September 18, 2024 • 35 mins
Big Ben talks about a disagreement about what went wrong for the Cowboys over the weekend, the bashing of Panthers owner David Tepper for the benching of Bryce Young, Maller to the Third Degree, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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We are just two weeks into the NFL season, already
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Our lead this hour from the world. We all live
in the world, the magical, mystical place though a little
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neighborhood called Jerry's World. Oh yeah, high drama. After the
Cowboys were eviscerated by the Saints. That's not very nice,
Micah Parsons. Now he chose to not tow the company line.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Michaeh.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Parsons, What did he do? He did not bite his tongue. No,
and that makes for good talk radio. So if you
heard this, you know where I'm going. But maybe not so.
Michah Parsons, the face of the Cowboys defense. Michah Parsons.
He said recently following the loss to the New Orleans
football team that it wasn't a scheme issue, that this
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was not a coaching situation where Mike Zimmer, the old
Viking coach who's back in Dallas as the defensive coordinator
that he screwed up. Parsons claimed that the coaching staff
called a pretty good game. That's what he said. Now,
Micah believed that the Dallas defense quote just got out played.
Quote continues. He said, everyone didn't play to one hundred
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percent close. Quote. Now, how do you think that went
over inside the walls of Jerry's world? Yeah? Not not good.
So you had both coach Mike McCarthy and defensive corterator
Mike Zimmer disagree wholeheartedly, not just partially wholeheartedly disagree, a
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full throated disagreement to Mike and Parson's assessment of what
went wrong. So the finger pointing is underweight.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Zimmer specifically highlighted the Saints' offense just being quicker off
the snap than the Dallas defense, but did not believe
that the effort was the problem. Mike McCarthy had similar comments.
So let us discuss you've got to, he said, he said,
He said, situation. You got Mike Zimmer and Mike McCarthy
on one side of the room, and there's a great divide,
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and then the other side of the room you've got
Micah Parsons, who's in disagreement on what went wrong for
Dallas to get blown off the field by a mediocre
Saints team. So whose side are you on? Whose side
are you on? I've got X's and O's, Bible, Old
Maid and Manatee and we will combine all of these
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things together and provide you in audio lifeline. So a
these scales now, I used the Malord scale of truth, justice,
and the sports talk radio way for this, and the
scales are leaning heavily in the direction of Micah Parsons.
That's who we side with. We stand with the player.
We stand with Micah Parsons, unfiltered against the better judgment
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of the Dallas Cowboys PR department. But the Cowboys provided
a rather unpleasant stench on the field, and in large
part not because they're not as talented as the Saints
or even more talented. They just didn't play with the
proper amount of effort. They did not play hard. It
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was Ernest Hemingway who said, never confused movement with action.
The Cowboys had movement, there just wasn't much action there
Dallas defenders when I was slipping this game, and then
it was Alvin Kamara running through the Cowboy defense. Dallas
defenders were essentially running. They were running from the grind,
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is what they were doing. Over the years, I have
had many coaches in the world of football and basketball
in particular, not so much baseball, but mostly in basketball
and mostly in baseball who have told me that the
margins are so thin in the industrial complex of their
wing of professional sports that if you merely work hard,
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you will have a shot in every game.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
That talent is wonderful to the currency of professional sports,
but all it does is give you a head start.
You still have to work and put the work in
and all that stuff, and if you don't, the hard
work will end up beating the talent when the talent lolligags.
And there was a whole lot of lolligag You know.
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I understand the side of Mike McCarthy and Mike Zimmer.
While they're wrong, they're lying. I don't believe they're telling
the truth. Zimmer and McCarthy cannot under any means say
the Cowboys didn't play hard. Can't do it. It's verboten right,
It's against the teachings of the X's and o's Bible
of coaching. The x's and o's bible of coaching. It
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is a forbidden taboo. It is lack of effort and
hustle is a direct indictment of the coaching staff. It
is a reflection of their work that they are not
able to provide the proper smelling salts to get the
team ready to play. That the simple root of sport,
playing with max effort, which does not require athletic ability.
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You don't have to have athletic ability to play hard.
You're not allowed to say as a coach your team
didn't play hard, because that is a green light to
fire the coach when you say that. All right, now,
staying with the Cowboys, page two, Here Jerry Jones on
his weekly radio show, Jerr said that Mike McCarthy's lame
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duck status quack black black, wack black, why his lame
duck status did not did not impact the Cowboys and
that blowout loss to the Saints over the weekend. What
is your reaction to the comments by mister Jones? So, Jerry,
on this one, he's playing a game called old Maid,
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which is appropriate's old bar game.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Old Maid.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Calling a spade a spade, it is impossible to argue
that would be great better talk radio be much more
interesting to say, Ah, Jerry's blowing smoke here. McCarthy is
not going to feel real heat until the Cowboys are
in the playoffs, or if they even missed the playoffs, well,
then he'll lose the locker room. He won't be around,
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he'll be fired. But McCarthy's worked for a bunch of
different teams. You're a football nomad in that world.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Each year.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
It's like shuffling the deck of cards at a casino, right,
you reshuffle the deck and Jerry Jones. He also suggested
that he is fine with going through some trials and tribulations.
The struggle is real for Jerry and Jerry's world as
long as it's during the regular season if it means
better at playoff results. Clearly thinking there's some kind of
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correlation causation situation. However, we know because we're adult, correlation
does not imply causation. The other problem with that is
the Cowboys spoiler alert, spoiler alert, have been blown off
the field in games the last couple of years. They
have had no show performances in multiple games over recent seasons,
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so it's not like they're trading it's like, you know,
exchanged something. I go to Costco. I had some bread
we bought that was covered in mold the next day,
so I.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Gave it back.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I don't need the bread anymore, and I exchanged it
for a new loaf of sour dough bread. That was
the exchange that was made. But you don't exchange. It's
not a one for one exchange, right Like it's like, yeah,
you say, okay, we sucked in the We're gonna suck
some games the regular season. We're gonna be great in
the plays. Well, the Cowboys have sucked in games during
the regular season, and yeah they've sucked. Real talk. They've
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sucked in the playoffs. Also, they've thrown in the sponge
like they did against the Green Bay Packers, although they
did get Jordan Love paid and even Dak Prescott got paid.
