November 27, 2023 • 39 mins
Ben Maller reacts to the Ravens beating Chargers on Sunday Night Football, but Ben doesn’t believe the Baltimore defense are world beaters. Jon Gruden is rumored for a Big Ten coaching job and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number one of a brand
new week of the Penn Mala Show. Hope you had
a great weekend enjoyed the holidays. If you missed any
of the bonus content from over the weekend, it is
still brand new to your ears. The Fifth Hour podcast.
We had a mail bag on Sunday tales that have
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never been told before on audio content from Friday and Saturday,
so check that out. But here in our number one,
we talk about that Sunday night came the Ravens and
the Chargers. What does this latest loss do for Justin
Herbert's Chargers as they go down to the Ravens? And
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how do you appraise Lamar Jackson's performance for the Baltimore
football team? Is the Ravens defense good enough to lead
them to the promised land of a championship here in
twenty twenty three and beyond we'll talk about that and
much more. Right now, give it up for our number one.
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of Kenny Pickett's pass the eye test? Mike Tomlin asked
about Kenny Pickett's poor play for three quarters and then
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playing well in the fourth quarter with smoke and mirrors.
Does that defense of his quarterback pass the eye test? Also?
Are you buying the George Pickens story as a nothing
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though coming from in the hood in Inglewood, I was
actually at this game I made for TV matchup. I
did not watch the NBC broadcast, but I was told
by a number of people that were watching that Chris
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Consworth was out there and now people like to rip
Chris Connsworth until Jason Garrett walked into the broadcast booth.
And once Jason Garrett walked into the broadcast booth, suddenly
Collinsworth looking so bad there but Lamar Jackson leading the
Ravens into a matchup against Justin Herbert and the Chargers
of the Poets heading to the West Coast, a Baltimore
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team that for the moment has the top record in
the AFC. They had that coming in courtesy of Kansas
City losing last week to Philadelphia heading into this weekend.
And so if you didn't watch the game, perhaps not
maybe you missed it. You were doing something else, taking
a nap. I don't know what you're doing, but I
do know that Jay Flowers got some flowers. Jay Flowers
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a touchdown catch and a run as well for the game.
Ceilings score there late in the game, which really destroyed
a lot of people that had the Chargers plus the
three and a half could have just slid down, didn't
need to score the touchdown. Bad job by him, but
he did score the touchdown in the fourth core there late.
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And so the Ravens defense with four four forced turnovers
in this game, and so they get to win twenty
to ten the final in the Sunday night game. The
better story is in the losing locker room. So that
is where we will begin this diatribe. And we start
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with this now, the Chargers losing. What does this latest
defeat one of many? What does this latest defeat do
for Justin Herbert and the Chargers? So I've got imagine dragons,
sasquatch gene, and bumper sticker, and we will combine all
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of these things together and we are going to make s'mores,
which is what the Chargers are at this point. They're
being roasted. They're marshmallows and chocolate and Graham crackers and
they're being a squish together. So a this loss, the
latest of many for the team formerly of San Diego,
the Chargers puts them further and further into the abyss.
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But you didn't need me to tell you that. That's
captain obvious stuff. The Los Angeles AFC NFL team, their
season is done like a dinner. It is done, and
we are closer to coach Brandon Staley getting a nice
severance package and a pink slip and exiting stage left.
(06:30):
There you are what your record says you are, and
that means the Bolts are one of the worst teams
in the AFC. Is not my opinion, it's a fact.
Not making it up. Pal The Chargers, their contemporaries are
the Jets and the Titans. Now they are ahead of
the justin Titans because those are two of the teams
they've actually beaten. But all of those teams are four
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and seven, that's what they are. Two games and divine
intervention in the lost them away from a playoff spot
for the Chargers. But the latest loss, this defeat in
the Sunday night game, the latest loss to the Ravens,
is it's living up to the franchise charter. And let's say, well,
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how they lose close games. This was actually a one
score game until Zay Flowers scored in the final ninety
some seconds whatever it was there in the fourth quarter
of this particular game. But it's like the imagine dragons tune.
Whatever it takes. But for the Chargers franchise, whatever it
takes to find new creative ways to lose. All season,
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they've had a biblically bad defense. In fact, statistically the
worst defense in the NFL. That's a fact. You can
look it up, look at the numbers. They have been
worse than the other members of the cartel of the NFL.
And the defense played relatively well in this game, but
not well enough, not well enough, because whatever it takes
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to lose the game. And here's Brandon Staley, the head
coach of the Chargers, who will be looking for work soon,
but here he is pumping up the tires on the
Chargers defense takeles.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
We lost as a team tonight. You know, in a
game like that where it's low scoring, where it turns
into a defensive game, you know, you got to get
one more stop. And that's what we needed to do
at the end of the game, is just get one
more stop, give justin one more op and we weren't
able to do it. I thought our defense really competed tonight.
I thought we were ready for the challenge, and I
thought our guys really played at a high level for
most of the game. But we didn't get it done
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as a team. You know, we didn't go get the
ball tonight, and that's what we needed to do on
defense to win it. And offensively, we didn't take care
enough of the ball to win tonight.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
So he talks about defense, and you know, we lost
as a team, but he seems a little more chipper
because the defense didn't get torched. I got the tone
I got was it's more annoying when they lose on offense.
We lose our defense rather than offense. I should say, wait,
because it's he's a defensive guy, and LA's defense in
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this game was not horrible. The Ravens didn't score a
bunch of points and all that stuff. But the Chargers
coming in this game were number one in ball security
in the NFL, number one in ball security, and so
they had to go out there and get creative. And
they fumbled the ball away three times and had a
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hail Mary interception for the four turnovers. Now turning the page,
looking at the Baltimore side of things, how do you
appraise Lamar Jackson and his performance for the Ravens in
this game. So he won the game, that's all that matters.
He won the game. Well, I was looking forward to
watching Lamar.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I knew coming in that his knee was a little
messed up and all that. The Ravens downplaying it. Ravens
pr apologist friends of mine say, ah, he's fine, he's fine. Okay, Well,
if he's fine, I'm not impressed. Everyone said he's fine.
I wasn't impressed. I expected more and this was not
his night to shine. Nothing to do a backflip over,
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and I realized he plays for the Ravens, but he
might as well play for the Jags. He was a Jag,
just a guy in this game. He was lacking the
Sasquatch gene Lamar Jackson where he did not leave a footprint.
I did not get this sense. I was there, I
watched it. I didn't have to listen to Jason Garrett.
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It's one of the good reasons to go to the game.
But there was nothing there where he left his mark,
not the game breaker. And he finished with very average
number one hundred and seventy seven passing yards ain't great,
thirty nine yards on the ground, and Baltimore was terrible
from soup to nuts at converting on third down they
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were four of thirteen thirty one percent, and you get
four term the Ravens get four turnovers and they only
got three points off those turnovers by the Chargers stick
and field goal. That doesn't seem that great. But what
do I know. I just do an overnight show, So
maybe that's just wonderful. It's just absolutely great the Chargers.
