September 13, 2024 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa suffering yet another concussion in a loss to the Bills on TNF, what the temperature in the room is for Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel, how impressive the Bills 2-0 start is (or isn't), and much more!
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Here we go. Welcome. It's our number one hour, one
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our number one here on this Friday, the thirteenth day
of September, the Bills Dolphins game. The story everyone's talking about.
Bills win big, Dolphins lose to a tongue of I Looa.
How should Dolphin fans feel about to a tongue of
by Loa's injury situation? Also, what's the temperature in the
room for Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel after a porous performance
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by his team? How impressed are you with Josh Allen's
Bill's They are two in zero on the year after
they got rid of Stefawn Diggs, and many people expected
them to be in limbo, but they're off to the
two and oh start. We'll talk about all that and
more right now here. It is our number one with
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Very excited, very excited here, giddy giddy, and we'll get
right to it. Not waste time because it's all about
that action. Boss, It's all about that action. Our lead
this hour from South Florida build as the AFC early
season grudge Match Buffalo paying a visit to Miami, Miami
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or Miami adjacent. I gotta tell you, I was in
Miami years ago at a I covered the World Series.
I heard in garbage time al Michaels was talking about this.
The Marlins played the Cleveland Indians in the World Series
and I was there and the stadium looks nothing like
it looks now. My god, insane what they've done over
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the years to renovate that. But this game build is
early bragging rights and as mentioned al Michael's Kirk kerb
Street were there in the Amazon box with their machete,
calling the game and trying to get you to use
Amazon Prime to buy every product. Just clicked that little
button on Amazon. Now. I don't know if you watched
it or not. Maybe not. Don't worry. We did so
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you would not have to and in terms of competition,
you didn't miss anything. James Cook was getting it done.
Cook caught a touchdown pass, he ran for not one
but two scores, and the Bills had a fish fry
in Miami. I don't think it's legal to eat dolphin,
but they did. Thirty one to ten the final and
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the game itself, the subplot more interesting than the game
and self quarterback to a tongue of eye law down
for the count. He left early because of a concussion.
Wherever we heard that before, it happened in the third
quarter to a tongue of by lawa exiting stage left,
he collided with Tamar Hamlin in a poetic moment, the
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defensive back who almost died almost died on the field
in a Bill's Bengals game, in a primetime game. So
they connected and tomorrow Hamlin got the bet of Tua
and Tua fell down. He hit the back of his
head against the turf, so Tongue of Biloa quickly ruled
out just minutes later because of a concussion. And now
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there's questions whether he will play again this year, whether
he will ever play again. We will address all of that,
as he has had many concussions over his brief time
in the NFL. So let us discuss. Now, I want
to look at this through the prism of the fan.
I want to look at this through the prism of
van So I don't have any skin in the game,
meaning that I am not a Miami football fan, but
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I want to try to lock into this. Okay, I
want to lock into this. So how should the Dolphin
fan handle to a tongue of I loa and this
particular situation if they feel about all this. So I've
got Rice Crispi's, Hearty's and Google Maps, and we will
combine all of these things together, and we are going
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to look out at a window on the world, which
this is. This show is a window to the world.
It is an audio window to the world. So we'll
combine all these things together. Now a to begin this
manifesto for the die hard Dolphin backer. This is the
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doomsday prophecy. Yeah, they because the Dolphins here have been hoodwinked,
bamboozled and hornswoggled. You might say, well, it's just you're
just being a drama queen. You're being too dramatic. But
let me explain why. Okay, Now, we had heard from
boots on the ground that the Dolphins had a faction
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of their front office that was very reluctant to pay
to the big money give him that big contract because
they did not trust him. They didn't have faith that
his body could hold up. And when you do a
side by side comparison and you look at the contemporaries
at the quarterback position, Tua by comparison is a scrawny guy,
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and he had a pre existing condition, meaning he's had
past head injuries. And then something bizarre happened in twenty
twenty three. Tua use the voodoo boogaloo, some triggeration or
just a little jiu jitsu and stayed healthy. He played
it every game. And now here we are in the
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second year after that, and lo and behold, after all
of that happened, and the massive contract to deal with
one hundred and sixty one million guaranteed US dollars one
hundred and sixty one million dollars. Now Tua having a
bowl of rice crispies, Snap, crackle and pop. The Dolphins
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do not have a contingency plan. Nobody has a contingency
plan when their backup quarterback has to play Skyler Thompson,
who we got to peek at and this guy blows
man does he suck? And the good news to the
Dolphins The NFL Draft is in late April of twenty
twenty five, and you might want to call your travel
agent or book tickets. There's a Lambeau Field in Green Bay.
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That's where the twenty twenty five NFL Draft is. Now
page two. Here, what is the temperature in the room
for Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel. So it is Boom goes
to dynamite. It was that kind of a night, Boom
goes to dynamite. Now this is the star Trek kind
of a game. McDaniel was whispering, beat me up, Scottie
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right looking for that teleportation device to get back to
the Starship Enterprise and away from the sidelines there as
he is absolutely getting the I call it the heart
ease or Carls Junior treatment, depending if you live east
or west of Mississippi. He is getting charbroyled, Absolutely charbroyled,
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which does come with the territory, all right, it does
come with a territory. This was a poorly prepared football team.
Is that a correct statement at least based on their performance.
Now I don't think Sean McDermott is a top ten coach,
but in this particular game, his team was more prepared.
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They played with more of an age.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Normally, the more.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Aggressive team has an advantage, and they played the pants
off the Dolphins. And as we always like to say
here on these microphones, you're either coaching it or you're
allowing to happen. But to a lost in the cloud
of drama and a depressing situation, this could be the
final game that to a tongue of Byloa plays in,
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if you believe the internet chatter. But he was horrible
before he got hurt. He had three interceptions, one of
them was tipped, one was just a biblically bad pass,
and it was just having a horrible game. And that
was before he had to exit. I mean the Dolphins
also had no sense of urgency. They were still in
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the game in the first half they were trailing, and
there was just no effort to try to get down
the field, matriculate the ball down the field. You even
had Kirk Herbstreet, who normally just tickles the toes of
these NFL coaches and teams, or Herbie called out Tyreek
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Hill and Jayden Waddle who were having a tea party
on the Dolphin bench while the game was going on
there in the fourth quarter and not engaged at all.
Then you had people very upset agast because Devon a
Chan the running back, was still getting touches in garbage time,
which is great, great for fantasy football, it's unorthodox for
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the modern world of professional football. Or you must protect
the players at all costs. So there's a lot of
moving parts to this story. It's not looking good for
the head coach of the Dolphins here on this particular night,
it says one night, and that's fine, And yeah, the
Dolphins did win. They had come from behind to be
Jacksonville at home, but they certainly do not have the
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same tempo, the same rasmtaz that they played with last
season at all. And yeah, you're only two weeks in,
you know, a lot of games left, but you're likely
not going to have two anytime soon, should he come
back at all? More on that later in the hour.
