October 17, 2023 • 37 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Chargers loss to the Cowboys on MNF and if Justin Herbert has lost his magic, if he was impressed with Dallas' victory, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number one and a glorious
Tuesday to you. So glad you have chosen to listen
to the audio content we recorded overnight so you would
have fresh original takes piping hot right here on your
audio device. It is the Ben Malors Show. I was
at the Monday night game, the Cowboy Charger game, so
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we start with that. Is it true? Their quarterback Justin
Herbert has some explaining to new he lost his pixie
dust for the Chargers in that Monday night game. Third
time this season the Chargers have had the ball in
the hands of their quarterback, a chance to win a game,
and the third time he has failed. Also, what happened
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to the Kellen Moore revenge game for La as he
went against his old mates from Dallas and thumbs up
or thumbs down? Were you impressed with the Cowboys winning?
A nail bider in law? We'll talk about all that
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because that is the one universal uniting force of good. Well,
I don't know good, but unites ass ault together in
the NFL. So, and I actually happened to be at
this game, so full disclosure, Uh, that's why I was there.
I saw it with my own two eyes in the
hood in Inglewood watching a made for TV Monday night
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football match up. It was hyped up and billed as
a track meet in Vegas over the weekend, many people
lining up at those kiosks in the casinos to bet
on the over the over. In the Cowboys game against
the Chargers, Jerry Jones traveling circus making its way to
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sow Cal Chargers there all the time. The Cowboys also
there all the time. They have training camp in southern California,
at least part of it every year. So the traveling
circus of Jerry's world taking on the lightning Bolt showed
me your lightning bolt. Did the game live up to
the hype? Well, it was dramatic, but it was not
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a pyrotechnic display by any means. If you didn't see it,
and perhaps for some reason, you did not. Dak Prescott
tossed for two hundred and seventy two yards. He did
have a touchdown, and the Cowboys squeezing past the Chargers
by the hair on their chinny chin Chin twenty to
seventeen in the Monday night game. As Dallas matriculating the
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ball down the field a fourteen play fifty two yard drive,
kicker Brandon Aubrey hit a thirty nine yard field goal
and that gave the Cowboys a leade. Couple minutes to
go in the game, Chargers got the ball back and
did bupkis with it. So Dallas improves the four and
two on the season. The la AFC football team drops
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to two and three and fall behind the Raiders in
the AFC West. The better story is in the loosing
locker room, and that is where we will begin the
festicivities here the conversation. So the question again, is it true?
Is it true that Justin Herbert has lost his pixie
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dust as the Charger quarterback? And I'm nodding my head, Yes,
I am nodding my head. Yes, I've got rapid transit,
kitty cat and cattle, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a delicious,
scrumptuous candy bar. Is what we're gonna make, all right.
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So to kick off here, Justin Herbert will start with him.
Because we talked mostly about quarterbacks, Justin Herbert was set
up to play hero hero ball for the Bolts. It
was down the stretch we come in Inglewood and the
whole world, the football world anyway, watching the lights supposedly
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shine brighter in prime time, this being a Monday, night game.
One of the golden boys of NFL marketing, a member
of the Chargers family, was telling me before the game,
the Chargers are scheduled to be on primetime television over
the next couple of months. I think it's four or
four times at least over the next couple of months.
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They've got primetime games. I think it's even more than that.
So they're gonna be on television quite a bit. And
they've got a problem. And the problem is Justin Herbert
here has zigged when he should have zagged. The latest
evidence of that being true the game Monday night. Instead
of carrying the Chargers across the finish line with a
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dramatic late game drive against the Dallas defense, that did
not happen. Justin Herbert did not find the promised land. Instead,
he decided to pivot and take an off ramp and
go to Dante's inferno. And that's exactly what happened. So
Dallas was plumped for the picking. It wasn't overwhelmed by
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anything I saw from the Dallas football team in this
game at all. But we have a case of patternicity.
Patternicity is settling in for the Bolts here, and they
don't tell us to wait until the end of the
year to form opinions. We do them in real time.
So we're six weeks in to the NFL regular season,
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the Chargers are two and three, and there is a
pattern that has clearly developed an all three of the
losses for the LA football team. Here, Justin Herbert has
had the ball in his hands. The team has asked
him to make some plays down the field to score
points and win the game, and Justin Herbert has failed
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in all three games. It was against the Miami Dolphins
in that back and forth track meet game. Herbert had
the ball at the end, screwed up, couldn't get it
done against that weak Dolphins defense. Tennessee Titans had the ball.
I believe they had the ball first in overtime if
I remember correctly of that game. Did not get it done.
Bad job by him. And here in this game, you're
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down a field goal, don't have many timeouts left. All
you need to do is get a field goal to
tie touchdown wins the game. And you don't even get
a field goal attempt. You don't even get a field
goal attempt. That's your franchise quarterback right there, that's your guy.
That's your forever quarterback. What is that Mac Jones out
there running around?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
My god?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
The team giving him up to up to two hundred
and sixty two million dollars to I assume make plays
like he did not make in the game against Dallas.
And I sure see him on TV a lot trying
to get me to buy sandwiches. But he might want
to actually try to, I don't know, win a game
at the end that might help. He hadn't done that
in a while here and put a charge into the
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offense there for the Chargers. So instead instead of winning
games there he is he's I think he's taking rapid
transit now. He's justin Herberts decided to take rapid transit
as he is driving the struggle bus, coughing up the
old hair ball there for the LA football team, as
Herbert suffering the shame, the indignity of being outplayed by
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Dakota Prescott of all people down the stretch. So in
those fifty to fifty games where you've had the ball behind,
a chance to take the lead or a chance to
win the game, and you're old for three, zero for
three on fifty to fifty balls for the Chargers, quarterback,
and all three could have easily been wins had your
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quarterback made a few plays. And that did not happen.
He could not cut the muster and no out of
this world experience. Now further, what happened to the storyline
leading into this game that it was the Kellen Moore
revenge game. The Chargers offensive coordinator laid of Dallas at
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one point considered the golden boy for the Dallas football team,
an heir to the throne of the Cowboys in the
inner circle of Jerry's domain. Kellen Moore, well, the ex
Cowboy offensive coordinator, got his opportunity against Mike McCarthy, the
guy that thinks he sucks as a coach, and whacked
him as offensive coordinator. And there's no and there's all
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kinds of spin, but there's no other way to see.
I mean, Kellen Moore was in deep with the Cowboys
until he wasn't, and Mike McCarthy it was, Hey, I
gotta keep my job, so I'm gonna fire your ass.
