September 16, 2024 • 36 mins
Ben Maller talks about C.J Stroud and the Texans offense doing just enough to beat Caleb Williams and the Bears on SNF, Steelers QB Justin Fields saying they gave Russell Wilson a "petty game ball," and much more!
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As we are here all the way to the finish
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it's the sixteenth day of September, the middle of the month.
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But you already knew that. You already knew that.
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Here in hour number one, it's all about that Sunday
night game the Bears hibernation against the Texas. What do
you make of the performance of c J. Stroud and
the Texans offense depended on long field goals? Also, how
would you qualify the play of rookie quarterback Caleb Williams
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of Bears in his second opportunity to start. Meanwhile, Stealers
quarterback Justin Field said the team gave Russell Wilson a
quote petty game ball after the win over the Broncos
even though he didn't play because russ kinda got did
dirty last year. According to Justin Fields, how does that
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one hitch you? We'll get to that and more right
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Speaker 1 (02:34):
CJ.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Stroud God's gift to the quarterback position. I was told
that in the offseason the greatest young generational talent we've
ever seen until the next one.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
But CJ.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Stroud and the Texans getting the spotlight against Caleb Williams,
the supposed next big thing of the Chicago Bears. You
had Collinsworth there to Rico. They were having quite the time,
quite the time. So I don't you watch the or not?
Maybe you were worn out by the day you lost
your parlays. You got smoked like someone I know against
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a penny. So see Jay Stroud. Now you look at
the stat line, he's well, he's the headliner. So he
had two hundred and sixty yards, most of that in
the first half. Also had the one touchdown and then
Kaemy fair Baan. That is the hero, right, I mean,
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that's the guy, the kicker fair Bairn. I didn't have
to say the guys I know went to UCLA, but
I mean, when you're talking about your idiot kicker in
the headline. He had field goals of fifty six, forty seven,
fifty nine and fifty three four field goals. Yeah, not impressed.
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Houston gets the win. They don't cover the number. Remember,
good teams win, great teams cover. They're not a great team.
They didn't cover. They didn't cover the spread. Sunday Nights,
Caleb Williams, we'll get to him in a second. But
let us discuss the question what do you make We'll
start with the team that's supposed to be right there
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among all the elites in the AFC, the team from Houston.
So what do you make of this performance by C. J.
Stroud and the Texans offense? So I've got campaign, headquarters, patio, furniture,
and wagon, and we will.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Combine all of these things together and we are going
to give you.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
A giant migraine headache. If you give us ten minutes,
we'll give you my I'm kidding, all right. So a
the Malor report card after a thorough minute by minute
observation the Houston Texans offense, I give the Texans offense
the D. I give him a D. I expected more.
I expected more. I was not overly impressed. Now we
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haven't we haven't seen total domination. It's only two games.
But that's all we have. We do the show today.
We don't do the show at the end of the year.
We do the show now. We'll worry about the big
picture at.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
The end of the year.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
We have to grade these things on week one and
week two. We're talking right now at the end of
week two, with one game left on Monday, night as
we're doing this, and I just did not get the
sense that this is one of those teams. I did not,
despite adding Joe Mixon and Stefan Diggs in the offseason,
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and even though they're two and all, this was a
grinded out kind of a game. CJ Stroud his MVP campaign,
the campaign headquarters for the CJ Stroud MVP is in
crisis mode at this point. They're not clicking on all cylinders. Underwhelming.
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Underwhelming would be the way I would describe it. Despite
the two wins, Texans were way too dependent on the
kicking game, and those not just field goals, long field
goals like long field goals. And now before you call,
well yeah but yeah, but yeah, but yeah, but yeah,
but the Chicago defense is pretty good.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Okay, Spyler alert.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
That is true, perhaps that the Bears do have a
good defense, but irrelevant to the conversation.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
And here's why.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Okay, it's relevant because if the Texans are high for
loutant and they're the real deal, right, they're the real McCoy,
they're top notch offense. Don't you agree with me that
it doesn't matter who they play, that they're going to
put up impressive offensive numbers. The opponent should not matter
and does not matter if you're truly elite. Now, if
you're good against bad teams, okay, fine, then you can
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say they're good against bad teams.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That's the Texans.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
But the cream's supposed to rise to the crop here,
to the top of the crop. And that That second
half offense by Houston was atrocious. It was absolutely atrocious.
They had the ball seven times in the second half
against the Bears, one field goal of fumble and five
punts and that's it in the second half. CJ Strout
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after halftime averaged barely five yards per past five point
one yards per pass in the second half, had a
passer rating below seventy in the second half of the game.
And Joe Mixon overall the old Bengal Joe Mixon. He
had nine carries for twenty five yards. Whoopee damn do well.
How about Stefan Dix. Clearly Stefan Diggs must have been
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the star of the show. No, he was targeted six times,
he had four catches and thirty seven yards. Ho hum ho,
hum ho hum. Nico Collins was the star of the
show at the beginning of the game, it's some big
class pass plays. Now on the other side, the better
story is in the losing locker room. So my guys
in Chicago, Eugene in Chicago, you fee me, you know
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all you guys, you know you are right? Did her
content contributors to the show? My core group of people
in Chicago listened to the show. You told me this
guy's amazing, right, So how would you do you qualify
this performance by the rookie quarterback Caleb Williams of don
Bears in this game? So this is nothing to paint
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your fingernails over, if you know what I'm saying, right,
there's nothing to get all excited there and go down
and paint your fingernails. Because Williams, who was billed by
the establishment, the football establishment, being like patio furniture, What
do I mean by that? Build this patio furniture, no
assembly required. Yeah, you pick it up. It's all built.
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You don't have to build it. You know, it's wonderful,
ready to use, right out of the box. Take him
out of the box and you're on your way. That
would be false advertising. That would definitely be false advertising.
Because he had a rude awakening in week one and
I would say this is also in that category.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Caleb.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
He drowned against the Tennessee Titans. They won the game anyway, Chicago,
but I would argue he wasn't measurably or in this game.
I didn't see leaps and bounds of improvement. The Bears
offense finished the game with six punts, two Caleb Williams interceptions.
There could have been more one turnover on downs for
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the Bears offense. Plus they did have a touchdown and
a couple of field goals. But you could have gotten
that kind of production from justin fields right, or some
guy drafted in the third round, not the.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Number one over. I mean, come on now.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
He averaged four point seven yards per past Caleb Williams.
