December 5, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Jacksonville Jaguars losing to the Cincinnati Bengals on MNF after Trevor Lawrence went down with an ankle injury, if the Jags are cooked without Lawrence, Jake Browning's break-out game, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our num ber one and loads
of fun here in hour one as we kick off
a Tuesday, a sleepy Tuesday. We start with a Monday
night football game. Were you watching the game? Monday night?
Cincinnati at Jacksonville? Did not have a lot of juice
behind it, Cincinnati and Jacksonville, But oh what a game
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it was. It went to overtime, dramatic finish. Are the
Jaguars cooked without Trevor Lawrence? That's the story. He heard
his ankle, Trevor Lawrence late in the fourth quarter, and
we're not sure how long he's going to be out.
As we're doing this right now, it certainly seems like
he'll be out for at least a little bit. So
are the Jaguars cooked without Trevor Lawrence? Also, who benefits
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the most from the outcome of the Monday night football game?
And was a star born with someone named Jake Browning,
the Bengal backup quarterback who had a game for the
ages for the Cincinnati football team. We'll talk about that
and more right now here. It is this is our
number one. What can Browning do for you? Well? Played
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than sexy matchup in prime time. Not a lot of juice,
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not a lot of juice on this matchup, But that
was the site Duval County there for the Week thirteen finale,
the final act of the last weekend of the NFL activity.
That's game of the activity in week thirteen. I should
say there as de Troy Aig, Joe Buck, the Fox,
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the Fox guys that left to take the money and
call Monday Night football. They were there calling the game.
Cincinnati sans Joe Burrow visiting Jacksonville Now, if you didn't
watch this game, consider yourself lucky. Although Joe buckson oh
Game of the Year on Monday Night football, Okay, eh,
how about that, I'm not going to go that far.
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So if you didn't see it, someone named Jake Browning
lit up Jacksonville had three hundred and fifty four yards
passing and a touchdown, also ran for a touchdown second
career start, and the Beals stunted big road dogs. They
win the game outright, thirty four to thirty one, the
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final in overtime. But that only tells you part of
the story. Browning we mentioned he ran for a score.
The Bengals get back to five hundred and six and six.
They win a Monday night football game for the first
time since nineteen ninety. For the first time, says nineteen ninety,
the Bengals win a Monday night football game. Evan McPherson
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hit the forty eight yard field goal in extra bonus
time as Cincinnati wins the game. But the outcome of
the game is secondary to the sidebar that became the
lead story. This was supposed to be the sidebar with
Trevor Lawrence Jacksonville losing the services of Trevor Lawrence snap
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crackle pop a right ankle injury late in the fourth quarter.
The initial diagnosis a sprained ankle. Lawrence spotted in a boot,
He had the booty on, he had the boot and
the crutches and all that. Trevor Lawrence is gonna have
an MRI on Tuesday. Remember, the initial reports are often
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wrong on these things. You might recall when Joe Burrow
got hurt, the reporting was, well, he's dodged the season
ending injury, and then the next day they're like, psych
He's out for the year. So let us discuss the
question as we talk about the story within the story
here the situation at quarterback in Jacksonville. The question are
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the Jaguars cooked without Trevor Lawrence. So I've got oven
baked booster, rocket and Andy Warhol and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make some heartburn medicine, which is what the Jaguars need
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at this point here. They need something. They need that
that pink drink is what they need. So a Doug Peterson,
we'll start with this now. Doug Peterson said after the
game that he has one hundred confidence in someone named CJ.
Bethard as the quarterback going forward. Now we imagine his
nose was growing while he said this, Doug Peterson. But
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just to prove I am not making this up. Here
is Doug Peterson, the head coach in Jacksonville, talking about
his backup quarterback CEEJ. Bethett. Let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Oh yeah, we'll see where Trevor's at first. And but listen,
we got hundred percent confidence in CJ. I mean, he
did a nice job, you know, getting us down the
field there and you know, Ty in the football game,
I should have been the game winning field goal, but
it wasn't. But you know, got a lot of confidence
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in CJ. And you know, he's a veter player. He's
played a lot of football, and if he happens to
be the guy, then then you know, we get behind
him and support him.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Yeah, that's if you want to know what it sounds
like with someone's lying there that pregnant pause there where
he's contemplating the time space continuum in the middle of that.
So Trevor Lawrence is the franchise. And not that Lawrence
had been playing amazing, He had stretches, spotty, bipolar quarterback
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play from Trevor Lawrence where he'd look good for a
couple of games and then have the l stinko. And
in this game he looked pretty good, not amazing. It's
like he doesn't have that after burner. But now he
doesn't have healthy ankles, which is a problem, and he's
out if he's out for the season or a big
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chunk of what's left of the regular seasons. We head
into a week fourteen. Now it's turnout the last the
parties over see you later. So CJ. Bethard for anything
more than a cameo. Like a cameo Bethard, You're like, Okay,
a game here, a game there. You can catch lightning
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in a bottle from that football factory of offensive football, Iowa,
the Iowa guys, and that's where he went to college
many years ago, many years ago. He's been bouncing around,
toiling with the forty nine ers and the Jaguars in
the NFL. The talent is there, right, The talent is
there in terms of the playmakers on offense. But Jacksonville
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they've just been something off. There's something off with jack
I mean, they've won eight games, so I just expected more.
I had higher expectations, much higher expectations. And up next,
we assume Lawrence is going to miss at least a
couple of games based on the fact that he was
on crutches after this game on Monday night, So that
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would present at the Browns. The Browns have a top
defense at home and a horrible defense on the road.
I saw the Browns on Sunday against the La Rams,
and the Browns defense did not impress me at all.
But at home they've got great numbers, and so CJ.
Bethard against the Browns, good luck on that. And then
assuming that Lawrence misses a game after that, they play
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the Ravens. So that's lost loss for the Jacksonville football team.
How long will Trevor Lawrence be out? Well, he has
a sprained ankle, that's the initial reporting. But there's all
kinds of various sprained ankles, and you don't need me
to tell you, just go to web md. I've done
some research here. There's the high ankle sprain, there's the
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regular sprain. The fact that you needed crutches, it would
indicate that this is more than just your normal, common,
run of the mill situation. Now turning the pager who benefits.
Who is the beneficiary of the Monday night football outcome?
We said, well, they won the game, Eh, they're not
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going to the playoffs at the time we are doing
the show right now, at the time we are chatting,
the answer is all about Kansas City. They get the
old Booster Rocket Patty Mahomes and the Chiefs get the
Booster Rocket because they blew the game. They never led
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against the Packers, they just didn't show up for that
game on Sunday night. Kansas City gets a break because
the start of the weekend. We knew going into the
weekend with the Ravens not playing, they were on the
bye week. In Week thirteen, you had the Dolphins, the Jags,
and the Chiefs who all could win and move up
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the standings take advantage of the bye week. And the
only team that did was the Miami Dolphins. The only
only ones went up, so they obviously benefit. But you
look at the wide angle lens here in Kansas City
not showing up against the Packers, but they're all because
now Jacksonville without Trevor Lawrence, and at this moment, it's
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like the wheel of fortune. You spin the wheel of
fortune at the very top there of the AFC standings,
because you've got the number one seed is the Miami Dolphins.
