap. Loved it, loved it,
loved it, loved it.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Did you know? Immediately Coop, after you said it, you're like,
oh no, what did I do?
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Yeah, yeah, he knew, he knew, but it had been
done and what is done is done.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Cannot undo it. You know.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
We don't do shout outs, Eddie. This is not a
morning Zoos show, so we cannot say good luck to
Ginger Green, who currently is up listening to us at
a hospital in I believe he's in Madison, Wisconsin. He
is awaiting the birth of twin girls girls in the morning.
So but we cannot wish him good luck. I wish
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we could, but we're not a morning Zoo show. And
if we were, we'd say mazel tough and congratulations and
that's very exciting, but we can't do that.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Godspeed, yeah do it.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
That's a girl Dad times two Boom. Just check back
with us in about when when does the crazy stuff
start happening? Fifteen sixteen something like that.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Yeah, he's got He'll have two weddings to pay for it.
Oh yeah, maybe in the rapid succession.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Just start playing the lottery. Yeah, just start playing the lottery, sir,
Time out for the insta Trivin. Yeah. Well, by the way,
before we do the instant Robbie, the Mariner fan, I
tease this, we got to give his response. Now, the
Mariner GM said that he's doing a good thing for
the fan by not trying to win the World Series.
Robbie said, screw Jerry Depoto f John Stanton, that's the owner.
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The Mariners are trying to kill me. That is a
direct quote from Robby the Meredith fan. So it sounds
like he's not into the dollua of the analytics. I
thought he would be on board with that, but it
sounds like that's not the case. Tono four that Instant
Trivia blank led all batters by suffering the most called
strikes on pitches out of the strike zone during the
twenty twenty three regular season. And who is it? Fill
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in the blank and so many answers, so little time.
We'll do as many as we can. The Pillsbury dough
Boy from Cowboy Killer Page down. Jimmy Butler's a new
haircut from Beam boot Maker Bob page down, page down.
Royce Lewis the Great Royce Lewis twins win from Jeremy
and Minnesota. Trevor Bauer from PAULI b. That is his answer.
(34:43):
Tommy Lasorda from Shane of Des Moines. Craig Shipley, there's
a good name from Alf the Alien or Piner page down.
The Mighty Casey from Casey Carl Haller. Who else do
we have? Art of sports talk, says Ti Oscar Hernandez
is the way to go? Dan Ford from mister nice Guy.
That's the next twin. Joey Votto from Just Josh and Cincinnati.
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Robin you tossed out by Sean in Portland, New forty
nine er fan Mason the Millennial from Benito the Cowboy fan.
Carlos by Erga from Kyle Robbie the Meredith fan said Satan.
I didn't know that's what Satan looks like, Robbie. But
that's an interesting photo you found of Satan. All right, Eddie,
do you have an answer? It's not Eric Carris guests
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by Callaghan Tim in Michigan.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
What a silly guest.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Yes, all time Dodger Homer leader he was.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
I don't know if he still is got some good
hair boy that day.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Eric Harris, I'm jealous he doesn't have to wear hatsky.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
I'm gonna go with cool Papa Bell.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Yes, cool Papa Bell. In twenty twenty three, Eddie Blank
let all batters by suffering the most called strikes on
pitches out of the strikes sown during the twenty twenty
three regular season. The answer from your Baltimore Orioles ad
Lee Rushman, eighty one pitches that should have been balls
were called strikes in baseball.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
It's maller.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (36:05):
To the third degree, this is one big fan gets
grailled Comelop.
Speaker 8 (36:13):
Right now, every team in the AFC South sits at
two and two. Do you think that division is really
that wide open or do you think we'll see a
team separate from the path.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
No, it should not be that wide open. You know,
I went on television. I was praising Jacksonville. They've made
me look like a total donkey. Jacksonville's the most talented
team by a country mile. The Jags have been sleepwalking
to begin of the year, So big weekend then for them.
They played Buffalo this weekend. They can snap out of it,
turn their thing around. But the Texas have surprised, the
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Colts are what we thought they would be a bad team,
and the Tennessee Titans are kind of a mediocre team.
So I'm going Duval County next.
Speaker 8 (36:50):
A running back hasn't won the MVP Awards since Adrian
Peterson in twenty twelve. Many around the league are saying
that Christian McCaffrey should be the front runner through four weeks.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Do you agree, Well, I would say that is a
premature take. Yeah, he's been wonderful through the first part
of the season. He's been electric, but as great as
he is is a lot of real estate to navigate
and his big bugaboo is the injury grim Reaper. And ultimately,
if it's even, if all things are equal, it's a
quarterback that has similar numbers, the quarterback's gonna win the MVP.