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I do know this. They had the worst defense in
the NFL coming into the game on Sunday night and
everyone's having a career day, and Lamar Jackson did not
have a career game. He did not not in this game.
And so that's where we are on that Now. The
last word here. So you mentioned the Ravens who come
into it. They came into the game on Sunday night
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with the top record in the AFC. They leave the
game Sunday night heading into their bye week with a
one half game lead over Consas City, Jacksonville and Miami
for the best record in the American Football Conference. So
you got a lot of teams all wooped up there
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at the top of the AFC. Is the Ravens defense? Though?
Is the Ravens defense good enough to lead them to
a championship? Because the offense is gonna get that done?
So is the defense good enough to get her done?
And the answer is no. The answer by wait a minute,
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they got a top two defense in the NFL is
Cleveland in the Ravens one town eh Eh, The answer
is no. The answer is no. On my end, it's
not the early nineties or the late nineties or the
early two thousands. It's been at least a decade. You
could say the Legion of Boom was the last team
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to win based on their defense and had a sucky
Russell Wilson a quarterback when they won. But that was
a decade ago, and I don't look at the Ravens
as an all time great defensive team. I don't The
defense wins championships is a faded, bumper sticker slogan that
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old timers like to talk about. It's like on the
back of a VW van and it's got a little
bumper sticker. Defense wins championships slogan from a by gone era. Now,
it certainly doesn't hurt to have a good defense, but
it doesn't lead me to believe that you're going to
win anything just based on your defense. And here's the
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thing unpopular opinion about the Ravens defense. I look at
the Ravens defense the same way I look at the
Cleveland Browns defense. The numbers are inflated because they play
in a division that is lacking offense. The Steelers Kenny
Pickett is not good. The Browns whoever plays quarterback not good. Right,
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So you go through the division, you're like, well, these
are the teams you play the most, and nobody's really
all that great. Cincinnati you said, well, they're the top
team defensively, but Burrow got off to a miserable start
this year and is injured, so it's not your typical
Cincinnati Joe Burrow, high powered offense, high faluton offense. That
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not the case. And so it gets down to this.
The Ravens ultimately are going to lean on the pillar
that is Lamar Jackson. And thus the problem, as great
as Lamar is it running the ball and whatever five
thousand yards fastest one to do that, five thousand yards rushing.
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All these career accolades for Lamar Jackson, do you trust
that Lamar Jackson in a playoff game playoffs is going
to put the cape on and up, up and away
in the postseason do the heavy lift. We haven't seen
it now. That tells us what has happened. It doesn't
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guarantee that it's going to be that way the rest
of Lamar Jackson's career. But from what we have seen
of Lamar Jackson in big playoff games, Lamar likes to
ride first class on the vomit comet and the Ravens.
I don't care how good your defense is, You're not
going to get that done. You're not consistently not good
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in the postseason. That is the book of Lamar Jackson.
And we'll see if that changes this year. But the
Ravens defense is not going to be the reasons they
win anything. It's just not right. It is the Ben
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Speaker 1 (18:06):
The Bill's Monster rights In. Derek in Buffaloways says, the
Bills got robbed by the referees. We dominated the Eagles
the entire game, except Josh Allen was outplayed by Jalen
Hurts in the fourth quarter in overtime. Aside from that,
I think it's kind of cool. The referees now occasionally
(18:28):
will let a horse callar tackle just happen and not
call it right in front of them. That's a old
school that's old school officiating right there. Hey, I was
at the Charger game and Justin Herbert got hit by
two ravens out of bounds, a yard out of bounds.
The referees were three referees right there is that we
don't need to call it.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Hey, they call it.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
That's old school, man. He just rubbed some dirt on it. Now,
I wish they would do that more often. But usually
everyone's been programmed now to anytime there's condact has got
to be a penalty. We have the football viewer has
now been indoctrinated into softness where everything has to be
(19:11):
a penalty and you are aghast. The guffaws go out
if there's non penalties. Yafimi in Chicago Rights and he says, hey,
Mallard a plus and Panda Express on the Malay monologue.
Kudos to the Donkeys that Walmart money brought in real
coaching football guru Sean Payton doesn't need self help tapes
(19:35):
like that Carpetbagger in New York to win. Robert sell
Black Friday, that was fun. That was fun watching the
Jets and they actually thought, the Jets that putting a
guy I would have a boil on my ass play quarterback,
(19:55):
then the guy that was playing for the Jets and
shocking these people, well get paid a lot of money,
millions of dollars to decide who plays and who doesn't play.
And fascinating, absolutely fascinating. Matt the Warrior Raider, former A's fan.
Every one of match teams has left where they played
(20:17):
now at least the Warriors are just across the Bay Bridge,
but they're the Raiders Vegas, the Athletics soon to be
in Vegas. He says six out of ten on the
Mallet monologue, How many times does Justin Herbert have to
poop his pants in the final two minutes of a
game with a chance to win before we acknowledge that
he's over raided five losses with a chance to win
(20:38):
in the final two minutes? Is horrible? Well, and it's
not only a case where it's horrible. It's never his fault.
And the game in Green Bay last week where the
Chargers receiver dropped the wide open pass as an example.
This game, this was his fault? Who else do we have?
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Page down and Kramer the ex service dog says spot
on on the NBC broadcast with Collinsworth not there to
Rico the usual Melk tos the clapper was off, watched
the first ten minutes in muted horrible. Is it possible
he's even worse on TV than he was coach of
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the Dallas Cowboys. I did not see the broadcast, so
I'm just getting secondhand reports that they could have just
had a algorithm of sportscliche dot com commenting on the game,
and that would have been just as good. And I
(21:43):
would like to remind you for the eight thousandth time
that I am a contributor to sportscliche dot com. I
have helped out. Let's go to the phones. We'll start
out in Memphis, and we'll say hello to our old
friend Big Daddy, who's in the holiday spirit. Hello, Big Daddy.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, already know man, there's only some
one your half. I ain't doing nothing over here with.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Do you think he realizes I don't think he does.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Wor going on this, Big Daddy.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
We're going on on here.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I don't let us bother you, Big Daddy. We're just
doing a radio show here. But then no, and no
one's listening. It's the middle of the night. You're working,
you're working over there. I don't want to get in
the way of your employment. Please. And you know how
I heard. I heard.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
I was on the air. He said, do you think
you're I heard you ain't doing my little work man?
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Yeah, I just want to for the holidays. I couldn't
get in last week. Very popular calling in just want
to tight you know what I mean? Yeah, they ain't
talking about nothing that calling in, But uh, I don't
want to whos gonna do some firing. All these folks
out here, all these gangs going on, ain't nobody getting fired?