All right, last word here, So let's go down of
the winning locker room. Not as good as story, right,
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we canna agree on that, not as good a story.
How impressed are you with Josh Allen's Bills getting off
to the two and zero start? Now, So the way
we measure these things is the Malard scale of impressed.
And on the Malard scale of impressed one to ten,
with ten being an eye popping amazing performance. One to ten,
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I'm at a five. I'm at a five for Buffalo.
And here's why, you know, I'm not here to massage
the Bill's mafia coming back from down? What were they down? Seventeen?
I believe at home to beat a bad Cardinals team,
and Arizona essentially gave that game back to you in
the second half. Then you are the beneficiary of the
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generosity of Tua tongue a bailoa before he got hurt,
the room service delivery, handing the game to you. And
so yeah, you're two and zero. It's a nice feather
in the cap. And these are both games before the
year you would have said that Buffalo was likely going
to win. I didn't think they would cover the spread. Fact,
I think they pushed with Arizona depending on what spread
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you got last week, which is a different conversation with
a gambling perspective, but just straight up, they were supposed
to win both these games. That Arizona's a bad team
and they always always toy with the Dolphins. That's what
the Bills have done the last couple of years. But
these are not season defining wins. That's the point, right
as I get two carried away here, I know the
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overreaction machine against craked up, but I will be the
voice of reason right slow your role and as we
often will point out that you don't get extra credit
for doing the thing that you're supposed to do. And
that's what Buffalo has done. They won a home game
against a substandard opponent Alligator Arms Murray, and they took
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advantage of a gift game that was just handed to
you by a Dolphin team that was ill prepared and
then just made a bunch of mistakes. And congratulations, you
had a bunch of backup guys on defense that were
playing and you still won the game. But if you
check Google Maps. Okay, if you check Google Maps, the Bills.
What they have done here by winning the games they're
supposed to win, is they're keeping some skin in the game.
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They're keeping themselves within spitting distance on the Google Maps
to the big boys. Now, if you want me to
be impressed with the Buffalo Bills, I'll tell you what
the litmus test is. Josh Allen his proving ground that
this team is something rather than just a mirage. Road
game games Ravens and Texans week four and five, Buffalo
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week four and five at Baltimore, at Houston, and then
week eleven in Kansas City. So those three games, that
is where you can get some aura.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
If you will.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
That's a popular word these days, right, and then knock
people socks off and all that, and say, hey, this
team's legit. You don't do it beating Kyler Murray, who's
a stiff, he's better at video games and he's playing quarterback.
He's only don't do it by taking advantage of Atua
who turned the ball over Ton then left and all
that team you normally beat. That's not going into the
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belly of the beast exactly.
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It is.
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And the news of the night. The Dolphin Bill's game.
Buffalo gets the win and the Dolphins get to double whammy.
They were not competitive, and now not only the Dolphins
not competitive, but to a tongue of Iloa down down
for the count, it would appear so well, we'll see
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what ends up happening going forward. Yeah, I know, I know.
And there's a lot of proclamations about what's gonna happen,
what's not gonna happen. I did see. Ozziewass said the
Tomorrow Hamlin ending to a Tongue of Iloa career is
a story Pixar could not even write. Anthony Anthony and
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Anaheim says, how long have I said? Tua is not
the guy? So that's Anthony and Anaheim demanding that everyone
give him applause as a Miami Dolphin fan. Now, the
question is what happens to Tua Tongue of Biloa going forward.
There's a number of former NFL players that have come out,
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and we like to call it true signaling, making it
all about them and showing everyone how much they care. Uh,
and they're calling for Tua Tongue of Iloa to retire
after he received the concussion. Among those that have issued
proclamations calling for Tua to retire, you have Dez Bryant,
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the former Dallas Cowboy, very active member of the micro
blogging world, and des Bryant has issued a statement. I
know we were all wondering, what's des Bryant think about
this story. Well, now you know, Now you know des
Bryant saying the exact quote here. I don't want to
misquote des Bryant, one of the great one of the
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great thinkers of our time. Here with the Dallas Cowboys.
He says, NFL, that's it, NFL, go ahead and do
the right thing. Tua has had entirely way too many concussions.
He need, he need to retire for his longevity health concerns,
said des Bryant. Then we had porn star Shannon Sharp
say that he really hopes to is okay, but he's
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got to seriously think about shutting it down. I hate
He didn't don't want to spell out the word hate.
Probably had some sexy time coming up, so he just
put h eight. I hate saying this. His concussions are
getting worse and worse, and he's a young man with
his entire life ahead of him. Now, how does Shannon
Sharp know that that concussion is worse than the last one?
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Do we know what medical school he went to? Like, Yeah,
I don't know. Two has gotten hurt a lot, and
do I think too is Do I think he's gonna
get hurt again? Yeah? Probably, but it's not my decision.
It's his life. And if he wants to play football
and continue to play and be a crash test dummy,
then that's his decision. Oh yeah, he's already won the lottery,
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so he the money part of it. He's got at
least ninety three million, and if he wants to haggle,
he could probably end up if you do that, if
you do the math on this, twenty three was guaranteed
ninety three million based on the nerds that keep track
of this stuff on the interweb, that ninety three million guaranteed.
It's signing. But then you've got another you know, sixty
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million dollars or so that is technically guaranteed, but there's
some gray area and that so with a good lawyer
and a sob story about I got to take care
of my family and god forbid, they can't live on
ninety three million dollars and all that. So that's where
we are. That's where we are in the two story.
My position is, Hey, if he wants to keep playing
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and the Dolphins are hot, I'll have him. Then that's
his choice. We're not you know, we're not telling him
what to do or what not to do and if
he wants to retire, then he can enjoy that ninety
million dollar lottery ticket that he was able to get
from the Miami Dolphins. And yet again I would like
to point out that this has changed in my lifetime.
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This is something that has changed in my lifetime in
the past. And maybe I'm wrong on this, and you
can correct me if I'm wrong, But as I recall
in my early days as sports as sports fan, that
there was not a rush to extend players who were
shall we say, wobbly, that you normally had to get
two good years. You couldn't just do it off one year.
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One year was not enough. You had to have two years.
And whether it's because of a the bull crap on
social media, the the bots and the I call it
the matrix that is able to be convincing people, or
the money's just so big the other options. The money
is so big they don't even care, like they have
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so much money because they raised the price of tickets.
TV is insane that they they're like El Chopo. They're
just bearing These NFL teams are bearing money in the backyard.
They don't know what to do with all the money.
They've got, so like, ah, who cares? You know two
is a risk, but will pay them anyway, So you
can't be shocked that this happened. I mean, there are
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some people that are giving these guffaws and they're they're
this Pearl club. That's not the reaction that I've got.