Because of their win, they move up to the number
one seed. The Ravens go to the number two seed,
and the Chiefs are at number three, Jacksonville at number four,
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and a lot of teams flummoxed by the middle part.
I don't know, it's not even the middle part. It's
getting late in the season here, we're getting towards the
stretch run. But the NFL is up for grass. We
say that every year. And I could still argue that
if you gave me five teams to pick, I could
pick the five teams that would be or six teams
that would be in the Super Bowl, some combination of
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those six teams. But with Trevor Lawrence getting injured and
likely out for at least a few games, if not
the rest of the season within an ankle injury, which
seems pretty bad, so you can now put an X
through Jacksonville, so you get rid of them, and then
you start looking around, You're like, well, I can make
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arguments against every one of the teams in the AFC.
I can make a compelling argument that none of the
teams are going to win anything in the AFC. Kansas
City has wide receivers that have the dropsies they got
butterfingers at wide receiver defense is good, but the playmakers
are not there on offense. For Mahomes, the Ravens have
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a guy that's the king of suck in big games
in Lamar Jackson. How many playoff games does this guy
have to ride the vomit comet before people figure that out.
The Dolphins are not battle tested. They don't beat anybody
any good. So you go down to the top, you're like, Okay,
well somebody's gonna end up going to the super Bowl.
One of those teams is gonna go there. But none
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of them are invincible. The only team that's close to
invincible is the forty Niners, but they lost to the
leave the Browns because they got a system cornerback. So
those guys around brock Perty get hurt. They're screwed. He
can't make up for the loss of a receiver like
Deebo Samuel. All right, now, last word here was a
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star born for the Bengals backup Jake Browning. So yes,
until proven otherwise, right, until proven otherwise. Jake Browning had
a Andy Warhol kind of a night. It was his
not fifteen minutes of fame. In this case, it was
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close to seventy minutes of fame because the game went
to overtime, almost went all the way to the end
of overtime, but the Bengals finished with four hundred and
ninety one yards of offense. They converted eight of fourteen
on third down. Browning looked like he was back playing
for the Huskies and he had that one amazing year
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in college for Chris Peterson and just outstanding, and that's
what he looked like. It was surgical. In fact, to
use a better analogy, it was like Thanksgiving and carving
a turkey. In this case, Jake Browning was carving a jaguar.
He averaged almost ten yards per past. Now, that was
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a lot of dink and dunk and get the ball
to the playmakers. But at work, he converted almost eighty
seven percent of his passes. Here, Jamar Chase targeted twelve times,
he caught eleven of them for one hundred and forty
nine yards. This job is not that difficult. It's not
that hard to get the ball out of the playmakers. Now,
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was it beginner's luck? Wasn't his first start. He played
against the Steelers the week prior there. Time will tell,
but the Jags, the Jags sure looked lousy in terms
of defense, and they've been pretty mediocre defensively all season.
They're ranked in around twenty fifth in most defensive statistics,
and they backed that up by making Jake Browning look
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like a total total stud out there. A dominator reminds
me of years ago, and I was covered the NBA,
and this is a long time ago, I'm gonna date myself,
but Charles Barkley was playing for the Houston Rockets at
the time, and they had this super team that wasn't super.
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They had Barkley and Scottie Pippen and they played the Clippers,
who were terrible the old LA Sports Arena, which they destroyed,
not there anymore. It's a soccer stadium now. And this
guy named Tyrone Nesby put up like thirty three or
thirty five points, some ridiculous point total, and as the
players I happened to be standing near the locker room
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as the players were walking off the court, and Charles
Barkley before he became the icon, Charles Barkley on TNT,
he starts yelling at Scottie Pippen. Way to go, Pip.
You just got nesby a new contract, and I think
we could say way to go jack Civille Defense. You
just gave Jake Browning reason to think that he's going
to have a future in the NFL the way that
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a golf cart. We'll get to that. And a pop
culture icon. We'll get to this later on the hour.
A pop culture icon taking aim at a football pundit.
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We've got the details. We'll get to that, and we
will do it next.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
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Speaker 1 (17:04):
We're talking about that Monday Night game. The Benals get
to win thirty four p thirty one in over time
as they get back to five hundred and six and six,
Jacksonville drops to eight and four. And that is where
we sit as we head into a Week fourteen, which
will begin in a couple of days on Thursday. What
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a matchup these Steelers with their backup quarterback who just
lost to the Cardinals, who aren't even trying to win
against the Patriots who also are not trying to win.
An epic matchup. I'm sure al Michaels will be on
his best behavior unless he's not in that particular game.
But as far as the playoff seating is concerned, the
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only big change for Monday Night is that Kansas City
because they would have been behind Jacksonville in the standings
one loss wise, but they have the tiebreakers, so even
though they have the same record, Kansas City is ahead
of Jacksonville in that The Mallard militia have a lot
to say. And when we start with JC who says
a perfect five stars on the opening Mallard monologue, with
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all of these starting quarterbacks going down. I think we
could see some interesting signings such as RG three or
maybe even Colin Kaepernick. Good luck on that, JC, good
luck on that. If Joe Flacco is starting for the Browns,
why not them? Well, Kaepernick sued the NFL that would
be why not him? And RG three has sucked for years.
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That's why he's doing television and not playing. Freddie writes
In says, it's like every sport is the same speech.
When a back comes in, we have to trust our backup,
he says, because no one wants to confest they are
sca rude. Very rarely will they admit that. Youphemi and
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Chicago says, Hey Mallard a plus and a Gordida crunch
rap supreme. On the Mallard monologue, the Bengals back up
Brown had a better game passing in his second start
than the Bears quarterback has had in three years. The
Jags made their franchise quarterback walk with a bum leg
all the way to the locker room. You can't win, Well,
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that's actually the issue. I was going to get to
your Phoemi. You were reading my mind. So people are
losing their lunch because Trevor Lawrence walked instead of riding
a golf cart. They had no cart for Trevor Lawrence
to get to the locker room. People were furious, How
could they do this? What's wrong with you? Now? Is
it possible that Trevor Lawrence wanted to attempt to walk
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off on his own power? I don't know. Maybe he
wanted a cart and there's a shortage on golf cart.
Jacksonville's a big golf town. Maybe all the golf carts
were being charged because people were golfing all day on
Monday and they had no access to a golf cart.
Or it's conceivable that Lawrence just wanted to walk. He's like,
I want to walk off the field or limp off
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the field under my own own power. I demand I
demand that. But I'm sure we'll hear all the details,
breathless details about what actually happened behind the scenes. When
you hear all about that, who else do you have
page down here? Late night drug tester says, was there
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a hit put on Trevor Lawrence? Maybe that was the
NFL's way to help Cansaus City after the missed call
at the end of Sunday night. Well, that's a bull strategy.
I think the NFL they were sitting around on Monday morning, like,
oh man, the refs totally botched this. So we got
to help out the Chiefs. So I know we'll do.