(37:21):
Theyll default. The default position goes to the quarterback. But yeah,
he's the four week MVP. Christian McCaffrey. Congratulations, have a
party next.
Speaker 8 (37:31):
This past Sunday, Eagles wide receiver AJ Brown was threatened
with being removed from the game if he didn't change
his highlighter green cleats. Brown said he wore them so
that his daughter could see him easier on TV. He
told reporters after the game that the rule sucks and
players around the league should revolt and wear whatever they
want because they're not going to be able to find everyone.
Ye Ben, do you think a revolt like that would work?
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Well?
Speaker 1 (37:50):
I like that he played the kid card from the
bottom of the deck. First of all, what about the daughter?
What about my daughter? The other thing is, never underestimate
the pettiness of the NFL. They would absolutely find everyone.
Here's what the players need to do. The NFL owners
won an eighteenth game, and if the players agree to
an eighteenth game, the owners will agree to allow them
to wear rainbow cleats every week. They won't care as
long as they get that extra game. There. It is
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mallow of the third degree. How do we know that?
Speaker 8 (38:15):
Is?
Speaker 4 (38:15):
I win?
Speaker 2 (38:15):
I won, Iowa, Same, I won, Iowa save
Speaker 8 (38:20):
I won,
Hello and welcome. It's our numb Bert two and here
an hour two. Whose side are you on? In the
rubar between Mark Davis, the man that likes PF. Chang's
and the Raider fans Davis sparring with the Raider fans?
(00:20):
Whose side are you on? Also? How do you explain
Brian Dables giants failure with the tushy Pushey? And do
you believe the Bears would really fire Matt Eberflus with
a loss a big loss to Washington this week? Peter
King spreading Matt rumor. We react right now, and we'll
(00:41):
also play the which FSR employee? Do you believe? Game?
Always a fun game? We'll get to that as well.
Right now here it is our number two melting in
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we begin this hour with the silver and Snap if
you will. I know that's like tons of fun with
Iowa Sam, but anyway, I mean, it's our lead does
come from lost wages Nevada Indirectly. The Raiders are yet
again circling the drain. So if you're a Raider hater,
(02:11):
things are going very well for you. Another lost season
on the Raiders docket ahead of them. Now the owner
of that particular team making some headlines. So this has
been bouncing around. It went viral and if you don't
know what we're talking about here, maybe you don't. Hopefully
(02:32):
you don't. The Raiders owner, Mark Davis, he's the guy
with the funny hair. Yeah, Mark Davis melted down and
he was upset. What triggered Mark Davis? Was it the
incompetence of the fill in quarterback for the Raiders. Was
it the coaching of Josh McDaniels. What was it? What
was it that caused Mark Davis, the owner of the
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Raiders to lose it? Well, that would be none of
the above. It was a group of passionate fans of
the writers. You see in a candid camera moment to
Mark Davis exploding, say that for dramatic purposes, But he
(03:19):
was unhappy because a group of fans walked by his
throne and said, hey, fire Josh McDaniels. The guy's a bump.
I added that part, But fire Josh McDaniels. This is
during the Charger Raider game there. I think it was
moments after now. In a video posted on TikTok, now,
(03:43):
I have a TikTok advisor, Alf, the Alien of Potter.
