December 11, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Cowboys beating up on the Eagles to take over 1st place in the NFC East, how significant the win is for Dak Prescott, if it changes the outlook for the Eagles, and much more!
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Never before told stories from the life of Mallard and
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Danny g Radio from over the weekend. But here on
the beginning of a brand new week, we start out
with the big NFL Sunday night game, the Eagles and
the Cowboys. How significant is this Cowboys win for Dak
Prescott in a regular season December game. Does Jalen hurst
Eagle outlook change after these back to back blowouts for
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the Birds? And how much stock do you put in
Fletcher Cox and his confidence in a Philly turnaround after
a couple of stinkers. We'll talk about that as well.
All of it's coming your way right now here. It
is buckle up for our number one right high in
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so quite the weekend it was, and we always always
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try to start with football. I was thinking about doing baseball,
but we'll wait till till later on we will have
We'd like to alert all your affiliates down the line.
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But our lead from Jerry's world as where the Sunday
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Night NFL game was played. I assume that you were
checking that at the climax of the Sunday car in
the NFL for a week fourteen, still a couple games
to go on a Monday night. But Jalen Hurts and
the Eagles they're not smelling themselves right now. They're licking
themselves because they're in pain after getting smoked by the
forty nine ers last week. Now, they visited Dak Prescott
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and the Cowboys. Collinsworth was there, Mike Taarrico, they were
hanging out for NBC. I don't know if you saw
the game or not. Maybe you were tuned out, but
don't worry. We watched so you would not have to.
And they made for TV matchup and Dak Prescott tossing
a pair of touchdown passes and kicker Brandon Aubrey. You
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know it's a good night when the kicker is getting
some headline here, headline love. But Brandon Aubrey kicked four
field goals and the Cowboys, I guess you could say
they feasted on Pheasant as they get the victory there
and beat the Eagles into submission thirty three to thirteen
the final. Dallas has now won fifteen consecutive home games,
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most of those against tomato cans. The Eagles are not
supposed to be a tomato can, oh they so they
have looked like that lately. So at the moment, Dallas
has leapfroged ahead of the Eagles. They have the same record,
but the Cowboys have the tiebreaker, and so they are
currently the number two seed on your NFC Big Board
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and the Eagles free falling free falling. The Eagles go
down to the number five. So Mike McCarthy getting a
lot of love because he had a medical procedure this
week and went out there and coached. He didn't really
have to do much. The game was not ever in
doubt and appened dectomy for Mike McCarthy. So let us
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discuss the question how significant, how significant is this Cowboys
win for Dak Prescott. And well, it's significant in the
sense that it's getting a lot of attention, But the
question again, how significant is the Cowboys win for Dak Prescott.
So I've got Alice in Wonderland Manny Moe and Jack
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and Uber Eats, and we will combine all of these
things together, and we will lay the foundation for this
Malard monologue that will rock overnight nation. I think I
don't know who knows all right now? Ay the question
about Dak Prescott winning big regular season game against the Eagles,
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finally beating a good team. The Cowboys had not beaten
the good team this season, and so this is not
the proverbial monkey off the back for Dak Prescott. That
is not what this game is. In fact, if you
examine the situation, it does not dramatically change anything in
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terms of where Dak and we will be the grown
ups here in the room. Dallas was at home, they
were favored in the game. It is December, which is
regular season football. The Eagles defense completely tattered. All of
those things are true. All of those things are variables
which are absolutely true when you're talking about Dak Prescott
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and the Cowboys winning this game. Did I think the
Cowboys are gonna win a game?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I did not. If you saw the TV show over
the weekend, you know that on Benny Versus the Penny,
I picked the Eagles. That game was over and the
way the Eagles came out of the the opening court
of the game, and that's very unlikely the Eagles are
going to win this game, and sure enough that was
the case. But what the victory does do well, it
doesn't change the narrative about Dak Prescott because it's not
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a playoff game and it's so you don't change all that.
But it does work like these island games. It's hot
air in the balloon. The only reason the hot air
balloon rises because the air is hotter there than the
air outside. So the hot air balloon, that's essentially what
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it is. It's watch out for Alice in Wonderland syndrome. Now,
if you're not familiar with Alice in Wonderland's interest objects,
they appear bigger, they appear bigger than they are. And
we see this all the time in these primetime island
games where people go out and they just dominate, and
then when it's all got go, they get all horny,
all excited, right, and then, oh but until I see
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Dak Prescott not ride the vomit comet in a big
playoff game against a good team. And no, Tampa Bay
last year was not a good team. Not a good team.
Until I see that, I will continue to be a
stubborn jackass when it comes to Dak Prescott. That's my
position on that. The jury is in on Dak in
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big games. It's not like he's a second or third
year Guy's been around long enough, we've we've seen what
this guy can do. Now, does that mean it's going
to continue forever. No, I don't mean he's gonna continue forever.
But at this point, until we see a reason to
think that it's going to change, this is not the game.
This is not the game the Eagles. Uh, it was
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more they were just sloppy and disgusting. I didn't eve
think Kak played all that well in this particular game,
all right, Now, when you got all those field goals, generally,
if your field goal kicker is being talked about like that,
that's a bad sign. Now turning the page, does Jalen
Hurts Eagles outlook change? Now? Does this change on the
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other side for the Eagles? Better stories than losing locker room?
Does this change things for Jalen Hurts and the Eagles?
And the answer is yes. The direction they are now headed,
They're headed to the off the beaten path, root or route,
depending on how you want to say it. Philly finds
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themselves behind the nine Ers for the number one seed,
even tho they're ten and three. The Cowboys and Eagles
are ten and three. Obviously head to head tie breakers
go against Philadelphia. But Philly they still control their path
in terms of getting the division titles, so they're still
in good shape in that regard. And the bigger issue
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here is that they might want to contact Manny Moe
and Jack the Boys over at Pep Boys there because
their car needs a tune up here in Philadelphia. The
spark plugs are not quite sparking at this moment there
and and Jalen Hurts said after the game, he said,
it's something we are going through, not something we are
stuck in. Was the quote from Jalen Hurst. Do you
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agree or disagree with that?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Well?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I agree with it. I don't think people are going
to always they always overreact to what you just saw.
It's the prisoner of the moment syndrome. And the Eagles
right now are an absolute dog food team. They are
I'm gonna sit here and tell you something other than that.
The last couple weeks have been puke football. From the
Philadelphia Eagles, and the Birds have to get their house
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in order. But I am a believer in that you
are never as good as everyone tells you you are,
and you are also never as bad as everyone says
you are when you lose, right, you win, Araza, you're
great when you lose. It's always somewhere in the middle.