I'm gonna blame you for all the ills the Dallas Cowboys,
and so McCarthy took over the play calling. But this
was the Kellen Moore revenge game and what happened? The
storyline fizzled. Let's edit fizzle the storyline fizzle. Kellen Moore
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is proof that you can lead a donkey to water,
but you cannot force that donkey to drink the water.
This is a great example here as Kellen Moore seemingly
came up with a pretty good game plan. Here he
schemed a couple of wonderful plays. Kellen Moore, Kellen Moore
designing plays where Keenan Allen was wide open on breakaway.
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What would have been one certainly would have been a touchdown.
The second would have set up a touchdown for the Chargers.
As open as the interstated four in the morning, completely open,
devoid of any kind of gridlock, any kind of traffic,
nobody within a country mile of Keenan Allen. It's a
simple and catch play. Scheme was perfect and what does
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your idiot quarterback do well? He missed fires, He missed
fires right and justin Herbert went cowabunga dude and unable
to complete those passes. He zigged when he was supposed
to zag and muffed both plays, both massive plays and
as a result, when the game ended, Jerry Jones was
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walking around the bowels of Sofi Stadium like a kiddy
cat with a cheshire cat smile on his face. From
ear to ear, Jerry was beaming. He was so proud
of his rotn coach Mike McCarthy forgetting the better, getting
the better of his former offensive genius in Kellen Moore.
And that's the story right there, Mike McCarthy smiling, Jerry's
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smile and all that because of some football negligence by
the Chargers quarterback. Now parting shot thumbs up or thumbs
down were are you impressed with the Cowboys victory in
the LA Area? So I'm gonna go thumbs down. I
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was not impressed. Watching Dallas in person was really confirmation
to my long standing belief about this Cowboy vintage. This
team is your standard Dallas product. They're a paper tiger.
It's the old saying in Texas the rings true. It's
big hat, no cattle, and that's the Dallas Cowboys. They
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got a couple of stars and sin Ceedee Lamb played well. Great. Congratulations.
He should do that every week. He doesn't do that
every week. Micah Parsons, who was a no show against
the forty nine Ers, made a couple of plays in
this game. But when you do the algebra and when
you crunch the numbers, here, Dallas is still not in
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the varsity realm of the NFC. There's still several pegs
lower than that. And everything is bigger in Texas, including
the gap between the Cowboys and the other teams in
the NFC that are ahead of them at at the
very top, even though those teams lost the Eagles and
the forty nine ers on Sunday. So keep in onyd
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that the LAAFC football team brought in the thirty first
ranked defense. Only Denver had been worse than the Chargers defensively,
and the Cowboys could not get anywhere close to just
an average yardage total against what the Chargers had been
given up and only twenty points. Am I supposed to
be impressed? The Cowboys put up twenty points against the
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thirty first ranked defense in the NFL, the LA Chargers,
here we go, Here we go, here we go, here
we go. Yeah, sixty yards away from just average and
that rag tag Bolts defense they did their job. Was
the offense that didn't do their job for the Chargers,
which is embarrassing. And the Cowboys are not a good
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coach team. They're not. They had eleven penalties in this
game for eighty five yards. They forked over four first
downs to the Chargers versus via penalty, and many of
them were just dumb, not even judgment penalty calls. They
were just bad football plays. All right, It is the
Ben Mahler Show. If you would like to be partly,
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that as we work our way through the overnight, as
the Fighting Phills get to jump on the d Backs
and the Texas Rangers. Here we go, Ragers, Here we go. Hey,
here we go, Ragers. Here we go, America's team, the
Texas Rangers, now two wins away from getting rid of
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hemorrhoids from baseball, the Houston hemorrhoids, as the Rangers two
more victories away from eliminating the great cheats of the
modern era in sport. And if I did not get
a lot of email, I checked my inbox after that
Ranger A hole game, and I did not see many
people from Houston. I didn't see anyone from Houston emailing
me you've got mail. Funny how that works. If the
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were they sloppy and disheveled in this game, even though
they beat the Chargers, they're also lacking boutet. They're lacking boutet.
We'll get to that. And is it true that an
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AFC powerhouse is looking to add a superb ball running
back to their stable? To that and we will do
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Speaker 1 (16:50):
Well, you'll have to deal with this, Eddie. Of course
I don't. I'm much too important to go into the
radio station. But I'm told there are gremlins that have
attacked the mothership, so this is very exciting.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
They've been attacking for a while.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
No, no, no, the full hostile takeover by the gremlins,
which means that Iowa Sam and Cooper out of the show.
That they cannot speak into the microphones of Fox Sports
Radio because the microphones are not working.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
So I hear something, let's see here, now, I don't
not that. Oh yeah, I heard like a or like
a screaming or something.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
That's the ghost of Iowa Sam. The ghost of Iowa Sam.
He's become poltergeist. Yeah. All I can say is we
hope this is fixed or the Iowa Minute's going to
be very interesting this week with no Iowa Sam.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Well, he could come into my studio if he wants it, Buckworth,
you know you may have to take a chance on that.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yeah, oh yeah, risk your life there, that would be
be wild anyway. Yeah, we'll see about that.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
I still can still speak through the drops, though, I
guess that'll be his voice.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
You could h ferd Cat writes In says, I'm risking
my life. I'm sorry. My chargers will let you down, Ben.
I know how badly you wanted them to win, so
you could avoid speaking to Cowboy Dan, Cowboy Carl, Cowboy Bob. Well,
actually I don't see cowboy Dan or Cowboy Bob or
cowboy Jim. Maybe maybe we're being covered up by Dallas
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cowboys some kind of cowboy programming. That's my theory. On
that you feed me, writes In and says, Hey, Malard
a plus and a chicken bacon ranch sub on the
Mallard monologue, Brandon Staley looks like he is in the
witness protection program, So so he says, who else do
we have?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
What do you have like a disguise on or something.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
If he was he pretending to be a coach. Well,
that's just disguise. He's interested wearing a charger hat, acting
like he knows what he's doing when he does not.
Just Josh in cincinnatisis watching the game last night with
my son. When he said the Cowboys should fire Jerry Jones,
Just Josh replied to his Spahn and said, son, only
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God can fire Jerry. And while he's at it, take
Cowboy Dan with him. I love my Cowboys, but I'm
a realist. I'll leave the ball washing to Dan and others. Well,
maybe Cowboy Dan is so excited they won he passed out.
