October 23, 2023 • 36 mins
Big Ben talks about the Texas Rangers forcing a Game 7 against the Astros, the Dolphins falling short against the Eagles, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and much more!
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Our lead though, coming from baseball. I was told by
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the fans of the a Holes that the American League
Championship Series was going to end on Sunday and the
Golden Boy jose Alboovey was gonna lead the a Holes
into the World Series. Well, then they had to play
the game. So we start out in the den of inequity,
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the pit of curiosities if you're a cheat, Houston, Texas,
the immoral hotbed of hardball. And that was the setup
for Game six of the America League Championship Series. Going
into the game, the bad guys were up three to
two over the good guys. I know if you watched
it or not, maybe you were doing something else, you
were not wild. I don't know what you want had
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going on. Don't worry, though, we got your back. Been
here for hours. This is down the hall at the TV.
I was watching the game at the football on one TV,
ad the baseball on the other TV. Anyway, Nathan Evalde
not particularly memorable during the regular season, but in the
postseason very memorable, as he remains perfect this postseason. Mitch
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Garver hit a homer. Jonah Hine. Also, ah, I'm also
home run. And then the ninth inning, a Dallas Garcia
blew the roof off of this game with a grand salami,
get out the rye bred and mayo. Yeah, grand slam there.
Ninety two good guys beat bad guys. So that's a
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great thing. We were happy about that. In Game six
of the American League Championship Series of all the also
got to win back in Game two. We gave up
five hits, a couple of runs, six and the third
innings before he got the hook there, so four to
zero and an e are of two point four to
two in his postseason career. The decisive Game seven will
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be just hours away here on a Monday. We've got
double barrel action, which means the MLB pick them, we'll return.
I'm very excited about that. But we have the Rangers
and the Astros. That's the late game. The Phillies will
try to punch their ticket to the World Series. They'll
try to eliminate the Snakes, and then'll be the first
game of the twin bill on the card. So let
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us discuss well art with the game that we just witnessed,
those of us through Washington end that long before we
came on the air here. So what stood out? What
stood out? Here's the question, what stood out in Game
six between the Rangers and the Astros. So I've got Trucking,
Stock Report and bubble Boy, and we will combine all
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of these things together and we are going to make
a dunce cap, which is what I think instead of
the Astros logo, they should put it just a dunce
thing on there for the for the people who are
die hards poor, Are they delusional? Completely out of their minds? Man?
More on that in a minute, but we'll start with this.
Things that stand out from Game six. Frambur Valdez sucks.
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That stands out. I'm happy he does. I'm happy he does.
The starting pitcher for the Astros. As he went out
there for the cheats and yeah, but you hate to
see it unless you don't hate to see it. As
he gave up, he was given an early lead and
then gave it all back there, he gagged it away.
Valdez charged with five hits, three runs, six strikeouts. Felt
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like he pitched worse than that, ends up owing three
at this point with an ERA of nine. Now, I
never played Major League baseball But if you're owen three
in the postseason with an ERA of nine, I don't
think you're doing your job. But what do I know
all right now? Perseverance. That's the other thing for Texas.
Perseverance paying off here the cheaters, as we mentioned, they
jumped out to a one nothing lead. Bad guy said
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lead Jordan Alvarez with a Ribbi single in the first inning.
Did Texas have a pity party? No, they did not
have a pity party. No they did not. Mitch Garver
came right back in the top of the second inning.
He had a danger to tie the game, and Texas
just kept on trucking, something they didn't do in their
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own ballpark. But they have the road field advantage playing
in Houston. Everyone wants to play in Houston. But this
is how little the Astros think of their fan base,
even they don't like playing there. I don't blame the
animals that are in the crowd. I don't blame it
at all. But Texas, you talk about the mix and
the match here. The Ranger hitters tenacious in this game
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of all the keeping the a one two, one thousand holes,
batters at arms length, and in boxing they call it
the one two, the old one to two punch is
what they call it in boxing. And all of this
sets up what will be we hope a memorable Game seven.
Certainly the good guys win and they beat the bad guys,
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that'd be a wonderful thing. We'd all be happy about that. Now,
Page two here, how confident? How confident are you in
the Rangers going in to Game seven in the den
of inequity in Houston. So the Malard scale of confidence
one to five Malar scale of confidence one means not
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confident at all, five means very very very confident. So
scale of confidence for Game seven for the Texas baseball team,
I am at a three. I can't go higher than
the three. I want to be at four, but I'm
out of three. I don't want to go any higher
than three. So I'm out of three on the Mallard
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scale of courch. Yeah, now they explain my my logic
behind the Mallard scale of confidence at three. The reason
I can't go any higher than three is because Bruce
Bouchie is tossing out the rotting carcass of Max Schurzer
that he will be on the mound for the Texas
Baseball team against Christian Javier a huge matchup edge for
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the Cheats, as Javier is four and oh this postseason
with four starts under his belt in the era of
under one and a half and he's only given up
three earned runs in twenty three innings of work for
the Cheaters, while Matt Max has been very quietly working
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as the proprietor of the Heartbreak Hotel. And we gave
these numbers the other day and they certainly apply here,
Mad Max. Last three playoff stars, Dodgers, Mets, and Rangers
have been barf bag esque in those last three starts.
As era is close to ten, he's zeroing too. He's
giving up fourteen earned runs in thirteen innings a pitching.
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So you've got one guy who's giving up three and
runs at twenty three in the third innings this postseason.
Then you've got Schureser fourteen earned runs over the last
thirteen innings. Now, the reason I'm not going lower than
three is because I'm Benny Brightside and Bruce Bochie is
not gonna sit there and watch Max schus That go
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out there and drop a deuce right on the mound.
And in the first sign of trouble, you pull his
old fat ass off the mound, you take Scherzer out
of there. And I believe in Bochie. But the other
thing here is you've got to check the stock report.
You've got to check the stock work. As Dick Stockton,
that's the stock docton taught me. Stat's tell you what
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has happened. They don't tell you what's going to happen.