That's not the reaction I've got. But you know, to
teach their own. There's a lot of people trying to
gain clout from this. Andrea writes and says, when is
the next Benny Versus the Penny? Well, that'll be later
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on on Friday. Later on on the Friday, we will
be there. So who else do you have payton down?
Let's see here late night drug tester says, thanks for
watching the game. For those of us not paying for
Amazon Prime, only free content for the mal or militia,
like Benny Versus the Penny on Peacocks streaming today. Also,
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the Miami fans should be able to handle the windshill
of Green Bay in the spring. I don't know about that.
Brother lives in Appleton and they get snow in April,
usually not late April, but every once in a while.
Ferg Dog says, screw Hardy's team, Charles Junior all the way. Well,
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there's a big difference between those two, big difference between
those two. Clearly, who else you have? Alf the alien?
Opiner says, if Tua goes down, we're ft and we
don't practice ft. They see famous, famous, famous quote. Overnight,
Joe is up with us. Good to have him hanging out.
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We don't hear from him all that often, he says,
Big men. The Bills versus Chiefs game in Buffalo this
season four your information, yesterday was a National Dolphins Day
and the Buffalo ran all over them. There, there you go, super.
Marcus Steep says, how come Mike McDaniel his beard has
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never filled in. It still looks like a bunch of
certain other kind of hair all over his face. Well,
maybe he hasn't gone through puberty. What do you want
me to say? What do you want me to say? Right? Seriously?
All right, let's see who else do we have here?
Eugene says, in Eugene in Chicago, I noticed this Sunday
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the Rams are playing against Alligator Arms. Murray. Yes, that
is correct, and the Rams have had complete ownership of
Alligator Arms.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Murray.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Absolutely, yeah, Aleen writes in she says Congress is upset
with sports bets as they are with their lobbyist contributions.
We'll get to that later. There's a fascinating story how
your lawmakers in America are gonna screw you if you're
a sports gambler, that they are looking to screw you.
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And yeah, that's that's what I'll say. Yeah, oh you'll
hear this. We'll get to that later. It's on my list.
Bill's Monster rights since this good monologue, I actually agree
the Bills took advantage of the teams they played. We
have a ways to go. We will get even better,
says the Bills Monster, breaking it down, Breaking it down.
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Then we've got all kinds of propaganda from Andy the
comic book guy, who's all all excited. Now, Craig writes
in that's crying Craig in Seattle, and he says, as
more objective observers, how do you see the Mariners' hopes
at this juncture? So, Craig, that's a great question. And
one thing I wanted to talk about here in the
B block was the Seattle Mariners. As you know, and
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you're you're on the pulse of what drives listenership and
engagement on this show is Seattle Mariner Baseball Talk. So yeah, so, Craig,
here's what I see happening. I see the Mariners continuing
to climb up the standings in the American League West,
and then at the very last minute, it'll be like
the Hindenburg and then you'll be crying and crying and
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crying and crying and crying and cry and cry and cry.
Yeah that's crying, crying. Yeah, that's that's where we are.
It'll be glorious, oneonderful, marvelous, all of those things. Cannot
cannot wait.
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Speaker 4 (26:11):
We do have an interesting story from minor league baseball.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
Not sure if you saw this bend, but the Minnesota
Twins releasing Yeah, minor league catcher Derek Bender.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
What did he do?
Speaker 6 (26:21):
Apparently he wanted the season to come to an end
sooner than later. His team, the Fort Myers Mighty Muscles,
were in playoff contention until wait wait.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Wait wait, that's the team that Areeke in Minnesota sent
us some swag and we had to return it. Yeah,
well that's like serendipity Eddie. How many other national radio
shows are talking about the muscles like us because of
arec in Minnesota and now they make national news.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
True.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
So this guy wanted to go home.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Yeah, he was a catcher and he was tiffin off
pitches to the other hitters. He was doing the Crash
Davis there from Bull Durham thing. I'm telling him what
was coming.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
So he was homesick and he just wanted to get
out of there. And yeah, and that ends his baseball career,
his professional baseball career.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
It certainly doesn't help things, that's for sure. He's looking
for work at this point. But yeah, I'm gonna say,
I'm gonna say that's it for him.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
This reminds me of a famous story my friend Ken
Levine told me. I'm paraphrasing the story so I might
get rock. Kenlebine, he's a Hollywood writer and he did
baseball play by play for the Mariners and the Dodgers.
But he told the story when he was in the
minor leagues doing play by play. One of the other
broadcasters apparently had a date and the game was going
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long and he had to get to the date. He's
like really into this girl, right, so he had to
get out of the stadium. And it was a minor
league radio broadcast, probably in the late eighties early nineties,
so it was a long time ago before the Internet
really took off. And so the guy just started making
up play by play to get the game over with,
and it ended the game and then went on the date.
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Except the game wasn't over. He just like he did
the like the play by play and just like, yeah,
you know, so and so flew out the left, you know,
next pig.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
You might think that even without the Internet, that somebody
might figure that out.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Well, no, no one was listening. So he got it.
He got away with it.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Are you kidding me? He got away with it.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
As far as I know, you got away with it.
Was a long time ago. This this show is sponsored
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Fun fun fun fact.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
All right, brothers, is Coop there? I've not heard from Coop?
Is he?
Speaker 7 (28:36):
There?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Is he in the building?
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Okay? He is all right? He hasn't sent me any
any messages. Sorry anyway, Uh to send you a message? Well,
I mean it's a little awkward. He right, half thirty
thirty eight minutes into the hour and normally the producer
reaches out. But that's fine. Uh. First fun fact, Sean McDermott,
Buffalo coach with the victory, with the victory against the Dolphins,
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that he has coached against the Dolphs sixteen times in Buffalo.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
How's it gone?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Fourteen in two?
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Pretty good?
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Fourteen in two. Now my computer, like marn As you know,
I was a math major. By proxy, my dad was
a math major. So my dad was a math major.
I was about as far away from math majors.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Again.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
But the Buffalo Bills with Sean McDermott ha have an
eight to seventy five winning percentage straight up against the
Miami Dolphins. Another fun fact. Bonus fun fact, bonus fun fact. Yeah,
bonus f fact. So since Tyreek Hill has gotten to Miami,
the Dolphins have been one of the top offensive teams
in the NFL. However, the kryptonite for Tyreek Hill has
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been Buffalo. His longest reception known for all those big
touchdown runs, his longest reception twenty three yards. Twenty three
yards is his longest reception, so he has not had
had those big runs. Bonus fact number three, Hit me
again the right hit me a guy Miller fun fact.
All right, I got I gotta clear the holster. Von
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Miller had a sack. Al Michaels Wax poetic about von Miller.
So von Miller had a sack. He tied Dwhite Freenye.
You remember him, I do. You're over You're old White
Freanie out of Syracuse, Syracuse? Is that right?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Right?