I guess that's my only theory on that. GM Manage
in Chicago says, appreciate the eight plus Mallard monologue. I
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have to say, mister NFL wins again as they attempt
to keep the cow turns relevant with timely penalty calls. Also,
I know the reason why Ceedee Lamb smells his fingers
after every first down catch because it has something to
do with Cowboy Dan and something very close to cowboy
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I don't think I can read it exactly as he
wrote it, so I'll leave that out. Tom Tom from
SoCal and Fullerton writes, and he says, Ben, I don't
know if I can be a Charger fan anymore. I
have a heart condition. This team may actually kill me.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Oh well, I haven't done it by now.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I think you're just be like Mason the millennial jump
on the forty nine er man as well. As soon
as that happened, the Niners lost them. Is that the
Mason the millennial jinx, the longtime Bronco fan becoming a
forty nine Er fan just in time for them to
lose to the Cleveland Browns. Now, I'm getting a lot
of feedback here, Eddie, because apparently on the I was
actually at the game. I wasn't watching the TV feed,
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so I missed a I did see the clips online.
There was a woman that got a lot of TV
time wearing a Charger jersey and making a lot of gyrations,
very dramatic with her hand movements and the facial expressions
on the On the television Late Nights out Tester says,
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you're missing the biggest story of the Monday night football game.
The Garcia is being replaced as Chargers super fans. Now,
is this a real person or is this a plant?
It is a television show. And did the people over
there at ESPN pay a woman to wear a Charger
jersey like this and make all kinds of weird expressions.
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I don't know. I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
I've never seen that woman before.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
So you're going with the conspiracy, Eddie.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
No, I'm just saying she's not a or she's not
a regular.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
But it's a TV show, Eddie, and it is possible.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
This it's a radio show, and people accuse us of
paying callers.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
No, but I'm saying in television, we know there are
In television, there's plants all the time, Like the Academy Awards.
They have seat fillers at the Academy Awards. Even listen,
let's be honest here. You go to these NFL games,
they have the fan clubs of the teams placed in
certain sections so the TV people know where to scan
to find a reaction shot of the crowd. So is
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it not impossible to think that that that woman was
some kind of I don't know, she's in entertainment and
they brought her in as an extra for the show
to enhance the fan experience.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Impossible, No, unlikely.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I don't think it's unlikely, but I think it's very likely.
In fact, I find game. You don't have to bring
them somewhere, Eddie. You are you're a bit naive to
the ways of television, Eddy.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
We actually go to games and stands, unlike you.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
So I see these people now that I work in television, Eddie,
I know how TV works, and this is this just
reeks of fake. That woman, I'll bet you they could
have had her at a Jacksonville game put a JAG's
jersey on. She would have done the same thing that.
So that's my belief on it.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I did hear another conspiracy that I like even more
than that can and involves the Chargers and the Cowboys
a little payback. I love this, and nobody else has
this story, Eddie. I promise you, no one else has
this story. We're the only ones that have this story.
And it's a great story. We'll get to that, but
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right now, let's get you caught about everything going on
in the overnight. A man that does not believe that
a TV station would pay a fan to cheer Eddie.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Not when there's plenty of those people that you know.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
But it's a different kind of reaction, Eddie, It's good television.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Is people don't want people don't act act crazy.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
It's all about the viral moments. You're completely wrong, Eddie,
that woman's a fraud. And the more you push back,
the more I believe she's a fake, and.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
The more you're wrong. But you know that's not unusual.
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You get your podcasts. Uh so you maybe this is
a conspiracy theory too. Did you see we had a
reunion happy birthday at Sofi Stadium. These two guys apparently
you know, they were buddies way back when and then
they had a falling out, as are things of thawing
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between Jerry and Jimmy. Jimmy Johnson was at the game
and went down on the field and said hello.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
To Well, they've Jerry Jones. They've been cordial, they've been
Jerry was kissed. He was shaking hands with every Jerry
was running for president. I think he's going to be
our next president after Biden. They're gonna put Jerry Jones
in the White House. The way he was walking around Sofi,
strutting around, he had a posse. It's like a freaking boxer.
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Doesn't Jerry get the concessions at Sofi? Isn't that his company?
Speaker 4 (25:16):
I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I thought that was the deal when they built Solfi
State company. He's got a concession company, and I thought
they have a deal with Sofi where he gets a
percentage of all the overpriced popcorn.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
And I never eat that crap, that stadium crap food.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Apparently you're just an elitias daddy and you don't want
to eat.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
The common man. Before the game with the.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Tailgate, I do what I do is I do the
media freeloading.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Yes too, you've done that for so long.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yes, we will have a freeloaders update from Sofi Stadium.
We'll tell you what the Cowboy media.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
By the way, did you meet up with Helmet Man?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
I did not meet up with helmet I did look
for helmet Man, I have. I was giving a number
for Helmet Man. I did not use the number because
I had a limited amount of time and I know
if I had called Helmet Man, he would have told
me where he was, which was likely on the other
side of the property. And I had a very I
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had to get out of there. It is you know,
it's a lot of traffic at the like it was
about seventy percent Cowboy fans at the Monday night game,
and I had to skidado or else I would have
been stuck and I might not have been here, and
how would the show have gone on without me here?
That would have been the problem devastating. So I have
a conspiracy and it's one of my favorite stories. It's hilarious.
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I was at the Monday night game, sitting with the
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evil media football media there and hanging out there free loading. Absolutely,
that's the way I fully admitted, been doing that for
a long time. So I sat right behind Ed Werder.
You know Ed Werder, who's a long time I think
he just covers the Cowboys for ESPN now, I think
that's all he does. I never see him doing anything
else other than covering the Cowboy. So he was sitting
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in front of me, and then to the right and
down down away. This is like the press box is
enclosed with glass and it's just for the TV like reporters,
radio people, and then the football writers and it's usually
pretty quiet. There's not a lot of noise in there,
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and there's a PA system announcing every play and that's
about the only noise you get. You're not no cheering
in the press box. You're not allowed to cheer, right,
they look down upon that. It's a working press box.
They make an announcement. But this night was different than
all other nights because when the game kicked off, we
heard very loud, passionate oh play by play in Espanol. Oh, yes,
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as the you see the Dallas The Dallas Cowboys Spanish
radio broadcast team was given seats in the working press
box in the front row.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Okay, So here's where I asked some questions. I was
asking people questions, what is this about? You know? Sofi
Stadium is only a couple years old. It is the showcase.
It is the jewel of stadiums. It is a monstrosity
of excess. There are boxes and luxury boxes in the
press boxes. Massive. It is the biggest thing I've ever
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seen for a football stadium as only a couple years old.
It's like, why would they put the Spanish radio broadcast
team for the Dallas Cowboys in the in the press box? Right?
What is this about?