And we know there's no such thing as momentum. It's
not like I'm gonna sit here and say, well, the
Rangers have all the momentum. By that logic, the series
should be over. Well, it should have been over first
in favor of the Rangers because they won the first two.
As I pointed out, you can read my book, the
book Momentum for idiots. There is no momentum in sports.
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It doesn't exist. Bull crap. Dumb people use that to
explain the outcome of sporting events. Anyway, Listen, we're pulling
for Texas. I'm on this Ranger bandwagon, this magic carpet ride,
and we look forward to them eliminating, exterminating the cocker
roaches that are the Houston A one thousand two, one
thousand and three, one thousand holes. All right, now, last
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part of this Mallard monologue headline in the bleachers, headline
in the bleachers. We had a viral video over the week.
None of you saw it or not, maybe not the
Mallard monologue we did towards the end of last week,
questioning the integrity, the ethics there are none for the Aestros.
This thing what bananas in the matrix. Now, I'm not
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a guy who spends a lot of time in the matrix,
but it did very well. Needless to say, the boys
who work in the FSR social media wing here very happy.
They were smiling at a cheshire cat smile from ear
to ear at how many people wanted to see that
Malard monologue. Chi Ching, chi Ching, Chiching, Chiching, Chiching. Our
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rant about the little pip squeak Jose alboo, Yeah, and
the cheat is very popular. I think we did almost
half a million views in a few days there, so
I think that's pretty good. I think that's pretty good.
I think it was like four fifty or something like
that somewhere around here. Anyway, The question here is what
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have we learned? What have we learned about the Astros
fan base based on what we've seen over the last
forty eight seventy two hours. So I'll start first. There's
a lot of cavemen. There's a lot of knuckle draggers
in the Astros fan base, Neanderthals in the fan base.
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I've noticed that it seems like a higher percentage. I've
had these runnings over the years with different fan bases.
They just seem dumber in Houston. I don't know why
that is. I'm not sure. Maybe something in the drinking
water there. I haven't quite figured it out. But the vermin,
these vermin seemingly are convinced that this is great if
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you want to know how to twist them on. Now,
we learned in twenty twenty with the whole the mass
thing that didn't work in the vaccine, So we learned
that you can brainwash people. It's pretty easy. People are
easily manipulated. And the Astros fan base, boy, are they dumb?
My god, are they. I'm amazed these people can even
figure out how to get on a social media platform.
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They're that dumb. I mean, this is like the dumbest
of the dumb. So these people were trying to explain
to me that Jose Altuve. You shouldn't be mean to
him because he's a nice guy. Wasn't Ted Bundy a
nice guy? I heard? I read that he was a
nice guy, so we should give him pass. Maybe I
don't know. I never met Ted. I saw he was
very charming. I read books, very charming. People liked him.
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Nice guy. Uh. My other takeaway is how how what's
what's the word I'm looking for here? How gullible? The
Astro fan bases, there were people convinced that on an
entire roster that was cheating twenty seventeen, that Altuve didn't
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they they're convinced. They sent me some story an Astro
season ticket holder put together. Oh it's so good. These
people are morons. They live amongst us. They're stupid. Yeah,
so I'm kidding. So here's the Altuve, according to these idiots,
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is bubble boy. We'll call him bubble boy. Right, he
was in a bubble on a roster where everyone was
cheating with whistles and buzzers and trash cans, and that
little guy in the boy in the bubble, the bubble
boy Altuve. No, he didn't do that, Ah, you dummies.
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He won the MVB. He was the key of Jates.
He was the keyaut Jates, and I believe in the philosophy.
I learned this from protests over the years. No justice,
no peace, and since baseball didn't have the balls to
punish Altuve and bregnant in the franchise the proper way
that everything they do is Sully, Everything they do is Sully, everything,
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It's all Sully. These meaththeads, these absolute meatheads who are
suffering from neuroses. Here the most uneducated fan base in
the big leagues, congratulate and our matra again simple, no justice,
no peace. There was no justice for Altuve or Bregman
or any these other scumbags that are around Major League
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Baseball had cheated and they should have all been banned
for life. The astro should have been suspended from any
postseason play for a decade minimum. None of that happened.
None of that happened, and so fine. There is a
skid mark on the resume of Rob Manford. There is
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a stain, a stank on everyone associated with even the
fan base there in Houston, all of it, all of it.
They're all frauds.
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call it dolphin Sushi. After that Sunday night game, welco
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hearty baseball conversation last hour and we proved something last
hour that the astro fan base is gutless, gutless, gutless,
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gut How many calls did we take last hour from
astro fans That would be zero because they know they
have no defense, so they hide behind their smartphones like
the cowards that they are zero, but our lead this
hour coming from football the Delaware Valley. That's the headline
there in a made for TV matchup to a tongue
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of Bay Loa and the Dolphins. They're traveling circus, heading
to phil Ladelphia for a playdate with Jalen Hurts and
the Eagles, like it's a Nick Saban wet dream. A
couple old Alabama quarterbacks going head ahead. Mike to Rico,
Chris Collinsworth were there. They called the game for n
b C. Happy as hell. Kind of a big deal,
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I bet you. Nick Saban had three little Debbie cakes
to celebrate. That's how excited he was about this particular matchup.
So if you didn't see it here, So if you
didn't see it, I had on one TV. I was
actually down the hall. I was around the corner in
the room, the old studio. I sat in there. I've
been here all the all day, and I watched the
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a holes lose. I love that. And then on the
next TV over, I had the fighting, fighting, fighting, fighting
Eagles and they took down the Dolphins. So Jalen Hurts
rebounding after a big mistake there, he hit a J
Brown for the go ahead touchdown on the next drive.