But the Birds have to get their house in order
here and they've been placed in the slow cooker. And
Jalens the defense will get to in a minute. The
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defense has been bad, but Jalen Hurts. The last month,
four games for Jalen Hurts, he has not been anything
more than a third tier NFL quarterback. And that's a
fact Jack the last month, last four games, Jalen Hurts,
He's got four touchdowns, four fumbles, and two interceptions and
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a passer rating below eighty five. That is who Jalen
Hurts has been over the last month. And so he
got the contract. That's great. They got to the Super
Bowl last year, they won ten games. But right now,
in this snapshot in time Dak Prescott's rifle with the
Philadelphia Eagles, Jalen Hurts is not living up to his
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end of the proverbial bargain. Now turning the pace, last
word here. So the Eagles defensive star Fletcher Cox, he
had a lot to say after you. He was ranting
and raving in the losing locker room there, which is
where the better story is the losing locker room. So
Fletcher Cootch, who did make a big play here Cox
in the game where the Cowboys, he had the sack
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the strip of Dak Prescott which led to a Philadelphia touchdown,
defensive touchdown for the Philadelphia Eagles in this game. And
he gave the standard trope of the Eagles got punched
in the mouth two weeks in a row. He gave
that response there he said, they must figure out what
teams are doing. Scheme wise, was the way Fletcher Cotch.
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Fletcher Cox addressed it scheme wise and obviously corrected. So
Cox said that they still hold they have to hold
each other accountable, and they will hold each other accountable.
All right, So let us discuss how much stalk, how
much stock do you put into Fletcher Cox and the
confidence in an Eagles turnaround. So I've got the micro
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and the macro when it comes to the Eagles. You
got the short game and the long game. So if
you look at this objectively, the words themselves are emptiness
because I saw similar quotes coming out of the Eagles
locker room after they got just the snot beat out
of them by the forty nine ers. So I don't
really put any stock in that. I would invest in that.
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But I mentioned the micro and the macro. So the
short term the Eagles will actually be okay. The long
term is problematic. Do you understand the short game is
actually not bad because you look at the defense and
there's a great quote from my favorite hockey coach, Torts,
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who would say of the Eagles right now, we sucked
from head to toe, which is what the Eagles have
sucked from head to toe the last couple of weeks.
Philly's allowed thirty three points per game. That's bad, blah
blah blah. But short term, the good news is that
the Eagles are They're ordering Uber eats, and what they're
getting from Uber Eats is nothing bunt cake. They're getting
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a lot of cupcakes upcoming here. And even as bad
as the Eagles have looked the last couple of weeks,
if they can't beat up the flotsam and Jetsam of
the NFL, which is who they have upcoming. Literally Flotsam
and Jetsam is who they play the next few games.
Got Seattle, bad Seattle team, the Giants twice with Tommy Cutlets,
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and the Cardinals. That's what you got left. That's at
least three wins, probably four wins, probably four wins right there.
So you'll end up fourteen three regular season. Good shot,
you'll be the number two seed in the NFC because
the Cowboys have a tougher schedule. The Cowboys will definitely
end up gagging one of these games down the stretch,
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and so you're you end up as the number two
seed and things are, things are okay, but then eventually
you're going to have to play at the forty nine ers,
right or you'll play the couch. I think you'll beat
the Cowboys because Dak sucks in big moments and all that.
But the Eagles defense, the defensive line's not great right now,
and they're not particularly even though they've won ten games.
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They even when they were winning, it's not like they're dominate.
The only they're dominant at is the tushy pushy. That's
what they're really good at. So as long as they
can get to thirty one, fourth and one and just
pushy tushy, they're in great ship. But outside of that, eh,
not so much. Yeah, all r if you would like
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So now that the charges have been eliminated, you're just
still gonna go to those games, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Justin Herbert isn't playing. I'm definitely not going to this game. Really?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, okay, good? So how high up the Chargers are?
Five and eight? They would have the tenth pick in
the draft right now, but they're tied with the Raiders
and so they could get into the top five if
they lose out and some teams win ahead of them.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
You get it.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I know you're very excited about the draft, Eddie. You
plotting that looking forward to We had a great time
this weekend. It was great to see you and Sam,
you guys coming to the Ugly Sweater part of his blood.
You guys showed up.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Anything I mean, I left? H want to know, did
I I left? Around eleven?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
How much later did the festivities go?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Several hours later in the night?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Did Art Martinez?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Did?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Did Lee client take a swing at Art Martinez?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Lee was very passionate. Lee, former talk show host, is
retired now and still thinks he's on the air when
he's talking.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Uh, and.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah, there was a there was a backyard incident that
got Lee got into it and some people told him
to calm down. And you don't tell him to calm down. Yeah,
you don't do That's something you don't. He's a very
passionate person. He does not believe in in that and
so that was awkward. And then uh, yeah it was
We had a hearty conversation about we went over some
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of the great uh the great coaches rants Earl Weaver,
the coach's corner. There was a manager's corner there with
Earl Weaver. That was pretty good. We had a a
deep dive on lee Ilia. We were It's like we
were we were breaking down some of the great moments
in audio history.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
When did the backyard incident happen? Before?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
I think that was actually before you got Oh well,
I was still there because Sam Sam was coming in
as I was at nowt a little bit.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
But I had to give Lardy our old buddies to
work here, had to give Already a ride. He had
a hotel room because he's got he's so slosh. He
got a hotel room, which is.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Wanted to stay in a guest room at the Allan.
That could have just put a blanket in the backyard.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Maybe yeah, they probably have been all right, and he's
going to bushes or whatever the what you gotta do.
But yeap, So that was the night was fun. We
had a good, good time, good turn out.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
It was good.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
The people seemed seemed happy and all that. The great
Rob Parker he made it appears our old friend Bobo
on the radio. Good to see Bobo. The only time
I see him. The holiday party.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Bobo was there. I think he won some sort of
a costume contest.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, the the the wife had a contest for sweaters.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
He had kind of been inappropriate sweater, but it was
a good, big hit. I guess.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
In that category. Was that the inappropriate sweater category naughtiest
or whatever sweater?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I don't know. I didn't pay attention to that, but whatever.
We've been a little gambling game going was pretty good.
We had fake money out that was fun.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
I thought those are real hundreds. When I came in,
I was like, hot, diggity, give me one of those.
That's you know what those dollars, Those hundred dollars bills
are like monaise.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yeah, they look pretty dissed. From a distance, they look real,
but then you get closer, not so much. But but
it was a good time. So we started out ranting
about the Dallas Cowboys in the Philadelphia Eagles game. And
there's a tradition on this show, whether we want it
or not, when the Cowboys play, they win. We have
one of the great front runners in all of sports
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radio that calls up if they lose the guy a call,
he sits in the corner, starts sucking his thumb. Let's
say hello to cowboy Dan. Hello, Okay, how about those cowboys?