Speaker 4 (28:53):
They claim they didn't have room for him any Well.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Well that's what I thought. But is it true, Eddie
headline Sofi Stadium that this was Charger payback Espanol style
to the Dallas Cowboys, Because is it true? A few
years back when the Chargers paid a visit to Jerry's World,
they did not have room for the Chargers Spanish radio
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broadcasting and put them put them in the working press box,
and this time the Chargers said, okay, we can play
that game as well. Boys. It was so it was
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so funny, man, because you're so used to being in
there and there's no noise, and these guys and are
really great and I don't know who the play by
Spanish play by play guys for the Cowboys. The guy's good.
He's screaming the only things I could make, I know,
like a Spanglish hetty. I know a little Spanish, but
very little. And but then he'd like the America headlines
and then he'd go to like the next you know,
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and it was it was really good and it was
so funny and I just love I really want to
believe that that's what happened.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Do you ever have one of those moments? Because I did. Oh,
being a stringer a silent press box, you're like the
only one.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yeah, yeah, that's uncomfortable.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
The company was very nice back in the day when
they would like send us stuff just because it is.
They're nice. So Fresno State played in the Liberty Bowl
in Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Give me Liberty or give me.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Against Tulsa and they were like, you want to go
cover that game?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (30:35):
And I said sure, so they sent me and I
did have to, you know, be in the press box
and be a stringer. And uh so here I am
reporting on this game. I'm the only one in there
who's we're doing this and it's an enclosed press box
and everyone can hear every word I'm saying. And I
have to give it a little juice. And they turn
back and look at you like you, yeah, what are
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you doing?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Well, you know, come on, you're supposed to be seen,
not her. Yeah, it's wrong with you. You those I did.
You know, in some places when I did stuff with
the the Doyers in the like the Mets at Chase Stadium,
they segregated the radio people from the writers so the
writers would not be bothered by the radio people. They
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had a second.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Writers very important, Well they were one time.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Not anymore. No, it's amazing how that happened. The writers
don't matter that now at all. They're just bloggers. They're
they're guys on X. You know. That's their power, which
is just wonderful. If you you were around years ago
when the writers were complete a holes, anyway. Yeah, so
that's my that's my cowboy conspiracy. And I was I
mean when I did college like play by play stuff,
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but that wasn't I was saddleback. That was the Harvard
of the West Coast. They're back back in the day. Anyway,
it is the Ben Mathers Show as we continue on
time now for the who Am I?
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Game?
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By the way, the Super Bowl running back who could
be heading to an AFC power, Leonard Fournette, been unemployed
all season. Leonard Fournette paid a visit to Buffalo. I
assume it was not to eat chicken wings, and we're
told there is a good chance that he will sign
a contract in the coming days here with the Buffalo Bills,
so Bill's Mafia. They lose a running back over the
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weekend and appears they will add a running back. Leonard
Fournette looks like he is going to go to Buffalo,
So woo who wonderful time now for the who Am I? Game?
This is a blatant attempt to get you to listen
a little bit longer. Thus to the who Am I? Game?
In honor of hitting a dinger on his big birthday,
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Bryce Harper became the fourth player to homer on his
birthday in a postseason game. I was the last player
they hit a home run on my birthday prior to
Bryce Harper again the Fighting Phils. Bryce Harper just became
the fourth player to homer on his birthday in a
postseason game. I was the last player prior to Bryce
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Harper to do it. If you know the answer, hit
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the fourth player to Homer on his birthday in a
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postseason game as the Fighting Phils took Game one of
the NLCS. I was the last player to do it
before Bryce Harper. Who am I? That is the question?
And what is the answer? Voodoo headline, says a former
Seattle pilot Larry Boyle Geo Urshela from Matt the Warrior
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Raider fan page down Cowboy Killer says it has to
be the fake Charger fan. Benito of the Cowboy Fan
says the Dallas Cowboys Spanish broadcast team in the actual
press box point was Benito. It was one of the
funniest things because every time the Cowboys did something good,
these guys would scream in. Everyone turned a look, and
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it was just wonderful. It was just so good. Cannot
I cannot tell you the joy that that brought me.
Donkey Sausage that's right. Donkey Sausage says the other Mike
Tyson is the answer. Tory Hunter guess by the late
night drug tests. Maybe Jerry was doing the play by play.
George Herman Ruth from The Midnight Walker in Syracuse. The
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Sawman says, was it the Sultan of Swatt Greg Maddox
Mike Trout guessed by Ferg Kat not to be confused
with his former rival for dog Milkman Mike in Colorado
says Texas high school coaching legend Bud Kilmer is the
way to go. Rob Deer from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
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Breadman Matt from Flint going with Storm and Norman Cash.
Reggie Jefferson there's a solid name from alf the Alien,
O Piner, Desi Rellaford from Fields of Green. Also not
a bad name. Eddie Poppensey who was traded for Kenny
Law from Chris in Des Moines. Ricky Henderson tossed out
by Double Ow Mexican in San Diego. Mark McGuire from
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Justin and Cincinnatibody. Mark's looking pretty good there. Lean and
Mean still working out there and no side effects to
those drugs that he took back in the day. Who
else we have page down Brian Clutterbuck of the Brewers
from Seeing Dean, Steve sach Saxey from Calligan, Tim in Michigan,
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Shawn in the Valley of the Sun, going with Harry
Spilman as his answer. Chris in Solidarity got it right.
Bad job by him. Big Lou from the LBC. He's
on number two says where the white women at Caitlin
Clark is the answer?
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Eddie?
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Do you have an answer? And again if you've forgotten
the question? Because we read so many answers. Bryce Harper
the Phills became the fourth player to Homer on his
birthday in a postseason game. I was the last player
to do it. Who am I? Eddie?
Speaker 4 (37:01):
The late great Tim McCarver.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Tim McCarver, man, could that you ask him one question?
He would go on for about four hours. He would
do the Iowa minute when he was answering the question
that is in'tcorrect though the correct answer correct answer?
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Man?
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Who currently wrong? Well, he's off off baseball because he
played for the Dodgers. So they got eliminated in the
divisional round. But Colton Wong back in twenty fifteen lave
for the Cardinals in the National League Divisional Series, but
Colton Wong was the one to do it on his
twenty fifth birthday. So and I want you to know, though,
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I have done perfect monologues on my birthday, Okay, I have,
but I don't make a big deal about it. I
don't sit here behind these microphones and brag that I
did a perfect old model. But it happens pretty much
every year. Wrong, No, that's true. Oh lie, there
Hello and welcome. It's our number one and a glorious
Tuesday to you. So glad you have chosen to listen
to the audio content we recorded overnight so you would
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at the Monday night game, the Cowboy Charger game, so
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we start with that. Is it true? Their quarterback Justin
Herbert has some explaining to new he lost his pixie
dust for the Chargers in that Monday night game. Third
time this season the Chargers have had the ball in
the hands of their quarterback, a chance to win a game,
and the third time he has failed. Also, what happened
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to the Kellen Moore revenge game for La as he
went against his old mates from Dallas and thumbs up
or thumbs down? Were you impressed with the Cowboys winning?