After screwing up, he ended up throwing for two hundred
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and seventy nine yards and combined for three scores to
lead the eat Hey gee, l eat s here yougos
to lead the Eagles to a thirty one seventeen comfortable
win over the Dolphins. There on Sunday night. Eagles are
now six and one. They're tied for the top record
in the NFL with that team from Cansau City. So
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Jalen hurts he found aj Brown not once, not twice,
not three times, not four times, not five, not six,
not seven, not eight, how about ten times, ten times
one hundred and thirty seven yards and the Eagles get
past to a tongue of by loa and the Dolphins,
who are now five and two. The better story though
in the losing locker room. So let us discuss how
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do you dissect the Dolphins after this defeat. So I've
got DC comics Ed Sheeran and Zebras, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a tasty cake, which is what the Eagles
had to celebrate their victory. They each had their own
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tasty cake. Boy were they they happy? So number on Dolphins,
Eagles for Miami and for Philadelphia, but more so for
Miami because they're they're the interlopers. The Miami Dolphins are
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the inner lopers. This was a measuring stick game. How
do you measure up? You're the Dolphins. You got all
these big offensive point totals, big yards, toldal, how do
you measure up? Miami has been absolutely slicing up the
impoverished teams of the NFL. They are not battle testing.
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In fact, to prove my point, if you watch the
TV show Benny Versus the Penny, we referenced this statistic.
It is the mother of all stats. Heading into the
weekend in the NFL, the Dolphins were five and zero
against teams that had a collective five and twenty four
record entering the weekend. The only team with a quality
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record that the Dolphins played was the Buffalo Bills, and
they lost by a gazillion points. So the Dolphins on
the spectrum of crap, right there on the crap spectrum
when you're just beating up bad teams and then the
one dec team you play you lose to. So now
you're playing another another good team, And how did they
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do in this placement test. Well. On the Malor report card,
Miami gets an F plus as in failure plus garbage
F plus for the Miami Dolphins. Here, the Dolphins were
averaging thirty seven point two points per game and four
hundred and ninety eight point seven yards per game. Now,
the numbers were skewed because the Denver Broncos quit in
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a game against the Dolphins and the Dolphins ran up
the score, but still thirty seven point two points per
game and four hundred and ninety eight point seven yards
per game against that goes against what was the ninth
ranked defense in the NFL. The Eagles had the ninth
ranked defense coming in. So how did this this turnout? Well,
Miami put up seventeen points and two hundred and forty
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four yards on Sunday Night, But that even that is
misleading because seven of those points were a courtesy of
a six gifted by Jailer Hurts. So the Miami offense
only scored ten points and had two hundred forty four
yards against the Eagles defense and Tua toyo Ilaw. If
you put a halfway decent defense out there. Tua is
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a mid quarterback. He's a mid level baseline quarterback and
in this game averaged less than seven yards per attempt
at a touchdown. The interception passer rating below eighty eight.
It was eighty seven point five, which is a college
jazz station somewhere eighty seven point five. And when playing
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a halfway decent competitor, when that happens, Tua becomes the
Green Arrow. Now, if you follow superheroes at all, you
know the Green Arrow is one of the DC Comics
superheroes that has no special powers or abilities. Most superheroes
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have some kind of an amazing superpower or ability, but know,
the Green Arrow does not. To just I guess he
has a bow and arrow like the Green Arrow there,
and that's what TOA uses the bow and arrow against
opposing defenses. And so that's where we are. Clearly that
didn't work so well in the game on Sunday night
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against the Philadelphia Eagles. Now page two here thumbs up
or thumbs down. Thumbs up or thumbs down on the
question do the Eagles have a issue with Jalen Hurts
all of a sudden? So what they won the game?
What are you talking about? I'm going thumbs up. Call
me crazy, but just call me. Now, this is a
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minor situation, but file this away because it's becoming bigger
and bigger by the week. All of a sudden, Jalen
Hurts has mastered the art of the mistake. Now he's
morphing into that Ed Sheeran tune. Bad habits. There are
bad habits here that are popping in that will derail
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the Green team, the Kelly Green team there and the
mistakes are piling up now in this game you saw
the Sunday night game, Jalen Hurts, he let the Dolphins
hang around because of turnovers. Mentioned Miami as a team
scored seventeen points, ten on offense. But really, if you
peel back the curtain a little bit more, ten of
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the points scored by the Miami Dolphins were courtesy of
mistakes by Jalen Hurts. You break it down, Jalen fumbled
the ball in the first quarter. The Dolphins recovered at
the Eagle twenty three yard line and they got a
field goal. And Hurts also had a deflected pass that
was returned twenty two yards by Jerome Baker, the touchdown maker,
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the linebacker for the Eagles, and that was in the
third quarter. So right, there, there's ten points. Eagles defense
did their job. But Jalen Hurst. Now, if you go
back the last couple of weeks, Hurts has now had
six turnovers in the last three games. Six turnovers in
the last three weeks, five interceptions and a lost fumble.
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Who goofed? I've got to know, I think we do.
The Eagles now have been able to bail him out
in most of these game. They didn't bail him out
in the Jets game, he lost that one, but the
Rams game I was at I saw the Eagles in
person that game, and then this game on the Sunday
night the Eagles able to bail him out. It's not
a sustainable formula. So the Eagles are winning their six
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and one and everyone's all horny and excited for Eagle football.
But this is the kind of thing that will harpoon,
absolutely harpoon your season right now. Final point, Let's take
you a couple steps back and we'll look at the
big picture. The headline here from the referee department of
the NFL. So not just in the Sunday night game,
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but across the schedule. If you were watching football all
day and you were observed the football day are the
NFL officials. Are the NFL officials meddling with the outcome
of our football games? And the only answer which is
excepted was absolutely. Absolutely. I was at a game where
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I saw something that was not kosher, and the Sunday
night game there was some funny business going on. There
is no rhyme or reason to how games are called.
The NFL likes to joke around and they like to
point out, oh, you know, scripted. They like to play
that up. But it does make you wonder. It makes
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you wonder what's really going on in those park avenue
offices when you see some of the shenanigans that happen
on a weekly basis. And Sunday is a great example
for reference. We'll start back in Philly. The Eagles were
the better team, but they had the Zebras in their
back pock. The Zebras were in the back pocket of
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the Philadelphia Eagles. Now I was happy I had the
Eagles in the game, but the Dolphins were called for
ten penalties for seventy yards. The Eagles had no penalties
the entire game. They apparently played a perfect game. The
Philadelphi Eagles had zero penalties in the entire game. Now,
keep in mind, if you've ever played football or just
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watched football, you know that you can literally and figuratively
call holding on every single possession. So if the referees
wanted to, they could have called a couple of holding
penalties against the Philadelphi Eagles. Those are normally drive killers.
