December 6, 2023 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Steelers complaining about T.J. Watt being given the NFL's version of the Hack-A-Shaq, Mike McDaniel attempting to downplay the Dolphins accomplishments, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number one, our one of
the Mallard Show podcast. We kick it off with a
football to loser and we discuss the story out of Pittsburgh.
What are these Steelers looking to get from griping about
TJ Watt being given what one coach called the NFL's
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version of hacker shack. Also, where are you on, Mike
McDaniel attempting to downplay the dolphins accomplishments as they're the
number one seed in the AFC. And can the Jags
breathe a sigh of relief for Trevor Lawrence. We'll discuss
that as well. It's all coming your way right now here.
It is our number one. An NFL headliner under siege,
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should be. So I'm very bad at checking my email,
and big fans of the show know that I don't
usually check the email very often, maybe a couple times
a week, because usually it's bad news. You've got mail.
For some reason, I checked the email and I had
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a couple of people who are fans of the show saying, well,
you got to start with the NBA. I mean you
have to, you have to stay. It's the play in
or not to play in. It's the uh is it
the what is called? I don't know what this thing
is in season whatever they made up in season, And
I was like, why would I do that? No, No,
it's look at the calendar. The NBA starts on Christmas.
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We're not at Christmas. No, the NBA starts on Christmas.
We pay attention for like two weeks and then we
forget about the NBA. Now, I had on the background
as I was getting ready for the show, making copious
notes for the show. I did have the play in.
Oh again, I gotta keep calling the plane the in
season tournament. I had that, but I had it on.
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But no, I know what powers the company here football?
So are lad this hour coming from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, home
of the Insers, Home of the Insers. As the door opens,
and we have a follow up to a flat gasted
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defensive star. Now right there, that gets you attention, right there,
that gets your attention. It's just random noises here. Don't mind,
don't mind the background noise at all. But t J Watt.
TJ Watt recently implied that the NFL has a vendetta
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against him. The NFL is anti TJ Watt. He said it.
He said it after the last Steeler game. And now
we can add to the story. It's called a follow up,
a follow up. And if you've not heard the latest
and perhaps not, Steelers defensive coordinator Tarrell Austin took it
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a step further. He said, hold my bear. He believes
the defensive guru in Pittsburgh that opposing NFL teams are
employing the football version of hack a shack. They're doing
hack a shack on tjy say why, uh yes, he said,
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quote these guys are going to hold you until they
can't because a lot of times. That's the only way
that can block. The defensive coach ranted and raved quote continues.
I said, he said, I mean, I share in his frustration,
he said, of what, but I don't think there's anything
that we can do about it. We can complain and
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we can do all of that, but the that really
doesn't solve the problem. The Pittsburgh defensive coach said. So
I think we just deal with it. We just continue
to fight and go. It's almost like the hack a
shack close quote. All right, So that's a good quote.
We like good quotes. We react to good quotes. That's
a solid quote. I'll give it like an eight. It's
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an eight out of ten. So let us discuss the
question what are these Steelers looking to get? What are
the Steelers looking to get from publicly griping about TJ.
Watt being given the NFL's version of a hacker shack.
So I've got Neon yellow highlighter, prepackaged and disco and
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we will combine all of these things together and we're
going to make the Iowa Minute, which we'll be back
later for possibly one of the final times Iowa Sam
has returned. So anyway, this is the way I will
describe the Steelers defensive coach calling out really the officials.
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He couched it. It was subtle. It was subtle. But
this is strategic, is the word I will use. It
is strategic because tall Austin, he camouflaged the comments. But
to those of us that have seen this kind of
stuff before, we know how this works. This is more
of an NBA type situation where you gripe about the officials,
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you complain about not getting calls, and then all of
a sudden, for like the next week, you get every call.
That's what this is, right, I mean, you're parsing the
words here. This was a message in a bottle or
in this case, a message into a microphone. Attention, NFL
officiating arm. Put a neon neon yellow highlighter on TJ. Watt.
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That's what you gotta do. Put a neon yellow highlighter
on TJ. Watt. Make sure he's allowed to roam free
across the serengetti. Throw a terrible towel if you have to,
over the offensive lineman for the opposing team there. But Austin,
the defensive coach, and the Steelers here are using the megaphone.
The media megaphone to highlight this. Now it's the law
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of averages. We know how this works. Aaron Donald, I'm
a RAMS guy, right, Aaron Donald for years has always
been double team and they've held Aaron Donald and he
still was dominant. He's not as dominant as he used
to be, but he's still pretty good. And the argument,
we've had coaches that have worked here over the years
at Fox Sports Radio. We've talked off the air and
on the air about this, and the coaches will say, well,
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if you hold one hundred percent of the time and
they only call holding twenty percent of the time, you
have contained the other team's defensive star eighty percent of
the time. And you're it's it's it's like I used
to work with a guy that would always drive in
the carpool lane and he did this because he only
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got a couple of tickets and it was worth him
to save. He did a cost benefit of analysis. Now
he should not do this. You should not because it's wrong.
But he would drive solo in the carpool lane and
he only got a couple of tickets, and it was
like once every five years he would get a ticket.
And so he determined that in in order to get around,
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and you'll go around to traffic. It made sense for him,
and so he was willing to pay the ticket every
five years or so because he saved a lot of
time and he got to where he had to go quicker.
And that's the argument to holding in the NFL. And
it's like it's a subjective thing. They don't call it
most of the time because they don't want to throw
too many penalties unless they're calling a Seahawk Cowboy game,
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then they'll call every penalty. All right now, headline, we
moved to South Beach. Don't look now. But the Dolphins,
the Miami Dolphins are a football team. They had, Yeah,
they are. They got a hockey fight song from back
in the day. The Dolphins curly art number in the
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American Football Conference. It's first time in over twenty years
the Dolphins have been the number one team. This late
end of the season, there was only five weeks to go.
That's it. We got five weeks to go in this
thing in the regular season. So Mike McDaniel, what do
you think he said about this? Mike McDaniel was asked
about the situation here and hasn't got a big deal
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and all this number one seed, and it turns out
that Mike McDaniel does not particularly give a rats ass
about the team being the number one seed with the
schedules still to come. McDaniel said, quote, call me when
it's a thirteen game season, and I'll be excited to
talk about that next game. He said. Now, whether or
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not you agree with Mike McDaniel, that does not matter.
We will react to what Mike McDaniel said. So, where
are you on, Mike McDaniel attempting to down play, down
play the dolphins accomplishments. So for all the zingers and
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the quirky by nature approach of Mike McDaniel, for all
of that, deep down, when you peel back the onion
and you realize at his core, he's still the stereotypical,
prepackaged coaching, the Korum guy. And so I've heard this
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quote so many times doing sports radio over the years.
I went to the Google. I typed it into Google
and I said, you know, I've heard this anytime a
coach or a star player is asked if they follow
the script, the talking points memo, and they're asked, well,
you've done so, and so what an amazing accomplishment, and
their response, almost universally from sportscliche dot com is we
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haven't accomplished anything yet. That's always the respon hundred percent
of the So I did Google search and millions and
millions of responses to that quote. I typed in, we
haven't accomplished anything yet. And this goes back twenty years.