Speaker 4 (30:23):
That is correct? Just got his number retired by Syracuse
last week.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
I saw, Well, good for him. And they don't call
it the Carrier Dome anymore, right, they changed the name.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
I don't know that that. Jason Smith could probably answer
that for you.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Well, he's not here. But that was one of the
more upsetting things when I was in Syracuse and I
wanted to go to the Carrier Dome and it's it
was named after an air conditioning company and it didn't
have air.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Condition which really that is irony right there.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Yeah, So von Miller or von Miller had a sack.
He tied Dwight Freenye for the number eighteen spot on
the NFL's all time sack list. So in a sack,
as those of you have been around a while, No,
the sack has only been counted since nineteen eighty two.
So the great defensive players of years gone by, they
(31:08):
didn't get credit for the sacks. And so but MILLI
number eighteen and that's that's over forty years of NFL activity.
Uh so there is that. All right, Let's go to
the phones and uh boy, where do I have the
shoes from here? Uh? Let's say hello to is it Jola?
(31:28):
Is that my correct? Joel in Dallas? To my god,
there's Mike. Look how happy he is. This guy's happy?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Man?
Speaker 7 (31:37):
No, you guy, Hey, hey, I wanted to say when
you and Rob Parker when you were on the couple
about two weeks ago, I was like the All Star
team man to meet.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yeah, you're very kind. I saw I was in there
in the building. I was in the building yesterday. I
ran into Rob and I had to go to an event.
We were catching up. We were bonding me and Rob.
He's doing he's doing very well there and I yah, yeah,
yeah last today is the last day with him. And
to say.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
I mean I was like with y'all came up. That's crazy.
But now I see like your solo ro I feel
you man yeah, man, man, hey, how did why did
you have to get right? Did the Miami he have
to I mean he Miami dogs had to get the
cheap kick in like that all the time by the bills.
That's crazy, right, Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
I feel like one yeah.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
Yeah, I feel like what Josh Allen plays, uh to
a talk about lowis it's like, uh, like the bully
beating up on like the new kid that moved into
the school and he's trying to do cool stuff at
the at the you know, at the park, and then
he just always runs into Doc Allen and he's just
way cooler, bigger than him, and he just takes you know,
takes his one.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Yeah, Josh Allen crazy, But Josh Allen didn't really do
anything like this was not a Josh Allen No. Yeah,
I know. Josh Allen got some help from his friends,
like the cook in the defense.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
He breaks all the kids from the hood over there
to help them out.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Yes, yes, that's exactly his game plan. Yes, that's uh,
that's Josh Allen. That's his secret sauce right there. That's
how he gets it done, without a doubt, without a doubt.
But yeah, pretty wild.
Speaker 7 (33:18):
Yeah man, but let's see when he runs into my
homes what he'll do.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
You know?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah yeah. That's as many
Bills fans have pointed out that game is actually I
think I might have said in Kansas City, but it's
actually in Buffalo, so you'll get it, I think. So, yeah,
you're having a good time. You're so happy. Why are
you so happy? What are you doing in life to
make you so happy?
Speaker 7 (33:41):
You had Jerry duty? Okay tomorrow, but I don't know
if I'll be there if if I have to be
called in, you know, so.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
You're yeah, okay, you're.
Speaker 7 (33:51):
On a couple of beges.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
You don't get to play, so you're you're you know,
that's great, man, That's how I'm saying. And if you
show up, they're all snocker, they probably won't use you, right,
you're probably yeah, yeah, you're good to go. Yeah, if
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you're going, if you're going there and you smell like
Jack Daniels, you probably won't have to worry about Yeah.
Speaker 7 (34:22):
In Dallas, So you know, I'll be good for the morning.
A couple of eggs.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
That's he just eat some eggs and that's the perfect
cure for a hangover. Just a couple of eggs.
Speaker 7 (34:30):
That's it, no problem, egg all right, well.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Listen, enjoy, get back to the mini bar, enjoy the booze.
All right, thank you. Alright, it's our guy. Man. He's happy.
He's uh, he's a Mary Poppins drunk. That guy's he's
living life, living large in Maybe we all be that
happy in life, man like. All right, we'll press on,
push that hulk of a take back. Time now for
the who am I? Game? And here we go. I'm
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up in my last sixteen starts as a dog that
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the who am I? Game? I'm an NFL quarterback who
somehow has gone one and fifteen straight up in my
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past sixteen starts as an underdog that dates back to
the start of the twenty twenty season. Who am I?
That is the question? What is the answer? Let's see
does anyone know the answer? Courtesy Flusher is going with
Seth Maxwell as his answer. Wally in Florida checks in
(36:42):
with Derek Carr and Presidential Advice. Who else Flash Gordon
from Donkey Sausage, Sir Frederick Banching, I guess by Alf
the Alien ol Piner, who has sold his insulin patent
for one dollar. He said, insulin doesn't not belong to me,
(37:03):
it belongs to the world, and everyone pointed and laughed
at him. Berg Dog going with the Happy Star is
his answer. Who else do we have? Mike Pagel not
a Bagel from Bay City, Tony South Park Cows quarterback
Stan marsh from Milkman, Mike Eke in Roseville, Minnesota going
(37:24):
with Malik Willis as his answer. John David Booty from
Sean in Portland. Who else do we have? Page down?
Page down? The answer is is it the most concerned
virtue signaler? There's a lot of that going on tonight
Y A Tittle that was from Terry and England Y
A Tittle guests by Fat Daddy Boston Fleet Star Taylor
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Gerard who that's as Shane in the Moine rich Is
going with the MVP of Many Dinner Plates, Chef boy
r d is his answer. Big Lou says it's Dick
and Dayton, his favorite quarterback, Bernie Kozar the grandfather. Bernie
Cozo is a grandfather. Now, congratulations, I saw that the
other day. A Matthew Warrior Raider fan says, I'm torn
(38:09):
between two guys, but my final answer is to Coda
Prescott Dan McGuire misspelled by Steve the misplaced San Diego.
And that was, by the way, matt the Warrior Raider,
Tom Brady ROAs fan the previous one Christian ponder, why
would you even ponder? Passing from DeAndre? All right, do
you have an answer? I need an answer ready quick bay.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
Yes, former Giants and Eagles quarterback Jobah Sarcik.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
It's a great name, but that's not a great answer.
It's also not to al Michaels guess by Derek and Buffalo.
The correct answer Gardner Minshew Raiders one in fifteen straight
up last sixteen is a dog? Hey, where is her?
Nine and a half dogs in Baltimore
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Bills win big, Dolphins lose to a tongue of I Looa.
How should Dolphin fans feel about to a tongue of
by Loa's injury situation? Also, what's the temperature in the
room for Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel after a porous performance
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by his team? How impressed are you with Josh Allen's
Bill's They are two in zero on the year after
they got rid of Stefawn Diggs, and many people expected
them to be in limbo, but they're off to the
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Very excited, very excited here, giddy giddy, and we'll get
right to it. Not waste time because it's all about
that action. Boss, It's all about that action. Our lead
this hour from South Florida build as the AFC early
season grudge Match Buffalo paying a visit to Miami, Miami
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or Miami adjacent. I gotta tell you, I was in
Miami years ago at a I covered the World Series.