And then if the at getting fired and keeping a
little pizza paycheck, I showed a love to go to
(22:55):
the NFL get shaped like that. I'm telling you you're
finding you'll get a chick.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah. Well, here here's a listen. There's a bunch of
college coaches that have been fired. There's like a big,
big weekend for college coaches losing their job. But in
the NFL, No, we've had some coordinators get whacked. But
that's about it.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Hey man, I hate five plates. I hit my five plates,
give me death. I'm about.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Got my sweet potato patch.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Oh good, all right, Well, somebody left in the in
the Fox Sports Radio kitchen, somebody left what I think
is the most disgusting pumpkin pie I've ever seen. I
don't I don't know. I looked at that. It looks
it looks like it's out of a museum. I think
it might be pumpkin pie from like the eighteen hundreds
or something like that. It's fascinating. No, no, I mean
(23:49):
it's hard to like pumpkin pie. Usually it's pretty good.
This looks disgusting. Uh might not be pumpkin.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
You know, they just did some colored it something else,
you know, stuff on that.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Well, I'm not I'm not tasting the pie. I assume
the pie has been here all weekend, so I will
not touch the said pie.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
I'll get him because I know it might not be
vacation New Year.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Oh, look at that, You got your big mister big time.
Here is the last call of the year for you.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
Yeah, but probably last going on thirty first. See if
I can do a little drink. You know, I don't
do too much, but I'm gonna get t me in
this year.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
All right, take it? Well, be good, be safe out there.
The big Daddy they're working at the grocery store in Memphis.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
There.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
If he wants to check in with the electorate, he
has to check in with the you find folks who
vote for him. But that that pumpkin pie in the
in the room back there, man disgusting. Yeah. Maybe it
looked good when they open it up and put it
out there, but he looked as like man, usually you
(25:00):
I don't get nauseated looking at pie because it's pie.
You can't make pie look bad. It's pie. But that
looked pretty bad. It's like, Wow. This ports of the
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Gruden's name has been floated for a head coaching job,
but not an NFL head coaching job. Could you see
John Gruden in the Big Ten? And there's only gonna
be two conferences that matter in college football starting next season,
the Southeastern Conference. In the Big Ten, everyone else is
a pretender. Everything else is the JV. You'll have the varsity,
(25:44):
which is the Big Ten in the Southeastern Conference. And
John Gruden's name has been floated as a candidate for
the Indiana Hoosier job. They fired this guy named Tom Allen,
who I'm told was the coach at Indiana the last
few years, losing seasons piling up there for Indiana football. Well,
you think college football, you think the Hoosiers of Indiana.
(26:08):
But the college football coaching carousel going round and round
and John Gruden's name popping up there and immediately immediately,
the Wokesters very upset.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
You cannot hire John Gruden. No, no, no, no no.
Remember the emails. John Gruden, I guess is never allowed
to coach again. The emails leaked in the NFL investigation
of the Washington mail Washington Redskins a couple of years ago,
and that was what they were called when those emails
(26:42):
were exchanged. The Washington Redskins and the Big Three, racist, homophobic.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
And you name it, go down the list there every
kind of ism they John Gruden hit in the emails,
the private emails there. But he's decent coach and he's
a big name coach in Indiana. You're not going to
get a big name coach unless they've got a lot
of baggage. If I'm not mistaken, Hugh Freeze is coaching
(27:13):
and he was caught with a bunch of escorts, like
calling escorts and whatnot back in the day. And there
have been coaches that have done things worse than John
Gruden who have gotten coaching jobs. Again, that would be
a situation where we went to Indiana. I think he
actually do pretty well at Indiana all things considered. I
you not a football powerhouse, but Goruden could go there
(27:35):
for a couple of years and then I don't know
ever coach in the NFL again. But Brian Flores, who's
suing the NFL as the defensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings,
and the forty nine ers defensive coordinators also suing the NFL.
So there are people suing the NFL that work for
the NFL. John Gruden also has an open lawsuit against
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the NFL, but his name connected to the Indiana job
with a bunch of other hires or candidates that wouldn't
really excite you, that wouldn't really excite you, like somebody
from South Alabama who the hell cares life. I could
hire the offensive line coach from Ohio State. That would
(28:16):
be exciting, the offensive coordinator from Alabama, because all those
Alabama assistants go on and do amazing things when they
leave Nick Saban. So I'll hire one of them to
coach at Indiana. Let's go to the phones. We'll say
hello to Anthony in Anaheim. Hello, Anthony in Anaheim. I
don't hear any there he is. There's Anthony and Anna
(28:39):
right there there is.
Speaker 8 (28:40):
Yeah, big Ben, the big TV star. Now I feel
like such an honor to talk to you now.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
It's well, it's much more valuable now. I can't be
talking to the unwashed like you, Anthony. I'm now when
you do regional cable television on the weekends, you're you've
really arrived.
Speaker 8 (28:55):
It's about time that somebody recognized your greatness.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
You know, Hi've been saying that. I've been saying that
for some time, Anthony. It only took twenty five years
for that to happen.
Speaker 8 (29:06):
You know, I've been singing your praises forever too. You know,
I give you guys a shout I give you a
shout out on the Petros and Money show. You know,
Big Loom heard that a couple of weeks ago, the
words I tell everybody about your show, how oft it's very.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Kind of you. Me and Petros go way back. But
I didn't. I didn't think they take calls. How were
you able to do that there, Antony.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
Free Form Friday. Yeah, no, you know sometimes they open
them up, you know, not like that's what you know.
That's what people don't understand. Why everybody loves you is
because you're a man of the people. You take the
phone call.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
No, yes, yes, understood that.
Speaker 8 (29:44):
You know that, you know there's gold over the phone.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Calls.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
No, no, no, they have these things, Anthony, they have
these things called consultants, and they say no calls. They hate,
they hate the people that call radio shows. Cannot. Standard
people are work in the radio business hate radio callers cannot.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
It's not like Howard Stern made a career a conglomerates
based on ninety people who called his his the show.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
You know, well that's yeah, he's changed a lot over
the years. Well, yeah, of course changed.
Speaker 8 (30:22):
You know, we'll see whatever happens with him. But you
know he lost his edge, man. You know.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
More importantly, Anthony, I think you got a month off
and then you got to have another kid here, right,
So that's that's at the plan.
Speaker 8 (30:33):
Already born. Baby's already born.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Why no, the baby was born. Now you're gonna get
it on the next one.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
Though, No, no more.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I don't know about that, Anthony. You're you're very fertile, Anthony,
you're very.
Speaker 8 (30:44):
Maybe maybe I can start charging studying fees like they
do those horses, you know, gar it's.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
A great idea. I'm sure your wife would have no
problem with that, right.
Speaker 8 (30:52):
Well, that's the biggest obstacle, you know, if I get
under grand though, you know, hundred grand a time. You know,
I think you'd get over it.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Sure, why not? There you go? All right, I'm all right,
can I can? I?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Can?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I hang up on you now? Am I good?
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (31:06):
No?
Speaker 8 (31:06):
No, no, no, Hey. So I'm glad that the update
wasn't ten minutes. You know. I tried calling before he
went on vacation, you know, but I got squeezed out
by you know update guy there?
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Did he did?
Speaker 6 (31:19):
He?
Speaker 8 (31:19):
Is he from the tree of Brian Finley or what?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I don't know what. I don't know what tree he's from.
I don't I have no I think he's from a cactus. Actually,
think you.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
Know he should he should take some advice from doc Mike.