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Hey? Hey, how are you tonight? You know? You know?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
What do I know?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
I know a lot of things. What do you want
me to tell you?
Speaker 6 (20:40):
I was going to tell you that your monologue deserves
an F.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
An F for fantastic. Thank you for that. I appreciate
that was a fantastic monologue. I would give it an
F two fantastic.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
The only thing you were right about was that the
better story is in the loser and locker room, like
the Eagles need to answer the questions of why can't
they hang on the football, why can't they take care
of because they lost three fumbles tonight.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I did actually watch the game. I am I'm aware
of what happened in the game. I'm aware of I'm
very much aware of that. But your guy, Dak, though
you had no butterfingers a momented too, it did happen,
your guy. That's your guy.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Well he's the one, but not three.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, okay, but that's the kind of thing that Dak
does in the playoffs, and then you get all you know,
you know, call up because your team loses and they
get smoked in the playoffs, and Dack will choke again
in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
That's what he does.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
So oh man, I wish I could bet you on.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
That, but I can't.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
You're not allowed to bet. No, you can't do that.
You're no. No game. One day at a time, that's right, Cowboy.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Season at a time, one super Bowl at a time.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
And as you know, you only have a gambling problem
if you lose. If you win, it's not a gambling problem.
But nobody wins in the long run, that's the problem.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
All the house wins.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Well, yeah, he was a better can't You can't keep
it up because nobody can control themselves. That's the problem.
People can't control themselves. They get carried away, they go
on these tangents and all that. Like you calling up
all excited because the Cowboys beat up the Philadelphia.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Are you going to take note of the fact that
Brandon Aubrey sent a record by hitting two?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
What do you want to do? Have a cake for him?
I mean, who cares about? Who cares about?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Kickers?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Yeah, you can't miss? Okay, how about in the playoffs,
he misses a big field goal. What's gonna happen?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Then?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
How about that.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
He won't.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I can't. I was gonna say, you want to bet,
but you again, you can't bet. Listen, you're all excited,
and you should be excited. The Cowboys won at home.
They won big, they were favored to win. They won
a game they were favored to win.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Congratulations, Well they finally, they finally will be a winning team.
They you know, it's about time they bed the winning team.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I guess, yeah, well, this is somewhat more important than
January to beat winning teams. But you know, it's good December.
It feels good, right. You get little excited, you think, oh,
this could be our year. It's like the old Peanuts cartoon.
And then they pull the football up while you're trying
to kick it. Yeah, well, Dan, I feel like we're
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out of it. Two.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Finally, finally, finally, you know, the head coach came up
the operating table to coach this game.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I know, give him a purple star. What a heroic
effort to stand on the sidelines and walk around. Tremendous.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
All I have to say is that McCarthy and Jerry
Jones have us headed in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
I had my gallbladder out and I did talk radio?
Do I did you call up and praise me?
Speaker 6 (23:36):
When I congratulations? Mat?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
All right?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
There you go. I didn't see anyone kissing my ass.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
When I gotta go, I gotta go.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Hang up on yourself, go away, I'm gone. So it's
a tradition. The gambling market always overreacts to these island games.
And yet again the updated ENVP odds are out and
brock Purty is no longer the favorite to be the ENVP.
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Say what yes, brock Purty, who was God's gift to
football last week and by all accounts didn't do anything wrong.
He didn't do anything wrong against Seattley a couple of touchdowns,
three hundred and sixty eight yards passing for brock Purty,
had a good quarterback rating, did have an interception, but
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didn't play poorly at all. Of the forty nine ers
one they covered the spread against Seattle, but doesn't matter.
Dak Prescott on the off short book. They've updated of
the odds, Dak Prescott has overtaken brock Purty. He is
now the favorite to win the Most Valuable Player of
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the Year award. Our friends who were DraftKings have Prescott
listed the money line odds at plus one seventy five.
Party now in second place at plus two hundred, Ravens
quarterback Lamar Jackson at plus four point fifty and Eagles
quarterback Jalen Hurts at plus five hundred. And that is
the top there to a tongue of I looa after
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that and a distant often the way outskirts. You've got
Patrick Mahomes, good luck on that, but that those are
the odds. One of those guys will likely win the MVP.
But the idea that Dak Prescott has some kind of
big advantage is poppycock. Is what that is? That is poppycock.
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Carolina, Congratulations, you're the first team officially eliminated from the
NFL playoffs.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
That's a devastation situa with good news for the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Though, oh they could.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
You got well, they have Carolina's pick, and right, Carolina
has a two game lead which they would give the
pick to the Bears, So the Bears have a two
game lead for the number one overall pick in New England.
Arizona and play this week in New England one, but
they're currently in the number two spot. It's based on
strength to schedule and the Patriots have a weaker strength
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to schedule than the Cardinals, so New England would have
the number two pick and Arizona Washington the Giants rounding
out the top five. It is the Ben Maler Show
as we continue on here through these late night hours,
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TUK and all Things Football. We started with the Sunday
Night game and now we say hello to Paul in
(27:15):
Rhode Island, our friend redbreast Paul.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Hello, Paul, I Begjamin, how you're doing?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Bro? Paul? If I was any better, I'd be a Lion.
But now your Detroit Lions because they got beaten to
a pulp by the Chicago Bears. How embarrassing is that
for the Lions? Oh?
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yeah, you get too comfortable. This year has been a surprise.
These division games have been a nightmare. Uh but I
got to say that they played too comfortable and they
feel comfortable being at the top. No competition from the bottom.
Even though the Biking's got to a hockey score today,
(27:54):
it's embarrassing. These NFL scores look like hockey score and
it's a cheating It's a cheating extravaganza to the fans.
I mean, can you imagine those Raiders fans? Can you
imagine New England fans six to nothing? I tell you,
I'm going to tell you this has got to stop
(28:17):
because you know what's going to happen. This is what's
going to happen. You may make, you may lose seventy thousand,
seventy million dollars on the hot dogs and bears and concessions,
whatever you want to call them. But this is not
going to go on. You've got to give the products
of the people.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
You know what I'm saying, Well, well, you don't like
you know, you don't like defense, Paul. What's wrong with defense?
Speaker 3 (28:38):
That is not defense? Is that's brothers fixing. That's brothers
fixing games, fathers brothers that coverage.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
That are you saying right now, Paul, this is a
big story, Paul. You're saying the games are being fixed
right now in the NFL. That's you're breaking that news.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I am going to repeat myself.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
First of all, they had with the deflections. The deflections
are so teed up, it's unreal.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Okay, So now I like this. Let's go down that avenue.