A nail bider in law? We'll talk about all that
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go door number one, Door number two or door number three?
There were three three events. They're all knocking on the door.
What are you gonna do? Door number one, Door number two,
door number three? And the survey says door number three,
door number three are lead coming from the NFL. Why
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because that is the one universal uniting force of good. Well,
I don't know good, but unites ass ault together in
the NFL. So, and I actually happened to be at
this game, so full disclosure, Uh, that's why I was there.
I saw it with my own two eyes in the
hood in Inglewood watching a made for TV Monday night
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football match up. It was hyped up and billed as
a track meet in Vegas over the weekend, many people
lining up at those kiosks in the casinos to bet
on the over the over. In the Cowboys game against
the Chargers, Jerry Jones traveling circus making its way to
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sow Cal Chargers there all the time. The Cowboys also
there all the time. They have training camp in southern California,
at least part of it every year. So the traveling
circus of Jerry's world taking on the lightning Bolt showed
me your lightning bolt. Did the game live up to
the hype? Well, it was dramatic, but it was not
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a pyrotechnic display by any means. If you didn't see it,
and perhaps for some reason, you did not. Dak Prescott
tossed for two hundred and seventy two yards. He did
have a touchdown, and the Cowboys squeezing past the Chargers
by the hair on their chinny chin Chin twenty to
seventeen in the Monday night game. As Dallas matriculating the
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ball down the field a fourteen play fifty two yard drive,
kicker Brandon Aubrey hit a thirty nine yard field goal
and that gave the Cowboys a leade. Couple minutes to
go in the game, Chargers got the ball back and
did bupkis with it. So Dallas improves the four and
two on the season. The la AFC football team drops
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to two and three and fall behind the Raiders in
the AFC West. The better story is in the loosing
locker room, and that is where we will begin the
festicivities here the conversation. So the question again, is it true?
Is it true that Justin Herbert has lost his pixie
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dust as the Charger quarterback? And I'm nodding my head, Yes,
I am nodding my head. Yes, I've got rapid transit,
kitty cat and cattle, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a delicious,
scrumptuous candy bar. Is what we're gonna make, all right.
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So to kick off here, Justin Herbert will start with him.
Because we talked mostly about quarterbacks, Justin Herbert was set
up to play hero hero ball for the Bolts. It
was down the stretch we come in Inglewood and the
whole world, the football world anyway, watching the lights supposedly
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shine brighter in prime time, this being a Monday, night game.
One of the golden boys of NFL marketing, a member
of the Chargers family, was telling me before the game,
the Chargers are scheduled to be on primetime television over
the next couple of months. I think it's four or
four times at least over the next couple of months.
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They've got primetime games. I think it's even more than that.
So they're gonna be on television quite a bit. And
they've got a problem. And the problem is Justin Herbert
here has zigged when he should have zagged. The latest
evidence of that being true the game Monday night. Instead
of carrying the Chargers across the finish line with a
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dramatic late game drive against the Dallas defense, that did
not happen. Justin Herbert did not find the promised land. Instead,
he decided to pivot and take an off ramp and
go to Dante's inferno. And that's exactly what happened. So
Dallas was plumped for the picking. It wasn't overwhelmed by
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anything I saw from the Dallas football team in this
game at all. But we have a case of patternicity.
Patternicity is settling in for the Bolts here, and they
don't tell us to wait until the end of the
year to form opinions. We do them in real time.
So we're six weeks in to the NFL regular season,
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the Chargers are two and three, and there is a
pattern that has clearly developed an all three of the
losses for the LA football team. Here, Justin Herbert has
had the ball in his hands. The team has asked
him to make some plays down the field to score
points and win the game, and Justin Herbert has failed
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in all three games. It was against the Miami Dolphins
in that back and forth track meet game. Herbert had
the ball at the end, screwed up, couldn't get it
done against that weak Dolphins defense. Tennessee Titans had the ball.
I believe they had the ball first in overtime if
I remember correctly of that game. Did not get it done.
Bad job by him. And here in this game, you're
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down a field goal, don't have many timeouts left. All
you need to do is get a field goal to
tie touchdown wins the game. And you don't even get
a field goal attempt. You don't even get a field
goal attempt. That's your franchise quarterback right there, that's your guy.
That's your forever quarterback. What is that Mac Jones out
there running around?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
My god?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
The team giving him up to up to two hundred
and sixty two million dollars to I assume make plays
like he did not make in the game against Dallas.
And I sure see him on TV a lot trying
to get me to buy sandwiches. But he might want
to actually try to, I don't know, win a game
at the end that might help. He hadn't done that
in a while here and put a charge into the
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offense there for the Chargers. So instead instead of winning
games there he is he's I think he's taking rapid
transit now. He's justin Herberts decided to take rapid transit
as he is driving the struggle bus, coughing up the
old hair ball there for the LA football team, as
Herbert suffering the shame, the indignity of being outplayed by
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Dakota Prescott of all people down the stretch. So in
those fifty to fifty games where you've had the ball behind,
a chance to take the lead or a chance to
win the game, and you're old for three, zero for
three on fifty to fifty balls for the Chargers, quarterback,
and all three could have easily been wins had your
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quarterback made a few plays. And that did not happen.
He could not cut the muster and no out of
this world experience. Now further, what happened to the storyline
leading into this game that it was the Kellen Moore
revenge game. The Chargers offensive coordinator laid of Dallas at
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one point considered the golden boy for the Dallas football team,
an heir to the throne of the Cowboys in the
inner circle of Jerry's domain. Kellen Moore, well, the ex
Cowboy offensive coordinator, got his opportunity against Mike McCarthy, the
guy that thinks he sucks as a coach, and whacked
him as offensive coordinator. And there's no and there's all
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kinds of spin, but there's no other way to see.
I mean, Kellen Moore was in deep with the Cowboys
until he wasn't, and Mike McCarthy it was, Hey, I
gotta keep my job, so I'm gonna fire your ass.
I'm gonna blame you for all the ills the Dallas Cowboys,
and so McCarthy took over the play calling. But this
was the Kellen Moore revenge game and what happened? The
storyline fizzled. Let's edit fizzle the storyline fizzle. Kellen Moore
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is proof that you can lead a donkey to water,
but you cannot force that donkey to drink the water.
This is a great example here as Kellen Moore seemingly
came up with a pretty good game plan. Here he
schemed a couple of wonderful plays. Kellen Moore, Kellen Moore
designing plays where Keenan Allen was wide open on breakaway.