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We'll put a hit out and we'll have an offensive
lineman step on Trevor Lawrence and that'll mess him up,
and then we'll be good to go. It'll be absolutely
what iful. Craig, better known as Crying Craig from Seattle
writes that he says, these Seahawks have lost three games
in a row, which means that I've been crying for
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three straight rate weeks. He says, very emotional. He's verclemmed
is what he is now. Chris in de Moines says
former Hawkeys quarterback CJ. Bethard will take the Jags to
the super Bowl versus former Iowa state quarterback and current
forty nine er quarterback Rock Party. Hey, that's now, that's
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an Iowa minute. Well, by then the Iowa mid will
probably be canceled by If that happens, they might just
get rid of the Iowa minute. There might be no
more Iowa minute. That'd be the end of it. It'd
be all over. See you later. Turn out the last,
the parties over aps a bleep and loosely. All right,
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we'll take your calls if you would like to be
part speak easy rules are in effect as we wait
for AI to destroy all humanity as we know it?
And will will they leave sports radio? Will they spare
sports radio? Who knows? Anyway, We'll press on and a
straight ahead A pop culture icon has unloaded on a
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college football pundit, the nature boy. Rick Flair is upset,
and when Rick Flair is upset, we must react. We'll
get to that, but right now, let's get you cut
about everything going on in the overnight, not worrying their
alternative uniforms. Eddie Garcia. The Bengals had their white helmets there, smooth,
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look sweet like those. I'm not a fan. You like
your traditionalists, you like the pumpkin. I guess I don't
know a fan of a pumpkin. I don't like any
of the uniforms that are pretty much all one color.
I like them to be You like variety, Yeah, advice
of life. These are okay. I like the regular Bengal uniforms.
I don't need these. Now, you're old enough to remember
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when the Bengals helmets did not have the stripes on
them any right back in the day.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Well, yeah, I remember that. When I was a kid.
I think I had a lunch box. Do they make
those anymore, by the way, lunch boxes.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
No, kids don't eat lunch anymore.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
I used to have a lunch box and it had
all the NFL helmets. Yeah, it had written it just
written Bengals. I just that's you're so excited by that.
Your headphones broke. Eddie's headphones just came out. He can't
hear me, so I could curse at him. He can't
hear me.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Right now, I hear you curs if you want, though. Yeah,
you know, I heard somebody did that last night. Somebody
would emailed me said, I don't know, I don't know
about that, but yeah, yeah, I love those old the
NFL back before they became greedy bastards, and they used
to have like cool, like random crap that just you know.
They didn't spend a lot of time. The marketing arm
of the NFL didn't exist. It was probably like a
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mom and pop shop in like West Covina or something
that they in LA that they hired to do the marketing.
Like you can sell those old like the Rams jacket,
the coach's jacket from the nineteen seventies. It just said Rams.
That's it. That's all. That is more. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Anyway, be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
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Speaker 4 (24:00):
And in college football, your four finalists for the Heisman
Trophy have been announced, and it's three quarterbacks and a
wide receiver. You got Washington quarterback Michael Pennocks junior, Oregon
QB BO Nix, Ohio state wide receiver Marvin Harrison, junior,
and LSU quarterback Jaden Daniels.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Your crime, fine crime. Quarterback didn't make it. He's not
going to the ball game either. Do you see that?
I did see that. There is a here is a
tradition at us see that most of their team doesn't
show up to the ball game. Even when they're there,
they don't show up. So that's that's fair. That is fair.
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a pop culture icon from wrestling and beyond the Rick
Flair not happy. He's upset with Paul fine bamb of
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all people, the college football pundit, you're talking about oddity's
the nature boy. Turning to social media, and he posted
a screenshot of what he claimed was a message from
the college football pundit. Now backstory here, Rick Flair is
BFF with Jim Harball. No, I did not know that.
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Why are they? I don't understand that connection. I don't know.
I don't know the Michigan as those two guys get into.
But anyway, Rick Flair apparently upset that this fine Bomb cat.
I don't really watch ESPN, but apparently he's an interesting
looking guy, that's for sure. Yeah yeah, yeah, but he's
an old radio guy that he's put on look on there.
(25:47):
Yeah yeah yeah. Anyway, So Rick Flair is defending the
honor of Jim Harball. He's upset. Apparently Fine Bomb has
been critical of of Harball and the Mischigan suspension sign
that and according to Rick Flair, he posted this. He said,
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this is a supposedly a message and maybe he's making
this up. He's a great entertainer, Rick Flair, But he said, Hi,
this is supposedly a text message from Paul Finebaumb. Hi,
Paul Finebaum. Here do you think he sends messagers? Hi,
Paul Finebaum? Here? You think he sends a message like
that only to people who apparently don't know who he is? Okay, right?
Why would you announce who you are?
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah, it's kind of obviously. But he's an old guy.
Maybe that's he's the way he does with technology, he says. Anyway,
the message says, you've lost so many friends in the
South for being petty about Kirby and embracing Harbass. So
sad was the message from finebaumb to Rick Flair. Flair,
of course, then sent it out and said, thank you
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for your expertise. However, I disagree he said that I've
lost anything in terms of popularity in the South. You
wish you could be half the man that coach Harbaugh
is ten thousand on Michigan, Rick Flair said, and I
want to say stfu, but since I'm a class act,
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and then he went on, all right, so Ric Flair
bet in ten grand on Michigan. Michigan. I don't see
what happens with that. Let's go to the phones, and
I would not bet ten thousand on Michigan. I do
like the conspiracy theory though, that the people that put
this together tried to screw Michigan over by putting them
against Alabama. Try to stick it to them. Let's go
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to the falls. We'll say hello to Mario, who's in Michigan.
He's a Michigan man. Hello, Mario. Don't blue baby amazing blue?
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Hey man, I'm sorry I haven't called it a you
probably about a week, maybe a week in a couple
of days. By twenty fifth anniversary, I took my wife
to Europe.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Oh congratulations?
Speaker 5 (27:57):
How was well? All right? Pretty good? Pretty big deal though, Right,
you're a twenty fifth anniversary. You know what I'm gonna
do for our fifth? Yere?
Speaker 1 (28:05):
What's that?
Speaker 5 (28:06):
I'm gonna go figure up?
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Now?
Speaker 5 (28:11):
Where's that Sam?
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Is he?
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I don't know, easy, I don't know where he is.
I have noied he'll be back. Supposedly later said he
wasn't there.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
I just wanted to make sure he was all right.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
As far as I know, he's all right.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Yeah, good deal, good deal, Coop sounds a little cranky.
He was like, what's up?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Like, what are you cranky? Coop? Are you in a
bad mood? Would you like to share with the class? No,
I'm fine.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Everything good, Coop? Yeah, awesome, all right, man, I just
wanted to.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Call all right, all right, you checked in, Mario, we'll
call in.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
I gotta call it. All right.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Well, that's right, you have nothing to say. I like that.
You have nothing to say, though, and you still call in.
I like that. That's goods all right, you two, all right,
thank you?
Speaker 5 (28:54):
All right, radio, that's right.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Whatever you said. Sure, all right, all right, I'm hanging up.
Hang up. It's like, I don't really have anything to say,
but you know, I just want to check in. I
liked it. It's like doing roll call. You don't want
to be truant. You know, you don't want to be tardy.
You gotta show up and we gotta make sure you're there.
Got to hear your voice otherwise you're not there. Yeah, unfortunate, unbelievable.
(29:24):
Let's see. You can't well, I guess I can't read
this one. It was at the NBA In season tournament.
There was a fan that had a medical emergency and
died at that Pelican's Kings game. How about and the
guy was like in his thirties. How about that craziness
(29:45):
during the first quarter of the King's Pelicans game. As
a statement from the Sacramento Kings, guests had a medical
emergency and they responded to give CPR but apparently un successful. Wow. Wow,
So you never know when the end is going to
be there. You get to go to a basketball game
(30:05):
and that's it all right? Anyway, It is the Ben
Mahlers Show. As we continue time now for the who
am I?