It includes almost all athletes, a few politicians, but mostly athletes,
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And from Jalen Hurts to Tom Brady to the owner
of the case are a line of hockey team. I
mean it's you go way back. There's one with Don Shula,
who's dead. He gave the quote, I mean, you can
just keep going, going and going and going, and millions
of responses. Right, And you're not supposed to celebrate the
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mile mark when you're running the Boston Marathon. You have
to go twenty six point two miles. You can't celebrate
mile four or mile ten or mile fifteen. You've got
to celebrate at twenty six point two miles. All right,
last word here headline from Jacksonville follow Up Department Part two.
Here quarterback Trevor Lawrence avoiding season ending injury. Supposedly, now,
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Lawrence was injured. We talked about this after the game
on Monday night. That was the big headline, Right, ankle
inadvertently stepped on by friendly fire. The Jacksonville tackle walker
little who does not have little feet and is not
a little man walker Little the guy here inadvertently stepped
on his quarterback. And Doug Peterson said, it's just a
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high ankle spring. He said, that's it. Everything is stable,
everything loves good, and the interweb headlines saying, well, he
might play this weekend against Cleveland. Jacksonville. One headline read
Jacksonville can breathe a sigh of relief on Trevor Lawrence's injury.
So the question is can Jacksonville breathe a sigh of
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relief for Trevor Lawrence at this point? So I'm shaking
my head no on this. While it is not it
is not a doomsday scenario. Nevertheless, I still file this one.
Panic at the disco. Panic at the disco. Now here's why,
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even though the Jags are pretending like Trevor Lawrence is
going to play, he's not going to play against Cleveland
this weekend. That's not going to happen. The recovery time.
If it's a legitimate high ankle sprain is usually at
least four weeks until you're back to normal, and often
longer than that. Now, the Jags are fighting for AFC
positioning and they had a shot at the number one
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seed to keep pace with Miami and Baltimore, and they
failed to do that. The Jags they have five weeks
ago in the regular season and from the frying pan
into the fire with likely CJ. Bethart at least for
a game, possibly two, possibly three plus. Even when Trevor
Lawrence does come back, I'm a realist here, So you're
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assuming he's going to come back and be good. How
do you know that? You know there's usually lingering effects
from the high ankle sprain where you're not right, the
instability of the ankle, it lasts even when you come
back and perform athletic. We've seen a lot of big
name quarterbacks You've had this injury over the time we've
been doing this, and a few of them have come
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back and been okay, and oftentimes they don't come back
and they don't play that when they do come back,
but they don't play that well. It is the Ben
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Do you know that Eddie Garcia wrecking ball be drinking
interrupted a Mallard monologue A man on a mission as
he stormed out of his studio, opened the door, turned right,
walk down a hall, made another right turn, walked down
another long haul, made another turn, opened the big bank
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vault door.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
He was on a.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Rampage, remember that video game rampage, good video game, arcade game,
great movie, and he came in it. That's a joke.
You move something, Eddie, It was something blocking your view.
He couldn't see your pretty face bend.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
It's actually a positive. That's not a negative. Well that's
true as well. But I you know, you want to
make eye contact. They have a lot of video equipment.
We're doing radio.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I don't even know what that was.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I moved. Is it a light that is a it's
not a light, but that reflects the light back at
the talent. Oh fancy, since I have no talent, we
don't use that. In fact, much to the chagrin of Sager,
I actually turn the lights down. Sager is recording all
of these monologues remotely, probably in his underwear at home.
(17:20):
He's recording this. But what I do is I turn
the lights down. I like to set the mood, and
so that's how I operate in the studio. I have
the lights down, dim and all that.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
And I mean, if I could go through all the
trouble of moving us to these studios so we can
see each other, I figured, I would you know that
thing out of the way is blocking my view of you.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Twenty two years without working together and without seeing each
other's I think we've checked that box that we know
how to do that. And I'm also happy to report
if you ever get a job here at Fox Sports.
Rated boy, it's a great place to work, a wonderful,
wonderful place. They pay you well, they give you lots
of perks and all that. But as an added bus,
there's twenty four hours in the day. And which which
(18:01):
time of the day do you think they decide to
update the computer system in the main studio? What do
you think the pretty I take a guess is.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
At the same time that they decide to do construction
right outside the parking Oh, there's.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
An obstacle court. You enjoyed the obstacle course getting in
yet like getting into the parking lot. Now the gate
was up.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
That's going to be the best part is that we
won't be able to open the gate to get out.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah, the gate, that's probably true. But the gate was up.
And then but there was a truck park right where
I needed to go to get to where I needed
to go, and then there was another Like it was ridiculous,
Like and these guys, I need a minute. Contractors are
sitting out there just you know, smoking, They don't give
a crap, you know, just like whatever, they figure it out.
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And I'm like, well, I don't want to hit one
of your stupid cars because then I got to contact
my insurance and I don't want that. Uh anyway, man alive.
Let's see who do we have JC rights? And he says,
what a spectacular eight plus mallard monologue speaking of using
a hack a shack strategy versus Watt. I don't understand
why teams don't intentionally rough the kicker on Pat's The
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penalty would be applied on the kickoff, which is always
a fair catch anyway. So JC, you're going not the
high road, You're going the low road. You're like, let's
take out the kicker in the first quarter. Then you
won't be able to kick extra points or field goals
the rest of the game. Advantage to you. Shane of
(19:25):
de Moines, who hates every single person that calls the
show other than Shane and the Moines. He says, so
no more Mark the full name guy. Yes, Mark the
full name guy. He calls Mark the full of himself guy.
Mark quit the show. He was upset because we got
into a tussle over Geno Smith and it was heated.
(19:48):
There were mean things said on both sides, and he,
of course very sensitive. He's a delicate little flower. You
think you'd be a tough guy from Brooklyn, he wouldn't care.
But he's a delicate little flower. So he quit the show.
This is I think the seventy ninth time he's quit
the show since he was listening to the show. And
but he told me this is it, this is it,
that last time, not coming back. He's done. Shanavan White
(20:12):
also says, can we now get rid of Sir scratch
awful and the blind kid from Washington? How about Shane
attacking the blind community and redneck truck drivers from Arkansas?
Bad job by you? Come on? What did Emmett do?
Emmitt's great? Well, the only problem with emit is he
likes the board ops a little too much.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
And that's it's a little awkward messaging with Emmett last
few days. Who you know, he just wants forties are listening?
You want to be careful?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
What?
Speaker 5 (20:41):
No, No, Emmittt's great. He is my pal, he's your friend,
that's your buddy. Yeah, I did. I was on his
podcast once. I think you guys all did his podcasting?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
You well, he paid me to go on. I didn't
I do it?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Do it?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Didn't for free? I did it for free. I did
not pay me. I don't care that he's blind. He
had to pay me. I'm as valuable. Ferg Dog rites
and says I'm a reasonable man. Ben. Only a couple
of things get underneath my skin, and one of them
is the show starting without your patented on air tweet. Well,
Ferg Dog, who goofed? I've got to know. Heads are
(21:14):
going to roll, fer Dog, heads are going to roll
the art of sports talk, says hey, Ben, what's Otani
waiting for any chance this drags out longer? Well, yeah,
the Winter Meetings are going to end soon, but there's
no reason to think it's gonna you know, Tani watch
is gonna end anytime. So we will have the Hour
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of Otani, the Hour of Otani. I'm looking forward. You
loving forward to the Hour of Otani. I'll be coming
up next next hour.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Yes, I read that that article that you're going to reference. Well,
there's a couple. There's a couple on it.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Okay, all right, let me guess you're gonna defend Otani
because I am not going to defend Oani.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
No, I just it's I'm not gonna defend per se.