Less than five seven is the standard for average, so
he's way below average. Both these quarterbacks were way below average,
at least in the second half for CJ.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Stroud.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
The other thing I noticed is the plague of so
many quarterbacks in the NFL. Caleb Williams internal clock appears
to to be broken. What I mean by that is
he kept getting sacked. Many of them were because he
held the ball for too long, and you really got
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to speed up the clock, and if you don't, you're
gonna get killed. You're gonna lead the world in sacks.
And that's no way to consistently be successful in the NFL.
He was sacked seven times in this game. And again
it's like, well, the Texas have a good defense, Okay,
you know that going in, you get rid of the ball, right,
you treat it like a hot potato and you move on.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
And that's it.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Now, last word, speaking of hot potatoes, we go to Colorado.
Why not, the Steelers offense did just enough to beat
the Broncos. As the headline here, this is from Justin
Field's postgame. Now, Fields had another stinker at quarterback. This
guy sucks, Justin Fields, but he then had the hutzba
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to say that the Steelers gave Russell Wilson a quote
petty game ball after the win over Denver because, according
to Justin Fields, Russ kind of got did dirty last year.
In fact, just to prove I'm not making this up,
we have the audio tape. Here is what it sounded
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like postgame Justin Field's after the Steelers beat the Broncos.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Listen closely.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
I mean, I think we all know Ruscott kind of
did dirty. Last year, so I know he wish, you know,
he could have played today in this game. But it's awesome,
you know, getting a win for him. He got a
petty game ball, so yeah, he's great ging it ut
for us for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Now what is the petty game ball? Is that different
than the regular game balls? Like a different color? I
don't know. I've never gotten a petty game ball. So
how does that one hit you? That the Steelers decided
to reward Russ? So I understand the context that, hey,
they're teammates and they love each other, their lovey dovey
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and all that stuff, and they're fighting the machine on
this one. It's the Steelers whoever decided this is what
we're gonna do. We're gonna give Russ a game ball
here even though he did not play in the game.
That is akin to the honey wagon tipping over poop
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on wheels, if you will poop on wheels. And Mike
Tomlin does not strike me as participation trophy coach guy.
So this I assume this came from somebody else, but
he had to sign off on it.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I would think now.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Here we are, if Russell Wilson wanted a game ball,
then he should have played in the game. Oh he
couldn't play. Russ did not get the job done in Denver.
And this idea that somehow the Broncos were the bad
guy and that Russ was the good guy. Like where
did that come from? Like what kind of alternative reality
is that the Broncos contacted the Better Business Bureau? And
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they're like, hey, there were some false claims made in
Seattle here and what's going on and Wilson last seas
I understand, like low information fans.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
There's a lot dumb fans out there. I get it.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
There's a lot of morons that are, you know, meatheads
football fans that think.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
What about the states? What about the state?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Okay, tell me you don't know football, without telling me
you don't know football. The Broncos last year, Russell Wilson
had some misleading numbers, and so idiot fans amongst us,
they're hiding amongst us.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
They're like, oh man, he was gee was good.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Okay, But the Broncos had the twenty fourth ranked passing
offense with Russell Wilson starting the majority of the games
in Denver. So if you're twenty fourth out of thirty
two teams, how is that particularly good? I mean maybe
for you you have low standards, but not for me,
and clearly not for the Broncos. I don't know any
NFL team If Russ was doing a good job, I
don't care how petty you think certain people are. You're
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not gonna pay eighty five million dollars for the guy
not to play for you. If he's getting the job
done even a little bit. That should be a dead
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The overnight hours.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Here as we work our way through yapping all night,
uh super Marcus Steve says, first, off patio. Furniture is
not pre assembled out of the box. I don't know
where you're getting your furniture supermarket, Steve. But when you
buy furniture, you go down to the story you say,
I want that boom. It's done, It's already built for you.
So that's a bad job by you. Clearly you're shopping
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at the wrong places. And how's the offense doing without
Russell Wilson in Denver, Oh Yes, twenty seventh, one ahead
of Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
That's fine.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
They'd rather think about how much he must have had
body odor that the Broncos are like, I'd rather have
bo Nicks out there, and they didn't know who they
were gonna draft, but that's the guy we want. That's
where Nick and Wisconsin says A plus to kick off
my last week listening live, kind of sad, going to
help your podcast numbers starting next week?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
No, Nick, you're going to the dreaded day shift. Bad
job by you.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
G Manage in Chicago says A plus in the mouth
of monologue, I'm finally out of x Lockdown. The Bears
play calling sucks, head coach blows. The offensive line is
even worse. F Mahomes and f the Swifties. So he says,
there you go, absolutely, and Andy writes in from Parts Unknown,
(18:03):
he says, loving Benny versus the Penny, But I gotta
say there you go. You got to talk to the
NBC peacock folks about how they're micy feels thin, like
they're really not capturing that full mala roar we're used.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
It's a different kind of microphone.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I'm not talking to the microphone, like there's a mic
that you put on your shirt.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
It's different.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Bill's monster rights and still rejoicing after the Bills won
back on Thursday, he said, Hey, Ben Caleb looks bad.
In a good spot on average offensive line, good receivers
and a serviceable defense. He makes bad decisions, throws the
ball across his body in her double coverage, and when
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the Bears do move the ball, it's dink.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
And dunk screens, etc.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
From Derek in Buffalo, Yeah, it's not looking great here
to start. It's early returns. But that's all we have,
you know. It's like, yeah, he asked me to judge
a guy based on his performance. Okay, I've seen two games.
I'm not impressed. I'm not impressed his fingernails have looked
better than his performance.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Eugene in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Says been all I want for Chicago is for dub
Bears to win their next game. This is all I
really want this season. Make this a reality, Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
So that's it.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
So if you're telling me if the Bears come out
and win in Week three that that's all you want.
They have to beat the Colts. Who cares about that game?
Come on, Eugene. It's a bad job by you. I
think what you're really saying, Eugene is you want the
Bears to beat the Rams because you love that and
Evan get us all excited because the Rams had a
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bad game on Sunday. There, oh man, see you're gonna
be I'm not upset. I'm not I'm happy to game
was a blowout. I was able to focus on other things.
Don't need to watch The Rams didn't show up. Why
should I show up. Let's go to the phones. We'll
say hello to hollering James cashing a golden ticket, which
is probably a bad ideas.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
James, I'm gonna you.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Know you love to be on hold, and if you
get on the air right away, you can't be on
the show the rest of the show, So you'll be
all upset.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
You'll be angry, James, Yes, you will. You're gonna be angry, James.
You're gonna be like, what the heck I want? I
don't want to go on later. I can't. I got
what's up with that.
Speaker 10 (20:35):
Injured?
Speaker 11 (20:36):
Heat of the Hall of Fame game?