I'm not on TikTok, but Alf is and so anything
good on TikTok, Alf will send my way. He's my
he's my liaison. Alf is with with TikTok Anyway, the
video posted on the TikTok, Mark Davis was overheard yelling
at the pack of angry fans to smarten up wallet
(04:07):
Sofi Stadium in the hood in Inglewood. So let us
discuss the question. You know, only pick one. Whose side
are you on in the Mark Davis sparring match with
a group of upset Raider fans? Are you on the
side of Mark Davis? Are you on the side of
the fan? So the scales on this one are leaning
(04:30):
heavily on the side of the customer. On the side
of the customer, that is what the right side of
this is. Now, I've got Gillette clown shoes and Morton salt,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a sour puss, which is
(04:52):
what Mark Davis looks like, a sour puss in all this. So,
first of all, Mark Davis did the thing you can't
do at the time. You can't do it. You are
the one in power. You can't have that happen. You
just can't do it. Now. You can go behind closed
doors and mf the fans all you want, but you
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can't have that reaction. You are the owner of an
NFL franchise worth over five billion dollars. That's the value
of the Raiders. You're sitting high at top in the
aristocrats suite there with some other uber rich people. Good
for you. You won the lottery. Congratulations, you won the
genetic lottery because your dad had all the money. But
you're sitting in a lap luxury there and you are
(05:35):
worried about Joe six pack. You are concerned about Joe
Schmoe yelling at you. That's what you're worried about.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
That is unbecoming. That is unbecoming. Davis needs to contact
the people that did the marketing for Jillette back in
the day, because this is the perfect deodorant commercial. Never
let them see your Mark Davis violated that. He let
everyone see and he had sweaty armpits. Sweaty armpits for
(06:06):
Mark Davis, you're the billionaire. Remain Come, remain, Come and
find a way to deal with the university. And this
is a huge win for the fan. It's a huge
win for the fan because you're not aloof You don't
have apathy. You care, right, you care. The raiders mean
somebody and Mark Davis looking at his reaction, My theory
(06:31):
is rather simple that Mark Davis realizes he f this
up right, but he's dug himself a hole. He's worried
about having to pay John Gruden a bunch of money
because John Gruden's suing the NFL, and there's questions about
whether or not the Raiders and the NFL are going
to have to cook up some money for John Gruden
for wrongful termination, and so that'll cost some money, and
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so they're worried about that, and Davis doesn't want to
have to fire McDaniels and then pay another coach, which
will be a third coach. But he also realizes at
this point that Josh but daniels is not it like
he's got the cooties. He don't know what he's doing.
The guy's a stiff, and so what do you do?
So that's why he reacted the way he reacted was
(07:14):
smart en up. McDaniels is seven and fourteen as coach
of there is Is there any reason for optimism that
this is going to get better for the Raiders in
the near future. I don't see anything. I'm not Benny
Bright's out on this. I'm a realist. I look at
the Raiders. Well, Garoppolos he go already missed one game,
He'll probably miss three or four more games. If everything
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goes right for Garoppolo, he'll miss three or four games.
He'll lose all four of those You've already lost three games,
so that'll get you up. You know, by the time
you do the math on that, you know everything goes right.
Best case scenarios you end up winning like six games.
You're like six and eleven. That doesn't seem good to me,
all right. Now, Secondly, we go to Jersey. We go
(07:59):
to Jersey. Now, what's going on in Jersey? The fallout
from the Monday night football game continues to bounce around
the pinball machine of sports chatter, and my, oh my,
oh my. Now Seattle, the Seattle football team took a
cand of whoop ass to the New York NFC football team.
(08:20):
They're in the swamplands of New Jersey and the depths
of the carnage we are now learning. Giants coach Brian
Dable embarrassingly announced that the tight end for the Giants
someone named Daniel Bellinger. I have no idea who this is,
but Daniel Bellinger and the rookie center John Michael Schmitz,
(08:42):
May the Schmidz be with you, both suffered injuries trying
to execute the tush push the tush ay pushey. They
were injured by that tush hey pushey. Now Bellinger suffered
a knee injury. This guy Schmidts a shoulder injury. So
(09:03):
how do you explain Brian Dables giants failure of epic
proportions to execute the tush push. So this is football negligence,
is what it is. And they deserve to be mocked.
Mock them, mock them. They deserve it, all right. The
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Giants can wear the clown shoes. They can wear the
red nose, the puffy red nose on this one. This
is vond It's Vaudvillian, is what it is. It is Vadvillion,
Keystone Cops territory. The tush push is the most straightforward,
but this is one of the most mind bogging things.
(09:46):
Not all these Philadelphia Eagle pod just will send me
messages those because they've got the great host offensive line
and Jalen hurts and they squats six hundred pounds. I
don't why I hear it. I save it, Save it
all right, Fry Daddy, save it all right. Listen the
qby here's the toushbush. All right, what do I know?
(10:07):
I just see the over reight yo, the tush push.
The quarterback takes the snap, all right, gets very low,
get low. Do the mumbo, get low all right, begins
to push forward. There's a wall of defensive players, a
wall of humanity that is up against him to try
to stop and they're trying to prevent him from picking
(10:27):
up the yard of the yard and half and usually
just inches for a first down. So right behind the quarterback,
this is the key part here. You have a combination
of a tight end, a wide receiver, running back and
they're doing the pushy on the tushy. They're doing the
pushy on the tae and so they push and then
all you need is a few inches you'll get the
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first down. And these stumble bumbs with the Giants, they
couldn't even figure it out. Micah Parsons called this a
cheat code. The Cowboys guy said, that's a cheap code,
and so is it nobody else in the NFL squats.