I just I wonder if it signals anything.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Oh a deeper meaning yeah, you're gonna psycho analyze the Times.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Ron Washington see that says he doesn't want to let
anything out of the box.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
When they were asked him, Dave Roberts doesn't care that.
Dave Roberts is like, hey, yeah, we met with him, Yeah,
I liked him, really did? We shoved Dodger dogs down
his throat and we tossed twenty five dollars. Nacho trays
at him anyway, The Dodger fair Rivers rites and says, hey, Mallard,
Jordan Love has been looking like Kobe in a helmet?
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Is that Kobe Bryan or Kobe Beef anyway? With a
similar look to his face lately, I think Green may
may have done it again with a new quarterback. He's
playing very well Jordan Love. But are we ready to
say he's going to be great for the next fifteen years?
I am not there. I am not there. Late night
drug tester says, even if Trevor Lawrence comes back, that
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defense isn't stopping anybody in the plus all, was that
not atrocious? Was that not god awful defense? Holy crap
on a cracker. They suck so much Jacksonville turned Jake
Browning into the Jake Browning. It was Washington, it was nuts.
Your Femi writes and says, hey, Mallory a plus in
an Italian beef on the mallon Monel Augustra, NFL is
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concocting a storyline for fans at these court as these
quarterbacks go down with injuries. Look for more manipulation in
prime time games. What a weekend of primetime football we
have to look forward to. I was peeking ahead as
I start getting ready for the TV show and we're
looking at the games.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
And tell me, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I didn't look ahead. Well, Thursday, you're a Steelers player. Yeah,
that's that's the Steeler and Patriot game. That's a terrible
Island game. Sunday night's not bad Eagles Cowboys. But then
but Monday night, there's two games on Monday Night. Why
I don't know, I didn't make the schedule, the Titans
and the Dolphins. That's a huge mismatch. And the Packers
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and Giants. The way the Packers have been playing and
the Giants haven't been playing well, so that's that's also
a mismatch in favor of Green Bay but that game
is in New Jersey. So those are the four Island games.
There's one good one, the Eagles and the Cowboys on
Sunday night, and outside of that some of the other games,
and there's there's decent level of interest, like even a
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game like the Texans play the Jets this weekend. Do
you trust C. J. Stroud as a road favorite in
what's likely going to be a bad weather game in Jersey?
I don't know about that. Who the Jets starting, it
doesn't matter. I think they're I think they're gonna go
back to Zach Wilson. But they they released Tim Boyle,
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they got rid of them. So it's either Trevor Simon
or Yeah, how about you start on Sunday. You're fired
on Tuesday. That's the That's the NFL. That's the league.
That's yeah, pretty much art it is the Ben Mahler Shows.
We wait for the computer to reboot. Here the magic
of doing overnight radio. It is a rigged deal and
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a winter wonderland is upon us. But right now, let's
get you cut about everything going on in the overnight
in we say hello to the Merman, the wrecking Ball,
Eddie Garcia. All right, that reminds what you did reminded
me of the famous night Wreckett Ralph was in for
you and he got upset on somebody. Well, he got
(25:32):
upset with Justin and Cincinnati because guys were busting his
balls and Wreckett Ralph stormed in and hung up on everybody.
I think they called him wrecked him Ralph or something. Wow,
he got so upset. And this guy used to be
a program director at the radio station. He came in
here and hung up on everybody. He grabbed the phone
from Mike Mayer, who former? What is he still in business?
(25:55):
He's with the Pac twelve networks, so probably not out.
He's got a job now. But no, I think he'll
be switching over to some other serious entity.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
But yeah, he grabbed the phone that I was told this,
grabbed the phone and hung it up, grabbed it out
of Mayor's hand.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I liked it. I like Mayor, but he didn't like me.
I'm not talking to him. To see left here we
were just work for ends.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Was Ralph wearing a sweater that might might have been
a little bit too small for him.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Showing his beer belly possibly? Wow? Shots fired by Eddie
Fashion Eastie.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
That's why I don't wear a sweater.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yeah, if you got a little chunk, the sweater is
not kind to you. Yeah, good news, Eddie, work updates
are not thirty five percent. Don't turn off the computer
and say don't turn I will not turn off the computers.
All right, we're up to thirty five percent.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Well, be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Well, we've been doing this a while, Ben, and we
know we predicted. We saw this coming a mile away.
Florida Governor Ron De Santos took the college Football Playoff
Committee to task for excluding undefeated Florida State in the
fourteen playoffs. To say, to speaking any news conference to
detail his propos one hundred and fourteen point four billion
dollar budget for Florida, said he's asking for a million
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dollars to let Florida State sue.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
The college football Just send me the Moneymitt, he send
me the money. I'll take the million dollars from the
taxpayers of Florida. That's great, that's great. Use of fiscal
funds is to spend on a lawsuit you cannot win.
You cannot win. The lawsuit is a subjective thing. It
is a panel that gets together. And I don't know
if you saw this bouncing around the interweb this week.
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There was an old clip of Mike Leach, the late
Mike Leach, ranting about how stupid it is to have
a committee, and he was like, well, why don't they
do that in the other sports? They don't have a
committee at the end of the season, they should have
you know, I'm a paraphrasing year, but he's like, they
should decide who gets into the playoffs in football or
in the NFL via committee, and who gets to the
Super Bowl via committee and all that stuff. It's just stupid.
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And that's college football. That's big time college football. Thank goodness,
we're going to that twelve team huh yeah. Then we'll
be debating about seating and we'll see who got screwed
the tougher road. Nobody cares about they're doing that this
year this Dan Patrick started a conspiracy theory on these
airwaves that the committee was out to screw Michigan because
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Harbaugh and Michigan were involved in these signs stealing skys.
Somebody has to play Alabama, that's true, but they could
have they could have, you know that, four teams, and
they could have switched it up where they could have
had Washington play Alabama. They didn't have to want to
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weekend in the NFL now, not so much as snow,
but if you enjoy football in the rain, you are
(29:00):
going to be very happy this weekend now. The early
forecast among the rain games mentioned that Houston Texans New
York Jets game that a seventy plus percent chance of
rain in Jersey, the Ravens and Rams game not far
away in Baltimore, rain likely for that game. Rain expected
(29:22):
in Cleveland for Jacksonville Cleveland. Rain showers also expected on
Sunday afternoon in Cincinnati for the Colts and the Bengals.
There's also a chance of rain for the Bears and Lions,
although not as high a chance of rain and also,
I think that's I think that's it. There's no snow,
(29:45):
no snow games, but a lot of rain games. So
if you enjoy the rain, you'll get a lot of
that rain coming up this weekend. Now, the other story here,
the other story involves it must be a rig deal.