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Game?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
And here it is Poo codakoo uh, Pooka Nokouha join
me as the only players in the common Draft era
who were not selected in the top one hundred picks
of the draft to go past one thousand receiving yards
as a rookie. Pooka Nakoupa the Rams joining me me
(30:36):
as the only players in the common Draft era who
were not selected in the top one hundred picks of
the draft to surpass one thousand receiving yards in their
rookie season. Who am I? That is the question. The answer.
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
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joined me as the only players in the Common Draft
era who were not selected in the top one hundred
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picks of the draft to go past one thousand receiving
yards in their rookie season. That is the question. What
is the answer? Does anyone know the answer? Who sent
an answer in Shane from Des Moines going with the
Honey Badger as his answer, Willie Roafe Guess by Robbie
(32:14):
the Mariner fan? Is that actually what you bought there? Robbie?
Is that your gift? Who else we have? Frank Sanders
of the Cardinals guest by Late Night drug tester, Papa
Smurf from Cowboy Killer Former Bulldog Nicoe Whitley Guess by
the Sawman. Who else do we have? Easy for me
to say, Tom Flick from Bay City, Tony Johnny five
(32:38):
from Yaphimi page down the Jacksonville Players cart Guess by
Chris in Des Moines. Mister nice guy's going with the
guy that blew the world series for the Cleveland Indians
in nineteen ninety seven. Jose Mesa as his answer. Who
else we have? Joe Jarvisius from Rob in Minnesota, Jay
segoing with our colleague here, Tea Huschmanzada, So he was
(33:01):
in the tabloids today. An interesting story there, Cardiac Stanley
from Milkman. Mike in Colorado, Paige down page down, Alf
the alien O Piner says Royal Huddleston Burpie senior inventor
of the burpie according to alf fun Fact, Eddie, do
(33:24):
you have an answer? It's not Rudy Rudinger guessed by
the Casey Carhauler, or Altoon from Parker the snow Dog,
the legendary Bronco fan or Oj McDuffie from Big Lou
in the LBC.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
No, those are all fine guesses, but incorrect. The correct
answer is Wayne Krauebet, former Jets WIDERCI.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Going to go with Wayne Krebet their final answer, Eddie, Yeah,
that is incorrect. The correct answer is the all time
leading receiver in Saint's history, Marcus Colston. Marcus Colston in
twenty six. Now we are told that Poka Nakua still
needs ten more yards to break Colston's record in air quotes.
(34:04):
As far as that is concerned, let's go back to
the falls. Colston went to Hofstra just like Wayne Corbett.
How you got the wrong Hofster guy? I think I
should get partial credit. You don't get any credit for that.
There's no credit for that. Let's go to the Pahones.
We'll say hello to Dan. He's an Oregon man. Hello Dan, Yeah,
I was kind.
Speaker 7 (34:22):
Of confused when you mentioned the Heisman Trophy.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
What were you confused about? Let me help you out, Dan.
Speaker 7 (34:30):
Well, I would think that the Florida State quarterback should
just be a shoe in him. Since he kept a
thirteen in old Power five team from making the playoffs
all by himself, it must be amazing.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
It's a good point. He's so good that he's able
to block an entire team from playing for the championship.
You don't really care about that, do you know? It's
just a funny line, right Dan, you don't really care.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
I think it.
Speaker 7 (34:59):
I think it's something that should be talked about.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
No, you don't care. You know, you're not a Florida's
You're not from Florida. You don't care about the seminoles.
We need to do a wellness check on Jed who fled.
That's who we need to do a wellness check on.
Because there's a guy that's got some skin in the game.
Jed who fled. That's a guy that he cares about
Florida State. Maybe yeah, all right, well you got your
(35:24):
you are you proud of yourself? You got your line
in there? You happy?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (35:29):
That was kind of nice, all right, very good. You
kept your mouth clean. That's good, very nice. All right,
I'm hanging up on you. Go away. Let's say hello
to Andrea. She is in Berkeley. She's the sports sorceress,
the astrology lady as we love her. Hello Andrea, Hello, Ben?
Speaker 6 (35:43):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (35:44):
If I was any better, I'd be a Lawrence, but
not Trevor Lawrence because I need a boot. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (35:50):
You know, I was watching Monday night football and you
know he's a charming lebra. I gotta confess bit of
a fangirl here. He's born October sixth.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
That he has the flowing locks like Samson, Yes, like
who Samson?
Speaker 6 (36:05):
Oh yeah, yeah, No, that's he looks very Berkeley, Ben.
He definitely looks like someone who would be walking down
Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. Very hippie and free spirited. And
you know, here's the thing. You know, Uranus is expected unexpected,
and Urana's squared as Jupiter. And you know he has
this kind of stubborn streak in his chart. And you
(36:28):
mentioned he didn't want to wear he didn't want to go.
Speaker 7 (36:30):
On the cart.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Well that's my my analysis is that he didn't want
to go on the cart. I have not confirmed that,
but I'm pretty confident they would have gotten them a
cart if he wanted the cart, right, why would they
not have them? Every NFL game I've ever been to,
they've got more carts than they have anything else. There's
tons of carts.
Speaker 6 (36:48):
Yes, exactly, yes, So you know, it was just and
then of course I recognized the quarterback that filled in
for him because he used to be a forty nine er.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
That's right, Yeah, he was with the forty nine ers.
He didn't play much there, but he was there, right, So.
Speaker 6 (37:05):
That was interesting. But it was just really you know, sad.
I mean a lot of quarterbacks. They showed on the
screen how many quarterbacks are out with an injury, and
then you know it was just kind of sad to
see that he was one of them, and you know,
it's just sort of one of those transits. You know,
it's like he expect me unexpected. But he's got mores
(37:27):
and sagittarius. You know, he's got a lot of fire
and get up and go in his chart, but it's
just kind of got.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Up there, oh, you and have get up and go
all you want, but it's the ankles. If it's broke,
who knows, I mean, they say it's not broken, but
if the ligaments are all messed up, it reminds me
of that Joe Burrow, Joe Burrow. Initially they said Burrow
was only going to be out a little bit, he'd
be back, and then then the next day they're like, psych,
he's going to be out. So we'll see what happens
with that. But all right, well, thank you, Harry, thank you.
(37:54):
All right, there she goes, All right, there she goes.
The astrology lady, our friend Andrea, where she goes? Only
she knows. Yeah, I don't think CHERRYL. Lawrence is probably
he might look like he would do well in Berkeley,
but I don't know. I'm not sure. Based on his upbringing,
I don't think he would do well. And I don't
know though, I have no idea. But we'll see what
(38:17):
happens with that. Interesting interesting too, I like the people
complaining about all the quarterbacks get hurt. That's called every
season in the NFL. Every year, the same thing happens.
They all these guys get hurt.
Hello and welcome. It's our num ber one and loads
of fun here in hour one as we kick off
a Tuesday, a sleepy Tuesday. We start with a Monday
night football game. Were you watching the game? Monday night?