You know, you got to tell him take a breath, man.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Take a breath. Well you of course coaching the Anthony
and Anaheim Coaching tree very important. All right, I'm gonna
hang up on you now, go away, all right, go,
thank you all Mike.
Speaker 5 (31:45):
Good.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
See ever shown up to work and you try to
get in the building and they don't They don't want
you in the building. I actually had this happened last week.
The the gate, the main door to get into Fox
Sports Radio. So my card key did not work. I
was like, what happened? I knew I still worked here
(32:09):
because I got in the garage. Once you get in
the parking garage, you know, that's what costs them a
lot of money. They hate having to pay for parking.
So once I got into the parking garage, I knew
I still had employment. And then the actual door to
get in, though, is busted.
Speaker 9 (32:23):
I don't think it's working still, Ben, I know that's
what I'm saying. I'd go in that fancy glass door. Yeah,
we never know if it's gonna open or not. On
the right side, there's this showcase entrance. It's got the
big Fox Sports Radio logo on it. There's a table
looked very professional.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
On the other side is a crappy door with a
medicine cabinet on one side and eyeglass cleaners and what
else is there. They've got disinfectant wipes, little wipes you
can get wash your in your hands, and that's where
everyone usually enters.
Speaker 9 (32:55):
It looks like a door that it says like prohibited
access at the airport, you know, like it's just unmarked,
but it's for like, you know, personnel.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
So how expensive. Is that a building issue or is
that a company issue. That's like a building issue for sure.
But I think it's a building issue because that's part
of the building.
Speaker 9 (33:12):
I was gone for over a week and it's still
not fixed. So what's going on there?
Speaker 1 (33:17):
I don't know. Lead a Lap you're you're the big
morning guy. He's producing our show. Here. We got a
morning show producer. This is a big time show. Now
we got a morning show producer. I was saying, this
is big, not big at alls. So so leeas you
think that that, I think that's a building issue because
it is a building issue. Yes, I know the building
guys have been emailing, but I guess because of the
(33:39):
holidays they can't figure it, finish it until after, so
nothing gets done. We don't shut down on the holidays here.
Do they know that we're twenty four to seven shop.
We're open, Our doors are always open. You can tell
by all the trash bags in the hall too. Oh yeah,
this smell a bunch of crap laying around. This is
an extra added extent, the dance remix of rotting rotting food.
(34:03):
The people that work here cannot go more than two
hours without eating. It's fascinating that pie, though, Lee, would
you eat? Would you eat a piece of that pie?
That disgusting pie that's in the kitchen? I would not,
but I'm sure Coop would have.
Speaker 9 (34:15):
Yeah, I was gonna say, if Cooper is here, he
might he might think about it.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Why don't we save some for him and he can
eat it? If he's ever back, we can have him
eating something. Tells me it'll be there.
Speaker 9 (34:24):
Yeah, I don't think anyone's gonna Somebody might throw it away, though,
I hope our custodian Agusto throws it away.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Have you ever seen a pie less attractive than that pie? Yeah?
It's nothing color it should be no, right, it's an
off collar pie. And it looks like a very hard pie.
It does not look like the pumpkin filling is soft
and delicious. I think it's thin too, right, it's yeah,
it's a thin it's a petite pie.
Speaker 9 (34:47):
I'm going to make an executive decision and throw it
outside onto the ground.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Yeah, let the birds have at it. Should we take
a picture of it and share with the glass in trouble?
Who do you think brought the pie in? That must
from somebody's Thanksgiving dinner?
Speaker 9 (35:02):
Wednesday, Yeah, Thursday, at least three or four days old.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
It's an old pat. Anyway, I bring this up. The
reason we couldn't get in the building the other day.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
C J.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Stroud. I guess he's kind of a big deal. He's
a starting quarterback in the NFL, and he was briefly
locked out of the Texans locker room when he arrived
to work for the game on Sunday, which I guess
was a bad omen considering the Texans lost on a
missed field goal. They lose to Jacksonville. But c J.
Stroud is pretty funny. It's not as funny as the
(35:30):
video of the Jets, remember the Jets guy when but
it's it didn't last that long. But c J. Stroud
there is video of him and he could not get
in the Texans locker room, which is unfortunate for him. Hey,
I think there was Jamal Adams who was locked out
of the New York Was it Jamal Adams? The Jets
(35:51):
guy that that was a good video though, because he
sees I don't know, it wasn't him. It might have been.
He was seemed pretty upset. Anyway, here's the who m
my game. Giants quarterback Tommy DeVito the first undrafted quarterback
to start and beat Bill Belichick at any point in
his career. Since me again, Bill Belichick very rarely loses
(36:14):
to a rookie quarterback, but especially an undrafted quarterback. So
Giants quarterback Tommy DeVito the first undrafted QB to start
and beat Bill Belichick at any point in their careers.
Since me, who am I? The answer, We'll get to it.
We'll do it next.
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the air. Norman Fell guests by Malibu Rubin Pete Carroll
from Malard prop Guy. Dwight Howard tossed out by Justin
in Cincinnati, big fan of Dwight's. I know Justin's always
(37:56):
supported him. Mexican John Dutton says, here's the godfather, Big Daddy,
That is the answer. Who else do we have? Caesar
Sedanio guest by mister nice guy, Officer Looney from ferg
Dog Warren Moon tossed out by Matt in the Bay
the Warrior Raider, former A's fan, Cooper Rush from Eke
(38:18):
in Roseville, Minnesota. Benito the Cowboy fan says Fox Sports
Radio custodian Augusto is the correct answer to a tongue
of by looa from Steven Meetpaul, although he misspelled that
it's a bad job by him. The correct answer the
correct answer to the who am I game again? Giants
(38:42):
quarterback Tommy DeVito first undrafted QB to start and beat
Bill Belichick at any point in their career since me
the answer Jake Dello of the Carol Lineup Panthers back
in twenty oh five, almost twenty years ago. It was
week two of the twenty zero five season. It is
(39:03):
interesting to note that Tommy DeVito the first rookie undrafted
quarterback to ever beat Bill Belichick. Not that impressive, though,
considering that no other undrafted rookie quarterback had ever started
against a Bill Belichick team. As the hits just keep coming,
I don't really care about that for Bill Belichick and
(39:24):
the Patriots. But it is not all bad news though,
because when you look at the big board, you people
that love your little draft. I love the draft the Patriots.
If the season ended right now, the NFL would lose
a lot of money and the Patriots would have the
number three pick behind the Bears and the Cardinals, and
the Patriots are right there. They're hanging around, hanging around.
(39:46):
They got shot at getting that number one pick. Still,
they're right in the game. I don't know, we'll si
Hello and welcome. It's our number one of a brand
new week of the Penn Mala Show. Hope you had
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We had a mail bag on Sunday tales that have
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so check that out. But here in our number one,
we talk about that Sunday night came the Ravens and
the Chargers. What does this latest loss do for Justin
Herbert's Chargers as they go down to the Ravens? And
(00:45):
how do you appraise Lamar Jackson's performance for the Baltimore
football team? Is the Ravens defense good enough to lead
them to the promised land of a championship here in
twenty twenty three and beyond we'll talk about that and
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Here we go, Well, come in, it is our number one.