They chose not to do that, and so it doesn't
pass the smell test. And there was also a face
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mask penalty that was called, was not called against the Eagles,
was not called late in that game. Bad job by
the reveries. How about an Indie the Horseshoes. With under
a minute left in that game the fourth quarter, Browns
drove deep down into Indianapolis territory before quarterback P J.
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Walker from ball, he fumbled the ball. He fumbled the
ball after a sack, and it was recovered by DeForest
Bucker of the Colts. All right, that's a game changing
play right there. However, wait a minute. Indianapolis defensive back
Darryl Baker, whoever that is, was called for illegal contact
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and that gave Cleveland the football and a fresh set
of downs. And then right after that, Baker was called
for defensive pass interference on a wishy washy situation. It
was an uncatchable football and that set up the Browns
first and goal to go at the goal line and
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Cleveland running back Kareem Hunt eventually scored the game winning
touchdown and that gave the Cleveland football team a one
point win over the Indianapolis football team. The game I
was at the RAM and the Pittsburgh Steelers now Steeers
won by a touchdown. And another case where I think
we had a injurer as a referee. Here it was
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a fourth and one late in the game, a couple
of minutes to go in the game. Kenny Pickett does
not get the first down. He comes up a half
a yard shirt short, clear as can be, not even close.
It's not even like you have to go to replay,
except the referee wearing his terrible towel underwear, went out
there and clearly before the line to gain, Kenny Pickett
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was short of it, and the referee placed the ball
first down. Game over. That's it, rather than giving the
Rams possession a chance to go down and tie the
game and force that game to go to overtime. And
does the NFL care about any of this stuff? Does
the NFL no, they don't. They probably like it. Why
because we're talking about anything that creates conversation they like,
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they enjoy it.
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Brian Windhors reported over the weekend that the Chicago Bulls
could look to trade DeMar de Rozen as the season progresses, Ben,
do you think they trade to Rosen or extend him?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Well, if Windy reported it, you know, come on, no, listen.
It makes sense. The Bulls are a baseline team in
the East. They're stuck in the middle. They're not terrible Chicago,
but they don't have the Razmataz the top teams. You
look at the East, you got Buck Celtics heat in
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one order or another. The Bulls are not on that list.
They're in that category with the Knickerbockers and teams like that.
And so Demarto Rosen is a prolific scorer who does
nothing else to help you win games. And he's in
his mid thirties now, so he's on the back nine
of his NBA career. It makes sense if Chicago is
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a middling team again to get rid of him right next.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
It's being reported that the Broncos will listen to offers
for players, but will not be having a fire sale
at the trade deadline, Ben, do you think there should
be anybody untouchable on the roster? I don't think they
should have a fire sale, Coop. I think they should
have a bonfire where they just throw everything into the
fire and then burn, baby burn, baby burn.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
No keepers. We know Sean Payton is efforting to change
the roster, to flip the roster. He wants his guys,
he wants his kool age drinkers on the roster and
even though they won against the Packers, that doesn't change
the narrative there in Denver. If it was up to
Sean Payton, he would turn the roster upside down and
bring in a bunch of confidants of his bunch of
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old Saints guys, and so I believe they will. I
don't think there's any untouchable players. They answer your question next.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
According to our own Cris Pissard, there is scuttle butt
around the league that Joel Embiid wants to go to
the Knicks but won't come out and say it because
he doesn't want the backlash from Philly fans.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah, are you buying into this? Well, I buy into it.
If I was an NBA insider that I would toss
that out because you connect these star players either with
the Knicks of the Lakers, and you get tons of traffic.
So it's a great thing. But Joel Embiid is so
embedded in Philadelphia, right, mister Philadelphia and all that. But
it's the NBA. Damian Lillard was mister Portland. He's cold blooded.
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He's not wearing a Milwaukee Bucks uniform, so all bets
are off. Anything is possible there. It is Mallard of
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That is a win. That is a win by men
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three and one day, and there were a bunch of
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chatting in Hello. Line three, you're on the air. We're
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morning town. I wish they were at the commander's game. Yeah, okay.
I don't even know if that would have helped the
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you're on the Airline four, go, we need a booth
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Hello messy boys, okay, high Line one, you're on the air.
I hear your breathing. Line one, we're giving advice to
the NFL zebras, the officials. Hello, line one, he could
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that You go to a store they're like, hey, you
want to buy some girl Scout cookies and you just like,
you're like a total dick and Dayton, but you got
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Line two, you're on the air line too, though.
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Sebrush should be put in the African serengetti and eaten
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that was our friend. I know who that was. Line three,
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one more, only one more of it's good. I'll take
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Our lead though, coming from baseball. I was told by
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the fans of the a Holes that the American League
Championship Series was going to end on Sunday and the
Golden Boy jose Alboovey was gonna lead the a Holes
into the World Series. Well, then they had to play
the game. So we start out in the den of inequity,
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the pit of curiosities if you're a cheat, Houston, Texas,
the immoral hotbed of hardball. And that was the setup
for Game six of the America League Championship Series. Going
into the game, the bad guys were up three to
two over the good guys. I know if you watched
it or not, maybe you were doing something else, you
were not wild. I don't know what you want had
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going on. Don't worry, though, we got your back. Been
here for hours. This is down the hall at the TV.
I was watching the game at the football on one TV,
ad the baseball on the other TV. Anyway, Nathan Evalde
not particularly memorable during the regular season, but in the
postseason very memorable, as he remains perfect this postseason. Mitch
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Garver hit a homer. Jonah Hine. Also, ah, I'm also
home run. And then the ninth inning, a Dallas Garcia
blew the roof off of this game with a grand salami,
get out the rye bred and mayo. Yeah, grand slam there.