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What would have been one certainly would have been a touchdown.
The second would have set up a touchdown for the Chargers.
As open as the interstated four in the morning, completely open,
devoid of any kind of gridlock, any kind of traffic,
nobody within a country mile of Keenan Allen. It's a
simple and catch play. Scheme was perfect and what does
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your idiot quarterback do well? He missed fires, He missed
fires right and justin Herbert went cowabunga dude and unable
to complete those passes. He zigged when he was supposed
to zag and muffed both plays, both massive plays and
as a result, when the game ended, Jerry Jones was
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walking around the bowels of Sofi Stadium like a kiddy
cat with a cheshire cat smile on his face. From
ear to ear, Jerry was beaming. He was so proud
of his rotn coach Mike McCarthy forgetting the better, getting
the better of his former offensive genius in Kellen Moore.
And that's the story right there, Mike McCarthy smiling, Jerry's
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smile and all that because of some football negligence by
the Chargers quarterback. Now parting shot thumbs up or thumbs
down were are you impressed with the Cowboys victory in
the LA Area? So I'm gonna go thumbs down. I
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was not impressed. Watching Dallas in person was really confirmation
to my long standing belief about this Cowboy vintage. This
team is your standard Dallas product. They're a paper tiger.
It's the old saying in Texas the rings true. It's
big hat, no cattle, and that's the Dallas Cowboys. They
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got a couple of stars and sin Ceedee Lamb played well. Great. Congratulations.
He should do that every week. He doesn't do that
every week. Micah Parsons, who was a no show against
the forty nine Ers, made a couple of plays in
this game. But when you do the algebra and when
you crunch the numbers, here, Dallas is still not in
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the varsity realm of the NFC. There's still several pegs
lower than that. And everything is bigger in Texas, including
the gap between the Cowboys and the other teams in
the NFC that are ahead of them at at the
very top, even though those teams lost the Eagles and
the forty nine ers on Sunday. So keep in onyd
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that the LAAFC football team brought in the thirty first
ranked defense. Only Denver had been worse than the Chargers defensively,
and the Cowboys could not get anywhere close to just
an average yardage total against what the Chargers had been
given up and only twenty points. Am I supposed to
be impressed? The Cowboys put up twenty points against the
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thirty first ranked defense in the NFL, the LA Chargers,
here we go, Here we go, here we go, here
we go. Yeah, sixty yards away from just average and
that rag tag Bolts defense they did their job. Was
the offense that didn't do their job for the Chargers,
which is embarrassing. And the Cowboys are not a good
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coach team. They're not. They had eleven penalties in this
game for eighty five yards. They forked over four first
downs to the Chargers versus via penalty, and many of
them were just dumb, not even judgment penalty calls. They
were just bad football plays. All right, It is the
Ben Mahler Show. If you would like to be partly,
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we're oping to talk about the baseball. We'll get to
that as we work our way through the overnight, as
the Fighting Phills get to jump on the d Backs
and the Texas Rangers. Here we go, Ragers, Here we go. Hey,
here we go, Ragers. Here we go, America's team, the
Texas Rangers, now two wins away from getting rid of
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hemorrhoids from baseball, the Houston hemorrhoids, as the Rangers two
more victories away from eliminating the great cheats of the
modern era in sport. And if I did not get
a lot of email, I checked my inbox after that
Ranger A hole game, and I did not see many
people from Houston. I didn't see anyone from Houston emailing
me you've got mail. Funny how that works. If the
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score had gone the other direction, I think we know
how that would have played out if you would like
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that is at Ben Mahlor and the Cowboys. Not only
were they sloppy and disheveled in this game, even though
they beat the Chargers, they're also lacking boutet. They're lacking boutet.
We'll get to that. And is it true that an
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AFC powerhouse is looking to add a superb ball running
back to their stable? To that and we will do
it next.
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your humble sidekick, the voice of reason, your news guy.
You're announcer guy. I'm at Eddie on Fox. I don't
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Speaker 1 (16:50):
Well, you'll have to deal with this, Eddie. Of course
I don't. I'm much too important to go into the
radio station. But I'm told there are gremlins that have
attacked the mothership, so this is very exciting.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
They've been attacking for a while.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
No, no, no, the full hostile takeover by the gremlins,
which means that Iowa Sam and Cooper out of the show.
That they cannot speak into the microphones of Fox Sports
Radio because the microphones are not working.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
So I hear something, let's see here, now, I don't
not that. Oh yeah, I heard like a or like
a screaming or something.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
That's the ghost of Iowa Sam. The ghost of Iowa Sam.
He's become poltergeist. Yeah. All I can say is we
hope this is fixed or the Iowa Minute's going to
be very interesting this week with no Iowa Sam.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Well, he could come into my studio if he wants it, Buckworth,
you know you may have to take a chance on that.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yeah, oh yeah, risk your life there, that would be
be wild anyway. Yeah, we'll see about that.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
I still can still speak through the drops, though, I
guess that'll be his voice.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
You could h ferd Cat writes In says, I'm risking
my life. I'm sorry. My chargers will let you down, Ben.
I know how badly you wanted them to win, so
you could avoid speaking to Cowboy Dan, Cowboy Carl, Cowboy Bob. Well,
actually I don't see cowboy Dan or Cowboy Bob or
cowboy Jim. Maybe maybe we're being covered up by Dallas
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cowboys some kind of cowboy programming. That's my theory. On
that you feed me, writes In and says, Hey, Malard
a plus and a chicken bacon ranch sub on the
Mallard monologue, Brandon Staley looks like he is in the
witness protection program, So so he says, who else do
we have?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
What do you have like a disguise on or something.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
If he was he pretending to be a coach. Well,
that's just disguise. He's interested wearing a charger hat, acting
like he knows what he's doing when he does not.
Just Josh in cincinnatisis watching the game last night with
my son. When he said the Cowboys should fire Jerry Jones,
Just Josh replied to his Spahn and said, son, only
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God can fire Jerry. And while he's at it, take
Cowboy Dan with him. I love my Cowboys, but I'm
a realist. I'll leave the ball washing to Dan and others. Well,
maybe Cowboy Dan is so excited they won he passed out.