You won't believe your ears. Our one of our amazing
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ts Suck, Suck, Suck, the criticism raining down on Jets
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coach Robert Sala. How do you decode Robert Sala's response
he took the fifth when asked about sticking with Zach
Wilson as the Jets quarterback, which seems to be a
fate worth worse than death. Also does Mike tomlins defense
of Kenny Pickett's pass the eye test? Mike Tomlin asked
about Kenny Pickett's poor play for three quarters and then
(01:49):
playing well in the fourth quarter with smoke and mirrors.
Does that defense of his quarterback pass the eye test? Also?
Are you buying the George Pickens story as a nothing
burger for the Steelers? As Tomlin dismissed his diva wide receiver.
We'll get to all of that and much more right
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tire Raccopy coming up about ten minutes. Our lead this hour,
though coming from in the hood in Inglewood, I was
actually at this game I made for TV matchup. I
did not watch the NBC broadcast, but I was told
by a number of people that were watching that Chris
(03:50):
Consworth was out there and now people like to rip
Chris Connsworth until Jason Garrett walked into the broadcast booth.
And once Jason Garrett walked into the broadcast booth, suddenly
Collinsworth looking so bad there but Lamar Jackson leading the
Ravens into a matchup against Justin Herbert and the Chargers
of the Poets heading to the West Coast, a Baltimore
(04:12):
team that for the moment has the top record in
the AFC. They had that coming in courtesy of Kansas
City losing last week to Philadelphia heading into this weekend.
And so if you didn't watch the game, perhaps not
maybe you missed it. You were doing something else, taking
a nap. I don't know what you're doing, but I
do know that Jay Flowers got some flowers. Jay Flowers
(04:36):
a touchdown catch and a run as well for the game.
Ceilings score there late in the game, which really destroyed
a lot of people that had the Chargers plus the
three and a half could have just slid down, didn't
need to score the touchdown. Bad job by him, but
he did score the touchdown in the fourth core there late.
(04:57):
And so the Ravens defense with four four forced turnovers
in this game, and so they get to win twenty
to ten the final in the Sunday night game. The
better story is in the losing locker room. So that
is where we will begin this diatribe. And we start
(05:17):
with this now, the Chargers losing. What does this latest
defeat one of many? What does this latest defeat do
for Justin Herbert and the Chargers? So I've got imagine dragons,
sasquatch gene, and bumper sticker, and we will combine all
(05:42):
of these things together and we are going to make s'mores,
which is what the Chargers are at this point. They're
being roasted. They're marshmallows and chocolate and Graham crackers and
they're being a squish together. So a this loss, the
latest of many for the team formerly of San Diego,
the Chargers puts them further and further into the abyss.
(06:06):
But you didn't need me to tell you that. That's
captain obvious stuff. The Los Angeles AFC NFL team, their
season is done like a dinner. It is done, and
we are closer to coach Brandon Staley getting a nice
severance package and a pink slip and exiting stage left.
(06:30):
There you are what your record says you are, and
that means the Bolts are one of the worst teams
in the AFC. Is not my opinion, it's a fact.
Not making it up. Pal The Chargers, their contemporaries are
the Jets and the Titans. Now they are ahead of
the justin Titans because those are two of the teams
they've actually beaten. But all of those teams are four
(06:53):
and seven, that's what they are. Two games and divine
intervention in the lost them away from a playoff spot
for the Chargers. But the latest loss, this defeat in
the Sunday night game, the latest loss to the Ravens,
is it's living up to the franchise charter. And let's say, well,
(07:15):
how they lose close games. This was actually a one
score game until Zay Flowers scored in the final ninety
some seconds whatever it was there in the fourth quarter
of this particular game. But it's like the imagine dragons tune.
Whatever it takes. But for the Chargers franchise, whatever it
takes to find new creative ways to lose. All season,
(07:37):
they've had a biblically bad defense. In fact, statistically the
worst defense in the NFL. That's a fact. You can
look it up, look at the numbers. They have been
worse than the other members of the cartel of the NFL.
And the defense played relatively well in this game, but
not well enough, not well enough, because whatever it takes
(07:59):
to lose the game. And here's Brandon Staley, the head
coach of the Chargers, who will be looking for work soon,
but here he is pumping up the tires on the
Chargers defense takeles.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
We lost as a team tonight. You know, in a
game like that where it's low scoring, where it turns
into a defensive game, you know, you got to get
one more stop. And that's what we needed to do
at the end of the game, is just get one
more stop, give justin one more op and we weren't
able to do it. I thought our defense really competed tonight.
I thought we were ready for the challenge, and I
thought our guys really played at a high level for
most of the game. But we didn't get it done
(08:33):
as a team. You know, we didn't go get the
ball tonight, and that's what we needed to do on
defense to win it. And offensively, we didn't take care
enough of the ball to win tonight.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
So he talks about defense, and you know, we lost
as a team, but he seems a little more chipper
because the defense didn't get torched. I got the tone
I got was it's more annoying when they lose on offense.
We lose our defense rather than offense. I should say, wait,
because it's he's a defensive guy, and LA's defense in
(09:06):
this game was not horrible. The Ravens didn't score a
bunch of points and all that stuff. But the Chargers
coming in this game were number one in ball security
in the NFL, number one in ball security, and so
they had to go out there and get creative. And
they fumbled the ball away three times and had a
(09:28):
hail Mary interception for the four turnovers. Now turning the page,
looking at the Baltimore side of things, how do you
appraise Lamar Jackson and his performance for the Ravens in
this game. So he won the game, that's all that matters.
He won the game. Well, I was looking forward to
watching Lamar.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I knew coming in that his knee was a little
messed up and all that. The Ravens downplaying it. Ravens
pr apologist friends of mine say, ah, he's fine, he's fine. Okay, Well,
if he's fine, I'm not impressed. Everyone said he's fine.
I wasn't impressed. I expected more and this was not
his night to shine. Nothing to do a backflip over,
(10:10):
and I realized he plays for the Ravens, but he
might as well play for the Jags. He was a Jag,
just a guy in this game. He was lacking the
Sasquatch gene Lamar Jackson where he did not leave a footprint.
I did not get this sense. I was there, I
watched it. I didn't have to listen to Jason Garrett.
(10:30):
It's one of the good reasons to go to the game.
But there was nothing there where he left his mark,
not the game breaker. And he finished with very average
number one hundred and seventy seven passing yards ain't great,
thirty nine yards on the ground, and Baltimore was terrible
from soup to nuts at converting on third down they
(10:54):
were four of thirteen thirty one percent, and you get
four term the Ravens get four turnovers and they only
got three points off those turnovers by the Chargers stick
and field goal. That doesn't seem that great. But what
do I know. I just do an overnight show, So
maybe that's just wonderful. It's just absolutely great the Chargers.
(11:18):
I do know this. They had the worst defense in
the NFL coming into the game on Sunday night and
everyone's having a career day, and Lamar Jackson did not
have a career game. He did not not in this game.