Everyone gets paid, all right? Last word, malochow. Follow up,
We go to Miami. Can you give me the update
the latest information on to a tongue of eyelawa right now?
(09:49):
How do you categorize the news that came out that
Tua has officially been placed on the Dolphins injured reserve
That it's it's it's on there was some The right
word is floundering, but there was some indecision. It did
not happen immediately, but it has happened. So how do
(10:10):
you categorize to a talking about low officially going on
the Dolphins injured reserve. So this is a book keeping move,
This is a clerical move. Miami officials, all right, and
both sides, everyone's kind of moving slowly here. No one's
in a rush, right, Tua's posse, Miami's front office. They
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might be called the Dolphins, but on this one they're
the manatees.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
They're the sea cows, is what they are. They're not
fast dolphins spinning around. No, no, no, now, these are sea cows.
That's a manatee of insanity, is what it is, which
is also one of my nicknames. Slowly moving along as
they contemplate the next move. And you got a lot
of cooks in the kitchen, a lot of people that
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got a finger in the pie. You've got the medical people,
the league department, football ops on the Miami side, and
then on the Tua side, you've got Tua. Does he
want to play? His family are they supportive of him playing?
And also the people that have latched on to Tua
because all these pro athletes have a bunch of followers
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and people that ride their coat tails that make their
living as associates of the player writing for the brand,
latching on like leeches to suck money out of the
athlete's pocket. So all of those different factions will chime
in on this one and we will see where it goes.
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the Appalachian Mountains and the beaches of North Carolina. You've
got Charlotte where everyone is still yappin' and getting on
the bully pulpit. The fallout as we have our obligatory
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post mortem Malard monologue on the benching heard round the NFL.
Bryce Young, So you weren't following along because you actually
have a life and you don't pay attention to this
stuff all the time, like justin in Cincinnati, who's busy,
worried about other things. Perhaps you missed it. So we've
had several prominent and some who think they're prominent figures
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in the football media that have come out throwing haymakers
towards one person in particular involved in the Bryce Young
story that you would think it would be Bryce Young
because he's the one that's been terrible. But no, he
has been absolved of all wrongdoing. The focus of the
anger is in the ownership department. Now Ryan Leaf member him,
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knock it off. Ryan Leaf defended Bryce Young, shocking a
bust would defend a bust, and he said that it's
the Panthers organization that is the problem. Yeah, and if
Ryan Leaf had been drafted by the Patriots, he would
have turned out to be wonderful. Sure, yeah, that's the ticket. Well,
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Chad Johnson remember him? O Cho sinko. He ripped owner
David Tepper and said the benching of Bryce Young was
a bullshow. I will clean it up for the radio,
a bullshoy decision, adding, you don't do nobody like that.
That's the King's English. Former Colts coach Jeff Saturday. How
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funny is it say that? Former Colts coach Jeff Saturday?
He said it is an organizational failure. He then mentioned
David Tepper by name, said Tepper is the one the
bag should fall on him. Now, what kind of bag?
A bag of money, because he's got a lot of that,
a lot of money for David Tepper a lot of money.
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Guy's worth a gazillion dollars, well like twenty something billion
dollars or something like that. But hey, linea all right,
So let us discuss the popular angle by popular people
in the football media. I can go on and on here.
You get the point. Do you support the public bashing
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of owner David Tepper for the benching of Bryce Young
in Carolina? So I've got big rand, tender greens, and
nursery rhyme, and we will combine all of these things
together and we will get the final word. Hours from now,
we'll get the final word.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Burn.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
That's right now. Consuming media coverage, which is always a
dangerous thing. I'm not part of the mainstream media.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I do this overnight show and a weekend show on
television about gambling, which is not part of the mainstream.
But this media coverage over the top, right over the top.
It was a full on feeding frenzy, and it all
circled back to David Tepper. It was a full on dogpile.
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It's still continuing. I'm not going to sit here and
tell you I don't rubber deck. When there's an accident.
We all do it right. We all sit there, we
look at the accident. It was like, I mean, blood
on the street there, what's going on? We all look
at that. Now that aside, right, the Robert Baron is
not the person to blame in this little diddy. It's
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last I checked it. Maybe I'm wrong on this. I
don't watch every Carolina Panther game. How many plays did
David Tepper get out? He's sixty seven years old. He
just had a birthday last week, Happy birthday? Was he playing?
Maybe I missed it? And I apologize. I do apologize.
If he played and be the oldest quarterback in NFL
history at age sixty seven, that must be it, right.
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He must have gone out there and played, and it's
his fault and all that. The way I look at this,
and I guess I'm going to old school here. I
believe in accountability. Bryce Young has to wear this, he
has to own it. He has had multiple coaches who
have worked effortlessly to polish up a turd. That's what
they've done. Kid can't play right. The results are Bryce
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Young continues to be a blobfish. A very small blobfish,
but a blobfish. Now, how do we know this follow
the teachings of Big Red Andy Reid. One of the
things Andy Reid preaches is film don't lie right, film
don't lie.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Well.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
The videotape is ghastly. I fill down a rabbit hole.
I was like, I was watching some of this stuff,
and I was like, oh, man, I must be wrong.
I mean, maybe my eyes are lying to me, my
lying eyes here and it's not the players, it's everything
else around him. So I fell down this rabbit hole
on the YouTube, and I started watching clips and breakdowns,
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and I realized that Bryce Young has only two problems.
He's knee high to a grasshopper and he's got tunnel vision. Well,
a third problem would be pocket panic. That's also there.
But clip after clip showed many times open receivers, open
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receivers for the Panthers in which Bryce Young, and these
are in the games this year. Either did not see
them because he had pocket panic, couldn't get them the ball,
or he just checked down because why not. He's a
checkdown Charlie. And so he absolutely earned the reduction in
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right and has been guilty of the crime of being
an impostor. And we have some passionate fans of Bryce Young,
many of them also Alabama football fans. We had a
guy call up the other night, Van, the one legged
Bama man, who cursed on the air. He was so
passionate defending Bryce Young. Hours later, Bryce Young would be
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removed as the starting quarterback. But he's neutralized himself as
much as anybody. And that does not mean that it's
a great situation in Carolina. And David Tepper is a
wonderful owner and all that. None of those things change
the fact that Bryce Young has not shown any improvement,
no improvement. And this is not a charity. They don't
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They actually sell tickets. People actually invest the most important asset.