Cincinnati at Jacksonville? Did not have a lot of juice
behind it, Cincinnati and Jacksonville, But oh what a game
(00:22):
it was. It went to overtime, dramatic finish. Are the
Jaguars cooked without Trevor Lawrence? That's the story. He heard
his ankle, Trevor Lawrence late in the fourth quarter, and
we're not sure how long he's going to be out.
As we're doing this right now, it certainly seems like
he'll be out for at least a little bit. So
are the Jaguars cooked without Trevor Lawrence? Also, who benefits
(00:44):
the most from the outcome of the Monday night football game?
And was a star born with someone named Jake Browning,
the Bengal backup quarterback who had a game for the
ages for the Cincinnati football team. We'll talk about that
and more right now here. It is this is our
number one. What can Browning do for you? Well? Played
(01:08):
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(02:15):
not a lot of juice on this matchup, But that
was the site Duval County there for the Week thirteen finale,
the final act of the last weekend of the NFL activity.
That's game of the activity in week thirteen. I should
say there as de Troy Aig, Joe Buck, the Fox,
(02:36):
the Fox guys that left to take the money and
call Monday Night football. They were there calling the game.
Cincinnati sans Joe Burrow visiting Jacksonville Now, if you didn't
watch this game, consider yourself lucky. Although Joe buckson oh
Game of the Year on Monday Night football, Okay, eh,
how about that, I'm not going to go that far.
(02:58):
So if you didn't see it, someone named Jake Browning
lit up Jacksonville had three hundred and fifty four yards
passing and a touchdown, also ran for a touchdown second
career start, and the Beals stunted big road dogs. They
win the game outright, thirty four to thirty one, the
(03:20):
final in overtime. But that only tells you part of
the story. Browning we mentioned he ran for a score.
The Bengals get back to five hundred and six and six.
They win a Monday night football game for the first
time since nineteen ninety. For the first time, says nineteen ninety,
the Bengals win a Monday night football game. Evan McPherson
(03:42):
hit the forty eight yard field goal in extra bonus
time as Cincinnati wins the game. But the outcome of
the game is secondary to the sidebar that became the
lead story. This was supposed to be the sidebar with
Trevor Lawrence Jacksonville losing the services of Trevor Lawrence snap
(04:04):
crackle pop a right ankle injury late in the fourth quarter.
The initial diagnosis a sprained ankle. Lawrence spotted in a boot,
He had the booty on, he had the boot and
the crutches and all that. Trevor Lawrence is gonna have
an MRI on Tuesday. Remember, the initial reports are often
(04:24):
wrong on these things. You might recall when Joe Burrow
got hurt, the reporting was, well, he's dodged the season
ending injury, and then the next day they're like, psych
He's out for the year. So let us discuss the
question as we talk about the story within the story
here the situation at quarterback in Jacksonville. The question are
(04:47):
the Jaguars cooked without Trevor Lawrence. So I've got oven
baked booster, rocket and Andy Warhol and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make some heartburn medicine, which is what the Jaguars need
(05:08):
at this point here. They need something. They need that
that pink drink is what they need. So a Doug Peterson,
we'll start with this now. Doug Peterson said after the
game that he has one hundred confidence in someone named CJ.
Bethard as the quarterback going forward. Now we imagine his
nose was growing while he said this, Doug Peterson. But
(05:32):
just to prove I am not making this up. Here
is Doug Peterson, the head coach in Jacksonville, talking about
his backup quarterback CEEJ. Bethett. Let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Oh yeah, we'll see where Trevor's at first. And but listen,
we got hundred percent confidence in CJ. I mean, he
did a nice job, you know, getting us down the
field there and you know, Ty in the football game,
I should have been the game winning field goal, but
it wasn't. But you know, got a lot of confidence
(06:01):
in CJ. And you know, he's a veter player. He's
played a lot of football, and if he happens to
be the guy, then then you know, we get behind
him and support him.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Yeah, that's if you want to know what it sounds
like with someone's lying there that pregnant pause there where
he's contemplating the time space continuum in the middle of that.
So Trevor Lawrence is the franchise. And not that Lawrence
had been playing amazing, He had stretches, spotty, bipolar quarterback
(06:34):
play from Trevor Lawrence where he'd look good for a
couple of games and then have the l stinko. And
in this game he looked pretty good, not amazing. It's
like he doesn't have that after burner. But now he
doesn't have healthy ankles, which is a problem, and he's
out if he's out for the season or a big
(06:55):
chunk of what's left of the regular seasons. We head
into a week fourteen. Now it's turnout the last the
parties over see you later. So CJ. Bethard for anything
more than a cameo. Like a cameo Bethard, You're like, Okay,
a game here, a game there. You can catch lightning
(07:16):
in a bottle from that football factory of offensive football, Iowa,
the Iowa guys, and that's where he went to college
many years ago, many years ago. He's been bouncing around,
toiling with the forty nine ers and the Jaguars in
the NFL. The talent is there, right, The talent is
there in terms of the playmakers on offense. But Jacksonville
(07:39):
they've just been something off. There's something off with jack
I mean, they've won eight games, so I just expected more.
I had higher expectations, much higher expectations. And up next,
we assume Lawrence is going to miss at least a
couple of games based on the fact that he was
on crutches after this game on Monday night, So that
(08:00):
would present at the Browns. The Browns have a top
defense at home and a horrible defense on the road.
I saw the Browns on Sunday against the La Rams,
and the Browns defense did not impress me at all.
But at home they've got great numbers, and so CJ.
Bethard against the Browns, good luck on that. And then
assuming that Lawrence misses a game after that, they play
(08:20):
the Ravens. So that's lost loss for the Jacksonville football team.
How long will Trevor Lawrence be out? Well, he has
a sprained ankle, that's the initial reporting. But there's all
kinds of various sprained ankles, and you don't need me
to tell you, just go to web md. I've done
some research here. There's the high ankle sprain, there's the
(08:41):
regular sprain. The fact that you needed crutches, it would
indicate that this is more than just your normal, common,
run of the mill situation. Now turning the pager who benefits.
Who is the beneficiary of the Monday night football outcome?
We said, well, they won the game, Eh, they're not
(09:02):
going to the playoffs at the time we are doing
the show right now, at the time we are chatting,
the answer is all about Kansas City. They get the
old Booster Rocket Patty Mahomes and the Chiefs get the
Booster Rocket because they blew the game. They never led
(09:22):
against the Packers, they just didn't show up for that
game on Sunday night. Kansas City gets a break because
the start of the weekend. We knew going into the
weekend with the Ravens not playing, they were on the
bye week. In Week thirteen, you had the Dolphins, the Jags,
and the Chiefs who all could win and move up
(09:43):
the standings take advantage of the bye week. And the
only team that did was the Miami Dolphins. The only
only ones went up, so they obviously benefit. But you
look at the wide angle lens here in Kansas City
not showing up against the Packers, but they're all because
now Jacksonville without Trevor Lawrence, and at this moment, it's
(10:04):
like the wheel of fortune. You spin the wheel of
fortune at the very top there of the AFC standings,
because you've got the number one seed is the Miami Dolphins.
Because of their win, they move up to the number
one seed. The Ravens go to the number two seed,
and the Chiefs are at number three, Jacksonville at number four,
(10:28):
and a lot of teams flummoxed by the middle part.