And so that's where we are on that Now. The
last word here. So you mentioned the Ravens who come
into it. They came into the game on Sunday night
(11:40):
with the top record in the AFC. They leave the
game Sunday night heading into their bye week with a
one half game lead over Consas City, Jacksonville and Miami
for the best record in the American Football Conference. So
you got a lot of teams all wooped up there
(12:00):
at the top of the AFC. Is the Ravens defense? Though?
Is the Ravens defense good enough to lead them to
a championship? Because the offense is gonna get that done?
So is the defense good enough to get her done?
And the answer is no. The answer by wait a minute,
(12:21):
they got a top two defense in the NFL is
Cleveland in the Ravens one town eh Eh, The answer
is no. The answer is no. On my end, it's
not the early nineties or the late nineties or the
early two thousands. It's been at least a decade. You
could say the Legion of Boom was the last team
(12:41):
to win based on their defense and had a sucky
Russell Wilson a quarterback when they won. But that was
a decade ago, and I don't look at the Ravens
as an all time great defensive team. I don't The
defense wins championships is a faded, bumper sticker slogan that
(13:03):
old timers like to talk about. It's like on the
back of a VW van and it's got a little
bumper sticker. Defense wins championships slogan from a by gone era. Now,
it certainly doesn't hurt to have a good defense, but
it doesn't lead me to believe that you're going to
win anything just based on your defense. And here's the
(13:23):
thing unpopular opinion about the Ravens defense. I look at
the Ravens defense the same way I look at the
Cleveland Browns defense. The numbers are inflated because they play
in a division that is lacking offense. The Steelers Kenny
Pickett is not good. The Browns whoever plays quarterback not good. Right,
(13:46):
So you go through the division, you're like, well, these
are the teams you play the most, and nobody's really
all that great. Cincinnati you said, well, they're the top
team defensively, but Burrow got off to a miserable start
this year and is injured, so it's not your typical
Cincinnati Joe Burrow, high powered offense, high faluton offense. That
(14:08):
not the case. And so it gets down to this.
The Ravens ultimately are going to lean on the pillar
that is Lamar Jackson. And thus the problem, as great
as Lamar is it running the ball and whatever five
thousand yards fastest one to do that, five thousand yards rushing.
(14:29):
All these career accolades for Lamar Jackson, do you trust
that Lamar Jackson in a playoff game playoffs is going
to put the cape on and up, up and away
in the postseason do the heavy lift. We haven't seen
it now. That tells us what has happened. It doesn't
(14:49):
guarantee that it's going to be that way the rest
of Lamar Jackson's career. But from what we have seen
of Lamar Jackson in big playoff games, Lamar likes to
ride first class on the vomit comet and the Ravens.
I don't care how good your defense is, You're not
going to get that done. You're not consistently not good
(15:10):
in the postseason. That is the book of Lamar Jackson.
And we'll see if that changes this year. But the
Ravens defense is not going to be the reasons they
win anything. It's just not right. It is the Ben
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The Bill's Monster rights In. Derek in Buffaloways says, the
Bills got robbed by the referees. We dominated the Eagles
the entire game, except Josh Allen was outplayed by Jalen
Hurts in the fourth quarter in overtime. Aside from that,
I think it's kind of cool. The referees now occasionally
(18:28):
will let a horse callar tackle just happen and not
call it right in front of them. That's a old
school that's old school officiating right there. Hey, I was
at the Charger game and Justin Herbert got hit by
two ravens out of bounds, a yard out of bounds.
The referees were three referees right there is that we
don't need to call it.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Hey, they call it.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
That's old school, man. He just rubbed some dirt on it. Now,
I wish they would do that more often. But usually
everyone's been programmed now to anytime there's condact has got
to be a penalty. We have the football viewer has
now been indoctrinated into softness where everything has to be
(19:11):
a penalty and you are aghast. The guffaws go out
if there's non penalties. Yafimi in Chicago Rights and he says, hey,
Mallard a plus and Panda Express on the Malay monologue.
Kudos to the Donkeys that Walmart money brought in real
coaching football guru Sean Payton doesn't need self help tapes
(19:35):
like that Carpetbagger in New York to win. Robert sell
Black Friday, that was fun. That was fun watching the
Jets and they actually thought, the Jets that putting a
guy I would have a boil on my ass play quarterback,
(19:55):
then the guy that was playing for the Jets and
shocking these people, well get paid a lot of money,
millions of dollars to decide who plays and who doesn't play.
And fascinating, absolutely fascinating. Matt the Warrior Raider, former A's fan.
Every one of match teams has left where they played
(20:17):
now at least the Warriors are just across the Bay Bridge,
but they're the Raiders Vegas, the Athletics soon to be
in Vegas. He says six out of ten on the
Mallet monologue, How many times does Justin Herbert have to
poop his pants in the final two minutes of a
game with a chance to win before we acknowledge that
he's over raided five losses with a chance to win
(20:38):
in the final two minutes? Is horrible? Well, and it's
not only a case where it's horrible. It's never his fault.
And the game in Green Bay last week where the
Chargers receiver dropped the wide open pass as an example.
This game, this was his fault? Who else do we have?
(20:59):
Page down and Kramer the ex service dog says spot
on on the NBC broadcast with Collinsworth not there to
Rico the usual Melk tos the clapper was off, watched
the first ten minutes in muted horrible. Is it possible
he's even worse on TV than he was coach of
(21:22):
the Dallas Cowboys. I did not see the broadcast, so
I'm just getting secondhand reports that they could have just
had a algorithm of sportscliche dot com commenting on the game,
and that would have been just as good. And I
(21:43):
would like to remind you for the eight thousandth time
that I am a contributor to sportscliche dot com. I
have helped out. Let's go to the phones. We'll start
out in Memphis, and we'll say hello to our old
friend Big Daddy, who's in the holiday spirit. Hello, Big Daddy.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, already know man, there's only some
one your half. I ain't doing nothing over here with.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Do you think he realizes I don't think he does.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Wor going on this, Big Daddy.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
We're going on on here.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I don't let us bother you, Big Daddy. We're just
doing a radio show here. But then no, and no
one's listening. It's the middle of the night. You're working,
you're working over there. I don't want to get in
the way of your employment. Please. And you know how
I heard. I heard.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
I was on the air. He said, do you think
you're I heard you ain't doing my little work man?
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Yeah, I just want to for the holidays. I couldn't
get in last week. Very popular calling in just want
to tight you know what I mean? Yeah, they ain't
talking about nothing that calling in, But uh, I don't
want to whos gonna do some firing. All these folks
out here, all these gangs going on, ain't nobody getting fired?