I heard in garbage time al Michaels was talking about this.
The Marlins played the Cleveland Indians in the World Series
and I was there and the stadium looks nothing like
it looks now. My god, insane what they've done over
(03:38):
the years to renovate that. But this game build is
early bragging rights and as mentioned al Michael's Kirk kerb
Street were there in the Amazon box with their machete,
calling the game and trying to get you to use
Amazon Prime to buy every product. Just clicked that little
button on Amazon. Now. I don't know if you watched
it or not. Maybe not. Don't worry. We did so
(04:00):
you would not have to and in terms of competition,
you didn't miss anything. James Cook was getting it done.
Cook caught a touchdown pass, he ran for not one
but two scores, and the Bills had a fish fry
in Miami. I don't think it's legal to eat dolphin,
but they did. Thirty one to ten the final and
(04:24):
the game itself, the subplot more interesting than the game
and self quarterback to a tongue of eye law down
for the count. He left early because of a concussion.
Wherever we heard that before, it happened in the third
quarter to a tongue of by lawa exiting stage left,
he collided with Tamar Hamlin in a poetic moment, the
(04:46):
defensive back who almost died almost died on the field
in a Bill's Bengals game, in a primetime game. So
they connected and tomorrow Hamlin got the bet of Tua
and Tua fell down. He hit the back of his
head against the turf, so Tongue of Biloa quickly ruled
out just minutes later because of a concussion. And now
(05:09):
there's questions whether he will play again this year, whether
he will ever play again. We will address all of that,
as he has had many concussions over his brief time
in the NFL. So let us discuss. Now, I want
to look at this through the prism of the fan.
I want to look at this through the prism of
van So I don't have any skin in the game,
meaning that I am not a Miami football fan, but
(05:30):
I want to try to lock into this. Okay, I
want to lock into this. So how should the Dolphin
fan handle to a tongue of I loa and this
particular situation if they feel about all this. So I've
got Rice Crispi's, Hearty's and Google Maps, and we will
combine all of these things together, and we are going
(05:53):
to look out at a window on the world, which
this is. This show is a window to the world.
It is an audio window to the world. So we'll
combine all these things together. Now a to begin this
manifesto for the die hard Dolphin backer. This is the
(06:13):
doomsday prophecy. Yeah, they because the Dolphins here have been hoodwinked,
bamboozled and hornswoggled. You might say, well, it's just you're
just being a drama queen. You're being too dramatic. But
let me explain why. Okay, Now, we had heard from
boots on the ground that the Dolphins had a faction
(06:34):
of their front office that was very reluctant to pay
to the big money give him that big contract because
they did not trust him. They didn't have faith that
his body could hold up. And when you do a
side by side comparison and you look at the contemporaries
at the quarterback position, Tua by comparison is a scrawny guy,
(06:58):
and he had a pre existing condition, meaning he's had
past head injuries. And then something bizarre happened in twenty
twenty three. Tua use the voodoo boogaloo, some triggeration or
just a little jiu jitsu and stayed healthy. He played
it every game. And now here we are in the
(07:20):
second year after that, and lo and behold, after all
of that happened, and the massive contract to deal with
one hundred and sixty one million guaranteed US dollars one
hundred and sixty one million dollars. Now Tua having a
bowl of rice crispies, Snap, crackle and pop. The Dolphins
(07:42):
do not have a contingency plan. Nobody has a contingency
plan when their backup quarterback has to play Skyler Thompson,
who we got to peek at and this guy blows
man does he suck? And the good news to the
Dolphins The NFL Draft is in late April of twenty
twenty five, and you might want to call your travel
agent or book tickets. There's a Lambeau Field in Green Bay.
(08:06):
That's where the twenty twenty five NFL Draft is. Now
page two. Here, what is the temperature in the room
for Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel. So it is Boom goes
to dynamite. It was that kind of a night, Boom
goes to dynamite. Now this is the star Trek kind
of a game. McDaniel was whispering, beat me up, Scottie
(08:30):
right looking for that teleportation device to get back to
the Starship Enterprise and away from the sidelines there as
he is absolutely getting the I call it the heart
ease or Carls Junior treatment, depending if you live east
or west of Mississippi. He is getting charbroyled, Absolutely charbroyled,
(08:53):
which does come with the territory, all right, it does
come with a territory. This was a poorly prepared football team.
Is that a correct statement at least based on their performance.
Now I don't think Sean McDermott is a top ten coach,
but in this particular game, his team was more prepared.
(09:13):
They played with more of an age.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Normally, the more.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Aggressive team has an advantage, and they played the pants
off the Dolphins. And as we always like to say
here on these microphones, you're either coaching it or you're
allowing to happen. But to a lost in the cloud
of drama and a depressing situation, this could be the
final game that to a tongue of Byloa plays in,
(09:37):
if you believe the internet chatter. But he was horrible
before he got hurt. He had three interceptions, one of
them was tipped, one was just a biblically bad pass,
and it was just having a horrible game. And that
was before he had to exit. I mean the Dolphins
also had no sense of urgency. They were still in
(09:58):
the game in the first half they were trailing, and
there was just no effort to try to get down
the field, matriculate the ball down the field. You even
had Kirk Herbstreet, who normally just tickles the toes of
these NFL coaches and teams, or Herbie called out Tyreek
(10:18):
Hill and Jayden Waddle who were having a tea party
on the Dolphin bench while the game was going on
there in the fourth quarter and not engaged at all.
Then you had people very upset agast because Devon a
Chan the running back, was still getting touches in garbage time,
which is great, great for fantasy football, it's unorthodox for
(10:42):
the modern world of professional football. Or you must protect
the players at all costs. So there's a lot of
moving parts to this story. It's not looking good for
the head coach of the Dolphins here on this particular night,
it says one night, and that's fine, And yeah, the
Dolphins did win. They had come from behind to be
Jacksonville at home, but they certainly do not have the
(11:05):
same tempo, the same rasmtaz that they played with last
season at all. And yeah, you're only two weeks in,
you know, a lot of games left, but you're likely
not going to have two anytime soon, should he come
back at all? More on that later in the hour.
All right, last word here, So let's go down of
the winning locker room. Not as good as story, right,
(11:26):
we canna agree on that, not as good a story.
How impressed are you with Josh Allen's Bills getting off
to the two and zero start? Now, So the way
we measure these things is the Malard scale of impressed.
And on the Malard scale of impressed one to ten,
with ten being an eye popping amazing performance. One to ten,
(11:50):
I'm at a five. I'm at a five for Buffalo.
And here's why, you know, I'm not here to massage
the Bill's mafia coming back from down? What were they down? Seventeen?