Speaker 10 (20:38):
And that was the Wakings game. You just see the
whippen they put on them.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Where's big copy?
Speaker 9 (20:45):
What something about Poppy?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Big Poppy?
Speaker 9 (20:54):
There's only one big popul Lorraine. That was a baseball player.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Yeah, Poppy's in San Diego somewhere diving uber around.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
He's doing like uber eating.
Speaker 11 (21:05):
Jack to drive me to see you, man, I had Jack.
Speaker 10 (21:09):
And a bit around of it.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, you got a free meal.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
With Jack.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Okay, I want to do Mexican ready, I want to make.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Ball now, Manuda, you don't want Manduda.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
It's Mexicano's good Mexican food, Menudos now and Minuda's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Take it back. Yeah, all right, so let's see you now.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Uh, just just to follow up though, Poppy, since she
brought it up, Lorraina gave out three picks on the
show and she uh gave the Cowboy pick out. They
lost outright. They were the forty nine Ers were favored
by five. They lost out right. The Bears were getting six,
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and so I guess they did cover. They did cover, actually,
so you got to cover on the Bears. Bears by
a half points. You did win that one. And Poppy
gave out the Steelers, so they won that good effort
by the Broncos the Texans, so he didn't get that one.
So he's one and one and then he's got the
Eagles tonight. So you're, well, these pictus are great. You're
one and two, Lorena, But no, the Bear is covered
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by a half point. And so if Poppy loses the Eagles,
if the Eagles don't cover that, uh yeah, you'll be
You'll both be one and two.
Speaker 10 (22:29):
All right?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Then what what? No, you don't you don't really have
to ask me a question.
Speaker 9 (22:37):
What do you want to what?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
You're just trying to make it all about you, James.
You just you're making trying to make it all about you. Yes,
you're it was. It was wonderful, Jeb. It was right
up there when I met Michael Jordan. Meeting you and
Michael Jordan very similar.
Speaker 11 (22:54):
Hey, I'm wearing my Nike Air Chops.
Speaker 10 (23:00):
Chicago Bull tennis shoes, bringing me good. I'm speaking to
you Ben.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Yeah, okay, Now, remember James, you're now done for the
night though.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
This is it. This You're done.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
You've shot your shot. You're out of ammunition for the
rest of the night.
Speaker 10 (23:14):
But I'm getting it all man, I getting it join again, all.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Right, we're in a great mood. How many more golden
tickets do you have?
Speaker 10 (23:26):
How many?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (23:26):
How many?
Speaker 10 (23:28):
But that big win.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Zero zero is how many he has left?
Speaker 4 (23:32):
This is it?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
This is definitely this is your shot. You shot your
shot on this.
Speaker 9 (23:36):
Is your good coupe for the rest of the night.
Or no, he'll call back anyway.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Why are you going to call back again? Because this
is it.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
You're done, so I can't plumber.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
See that.
Speaker 9 (23:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I'll make a deal with you. How about this? Now
we do in hour what hours? Hour three?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
We do this instant vice line that's unscreened because if
you call I can't stop you from calling that the
incidentive ice line. Okay, yeah, well, okay, okay, I'm going
this is my nightmare. I'm going away, thank you, all right?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Bye.
Speaker 9 (24:12):
That is Coop's nightmare.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah, he'll be calling up within two minutes. Clear a line,
he'll call up right away.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
So quickly bear down the hype for cambab Williams. The
Chicago media hyping this gap four thousand yard passer Bears
have never had.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
One, and he's on track.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
So let's do the look here, Caleb Williams currently is
on pace for zero passing touchdowns this season. Uh, he's
got Let's see here total yards passing he needs. He
needs thirty touchdowns and three thousand, seven hundred and thirty
three yards in fifteen games to become the first Bears
quarterback to throw thirty plus passing touchdowns and four thousand
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plus yards. That's reasonable right the way the Bears offense
is playing.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
They have not ever had a thirty plus passing touchdown
quarterback or a four thousand yard passing quarterback the Chicago Bears,
and Caleb Williams is going to be that guy unless
he's not. Not this year does not appear that's the case.
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Speaker 1 (25:20):
Let's have some fun. What do you say?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Here we go fun fun fun fun fun fun fun
fun fun. The three big rookie quarterbacks through Week two
of the NFL season. Caleb Williams has a passer rating
of fifty three and no touchdowns and two turnovers a
couple of beautiful picks against the Texans in the game
Sunday Night. Now bow Knicks has a passer rating of
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fifty one fifty one, averaging four point five yards per dropback,
one touchdown, and four turnovers. For bow Knicks and the
Denver Broncos offense three hundred and eighty four yards total passing.
But Jayden Daniels, if you like field goals, he's your guy.
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The Washington football team. He's got two touchdowns, no turnovers
at this point, and a passer rating of ninety seven
point two. But combined the rookie quarterbacks, all that hype,
all the people with the pants off of the NFL
draft back in April outside of they wear, they've solved
their quarterback dilemma. Collectively, the three quarterbacks that have played
so far a sixty four point two rating, four point
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three yards per drop back, three touchdowns, and six turnovers.
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You could say this is a fun fact as well.
The statistics. After two weeks now, we still have a
game to be played on Monday Night, but at this
point Derek Carr is your top quarterback in the NFL. Yeah,
he's the top passer statistically speaking. How about the most
accurate passer, A guy that mister football over there, Eddie
(27:10):
Garcia spat a lougi at.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Gardner Minshew of the writers.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Gardner Minshew has the highest completion percentage in the NFL.
The longest touchdown should have beaten the Charges last week.
It doesn't matter beat the Ravens backed it up as
I lost.
Speaker 9 (27:27):
Finish.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
He will absolutely finish the season. He'll be the next
rich Gannon for the Raiders. And longest touchdown of the
season Sam Darnall. Nice defense there by the forty nine
ers as the Vikings from the three yard line, pitch
and catch Donald to Jefferson for the touchdown. Baker Mayfield
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is closing in on car for the top statistic in
terms of passer in the NFL. So those are some
of the early numbers. Here two weeks into the season,
let's say hello to Slim the Trucker. Hello, Slim the Trucker.
Speaker 11 (28:02):
Hey, Mallard was going on Coop Eddie Lorena. Good evening.
Then I'm just driving along, man, I had a couple
of quick hitters for you. I know I'm playing with
house money as a Vikings fan. I don't expect the playoffs,
but we'll take these wins. I got a did you
(28:23):
see the I don't know if you talked about this.
Did you see the Steve McNair documentary yet on Netflix?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I watched it.