And then if the at getting fired and keeping a
little pizza paycheck, I showed a love to go to
(22:55):
the NFL get shaped like that. I'm telling you you're
finding you'll get a chick.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah. Well, here here's a listen. There's a bunch of
college coaches that have been fired. There's like a big,
big weekend for college coaches losing their job. But in
the NFL, No, we've had some coordinators get whacked. But
that's about it.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Hey man, I hate five plates. I hit my five plates,
give me death. I'm about.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Got my sweet potato patch.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Oh good, all right, Well, somebody left in the in
the Fox Sports Radio kitchen, somebody left what I think
is the most disgusting pumpkin pie I've ever seen. I
don't I don't know. I looked at that. It looks
it looks like it's out of a museum. I think
it might be pumpkin pie from like the eighteen hundreds
or something like that. It's fascinating. No, no, I mean
(23:49):
it's hard to like pumpkin pie. Usually it's pretty good.
This looks disgusting. Uh might not be pumpkin.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
You know, they just did some colored it something else,
you know, stuff on that.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Well, I'm not I'm not tasting the pie. I assume
the pie has been here all weekend, so I will
not touch the said pie.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
I'll get him because I know it might not be
vacation New Year.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Oh, look at that, You got your big mister big time.
Here is the last call of the year for you.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
Yeah, but probably last going on thirty first. See if
I can do a little drink. You know, I don't
do too much, but I'm gonna get t me in
this year.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
All right, take it? Well, be good, be safe out there.
The big Daddy they're working at the grocery store in Memphis.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
There.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
If he wants to check in with the electorate, he
has to check in with the you find folks who
vote for him. But that that pumpkin pie in the
in the room back there, man disgusting. Yeah. Maybe it
looked good when they open it up and put it
out there, but he looked as like man, usually you
(25:00):
I don't get nauseated looking at pie because it's pie.
You can't make pie look bad. It's pie. But that
looked pretty bad. It's like, Wow. This ports of the
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Gruden's name has been floated for a head coaching job,
but not an NFL head coaching job. Could you see
John Gruden in the Big Ten? And there's only gonna
be two conferences that matter in college football starting next season,
the Southeastern Conference. In the Big Ten, everyone else is
a pretender. Everything else is the JV. You'll have the varsity,
(25:44):
which is the Big Ten in the Southeastern Conference. And
John Gruden's name has been floated as a candidate for
the Indiana Hoosier job. They fired this guy named Tom Allen,
who I'm told was the coach at Indiana the last
few years, losing seasons piling up there for Indiana football. Well,
you think college football, you think the Hoosiers of Indiana.
(26:08):
But the college football coaching carousel going round and round
and John Gruden's name popping up there and immediately immediately,
the Wokesters very upset.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
You cannot hire John Gruden. No, no, no, no no.
Remember the emails. John Gruden, I guess is never allowed
to coach again. The emails leaked in the NFL investigation
of the Washington mail Washington Redskins a couple of years ago,
and that was what they were called when those emails
(26:42):
were exchanged. The Washington Redskins and the Big Three, racist, homophobic.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
And you name it, go down the list there every
kind of ism they John Gruden hit in the emails,
the private emails there. But he's decent coach and he's
a big name coach in Indiana. You're not going to
get a big name coach unless they've got a lot
of baggage. If I'm not mistaken, Hugh Freeze is coaching
(27:13):
and he was caught with a bunch of escorts, like
calling escorts and whatnot back in the day. And there
have been coaches that have done things worse than John
Gruden who have gotten coaching jobs. Again, that would be
a situation where we went to Indiana. I think he
actually do pretty well at Indiana all things considered. I
you not a football powerhouse, but Goruden could go there
(27:35):
for a couple of years and then I don't know
ever coach in the NFL again. But Brian Flores, who's
suing the NFL as the defensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings,
and the forty nine ers defensive coordinators also suing the NFL.
So there are people suing the NFL that work for
the NFL. John Gruden also has an open lawsuit against
(27:55):
the NFL, but his name connected to the Indiana job
with a bunch of other hires or candidates that wouldn't
really excite you, that wouldn't really excite you, like somebody
from South Alabama who the hell cares life. I could
hire the offensive line coach from Ohio State. That would
(28:16):
be exciting, the offensive coordinator from Alabama, because all those
Alabama assistants go on and do amazing things when they
leave Nick Saban. So I'll hire one of them to
coach at Indiana. Let's go to the phones. We'll say
hello to Anthony in Anaheim. Hello, Anthony in Anaheim. I
don't hear any there he is. There's Anthony and Anna
(28:39):
right there there is.
Speaker 8 (28:40):
Yeah, big Ben, the big TV star. Now I feel
like such an honor to talk to you now.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
It's well, it's much more valuable now. I can't be
talking to the unwashed like you, Anthony. I'm now when
you do regional cable television on the weekends, you're you've
really arrived.
Speaker 8 (28:55):
It's about time that somebody recognized your greatness.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
You know, Hi've been saying that. I've been saying that
for some time, Anthony. It only took twenty five years
for that to happen.
Speaker 8 (29:06):
You know, I've been singing your praises forever too. You know,
I give you guys a shout I give you a
shout out on the Petros and Money show. You know,
Big Loom heard that a couple of weeks ago, the
words I tell everybody about your show, how oft it's very.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Kind of you. Me and Petros go way back. But
I didn't. I didn't think they take calls. How were
you able to do that there, Antony.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
Free Form Friday. Yeah, no, you know sometimes they open
them up, you know, not like that's what you know.
That's what people don't understand. Why everybody loves you is
because you're a man of the people. You take the
phone call.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
No, yes, yes, understood that.
Speaker 8 (29:44):
You know that, you know there's gold over the phone.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Calls.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
No, no, no, they have these things, Anthony, they have
these things called consultants, and they say no calls. They hate,
they hate the people that call radio shows. Cannot. Standard
people are work in the radio business hate radio callers cannot.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
It's not like Howard Stern made a career a conglomerates
based on ninety people who called his his the show.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
You know, well that's yeah, he's changed a lot over
the years. Well, yeah, of course changed.
Speaker 8 (30:22):
You know, we'll see whatever happens with him. But you
know he lost his edge, man. You know.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
More importantly, Anthony, I think you got a month off
and then you got to have another kid here, right,
So that's that's at the plan.
Speaker 8 (30:33):
Already born. Baby's already born.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Why no, the baby was born. Now you're gonna get
it on the next one.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
Though, No, no more.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I don't know about that, Anthony. You're you're very fertile, Anthony,
you're very.
Speaker 8 (30:44):
Maybe maybe I can start charging studying fees like they
do those horses, you know, gar it's.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
A great idea. I'm sure your wife would have no
problem with that, right.
Speaker 8 (30:52):
Well, that's the biggest obstacle, you know, if I get
under grand though, you know, hundred grand a time. You know,
I think you'd get over it.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Sure, why not? There you go? All right, I'm all right,
can I can? I?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Can?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I hang up on you now? Am I good?
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (31:06):
No?
Speaker 8 (31:06):
No, no, no, Hey. So I'm glad that the update
wasn't ten minutes. You know. I tried calling before he
went on vacation, you know, but I got squeezed out
by you know update guy there?
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Did he did?
Speaker 6 (31:19):
He?
Speaker 8 (31:19):
Is he from the tree of Brian Finley or what?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I don't know what. I don't know what tree he's from.
I don't I have no I think he's from a cactus. Actually,
think you.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
Know he should he should take some advice from doc Mike.