They have their time watching this crap. And why would
you continue to send that out? Why would you send
that impostor that's what he is, he's imposter. Send him
out there. He's neutralized himself, all right. Page two. Here
we go to Pittsburgh, which, by the way, David Tepper
used to own part of the Steelers. He's a Pittsburg
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Guy's a Yinser. Well, the Yinsers this weekend have a
date with the Chargers. Mike Tomlin was asked about something
that happened last week. We had to ask some audio
here we're gonna play. Mike Tomlin was asked about awarding
Russell Wilson a peddy game ball. We learned about that
from the other quarterback, mister Fields, who came out and
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announced that now they gave a petty game ball to
Russell Wilson because he played zero snaps and the Steelers
beat the Broncos because bow Nicks is bad at his job.
So Mike Tomlin listen to. Mike Tomlin asked the question
you'll hear. You'll hear his response here asked about the
petty game ball to Russell Wilson. Let's go to the
audio tape.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
You know, none of your businesses, respectfully, there's certain things
that go on among teams that I don't talk about.
Whether it gets out or how it gets out is
unimportant to me and overly guarded against it. But it's
just certain things as a leader that I talked to
the collective about that I have zero intentions of sharing
with the larger public because it's about our collective and
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how we come together and how we appreciate and support
one another. And you know, I can't give you all
the ingredients of the hot dog. You might not like it.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
So Tomlin revealing these are not kosher hot dogs? Can
you unravel? Can you unravel the Mike Tomlin quote you
just heard there about the petty game ball the money
quote that he's been bouncing around the echo chamber is
I can't give you all the ingredients of the hot dog.
You might not like it. So this obviously touched a
nerve with Mike Tomlin, and he referenced in the middle
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of that SoundBite he said.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
It doesn't he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I'm paraphrasing here, but he'sn't really mind that this got out.
He then tossed a button there and but is a
dead give it. It's a dead dear way that it
does bother him. He is annoyed by this, and he
likely had a conversation with Justin Fields. But tom His
is part of the conversation. He's double dipping. He's got
a side hustle, Mike Tomlin, He's working at tender Greens. Now,
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forget the macaroni or the Waldorf or the cob. Tomlin
is putting together a classic word salad is what he's doing. Now,
this is the new Pittsburgh salad. Now, I like the
Pittsburgh salad because they just put fries on top. It's
not as good as the Canadian salad, which is the poutine,
but the Pittsburgh salad add on some chopped up hot
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dogs on top. That's what Mike Tomlin was serving. This
was a polite way of him saying it's none of
your business. Stay in yond lane is essentially what Mike
Commlin said, but it is more evidence of the dichotomy
between what goes on in the public specter and what
goes on behind the gates of the big top in
the circus. All right, now, final point, speaking of the circus,
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Ben Roethlisberger, remember him, Yeah, he's still hanging around. He's
doing some podcast. Everyone's got a potgagt I even have one.
So Roethlisberger says that Justin Fields should be the Steelers
QB one, even when Russell Wilson is healthy enough to play,
and Fields will be starting this week against the Chargers
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in Pittsburgh. Have you seen enough? Here's the question for you.
Have you seen enough of Justin Fields two weeks in
to make that decision that he should be the quarterback
going forward? And I have no skin in the game here,
but I'm shaking my head now, I'm shaking my head. No,
this is a perplexing take. Methinks it is something personal.
There's some kind of rift that goes back to their
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playing days between Ben Roethlisberger and Russell Wilson. I'm not
sure exactly the history on that. Maybe you know something
I don't, but I have a feeling it goes back
to that the Steelers are two and oh. And while
that is true, two and oh is where you would
like to be. That is a byproduct of playing the
human statue of Kirk Cousins and bo Nicks Bo August.
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He was great in August, not so much in the
month of September. So Justin Fields, here is my scouting
report on Justin Field. So far he has been eh.
You don't get excited about eh. Right, you know he's eh.
And it really is like the nursery rhyme test. The
nursery rhyme test is simple. The wheels on the bus
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go round and round. The wheels on the bus go
round and round. He is a bus driver, No he's not.
He's a bus rider. You need a bus driver. He
is a bus rider. That's the problem, right, The wheels
on the bus, go round round, and he is He's
not the one driving the bus. He's riding the bus.
And what is my evidence? The Pittsburgh Steelers through two
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games have played Atlanta, likely a middling defense, and they
have played Denver, also not expected to be a top
ten defense in the NFL. The Steelers passing offense, out
of thirty two teams, is ranked thirtieth in the NFL.
That's not good enough. Oh, you're just being a hater.
You're a hater, okay, all right, you have low standards.
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You're a bad fan. That's fine. You can be a
bad fan, that's all right. The only teams that have
been worse passing the football this year are Carolina and Chicago. Period. Stop.
That's it. That's everyone else has been better. The Patriots
with Jacolby Brissett have a better passing offense than the
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Pittsburgh Steelers. And we got these dingle berries like Ben
Roethlisberger coming out so well, I would go with I
would go with fields he's done enough? In what world?
Has he done enough? Not the world I'm in, Maybe
your world, but not my world.
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Speaker 1 (26:45):
It's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
To the third degree, This is one big fan gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I'm guessing that Dennis Allen has heard as much of
Kendrick Lamar as I have. All Right, Cupolo, what do
we have here? Mallard of the third degree?
Speaker 7 (27:00):
It is being reported that Ryan Tannehill is being very
selective about his next NFL destination and if.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Lame jokes are on Friday, please come on. You gotta
wait till Friday.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
He says.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
If the right opportunity doesn't arise, I'll just as easily
not signed with anyone now. And do you think the
right opportunity will arise for Ryan Tannehill?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Oh, let's see, he has sucked for at least at
least two years. Nobody brought him to training camp. I'm
gonna go if the Dolphins didn't call him, then no,
the Dolphins are the perfect opportunity. They got stud wide receivers, playmakers,
a NERD coach that calls the xs and o's. Yeah,
(27:45):
you guys think at this point there's there's no comeback
for Tannehill that you can stick a forkid And he's gone.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
Next, if the New Orleans Saints are able to score
forty points against the Eagles in Week three, they'll be
only the third team in NFL history to accomplish that.