I guess that's my only theory on that. GM Manage
in Chicago says, appreciate the eight plus Mallard monologue. I
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have to say, mister NFL wins again as they attempt
to keep the cow turns relevant with timely penalty calls. Also,
I know the reason why Ceedee Lamb smells his fingers
after every first down catch because it has something to
do with Cowboy Dan and something very close to cowboy
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I don't think I can read it exactly as he
wrote it, so I'll leave that out. Tom Tom from
SoCal and Fullerton writes, and he says, Ben, I don't
know if I can be a Charger fan anymore. I
have a heart condition. This team may actually kill me.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Oh well, I haven't done it by now.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I think you're just be like Mason the millennial jump
on the forty nine er man as well. As soon
as that happened, the Niners lost them. Is that the
Mason the millennial jinx, the longtime Bronco fan becoming a
forty nine Er fan just in time for them to
lose to the Cleveland Browns. Now, I'm getting a lot
of feedback here, Eddie, because apparently on the I was
actually at the game. I wasn't watching the TV feed,
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so I missed a I did see the clips online.
There was a woman that got a lot of TV
time wearing a Charger jersey and making a lot of gyrations,
very dramatic with her hand movements and the facial expressions
on the On the television Late Nights out Tester says,
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you're missing the biggest story of the Monday night football game.
The Garcia is being replaced as Chargers super fans. Now,
is this a real person or is this a plant?
It is a television show. And did the people over
there at ESPN pay a woman to wear a Charger
jersey like this and make all kinds of weird expressions.
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I don't know. I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
I've never seen that woman before.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
So you're going with the conspiracy, Eddie.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
No, I'm just saying she's not a or she's not
a regular.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
But it's a TV show, Eddie, and it is possible.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
This it's a radio show, and people accuse us of
paying callers.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
No, but I'm saying in television, we know there are
In television, there's plants all the time, Like the Academy Awards.
They have seat fillers at the Academy Awards. Even listen,
let's be honest here. You go to these NFL games,
they have the fan clubs of the teams placed in
certain sections so the TV people know where to scan
to find a reaction shot of the crowd. So is
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it not impossible to think that that that woman was
some kind of I don't know, she's in entertainment and
they brought her in as an extra for the show
to enhance the fan experience.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Impossible, No, unlikely.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I don't think it's unlikely, but I think it's very likely.
In fact, I find game. You don't have to bring
them somewhere, Eddie. You are you're a bit naive to
the ways of television, Eddy.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
We actually go to games and stands, unlike you.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
So I see these people now that I work in television, Eddie,
I know how TV works, and this is this just
reeks of fake. That woman, I'll bet you they could
have had her at a Jacksonville game put a JAG's
jersey on. She would have done the same thing that.
So that's my belief on it.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I did hear another conspiracy that I like even more
than that can and involves the Chargers and the Cowboys
a little payback. I love this, and nobody else has
this story, Eddie. I promise you, no one else has
this story. We're the only ones that have this story.
And it's a great story. We'll get to that, but
(23:15):
right now, let's get you caught about everything going on
in the overnight. A man that does not believe that
a TV station would pay a fan to cheer Eddie.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Not when there's plenty of those people that you know.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
But it's a different kind of reaction, Eddie, It's good television.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Is people don't want people don't act act crazy.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
It's all about the viral moments. You're completely wrong, Eddie,
that woman's a fraud. And the more you push back,
the more I believe she's a fake, and.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
The more you're wrong. But you know that's not unusual.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
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Speaker 4 (24:22):
You get your podcasts. Uh so you maybe this is
a conspiracy theory too. Did you see we had a
reunion happy birthday at Sofi Stadium. These two guys apparently
you know, they were buddies way back when and then
they had a falling out, as are things of thawing
(24:43):
between Jerry and Jimmy. Jimmy Johnson was at the game
and went down on the field and said hello.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
To Well, they've Jerry Jones. They've been cordial, they've been
Jerry was kissed. He was shaking hands with every Jerry
was running for president. I think he's going to be
our next president after Biden. They're gonna put Jerry Jones
in the White House. The way he was walking around Sofi,
strutting around, he had a posse. It's like a freaking boxer.
(25:12):
Doesn't Jerry get the concessions at Sofi? Isn't that his company?
Speaker 4 (25:16):
I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I thought that was the deal when they built Solfi
State company. He's got a concession company, and I thought
they have a deal with Sofi where he gets a
percentage of all the overpriced popcorn.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
And I never eat that crap, that stadium crap food.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Apparently you're just an elitias daddy and you don't want
to eat.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
The common man. Before the game with the.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Tailgate, I do what I do is I do the
media freeloading.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Yes too, you've done that for so long.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yes, we will have a freeloaders update from Sofi Stadium.
We'll tell you what the Cowboy media.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
By the way, did you meet up with Helmet Man?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
I did not meet up with helmet I did look
for helmet Man, I have. I was giving a number
for Helmet Man. I did not use the number because
I had a limited amount of time and I know
if I had called Helmet Man, he would have told
me where he was, which was likely on the other
side of the property. And I had a very I
(26:13):
had to get out of there. It is you know,
it's a lot of traffic at the like it was
about seventy percent Cowboy fans at the Monday night game,
and I had to skidado or else I would have
been stuck and I might not have been here, and
how would the show have gone on without me here?
That would have been the problem devastating. So I have
a conspiracy and it's one of my favorite stories. It's hilarious.
(26:36):
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I was at the Monday night game, sitting with the
(26:58):
evil media football media there and hanging out there free loading. Absolutely,
that's the way I fully admitted, been doing that for
a long time. So I sat right behind Ed Werder.
You know Ed Werder, who's a long time I think
he just covers the Cowboys for ESPN now, I think
that's all he does. I never see him doing anything
else other than covering the Cowboy. So he was sitting
(27:21):
in front of me, and then to the right and
down down away. This is like the press box is
enclosed with glass and it's just for the TV like reporters,
radio people, and then the football writers and it's usually
pretty quiet. There's not a lot of noise in there,
(27:42):
and there's a PA system announcing every play and that's
about the only noise you get. You're not no cheering
in the press box. You're not allowed to cheer, right,
they look down upon that. It's a working press box.
They make an announcement. But this night was different than
all other nights because when the game kicked off, we
heard very loud, passionate oh play by play in Espanol. Oh, yes,
(28:08):
as the you see the Dallas The Dallas Cowboys Spanish
radio broadcast team was given seats in the working press
box in the front row.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Okay, So here's where I asked some questions. I was
asking people questions, what is this about? You know? Sofi
Stadium is only a couple years old. It is the showcase.
It is the jewel of stadiums. It is a monstrosity
of excess. There are boxes and luxury boxes in the
press boxes. Massive. It is the biggest thing I've ever
(28:42):
seen for a football stadium as only a couple years old.
It's like, why would they put the Spanish radio broadcast
team for the Dallas Cowboys in the in the press box? Right?
What is this about?