You know, you got to tell him take a breath, man.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Take a breath. Well you of course coaching the Anthony
and Anaheim Coaching tree very important. All right, I'm gonna
hang up on you now, go away, all right, go,
thank you all Mike.
Speaker 5 (31:45):
Good.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
See ever shown up to work and you try to
get in the building and they don't They don't want
you in the building. I actually had this happened last week.
The the gate, the main door to get into Fox
Sports Radio. So my card key did not work. I
was like, what happened? I knew I still worked here
(32:09):
because I got in the garage. Once you get in
the parking garage, you know, that's what costs them a
lot of money. They hate having to pay for parking.
So once I got into the parking garage, I knew
I still had employment. And then the actual door to
get in, though, is busted.
Speaker 9 (32:23):
I don't think it's working still, Ben, I know that's
what I'm saying. I'd go in that fancy glass door. Yeah,
we never know if it's gonna open or not. On
the right side, there's this showcase entrance. It's got the
big Fox Sports Radio logo on it. There's a table
looked very professional.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
On the other side is a crappy door with a
medicine cabinet on one side and eyeglass cleaners and what
else is there. They've got disinfectant wipes, little wipes you
can get wash your in your hands, and that's where
everyone usually enters.
Speaker 9 (32:55):
It looks like a door that it says like prohibited
access at the airport, you know, like it's just unmarked,
but it's for like, you know, personnel.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
So how expensive. Is that a building issue or is
that a company issue. That's like a building issue for sure.
But I think it's a building issue because that's part
of the building.
Speaker 9 (33:12):
I was gone for over a week and it's still
not fixed. So what's going on there?
Speaker 1 (33:17):
I don't know. Lead a Lap you're you're the big
morning guy. He's producing our show. Here. We got a
morning show producer. This is a big time show. Now
we got a morning show producer. I was saying, this
is big, not big at alls. So so leeas you
think that that, I think that's a building issue because
it is a building issue. Yes, I know the building
guys have been emailing, but I guess because of the
(33:39):
holidays they can't figure it, finish it until after, so
nothing gets done. We don't shut down on the holidays here.
Do they know that we're twenty four to seven shop.
We're open, Our doors are always open. You can tell
by all the trash bags in the hall too. Oh yeah,
this smell a bunch of crap laying around. This is
an extra added extent, the dance remix of rotting rotting food.
(34:03):
The people that work here cannot go more than two
hours without eating. It's fascinating that pie, though, Lee, would
you eat? Would you eat a piece of that pie?
That disgusting pie that's in the kitchen? I would not,
but I'm sure Coop would have.
Speaker 9 (34:15):
Yeah, I was gonna say, if Cooper is here, he
might he might think about it.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Why don't we save some for him and he can
eat it? If he's ever back, we can have him
eating something. Tells me it'll be there.
Speaker 9 (34:24):
Yeah, I don't think anyone's gonna Somebody might throw it away, though,
I hope our custodian Agusto throws it away.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Have you ever seen a pie less attractive than that pie? Yeah?
It's nothing color it should be no, right, it's an
off collar pie. And it looks like a very hard pie.
It does not look like the pumpkin filling is soft
and delicious. I think it's thin too, right, it's yeah,
it's a thin it's a petite pie.
Speaker 9 (34:47):
I'm going to make an executive decision and throw it
outside onto the ground.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Yeah, let the birds have at it. Should we take
a picture of it and share with the glass in trouble?
Who do you think brought the pie in? That must
from somebody's Thanksgiving dinner?
Speaker 9 (35:02):
Wednesday, Yeah, Thursday, at least three or four days old.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
It's an old pat. Anyway, I bring this up. The
reason we couldn't get in the building the other day.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
C J.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Stroud. I guess he's kind of a big deal. He's
a starting quarterback in the NFL, and he was briefly
locked out of the Texans locker room when he arrived
to work for the game on Sunday, which I guess
was a bad omen considering the Texans lost on a
missed field goal. They lose to Jacksonville. But c J.
Stroud is pretty funny. It's not as funny as the
(35:30):
video of the Jets, remember the Jets guy when but
it's it didn't last that long. But c J. Stroud
there is video of him and he could not get
in the Texans locker room, which is unfortunate for him. Hey,
I think there was Jamal Adams who was locked out
of the New York Was it Jamal Adams? The Jets
(35:51):
guy that that was a good video though, because he
sees I don't know, it wasn't him. It might have been.
He was seemed pretty upset. Anyway, here's the who m
my game. Giants quarterback Tommy DeVito the first undrafted quarterback
to start and beat Bill Belichick at any point in
his career. Since me again, Bill Belichick very rarely loses
(36:14):
to a rookie quarterback, but especially an undrafted quarterback. So
Giants quarterback Tommy DeVito the first undrafted QB to start
and beat Bill Belichick at any point in their careers.
Since me, who am I? The answer, We'll get to it.
We'll do it next.
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Now more than Mala moon Shine with Ben and here
is the who am I? Game? Giants quarterback Tommy devitoh
became the first underrafted QB to start and beat Bill
Belichick at any point in their careers. Since me, who
am I? That is the question? What is the answer,
(37:13):
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(37:34):
here the former FSR producer with the terrible stand up
comedy routine from yr Fimi. I can't read that on
the air. Norman Fell guests by Malibu Rubin Pete Carroll
from Malard prop Guy. Dwight Howard tossed out by Justin
in Cincinnati, big fan of Dwight's. I know Justin's always
(37:56):
supported him. Mexican John Dutton says, here's the godfather, Big Daddy,
That is the answer. Who else do we have? Caesar
Sedanio guest by mister nice guy, Officer Looney from ferg
Dog Warren Moon tossed out by Matt in the Bay
the Warrior Raider, former A's fan, Cooper Rush from Eke
(38:18):
in Roseville, Minnesota. Benito the Cowboy fan says Fox Sports
Radio custodian Augusto is the correct answer to a tongue
of by looa from Steven Meetpaul, although he misspelled that
it's a bad job by him. The correct answer the
correct answer to the who am I game again? Giants
(38:42):
quarterback Tommy DeVito first undrafted QB to start and beat
Bill Belichick at any point in their career since me
the answer Jake Dello of the Carol Lineup Panthers back
in twenty oh five, almost twenty years ago. It was
week two of the twenty zero five season. It is
(39:03):
interesting to note that Tommy DeVito the first rookie undrafted
quarterback to ever beat Bill Belichick. Not that impressive, though,
considering that no other undrafted rookie quarterback had ever started
against a Bill Belichick team. As the hits just keep coming,
I don't really care about that for Bill Belichick and
(39:24):
the Patriots. But it is not all bad news though,
because when you look at the big board, you people
that love your little draft. I love the draft the Patriots.
If the season ended right now, the NFL would lose
a lot of money and the Patriots would have the
number three pick behind the Bears and the Cardinals, and
the Patriots are right there. They're hanging around, hanging around.
(39:46):
They got shot at getting that number one pick. Still,
they're right in the game. I don't know, we'll si
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