Scoring forty points in Week three are in three weeks
in a row. Ben, what odds do you give the
Saints on pulling this off?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Well, surprisingly, I give them decent odds. I was not
impressed at all with the Eagles defense. They don't get
pressure at all, and they certainly didn't against Atlanta. There's
some guys out for the Philadelphia Eagles, but the Eagles
defensively are ranked thirtieth in the NFL. So I know
it's only two games, small sample size, but that's all
we have to go with. So I've not been impressed
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at all with Philadelphia. So I think they actually have
a sixty five percent chance. How about that?
Speaker 7 (28:34):
Next, So, the Mets and the Braves are in a
virtual tie for the last wild card spot in the
NL been with a couple of weeks left in the
regular season. Who do you think ends up in the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Well, it's see by the process of eliminating the Atlanta
Braves have lost like their top five players, Like they're
all gone. They're all hurt, they're all gone. The Mets,
they're the healthier team and they've been playing. But I'm
gonna go with the Mets and just to break the
hearts of Mets fans when they lose, and they probably
will lose in the.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
First round of the class.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
But the Mets'll bake it. Brains will not. How did
we know you passed us?
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Edition?
Speaker 1 (29:07):
You can fudder on the board. Chuck Chang, chut change,
Chuck Chang.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I won.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
That's a winner.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
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Speaker 1 (29:28):
Is password, you idiot.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Password the word Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Meller.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
And the way we go on password. You didn't want
to mention that I was gonna give it this earlier.
We had the nonsense with some of these these wacky callers.
But there's a funny story. John Madden passed away a
couple of years ago, but they told the story. He
would be watching NFL games in his man cave and
he had all the coaches numbers, so he would like
call Andy Reid in the middle of a game he
(30:01):
was coaching to give him advice or ask him a
question while he was just like hanging out in northern California.
I love that story about Matt. What a what a goat,
what a legend. All right, let's get to it. We
welcome in JT. The Wingman on the road again. Hello, JT.
The wing man who's been to the last three, the
last three Malor meeting greets. Good morning to you, JT.
(30:23):
Three in a row. Let's put before Maybe.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
They are.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Nothing planned there, but stay tuned. I'll let you know
we're working on something. It's actually on my end that's
the problem. But I gotta get to the bottom of that,
all right, JT. Hold on, JT. The Wingman from Knoxville, Tennessee.
And we have Milkman Mike. Hello, Milkman.
Speaker 8 (30:47):
Bay, good morning from the Mile High City.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
All right, very good, gentlemen. Let's play the game. JT.
Who do you want to partner up with? You got
me Ben, Eddie, Coop or Lorena. Good job by you, JT.
How about you, melk Man Mike, who do you want
to partner up with? Milkman?
Speaker 7 (31:05):
Well, let's go with the winner. Let's go with Eddie.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Well, that would actually be a loser. That's the opposite.
I've got more game show wins all time than anyone
loss of Fox Sports Radio. All right, let's play the
game here. We have a list of words one to ten.
JT the wing man you were on first, Please pick
a number. I have to go with sumber three. Oh
(31:29):
you changed it up. I just assumed.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
You know what happens when you assume. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Please, there's a cough button. You don't need to clear
your throat on there.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Let's go with.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Rotate rotate R O T A T E rotate. Yeah,
all right, ten nothing you want to quit now? Any
you loser?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
What do you hug me?
Speaker 8 (31:57):
Because you're from I just want.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I got more content at it. That's why I got.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
Content afraid of competition.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
I'm not another loss for you. Next next up getting
shut out.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Number four?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Oh please, no, ship Eddie does not know this at all.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
Well, let's try a reverse Mallard maneuver.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Oh no, no, no.
Speaker 8 (32:21):
I don't know if you're gonna get this or not,
but I think it'll be interesting to try. Uh So,
here's the reverse malor maneuver.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Fact what yeah, my gosh, yes, that's double points.
Speaker 8 (32:38):
I agree right now.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Now that's not double points. You want to end the game.
Why Why would I corupt time? Why would I cop
it time? Alright, go ahead, Jake, come on, come on,
my wing man, come on, no bird.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
All right, let's see here.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Let's go with examination.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
No will.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Oh, Eddie's stumped. We stumped, we stumped at he's got nothing,
he's got nothing.
Speaker 8 (33:24):
Let's go. Let's go. Not reverse mala maneuver, but regular
mal maneuver.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
You're just using my.
Speaker 8 (33:29):
Material, regular malor maneuver.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Are you using my material? Here we go, pop pop, Yeah,
there's no cheering. Cheer? Why are you cheer? You're cheering?
Why were these two idiots cheers? That's not impressive.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
That was use, that was against you.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
That was my clue. This guy, I can't hurry up.
I want to take now number number number seven. No chance,
no chance, Oh my god, this.
Speaker 8 (34:09):
Is no way. All right, yeah, this is this was
a tough one.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
No, no malre we go, here we go, here we go.
Speaker 8 (34:24):
Contrast contrast.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Different. No, I've met J T.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
The wing man. He's very smart, very educated man.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
That's why he's been to the last three MALA meet
greets in Minnesota, in Charleston, and in all.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
We did one in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
How about uh differentiate? Wow, jeez, I got dumber.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
God Eddie.
Speaker 8 (35:03):
How about what is that? He said? Opposite? How about analyze?
Speaker 9 (35:14):
No, I got one, I got about jucks, I got nothing.
Juxtapose see it again, Yeah, you're not gonna get it.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Juxtapose.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Now, the word was compare. You're looking for the word compare.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
This means that means Eddie. Cheeah. So I went again.
It's not your manu, it's the Malleur move.
Speaker 8 (35:45):
It's not think everyone for everyone. It's the world.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
I have the trademark. My name's on it.