It's got to be a rig deal. And that involves
the NBA in season tournament, the in season tournament of
(30:08):
the NBA, and at the end of the game, people
accusing the NBA of rigging the nd season tournament. It's
hard to disagree with this. It's hard to disagree. He said, Well,
you're just a conspiracy theory. That doesn't happen. Why would
the NBAY do that? Certainly appears watching the final minutes
and really the final seconds play out, Lakers had a
(30:30):
two point lead. The Sun scored a ball, a scored
a basket, so Lakers had a two point lead. I
think there was about seven seconds a little more than
seven seconds in the clock. So Lakers inbound the ball
to Austin Reeves, who then fumbles the ball. It's a
loose ball. While the ball is loose, timeout Lebron calls
(30:52):
time out. The NBA referees not only do they grant
Lebron timeout. They say that it's an unreviewable play thing.
They can do nothing they can do. It is so
painfully obvious, and it's like it's just come on, it's wonderful.
Like the NBA, they don't even hide it. They don't
(31:13):
even hide it. The NBA taking care of Lebron James,
making sure that he gets to Vegas. I don't even
understand the whole love affair for guys that play in
LA for Vegas. Vegas is essentially a suburb of Los Angeles.
These guys go to Vegas. Whenever they want a couple
days off during the season, they go to Vegas. It's
a forty minute flight, they get the VIP treatment and
(31:35):
all that. But it's really not a conspiracy theory, it's reality.
So they review everything these NBA games. You got to
factor in an extra forty minutes for reviews. But there's
nothing we can do. It's an unrenewable How about in
the NFL, next time somebody fumbles and the balls loose,
the team that fumbles just calls say we call time out,
(31:56):
time out, Okay, we grant you the timeout. We're gonna
give the ball back to you give the ball back
to you. That's it. We got your call. Time out.
There's nothing we can do. Dumb dum dumb, dumb, dumb
d dum dumb dumb. Yes, that would be That would
be accurate. That would be accurate. Who else do I
(32:17):
would see? Page down? Eugene in Chicago says, very interesting,
Ben in the Rams, if they went on Sunday versus Baltimore,
they may actually make it into the playoffs. The Rams
schedule is easy after playing Baltimore. Yeah, people talk about
great the Ravens are defensively and they have some really
(32:40):
good numbers, But I mean, I don't think there's anyone
good defensively. And if I watched the Cleveland Browns that
had a top three defense, the Rams scored thirty six
points against them. I wasn't overly impressed the Cowboys defense
that they played pretty well against the Rams. With some
of these other teams, like I don't. I just think
(33:00):
a lot of these numbers are inflated because defensively, because
there's so many bad quarterbacks. If you have a stretch
of playing teams that have no quarterback, your defensive numbers
are going to going to look really good. We'd like
to alert all the affiliates down the line. We can
now update the computer. It's in the cleanup mode, but
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the cleanup mode it's at zero percent. Was it thirty
five percent? But we've gone downgrade to zero. But it
still says I can't turn off the computer. So we'd
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Zero.
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My computer. I don't have to update seven thousand times.
But for some reason, the company computers, they have an issue.
All right now, all right, anyway, I see the names,
but I look at the clock and I say, wait
a minute, So you guys on hold. They are going
to have to stay on hold a little bit longer time.
Now for the who Am I? Game? We'll go back
to that Monday night fot ball extravaganza in Jacksonville, And
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the only quarterbacks to throw for three hundred and fifty
or more yards, throw for a touchdown, run for a touchdown,
and complete at least eighty five percent of our passes again.
Bengals quarterback Jake Browning joining me is the only quarterbacks
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to throw for three hundred and fifty or more yards,
throw for a touchdown, run for a touchdown, and complete
at least eighty five percent of our passes in the
same game. Who am I? That is the question. The answer.
We'll get to it. We will do it next.
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more yards while having a touchdown pass, a touchdown run
and completing at least eighty five percent of our passes.
Who am I? That is the question? And what is
(36:23):
the answer? Let see does anyone know the answer? Bab
Bob Gagliano guests by Ike and Rosevillo Minnesota. Jesse Palmer
from Late Night Drug tester el Roy Crazy Legs Hirsch
from Rod the Ambassador of Bakersfield. I was just wondering,
where's Robbin A.
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Rod?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Rather, I call him Rob Rod the Ambassador of Bakersfield,
But he's there. Who else do we have? Cowboy Killer
says it has to be Bobby Witt Junior. Vince Young
guessed by the Art of Sports Talk. Travis Kelsey from
Mister Nice Guy Page down looks different there? Who do
we have? Jim Brewer from Big Greg and Iowa Al
the Alien Opiner who watches Benny Versus the Penny four
(37:04):
times and records it four times, says Jason in Ottawa's
high school aged fiance that he left the show for Yeah,
and Jason hasn't returned. It's been a while. You think
he's in wetted bliss or you think that this is
it's got to have an expiration date, right, at some
point he'll be back on the show, but he'll enjoy
he's enjoying his time, but at some point he'll he'll
(37:26):
be back. Gardner Minshew guests by Double O Mexican in
San Diego. Aaron Frodgers from Benito the Cowboy Fan, Brad
Muster from Big Lou in the LBC. He's on number two,
Big Bad Brad Muster looking pretty good. A Baker Mayfield
from Freddie, Vinnie Testa Verdie Guests by Sean and Portland,
Danny Knell from Chris in Des Moines, and Rick Meyer
(37:50):
from No Stradinis who wishes Rick Meyer was the Seahawks
quarterback and not that stiff Gino Smith. Do you have
an answer, Eddie? I need an answer. It is not
straight cash homie guess by the Mexican John Dutton.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
No, no, it is the great Chicago Bear legend, Peter
tom Willis.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Peter Tom will either a golfer, a serial killer, or
a quarterback. That is incorrect, though it's also not easy easy.
Three h five's answer from Miami says it's Bill Belichick.
That's interesting. The correct answer somebody actually did get it right,
and I mentioned it just to throw you off the
scent there. That was Sean in Portland. The correct answer
is Vinnie Testa Verdi, way back in nineteen ninety two.
(38:34):
Nineteen ninety two, Vinnie Testa Verdi had a game like that,
and so every dog has his day. That's astonishing, its breathtaking.
Vinnie Testiverer, he had a few good gimes. Hall of
Famer Vinnie Testa Verdi, No, not a Hall of Fame,
played a long time. Oh, but it is the Pro
Football Hall of Fame, and nobody knows what the criteria
(38:54):
is to get the profotball of him. Now I have
my own criteria, which I get asked a couple times
a year. He's this goy a Hall of Famer's like, well,
you're an All Pro at least one time. Were you
an MVP, Defensive Player of the Year, that kind of stuff,
and it doesn't seem to matter. It's were you friends
with the people on the panel that decide who gets
in the Hall of Fame. That seems to be what
(39:17):
really pushes you over the top. You know, a few
spine tingling plays. If you were a jerk and the
media didn't like you the guys on the committee, then
you're screwed. That's the criteria to get in the Pro
Football Hall of Fame.
Hello and welcome. It's our number one, our one of
the Mallard Show podcast. We kick it off with a
football to loser and we discuss the story out of Pittsburgh.
What are these Steelers looking to get from griping about
TJ Watt being given what one coach called the NFL's
(00:23):
version of hacker shack. Also, where are you on, Mike
McDaniel attempting to downplay the dolphins accomplishments as they're the
number one seed in the AFC. And can the Jags
breathe a sigh of relief for Trevor Lawrence. We'll discuss
that as well. It's all coming your way right now here.