Speaker 11 (28:33):
Wow, man, that was that was interesting. That was that
was interesting. And then I got a quick fun fact
for you. Then I'll get out. Yeah, I know you're
a road trip guy. I don't know if there's any
other place in the United States, but now where your
boy Radio Rich is a little bit further down and
wheeling on Route seventy. You can drive in Ohio, West
(28:57):
Virginia and PA in about ten minutes.
Speaker 9 (28:59):
Take on seven.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
That'd be cool.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah, we've not heard. We don't know, we don't know
if Radio Rich is still around. But we uh that
sounds like a nice little trip.
Speaker 11 (29:08):
Sure, yeah, but you can go through three states in
like ten minutes. I don't know if there's anywhere in
the United States there well there, well.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
You are the Four Corners right where Arizona, New Mexico
is it, Nevada, and Colorado all get together?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Like youtuh?
Speaker 10 (29:23):
I mean like.
Speaker 11 (29:24):
Route seventy runs through Ohio, West Virginia, and PA. So
I know you're in the Four Corners but on the
same route.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
So well, what about what about like uh?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Well, I nine, well I nine if I'm not in
ten minutes, but you can go through you know, boom,
you're in Connecticut, Rhode Island. Uh in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine.
You go from Man and you go from Massachusetts to
New Hampshire and then boom, you're in Maine pretty pretty quick.
Speaker 11 (29:51):
So okay, all right, yeah that just was on my mining.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
I got you, all right, all right, good night, be
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Where he goes only he knows well people tell him
where to go, and then he goes where people tell
him to go.
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So God bless really the paper Boys, security Guards and
threat and drivers.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
That's right, Gene, that's right, the ghost of Genie absolutely
all right.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Time now for the who am I?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Games? So the Justin Fields Steelers offense. They are the
first team to start two and oh despite scoring only
one touchdown in those games since Charlie Batch and me
did it with the Lions back in the day. Again,
Justin Fields and the Steelers offense becoming the first team
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to start two and oh despite only scoring one touchdown
on offense in those games since Charlie Batch and me
did it with the Lions back in the day.
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A blatant at temple. Who know what's going on there?
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But do blatant attempt to get you fired up? Get
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with Justin Field Steelers the first team, first team to
start two to oh despite scoring only one touchdown in
those games since Charlie Batch and me for the Lions
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back in the day.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
That is the question. What is the answer?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Robin Vegas going with the Mouth of the South Jimmy
Hart as his answer. Peppermin Patty from Cowboy Killer A
fine answer.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Who else do you have?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Page down Spotsweed says the weather sucks here? Okay, good
for you. Jeff Driscoll from Josh that's his answer.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Who else do we have? Alf?
Speaker 2 (32:26):
The Alien Opiner says Godzilla, the King of Monsters. Godzilla
did not win an oscar until he was seventy years old.
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He's been thirty eight movies. Fun factoid from Alf.
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Late Night Drug Tester Bobby Lane The Curse of Bobby
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to the face? James Bullseye Harden from ferg Dog. Who
(33:02):
else do we have here? Happy Hendon Hooker from Andy
of Lino Lakes, Bullwinkled Jay Moose from Mike up in
the Mountains. Who else you have?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Page down?
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Eric Kramer guests by Ike and Roseville, Minnesota. I can't
read that here? Fair Hooker from Spacoli in North Carolina.
We he's out West Spaccoli visiting the National Parks?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Is it angry? Bill's wife?
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Guess by Shane in des Moin, Gary Danielson from Rob
in Minnesota, Frank Tanana Dakery from Steve the Misplaced San
Diegan DeAndre is going with Joey Harrington, Dirk Diggler from Eric.
That's his answer, Fred the Baker from Masshole Mickey Vince
Ferragamo guessed by Mark That is his answer?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Who else we have? Page down?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Curious George from Jason It's his selection of the blue
Falcon from Slim Tim Scott Mitchell was guessed by dat
boy Malcolm.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
All Right, Eddie, what say you? Eddie, what say you?
Speaker 9 (34:12):
Let's go with former and New York Giants quarterback.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Y A Tittle Giants legend. The is incorrect, The correct
answer justin Fields.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Steelers the first team to start two and oh despite
scoring only one touchdown on offense in those games since
Charlie Batch and Stony Case the two thousand Lions. It's
once a generation. Let's say hello to Frank in Iowa.
Hello Frank, Welcome Frank the tank.
Speaker 10 (34:41):
How's it going, Billy Miller?
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Frank?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
If I was any better, I'd be a Donald, but
not Sam Donald, because you're about to praise him.
Speaker 10 (34:50):
You have a pretty good MEAs of game, I would say.
I wouldn't say you have an extravagant game. I could
say that much.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
You're not gonna go out and buy his jersey because
of that game?
Speaker 10 (35:00):
Oh no, the last two jerseys I bobbed. They don't retired,
and one of them is a Hall of Famer, and
one of them is soon to be a Hall of Famer,
if not, if he isn't already.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Yeah, okay, that's good. There you go.
Speaker 10 (35:12):
And they were both Viking fans. Well, both Vikings. One
of them tried to hook up with the Dolphins. I
can say that much. One of the jerseys that I.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Have that I used to have, oh, Chris Carter, Chris.
Speaker 10 (35:22):
Carter exactly, exactly know.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Is the other one Adrian Peterson.
Speaker 10 (35:27):
No, no, I give you a here. He used to
play in the CFL before he came to Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Warn war exactly, Oh, Warren moon Man.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
No, Tommy Kramer and your cliff I got Tommy Kramer
showed up to the Malon meeting Greek nineteen.
Speaker 10 (35:44):
They didn't have Tommy Kramer.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Oh he's a good guy, good dude. He hung out
with us at the meet and greet there in Minnesota.
He put up with hollering James and all that. Yeah,
all right, listen, the Vikings are two and all that's
all that matter.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Is good for you. Congratulations.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
I actually picked the Vikings on the TV show, one
of the few picks I got right.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I didn't think they were gonna win the game out right,
but there they go. They won the game out right.
Good job by them.
Here we go. Welcome, it's our numb borrow one.
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As we are here all the way to the finish
a brand new week of the show. Happy Monday till
it's the sixteenth day of September, the middle of the month.
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But you already knew that. You already knew that.