I believe at home to beat a bad Cardinals team,
and Arizona essentially gave that game back to you in
the second half. Then you are the beneficiary of the
(12:14):
generosity of Tua tongue a bailoa before he got hurt,
the room service delivery, handing the game to you. And
so yeah, you're two and zero. It's a nice feather
in the cap. And these are both games before the
year you would have said that Buffalo was likely going
to win. I didn't think they would cover the spread. Fact,
I think they pushed with Arizona depending on what spread
(12:34):
you got last week, which is a different conversation with
a gambling perspective, but just straight up, they were supposed
to win both these games. That Arizona's a bad team
and they always always toy with the Dolphins. That's what
the Bills have done the last couple of years. But
these are not season defining wins. That's the point, right
as I get two carried away here, I know the
(12:54):
overreaction machine against craked up, but I will be the
voice of reason right slow your role and as we
often will point out that you don't get extra credit
for doing the thing that you're supposed to do. And
that's what Buffalo has done. They won a home game
against a substandard opponent Alligator Arms Murray, and they took
(13:18):
advantage of a gift game that was just handed to
you by a Dolphin team that was ill prepared and
then just made a bunch of mistakes. And congratulations, you
had a bunch of backup guys on defense that were
playing and you still won the game. But if you
check Google Maps. Okay, if you check Google Maps, the Bills.
What they have done here by winning the games they're
supposed to win, is they're keeping some skin in the game.
(13:42):
They're keeping themselves within spitting distance on the Google Maps
to the big boys. Now, if you want me to
be impressed with the Buffalo Bills, I'll tell you what
the litmus test is. Josh Allen his proving ground that
this team is something rather than just a mirage. Road
game games Ravens and Texans week four and five, Buffalo
(14:04):
week four and five at Baltimore, at Houston, and then
week eleven in Kansas City. So those three games, that
is where you can get some aura.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
If you will.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
That's a popular word these days, right, and then knock
people socks off and all that, and say, hey, this
team's legit. You don't do it beating Kyler Murray, who's
a stiff, he's better at video games and he's playing quarterback.
He's only don't do it by taking advantage of Atua
who turned the ball over Ton then left and all
that team you normally beat. That's not going into the
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belly of the beast exactly.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
It is.
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And the news of the night. The Dolphin Bill's game.
Buffalo gets the win and the Dolphins get to double whammy.
They were not competitive, and now not only the Dolphins
not competitive, but to a tongue of Iloa down down
for the count, it would appear so well, we'll see
(17:16):
what ends up happening going forward. Yeah, I know, I know.
And there's a lot of proclamations about what's gonna happen,
what's not gonna happen. I did see. Ozziewass said the
Tomorrow Hamlin ending to a Tongue of Iloa career is
a story Pixar could not even write. Anthony Anthony and
(17:36):
Anaheim says, how long have I said? Tua is not
the guy? So that's Anthony and Anaheim demanding that everyone
give him applause as a Miami Dolphin fan. Now, the
question is what happens to Tua Tongue of Biloa going forward.
There's a number of former NFL players that have come out,
(17:58):
and we like to call it true signaling, making it
all about them and showing everyone how much they care. Uh,
and they're calling for Tua Tongue of Iloa to retire
after he received the concussion. Among those that have issued
proclamations calling for Tua to retire, you have Dez Bryant,
(18:20):
the former Dallas Cowboy, very active member of the micro
blogging world, and des Bryant has issued a statement. I
know we were all wondering, what's des Bryant think about
this story. Well, now you know, Now you know des
Bryant saying the exact quote here. I don't want to
misquote des Bryant, one of the great one of the
(18:40):
great thinkers of our time. Here with the Dallas Cowboys.
He says, NFL, that's it, NFL, go ahead and do
the right thing. Tua has had entirely way too many concussions.
He need, he need to retire for his longevity health concerns,
said des Bryant. Then we had porn star Shannon Sharp
say that he really hopes to is okay, but he's
(19:02):
got to seriously think about shutting it down. I hate
He didn't don't want to spell out the word hate.
Probably had some sexy time coming up, so he just
put h eight. I hate saying this. His concussions are
getting worse and worse, and he's a young man with
his entire life ahead of him. Now, how does Shannon
Sharp know that that concussion is worse than the last one?
(19:26):
Do we know what medical school he went to? Like, Yeah,
I don't know. Two has gotten hurt a lot, and
do I think too is Do I think he's gonna
get hurt again? Yeah? Probably, but it's not my decision.
It's his life. And if he wants to play football
and continue to play and be a crash test dummy,
then that's his decision. Oh yeah, he's already won the lottery,
(19:48):
so he the money part of it. He's got at
least ninety three million, and if he wants to haggle,
he could probably end up if you do that, if
you do the math on this, twenty three was guaranteed
ninety three million based on the nerds that keep track
of this stuff on the interweb, that ninety three million guaranteed.
It's signing. But then you've got another you know, sixty
(20:10):
million dollars or so that is technically guaranteed, but there's
some gray area and that so with a good lawyer
and a sob story about I got to take care
of my family and god forbid, they can't live on
ninety three million dollars and all that. So that's where
we are. That's where we are in the two story.
My position is, Hey, if he wants to keep playing
(20:30):
and the Dolphins are hot, I'll have him. Then that's
his choice. We're not you know, we're not telling him
what to do or what not to do and if
he wants to retire, then he can enjoy that ninety
million dollar lottery ticket that he was able to get
from the Miami Dolphins. And yet again I would like
to point out that this has changed in my lifetime.
(20:52):
This is something that has changed in my lifetime in
the past. And maybe I'm wrong on this, and you
can correct me if I'm wrong, But as I recall
in my early days as sports as sports fan, that
there was not a rush to extend players who were
shall we say, wobbly, that you normally had to get
two good years. You couldn't just do it off one year.
(21:13):
One year was not enough. You had to have two years.
And whether it's because of a the bull crap on
social media, the the bots and the I call it
the matrix that is able to be convincing people, or
the money's just so big the other options. The money
is so big they don't even care, like they have
(21:34):
so much money because they raised the price of tickets.
TV is insane that they they're like El Chopo. They're
just bearing These NFL teams are bearing money in the backyard.
They don't know what to do with all the money.
They've got, so like, ah, who cares? You know two
is a risk, but will pay them anyway, So you
can't be shocked that this happened. I mean, there are
(21:55):
some people that are giving these guffaws and they're they're
this Pearl club. That's not the reaction that I've got.
That's not the reaction I've got. But you know, to
teach their own. There's a lot of people trying to
gain clout from this. Andrea writes and says, when is
the next Benny Versus the Penny? Well, that'll be later
(22:17):
on on Friday. Later on on the Friday, we will
be there. So who else do you have payton down?
Let's see here late night drug tester says, thanks for
watching the game. For those of us not paying for
Amazon Prime, only free content for the mal or militia,
like Benny Versus the Penny on Peacocks streaming today. Also,
(22:40):
the Miami fans should be able to handle the windshill
of Green Bay in the spring. I don't know about that.