I don't know, it's not even the middle part. It's
getting late in the season here, we're getting towards the
stretch run. But the NFL is up for grass. We
say that every year. And I could still argue that
if you gave me five teams to pick, I could
pick the five teams that would be or six teams
that would be in the Super Bowl, some combination of
(10:50):
those six teams. But with Trevor Lawrence getting injured and
likely out for at least a few games, if not
the rest of the season within an ankle injury, which
seems pretty bad, so you can now put an X
through Jacksonville, so you get rid of them, and then
you start looking around, You're like, well, I can make
(11:11):
arguments against every one of the teams in the AFC.
I can make a compelling argument that none of the
teams are going to win anything in the AFC. Kansas
City has wide receivers that have the dropsies they got
butterfingers at wide receiver defense is good, but the playmakers
are not there on offense. For Mahomes, the Ravens have
(11:33):
a guy that's the king of suck in big games
in Lamar Jackson. How many playoff games does this guy
have to ride the vomit comet before people figure that out.
The Dolphins are not battle tested. They don't beat anybody
any good. So you go down to the top, you're like, Okay,
well somebody's gonna end up going to the super Bowl.
One of those teams is gonna go there. But none
(11:54):
of them are invincible. The only team that's close to
invincible is the forty Niners, but they lost to the
leave the Browns because they got a system cornerback. So
those guys around brock Perty get hurt. They're screwed. He
can't make up for the loss of a receiver like
Deebo Samuel. All right, now, last word here was a
(12:14):
star born for the Bengals backup Jake Browning. So yes,
until proven otherwise, right, until proven otherwise. Jake Browning had
a Andy Warhol kind of a night. It was his
not fifteen minutes of fame. In this case, it was
(12:36):
close to seventy minutes of fame because the game went
to overtime, almost went all the way to the end
of overtime, but the Bengals finished with four hundred and
ninety one yards of offense. They converted eight of fourteen
on third down. Browning looked like he was back playing
for the Huskies and he had that one amazing year
(12:58):
in college for Chris Peterson and just outstanding, and that's
what he looked like. It was surgical. In fact, to
use a better analogy, it was like Thanksgiving and carving
a turkey. In this case, Jake Browning was carving a jaguar.
He averaged almost ten yards per past. Now, that was
(13:20):
a lot of dink and dunk and get the ball
to the playmakers. But at work, he converted almost eighty
seven percent of his passes. Here, Jamar Chase targeted twelve times,
he caught eleven of them for one hundred and forty
nine yards. This job is not that difficult. It's not
that hard to get the ball out of the playmakers. Now,
(13:40):
was it beginner's luck? Wasn't his first start. He played
against the Steelers the week prior there. Time will tell,
but the Jags, the Jags sure looked lousy in terms
of defense, and they've been pretty mediocre defensively all season.
They're ranked in around twenty fifth in most defensive statistics,
and they backed that up by making Jake Browning look
(14:04):
like a total total stud out there. A dominator reminds
me of years ago, and I was covered the NBA,
and this is a long time ago, I'm gonna date myself,
but Charles Barkley was playing for the Houston Rockets at
the time, and they had this super team that wasn't super.
(14:24):
They had Barkley and Scottie Pippen and they played the Clippers,
who were terrible the old LA Sports Arena, which they destroyed,
not there anymore. It's a soccer stadium now. And this
guy named Tyrone Nesby put up like thirty three or
thirty five points, some ridiculous point total, and as the
players I happened to be standing near the locker room
(14:46):
as the players were walking off the court, and Charles
Barkley before he became the icon, Charles Barkley on TNT,
he starts yelling at Scottie Pippen. Way to go, Pip.
You just got nesby a new contract, and I think
we could say way to go jack Civille Defense. You
just gave Jake Browning reason to think that he's going
to have a future in the NFL the way that
(15:07):
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upset because of a golf cart. People getting upset over
a golf cart. We'll get to that. And a pop
culture icon. We'll get to this later on the hour.
A pop culture icon taking aim at a football pundit.
(15:48):
We've got the details. We'll get to that, and we
will do it next.
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Speaker 1 (17:04):
We're talking about that Monday Night game. The Benals get
to win thirty four p thirty one in over time
as they get back to five hundred and six and six,
Jacksonville drops to eight and four. And that is where
we sit as we head into a Week fourteen, which
will begin in a couple of days on Thursday. What
(17:27):
a matchup these Steelers with their backup quarterback who just
lost to the Cardinals, who aren't even trying to win
against the Patriots who also are not trying to win.
An epic matchup. I'm sure al Michaels will be on
his best behavior unless he's not in that particular game.
But as far as the playoff seating is concerned, the
(17:48):
only big change for Monday Night is that Kansas City
because they would have been behind Jacksonville in the standings
one loss wise, but they have the tiebreakers, so even
though they have the same record, Kansas City is ahead
of Jacksonville in that The Mallard militia have a lot
to say. And when we start with JC who says
a perfect five stars on the opening Mallard monologue, with
(18:10):
all of these starting quarterbacks going down. I think we
could see some interesting signings such as RG three or
maybe even Colin Kaepernick. Good luck on that, JC, good
luck on that. If Joe Flacco is starting for the Browns,
why not them? Well, Kaepernick sued the NFL that would
be why not him? And RG three has sucked for years.
(18:31):
That's why he's doing television and not playing. Freddie writes
In says, it's like every sport is the same speech.
When a back comes in, we have to trust our backup,
he says, because no one wants to confest they are
sca rude. Very rarely will they admit that. Youphemi and
(18:52):
Chicago says, Hey Mallard a plus and a Gordida crunch
rap supreme. On the Mallard monologue, the Bengals back up
Brown had a better game passing in his second start
than the Bears quarterback has had in three years. The
Jags made their franchise quarterback walk with a bum leg
all the way to the locker room. You can't win, Well,
(19:14):
that's actually the issue. I was going to get to
your Phoemi. You were reading my mind. So people are
losing their lunch because Trevor Lawrence walked instead of riding
a golf cart. They had no cart for Trevor Lawrence
to get to the locker room. People were furious, How
could they do this? What's wrong with you? Now? Is
it possible that Trevor Lawrence wanted to attempt to walk
(19:38):
off on his own power? I don't know. Maybe he
wanted a cart and there's a shortage on golf cart.
Jacksonville's a big golf town. Maybe all the golf carts
were being charged because people were golfing all day on
Monday and they had no access to a golf cart.
Or it's conceivable that Lawrence just wanted to walk. He's like,
I want to walk off the field or limp off
(20:00):
the field under my own own power. I demand I
demand that. But I'm sure we'll hear all the details,
breathless details about what actually happened behind the scenes. When
you hear all about that, who else do you have
page down here? Late night drug tester says, was there
(20:21):
a hit put on Trevor Lawrence? Maybe that was the
NFL's way to help Cansaus City after the missed call
at the end of Sunday night. Well, that's a bull strategy.
I think the NFL they were sitting around on Monday morning, like,
oh man, the refs totally botched this. So we got
to help out the Chiefs. So I know we'll do.