It is our number one. An NFL headliner under siege,
(00:48):
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should be. So I'm very bad at checking my email,
and big fans of the show know that I don't
usually check the email very often, maybe a couple times
a week, because usually it's bad news. You've got mail.
For some reason, I checked the email and I had
(01:52):
a couple of people who are fans of the show saying, well,
you got to start with the NBA. I mean you
have to, you have to stay. It's the play in
or not to play in. It's the uh is it
the what is called? I don't know what this thing
is in season whatever they made up in season, And
I was like, why would I do that? No, No,
it's look at the calendar. The NBA starts on Christmas.
(02:16):
We're not at Christmas. No, the NBA starts on Christmas.
We pay attention for like two weeks and then we
forget about the NBA. Now, I had on the background
as I was getting ready for the show, making copious
notes for the show. I did have the play in.
Oh again, I gotta keep calling the plane the in
season tournament. I had that, but I had it on.
(02:38):
But no, I know what powers the company here football?
So are lad this hour coming from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, home
of the Insers, Home of the Insers. As the door opens,
and we have a follow up to a flat gasted
(03:02):
defensive star. Now right there, that gets you attention, right there,
that gets your attention. It's just random noises here. Don't mind,
don't mind the background noise at all. But t J Watt.
TJ Watt recently implied that the NFL has a vendetta
(03:23):
against him. The NFL is anti TJ Watt. He said it.
He said it after the last Steeler game. And now
we can add to the story. It's called a follow up,
a follow up. And if you've not heard the latest
and perhaps not, Steelers defensive coordinator Tarrell Austin took it
(03:46):
a step further. He said, hold my bear. He believes
the defensive guru in Pittsburgh that opposing NFL teams are
employing the football version of hack a shack. They're doing
hack a shack on tjy say why, uh yes, he said,
(04:07):
quote these guys are going to hold you until they
can't because a lot of times. That's the only way
that can block. The defensive coach ranted and raved quote continues.
I said, he said, I mean, I share in his frustration,
he said, of what, but I don't think there's anything
that we can do about it. We can complain and
(04:27):
we can do all of that, but the that really
doesn't solve the problem. The Pittsburgh defensive coach said. So
I think we just deal with it. We just continue
to fight and go. It's almost like the hack a
shack close quote. All right, So that's a good quote.
We like good quotes. We react to good quotes. That's
a solid quote. I'll give it like an eight. It's
(04:50):
an eight out of ten. So let us discuss the
question what are these Steelers looking to get? What are
the Steelers looking to get from publicly griping about TJ.
Watt being given the NFL's version of a hacker shack.
So I've got Neon yellow highlighter, prepackaged and disco and
(05:17):
we will combine all of these things together and we're
going to make the Iowa Minute, which we'll be back
later for possibly one of the final times Iowa Sam
has returned. So anyway, this is the way I will
describe the Steelers defensive coach calling out really the officials.
(05:37):
He couched it. It was subtle. It was subtle. But
this is strategic, is the word I will use. It
is strategic because tall Austin, he camouflaged the comments. But
to those of us that have seen this kind of
stuff before, we know how this works. This is more
of an NBA type situation where you gripe about the officials,
(06:02):
you complain about not getting calls, and then all of
a sudden, for like the next week, you get every call.
That's what this is, right, I mean, you're parsing the
words here. This was a message in a bottle or
in this case, a message into a microphone. Attention, NFL
officiating arm. Put a neon neon yellow highlighter on TJ. Watt.
(06:27):
That's what you gotta do. Put a neon yellow highlighter
on TJ. Watt. Make sure he's allowed to roam free
across the serengetti. Throw a terrible towel if you have to,
over the offensive lineman for the opposing team there. But Austin,
the defensive coach, and the Steelers here are using the megaphone.
The media megaphone to highlight this. Now it's the law
(06:49):
of averages. We know how this works. Aaron Donald, I'm
a RAMS guy, right, Aaron Donald for years has always
been double team and they've held Aaron Donald and he
still was dominant. He's not as dominant as he used
to be, but he's still pretty good. And the argument,
we've had coaches that have worked here over the years
at Fox Sports Radio. We've talked off the air and
on the air about this, and the coaches will say, well,
(07:09):
if you hold one hundred percent of the time and
they only call holding twenty percent of the time, you
have contained the other team's defensive star eighty percent of
the time. And you're it's it's it's like I used
to work with a guy that would always drive in
the carpool lane and he did this because he only
(07:29):
got a couple of tickets and it was worth him
to save. He did a cost benefit of analysis. Now
he should not do this. You should not because it's wrong.
But he would drive solo in the carpool lane and
he only got a couple of tickets, and it was
like once every five years he would get a ticket.
And so he determined that in in order to get around,
(07:50):
and you'll go around to traffic. It made sense for him,
and so he was willing to pay the ticket every
five years or so because he saved a lot of
time and he got to where he had to go quicker.
And that's the argument to holding in the NFL. And
it's like it's a subjective thing. They don't call it
most of the time because they don't want to throw
too many penalties unless they're calling a Seahawk Cowboy game,
(08:11):
then they'll call every penalty. All right now, headline, we
moved to South Beach. Don't look now. But the Dolphins,
the Miami Dolphins are a football team. They had, Yeah,
they are. They got a hockey fight song from back
in the day. The Dolphins curly art number in the
(08:34):
American Football Conference. It's first time in over twenty years
the Dolphins have been the number one team. This late
end of the season, there was only five weeks to go.
That's it. We got five weeks to go in this
thing in the regular season. So Mike McDaniel, what do
you think he said about this? Mike McDaniel was asked
about the situation here and hasn't got a big deal
(08:56):
and all this number one seed, and it turns out
that Mike McDaniel does not particularly give a rats ass
about the team being the number one seed with the
schedules still to come. McDaniel said, quote, call me when
it's a thirteen game season, and I'll be excited to
talk about that next game. He said. Now, whether or
(09:18):
not you agree with Mike McDaniel, that does not matter.
We will react to what Mike McDaniel said. So, where
are you on, Mike McDaniel attempting to down play, down
play the dolphins accomplishments. So for all the zingers and
(09:40):
the quirky by nature approach of Mike McDaniel, for all
of that, deep down, when you peel back the onion
and you realize at his core, he's still the stereotypical,
prepackaged coaching, the Korum guy. And so I've heard this
(10:02):
quote so many times doing sports radio over the years.
I went to the Google. I typed it into Google
and I said, you know, I've heard this anytime a
coach or a star player is asked if they follow
the script, the talking points memo, and they're asked, well,
you've done so, and so what an amazing accomplishment, and
their response, almost universally from sportscliche dot com is we
(10:28):
haven't accomplished anything yet. That's always the respon hundred percent
of the So I did Google search and millions and
millions of responses to that quote. I typed in, we
haven't accomplished anything yet. And this goes back twenty years.
It includes almost all athletes, a few politicians, but mostly athletes,
(10:54):
And from Jalen Hurts to Tom Brady to the owner
of the case are a line of hockey team. I
mean it's you go way back. There's one with Don Shula,
who's dead. He gave the quote, I mean, you can
just keep going, going and going and going, and millions
of responses. Right, And you're not supposed to celebrate the
(11:17):
mile mark when you're running the Boston Marathon. You have
to go twenty six point two miles. You can't celebrate
mile four or mile ten or mile fifteen. You've got
to celebrate at twenty six point two miles. All right,
last word here headline from Jacksonville follow Up Department Part two.