Speaker 4 (28:53):
They claim they didn't have room for him any Well.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Well that's what I thought. But is it true, Eddie
headline Sofi Stadium that this was Charger payback Espanol style
to the Dallas Cowboys, Because is it true? A few
years back when the Chargers paid a visit to Jerry's World,
they did not have room for the Chargers Spanish radio
(29:18):
broadcasting and put them put them in the working press box,
and this time the Chargers said, okay, we can play
that game as well. Boys. It was so it was
(29:41):
so funny, man, because you're so used to being in
there and there's no noise, and these guys and are
really great and I don't know who the play by
Spanish play by play guys for the Cowboys. The guy's good.
He's screaming the only things I could make, I know,
like a Spanglish hetty. I know a little Spanish, but
very little. And but then he'd like the America headlines
and then he'd go to like the next you know,
(30:02):
and it was it was really good and it was
so funny and I just love I really want to
believe that that's what happened.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Do you ever have one of those moments? Because I did. Oh,
being a stringer a silent press box, you're like the
only one.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yeah, yeah, that's uncomfortable.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
The company was very nice back in the day when
they would like send us stuff just because it is.
They're nice. So Fresno State played in the Liberty Bowl
in Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Give me Liberty or give me.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Against Tulsa and they were like, you want to go
cover that game?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (30:35):
And I said sure, so they sent me and I
did have to, you know, be in the press box
and be a stringer. And uh so here I am
reporting on this game. I'm the only one in there
who's we're doing this and it's an enclosed press box
and everyone can hear every word I'm saying. And I
have to give it a little juice. And they turn
back and look at you like you, yeah, what are
(30:56):
you doing?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Well, you know, come on, you're supposed to be seen,
not her. Yeah, it's wrong with you. You those I did.
You know, in some places when I did stuff with
the the Doyers in the like the Mets at Chase Stadium,
they segregated the radio people from the writers so the
writers would not be bothered by the radio people. They
(31:18):
had a second.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Writers very important, Well they were one time.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Not anymore. No, it's amazing how that happened. The writers
don't matter that now at all. They're just bloggers. They're
they're guys on X. You know. That's their power, which
is just wonderful. If you you were around years ago
when the writers were complete a holes, anyway. Yeah, so
that's my that's my cowboy conspiracy. And I was I
mean when I did college like play by play stuff,
(31:41):
but that wasn't I was saddleback. That was the Harvard
of the West Coast. They're back back in the day. Anyway,
it is the Ben Mathers Show as we continue on
time now for the who Am I?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Game?
Speaker 1 (31:54):
By the way, the Super Bowl running back who could
be heading to an AFC power, Leonard Fournette, been unemployed
all season. Leonard Fournette paid a visit to Buffalo. I
assume it was not to eat chicken wings, and we're
told there is a good chance that he will sign
a contract in the coming days here with the Buffalo Bills,
so Bill's Mafia. They lose a running back over the
(32:17):
weekend and appears they will add a running back. Leonard
Fournette looks like he is going to go to Buffalo,
So woo who wonderful time now for the who Am I? Game?
This is a blatant attempt to get you to listen
a little bit longer. Thus to the who Am I? Game?
In honor of hitting a dinger on his big birthday,
(32:39):
Bryce Harper became the fourth player to homer on his
birthday in a postseason game. I was the last player
they hit a home run on my birthday prior to
Bryce Harper again the Fighting Phils. Bryce Harper just became
the fourth player to homer on his birthday in a
postseason game. I was the last player prior to Bryce
(33:02):
Harper to do it. If you know the answer, hit
me up on x at Ben Maler. Who Am I
the answer? We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
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Speaker 1 (33:54):
Now for the who Am I?
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the fourth player to Homer on his birthday in a
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postseason game as the Fighting Phils took Game one of
the NLCS. I was the last player to do it
before Bryce Harper. Who am I? That is the question?
And what is the answer? Voodoo headline, says a former
Seattle pilot Larry Boyle Geo Urshela from Matt the Warrior
(34:38):
Raider fan page down Cowboy Killer says it has to
be the fake Charger fan. Benito of the Cowboy Fan
says the Dallas Cowboys Spanish broadcast team in the actual
press box point was Benito. It was one of the
funniest things because every time the Cowboys did something good,
these guys would scream in. Everyone turned a look, and
(35:01):
it was just wonderful. It was just so good. Cannot
I cannot tell you the joy that that brought me.
Donkey Sausage that's right. Donkey Sausage says the other Mike
Tyson is the answer. Tory Hunter guess by the late
night drug tests. Maybe Jerry was doing the play by play.
George Herman Ruth from The Midnight Walker in Syracuse. The
(35:23):
Sawman says, was it the Sultan of Swatt Greg Maddox
Mike Trout guessed by Ferg Kat not to be confused
with his former rival for dog Milkman Mike in Colorado
says Texas high school coaching legend Bud Kilmer is the
way to go. Rob Deer from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
(35:44):
Breadman Matt from Flint going with Storm and Norman Cash.
Reggie Jefferson there's a solid name from alf the Alien,
O Piner, Desi Rellaford from Fields of Green. Also not
a bad name. Eddie Poppensey who was traded for Kenny
Law from Chris in Des Moines. Ricky Henderson tossed out
by Double Ow Mexican in San Diego. Mark McGuire from
(36:08):
Justin and Cincinnatibody. Mark's looking pretty good there. Lean and
Mean still working out there and no side effects to
those drugs that he took back in the day. Who
else we have page down Brian Clutterbuck of the Brewers
from Seeing Dean, Steve sach Saxey from Calligan, Tim in Michigan,
(36:29):
Shawn in the Valley of the Sun, going with Harry
Spilman as his answer. Chris in Solidarity got it right.
Bad job by him. Big Lou from the LBC. He's
on number two says where the white women at Caitlin
Clark is the answer?
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Eddie?
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Do you have an answer? And again if you've forgotten
the question? Because we read so many answers. Bryce Harper
the Phills became the fourth player to Homer on his
birthday in a postseason game. I was the last player
to do it. Who am I? Eddie?
Speaker 4 (37:01):
The late great Tim McCarver.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Tim McCarver, man, could that you ask him one question?
He would go on for about four hours. He would
do the Iowa minute when he was answering the question
that is in'tcorrect though the correct answer correct answer?
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Man?
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Who currently wrong? Well, he's off off baseball because he
played for the Dodgers. So they got eliminated in the
divisional round. But Colton Wong back in twenty fifteen lave
for the Cardinals in the National League Divisional Series, but
Colton Wong was the one to do it on his
twenty fifth birthday. So and I want you to know, though,
(37:37):
I have done perfect monologues on my birthday, Okay, I have,
but I don't make a big deal about it. I
don't sit here behind these microphones and brag that I
did a perfect old model. But it happens pretty much
every year. Wrong, No, that's true. Oh lie, there
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