(20:41):
We'll put a hit out and we'll have an offensive
lineman step on Trevor Lawrence and that'll mess him up,
and then we'll be good to go. It'll be absolutely
what iful. Craig, better known as Crying Craig from Seattle
writes that he says, these Seahawks have lost three games
in a row, which means that I've been crying for
(21:02):
three straight rate weeks. He says, very emotional. He's verclemmed
is what he is now. Chris in de Moines says
former Hawkeys quarterback CJ. Bethard will take the Jags to
the super Bowl versus former Iowa state quarterback and current
forty nine er quarterback Rock Party. Hey, that's now, that's
(21:23):
an Iowa minute. Well, by then the Iowa mid will
probably be canceled by If that happens, they might just
get rid of the Iowa minute. There might be no
more Iowa minute. That'd be the end of it. It'd
be all over. See you later. Turn out the last,
the parties over aps a bleep and loosely. All right,
(21:44):
we'll take your calls if you would like to be
part speak easy rules are in effect as we wait
for AI to destroy all humanity as we know it?
And will will they leave sports radio? Will they spare
sports radio? Who knows? Anyway, We'll press on and a
straight ahead A pop culture icon has unloaded on a
(22:08):
college football pundit, the nature boy. Rick Flair is upset,
and when Rick Flair is upset, we must react. We'll
get to that, but right now, let's get you cut
about everything going on in the overnight, not worrying their
alternative uniforms. Eddie Garcia. The Bengals had their white helmets there, smooth,
(22:28):
look sweet like those. I'm not a fan. You like
your traditionalists, you like the pumpkin. I guess I don't
know a fan of a pumpkin. I don't like any
of the uniforms that are pretty much all one color.
I like them to be You like variety, Yeah, advice
of life. These are okay. I like the regular Bengal uniforms.
I don't need these. Now, you're old enough to remember
(22:48):
when the Bengals helmets did not have the stripes on
them any right back in the day.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Well, yeah, I remember that. When I was a kid.
I think I had a lunch box. Do they make
those anymore, by the way, lunch boxes.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
No, kids don't eat lunch anymore.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
I used to have a lunch box and it had
all the NFL helmets. Yeah, it had written it just
written Bengals. I just that's you're so excited by that.
Your headphones broke. Eddie's headphones just came out. He can't
hear me, so I could curse at him. He can't
hear me.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Right now, I hear you curs if you want, though. Yeah,
you know, I heard somebody did that last night. Somebody
would emailed me said, I don't know, I don't know
about that, but yeah, yeah, I love those old the
NFL back before they became greedy bastards, and they used
to have like cool, like random crap that just you know.
They didn't spend a lot of time. The marketing arm
of the NFL didn't exist. It was probably like a
(23:36):
mom and pop shop in like West Covina or something
that they in LA that they hired to do the marketing.
Like you can sell those old like the Rams jacket,
the coach's jacket from the nineteen seventies. It just said Rams.
That's it. That's all. That is more. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
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Speaker 4 (24:00):
And in college football, your four finalists for the Heisman
Trophy have been announced, and it's three quarterbacks and a
wide receiver. You got Washington quarterback Michael Pennocks junior, Oregon
QB BO Nix, Ohio state wide receiver Marvin Harrison, junior,
and LSU quarterback Jaden Daniels.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Your crime, fine crime. Quarterback didn't make it. He's not
going to the ball game either. Do you see that?
I did see that. There is a here is a
tradition at us see that most of their team doesn't
show up to the ball game. Even when they're there,
they don't show up. So that's that's fair. That is fair.
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a pop culture icon from wrestling and beyond the Rick
Flair not happy. He's upset with Paul fine bamb of
(25:01):
all people, the college football pundit, you're talking about oddity's
the nature boy. Turning to social media, and he posted
a screenshot of what he claimed was a message from
the college football pundit. Now backstory here, Rick Flair is
BFF with Jim Harball. No, I did not know that.
(25:25):
Why are they? I don't understand that connection. I don't know.
I don't know the Michigan as those two guys get into.
But anyway, Rick Flair apparently upset that this fine Bomb cat.
I don't really watch ESPN, but apparently he's an interesting
looking guy, that's for sure. Yeah yeah, yeah, but he's
an old radio guy that he's put on look on there.
(25:47):
Yeah yeah yeah. Anyway, So Rick Flair is defending the
honor of Jim Harball. He's upset. Apparently Fine Bomb has
been critical of of Harball and the Mischigan suspension sign
that and according to Rick Flair, he posted this. He said,
(26:10):
this is a supposedly a message and maybe he's making
this up. He's a great entertainer, Rick Flair, But he said, Hi,
this is supposedly a text message from Paul Finebaumb. Hi,
Paul Finebaum. Here do you think he sends messagers? Hi,
Paul Finebaum? Here? You think he sends a message like
that only to people who apparently don't know who he is? Okay, right?
Why would you announce who you are?
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah, it's kind of obviously. But he's an old guy.
Maybe that's he's the way he does with technology, he says. Anyway,
the message says, you've lost so many friends in the
South for being petty about Kirby and embracing Harbass. So
sad was the message from finebaumb to Rick Flair. Flair,
of course, then sent it out and said, thank you
(26:50):
for your expertise. However, I disagree he said that I've
lost anything in terms of popularity in the South. You
wish you could be half the man that coach Harbaugh
is ten thousand on Michigan, Rick Flair said, and I
want to say stfu, but since I'm a class act,
(27:12):
and then he went on, all right, so Ric Flair
bet in ten grand on Michigan. Michigan. I don't see
what happens with that. Let's go to the phones, and
I would not bet ten thousand on Michigan. I do
like the conspiracy theory though, that the people that put
this together tried to screw Michigan over by putting them
against Alabama. Try to stick it to them. Let's go
(27:34):
to the falls. We'll say hello to Mario, who's in Michigan.
He's a Michigan man. Hello, Mario. Don't blue baby amazing blue?
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Hey man, I'm sorry I haven't called it a you
probably about a week, maybe a week in a couple
of days. By twenty fifth anniversary, I took my wife
to Europe.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Oh congratulations?
Speaker 5 (27:57):
How was well? All right? Pretty good? Pretty big deal though, Right,
you're a twenty fifth anniversary. You know what I'm gonna
do for our fifth? Yere?
Speaker 1 (28:05):
What's that?
Speaker 5 (28:06):
I'm gonna go figure up?
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Now?
Speaker 5 (28:11):
Where's that Sam?
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Is he?
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I don't know, easy, I don't know where he is.
I have noied he'll be back. Supposedly later said he
wasn't there.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
I just wanted to make sure he was all right.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
As far as I know, he's all right.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Yeah, good deal, good deal, Coop sounds a little cranky.
He was like, what's up?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Like, what are you cranky? Coop? Are you in a
bad mood? Would you like to share with the class? No,
I'm fine.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Everything good, Coop? Yeah, awesome, all right, man, I just
wanted to.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Call all right, all right, you checked in, Mario, we'll
call in.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
I gotta call it. All right.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Well, that's right, you have nothing to say. I like that.
You have nothing to say, though, and you still call in.
I like that. That's goods all right, you two, all right,
thank you?
Speaker 5 (28:54):
All right, radio, that's right.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Whatever you said. Sure, all right, all right, I'm hanging up.
Hang up. It's like, I don't really have anything to say,
but you know, I just want to check in. I
liked it. It's like doing roll call. You don't want
to be truant. You know, you don't want to be tardy.
You gotta show up and we gotta make sure you're there.
Got to hear your voice otherwise you're not there. Yeah, unfortunate, unbelievable.
(29:24):
Let's see. You can't well, I guess I can't read
this one. It was at the NBA In season tournament.