So the deflections, now, Paul, Paul, do you think it's
possible the NFL has placed strategic magnets and that the
ball reacts to the magnets on the deflections and goes
to the players that big brother the NFL wants. How
(29:29):
about that?
Speaker 3 (29:30):
From the penny to the benny.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
I mean tell you there's been more.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Deflections in the last three years any other time.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
No, No, but Paul, Paul, what about my magnet theory
that there's magnets that are being used here to.
Speaker 8 (29:45):
Sing rule brothers? There has brothers, there's brothers fixing, helping
other brothers catching balls. There's quarterbacks against other quarterbacks.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I'm talking, what do we what are we drinking? Racist? Racist?
Speaker 3 (30:03):
There's nothing to do with racist.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
What are we drinking?
Speaker 6 (30:06):
Every time?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yeah, I asked you a question, I'll come, you don't,
I'll come, you don't. I answer my question, Well, what
are we drinking tonight?
Speaker 3 (30:12):
It's the same mall, It's the same all red breast
Irish wiste baby.
Speaker 8 (30:18):
Yeah, listen from the penny to the benny.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I'm gonna tell you right now there's gonna be so
much difference. The last two weeks is gonna change everything.
And I guarantee you my lines are still gonna win
the division.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
And I need no Viking. The Vikings are a lurking
field goal. Viking offense is lurking there.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
We just gotta get their first space one playoff game,
that's all we need.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Can I hang up on you? You've been on the
here a while. You're gonna hang out with you, go away,
thank you? All right, there's Paul.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
I'm drinking the red Breast.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I guess so Paul's are Archie Bunker. Uh. Jerry Jones
has laid on the smoochy smootree for Dak Prescott, says
he is as qualified in every way to win a
Super Bowl. How is he qualified in every way to
(31:17):
win a Super Bowl? What was the follow up on that?
But that's what Jerry says. He says Dak Prescott qualified
in every way to be a super Bowl winning quarterback.
Dak is a player who is qualified. He said. Jerry's
eighty one years old. His face is only about forty,
but the rest of him is eighty one. And so
(31:37):
Jerry singing the praises of Dak press Now, that would
have been something if Jerry Jones had come out after
the Cowboys Eagles game, a game dominated by Dallas, and
Jerry had said, you know, this guy can't win. I
like Dak, but he can't win the Super Bowl. Now,
that would have been a story. That would have been
a big story. The fact that Jerry Jones lawd lawds
(32:00):
Prescott not a story, not a big story, right, that
doesn't really move the needle. It doesn't, but he said it. Now,
the fall, Rise, Fall, That would be the story of
Joshua Dobbs. He fell, he rose, he fell, he rose,
he fell again. And Dobbs benched, benched by the Minnesota Vikings. Now,
(32:20):
there was some debate whether he was going to start
this game with the Raiders after that turnover palooza in
that Viking Bears game, and Minnesota decided to continue with
Joshua Dobbs. But they had seen enough. Dobbs was benched
for Nick Mullins. The game was zero zero in the
second half and they had the hook. Dobbs came out.
(32:43):
He completed just ten of twenty three passes for sixty
three yards before he was given the cold shower, sacked
five times. But the good news for Joshua Dobbs, if
there is good news, is that he did not have
the vault of turnovers that he had right there. He
(33:04):
did not have any interception in this game, and he
did not have a fumble in this game. Al Right,
it is the Ben Mahlers Show. As we continue on
time now for the who Am I?
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Game?
Speaker 1 (33:15):
We'll get back to the calls as well. Here's the
who am I?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Game?
Speaker 1 (33:17):
I am the only quarterback to win the NVP after
losing two games by twenty or more points during the season.
I won the award. We bring this up because Jalen
Hurts has lost back to back games now by twenty
points or more. I am the only quarterback to win
(33:37):
MVP after losing two games by twenty or more points
during the season. I won the award. Who am I?
That is the question? The answer. We'll get to it.
We'll do it next.
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We'll get to the who am I game? Come on
up in a moment, berg Dog writes, and he says, Tom,
he owes you an apology. He couldn't shut up about
how great the Ravens were. But they didn't even cover
the spread. You knew better, that's correct, Benny versus the penny.
We had the Ravens Rams game. The line was seven
(35:18):
and the Ravens won by six, so the Rams won
the bet. And the fact that the game went to
overtime either the Ravens are supposed to be the big
bad beast of the American Football Conference and all that
they didn't look that good. To me, that's a fraud team.
The Baltimore Ravens g manage in Chicago rights since says
a plus on the Mallard monologue been the only thing
(35:38):
worse than Dak yelling here we go, here we go
before getting the snap is the Cowboys winning. However, it
was great to watch the fat baby in Kansas City
cry about the penalty call and then cry to Josh Allen,
what a loser. Change your underwear, bro or wash them
(36:01):
or something. Here's who am I game? And let's see
can you get this one right? I am the only
quarterback who have won an MVP Award after losing two
games by twenty or more points during the season. I
won said MVP Award? Who am I? That is the question?
(36:22):
What is the answer? Ekeon Roseild, Minnesota going with Bert Jones.
Ferg Dog says, show Hey Otani of the Blue Jays
is the answer? Well, John Morossi broke that story. He's
the only one that had Otani going to the Toronto
That's it. Who else do we have? Art of sports talk?
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Going with?
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Tony Eason is his answer? General Booty from the Mexican
John Dutton Vance Log guessed by mister nice guy that
says answer Jim Thorn or Jim Zorn rather not Thorn.
Jim Zorn from Sewn in the Valley the Sun, Cowboy,
Dan's Lucky Thong from Mattar Warrior Raider Fan The Curmudgeon
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guessed by Alf the Alien Opiner. Looking good there, Curmudgeon.
Who else do we have a page down? Dan Orlovsky
from the k C Carl Haller a man that went
from the Owen sixteen Lions to being an expert at
everything NFL. Who else do we have? Page down Shane
from De Moines, says Craig Hodges is the answer. Rusty Hilger,
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la radio Legend, La Raider Legend. Rusty Hildger from Robin,
minnesot I don't think he did radio in La. Taylor Swift,
the NFL's first Lady who wore too much lipstick? From
Joe and Okinawa. Yeah, good luck on that. Who else
do you have? Brad Johnson from the Rooster stud Muffin
from Mike in the Mountains, Pete Rose from Johnny Q Eddie,
(37:46):
Do you have an answer Eddie to the question of
the hour? Here the who am I game?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Yes? It was the quarterback of the Cardiac Browns Brian.
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Site Brian Brian Sipe. Is that No?
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That is in the corect name Cardiac Kids. I think
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the beginning of a brand new week, we start out
with the big NFL Sunday night game, the Eagles and
the Cowboys. How significant is this Cowboys win for Dak
Prescott in a regular season December game. Does Jalen hurst
Eagle outlook change after these back to back blowouts for
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the Birds? And how much stock do you put in
Fletcher Cox and his confidence in a Philly turnaround after
a couple of stinkers. We'll talk about that as well.