Brother lives in Appleton and they get snow in April,
usually not late April, but every once in a while.
Ferg Dog says, screw Hardy's team, Charles Junior all the way. Well,
(23:01):
there's a big difference between those two, big difference between
those two. Clearly, who else you have? Alf the alien?
Opiner says, if Tua goes down, we're ft and we
don't practice ft. They see famous, famous, famous quote. Overnight,
Joe is up with us. Good to have him hanging out.
(23:24):
We don't hear from him all that often, he says,
Big men. The Bills versus Chiefs game in Buffalo this
season four your information, yesterday was a National Dolphins Day
and the Buffalo ran all over them. There, there you go, super.
Marcus Steep says, how come Mike McDaniel his beard has
(23:45):
never filled in. It still looks like a bunch of
certain other kind of hair all over his face. Well,
maybe he hasn't gone through puberty. What do you want
me to say? What do you want me to say? Right? Seriously?
All right, let's see who else do we have here?
Eugene says, in Eugene in Chicago, I noticed this Sunday
(24:08):
the Rams are playing against Alligator Arms. Murray. Yes, that
is correct, and the Rams have had complete ownership of
Alligator Arms.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Murray.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Absolutely, yeah, Aleen writes in she says Congress is upset
with sports bets as they are with their lobbyist contributions.
We'll get to that later. There's a fascinating story how
your lawmakers in America are gonna screw you if you're
a sports gambler, that they are looking to screw you.
(24:42):
And yeah, that's that's what I'll say. Yeah, oh you'll
hear this. We'll get to that later. It's on my list.
Bill's Monster rights since this good monologue, I actually agree
the Bills took advantage of the teams they played. We
have a ways to go. We will get even better,
says the Bills Monster, breaking it down, Breaking it down.
(25:04):
Then we've got all kinds of propaganda from Andy the
comic book guy, who's all all excited. Now, Craig writes
in that's crying Craig in Seattle, and he says, as
more objective observers, how do you see the Mariners' hopes
at this juncture? So, Craig, that's a great question. And
one thing I wanted to talk about here in the
B block was the Seattle Mariners. As you know, and
(25:26):
you're you're on the pulse of what drives listenership and
engagement on this show is Seattle Mariner Baseball Talk. So yeah, so, Craig,
here's what I see happening. I see the Mariners continuing
to climb up the standings in the American League West,
and then at the very last minute, it'll be like
the Hindenburg and then you'll be crying and crying and
(25:47):
crying and crying and crying and cry and cry and cry.
Yeah that's crying, crying. Yeah, that's that's where we are.
It'll be glorious, oneonderful, marvelous, all of those things. Cannot
cannot wait.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
We do have an interesting story from minor league baseball.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
Not sure if you saw this bend, but the Minnesota
Twins releasing Yeah, minor league catcher Derek Bender.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
What did he do?
Speaker 6 (26:21):
Apparently he wanted the season to come to an end
sooner than later. His team, the Fort Myers Mighty Muscles,
were in playoff contention until wait wait.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Wait wait, that's the team that Areeke in Minnesota sent
us some swag and we had to return it. Yeah,
well that's like serendipity Eddie. How many other national radio
shows are talking about the muscles like us because of
arec in Minnesota and now they make national news.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
True.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
So this guy wanted to go home.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Yeah, he was a catcher and he was tiffin off
pitches to the other hitters. He was doing the Crash
Davis there from Bull Durham thing. I'm telling him what
was coming.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
So he was homesick and he just wanted to get
out of there. And yeah, and that ends his baseball career,
his professional baseball career.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
It certainly doesn't help things, that's for sure. He's looking
for work at this point. But yeah, I'm gonna say,
I'm gonna say that's it for him.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
This reminds me of a famous story my friend Ken
Levine told me. I'm paraphrasing the story so I might
get rock. Kenlebine, he's a Hollywood writer and he did
baseball play by play for the Mariners and the Dodgers.
But he told the story when he was in the
minor leagues doing play by play. One of the other
broadcasters apparently had a date and the game was going
(27:36):
long and he had to get to the date. He's
like really into this girl, right, so he had to
get out of the stadium. And it was a minor
league radio broadcast, probably in the late eighties early nineties,
so it was a long time ago before the Internet
really took off. And so the guy just started making
up play by play to get the game over with,
and it ended the game and then went on the date.
(27:59):
Except the game wasn't over. He just like he did
the like the play by play and just like, yeah,
you know, so and so flew out the left, you know,
next pig.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
You might think that even without the Internet, that somebody
might figure that out.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Well, no, no one was listening. So he got it.
He got away with it.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Are you kidding me? He got away with it.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
As far as I know, you got away with it.
Was a long time ago. This this show is sponsored
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The Crown is yours. Let's have some fun, fun fun.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Fun fun fun fact.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
All right, brothers, is Coop there? I've not heard from Coop?
Is he?
Speaker 7 (28:36):
There?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Is he in the building?
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Okay? He is all right? He hasn't sent me any
any messages. Sorry anyway, Uh to send you a message? Well,
I mean it's a little awkward. He right, half thirty
thirty eight minutes into the hour and normally the producer
reaches out. But that's fine. Uh. First fun fact, Sean McDermott,
Buffalo coach with the victory, with the victory against the Dolphins,
(28:58):
that he has coached against the Dolphs sixteen times in Buffalo.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
How's it gone?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Fourteen in two?
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Pretty good?
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Fourteen in two. Now my computer, like marn As you know,
I was a math major. By proxy, my dad was
a math major. So my dad was a math major.
I was about as far away from math majors.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Again.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
But the Buffalo Bills with Sean McDermott ha have an
eight to seventy five winning percentage straight up against the
Miami Dolphins. Another fun fact. Bonus fun fact, bonus fun fact. Yeah,
bonus f fact. So since Tyreek Hill has gotten to Miami,
the Dolphins have been one of the top offensive teams
in the NFL. However, the kryptonite for Tyreek Hill has
(29:43):
been Buffalo. His longest reception known for all those big
touchdown runs, his longest reception twenty three yards. Twenty three
yards is his longest reception, so he has not had
had those big runs. Bonus fact number three, Hit me
again the right hit me a guy Miller fun fact.
All right, I got I gotta clear the holster. Von
(30:07):
Miller had a sack. Al Michaels Wax poetic about von Miller.
So von Miller had a sack. He tied Dwhite Freenye.
You remember him, I do. You're over You're old White
Freanie out of Syracuse, Syracuse? Is that right?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Right?