Here quarterback Trevor Lawrence avoiding season ending injury. Supposedly, now,
(11:43):
Lawrence was injured. We talked about this after the game
on Monday night. That was the big headline, Right, ankle
inadvertently stepped on by friendly fire. The Jacksonville tackle walker
little who does not have little feet and is not
a little man walker Little the guy here inadvertently stepped
on his quarterback. And Doug Peterson said, it's just a
(12:06):
high ankle spring. He said, that's it. Everything is stable,
everything loves good, and the interweb headlines saying, well, he
might play this weekend against Cleveland. Jacksonville. One headline read
Jacksonville can breathe a sigh of relief on Trevor Lawrence's injury.
So the question is can Jacksonville breathe a sigh of
(12:31):
relief for Trevor Lawrence at this point? So I'm shaking
my head no on this. While it is not it
is not a doomsday scenario. Nevertheless, I still file this one.
Panic at the disco. Panic at the disco. Now here's why,
(12:51):
even though the Jags are pretending like Trevor Lawrence is
going to play, he's not going to play against Cleveland
this weekend. That's not going to happen. The recovery time.
If it's a legitimate high ankle sprain is usually at
least four weeks until you're back to normal, and often
longer than that. Now, the Jags are fighting for AFC
positioning and they had a shot at the number one
(13:14):
seed to keep pace with Miami and Baltimore, and they
failed to do that. The Jags they have five weeks
ago in the regular season and from the frying pan
into the fire with likely CJ. Bethart at least for
a game, possibly two, possibly three plus. Even when Trevor
Lawrence does come back, I'm a realist here, So you're
(13:36):
assuming he's going to come back and be good. How
do you know that? You know there's usually lingering effects
from the high ankle sprain where you're not right, the
instability of the ankle, it lasts even when you come
back and perform athletic. We've seen a lot of big
name quarterbacks You've had this injury over the time we've
been doing this, and a few of them have come
(13:56):
back and been okay, and oftentimes they don't come back
and they don't play that when they do come back,
but they don't play that well. It is the Ben
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Do you know that Eddie Garcia wrecking ball be drinking
interrupted a Mallard monologue A man on a mission as
he stormed out of his studio, opened the door, turned right,
walk down a hall, made another right turn, walked down
another long haul, made another turn, opened the big bank
(16:31):
vault door.
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He was on a.
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Rampage, remember that video game rampage, good video game, arcade game,
great movie, and he came in it. That's a joke.
You move something, Eddie, It was something blocking your view.
He couldn't see your pretty face bend.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
It's actually a positive. That's not a negative. Well that's
true as well. But I you know, you want to
make eye contact. They have a lot of video equipment.
We're doing radio.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I don't even know what that was.
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I moved. Is it a light that is a it's
not a light, but that reflects the light back at
the talent. Oh fancy, since I have no talent, we
don't use that. In fact, much to the chagrin of Sager,
I actually turn the lights down. Sager is recording all
of these monologues remotely, probably in his underwear at home.
(17:20):
He's recording this. But what I do is I turn
the lights down. I like to set the mood, and
so that's how I operate in the studio. I have
the lights down, dim and all that.
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And I mean, if I could go through all the
trouble of moving us to these studios so we can
see each other, I figured, I would you know that
thing out of the way is blocking my view of you.
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Twenty two years without working together and without seeing each
other's I think we've checked that box that we know
how to do that. And I'm also happy to report
if you ever get a job here at Fox Sports.
Rated boy, it's a great place to work, a wonderful,
wonderful place. They pay you well, they give you lots
of perks and all that. But as an added bus,
there's twenty four hours in the day. And which which
(18:01):
time of the day do you think they decide to
update the computer system in the main studio? What do
you think the pretty I take a guess is.
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At the same time that they decide to do construction
right outside the parking Oh, there's.
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An obstacle court. You enjoyed the obstacle course getting in
yet like getting into the parking lot. Now the gate
was up.
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That's going to be the best part is that we
won't be able to open the gate to get out.
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Yeah, the gate, that's probably true. But the gate was up.
And then but there was a truck park right where
I needed to go to get to where I needed
to go, and then there was another Like it was ridiculous,
Like and these guys, I need a minute. Contractors are
sitting out there just you know, smoking, They don't give
a crap, you know, just like whatever, they figure it out.
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And I'm like, well, I don't want to hit one
of your stupid cars because then I got to contact
my insurance and I don't want that. Uh anyway, man alive.
Let's see who do we have JC rights? And he says,
what a spectacular eight plus mallard monologue speaking of using
a hack a shack strategy versus Watt. I don't understand
why teams don't intentionally rough the kicker on Pat's The
(19:05):
penalty would be applied on the kickoff, which is always
a fair catch anyway. So JC, you're going not the
high road, You're going the low road. You're like, let's
take out the kicker in the first quarter. Then you
won't be able to kick extra points or field goals
the rest of the game. Advantage to you. Shane of
(19:25):
de Moines, who hates every single person that calls the
show other than Shane and the Moines. He says, so
no more Mark the full name guy. Yes, Mark the
full name guy. He calls Mark the full of himself guy.
Mark quit the show. He was upset because we got
into a tussle over Geno Smith and it was heated.
(19:48):
There were mean things said on both sides, and he,
of course very sensitive. He's a delicate little flower. You
think you'd be a tough guy from Brooklyn, he wouldn't care.
But he's a delicate little flower. So he quit the show.
This is I think the seventy ninth time he's quit
the show since he was listening to the show. And
but he told me this is it, this is it,
that last time, not coming back. He's done. Shanavan White
(20:12):
also says, can we now get rid of Sir scratch
awful and the blind kid from Washington? How about Shane
attacking the blind community and redneck truck drivers from Arkansas?
Bad job by you? Come on? What did Emmett do?
Emmitt's great? Well, the only problem with emit is he
likes the board ops a little too much.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
And that's it's a little awkward messaging with Emmett last
few days. Who you know, he just wants forties are listening?
You want to be careful?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
What?
Speaker 5 (20:41):
No, No, Emmittt's great. He is my pal, he's your friend,
that's your buddy. Yeah, I did. I was on his
podcast once. I think you guys all did his podcasting?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
You well, he paid me to go on. I didn't
I do it?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Do it?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Didn't for free? I did it for free. I did
not pay me. I don't care that he's blind. He
had to pay me. I'm as valuable. Ferg Dog rites
and says I'm a reasonable man. Ben. Only a couple
of things get underneath my skin, and one of them
is the show starting without your patented on air tweet. Well,
Ferg Dog, who goofed? I've got to know. Heads are
(21:14):
going to roll, fer Dog, heads are going to roll
the art of sports talk, says hey, Ben, what's Otani
waiting for any chance this drags out longer? Well, yeah,
the Winter Meetings are going to end soon, but there's
no reason to think it's gonna you know, Tani watch
is gonna end anytime. So we will have the Hour
(21:36):
of Otani, the Hour of Otani. I'm looking forward. You
loving forward to the Hour of Otani. I'll be coming
up next next hour.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Yes, I read that that article that you're going to reference. Well,
there's a couple. There's a couple on it.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Okay, all right, let me guess you're gonna defend Otani
because I am not going to defend Oani.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
No, I just it's I'm not gonna defend per se.