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try to start with football. I was thinking about doing baseball,
but we'll wait till till later on we will have
We'd like to alert all your affiliates down the line.
The Hour of Otani, The Hour of Otani which will
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But our lead from Jerry's world as where the Sunday
(02:54):
Night NFL game was played. I assume that you were
checking that at the climax of the Sunday car in
the NFL for a week fourteen, still a couple games
to go on a Monday night. But Jalen Hurts and
the Eagles they're not smelling themselves right now. They're licking
themselves because they're in pain after getting smoked by the
forty nine ers last week. Now, they visited Dak Prescott
(03:18):
and the Cowboys. Collinsworth was there, Mike Taarrico, they were
hanging out for NBC. I don't know if you saw
the game or not. Maybe you were tuned out, but
don't worry. We watched so you would not have to.
And they made for TV matchup and Dak Prescott tossing
a pair of touchdown passes and kicker Brandon Aubrey. You
(03:40):
know it's a good night when the kicker is getting
some headline here, headline love. But Brandon Aubrey kicked four
field goals and the Cowboys, I guess you could say
they feasted on Pheasant as they get the victory there
and beat the Eagles into submission thirty three to thirteen
the final. Dallas has now won fifteen consecutive home games,
(04:04):
most of those against tomato cans. The Eagles are not
supposed to be a tomato can, oh they so they
have looked like that lately. So at the moment, Dallas
has leapfroged ahead of the Eagles. They have the same record,
but the Cowboys have the tiebreaker, and so they are
currently the number two seed on your NFC Big Board
(04:29):
and the Eagles free falling free falling. The Eagles go
down to the number five. So Mike McCarthy getting a
lot of love because he had a medical procedure this
week and went out there and coached. He didn't really
have to do much. The game was not ever in
doubt and appened dectomy for Mike McCarthy. So let us
(04:50):
discuss the question how significant, how significant is this Cowboys
win for Dak Prescott. And well, it's significant in the
sense that it's getting a lot of attention, But the
question again, how significant is the Cowboys win for Dak Prescott.
So I've got Alice in Wonderland Manny Moe and Jack
(05:13):
and Uber Eats, and we will combine all of these
things together, and we will lay the foundation for this
Malard monologue that will rock overnight nation. I think I
don't know who knows all right now? Ay the question
about Dak Prescott winning big regular season game against the Eagles,
(05:37):
finally beating a good team. The Cowboys had not beaten
the good team this season, and so this is not
the proverbial monkey off the back for Dak Prescott. That
is not what this game is. In fact, if you
examine the situation, it does not dramatically change anything in
(05:58):
terms of where Dak and we will be the grown
ups here in the room. Dallas was at home, they
were favored in the game. It is December, which is
regular season football. The Eagles defense completely tattered. All of
those things are true. All of those things are variables
which are absolutely true when you're talking about Dak Prescott
(06:21):
and the Cowboys winning this game. Did I think the
Cowboys are gonna win a game?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I did not. If you saw the TV show over
the weekend, you know that on Benny Versus the Penny,
I picked the Eagles. That game was over and the
way the Eagles came out of the the opening court
of the game, and that's very unlikely the Eagles are
going to win this game, and sure enough that was
the case. But what the victory does do well, it
doesn't change the narrative about Dak Prescott because it's not
(06:47):
a playoff game and it's so you don't change all that.
But it does work like these island games. It's hot
air in the balloon. The only reason the hot air
balloon rises because the air is hotter there than the
air outside. So the hot air balloon, that's essentially what
(07:10):
it is. It's watch out for Alice in Wonderland syndrome. Now,
if you're not familiar with Alice in Wonderland's interest objects,
they appear bigger, they appear bigger than they are. And
we see this all the time in these primetime island
games where people go out and they just dominate, and
then when it's all got go, they get all horny,
all excited, right, and then, oh but until I see
(07:35):
Dak Prescott not ride the vomit comet in a big
playoff game against a good team. And no, Tampa Bay
last year was not a good team. Not a good team.
Until I see that, I will continue to be a
stubborn jackass when it comes to Dak Prescott. That's my
position on that. The jury is in on Dak in
(07:57):
big games. It's not like he's a second or third
year Guy's been around long enough, we've we've seen what
this guy can do. Now, does that mean it's going
to continue forever. No, I don't mean he's gonna continue forever.
But at this point, until we see a reason to
think that it's going to change, this is not the game.
This is not the game the Eagles. Uh, it was
(08:17):
more they were just sloppy and disgusting. I didn't eve
think Kak played all that well in this particular game,
all right, Now, when you got all those field goals, generally,
if your field goal kicker is being talked about like that,
that's a bad sign. Now turning the page, does Jalen
Hurts Eagles outlook change? Now? Does this change on the
(08:38):
other side for the Eagles? Better stories than losing locker room?
Does this change things for Jalen Hurts and the Eagles?
And the answer is yes. The direction they are now headed,
They're headed to the off the beaten path, root or route,
depending on how you want to say it. Philly finds
(08:58):
themselves behind the nine Ers for the number one seed,
even tho they're ten and three. The Cowboys and Eagles
are ten and three. Obviously head to head tie breakers
go against Philadelphia. But Philly they still control their path
in terms of getting the division titles, so they're still
in good shape in that regard. And the bigger issue
(09:20):
here is that they might want to contact Manny Moe
and Jack the Boys over at Pep Boys there because
their car needs a tune up here in Philadelphia. The
spark plugs are not quite sparking at this moment there
and and Jalen Hurts said after the game, he said,
it's something we are going through, not something we are
stuck in. Was the quote from Jalen Hurst. Do you
(09:42):
agree or disagree with that?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Well?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I agree with it. I don't think people are going
to always they always overreact to what you just saw.
It's the prisoner of the moment syndrome. And the Eagles
right now are an absolute dog food team. They are
I'm gonna sit here and tell you something other than that.
The last couple weeks have been puke football. From the
Philadelphia Eagles, and the Birds have to get their house
(10:06):
in order. But I am a believer in that you
are never as good as everyone tells you you are,
and you are also never as bad as everyone says
you are when you lose, right, you win, Araza, you're
great when you lose. It's always somewhere in the middle.