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We are just two weeks into the NFL season, already
the finger pointing it has begun well come in the
beginning of another night of the Ben Mahlor Show. We
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Our lead this hour from the world. We all live
in the world, the magical, mystical place though a little
(02:04):
neighborhood called Jerry's World. Oh yeah, high drama. After the
Cowboys were eviscerated by the Saints. That's not very nice,
Micah Parsons. Now he chose to not tow the company line.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Michaeh.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Parsons, What did he do? He did not bite his tongue. No,
and that makes for good talk radio. So if you
heard this, you know where I'm going. But maybe not so.
Michah Parsons, the face of the Cowboys defense. Michah Parsons.
He said recently following the loss to the New Orleans
football team that it wasn't a scheme issue, that this
(02:43):
was not a coaching situation where Mike Zimmer, the old
Viking coach who's back in Dallas as the defensive coordinator
that he screwed up. Parsons claimed that the coaching staff
called a pretty good game. That's what he said. Now,
Micah believed that the Dallas defense quote just got out played.
Quote continues. He said, everyone didn't play to one hundred
(03:06):
percent close. Quote. Now, how do you think that went
over inside the walls of Jerry's world? Yeah? Not not good.
So you had both coach Mike McCarthy and defensive corterator
Mike Zimmer disagree wholeheartedly, not just partially wholeheartedly disagree, a
(03:29):
full throated disagreement to Mike and Parson's assessment of what
went wrong. So the finger pointing is underweight.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Zimmer specifically highlighted the Saints' offense just being quicker off
the snap than the Dallas defense, but did not believe
that the effort was the problem. Mike McCarthy had similar comments.
So let us discuss you've got to, he said, he said,
He said, situation. You got Mike Zimmer and Mike McCarthy
on one side of the room, and there's a great divide,
(03:57):
and then the other side of the room you've got
Micah Parsons, who's in disagreement on what went wrong for
Dallas to get blown off the field by a mediocre
Saints team. So whose side are you on? Whose side
are you on? I've got X's and O's, Bible, Old
Maid and Manatee and we will combine all of these
(04:23):
things together and provide you in audio lifeline. So a
these scales now, I used the Malord scale of truth, justice,
and the sports talk radio way for this, and the
scales are leaning heavily in the direction of Micah Parsons.
That's who we side with. We stand with the player.
We stand with Micah Parsons, unfiltered against the better judgment
(04:48):
of the Dallas Cowboys PR department. But the Cowboys provided
a rather unpleasant stench on the field, and in large
part not because they're not as talented as the Saints
or even more talented. They just didn't play with the
proper amount of effort. They did not play hard. It
(05:09):
was Ernest Hemingway who said, never confused movement with action.
The Cowboys had movement, there just wasn't much action there
Dallas defenders when I was slipping this game, and then
it was Alvin Kamara running through the Cowboy defense. Dallas
defenders were essentially running. They were running from the grind,
(05:30):
is what they were doing. Over the years, I have
had many coaches in the world of football and basketball
in particular, not so much baseball, but mostly in basketball
and mostly in baseball who have told me that the
margins are so thin in the industrial complex of their
wing of professional sports that if you merely work hard,
(05:53):
you will have a shot in every game.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
That talent is wonderful to the currency of professional sports,
but all it does is give you a head start.
You still have to work and put the work in
and all that stuff, and if you don't, the hard
work will end up beating the talent when the talent lolligags.
And there was a whole lot of lolligag You know.
(06:18):
I understand the side of Mike McCarthy and Mike Zimmer.
While they're wrong, they're lying. I don't believe they're telling
the truth. Zimmer and McCarthy cannot under any means say
the Cowboys didn't play hard. Can't do it. It's verboten right,
It's against the teachings of the X's and o's Bible
of coaching. The x's and o's bible of coaching. It
(06:38):
is a forbidden taboo. It is lack of effort and
hustle is a direct indictment of the coaching staff. It
is a reflection of their work that they are not
able to provide the proper smelling salts to get the
team ready to play. That the simple root of sport,
playing with max effort, which does not require athletic ability.
(07:02):
You don't have to have athletic ability to play hard.
You're not allowed to say as a coach your team
didn't play hard, because that is a green light to
fire the coach when you say that. All right, now,
staying with the Cowboys, page two, Here Jerry Jones on
his weekly radio show, Jerr said that Mike McCarthy's lame
(07:22):
duck status quack black black, wack black, why his lame
duck status did not did not impact the Cowboys and
that blowout loss to the Saints over the weekend. What
is your reaction to the comments by mister Jones? So, Jerry,
on this one, he's playing a game called old Maid,
(07:44):
which is appropriate's old bar game.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Old Maid.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Calling a spade a spade, it is impossible to argue
that would be great better talk radio be much more
interesting to say, Ah, Jerry's blowing smoke here. McCarthy is
not going to feel real heat until the Cowboys are
in the playoffs, or if they even missed the playoffs, well,
then he'll lose the locker room. He won't be around,
(08:07):
he'll be fired. But McCarthy's worked for a bunch of
different teams. You're a football nomad in that world.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Each year.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
It's like shuffling the deck of cards at a casino, right,
you reshuffle the deck and Jerry Jones. He also suggested
that he is fine with going through some trials and tribulations.
The struggle is real for Jerry and Jerry's world as
long as it's during the regular season if it means
better at playoff results. Clearly thinking there's some kind of
(08:34):
correlation causation situation. However, we know because we're adult, correlation
does not imply causation. The other problem with that is
the Cowboys spoiler alert, spoiler alert, have been blown off
the field in games the last couple of years. They
have had no show performances in multiple games over recent seasons,
(08:56):
so it's not like they're trading it's like, you know,
exchanged something. I go to Costco. I had some bread
we bought that was covered in mold the next day,
so I.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Gave it back.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I don't need the bread anymore, and I exchanged it
for a new loaf of sour dough bread. That was
the exchange that was made. But you don't exchange. It's
not a one for one exchange, right Like it's like, yeah,
you say, okay, we sucked in the We're gonna suck
some games the regular season. We're gonna be great in
the plays. Well, the Cowboys have sucked in games during
the regular season, and yeah they've sucked. Real talk. They've
(09:27):
sucked in the playoffs. Also, they've thrown in the sponge
like they did against the Green Bay Packers, although they
did get Jordan Love paid and even Dak Prescott got paid.