I just I wonder if it signals anything.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Oh a deeper meaning yeah, you're gonna psycho analyze the Times.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Ron Washington see that says he doesn't want to let
anything out of the box.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
When they were asked him, Dave Roberts doesn't care that.
Dave Roberts is like, hey, yeah, we met with him, Yeah,
I liked him, really did? We shoved Dodger dogs down
his throat and we tossed twenty five dollars. Nacho trays
at him anyway, The Dodger fair Rivers rites and says, hey, Mallard,
Jordan Love has been looking like Kobe in a helmet?
(22:34):
Is that Kobe Bryan or Kobe Beef anyway? With a
similar look to his face lately, I think Green may
may have done it again with a new quarterback. He's
playing very well Jordan Love. But are we ready to
say he's going to be great for the next fifteen years?
I am not there. I am not there. Late night
drug tester says, even if Trevor Lawrence comes back, that
(22:55):
defense isn't stopping anybody in the plus all, was that
not atrocious? Was that not god awful defense? Holy crap
on a cracker. They suck so much Jacksonville turned Jake
Browning into the Jake Browning. It was Washington, it was nuts.
Your Femi writes and says, hey, Mallory a plus in
an Italian beef on the mallon Monel Augustra, NFL is
(23:18):
concocting a storyline for fans at these court as these
quarterbacks go down with injuries. Look for more manipulation in
prime time games. What a weekend of primetime football we
have to look forward to. I was peeking ahead as
I start getting ready for the TV show and we're
looking at the games.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
And tell me, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I didn't look ahead. Well, Thursday, you're a Steelers player. Yeah,
that's that's the Steeler and Patriot game. That's a terrible
Island game. Sunday night's not bad Eagles Cowboys. But then
but Monday night, there's two games on Monday Night. Why
I don't know, I didn't make the schedule, the Titans
and the Dolphins. That's a huge mismatch. And the Packers
(24:01):
and Giants. The way the Packers have been playing and
the Giants haven't been playing well, so that's that's also
a mismatch in favor of Green Bay but that game
is in New Jersey. So those are the four Island games.
There's one good one, the Eagles and the Cowboys on
Sunday night, and outside of that some of the other games,
and there's there's decent level of interest, like even a
(24:23):
game like the Texans play the Jets this weekend. Do
you trust C. J. Stroud as a road favorite in
what's likely going to be a bad weather game in Jersey?
I don't know about that. Who the Jets starting, it
doesn't matter. I think they're I think they're gonna go
back to Zach Wilson. But they they released Tim Boyle,
(24:44):
they got rid of them. So it's either Trevor Simon
or Yeah, how about you start on Sunday. You're fired
on Tuesday. That's the That's the NFL. That's the league.
That's yeah, pretty much art it is the Ben Mahler Shows.
We wait for the computer to reboot. Here the magic
of doing overnight radio. It is a rigged deal and
(25:08):
a winter wonderland is upon us. But right now, let's
get you cut about everything going on in the overnight
in we say hello to the Merman, the wrecking Ball,
Eddie Garcia. All right, that reminds what you did reminded
me of the famous night Wreckett Ralph was in for
you and he got upset on somebody. Well, he got
(25:32):
upset with Justin and Cincinnati because guys were busting his
balls and Wreckett Ralph stormed in and hung up on everybody.
I think they called him wrecked him Ralph or something. Wow,
he got so upset. And this guy used to be
a program director at the radio station. He came in
here and hung up on everybody. He grabbed the phone
from Mike Mayer, who former? What is he still in business?
(25:55):
He's with the Pac twelve networks, so probably not out.
He's got a job now. But no, I think he'll
be switching over to some other serious entity.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
But yeah, he grabbed the phone that I was told this,
grabbed the phone and hung it up, grabbed it out
of Mayor's hand.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I liked it. I like Mayor, but he didn't like me.
I'm not talking to him. To see left here we
were just work for ends.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Was Ralph wearing a sweater that might might have been
a little bit too small for him.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Showing his beer belly possibly? Wow? Shots fired by Eddie
Fashion Eastie.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
That's why I don't wear a sweater.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yeah, if you got a little chunk, the sweater is
not kind to you. Yeah, good news, Eddie, work updates
are not thirty five percent. Don't turn off the computer
and say don't turn I will not turn off the computers.
All right, we're up to thirty five percent.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Well, be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Well, we've been doing this a while, Ben, and we
know we predicted. We saw this coming a mile away.
Florida Governor Ron De Santos took the college Football Playoff
Committee to task for excluding undefeated Florida State in the
fourteen playoffs. To say, to speaking any news conference to
detail his propos one hundred and fourteen point four billion
dollar budget for Florida, said he's asking for a million
(27:06):
dollars to let Florida State sue.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
The college football Just send me the Moneymitt, he send
me the money. I'll take the million dollars from the
taxpayers of Florida. That's great, that's great. Use of fiscal
funds is to spend on a lawsuit you cannot win.
You cannot win. The lawsuit is a subjective thing. It
is a panel that gets together. And I don't know
if you saw this bouncing around the interweb this week.
(27:30):
There was an old clip of Mike Leach, the late
Mike Leach, ranting about how stupid it is to have
a committee, and he was like, well, why don't they
do that in the other sports? They don't have a
committee at the end of the season, they should have
you know, I'm a paraphrasing year, but he's like, they
should decide who gets into the playoffs in football or
in the NFL via committee, and who gets to the
Super Bowl via committee and all that stuff. It's just stupid.
(27:54):
And that's college football. That's big time college football. Thank goodness,
we're going to that twelve team huh yeah. Then we'll
be debating about seating and we'll see who got screwed
the tougher road. Nobody cares about they're doing that this
year this Dan Patrick started a conspiracy theory on these
airwaves that the committee was out to screw Michigan because
(28:15):
Harbaugh and Michigan were involved in these signs stealing skys.
Somebody has to play Alabama, that's true, but they could
have they could have, you know that, four teams, and
they could have switched it up where they could have
had Washington play Alabama. They didn't have to want to
be the best. You gotta beat the best. This portion
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dot com. It figures to be a winter wonderland this
weekend in the NFL now, not so much as snow,
but if you enjoy football in the rain, you are
(29:00):
going to be very happy this weekend now. The early
forecast among the rain games mentioned that Houston Texans New
York Jets game that a seventy plus percent chance of
rain in Jersey, the Ravens and Rams game not far
away in Baltimore, rain likely for that game. Rain expected
(29:22):
in Cleveland for Jacksonville Cleveland. Rain showers also expected on
Sunday afternoon in Cincinnati for the Colts and the Bengals.
There's also a chance of rain for the Bears and Lions,
although not as high a chance of rain and also,
I think that's I think that's it. There's no snow,
(29:45):
no snow games, but a lot of rain games. So
if you enjoy the rain, you'll get a lot of
that rain coming up this weekend. Now, the other story here,
the other story involves it must be a rig deal.