But the Birds have to get their house in order
here and they've been placed in the slow cooker. And
Jalens the defense will get to in a minute. The
(10:28):
defense has been bad, but Jalen Hurts. The last month,
four games for Jalen Hurts, he has not been anything
more than a third tier NFL quarterback. And that's a
fact Jack the last month, last four games, Jalen Hurts,
He's got four touchdowns, four fumbles, and two interceptions and
(10:50):
a passer rating below eighty five. That is who Jalen
Hurts has been over the last month. And so he
got the contract. That's great. They got to the Super
Bowl last year, they won ten games. But right now,
in this snapshot in time Dak Prescott's rifle with the
Philadelphia Eagles, Jalen Hurts is not living up to his
(11:12):
end of the proverbial bargain. Now turning the pace, last
word here. So the Eagles defensive star Fletcher Cox, he
had a lot to say after you. He was ranting
and raving in the losing locker room there, which is
where the better story is the losing locker room. So
Fletcher Cootch, who did make a big play here Cox
in the game where the Cowboys, he had the sack
(11:35):
the strip of Dak Prescott which led to a Philadelphia touchdown,
defensive touchdown for the Philadelphia Eagles in this game. And
he gave the standard trope of the Eagles got punched
in the mouth two weeks in a row. He gave
that response there he said, they must figure out what
teams are doing. Scheme wise, was the way Fletcher Cotch.
(11:58):
Fletcher Cox addressed it scheme wise and obviously corrected. So
Cox said that they still hold they have to hold
each other accountable, and they will hold each other accountable.
All right, So let us discuss how much stalk, how
much stock do you put into Fletcher Cox and the
confidence in an Eagles turnaround. So I've got the micro
(12:21):
and the macro when it comes to the Eagles. You
got the short game and the long game. So if
you look at this objectively, the words themselves are emptiness
because I saw similar quotes coming out of the Eagles
locker room after they got just the snot beat out
of them by the forty nine ers. So I don't
really put any stock in that. I would invest in that.
(12:43):
But I mentioned the micro and the macro. So the
short term the Eagles will actually be okay. The long
term is problematic. Do you understand the short game is
actually not bad because you look at the defense and
there's a great quote from my favorite hockey coach, Torts,
(13:04):
who would say of the Eagles right now, we sucked
from head to toe, which is what the Eagles have
sucked from head to toe the last couple of weeks.
Philly's allowed thirty three points per game. That's bad, blah
blah blah. But short term, the good news is that
the Eagles are They're ordering Uber eats, and what they're
getting from Uber Eats is nothing bunt cake. They're getting
(13:27):
a lot of cupcakes upcoming here. And even as bad
as the Eagles have looked the last couple of weeks,
if they can't beat up the flotsam and Jetsam of
the NFL, which is who they have upcoming. Literally Flotsam
and Jetsam is who they play the next few games.
Got Seattle, bad Seattle team, the Giants twice with Tommy Cutlets,
(13:50):
and the Cardinals. That's what you got left. That's at
least three wins, probably four wins, probably four wins right there.
So you'll end up fourteen three regular season. Good shot,
you'll be the number two seed in the NFC because
the Cowboys have a tougher schedule. The Cowboys will definitely
end up gagging one of these games down the stretch,
(14:12):
and so you're you end up as the number two
seed and things are, things are okay, but then eventually
you're going to have to play at the forty nine ers,
right or you'll play the couch. I think you'll beat
the Cowboys because Dak sucks in big moments and all that.
But the Eagles defense, the defensive line's not great right now,
and they're not particularly even though they've won ten games.
(14:33):
They even when they were winning, it's not like they're dominate.
The only they're dominant at is the tushy pushy. That's
what they're really good at. So as long as they
can get to thirty one, fourth and one and just
pushy tushy, they're in great ship. But outside of that, eh,
not so much. Yeah, all r if you would like
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(15:16):
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So now that the charges have been eliminated, you're just
still gonna go to those games, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Justin Herbert isn't playing. I'm definitely not going to this game. Really?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, okay, good? So how high up the Chargers are?
Five and eight? They would have the tenth pick in
the draft right now, but they're tied with the Raiders
and so they could get into the top five if
they lose out and some teams win ahead of them.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
You get it.
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I know you're very excited about the draft, Eddie. You
plotting that looking forward to We had a great time
this weekend. It was great to see you and Sam,
you guys coming to the Ugly Sweater part of his blood.
You guys showed up.
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Anything I mean, I left? H want to know, did
I I left? Around eleven?
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Yeah?
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How much later did the festivities go?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Several hours later in the night?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Did Art Martinez?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Did?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Did Lee client take a swing at Art Martinez?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Lee was very passionate. Lee, former talk show host, is
retired now and still thinks he's on the air when
he's talking.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Uh, and.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah, there was a there was a backyard incident that
got Lee got into it and some people told him
to calm down. And you don't tell him to calm down. Yeah,
you don't do That's something you don't. He's a very
passionate person. He does not believe in in that and
so that was awkward. And then uh, yeah it was
We had a hearty conversation about we went over some
(18:12):
of the great uh the great coaches rants Earl Weaver,
the coach's corner. There was a manager's corner there with
Earl Weaver. That was pretty good. We had a a
deep dive on lee Ilia. We were It's like we
were we were breaking down some of the great moments
in audio history.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
When did the backyard incident happen? Before?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
I think that was actually before you got Oh well,
I was still there because Sam Sam was coming in
as I was at nowt a little bit.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
But I had to give Lardy our old buddies to
work here, had to give Already a ride. He had
a hotel room because he's got he's so slosh. He
got a hotel room, which is.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Wanted to stay in a guest room at the Allan.
That could have just put a blanket in the backyard.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Maybe yeah, they probably have been all right, and he's
going to bushes or whatever the what you gotta do.
But yeap, So that was the night was fun. We
had a good, good time, good turn out.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
It was good.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
The people seemed seemed happy and all that. The great
Rob Parker he made it appears our old friend Bobo
on the radio. Good to see Bobo. The only time
I see him. The holiday party.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Bobo was there. I think he won some sort of
a costume contest.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, the the the wife had a contest for sweaters.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
He had kind of been inappropriate sweater, but it was
a good, big hit. I guess.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
In that category. Was that the inappropriate sweater category naughtiest
or whatever sweater?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I don't know. I didn't pay attention to that, but whatever.
We've been a little gambling game going was pretty good.
We had fake money out that was fun.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
I thought those are real hundreds. When I came in,
I was like, hot, diggity, give me one of those.
That's you know what those dollars, Those hundred dollars bills
are like monaise.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yeah, they look pretty dissed. From a distance, they look real,
but then you get closer, not so much. But but
it was a good time. So we started out ranting
about the Dallas Cowboys in the Philadelphia Eagles game. And
there's a tradition on this show, whether we want it
or not, when the Cowboys play, they win. We have
one of the great front runners in all of sports
(20:13):
radio that calls up if they lose the guy a call,
he sits in the corner, starts sucking his thumb. Let's
say hello to cowboy Dan. Hello, Okay, how about those cowboys?