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Here in hour number one, it's all about that Sunday
night game the Bears hibernation against the Texas. What do
you make of the performance of c J. Stroud and
the Texans offense depended on long field goals? Also, how
would you qualify the play of rookie quarterback Caleb Williams
(00:36):
of Bears in his second opportunity to start. Meanwhile, Stealers
quarterback Justin Field said the team gave Russell Wilson a
quote petty game ball after the win over the Broncos
even though he didn't play because russ kinda got did
dirty last year. According to Justin Fields, how does that
(00:58):
one hitch you? We'll get to that and more right
now here. It is our number one. Just enough and
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Will you start in the lone Star state Most Sundays
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Living the Island Life, Sunday Night Football.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
CJ.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Stroud God's gift to the quarterback position. I was told
that in the offseason the greatest young generational talent we've
ever seen until the next one.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
But CJ.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Stroud and the Texans getting the spotlight against Caleb Williams,
the supposed next big thing of the Chicago Bears. You
had Collinsworth there to Rico. They were having quite the time,
quite the time. So I don't you watch the or not?
Maybe you were worn out by the day you lost
your parlays. You got smoked like someone I know against
(03:07):
a penny. So see Jay Stroud. Now you look at
the stat line, he's well, he's the headliner. So he
had two hundred and sixty yards, most of that in
the first half. Also had the one touchdown and then
Kaemy fair Baan. That is the hero, right, I mean,
(03:28):
that's the guy, the kicker fair Bairn. I didn't have
to say the guys I know went to UCLA, but
I mean, when you're talking about your idiot kicker in
the headline. He had field goals of fifty six, forty seven,
fifty nine and fifty three four field goals. Yeah, not impressed.
(03:49):
Houston gets the win. They don't cover the number. Remember,
good teams win, great teams cover. They're not a great team.
They didn't cover. They didn't cover the spread. Sunday Nights,
Caleb Williams, we'll get to him in a second. But
let us discuss the question what do you make We'll
start with the team that's supposed to be right there
(04:10):
among all the elites in the AFC, the team from Houston.
So what do you make of this performance by C. J.
Stroud and the Texans offense? So I've got campaign, headquarters, patio, furniture,
and wagon, and we will.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Combine all of these things together and we are going
to give you.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
A giant migraine headache. If you give us ten minutes,
we'll give you my I'm kidding, all right. So a
the Malor report card after a thorough minute by minute
observation the Houston Texans offense, I give the Texans offense
the D. I give him a D. I expected more.
I expected more. I was not overly impressed. Now we
(04:54):
haven't we haven't seen total domination. It's only two games.
But that's all we have. We do the show today.
We don't do the show at the end of the year.
We do the show now. We'll worry about the big
picture at.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
The end of the year.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
We have to grade these things on week one and
week two. We're talking right now at the end of
week two, with one game left on Monday, night as
we're doing this, and I just did not get the
sense that this is one of those teams. I did not,
despite adding Joe Mixon and Stefan Diggs in the offseason,
(05:29):
and even though they're two and all, this was a
grinded out kind of a game. CJ Stroud his MVP campaign,
the campaign headquarters for the CJ Stroud MVP is in
crisis mode at this point. They're not clicking on all cylinders. Underwhelming.
(05:50):
Underwhelming would be the way I would describe it. Despite
the two wins, Texans were way too dependent on the
kicking game, and those not just field goals, long field
goals like long field goals. And now before you call,
well yeah but yeah, but yeah, but yeah, but yeah,
but the Chicago defense is pretty good.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Okay, Spyler alert.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
That is true, perhaps that the Bears do have a
good defense, but irrelevant to the conversation.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
And here's why.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Okay, it's relevant because if the Texans are high for
loutant and they're the real deal, right, they're the real McCoy,
they're top notch offense. Don't you agree with me that
it doesn't matter who they play, that they're going to
put up impressive offensive numbers. The opponent should not matter
and does not matter if you're truly elite. Now, if
you're good against bad teams, okay, fine, then you can
(06:39):
say they're good against bad teams.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That's the Texans.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
But the cream's supposed to rise to the crop here,
to the top of the crop. And that That second
half offense by Houston was atrocious. It was absolutely atrocious.
They had the ball seven times in the second half
against the Bears, one field goal of fumble and five
punts and that's it in the second half. CJ Strout
(07:05):
after halftime averaged barely five yards per past five point
one yards per pass in the second half, had a
passer rating below seventy in the second half of the game.
And Joe Mixon overall the old Bengal Joe Mixon. He
had nine carries for twenty five yards. Whoopee damn do well.
How about Stefan Dix. Clearly Stefan Diggs must have been
(07:25):
the star of the show. No, he was targeted six times,
he had four catches and thirty seven yards. Ho hum ho,
hum ho hum. Nico Collins was the star of the
show at the beginning of the game, it's some big
class pass plays. Now on the other side, the better
story is in the losing locker room. So my guys
in Chicago, Eugene in Chicago, you fee me, you know
(07:49):
all you guys, you know you are right? Did her
content contributors to the show? My core group of people
in Chicago listened to the show. You told me this
guy's amazing, right, So how would you do you qualify
this performance by the rookie quarterback Caleb Williams of don
Bears in this game? So this is nothing to paint
(08:11):
your fingernails over, if you know what I'm saying, right,
there's nothing to get all excited there and go down
and paint your fingernails. Because Williams, who was billed by
the establishment, the football establishment, being like patio furniture, What
do I mean by that? Build this patio furniture, no
assembly required. Yeah, you pick it up. It's all built.
(08:34):
You don't have to build it. You know, it's wonderful,
ready to use, right out of the box. Take him
out of the box and you're on your way. That
would be false advertising. That would definitely be false advertising.
Because he had a rude awakening in week one and
I would say this is also in that category.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Caleb.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
He drowned against the Tennessee Titans. They won the game anyway, Chicago,
but I would argue he wasn't measurably or in this game.
I didn't see leaps and bounds of improvement. The Bears
offense finished the game with six punts, two Caleb Williams interceptions.
There could have been more one turnover on downs for
(09:15):
the Bears offense. Plus they did have a touchdown and
a couple of field goals. But you could have gotten
that kind of production from justin fields right, or some
guy drafted in the third round, not the.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Number one over. I mean, come on now.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
He averaged four point seven yards per past Caleb Williams.
Less than five seven is the standard for average, so
he's way below average. Both these quarterbacks were way below average,
at least in the second half for CJ.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Stroud.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
The other thing I noticed is the plague of so
many quarterbacks in the NFL. Caleb Williams internal clock appears
to to be broken. What I mean by that is
he kept getting sacked. Many of them were because he
held the ball for too long, and you really got
(10:11):
to speed up the clock, and if you don't, you're
gonna get killed. You're gonna lead the world in sacks.
And that's no way to consistently be successful in the NFL.
He was sacked seven times in this game. And again
it's like, well, the Texas have a good defense, Okay,
you know that going in, you get rid of the ball, right,
you treat it like a hot potato and you move on.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
And that's it.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Now, last word, speaking of hot potatoes, we go to Colorado.