How about you go to a gym and squat a
little bit and do better, be better and have two
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guys injured on same play? What is Poppy and San
Diego their offensive coordinator? All right, now, final fut, last stop,
we go do Sweet Home Chicago, and we have increased
our audience tenfold. We used to only have Doc Mike
in Chicago that was listening to the show. But now
we've got a wild pack of die hard connoisseurs of
(11:37):
marginal overnight sports radio in the Windy City that have
picked up on the show. And we talked about this
story a little bit the other day. It's back and
we're hearing now that it's It would quote not be
surprising if the Bears fired Matt Eberflus should they lose
on Thursday night to the Commanders. That's the game tomorrow
(11:58):
in DC. A veteran and an NFL scribe, Peter Kank,
he made that declaration. Now we'll follow up on the
previous male of monologue, see if we have changed our position.
Do you do you, the respected consumer, do you believe
that the Chicago Bears would actually fire Matt Eerraflus if
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they get run off the field by the Washington football
team on Thursday night. So I am agnostic on this.
I am not a believer. I am a heathen. I
don't buy it. I didn't believe it two days ago.
I didn't believe it a year ago. I don't believe
it now. I don't believe it. Sam, I am I
don't I don't I take this with a grain of
(12:44):
Morton Salt, which, by the way, is headquartered in Chicago.
Did you know that Morton Salt from Chicago? Yeah? And listen,
seeing is believing and coaching stability is one of the
only things they have at hallis Hall coaching staple. They
that's their claim to fame. It's not winning super Bowls,
it's not having great quarterbacks. God knows, they haven't had
(13:06):
great quarterbacks and they haven't won many super bowl But
it's all about, Hey, we don't fire coach. That's our thing,
that's our deal. And they've never done it, and I
don't believe they would do it now. And the main
problem here's the flaw, the fly in the ointment, if
you will, for piticking. Who are they gonna hire? Right,
(13:29):
who are they gonna you? Look around. Matt Eberflus is
not only the head coach, he's the defensive coordinator. So
you fire him, you get rid of your defensive quarteraor
and your hickgard the offensive coordinator. This guy Luke Getsy
apparently doesn't know. I think there's guys playing Madden that
are better at calling plays than Luke Getsy. So he's
the offensive quarter So you can't hire him as the
head coach, can't promote him bad to the bone. And
(13:52):
then you're like, well, what about the special teams? So
somebody named Richard high Tower. I would rather have the
guy that played High Tower in those old Police Academy
movies than Richard high Tower, which is a dated reference
I know, but just bear with me. But no, the
special teams stink, so you can't hire him. So what
would you do? The only scenario where this would work,
(14:13):
where the Bears fire their coach, There's only one scenario.
They would have to channel Jim Rsay and hire a
TV guy. Remember when URS fired the Colts coach and
hired Jeff Saturday from ESPN. Yeah, so how about Skip
Bayless as coach of the Chicago Bears. Does anyone say no,
I don't say no? How about Stephen A. Smith coaching
(14:34):
the Bears, who says no, I don't hell At this point,
hire Craig Carton to coach the Bears? Why not just
go like flip on the TV. Maybe you'll watch Benny
versus a Penny. I'll get a phone call. I don't know,
it might happen, And that's the only path it is.
The Bean Malor Show. As we continue on, if you'd
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a very juicy nugget of information which began in many
(15:16):
ways right here at the mothership Fox Sports Radio, and
people debating whether it's true or not, What is it?
What's going on? We'll explain all of that. We'll get
to that, we'll take our goals. Also, later this hour
we will have the very exciting Mallad of the third Degree.
We'll get to all that, and we will do it next.
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Speaker 1 (16:16):
Our too leanest ass, toushy pushy. I admit I just
like saying tushy pushy.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
I do.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
It's weird.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
It's so stupid, so dumb. But it's great, isn't it.
I love it? Toshy pushy. Isn't it fun to say
on the radio, toshy pushy. I feel like I'm five
years old again. It's great. The Burner account right say
it says, don't call it a comeback, good comeback, Benjamin,
your monologue had me rolling, So you're RiPP That means
(16:48):
you're ripping the first hour monologue. How dare you? Burner
account Milkman Mike and Coloradle says, I'm sure if Poppy
wasn't planning the next Malard meet and greet at the
Blue Oyster, he would have been tickled that you mentioned
him in the malle monologue. All right, Freddie says, I
(17:08):
think blind Emmett, the Seahawks fan, would be a better
coach for the Bears. Now, Rory brings up a good point, says,
come on, Ben, if the Bears fired their head coach
mid season, we all know they would try to hire
Mike Harmon as their new head coach. Amen, Yeah, there
you go. Oh, I don't know that Harmon would take
(17:29):
that job. Of course, a loyal minion here of Fox
Sports Radio, I'm an ass man. Yeah, well he doesn't.