It's got to be a rig deal. And that involves
the NBA in season tournament, the in season tournament of
(30:08):
the NBA, and at the end of the game, people
accusing the NBA of rigging the nd season tournament. It's
hard to disagree with this. It's hard to disagree. He said, Well,
you're just a conspiracy theory. That doesn't happen. Why would
the NBAY do that? Certainly appears watching the final minutes
and really the final seconds play out, Lakers had a
(30:30):
two point lead. The Sun scored a ball, a scored
a basket, so Lakers had a two point lead. I
think there was about seven seconds a little more than
seven seconds in the clock. So Lakers inbound the ball
to Austin Reeves, who then fumbles the ball. It's a
loose ball. While the ball is loose, timeout Lebron calls
(30:52):
time out. The NBA referees not only do they grant
Lebron timeout. They say that it's an unreviewable play thing.
They can do nothing they can do. It is so
painfully obvious, and it's like it's just come on, it's wonderful.
Like the NBA, they don't even hide it. They don't
(31:13):
even hide it. The NBA taking care of Lebron James,
making sure that he gets to Vegas. I don't even
understand the whole love affair for guys that play in
LA for Vegas. Vegas is essentially a suburb of Los Angeles.
These guys go to Vegas. Whenever they want a couple
days off during the season, they go to Vegas. It's
a forty minute flight, they get the VIP treatment and
(31:35):
all that. But it's really not a conspiracy theory, it's reality.
So they review everything these NBA games. You got to
factor in an extra forty minutes for reviews. But there's
nothing we can do. It's an unrenewable How about in
the NFL, next time somebody fumbles and the balls loose,
the team that fumbles just calls say we call time out,
(31:56):
time out, Okay, we grant you the timeout. We're gonna
give the ball back to you give the ball back
to you. That's it. We got your call. Time out.
There's nothing we can do. Dumb dum dumb, dumb, dumb
d dum dumb dumb. Yes, that would be That would
be accurate. That would be accurate. Who else do I
(32:17):
would see? Page down? Eugene in Chicago says, very interesting,
Ben in the Rams, if they went on Sunday versus Baltimore,
they may actually make it into the playoffs. The Rams
schedule is easy after playing Baltimore. Yeah, people talk about
great the Ravens are defensively and they have some really
(32:40):
good numbers, But I mean, I don't think there's anyone
good defensively. And if I watched the Cleveland Browns that
had a top three defense, the Rams scored thirty six
points against them. I wasn't overly impressed the Cowboys defense
that they played pretty well against the Rams. With some
of these other teams, like I don't. I just think
(33:00):
a lot of these numbers are inflated because defensively, because
there's so many bad quarterbacks. If you have a stretch
of playing teams that have no quarterback, your defensive numbers
are going to going to look really good. We'd like
to alert all the affiliates down the line. We can
now update the computer. It's in the cleanup mode, but
unfortunately it's gone back to zero percent complete. So on
(33:21):
the cleanup mode it's at zero percent. Was it thirty
five percent? But we've gone downgrade to zero. But it
still says I can't turn off the computer. So we'd
like to lead all the affiliates to screen computer. Yes,
that is why we have not taken a call. Ah
zero zero. My computer's working fine.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Zero.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
My computer. I don't have to update seven thousand times.
But for some reason, the company computers, they have an issue.
All right now, all right, anyway, I see the names,
but I look at the clock and I say, wait
a minute, So you guys on hold. They are going
to have to stay on hold a little bit longer time.
Now for the who Am I? Game? We'll go back
to that Monday night fot ball extravaganza in Jacksonville, And
(34:03):
here it is Bengals quarterback Jake Browning join me as
the only quarterbacks to throw for three hundred and fifty
or more yards, throw for a touchdown, run for a touchdown,
and complete at least eighty five percent of our passes again.
Bengals quarterback Jake Browning joining me is the only quarterbacks
(34:24):
to throw for three hundred and fifty or more yards,
throw for a touchdown, run for a touchdown, and complete
at least eighty five percent of our passes in the
same game. Who am I? That is the question. The answer.
We'll get to it. We will do it next.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
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It is being free and easily du You just follow
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your news guy, your announcer guy. I'm at Eddie on
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Fox Sports Radio Studios, waiting on his computer to reboot.
It's Ben Mallard, cooler.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
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protection in one place, pund the land say at progressive
dot Com. Bengals quarterback Jake Browning joined me as the
only quarterbacks to throw for three hundred and fifty or
more yards while having a touchdown pass, a touchdown run
and completing at least eighty five percent of our passes.
Who am I? That is the question? And what is
(36:23):
the answer? Let see does anyone know the answer? Bab
Bob Gagliano guests by Ike and Rosevillo Minnesota. Jesse Palmer
from Late Night Drug tester el Roy Crazy Legs Hirsch
from Rod the Ambassador of Bakersfield. I was just wondering,
where's Robbin A.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Rod?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Rather, I call him Rob Rod the Ambassador of Bakersfield,
But he's there. Who else do we have? Cowboy Killer
says it has to be Bobby Witt Junior. Vince Young
guessed by the Art of Sports Talk. Travis Kelsey from
Mister Nice Guy Page down looks different there? Who do
we have? Jim Brewer from Big Greg and Iowa Al
the Alien Opiner who watches Benny Versus the Penny four
(37:04):
times and records it four times, says Jason in Ottawa's
high school aged fiance that he left the show for Yeah,
and Jason hasn't returned. It's been a while. You think
he's in wetted bliss or you think that this is
it's got to have an expiration date, right, at some
point he'll be back on the show, but he'll enjoy
he's enjoying his time, but at some point he'll he'll
(37:26):
be back. Gardner Minshew guests by Double O Mexican in
San Diego. Aaron Frodgers from Benito the Cowboy Fan, Brad
Muster from Big Lou in the LBC. He's on number two,
Big Bad Brad Muster looking pretty good. A Baker Mayfield
from Freddie, Vinnie Testa Verdie Guests by Sean and Portland,
Danny Knell from Chris in Des Moines, and Rick Meyer
(37:50):
from No Stradinis who wishes Rick Meyer was the Seahawks
quarterback and not that stiff Gino Smith. Do you have
an answer, Eddie? I need an answer. It is not
straight cash homie guess by the Mexican John Dutton.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
No, no, it is the great Chicago Bear legend, Peter
tom Willis.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Peter Tom will either a golfer, a serial killer, or
a quarterback. That is incorrect, though it's also not easy easy.
Three h five's answer from Miami says it's Bill Belichick.
That's interesting. The correct answer somebody actually did get it right,
and I mentioned it just to throw you off the
scent there. That was Sean in Portland. The correct answer
is Vinnie Testa Verdi, way back in nineteen ninety two.
(38:34):
Nineteen ninety two, Vinnie Testa Verdi had a game like that,
and so every dog has his day. That's astonishing, its breathtaking.
Vinnie Testiverer, he had a few good gimes. Hall of
Famer Vinnie Testa Verdi, No, not a Hall of Fame,
played a long time. Oh, but it is the Pro
Football Hall of Fame, and nobody knows what the criteria
(38:54):
is to get the profotball of him. Now I have
my own criteria, which I get asked a couple times
a year. He's this goy a Hall of Famer's like, well,
you're an All Pro at least one time. Were you
an MVP, Defensive Player of the Year, that kind of stuff,
and it doesn't seem to matter. It's were you friends
with the people on the panel that decide who gets
in the Hall of Fame. That seems to be what
(39:17):
really pushes you over the top. You know, a few
spine tingling plays. If you were a jerk and the
media didn't like you the guys on the committee, then
you're screwed. That's the criteria to get in the Pro
Football Hall of Fame.
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