Why not, the Steelers offense did just enough to beat
the Broncos. As the headline here, this is from Justin
Field's postgame. Now, Fields had another stinker at quarterback. This
guy sucks, Justin Fields, but he then had the hutzba
(10:57):
to say that the Steelers gave Russell Wilson a quote
petty game ball after the win over Denver because, according
to Justin Fields, Russ kind of got did dirty last year.
In fact, just to prove I'm not making this up,
we have the audio tape. Here is what it sounded
(11:18):
like postgame Justin Field's after the Steelers beat the Broncos.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Listen closely.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
I mean, I think we all know Ruscott kind of
did dirty. Last year, so I know he wish, you know,
he could have played today in this game. But it's awesome,
you know, getting a win for him. He got a
petty game ball, so yeah, he's great ging it ut
for us for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Now what is the petty game ball? Is that different
than the regular game balls? Like a different color? I
don't know. I've never gotten a petty game ball. So
how does that one hit you? That the Steelers decided
to reward Russ? So I understand the context that, hey,
they're teammates and they love each other, their lovey dovey
(11:57):
and all that stuff, and they're fighting the machine on
this one. It's the Steelers whoever decided this is what
we're gonna do. We're gonna give Russ a game ball
here even though he did not play in the game.
That is akin to the honey wagon tipping over poop
(12:17):
on wheels, if you will poop on wheels. And Mike
Tomlin does not strike me as participation trophy coach guy.
So this I assume this came from somebody else, but
he had to sign off on it.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I would think now.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Here we are, if Russell Wilson wanted a game ball,
then he should have played in the game. Oh he
couldn't play. Russ did not get the job done in Denver.
And this idea that somehow the Broncos were the bad
guy and that Russ was the good guy. Like where
did that come from? Like what kind of alternative reality
is that the Broncos contacted the Better Business Bureau? And
(12:55):
they're like, hey, there were some false claims made in
Seattle here and what's going on and Wilson last seas
I understand, like low information fans.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
There's a lot dumb fans out there. I get it.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
There's a lot of morons that are, you know, meatheads
football fans that think.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
What about the states? What about the state?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Okay, tell me you don't know football, without telling me
you don't know football. The Broncos last year, Russell Wilson
had some misleading numbers, and so idiot fans amongst us,
they're hiding amongst us.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
They're like, oh man, he was gee was good.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Okay, But the Broncos had the twenty fourth ranked passing
offense with Russell Wilson starting the majority of the games
in Denver. So if you're twenty fourth out of thirty
two teams, how is that particularly good? I mean maybe
for you you have low standards, but not for me,
and clearly not for the Broncos. I don't know any
NFL team If Russ was doing a good job, I
don't care how petty you think certain people are. You're
(13:50):
not gonna pay eighty five million dollars for the guy
not to play for you. If he's getting the job
done even a little bit. That should be a dead
daw what dead get away? Not exactly working out? Not
exactly working out. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. If
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(14:11):
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how off the false advertising for one NFL player in
(14:32):
particular has truly been. We'll get to that, and we
will take your calls. We'll do it all, and we
will do it next.
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Speaker 2 (16:46):
Here as we work our way through yapping all night,
uh super Marcus Steve says, first, off patio. Furniture is
not pre assembled out of the box. I don't know
where you're getting your furniture supermarket, Steve. But when you
buy furniture, you go down to the story you say,
I want that boom. It's done, It's already built for you.
So that's a bad job by you. Clearly you're shopping
(17:07):
at the wrong places. And how's the offense doing without
Russell Wilson in Denver, Oh Yes, twenty seventh, one ahead
of Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
That's fine.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
They'd rather think about how much he must have had
body odor that the Broncos are like, I'd rather have
bo Nicks out there, and they didn't know who they
were gonna draft, but that's the guy we want. That's
where Nick and Wisconsin says A plus to kick off
my last week listening live, kind of sad, going to
help your podcast numbers starting next week?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
No, Nick, you're going to the dreaded day shift. Bad
job by you.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
G Manage in Chicago says A plus in the mouth
of monologue, I'm finally out of x Lockdown. The Bears
play calling sucks, head coach blows. The offensive line is
even worse. F Mahomes and f the Swifties. So he says,
there you go, absolutely, and Andy writes in from Parts Unknown,
(18:03):
he says, loving Benny versus the Penny, But I gotta
say there you go. You got to talk to the
NBC peacock folks about how they're micy feels thin, like
they're really not capturing that full mala roar we're used.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
It's a different kind of microphone.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I'm not talking to the microphone, like there's a mic
that you put on your shirt.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
It's different.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Bill's monster rights and still rejoicing after the Bills won
back on Thursday, he said, Hey, Ben Caleb looks bad.
In a good spot on average offensive line, good receivers
and a serviceable defense. He makes bad decisions, throws the
ball across his body in her double coverage, and when
(18:51):
the Bears do move the ball, it's dink.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
And dunk screens, etc.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
From Derek in Buffalo, Yeah, it's not looking great here
to start. It's early returns. But that's all we have,
you know. It's like, yeah, he asked me to judge
a guy based on his performance. Okay, I've seen two games.
I'm not impressed. I'm not impressed his fingernails have looked
better than his performance.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Eugene in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Says been all I want for Chicago is for dub
Bears to win their next game. This is all I
really want this season. Make this a reality, Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
So that's it.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
So if you're telling me if the Bears come out
and win in Week three that that's all you want.
They have to beat the Colts. Who cares about that game?
Come on, Eugene. It's a bad job by you. I
think what you're really saying, Eugene is you want the
Bears to beat the Rams because you love that and
Evan get us all excited because the Rams had a
(19:53):
bad game on Sunday. There, oh man, see you're gonna
be I'm not upset. I'm not I'm happy to game
was a blowout. I was able to focus on other things.
Don't need to watch The Rams didn't show up. Why
should I show up. Let's go to the phones. We'll
say hello to hollering James cashing a golden ticket, which
is probably a bad ideas.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
James, I'm gonna you.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Know you love to be on hold, and if you
get on the air right away, you can't be on
the show the rest of the show, So you'll be
all upset.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
You'll be angry, James, Yes, you will. You're gonna be angry, James.
You're gonna be like, what the heck I want? I
don't want to go on later. I can't. I got
what's up with that.
Speaker 10 (20:35):
Injured?
Speaker 11 (20:36):
Heat of the Hall of Fame game?
Speaker 10 (20:38):
And that was the Wakings game. You just see the
whippen they put on them.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Where's big copy?