He would run the tushy pushy. He would definitely do
that late night drug test. This is the giants getting hurt.
Doing the tushy pushy sounds about as ridiculous as a
kicker getting hurt celebrating a routine extra point. I'm right
there with you. I'm right there with amen. Amen, you're
(17:50):
preaching the choir ferd Cat writes and says, Ben, you
gave a passionate speech earlier to tell Eddie Garcia he's
a fool for still calling ex Twitter. Well, in the
name of consistency, Firkkat says, I'm afraid you have to
call the tush push the brotherly shove from now on too,
(18:11):
or you, sir, our hypocrite No. The reason I will
not call it the Brotherly Shove is because that's what
the NFL wants you to call it, the Brotherly Show.
And anything the NFL wants, I go the other direction.
So tush, push, push, push, That's what I'm sticking with.
Let's go to the phones. We'll say hello to Mason
(18:32):
the Millennial. We have not spoken to Mason the Millennial,
and sometimes hello Mason the Millennial.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Hey man, just push test push, test push.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
And also I would also I would also like to
learn all your philiates down the line. We will have
a response to Robbie the Mariner fan. Robbie famously uh.
We wanted to get his response because the general manager
of the Mariners said that he's doing a good thing
for the Mariner fan by not trying to win. But
what's what have you been up to, Mason. You're back
at work now, not yet.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
I just have physical therapy today, so I'm progressing really well.
So I'm aiming a mid October. You know, I'll be
back then. But I've been listening here and there. It's
a little heart being at home. But whatever, I still
tap in with you. Wen.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Oh, that's right. All over the television of the Bay
Area every weekend.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Yeah, I know, it's so awesome.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
It's so awesome.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
I feel spoiled to be able to have that there.
You know, I record every single one.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Well, thank you. I appreciate that because not everyone, unfortunately
has access to the TV show. So you're one of
the people. Oh, a lot of people have been complaining.
They've been yelling at me Mason via email, So I
guess not really yelling, writing writing nasty notes because they
can't get the show. And I wish everyone could get it,
but it's not on. I don't control as much as
power as I have. I don't work in the distribution
(19:57):
department at NBC, so I don't really control that.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Yeah, I know it gets you know, ceed, you know,
because of all the affiliates and whatnot. But speaking of
writing angry notes, man, that's kind of what I want
to do as a Bronco fan. You know, I was
really ready to call it quit after we went on three,
and really really ready to throw in the towe off
that seventy to twenty loss. But it's like, you know,
(20:23):
I would have really you know, tied the news after
the Bear's loss. But we're we're all good on that.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Well, be careful, Mason, be careful. You have lurking in
the grass, the New York Jets. And to lose to
Zach Wilson, like to lose to Zach Wilson, would be
high crimes and misdemeanors, especially after all the trash talk
that Sean Payton gave Nathaniel Hackett and his coaching ability.
So that's a dangerous game. That's a dangerous game. But
(20:54):
the top unit on the field in that game this
weekend is the Jets defense. That's the top of Ben.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
But but Coop, please cover your ears. I might be
becoming a product of my environment. Ben.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Oh no, no, no, no, you're crossing over the golden.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Gate saying it ain't sold. Listen, No, you're becoming a
Niner fan. Mason, the millennial, Edie Mason, the millennials. He's
leaving the Broncos for the Niners. That is a shocking statement, Judas.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
No, I'm not saying all that. I'm saying that's what.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
It sounds like. Don't don't sugarcoat this.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Don't shooting fifteen minutes away from the stadium in Fremont,
bro Like, I.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Don't care if your fair. You could be across the street,
you know, expective if it's to go to those games, come.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
On, yep?
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
I'm here, man, I see it on game time. Not
a paid sponsor, so don't try. But uh, I see
it on that app and it's like chief is thirty dollars? Really?
Oh okay?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
All right, I didn't know who knew. I thought they
were very yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Alright, no, but I mean that's the only reason. And
you know you said that they're the best team in
the NFL.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
They are, but they are until Christian McCaffery gets hurt
and then Brock Purty, you know, starts throwing interceptions. But
until then, Yes, the Niners, I don't even think it's close.
I don't even I mean, maybe we'll talk about that
on the TV show, but I don't even think it's close.