Ninety two good guys beat bad guys. So that's a
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great thing. We were happy about that. In Game six
of the American League Championship Series of all the also
got to win back in Game two. We gave up
five hits, a couple of runs, six and the third
innings before he got the hook there, so four to
zero and an e are of two point four to
two in his postseason career. The decisive Game seven will
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be just hours away here on a Monday. We've got
double barrel action, which means the MLB pick them, we'll return.
I'm very excited about that. But we have the Rangers
and the Astros. That's the late game. The Phillies will
try to punch their ticket to the World Series. They'll
try to eliminate the Snakes, and then'll be the first
game of the twin bill on the card. So let
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us discuss well art with the game that we just witnessed,
those of us through Washington end that long before we
came on the air here. So what stood out? What
stood out? Here's the question, what stood out in Game
six between the Rangers and the Astros. So I've got Trucking,
Stock Report and bubble Boy, and we will combine all
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of these things together and we are going to make
a dunce cap, which is what I think instead of
the Astros logo, they should put it just a dunce
thing on there for the for the people who are
die hards poor, Are they delusional? Completely out of their minds? Man?
More on that in a minute, but we'll start with this.
Things that stand out from Game six. Frambur Valdez sucks.
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That stands out. I'm happy he does. I'm happy he does.
The starting pitcher for the Astros. As he went out
there for the cheats and yeah, but you hate to
see it unless you don't hate to see it. As
he gave up, he was given an early lead and
then gave it all back there, he gagged it away.
Valdez charged with five hits, three runs, six strikeouts. Felt
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like he pitched worse than that, ends up owing three
at this point with an ERA of nine. Now, I
never played Major League baseball But if you're owen three
in the postseason with an ERA of nine, I don't
think you're doing your job. But what do I know
all right now? Perseverance. That's the other thing for Texas.
Perseverance paying off here the cheaters, as we mentioned, they
jumped out to a one nothing lead. Bad guy said
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lead Jordan Alvarez with a Ribbi single in the first inning.
Did Texas have a pity party? No, they did not
have a pity party. No they did not. Mitch Garver
came right back in the top of the second inning.
He had a danger to tie the game, and Texas
just kept on trucking, something they didn't do in their
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own ballpark. But they have the road field advantage playing
in Houston. Everyone wants to play in Houston. But this
is how little the Astros think of their fan base,
even they don't like playing there. I don't blame the
animals that are in the crowd. I don't blame it
at all. But Texas, you talk about the mix and
the match here. The Ranger hitters tenacious in this game
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of all the keeping the a one two, one thousand holes,
batters at arms length, and in boxing they call it
the one two, the old one to two punch is
what they call it in boxing. And all of this
sets up what will be we hope a memorable Game seven.
Certainly the good guys win and they beat the bad guys,
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that'd be a wonderful thing. We'd all be happy about that. Now,
Page two here, how confident? How confident are you in
the Rangers going in to Game seven in the den
of inequity in Houston. So the Malard scale of confidence
one to five Malar scale of confidence one means not
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confident at all, five means very very very confident. So
scale of confidence for Game seven for the Texas baseball team,
I am at a three. I can't go higher than
the three. I want to be at four, but I'm
out of three. I don't want to go any higher
than three. So I'm out of three on the Mallard
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scale of courch. Yeah, now they explain my my logic
behind the Mallard scale of confidence at three. The reason
I can't go any higher than three is because Bruce
Bouchie is tossing out the rotting carcass of Max Schurzer
that he will be on the mound for the Texas
Baseball team against Christian Javier a huge matchup edge for
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the Cheats, as Javier is four and oh this postseason
with four starts under his belt in the era of
under one and a half and he's only given up
three earned runs in twenty three innings of work for
the Cheaters, while Matt Max has been very quietly working
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as the proprietor of the Heartbreak Hotel. And we gave
these numbers the other day and they certainly apply here,
Mad Max. Last three playoff stars, Dodgers, Mets, and Rangers
have been barf bag esque in those last three starts.
As era is close to ten, he's zeroing too. He's
giving up fourteen earned runs in thirteen innings a pitching.
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So you've got one guy who's giving up three and
runs at twenty three in the third innings this postseason.
Then you've got Schureser fourteen earned runs over the last
thirteen innings. Now, the reason I'm not going lower than
three is because I'm Benny Brightside and Bruce Bochie is
not gonna sit there and watch Max schus That go
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out there and drop a deuce right on the mound.
And in the first sign of trouble, you pull his
old fat ass off the mound, you take Scherzer out
of there. And I believe in Bochie. But the other
thing here is you've got to check the stock report.
You've got to check the stock work. As Dick Stockton,
that's the stock docton taught me. Stat's tell you what
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has happened. They don't tell you what's going to happen.
And we know there's no such thing as momentum. It's
not like I'm gonna sit here and say, well, the
Rangers have all the momentum. By that logic, the series
should be over. Well, it should have been over first
in favor of the Rangers because they won the first two.
As I pointed out, you can read my book, the
book Momentum for idiots. There is no momentum in sports.
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It doesn't exist. Bull crap. Dumb people use that to
explain the outcome of sporting events. Anyway, Listen, we're pulling
for Texas. I'm on this Ranger bandwagon, this magic carpet ride,
and we look forward to them eliminating, exterminating the cocker
roaches that are the Houston A one thousand two, one
thousand and three, one thousand holes. All right, now, last
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part of this Mallard monologue headline in the bleachers, headline
in the bleachers. We had a viral video over the week.
None of you saw it or not, maybe not the
Mallard monologue we did towards the end of last week,
questioning the integrity, the ethics there are none for the Aestros.
This thing what bananas in the matrix. Now, I'm not
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a guy who spends a lot of time in the matrix,
but it did very well. Needless to say, the boys
who work in the FSR social media wing here very happy.
They were smiling at a cheshire cat smile from ear
to ear at how many people wanted to see that
Malard monologue. Chi Ching, chi Ching, Chiching, Chiching, Chiching. Our
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rant about the little pip squeak Jose alboo, Yeah, and
the cheat is very popular. I think we did almost
half a million views in a few days there, so
I think that's pretty good. I think that's pretty good.