Speaker 9 (20:45):
What something about Poppy?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Big Poppy?
Speaker 9 (20:54):
There's only one big popul Lorraine. That was a baseball player.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Yeah, Poppy's in San Diego somewhere diving uber around.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
He's doing like uber eating.
Speaker 11 (21:05):
Jack to drive me to see you, man, I had Jack.
Speaker 10 (21:09):
And a bit around of it.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, you got a free meal.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
With Jack.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Okay, I want to do Mexican ready, I want to make.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Ball now, Manuda, you don't want Manduda.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
It's Mexicano's good Mexican food, Menudos now and Minuda's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Take it back. Yeah, all right, so let's see you now.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Uh, just just to follow up though, Poppy, since she
brought it up, Lorraina gave out three picks on the
show and she uh gave the Cowboy pick out. They
lost outright. They were the forty nine Ers were favored
by five. They lost out right. The Bears were getting six,
(21:56):
and so I guess they did cover. They did cover, actually,
so you got to cover on the Bears. Bears by
a half points. You did win that one. And Poppy
gave out the Steelers, so they won that good effort
by the Broncos the Texans, so he didn't get that one.
So he's one and one and then he's got the
Eagles tonight. So you're, well, these pictus are great. You're
one and two, Lorena, But no, the Bear is covered
(22:19):
by a half point. And so if Poppy loses the Eagles,
if the Eagles don't cover that, uh yeah, you'll be
You'll both be one and two.
Speaker 10 (22:29):
All right?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Then what what? No, you don't you don't really have
to ask me a question.
Speaker 9 (22:37):
What do you want to what?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
You're just trying to make it all about you, James.
You just you're making trying to make it all about you. Yes,
you're it was. It was wonderful, Jeb. It was right
up there when I met Michael Jordan. Meeting you and
Michael Jordan very similar.
Speaker 11 (22:54):
Hey, I'm wearing my Nike Air Chops.
Speaker 10 (23:00):
Chicago Bull tennis shoes, bringing me good. I'm speaking to
you Ben.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Yeah, okay, Now, remember James, you're now done for the
night though.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
This is it. This You're done.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
You've shot your shot. You're out of ammunition for the
rest of the night.
Speaker 10 (23:14):
But I'm getting it all man, I getting it join again, all.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Right, we're in a great mood. How many more golden
tickets do you have?
Speaker 10 (23:26):
How many?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (23:26):
How many?
Speaker 10 (23:28):
But that big win.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Zero zero is how many he has left?
Speaker 4 (23:32):
This is it?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
This is definitely this is your shot. You shot your
shot on this.
Speaker 9 (23:36):
Is your good coupe for the rest of the night.
Or no, he'll call back anyway.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Why are you going to call back again? Because this
is it.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
You're done, so I can't plumber.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
See that.
Speaker 9 (23:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I'll make a deal with you. How about this? Now
we do in hour what hours? Hour three?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
We do this instant vice line that's unscreened because if
you call I can't stop you from calling that the
incidentive ice line. Okay, yeah, well, okay, okay, I'm going
this is my nightmare. I'm going away, thank you, all right?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Bye.
Speaker 9 (24:12):
That is Coop's nightmare.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah, he'll be calling up within two minutes. Clear a line,
he'll call up right away.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
So quickly bear down the hype for cambab Williams. The
Chicago media hyping this gap four thousand yard passer Bears
have never had.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
One, and he's on track.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
So let's do the look here, Caleb Williams currently is
on pace for zero passing touchdowns this season. Uh, he's
got Let's see here total yards passing he needs. He
needs thirty touchdowns and three thousand, seven hundred and thirty
three yards in fifteen games to become the first Bears
quarterback to throw thirty plus passing touchdowns and four thousand
(24:51):
plus yards. That's reasonable right the way the Bears offense
is playing.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
They have not ever had a thirty plus passing touchdown
quarterback or a four thousand yard passing quarterback the Chicago Bears,
and Caleb Williams is going to be that guy unless
he's not. Not this year does not appear that's the case.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Let's have some fun. What do you say?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Here we go fun fun fun fun fun fun fun
fun fun. The three big rookie quarterbacks through Week two
of the NFL season. Caleb Williams has a passer rating
of fifty three and no touchdowns and two turnovers a
couple of beautiful picks against the Texans in the game
Sunday Night. Now bow Knicks has a passer rating of
(25:43):
fifty one fifty one, averaging four point five yards per dropback,
one touchdown, and four turnovers. For bow Knicks and the
Denver Broncos offense three hundred and eighty four yards total passing.
But Jayden Daniels, if you like field goals, he's your guy.
(26:04):
The Washington football team. He's got two touchdowns, no turnovers
at this point, and a passer rating of ninety seven
point two. But combined the rookie quarterbacks, all that hype,
all the people with the pants off of the NFL
draft back in April outside of they wear, they've solved
their quarterback dilemma. Collectively, the three quarterbacks that have played
so far a sixty four point two rating, four point
(26:28):
three yards per drop back, three touchdowns, and six turnovers.
And that is your fun fact. This show is sponsored
by DraftKings. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings
and all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings.
The crown is yours. I mentioned Bizarro World in the NFL.
(26:49):
You could say this is a fun fact as well.
The statistics. After two weeks now, we still have a
game to be played on Monday Night, but at this
point Derek Carr is your top quarterback in the NFL. Yeah,
he's the top passer statistically speaking. How about the most
accurate passer, A guy that mister football over there, Eddie
(27:10):
Garcia spat a lougi at.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Gardner Minshew of the writers.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Gardner Minshew has the highest completion percentage in the NFL.
The longest touchdown should have beaten the Charges last week.
It doesn't matter beat the Ravens backed it up as
I lost.
Speaker 9 (27:27):
Finish.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
He will absolutely finish the season. He'll be the next
rich Gannon for the Raiders. And longest touchdown of the
season Sam Darnall. Nice defense there by the forty nine
ers as the Vikings from the three yard line, pitch
and catch Donald to Jefferson for the touchdown. Baker Mayfield
(27:49):
is closing in on car for the top statistic in
terms of passer in the NFL. So those are some
of the early numbers. Here two weeks into the season,
let's say hello to Slim the Trucker. Hello, Slim the Trucker.
Speaker 11 (28:02):
Hey, Mallard was going on Coop Eddie Lorena. Good evening.
Then I'm just driving along, man, I had a couple
of quick hitters for you. I know I'm playing with
house money as a Vikings fan. I don't expect the playoffs,
but we'll take these wins. I got a did you
(28:23):
see the I don't know if you talked about this.