The Niners are just ahead of everyone.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Yeah, yeah, I mean right now, if anyone face them,
it wouldn't be close.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I mean, but you're both guarding all the airtime, Mason,
I thank you, all right, hang up, go go away,
all right. It is the Ben Malo Show. So FSR
kind of creating the story here, and is there something
to it or not. We'll play they who do you Believe? Game,
which is always a fun game. We also have Mallard
of thirty degree, more of these riveting phone calls, and
(22:58):
Robbie the Mariner fans response to the general manager of
his Seattle Mariners announcing that he's doing a good thing
for the fan by not trying to win the world Sir,
if I own the team, I'd fire him right now.
He'd be done. I don't own the team.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
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and Sports Illustrated.
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And I did see Michael Jordan MJ the first professional
athlete former professional athlete to make the Forbes list of
the four hundred Richest people in America. MJ's net worth
is three billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Does he send checks to Sonny Vcaro? Does he? Is
he still around Sonny Vicaro?
Speaker 4 (24:13):
He is still around. Yeah, we found that out when that, uh,
that movie came out that Matt Damon.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
We got him on for an interview a couple of
months ago.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Okay, yeah, well yeah, but back in the I mean,
he was on sports radio all the time in the
nineties and we used to have him on. I mean,
I he's a great guest. You asked Sonny Vcaro one
question and he will just talk talk talk talk talk, talk, talk,
talk talk, wonderful guest on sports radio. And he's gab,
very eloquent, right, not a lot of brevity, but he's
(24:42):
very eloquent the way he speaks. And he's the guy
that convinced Michael Jordan, if you believe all the thing
that to go to Nike, didn't Jordan want to go
to converse.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
That is correct. Yeah, it's a good movie. I don't
know how factual it was. It was a good movie.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Well they take those.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Sure, it's like money.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
I love No. No, the effort was made though. It
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So interesting story here that originated in our house, in
our shop here at Fox Sports Radio as a story
bouncing around the echo chamber indicating that a very prominent
college football coach is going to interview for the Michigan
state coaching job. And this came from our friend and
(25:44):
a guy that occasionally fills in for me, Bernie Fratto,
And he's a Michigan man, Bernie Fratto, very connected in
Detroit and he knows people. And he reported that Urban
Meyer is going to interview for the Michigan state head
coach job. He said, stay tuned. He did include as smiley.
He include a smiley emoji with the love eyes Eddie.
(26:08):
That's a big sign from Bernie love eyes emoji. He said,
it's real, It's possible. He has a lot of backers,
So we'll see where this goes. Urban Mayer Erbaner. Now
interesting to note that another member of our team, this
is Fox Sports Radio on Fox Sports Radio Crime, another
(26:29):
member of our team, the great Brady Quinn, who may
or may not do television with Urban Meyer. He said,
I've heard otherwise. He used emoji and a different emoji
and said, but I'm sure you're better connected, which I
think might have been sarcastic. I don't know. That sounds
a little sarcastic me.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
So Brady has been known to swing some sarkas.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Right, Let's play the game here.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Who you believe?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Now, I'm not ripping either one of these guys, because
God knows, I don't need to get called into HR.
But who do you believe?
Speaker 4 (26:58):
More?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Do you believe Bernie Fry report that Urban Meyer's going
to interview for the Michigan State job, or seemingly a
denial from Brady Quinn, who's one of our hosts on
the morning show, who says I've heard otherwise. So I'll
go first here, Ready, I believe Bernie. I believe Bernie,
And here's my belief. My belief is that Bernie's connected.
I don't know who his sources. He doesn't tell me that,
(27:19):
and I don't want to know. It's none of my business.
But my theory is, and this is just my speculation,
that he's connected with some Michigan State boosters and they're
the ones. It's always the boosters that make these moves
behind the scenes, and then the athletic department because the
boosters end up paying for it and the athletic department
has to be So I think what Bernie's hearing is
from prominent Spartan's boosters that that's the guy they want. Eddie,
(27:43):
who's saddy on on this one?
Speaker 4 (27:45):
I think I am also on team Bernie.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
That's two for Bernie too for Bernie.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Here's why. Okay, this is again pure speculation my part. Obviously,
Brady Quinn hangs out with Urban Meyer and they're shooting
the fat not and he probably is asked, you know
anything going on with you? You're looking to get back
into coaching, and Urban probably told him no, So he
heard it directly from the coach's mouth. That being said,
I think urban Meyer is a liar. So I think
(28:14):
he would absolutely tell anybody that asked him no, And
I would absolutely not be shocked one bit if he
took another job somewhere.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I mean, all coaches love yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
But that's not Brady's fault. If the guy tells him no,
then you believe him.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I was Sam, Yes or no? Who do you believe?