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Hey? Hey, how are you tonight? You know? You know?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
What do I know?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
I know a lot of things. What do you want
me to tell you?
Speaker 6 (20:40):
I was going to tell you that your monologue deserves
an F.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
An F for fantastic. Thank you for that. I appreciate
that was a fantastic monologue. I would give it an
F two fantastic.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
The only thing you were right about was that the
better story is in the loser and locker room, like
the Eagles need to answer the questions of why can't
they hang on the football, why can't they take care
of because they lost three fumbles tonight.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I did actually watch the game. I am I'm aware
of what happened in the game. I'm aware of I'm
very much aware of that. But your guy, Dak, though
you had no butterfingers a momented too, it did happen,
your guy. That's your guy.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Well he's the one, but not three.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, okay, but that's the kind of thing that Dak
does in the playoffs, and then you get all you know,
you know, call up because your team loses and they
get smoked in the playoffs, and Dack will choke again
in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
That's what he does.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
So oh man, I wish I could bet you on.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
That, but I can't.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
You're not allowed to bet. No, you can't do that.
You're no. No game. One day at a time, that's right, Cowboy.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Season at a time, one super Bowl at a time.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
And as you know, you only have a gambling problem
if you lose. If you win, it's not a gambling problem.
But nobody wins in the long run, that's the problem.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
All the house wins.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Well, yeah, he was a better can't You can't keep
it up because nobody can control themselves. That's the problem.
People can't control themselves. They get carried away, they go
on these tangents and all that. Like you calling up
all excited because the Cowboys beat up the Philadelphia.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Are you going to take note of the fact that
Brandon Aubrey sent a record by hitting two?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
What do you want to do? Have a cake for him?
I mean, who cares about? Who cares about?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Kickers?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Yeah, you can't miss? Okay, how about in the playoffs,
he misses a big field goal. What's gonna happen?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Then?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
How about that.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
He won't.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I can't. I was gonna say, you want to bet,
but you again, you can't bet. Listen, you're all excited,
and you should be excited. The Cowboys won at home.
They won big, they were favored to win. They won
a game they were favored to win.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Congratulations, Well they finally, they finally will be a winning team.
They you know, it's about time they bed the winning team.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I guess, yeah, well, this is somewhat more important than
January to beat winning teams. But you know, it's good December.
It feels good, right. You get little excited, you think, oh,
this could be our year. It's like the old Peanuts cartoon.
And then they pull the football up while you're trying
to kick it. Yeah, well, Dan, I feel like we're
(23:15):
out of it. Two.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Finally, finally, finally, you know, the head coach came up
the operating table to coach this game.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I know, give him a purple star. What a heroic
effort to stand on the sidelines and walk around. Tremendous.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
All I have to say is that McCarthy and Jerry
Jones have us headed in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
I had my gallbladder out and I did talk radio?
Do I did you call up and praise me?
Speaker 6 (23:36):
When I congratulations? Mat?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
All right?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
There you go. I didn't see anyone kissing my ass.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
When I gotta go, I gotta go.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Hang up on yourself, go away, I'm gone. So it's
a tradition. The gambling market always overreacts to these island games.
And yet again the updated ENVP odds are out and
brock Purty is no longer the favorite to be the ENVP.
(24:05):
Say what yes, brock Purty, who was God's gift to
football last week and by all accounts didn't do anything wrong.
He didn't do anything wrong against Seattley a couple of touchdowns,
three hundred and sixty eight yards passing for brock Purty,
had a good quarterback rating, did have an interception, but
(24:27):
didn't play poorly at all. Of the forty nine ers
one they covered the spread against Seattle, but doesn't matter.
Dak Prescott on the off short book. They've updated of
the odds, Dak Prescott has overtaken brock Purty. He is
now the favorite to win the Most Valuable Player of
(24:49):
the Year award. Our friends who were DraftKings have Prescott
listed the money line odds at plus one seventy five.
Party now in second place at plus two hundred, Ravens
quarterback Lamar Jackson at plus four point fifty and Eagles
quarterback Jalen Hurts at plus five hundred. And that is
the top there to a tongue of I looa after
(25:11):
that and a distant often the way outskirts. You've got
Patrick Mahomes, good luck on that, but that those are
the odds. One of those guys will likely win the MVP.
But the idea that Dak Prescott has some kind of
big advantage is poppycock. Is what that is? That is poppycock.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Carolina, Congratulations, you're the first team officially eliminated from the
NFL playoffs.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
That's a devastation situa with good news for the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Though, oh they could.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
You got well, they have Carolina's pick, and right, Carolina
has a two game lead which they would give the
pick to the Bears, So the Bears have a two
game lead for the number one overall pick in New England.
Arizona and play this week in New England one, but
they're currently in the number two spot. It's based on
strength to schedule and the Patriots have a weaker strength
(26:13):
to schedule than the Cardinals, so New England would have
the number two pick and Arizona Washington the Giants rounding
out the top five. It is the Ben Maler Show
as we continue on here through these late night hours,
and glad you have chosen to hang out with us.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
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TUK and all Things Football. We started with the Sunday
Night game and now we say hello to Paul in
(27:15):
Rhode Island, our friend redbreast Paul.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Hello, Paul, I Begjamin, how you're doing?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Bro? Paul? If I was any better, I'd be a Lion.
But now your Detroit Lions because they got beaten to
a pulp by the Chicago Bears. How embarrassing is that
for the Lions? Oh?
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yeah, you get too comfortable. This year has been a surprise.
These division games have been a nightmare. Uh but I
got to say that they played too comfortable and they
feel comfortable being at the top. No competition from the bottom.
Even though the Biking's got to a hockey score today,
(27:54):
it's embarrassing. These NFL scores look like hockey score and
it's a cheating It's a cheating extravaganza to the fans.
I mean, can you imagine those Raiders fans? Can you
imagine New England fans six to nothing? I tell you,
I'm going to tell you this has got to stop
(28:17):
because you know what's going to happen. This is what's
going to happen. You may make, you may lose seventy thousand,
seventy million dollars on the hot dogs and bears and concessions,
whatever you want to call them. But this is not
going to go on. You've got to give the products
of the people.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
You know what I'm saying, Well, well, you don't like
you know, you don't like defense, Paul. What's wrong with defense?
Speaker 3 (28:38):
That is not defense? Is that's brothers fixing. That's brothers
fixing games, fathers brothers that coverage.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
That are you saying right now, Paul, this is a
big story, Paul. You're saying the games are being fixed
right now in the NFL. That's you're breaking that news.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I am going to repeat myself.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
First of all, they had with the deflections. The deflections
are so teed up, it's unreal.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Okay, So now I like this. Let's go down that avenue.