I think it was like four fifty or something like
that somewhere around here. Anyway, The question here is what
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have we learned? What have we learned about the Astros
fan base based on what we've seen over the last
forty eight seventy two hours. So I'll start first. There's
a lot of cavemen. There's a lot of knuckle draggers
in the Astros fan base, Neanderthals in the fan base.
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I've noticed that it seems like a higher percentage. I've
had these runnings over the years with different fan bases.
They just seem dumber in Houston. I don't know why
that is. I'm not sure. Maybe something in the drinking
water there. I haven't quite figured it out. But the vermin,
these vermin seemingly are convinced that this is great if
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you want to know how to twist them on. Now,
we learned in twenty twenty with the whole the mass
thing that didn't work in the vaccine, So we learned
that you can brainwash people. It's pretty easy. People are
easily manipulated. And the Astros fan base, boy, are they dumb?
My god, are they. I'm amazed these people can even
figure out how to get on a social media platform.
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They're that dumb. I mean, this is like the dumbest
of the dumb. So these people were trying to explain
to me that Jose Altuve. You shouldn't be mean to
him because he's a nice guy. Wasn't Ted Bundy a
nice guy? I heard? I read that he was a
nice guy, so we should give him pass. Maybe I
don't know. I never met Ted. I saw he was
very charming. I read books, very charming. People liked him.
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Nice guy. Uh. My other takeaway is how how what's
what's the word I'm looking for here? How gullible? The
Astro fan bases, there were people convinced that on an
entire roster that was cheating twenty seventeen, that Altuve didn't
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they they're convinced. They sent me some story an Astro
season ticket holder put together. Oh it's so good. These
people are morons. They live amongst us. They're stupid. Yeah,
so I'm kidding. So here's the Altuve, according to these idiots,
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is bubble boy. We'll call him bubble boy. Right, he
was in a bubble on a roster where everyone was
cheating with whistles and buzzers and trash cans, and that
little guy in the boy in the bubble, the bubble
boy Altuve. No, he didn't do that, Ah, you dummies.
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He won the MVB. He was the key of Jates.
He was the keyaut Jates, and I believe in the philosophy.
I learned this from protests over the years. No justice,
no peace, and since baseball didn't have the balls to
punish Altuve and bregnant in the franchise the proper way
that everything they do is Sully, Everything they do is Sully, everything,
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It's all Sully. These meaththeads, these absolute meatheads who are
suffering from neuroses. Here the most uneducated fan base in
the big leagues, congratulate and our matra again simple, no justice,
no peace. There was no justice for Altuve or Bregman
or any these other scumbags that are around Major League
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Baseball had cheated and they should have all been banned
for life. The astro should have been suspended from any
postseason play for a decade minimum. None of that happened.
None of that happened, and so fine. There is a
skid mark on the resume of Rob Manford. There is
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a stain, a stank on everyone associated with even the
fan base there in Houston, all of it, all of it.
They're all frauds.
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Normally swim in the Ocean, but I guess you can
call it dolphin Sushi. After that Sunday night game, welco
come in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
Malors Show. We are in the air everywhere, Bedfellows, as
we cross the boundary between today and tomorrow, coast to coast,
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hearty baseball conversation last hour and we proved something last
hour that the astro fan base is gutless, gutless, gutless,
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gut How many calls did we take last hour from
astro fans That would be zero because they know they
have no defense, so they hide behind their smartphones like
the cowards that they are zero, but our lead this
hour coming from football the Delaware Valley. That's the headline
there in a made for TV matchup to a tongue
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of Bay Loa and the Dolphins. They're traveling circus, heading
to phil Ladelphia for a playdate with Jalen Hurts and
the Eagles, like it's a Nick Saban wet dream. A
couple old Alabama quarterbacks going head ahead. Mike to Rico,
Chris Collinsworth were there. They called the game for n
b C. Happy as hell. Kind of a big deal,
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I bet you. Nick Saban had three little Debbie cakes
to celebrate. That's how excited he was about this particular matchup.
So if you didn't see it here, So if you
didn't see it, I had on one TV. I was
actually down the hall. I was around the corner in
the room, the old studio. I sat in there. I've
been here all the all day, and I watched the
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a holes lose. I love that. And then on the
next TV over, I had the fighting, fighting, fighting, fighting
Eagles and they took down the Dolphins. So Jalen Hurts
rebounding after a big mistake there, he hit a J
Brown for the go ahead touchdown on the next drive.
After screwing up, he ended up throwing for two hundred
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and seventy nine yards and combined for three scores to
lead the eat Hey gee, l eat s here yougos
to lead the Eagles to a thirty one seventeen comfortable
win over the Dolphins. There on Sunday night. Eagles are
now six and one. They're tied for the top record
in the NFL with that team from Cansau City. So
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Jalen hurts he found aj Brown not once, not twice,
not three times, not four times, not five, not six,
not seven, not eight, how about ten times, ten times
one hundred and thirty seven yards and the Eagles get
past to a tongue of by loa and the Dolphins,
who are now five and two. The better story though
in the losing locker room. So let us discuss how
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do you dissect the Dolphins after this defeat. So I've
got DC comics Ed Sheeran and Zebras, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a tasty cake, which is what the Eagles
had to celebrate their victory. They each had their own
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tasty cake. Boy were they they happy? So number on Dolphins,
Eagles for Miami and for Philadelphia, but more so for
Miami because they're they're the interlopers. The Miami Dolphins are
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the inner lopers. This was a measuring stick game. How
do you measure up? You're the Dolphins. You got all
these big offensive point totals, big yards, toldal, how do
you measure up? Miami has been absolutely slicing up the
impoverished teams of the NFL. They are not battle testing.
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In fact, to prove my point, if you watch the
TV show Benny Versus the Penny, we referenced this statistic.