Everyone gets paid, all right? Last word, malochow. Follow up,
We go to Miami. Can you give me the update
the latest information on to a tongue of eyelawa right now?
(09:49):
How do you categorize the news that came out that
Tua has officially been placed on the Dolphins injured reserve
That it's it's it's on there was some The right
word is floundering, but there was some indecision. It did
not happen immediately, but it has happened. So how do
(10:10):
you categorize to a talking about low officially going on
the Dolphins injured reserve. So this is a book keeping move,
This is a clerical move. Miami officials, all right, and
both sides, everyone's kind of moving slowly here. No one's
in a rush, right, Tua's posse, Miami's front office. They
(10:30):
might be called the Dolphins, but on this one they're
the manatees.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
They're the sea cows, is what they are. They're not
fast dolphins spinning around. No, no, no, now, these are sea cows.
That's a manatee of insanity, is what it is, which
is also one of my nicknames. Slowly moving along as
they contemplate the next move. And you got a lot
of cooks in the kitchen, a lot of people that
(10:56):
got a finger in the pie. You've got the medical people,
the league department, football ops on the Miami side, and
then on the Tua side, you've got Tua. Does he
want to play? His family are they supportive of him playing?
And also the people that have latched on to Tua
because all these pro athletes have a bunch of followers
(11:18):
and people that ride their coat tails that make their
living as associates of the player writing for the brand,
latching on like leeches to suck money out of the
athlete's pocket. So all of those different factions will chime
in on this one and we will see where it goes.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
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To, and that's why we have a brand new podcast
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in our two hour show. We never get to everything, honestly,
because this guy is over promising things we never have
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Well you know what it's called over promise. You should
be good at it because you've been over promising women
for years.
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of the South. Do you know what the banking capital
of the South is? No, it is not Atlanta. That
is incorrect. That is right right there, beautifully placed between
the Appalachian Mountains and the beaches of North Carolina. You've
got Charlotte where everyone is still yappin' and getting on
the bully pulpit. The fallout as we have our obligatory
(14:26):
post mortem Malard monologue on the benching heard round the NFL.
Bryce Young, So you weren't following along because you actually
have a life and you don't pay attention to this
stuff all the time, like justin in Cincinnati, who's busy,
worried about other things. Perhaps you missed it. So we've
had several prominent and some who think they're prominent figures
(14:47):
in the football media that have come out throwing haymakers
towards one person in particular involved in the Bryce Young
story that you would think it would be Bryce Young
because he's the one that's been terrible. But no, he
has been absolved of all wrongdoing. The focus of the
anger is in the ownership department. Now Ryan Leaf member him,
(15:12):
knock it off. Ryan Leaf defended Bryce Young, shocking a
bust would defend a bust, and he said that it's
the Panthers organization that is the problem. Yeah, and if
Ryan Leaf had been drafted by the Patriots, he would
have turned out to be wonderful. Sure, yeah, that's the ticket. Well,
(15:34):
Chad Johnson remember him? O Cho sinko. He ripped owner
David Tepper and said the benching of Bryce Young was
a bullshow. I will clean it up for the radio,
a bullshoy decision, adding, you don't do nobody like that.
That's the King's English. Former Colts coach Jeff Saturday. How
(15:55):
funny is it say that? Former Colts coach Jeff Saturday?
He said it is an organizational failure. He then mentioned
David Tepper by name, said Tepper is the one the
bag should fall on him. Now, what kind of bag?
A bag of money, because he's got a lot of that,
a lot of money for David Tepper a lot of money.
(16:19):
Guy's worth a gazillion dollars, well like twenty something billion
dollars or something like that. But hey, linea all right,
So let us discuss the popular angle by popular people
in the football media. I can go on and on here.
You get the point. Do you support the public bashing
(16:41):
of owner David Tepper for the benching of Bryce Young
in Carolina? So I've got big rand, tender greens, and
nursery rhyme, and we will combine all of these things
together and we will get the final word. Hours from now,
we'll get the final word.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Burn.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
That's right now. Consuming media coverage, which is always a
dangerous thing. I'm not part of the mainstream media.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I do this overnight show and a weekend show on
television about gambling, which is not part of the mainstream.
But this media coverage over the top, right over the top.
It was a full on feeding frenzy, and it all
circled back to David Tepper. It was a full on dogpile.
(17:31):
It's still continuing. I'm not going to sit here and
tell you I don't rubber deck. When there's an accident.
We all do it right. We all sit there, we
look at the accident. It was like, I mean, blood
on the street there, what's going on? We all look
at that. Now that aside, right, the Robert Baron is
not the person to blame in this little diddy. It's
(17:54):
last I checked it. Maybe I'm wrong on this. I
don't watch every Carolina Panther game. How many plays did
David Tepper get out? He's sixty seven years old. He
just had a birthday last week, Happy birthday? Was he playing?
Maybe I missed it? And I apologize. I do apologize.
If he played and be the oldest quarterback in NFL
history at age sixty seven, that must be it, right.
(18:16):
He must have gone out there and played, and it's
his fault and all that. The way I look at this,
and I guess I'm going to old school here. I
believe in accountability. Bryce Young has to wear this, he
has to own it. He has had multiple coaches who
have worked effortlessly to polish up a turd. That's what
they've done. Kid can't play right. The results are Bryce
(18:40):
Young continues to be a blobfish. A very small blobfish,
but a blobfish. Now, how do we know this follow
the teachings of Big Red Andy Reid. One of the
things Andy Reid preaches is film don't lie right, film
don't lie.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Well.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
The videotape is ghastly. I fill down a rabbit hole.
I was like, I was watching some of this stuff,
and I was like, oh, man, I must be wrong.
I mean, maybe my eyes are lying to me, my
lying eyes here and it's not the players, it's everything
else around him. So I fell down this rabbit hole
on the YouTube, and I started watching clips and breakdowns,
(19:19):
and I realized that Bryce Young has only two problems.
He's knee high to a grasshopper and he's got tunnel vision. Well,
a third problem would be pocket panic. That's also there.