There was a fan that had a medical emergency and
died at that Pelican's Kings game. How about and the
guy was like in his thirties. How about that craziness
(29:45):
during the first quarter of the King's Pelicans game. As
a statement from the Sacramento Kings, guests had a medical
emergency and they responded to give CPR but apparently un successful. Wow. Wow,
So you never know when the end is going to
be there. You get to go to a basketball game
(30:05):
and that's it all right? Anyway, It is the Ben
Mahlers Show. As we continue time now for the who
am I?
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Game?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
And here it is Poo codakoo uh, Pooka Nokouha join
me as the only players in the common Draft era
who were not selected in the top one hundred picks
of the draft to go past one thousand receiving yards
as a rookie. Pooka Nakoupa the Rams joining me me
(30:36):
as the only players in the common Draft era who
were not selected in the top one hundred picks of
the draft to surpass one thousand receiving yards in their
rookie season. Who am I? That is the question. The answer.
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
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Speaker 1 (31:30):
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joined me as the only players in the Common Draft
era who were not selected in the top one hundred
(31:52):
picks of the draft to go past one thousand receiving
yards in their rookie season. That is the question. What
is the answer? Does anyone know the answer? Who sent
an answer in Shane from Des Moines going with the
Honey Badger as his answer, Willie Roafe Guess by Robbie
(32:14):
the Mariner fan? Is that actually what you bought there? Robbie?
Is that your gift? Who else we have? Frank Sanders
of the Cardinals guest by Late Night drug tester, Papa
Smurf from Cowboy Killer Former Bulldog Nicoe Whitley Guess by
the Sawman. Who else do we have? Easy for me
to say, Tom Flick from Bay City, Tony Johnny five
(32:38):
from Yaphimi page down the Jacksonville Players cart Guess by
Chris in Des Moines. Mister nice guy's going with the
guy that blew the world series for the Cleveland Indians
in nineteen ninety seven. Jose Mesa as his answer. Who
else we have? Joe Jarvisius from Rob in Minnesota, Jay
segoing with our colleague here, Tea Huschmanzada, So he was
(33:01):
in the tabloids today. An interesting story there, Cardiac Stanley
from Milkman. Mike in Colorado, Paige down page down, Alf
the alien O Piner says Royal Huddleston Burpie senior inventor
of the burpie according to alf fun Fact, Eddie, do
(33:24):
you have an answer? It's not Rudy Rudinger guessed by
the Casey Carhauler, or Altoon from Parker the snow Dog,
the legendary Bronco fan or Oj McDuffie from Big Lou
in the LBC.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
No, those are all fine guesses, but incorrect. The correct
answer is Wayne Krauebet, former Jets WIDERCI.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Going to go with Wayne Krebet their final answer, Eddie, Yeah,
that is incorrect. The correct answer is the all time
leading receiver in Saint's history, Marcus Colston. Marcus Colston in
twenty six. Now we are told that Poka Nakua still
needs ten more yards to break Colston's record in air quotes.
(34:04):
As far as that is concerned, let's go back to
the falls. Colston went to Hofstra just like Wayne Corbett.
How you got the wrong Hofster guy? I think I
should get partial credit. You don't get any credit for that.
There's no credit for that. Let's go to the Pahones.
We'll say hello to Dan. He's an Oregon man. Hello Dan, Yeah,
I was kind.
Speaker 7 (34:22):
Of confused when you mentioned the Heisman Trophy.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
What were you confused about? Let me help you out, Dan.
Speaker 7 (34:30):
Well, I would think that the Florida State quarterback should
just be a shoe in him. Since he kept a
thirteen in old Power five team from making the playoffs
all by himself, it must be amazing.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
It's a good point. He's so good that he's able
to block an entire team from playing for the championship.
You don't really care about that, do you know? It's
just a funny line, right Dan, you don't really care.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
I think it.
Speaker 7 (34:59):
I think it's something that should be talked about.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
No, you don't care. You know, you're not a Florida's
You're not from Florida. You don't care about the seminoles.
We need to do a wellness check on Jed who fled.
That's who we need to do a wellness check on.
Because there's a guy that's got some skin in the game.
Jed who fled. That's a guy that he cares about
Florida State. Maybe yeah, all right, well you got your
(35:24):
you are you proud of yourself? You got your line
in there? You happy?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (35:29):
That was kind of nice, all right, very good. You
kept your mouth clean. That's good, very nice. All right,
I'm hanging up on you. Go away. Let's say hello
to Andrea. She is in Berkeley. She's the sports sorceress,
the astrology lady as we love her. Hello Andrea, Hello, Ben?
Speaker 6 (35:43):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (35:44):
If I was any better, I'd be a Lawrence, but
not Trevor Lawrence because I need a boot. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (35:50):
You know, I was watching Monday night football and you
know he's a charming lebra. I gotta confess bit of
a fangirl here. He's born October sixth.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
That he has the flowing locks like Samson, Yes, like
who Samson?
Speaker 6 (36:05):
Oh yeah, yeah, No, that's he looks very Berkeley, Ben.
He definitely looks like someone who would be walking down
Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. Very hippie and free spirited. And
you know, here's the thing. You know, Uranus is expected unexpected,
and Urana's squared as Jupiter. And you know he has
this kind of stubborn streak in his chart. And you
(36:28):
mentioned he didn't want to wear he didn't want to go.
Speaker 7 (36:30):
On the cart.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Well that's my my analysis is that he didn't want
to go on the cart. I have not confirmed that,
but I'm pretty confident they would have gotten them a
cart if he wanted the cart, right, why would they
not have them? Every NFL game I've ever been to,
they've got more carts than they have anything else. There's
tons of carts.
Speaker 6 (36:48):
Yes, exactly, yes, So you know, it was just and
then of course I recognized the quarterback that filled in
for him because he used to be a forty nine er.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
That's right, Yeah, he was with the forty nine ers.
He didn't play much there, but he was there, right, So.
Speaker 6 (37:05):
That was interesting. But it was just really you know, sad.
I mean a lot of quarterbacks. They showed on the
screen how many quarterbacks are out with an injury, and
then you know it was just kind of sad to
see that he was one of them, and you know,
it's just sort of one of those transits. You know,
it's like he expect me unexpected. But he's got mores
(37:27):
and sagittarius. You know, he's got a lot of fire
and get up and go in his chart, but it's
just kind of got.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Up there, oh, you and have get up and go
all you want, but it's the ankles. If it's broke,
who knows, I mean, they say it's not broken, but
if the ligaments are all messed up, it reminds me
of that Joe Burrow, Joe Burrow. Initially they said Burrow
was only going to be out a little bit, he'd
be back, and then then the next day they're like, psych,
he's going to be out. So we'll see what happens
with that. But all right, well, thank you, Harry, thank you.
(37:54):
All right, there she goes, All right, there she goes.
The astrology lady, our friend Andrea, where she goes? Only
she knows. Yeah, I don't think CHERRYL. Lawrence is probably
he might look like he would do well in Berkeley,
but I don't know. I'm not sure. Based on his upbringing,
I don't think he would do well. And I don't
know though, I have no idea. But we'll see what
(38:17):
happens with that. Interesting interesting too, I like the people
complaining about all the quarterbacks get hurt. That's called every
season in the NFL. Every year, the same thing happens.
They all these guys get hurt.
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