It is the mother of all stats. Heading into the
weekend in the NFL, the Dolphins were five and zero
against teams that had a collective five and twenty four
record entering the weekend. The only team with a quality
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record that the Dolphins played was the Buffalo Bills, and
they lost by a gazillion points. So the Dolphins on
the spectrum of crap, right there on the crap spectrum
when you're just beating up bad teams and then the
one dec team you play you lose to. So now
you're playing another another good team, And how did they
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do in this placement test. Well. On the Malor report card,
Miami gets an F plus as in failure plus garbage
F plus for the Miami Dolphins. Here, the Dolphins were
averaging thirty seven point two points per game and four
hundred and ninety eight point seven yards per game. Now,
the numbers were skewed because the Denver Broncos quit in
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a game against the Dolphins and the Dolphins ran up
the score, but still thirty seven point two points per
game and four hundred and ninety eight point seven yards
per game against that goes against what was the ninth
ranked defense in the NFL. The Eagles had the ninth
ranked defense coming in. So how did this this turnout? Well,
Miami put up seventeen points and two hundred and forty
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four yards on Sunday Night, But that even that is
misleading because seven of those points were a courtesy of
a six gifted by Jailer Hurts. So the Miami offense
only scored ten points and had two hundred forty four
yards against the Eagles defense and Tua toyo Ilaw. If
you put a halfway decent defense out there. Tua is
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a mid quarterback. He's a mid level baseline quarterback and
in this game averaged less than seven yards per attempt
at a touchdown. The interception passer rating below eighty eight.
It was eighty seven point five, which is a college
jazz station somewhere eighty seven point five. And when playing
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a halfway decent competitor, when that happens, Tua becomes the
Green Arrow. Now, if you follow superheroes at all, you
know the Green Arrow is one of the DC Comics
superheroes that has no special powers or abilities. Most superheroes
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have some kind of an amazing superpower or ability, but know,
the Green Arrow does not. To just I guess he
has a bow and arrow like the Green Arrow there,
and that's what TOA uses the bow and arrow against
opposing defenses. And so that's where we are. Clearly that
didn't work so well in the game on Sunday night
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against the Philadelphia Eagles. Now page two here thumbs up
or thumbs down. Thumbs up or thumbs down on the
question do the Eagles have a issue with Jalen Hurts
all of a sudden? So what they won the game?
What are you talking about? I'm going thumbs up. Call
me crazy, but just call me. Now, this is a
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minor situation, but file this away because it's becoming bigger
and bigger by the week. All of a sudden, Jalen
Hurts has mastered the art of the mistake. Now he's
morphing into that Ed Sheeran tune. Bad habits. There are
bad habits here that are popping in that will derail
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the Green team, the Kelly Green team there and the
mistakes are piling up now in this game you saw
the Sunday night game, Jalen Hurts, he let the Dolphins
hang around because of turnovers. Mentioned Miami as a team
scored seventeen points, ten on offense. But really, if you
peel back the curtain a little bit more, ten of
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the points scored by the Miami Dolphins were courtesy of
mistakes by Jalen Hurts. You break it down, Jalen fumbled
the ball in the first quarter. The Dolphins recovered at
the Eagle twenty three yard line and they got a
field goal. And Hurts also had a deflected pass that
was returned twenty two yards by Jerome Baker, the touchdown maker,
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the linebacker for the Eagles, and that was in the
third quarter. So right, there, there's ten points. Eagles defense
did their job. But Jalen Hurst. Now, if you go
back the last couple of weeks, Hurts has now had
six turnovers in the last three games. Six turnovers in
the last three weeks, five interceptions and a lost fumble.
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Who goofed? I've got to know, I think we do.
The Eagles now have been able to bail him out
in most of these game. They didn't bail him out
in the Jets game, he lost that one, but the
Rams game I was at I saw the Eagles in
person that game, and then this game on the Sunday
night the Eagles able to bail him out. It's not
a sustainable formula. So the Eagles are winning their six
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and one and everyone's all horny and excited for Eagle football.
But this is the kind of thing that will harpoon,
absolutely harpoon your season right now. Final point, Let's take
you a couple steps back and we'll look at the
big picture. The headline here from the referee department of
the NFL. So not just in the Sunday night game,
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but across the schedule. If you were watching football all
day and you were observed the football day are the
NFL officials. Are the NFL officials meddling with the outcome
of our football games? And the only answer which is
excepted was absolutely. Absolutely. I was at a game where
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I saw something that was not kosher, and the Sunday
night game there was some funny business going on. There
is no rhyme or reason to how games are called.
The NFL likes to joke around and they like to
point out, oh, you know, scripted. They like to play
that up. But it does make you wonder. It makes
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you wonder what's really going on in those park avenue
offices when you see some of the shenanigans that happen
on a weekly basis. And Sunday is a great example
for reference. We'll start back in Philly. The Eagles were
the better team, but they had the Zebras in their
back pock. The Zebras were in the back pocket of
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the Philadelphia Eagles. Now I was happy I had the
Eagles in the game, but the Dolphins were called for
ten penalties for seventy yards. The Eagles had no penalties
the entire game. They apparently played a perfect game. The
Philadelphi Eagles had zero penalties in the entire game. Now,
keep in mind, if you've ever played football or just
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watched football, you know that you can literally and figuratively
call holding on every single possession. So if the referees
wanted to, they could have called a couple of holding
penalties against the Philadelphi Eagles. Those are normally drive killers.
They chose not to do that, and so it doesn't
pass the smell test. And there was also a face
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mask penalty that was called, was not called against the Eagles,
was not called late in that game. Bad job by
the reveries. How about an Indie the Horseshoes. With under
a minute left in that game the fourth quarter, Browns
drove deep down into Indianapolis territory before quarterback P J.
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Walker from ball, he fumbled the ball. He fumbled the
ball after a sack, and it was recovered by DeForest
Bucker of the Colts. All right, that's a game changing
play right there. However, wait a minute. Indianapolis defensive back
Darryl Baker, whoever that is, was called for illegal contact
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and that gave Cleveland the football and a fresh set
of downs. And then right after that, Baker was called
for defensive pass interference on a wishy washy situation. It
was an uncatchable football and that set up the Browns
first and goal to go at the goal line and
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Cleveland running back Kareem Hunt eventually scored the game winning
touchdown and that gave the Cleveland football team a one
point win over the Indianapolis football team. The game I
was at the RAM and the Pittsburgh Steelers now Steeers
won by a touchdown. And another case where I think
we had a injurer as a referee. Here it was
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a fourth and one late in the game, a couple
of minutes to go in the game. Kenny Pickett does
not get the first down. He comes up a half
a yard shirt short, clear as can be, not even close.