Did you see the Steve McNair documentary yet on Netflix?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I watched it.
Speaker 11 (28:33):
Wow, man, that was that was interesting. That was that
was interesting. And then I got a quick fun fact
for you. Then I'll get out. Yeah, I know you're
a road trip guy. I don't know if there's any
other place in the United States, but now where your
boy Radio Rich is a little bit further down and
wheeling on Route seventy. You can drive in Ohio, West
(28:57):
Virginia and PA in about ten minutes.
Speaker 9 (28:59):
Take on seven.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
That'd be cool.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah, we've not heard. We don't know, we don't know
if Radio Rich is still around. But we uh that
sounds like a nice little trip.
Speaker 11 (29:08):
Sure, yeah, but you can go through three states in
like ten minutes. I don't know if there's anywhere in
the United States there well there, well.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
You are the Four Corners right where Arizona, New Mexico
is it, Nevada, and Colorado all get together?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Like youtuh?
Speaker 10 (29:23):
I mean like.
Speaker 11 (29:24):
Route seventy runs through Ohio, West Virginia, and PA. So
I know you're in the Four Corners but on the
same route.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
So well, what about what about like uh?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Well, I nine, well I nine if I'm not in
ten minutes, but you can go through you know, boom,
you're in Connecticut, Rhode Island. Uh in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine.
You go from Man and you go from Massachusetts to
New Hampshire and then boom, you're in Maine pretty pretty quick.
Speaker 11 (29:51):
So okay, all right, yeah that just was on my mining.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
I got you, all right, all right, good night, be
safe out there. There's slimp Tim driving around his big rig.
Where he goes only he knows well people tell him
where to go, and then he goes where people tell
him to go.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
So God bless really the paper Boys, security Guards and
threat and drivers.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
That's right, Gene, that's right, the ghost of Genie absolutely
all right.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Time now for the who am I?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Games? So the Justin Fields Steelers offense. They are the
first team to start two and oh despite scoring only
one touchdown in those games since Charlie Batch and me
did it with the Lions back in the day. Again,
Justin Fields and the Steelers offense becoming the first team
(30:41):
to start two and oh despite only scoring one touchdown
on offense in those games since Charlie Batch and me
did it with the Lions back in the day.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Who am I? That is the question. The answer. We'll
get to it and we will do it next.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
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Speaker 2 (31:30):
It's Ben Maller and here is the who Ami game.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
A blatant at temple. Who know what's going on there?
Speaker 2 (31:37):
But do blatant attempt to get you fired up? Get
you fired up, ready to go testing your knowledge. So
with Justin Field Steelers the first team, first team to
start two to oh despite scoring only one touchdown in
those games since Charlie Batch and me for the Lions
(32:02):
back in the day.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
That is the question. What is the answer?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Robin Vegas going with the Mouth of the South Jimmy
Hart as his answer. Peppermin Patty from Cowboy Killer A
fine answer.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Who else do you have?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Page down Spotsweed says the weather sucks here? Okay, good
for you. Jeff Driscoll from Josh that's his answer.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Who else do we have? Alf?
Speaker 2 (32:26):
The Alien Opiner says Godzilla, the King of Monsters. Godzilla
did not win an oscar until he was seventy years old.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
He's been thirty eight movies. Fun factoid from Alf.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
George Plimpton from I forty Ian Optimist Prime guests by
King Roy Bryson d Chambeau is thirty one Today from
Late Night Drug Tester Bobby Lane The Curse of Bobby
Lane from og Art puffin Who took the Old Pie
to the face? James Bullseye Harden from ferg Dog. Who
(33:02):
else do we have here? Happy Hendon Hooker from Andy
of Lino Lakes, Bullwinkled Jay Moose from Mike up in
the Mountains. Who else you have?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Page down?
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Eric Kramer guests by Ike and Roseville, Minnesota. I can't
read that here? Fair Hooker from Spacoli in North Carolina.
We he's out West Spaccoli visiting the National Parks?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Is it angry? Bill's wife?
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Guess by Shane in des Moin, Gary Danielson from Rob
in Minnesota, Frank Tanana Dakery from Steve the Misplaced San
Diegan DeAndre is going with Joey Harrington, Dirk Diggler from Eric.
That's his answer, Fred the Baker from Masshole Mickey Vince
Ferragamo guessed by Mark That is his answer?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Who else we have? Page down?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Curious George from Jason It's his selection of the blue
Falcon from Slim Tim Scott Mitchell was guessed by dat
boy Malcolm.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
All Right, Eddie, what say you? Eddie, what say you?
Speaker 9 (34:12):
Let's go with former and New York Giants quarterback.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Y A Tittle Giants legend. The is incorrect, The correct
answer justin Fields.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Steelers the first team to start two and oh despite
scoring only one touchdown on offense in those games since
Charlie Batch and Stony Case the two thousand Lions. It's
once a generation. Let's say hello to Frank in Iowa.
Hello Frank, Welcome Frank the tank.
Speaker 10 (34:41):
How's it going, Billy Miller?
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Frank?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
If I was any better, I'd be a Donald, but
not Sam Donald, because you're about to praise him.
Speaker 10 (34:50):
You have a pretty good MEAs of game, I would say.
I wouldn't say you have an extravagant game. I could
say that much.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
You're not gonna go out and buy his jersey because
of that game?
Speaker 10 (35:00):
Oh no, the last two jerseys I bobbed. They don't retired,
and one of them is a Hall of Famer, and
one of them is soon to be a Hall of Famer,
if not, if he isn't already.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Yeah, okay, that's good. There you go.
Speaker 10 (35:12):
And they were both Viking fans. Well, both Vikings. One
of them tried to hook up with the Dolphins. I
can say that much. One of the jerseys that I.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Have that I used to have, oh, Chris Carter, Chris.
Speaker 10 (35:22):
Carter exactly, exactly know.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Is the other one Adrian Peterson.
Speaker 10 (35:27):
No, no, I give you a here. He used to
play in the CFL before he came to Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Warn war exactly, Oh, Warren moon Man.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
No, Tommy Kramer and your cliff I got Tommy Kramer
showed up to the Malon meeting Greek nineteen.
Speaker 10 (35:44):
They didn't have Tommy Kramer.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Oh he's a good guy, good dude. He hung out
with us at the meet and greet there in Minnesota.
He put up with hollering James and all that. Yeah,
all right, listen, the Vikings are two and all that's
all that matter.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Is good for you. Congratulations.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
I actually picked the Vikings on the TV show, one
of the few picks I got right.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I didn't think they were gonna win the game out right,
but there they go. They won the game out right.
Good job by them.
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