So the deflections, now, Paul, Paul, do you think it's
possible the NFL has placed strategic magnets and that the
ball reacts to the magnets on the deflections and goes
to the players that big brother the NFL wants. How
(29:29):
about that?
Speaker 3 (29:30):
From the penny to the benny.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
I mean tell you there's been more.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Deflections in the last three years any other time.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
No, No, but Paul, Paul, what about my magnet theory
that there's magnets that are being used here to.
Speaker 8 (29:45):
Sing rule brothers? There has brothers, there's brothers fixing, helping
other brothers catching balls. There's quarterbacks against other quarterbacks.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I'm talking, what do we what are we drinking? Racist? Racist?
Speaker 3 (30:03):
There's nothing to do with racist.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
What are we drinking?
Speaker 6 (30:06):
Every time?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yeah, I asked you a question, I'll come, you don't,
I'll come, you don't. I answer my question, Well, what
are we drinking tonight?
Speaker 3 (30:12):
It's the same mall, It's the same all red breast
Irish wiste baby.
Speaker 8 (30:18):
Yeah, listen from the penny to the benny.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I'm gonna tell you right now there's gonna be so
much difference. The last two weeks is gonna change everything.
And I guarantee you my lines are still gonna win
the division.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
And I need no Viking. The Vikings are a lurking
field goal. Viking offense is lurking there.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
We just gotta get their first space one playoff game,
that's all we need.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Can I hang up on you? You've been on the
here a while. You're gonna hang out with you, go away,
thank you? All right, there's Paul.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
I'm drinking the red Breast.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I guess so Paul's are Archie Bunker. Uh. Jerry Jones
has laid on the smoochy smootree for Dak Prescott, says
he is as qualified in every way to win a
Super Bowl. How is he qualified in every way to
(31:17):
win a Super Bowl? What was the follow up on that?
But that's what Jerry says. He says Dak Prescott qualified
in every way to be a super Bowl winning quarterback.
Dak is a player who is qualified. He said. Jerry's
eighty one years old. His face is only about forty,
but the rest of him is eighty one. And so
(31:37):
Jerry singing the praises of Dak press Now, that would
have been something if Jerry Jones had come out after
the Cowboys Eagles game, a game dominated by Dallas, and
Jerry had said, you know, this guy can't win. I
like Dak, but he can't win the Super Bowl. Now,
that would have been a story. That would have been
a big story. The fact that Jerry Jones lawd lawds
(32:00):
Prescott not a story, not a big story, right, that
doesn't really move the needle. It doesn't, but he said it. Now,
the fall, Rise, Fall, That would be the story of
Joshua Dobbs. He fell, he rose, he fell, he rose,
he fell again. And Dobbs benched, benched by the Minnesota Vikings. Now,
(32:20):
there was some debate whether he was going to start
this game with the Raiders after that turnover palooza in
that Viking Bears game, and Minnesota decided to continue with
Joshua Dobbs. But they had seen enough. Dobbs was benched
for Nick Mullins. The game was zero zero in the
second half and they had the hook. Dobbs came out.
(32:43):
He completed just ten of twenty three passes for sixty
three yards before he was given the cold shower, sacked
five times. But the good news for Joshua Dobbs, if
there is good news, is that he did not have
the vault of turnovers that he had right there. He
(33:04):
did not have any interception in this game, and he
did not have a fumble in this game. Al Right,
it is the Ben Mahlers Show. As we continue on
time now for the who Am I?
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Game?
Speaker 1 (33:15):
We'll get back to the calls as well. Here's the
who am I?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Game?
Speaker 1 (33:17):
I am the only quarterback to win the NVP after
losing two games by twenty or more points during the season.
I won the award. We bring this up because Jalen
Hurts has lost back to back games now by twenty
points or more. I am the only quarterback to win
(33:37):
MVP after losing two games by twenty or more points
during the season. I won the award. Who am I?
That is the question? The answer. We'll get to it.
We'll do it next.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
I guess I'm talking about but nally.
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Speaker 1 (34:55):
We'll get to the who am I game? Come on
up in a moment, berg Dog writes, and he says, Tom,
he owes you an apology. He couldn't shut up about
how great the Ravens were. But they didn't even cover
the spread. You knew better, that's correct, Benny versus the penny.
We had the Ravens Rams game. The line was seven
(35:18):
and the Ravens won by six, so the Rams won
the bet. And the fact that the game went to
overtime either the Ravens are supposed to be the big
bad beast of the American Football Conference and all that
they didn't look that good. To me, that's a fraud team.
The Baltimore Ravens g manage in Chicago rights since says
a plus on the Mallard monologue been the only thing
(35:38):
worse than Dak yelling here we go, here we go
before getting the snap is the Cowboys winning. However, it
was great to watch the fat baby in Kansas City
cry about the penalty call and then cry to Josh Allen,
what a loser. Change your underwear, bro or wash them
(36:01):
or something. Here's who am I game? And let's see
can you get this one right? I am the only
quarterback who have won an MVP Award after losing two
games by twenty or more points during the season. I
won said MVP Award? Who am I? That is the question?
(36:22):
What is the answer? Ekeon Roseild, Minnesota going with Bert Jones.
Ferg Dog says, show Hey Otani of the Blue Jays
is the answer? Well, John Morossi broke that story. He's
the only one that had Otani going to the Toronto
That's it. Who else do we have? Art of sports talk?
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Going with?
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Tony Eason is his answer? General Booty from the Mexican
John Dutton Vance Log guessed by mister nice guy that
says answer Jim Thorn or Jim Zorn rather not Thorn.
Jim Zorn from Sewn in the Valley the Sun, Cowboy,
Dan's Lucky Thong from Mattar Warrior Raider Fan The Curmudgeon
(37:01):
guessed by Alf the Alien Opiner. Looking good there, Curmudgeon.
Who else do we have a page down? Dan Orlovsky
from the k C Carl Haller a man that went
from the Owen sixteen Lions to being an expert at
everything NFL. Who else do we have? Page down Shane
from De Moines, says Craig Hodges is the answer. Rusty Hilger,
(37:22):
la radio Legend, La Raider Legend. Rusty Hildger from Robin,
minnesot I don't think he did radio in La. Taylor Swift,
the NFL's first Lady who wore too much lipstick? From
Joe and Okinawa. Yeah, good luck on that. Who else
do you have? Brad Johnson from the Rooster stud Muffin
from Mike in the Mountains, Pete Rose from Johnny Q Eddie,
(37:46):
Do you have an answer Eddie to the question of
the hour? Here the who am I game?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Yes? It was the quarterback of the Cardiac Browns Brian.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Site Brian Brian Sipe. Is that No?
Speaker 2 (38:00):
That is in the corect name Cardiac Kids. I think
Cardiac kids. I think they Edy.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
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