But clip after clip showed many times open receivers, open
(19:39):
receivers for the Panthers in which Bryce Young, and these
are in the games this year. Either did not see
them because he had pocket panic, couldn't get them the ball,
or he just checked down because why not. He's a
checkdown Charlie. And so he absolutely earned the reduction in
(19:59):
right and has been guilty of the crime of being
an impostor. And we have some passionate fans of Bryce Young,
many of them also Alabama football fans. We had a
guy call up the other night, Van, the one legged
Bama man, who cursed on the air. He was so
passionate defending Bryce Young. Hours later, Bryce Young would be
(20:22):
removed as the starting quarterback. But he's neutralized himself as
much as anybody. And that does not mean that it's
a great situation in Carolina. And David Tepper is a
wonderful owner and all that. None of those things change
the fact that Bryce Young has not shown any improvement,
no improvement. And this is not a charity. They don't
(20:46):
They actually sell tickets. People actually invest the most important asset.
They have their time watching this crap. And why would
you continue to send that out? Why would you send
that impostor that's what he is, he's imposter. Send him
out there. He's neutralized himself, all right. Page two. Here
we go to Pittsburgh, which, by the way, David Tepper
used to own part of the Steelers. He's a Pittsburg
(21:07):
Guy's a Yinser. Well, the Yinsers this weekend have a
date with the Chargers. Mike Tomlin was asked about something
that happened last week. We had to ask some audio
here we're gonna play. Mike Tomlin was asked about awarding
Russell Wilson a peddy game ball. We learned about that
from the other quarterback, mister Fields, who came out and
(21:28):
announced that now they gave a petty game ball to
Russell Wilson because he played zero snaps and the Steelers
beat the Broncos because bow Nicks is bad at his job.
So Mike Tomlin listen to. Mike Tomlin asked the question
you'll hear. You'll hear his response here asked about the
petty game ball to Russell Wilson. Let's go to the
audio tape.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
You know, none of your businesses, respectfully, there's certain things
that go on among teams that I don't talk about.
Whether it gets out or how it gets out is
unimportant to me and overly guarded against it. But it's
just certain things as a leader that I talked to
the collective about that I have zero intentions of sharing
with the larger public because it's about our collective and
(22:10):
how we come together and how we appreciate and support
one another. And you know, I can't give you all
the ingredients of the hot dog. You might not like it.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
So Tomlin revealing these are not kosher hot dogs? Can
you unravel? Can you unravel the Mike Tomlin quote you
just heard there about the petty game ball the money
quote that he's been bouncing around the echo chamber is
I can't give you all the ingredients of the hot dog.
You might not like it. So this obviously touched a
nerve with Mike Tomlin, and he referenced in the middle
(22:43):
of that SoundBite he said.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
It doesn't he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I'm paraphrasing here, but he'sn't really mind that this got out.
He then tossed a button there and but is a
dead give it. It's a dead dear way that it
does bother him. He is annoyed by this, and he
likely had a conversation with Justin Fields. But tom His
is part of the conversation. He's double dipping. He's got
a side hustle, Mike Tomlin, He's working at tender Greens. Now,
(23:09):
forget the macaroni or the Waldorf or the cob. Tomlin
is putting together a classic word salad is what he's doing. Now,
this is the new Pittsburgh salad. Now, I like the
Pittsburgh salad because they just put fries on top. It's
not as good as the Canadian salad, which is the poutine,
but the Pittsburgh salad add on some chopped up hot
(23:29):
dogs on top. That's what Mike Tomlin was serving. This
was a polite way of him saying it's none of
your business. Stay in yond lane is essentially what Mike
Commlin said, but it is more evidence of the dichotomy
between what goes on in the public specter and what
goes on behind the gates of the big top in
the circus. All right, now, final point, speaking of the circus,
(23:53):
Ben Roethlisberger, remember him, Yeah, he's still hanging around. He's
doing some podcast. Everyone's got a potgagt I even have one.
So Roethlisberger says that Justin Fields should be the Steelers
QB one, even when Russell Wilson is healthy enough to play,
and Fields will be starting this week against the Chargers
(24:15):
in Pittsburgh. Have you seen enough? Here's the question for you.
Have you seen enough of Justin Fields two weeks in
to make that decision that he should be the quarterback
going forward? And I have no skin in the game here,
but I'm shaking my head now, I'm shaking my head. No,
this is a perplexing take. Methinks it is something personal.
There's some kind of rift that goes back to their
(24:36):
playing days between Ben Roethlisberger and Russell Wilson. I'm not
sure exactly the history on that. Maybe you know something
I don't, but I have a feeling it goes back
to that the Steelers are two and oh. And while
that is true, two and oh is where you would
like to be. That is a byproduct of playing the
human statue of Kirk Cousins and bo Nicks Bo August.
(25:00):
He was great in August, not so much in the
month of September. So Justin Fields, here is my scouting
report on Justin Field. So far he has been eh.
You don't get excited about eh. Right, you know he's eh.
And it really is like the nursery rhyme test. The
nursery rhyme test is simple. The wheels on the bus
(25:21):
go round and round. The wheels on the bus go
round and round. He is a bus driver, No he's not.
He's a bus rider. You need a bus driver. He
is a bus rider. That's the problem, right, The wheels
on the bus, go round round, and he is He's
not the one driving the bus. He's riding the bus.
And what is my evidence? The Pittsburgh Steelers through two
(25:43):
games have played Atlanta, likely a middling defense, and they
have played Denver, also not expected to be a top
ten defense in the NFL. The Steelers passing offense, out
of thirty two teams, is ranked thirtieth in the NFL.
That's not good enough. Oh, you're just being a hater.
You're a hater, okay, all right, you have low standards.
(26:03):
You're a bad fan. That's fine. You can be a
bad fan, that's all right. The only teams that have
been worse passing the football this year are Carolina and Chicago. Period. Stop.
That's it. That's everyone else has been better. The Patriots
with Jacolby Brissett have a better passing offense than the
(26:24):
Pittsburgh Steelers. And we got these dingle berries like Ben
Roethlisberger coming out so well, I would go with I
would go with fields he's done enough? In what world?