This is a tough one. I was Sam does not
want to get off the fence on No, that's I'm
going to go with.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
I just have to go uh, by default going to
go with Brady here because you work with Brady and
Bernie Bernie is a friend of mine. Now let me
explain this here. Bernie Bernie spent a long time working
in the state of Michigan.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Is he did He did a Lion's postmar one of
the most depressing jobs you can have in radio. Lions,
Michigan Wolverines.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
You know everybody in that, you know every in the
state college are professional. You know, he seemingly had his
fingers dipped into Uh, he's got his moles. He's deeply
embedded in vegas. He's got his moles.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
But I have to go with the give the benefit
of doubt to what urban Meyer possibly said to Brady. Bernie,
I'm sure you know he's connected to those boosters, But
I'm gonna say Brady here, I'm gonna say Brady, but
we don't.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Know urban Meyer bad take Coop the cloak of certainly
wanted to chime in on this. Coop we're trying now.
Bernie Fratto had the rumor, and then Brady Coyn kind
of shot it down.
Speaker 8 (29:32):
So who's I'm with Eddie on this? His explanation makes
sense to me.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
What about my explanation?
Speaker 7 (29:38):
It doesn't make as much sense.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Why does it? Why does it not make sense that
a booster, that Bernie's connected to a booster, and that
he would tell Bernie this and it came from a
Michigan State boots. That makes perfect sense.
Speaker 8 (29:47):
But yeah, but that's that's kind of what Eddie said.
Plus plus you had the lying thing.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
But but the other thing is a guy like urban
Meyer is not going to announce he's a candidate unless
he's got the job in the back right, because it's
embarrassing if he doesn't get the Michigan State job and
he's a candidate for the job and they don't give
it to him. That makes him look bad. So he's
not until he knows for sure he's gonna get the job,
he's gonna deny it.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
Also, the Boosters may want urban Meyer and they say
we're gonna go hard after him. We're gonna offer him
all this money like Matt Eshpia did to mel Tucker,
and they might think to have a running shot at it,
but it might not happen.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Well.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
The other problem with Michigan State is Urban's got a
lot of skeletons in his closet, and Michigan State's got
a lot of scandals on their recent history of the
athletic department. So that's another problem with Hier urban Meyer.
That you're gonna get killed by the Wolkesters. They're not
gonna like that very much. It is the Ben Malor Show.
We've got Mallor to the third degree that is warming
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now for the insta Trivia led all batters all batters
by suffering the most called strikes on pitches that were
(31:06):
outside of the strike zone during the twenty twenty three
MLB regular season. Again, Blank led all batters by suffering
the most called strikes on pitches out of the strike
zone during the twenty twenty three regular season. That is
the instant Trivia. Mallard of the third degree is next.
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(32:00):
It's the Coop the Loop Justin Cooper, and he's at
u H. Bronco Fan. Hey what's that?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Ali?
Speaker 4 (32:12):
From a tire rac dot com. Fox Sports Radio studios.
Play it again. Hey, it's Ben Malloch.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
One of the greatest lines in the history of the show,
and Coop fell right into the trap. Loved it, loved it,
loved it, loved it.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Did you know? Immediately Coop, after you said it, you're like,
oh no, what did I do?
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Yeah, yeah, he knew, he knew, but it had been
done and what is done is done.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Cannot undo it. You know.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
We don't do shout outs, Eddie. This is not a
morning Zoos show, so we cannot say good luck to
Ginger Green, who currently is up listening to us at
a hospital in I believe he's in Madison, Wisconsin. He
is awaiting the birth of twin girls girls in the morning.
So but we cannot wish him good luck. I wish
(33:04):
we could, but we're not a morning Zoo show. And
if we were, we'd say mazel tough and congratulations and
that's very exciting, but we can't do that.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Godspeed, yeah do it.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
That's a girl Dad times two Boom. Just check back
with us in about when when does the crazy stuff
start happening? Fifteen sixteen something like that.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Yeah, he's got He'll have two weddings to pay for it.
Oh yeah, maybe in the rapid succession.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Just start playing the lottery. Yeah, just start playing the lottery, sir,
Time out for the insta Trivin. Yeah. Well, by the way,
before we do the instant Robbie, the Mariner fan, I
tease this, we got to give his response. Now, the
Mariner GM said that he's doing a good thing for
the fan by not trying to win the World Series.
Robbie said, screw Jerry Depoto f John Stanton, that's the owner.