It's not even like you have to go to replay,
except the referee wearing his terrible towel underwear, went out
there and clearly before the line to gain, Kenny Pickett
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was short of it, and the referee placed the ball
first down. Game over. That's it, rather than giving the
Rams possession a chance to go down and tie the
game and force that game to go to overtime. And
does the NFL care about any of this stuff? Does
the NFL no, they don't. They probably like it. Why
because we're talking about anything that creates conversation they like,
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they enjoy it.
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Speaker 4 (29:45):
Brian Windhors reported over the weekend that the Chicago Bulls
could look to trade DeMar de Rozen as the season progresses, Ben,
do you think they trade to Rosen or extend him?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Well, if Windy reported it, you know, come on, no, listen.
It makes sense. The Bulls are a baseline team in
the East. They're stuck in the middle. They're not terrible Chicago,
but they don't have the Razmataz the top teams. You
look at the East, you got Buck Celtics heat in
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one order or another. The Bulls are not on that list.
They're in that category with the Knickerbockers and teams like that.
And so Demarto Rosen is a prolific scorer who does
nothing else to help you win games. And he's in
his mid thirties now, so he's on the back nine
of his NBA career. It makes sense if Chicago is
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a middling team again to get rid of him right next.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
It's being reported that the Broncos will listen to offers
for players, but will not be having a fire sale
at the trade deadline, Ben, do you think there should
be anybody untouchable on the roster? I don't think they
should have a fire sale, Coop. I think they should
have a bonfire where they just throw everything into the
fire and then burn, baby burn, baby burn.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
No keepers. We know Sean Payton is efforting to change
the roster, to flip the roster. He wants his guys,
he wants his kool age drinkers on the roster and
even though they won against the Packers, that doesn't change
the narrative there in Denver. If it was up to
Sean Payton, he would turn the roster upside down and
bring in a bunch of confidants of his bunch of
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old Saints guys, and so I believe they will. I
don't think there's any untouchable players. They answer your question next.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
According to our own Cris Pissard, there is scuttle butt
around the league that Joel Embiid wants to go to
the Knicks but won't come out and say it because
he doesn't want the backlash from Philly fans.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah, are you buying into this? Well, I buy into it.
If I was an NBA insider that I would toss
that out because you connect these star players either with
the Knicks of the Lakers, and you get tons of traffic.
So it's a great thing. But Joel Embiid is so
embedded in Philadelphia, right, mister Philadelphia and all that. But
it's the NBA. Damian Lillard was mister Portland. He's cold blooded.
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He's not wearing a Milwaukee Bucks uniform, so all bets
are off. Anything is possible there. It is Mallard of
the third deree. How do we go fail this edition?
That is a win. That is a win by men
PS two That is a win. Yeah, here we go
go here we got, here we go.
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land save at Progressive dot com. And I'm determined, after
a minute long contemplation, that we need to give advice
to the NFL referees. They botched the spot in the
Rams game. They didn't call a single penalty on the
Philadelphia Eagles, and they screwed up they screwed up the
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end of the Colts Browns game three games influence the
outcome the NFL officials. We'll go to the phones, unscreen
calls eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. You're live
on the air. When you hear my voice. Hello, line one,
you're on the airline one.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
You know what to do?
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Max through a one hundred mill on R fastball right.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
At all two?
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Oh, how dare you? Well? I can't endorse that, but
I can't all right, uh no comment? Next line two? Hello,
line two, back it up? All right? Line three, you're next.
We're giving advice to the NFL referees. Line three. When
the ambient can't sleep and listens to Kevin Wyert, All right,
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thank you for that endorsement for Sparty. Hello, line four,
you're on the airline four. Go line four. Hung up.
We'll go to Lin's. Jump up in the line six. Hello,
line six, you're on the airline six.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Go bear down, Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Alright, come back, Tonyo, have you seen there? Let's go
to you online one. Your next line one, we're giving advice,
Yeah party, third party, okay. Line two, we're giving advice
to the NFL officials. They botched three games on Sunday,
three and one day, and there were a bunch of
teams that weren't even playing. Hello, you're on the Airline two,
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nickname the three Blind Mice. Oh, there's angry Bill there
chatting in Hello. Line three, you're on the air. We're
giving advice to the NFL referees. Line three. Hello, Yeah,
morning town. I wish they were at the commander's game. Yeah, okay.
I don't even know if that would have helped the
way the commanders played that was pathetic. Hello. Line four,
you're on the Airline four, go, we need a booth
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to take out the Trojan's Lincoln. Okay. Line five is next,
Hello messy boys, okay, high Line one, you're on the air.
I hear your breathing. Line one, we're giving advice to
the NFL zebras, the officials. Hello, line one, he could
stop tell them girls Scout cookies? Okay, yeah, but isn't
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that You go to a store they're like, hey, you
want to buy some girl Scout cookies and you just like,
you're like a total dick and Dayton, but you got
to say no because you know you want to get fat. Hello.
Line two, you're on the air line too, though.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Sebrush should be put in the African serengetti and eaten
by lions, but not lions like that.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
No, no, all right, thank you, yes, all right? Line three, Hello,
that was our friend. I know who that was. Line three,
you're on the air Hello, trade stripe. Okay, we'll do
one more, only one more of it's good. I'll take
credit of not I will blame the kopolo who will
pick the final call on the instant advice line for
the NFL referees, Line four, Line number four. You're on
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the Airline four. I'll to me, I'll tell me, I'll
tell me. See, you should have picked line one, dude.
Line one, Hello, Line one.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
I think you may need some thicker glasses.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
What say, well, thicker glasses? Oh all right, that was
kind of weak. I should have picked line two. My
line was better.
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