Speaker 4 (30:23):
That is correct? Just got his number retired by Syracuse
last week.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
I saw, Well, good for him. And they don't call
it the Carrier Dome anymore, right, they changed the name.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
I don't know that that. Jason Smith could probably answer
that for you.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Well, he's not here. But that was one of the
more upsetting things when I was in Syracuse and I
wanted to go to the Carrier Dome and it's it
was named after an air conditioning company and it didn't
have air.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Condition which really that is irony right there.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Yeah, So von Miller or von Miller had a sack.
He tied Dwight Freenye for the number eighteen spot on
the NFL's all time sack list. So in a sack,
as those of you have been around a while, No,
the sack has only been counted since nineteen eighty two.
So the great defensive players of years gone by, they
(31:08):
didn't get credit for the sacks. And so but MILLI
number eighteen and that's that's over forty years of NFL activity.
Uh so there is that. All right, Let's go to
the phones and uh boy, where do I have the
shoes from here? Uh? Let's say hello to is it Jola?
(31:28):
Is that my correct? Joel in Dallas? To my god,
there's Mike. Look how happy he is. This guy's happy?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Man?
Speaker 7 (31:37):
No, you guy, Hey, hey, I wanted to say when
you and Rob Parker when you were on the couple
about two weeks ago, I was like the All Star
team man to meet.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yeah, you're very kind. I saw I was in there
in the building. I was in the building yesterday. I
ran into Rob and I had to go to an event.
We were catching up. We were bonding me and Rob.
He's doing he's doing very well there and I yah, yeah,
yeah last today is the last day with him. And
to say.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
I mean I was like with y'all came up. That's crazy.
But now I see like your solo ro I feel
you man yeah, man, man, hey, how did why did
you have to get right? Did the Miami he have
to I mean he Miami dogs had to get the
cheap kick in like that all the time by the bills.
That's crazy, right, Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
I feel like one yeah.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
Yeah, I feel like what Josh Allen plays, uh to
a talk about lowis it's like, uh, like the bully
beating up on like the new kid that moved into
the school and he's trying to do cool stuff at
the at the you know, at the park, and then
he just always runs into Doc Allen and he's just
way cooler, bigger than him, and he just takes you know,
takes his one.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Yeah, Josh Allen crazy, But Josh Allen didn't really do
anything like this was not a Josh Allen No. Yeah,
I know. Josh Allen got some help from his friends,
like the cook in the defense.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
He breaks all the kids from the hood over there
to help them out.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Yes, yes, that's exactly his game plan. Yes, that's uh,
that's Josh Allen. That's his secret sauce right there. That's
how he gets it done, without a doubt, without a doubt.
But yeah, pretty wild.
Speaker 7 (33:18):
Yeah man, but let's see when he runs into my
homes what he'll do.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
You know?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah yeah. That's as many
Bills fans have pointed out that game is actually I
think I might have said in Kansas City, but it's
actually in Buffalo, so you'll get it, I think. So, yeah,
you're having a good time. You're so happy. Why are
you so happy? What are you doing in life to
make you so happy?
Speaker 7 (33:41):
You had Jerry duty? Okay tomorrow, but I don't know
if I'll be there if if I have to be
called in, you know, so.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
You're yeah, okay, you're.
Speaker 7 (33:51):
On a couple of beges.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
You don't get to play, so you're you're you know,
that's great, man, That's how I'm saying. And if you
show up, they're all snocker, they probably won't use you, right,
you're probably yeah, yeah, you're good to go. Yeah, if
(34:15):
you're going, if you're going there and you smell like
Jack Daniels, you probably won't have to worry about Yeah.
Speaker 7 (34:22):
In Dallas, So you know, I'll be good for the morning.
A couple of eggs.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
That's he just eat some eggs and that's the perfect
cure for a hangover. Just a couple of eggs.
Speaker 7 (34:30):
That's it, no problem, egg all right, well.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Listen, enjoy, get back to the mini bar, enjoy the booze.
All right, thank you. Alright, it's our guy. Man. He's happy.
He's uh, he's a Mary Poppins drunk. That guy's he's
living life, living large in Maybe we all be that
happy in life, man like. All right, we'll press on,
push that hulk of a take back. Time now for
the who am I? Game? And here we go. I'm
(34:57):
an NFL quarterback who was one in fifteen straight up
in my past sixteen starts as an underdog, dating back
to the start of the COVID twenty twenty season. Again,
I'm an NFL quarterback who is one in fifteen straight
up in my last sixteen starts as a dog that
dates back to the start of the twenty twenty season.
(35:19):
Who am I? The answer? We'll get to it, we'll
do it next.
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It's Ben Maler.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Man. We pay off the who amish game? A blatant
attempt to convince you to give us some we'd like
to call. In the business, the industry term is TSL
time spent listening, and we are grateful. We are grateful
for that TSL that you have provided us. Here is
the who am I? Game? I'm an NFL quarterback who
somehow has gone one and fifteen straight up in my
(36:21):
past sixteen starts as an underdog that dates back to
the start of the twenty twenty season. Who am I?
That is the question? What is the answer? Let's see
does anyone know the answer? Courtesy Flusher is going with
Seth Maxwell as his answer. Wally in Florida checks in
(36:42):
with Derek Carr and Presidential Advice. Who else Flash Gordon
from Donkey Sausage, Sir Frederick Banching, I guess by Alf
the Alien ol Piner, who has sold his insulin patent
for one dollar. He said, insulin doesn't not belong to me,
(37:03):
it belongs to the world, and everyone pointed and laughed
at him. Berg Dog going with the Happy Star is
his answer. Who else do we have? Mike Pagel not
a Bagel from Bay City, Tony South Park Cows quarterback
Stan marsh from Milkman, Mike Eke in Roseville, Minnesota going
(37:24):
with Malik Willis as his answer. John David Booty from
Sean in Portland. Who else do we have? Page down?
Page down? The answer is is it the most concerned
virtue signaler? There's a lot of that going on tonight
Y A Tittle that was from Terry and England Y
A Tittle guests by Fat Daddy Boston Fleet Star Taylor
(37:48):
Gerard who that's as Shane in the Moine rich Is
going with the MVP of Many Dinner Plates, Chef boy
r d is his answer. Big Lou says it's Dick
and Dayton, his favorite quarterback, Bernie Kozar the grandfather. Bernie
Cozo is a grandfather. Now, congratulations, I saw that the
other day. A Matthew Warrior Raider fan says, I'm torn
(38:09):
between two guys, but my final answer is to Coda
Prescott Dan McGuire misspelled by Steve the misplaced San Diego.
And that was, by the way, matt the Warrior Raider,
Tom Brady ROAs fan the previous one Christian ponder, why
would you even ponder? Passing from DeAndre? All right, do
you have an answer? I need an answer ready quick bay.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
Yes, former Giants and Eagles quarterback Jobah Sarcik.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
It's a great name, but that's not a great answer.
It's also not to al Michaels guess by Derek and Buffalo.
The correct answer Gardner Minshew Raiders one in fifteen straight
up last sixteen is a dog? Hey, where is her?
Nine and a half dogs in Baltimore
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