(33:52):
The Mariners are trying to kill me. That is a
direct quote from Robby the Meredith fan. So it sounds
like he's not into the dollua of the analytics. I
thought he would be on board with that, but it
sounds like that's not the case. Tono four that Instant
Trivia blank led all batters by suffering the most called
strikes on pitches out of the strike zone during the
twenty twenty three regular season. And who is it? Fill
(34:17):
in the blank and so many answers, so little time.
We'll do as many as we can. The Pillsbury dough
Boy from Cowboy Killer Page down. Jimmy Butler's a new
haircut from Beam boot Maker Bob page down, page down.
Royce Lewis the Great Royce Lewis twins win from Jeremy
and Minnesota. Trevor Bauer from PAULI b. That is his answer.
(34:43):
Tommy Lasorda from Shane of Des Moines. Craig Shipley, there's
a good name from Alf the Alien or Piner page down.
The Mighty Casey from Casey Carl Haller. Who else do
we have? Art of sports talk, says Ti Oscar Hernandez
is the way to go? Dan Ford from mister nice Guy.
That's the next twin. Joey Votto from Just Josh and Cincinnati.
(35:07):
Robin you tossed out by Sean in Portland, New forty
nine er fan Mason the Millennial from Benito the Cowboy fan.
Carlos by Erga from Kyle Robbie the Meredith fan said Satan.
I didn't know that's what Satan looks like, Robbie. But
that's an interesting photo you found of Satan. All right, Eddie,
do you have an answer? It's not Eric Carris guests
(35:27):
by Callaghan Tim in Michigan.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
What a silly guest.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Yes, all time Dodger Homer leader he was.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
I don't know if he still is got some good
hair boy that day.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Eric Harris, I'm jealous he doesn't have to wear hatsky.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
I'm gonna go with cool Papa Bell.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Yes, cool Papa Bell. In twenty twenty three, Eddie Blank
let all batters by suffering the most called strikes on
pitches out of the strikes sown during the twenty twenty
three regular season. The answer from your Baltimore Orioles ad
Lee Rushman, eighty one pitches that should have been balls
were called strikes in baseball.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
It's maller.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (36:05):
To the third degree, this is one big fan gets
grailled Comelop.
Speaker 8 (36:13):
Right now, every team in the AFC South sits at
two and two. Do you think that division is really
that wide open or do you think we'll see a
team separate from the path.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
No, it should not be that wide open. You know,
I went on television. I was praising Jacksonville. They've made
me look like a total donkey. Jacksonville's the most talented
team by a country mile. The Jags have been sleepwalking
to begin of the year, So big weekend then for them.
They played Buffalo this weekend. They can snap out of it,
turn their thing around. But the Texas have surprised, the
(36:41):
Colts are what we thought they would be a bad team,
and the Tennessee Titans are kind of a mediocre team.
So I'm going Duval County next.
Speaker 8 (36:50):
A running back hasn't won the MVP Awards since Adrian
Peterson in twenty twelve. Many around the league are saying
that Christian McCaffrey should be the front runner through four weeks.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Do you agree, Well, I would say that is a
premature take. Yeah, he's been wonderful through the first part
of the season. He's been electric, but as great as
he is is a lot of real estate to navigate
and his big bugaboo is the injury grim Reaper. And ultimately,
if it's even, if all things are equal, it's a
quarterback that has similar numbers, the quarterback's gonna win the MVP.
(37:21):
Theyll default. The default position goes to the quarterback. But yeah,
he's the four week MVP. Christian McCaffrey. Congratulations, have a
party next.
Speaker 8 (37:31):
This past Sunday, Eagles wide receiver AJ Brown was threatened
with being removed from the game if he didn't change
his highlighter green cleats. Brown said he wore them so
that his daughter could see him easier on TV. He
told reporters after the game that the rule sucks and
players around the league should revolt and wear whatever they
want because they're not going to be able to find everyone.
Ye Ben, do you think a revolt like that would work?
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Well?
Speaker 1 (37:50):
I like that he played the kid card from the
bottom of the deck. First of all, what about the daughter?
What about my daughter? The other thing is, never underestimate
the pettiness of the NFL. They would absolutely find everyone.
Here's what the players need to do. The NFL owners
won an eighteenth game, and if the players agree to
an eighteenth game, the owners will agree to allow them
to wear rainbow cleats every week. They won't care as
long as they get that extra game. There. It is
(38:11):
mallow of the third degree. How do we know that?
Speaker 8 (38:15):
Is?
Speaker 4 (38:15):
I win?
Speaker 2 (38:15):
I won, Iowa, Same, I won, Iowa save
Speaker 8 (38:20):
I won,
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