Has he done enough? Not the world I'm in, Maybe
your world, but not my world.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
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Speaker 1 (26:45):
It's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
To the third degree, This is one big fan gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I'm guessing that Dennis Allen has heard as much of
Kendrick Lamar as I have. All Right, Cupolo, what do
we have here? Mallard of the third degree?
Speaker 7 (27:00):
It is being reported that Ryan Tannehill is being very
selective about his next NFL destination and if.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Lame jokes are on Friday, please come on. You gotta
wait till Friday.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
He says.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
If the right opportunity doesn't arise, I'll just as easily
not signed with anyone now. And do you think the
right opportunity will arise for Ryan Tannehill?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Oh, let's see, he has sucked for at least at
least two years. Nobody brought him to training camp. I'm
gonna go if the Dolphins didn't call him, then no,
the Dolphins are the perfect opportunity. They got stud wide receivers, playmakers,
a NERD coach that calls the xs and o's. Yeah,
(27:45):
you guys think at this point there's there's no comeback
for Tannehill that you can stick a forkid And he's gone.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
Next, if the New Orleans Saints are able to score
forty points against the Eagles in Week three, they'll be
only the third team in NFL history to accomplish that.
Scoring forty points in Week three are in three weeks
in a row. Ben, what odds do you give the
Saints on pulling this off?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Well, surprisingly, I give them decent odds. I was not
impressed at all with the Eagles defense. They don't get
pressure at all, and they certainly didn't against Atlanta. There's
some guys out for the Philadelphia Eagles, but the Eagles
defensively are ranked thirtieth in the NFL. So I know
it's only two games, small sample size, but that's all
we have to go with. So I've not been impressed
(28:28):
at all with Philadelphia. So I think they actually have
a sixty five percent chance. How about that?
Speaker 7 (28:34):
Next, So, the Mets and the Braves are in a
virtual tie for the last wild card spot in the
NL been with a couple of weeks left in the
regular season. Who do you think ends up in the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Well, it's see by the process of eliminating the Atlanta
Braves have lost like their top five players, Like they're
all gone. They're all hurt, they're all gone. The Mets,
they're the healthier team and they've been playing. But I'm
gonna go with the Mets and just to break the
hearts of Mets fans when they lose, and they probably
will lose in the.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
First round of the class.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
But the Mets'll bake it. Brains will not. How did
we know you passed us?
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Edition?
Speaker 1 (29:07):
You can fudder on the board. Chuck Chang, chut change,
Chuck Chang.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I won.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
That's a winner.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
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the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio
dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to
listen live. Attention everyone, and the password.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Is password, you idiot.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Password the word Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Meller.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
And the way we go on password. You didn't want
to mention that I was gonna give it this earlier.
We had the nonsense with some of these these wacky callers.
But there's a funny story. John Madden passed away a
couple of years ago, but they told the story. He
would be watching NFL games in his man cave and
he had all the coaches numbers, so he would like
call Andy Reid in the middle of a game he
(30:01):
was coaching to give him advice or ask him a
question while he was just like hanging out in northern California.
I love that story about Matt. What a what a goat,
what a legend. All right, let's get to it. We
welcome in JT. The Wingman on the road again. Hello, JT.
The wing man who's been to the last three, the
last three Malor meeting greets. Good morning to you, JT.
(30:23):
Three in a row. Let's put before Maybe.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
They are.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Nothing planned there, but stay tuned. I'll let you know
we're working on something. It's actually on my end that's
the problem. But I gotta get to the bottom of that,
all right, JT. Hold on, JT. The Wingman from Knoxville, Tennessee.
And we have Milkman Mike. Hello, Milkman.
Speaker 8 (30:47):
Bay, good morning from the Mile High City.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
All right, very good, gentlemen. Let's play the game. JT.
Who do you want to partner up with? You got
me Ben, Eddie, Coop or Lorena. Good job by you, JT.
How about you, melk Man Mike, who do you want
to partner up with? Milkman?
Speaker 7 (31:05):
Well, let's go with the winner. Let's go with Eddie.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Well, that would actually be a loser. That's the opposite.
I've got more game show wins all time than anyone
loss of Fox Sports Radio. All right, let's play the
game here. We have a list of words one to ten.
JT the wing man you were on first, Please pick
a number. I have to go with sumber three. Oh
(31:29):
you changed it up. I just assumed.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
You know what happens when you assume. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Please, there's a cough button. You don't need to clear
your throat on there.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Let's go with.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Rotate rotate R O T A T E rotate. Yeah,
all right, ten nothing you want to quit now? Any
you loser?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
What do you hug me?
Speaker 8 (31:57):
Because you're from I just want.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I got more content at it. That's why I got.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
Content afraid of competition.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
I'm not another loss for you. Next next up getting
shut out.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Number four?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Oh please, no, ship Eddie does not know this at all.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
Well, let's try a reverse Mallard maneuver.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Oh no, no, no.
Speaker 8 (32:21):
I don't know if you're gonna get this or not,
but I think it'll be interesting to try. Uh So,
here's the reverse malor maneuver.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Fact what yeah, my gosh, yes, that's double points.
Speaker 8 (32:38):
I agree right now.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Now that's not double points. You want to end the game.
Why Why would I corupt time? Why would I cop
it time? Alright, go ahead, Jake, come on, come on,
my wing man, come on, no bird.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
All right, let's see here.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Let's go with examination.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
No will.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Oh, Eddie's stumped. We stumped, we stumped at he's got nothing,
he's got nothing.
Speaker 8 (33:24):
Let's go. Let's go. Not reverse mala maneuver, but regular
mal maneuver.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
You're just using my.
Speaker 8 (33:29):
Material, regular malor maneuver.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Are you using my material? Here we go, pop pop, Yeah,
there's no cheering. Cheer? Why are you cheer? You're cheering?
Why were these two idiots cheers? That's not impressive.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
That was use, that was against you.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
That was my clue. This guy, I can't hurry up.
I want to take now number number number seven. No chance,
no chance, Oh my god, this.
Speaker 8 (34:09):
Is no way. All right, yeah, this is this was
a tough one.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
No, no malre we go, here we go, here we go.
Speaker 8 (34:24):
Contrast contrast.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Different. No, I've met J T.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
The wing man. He's very smart, very educated man.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
That's why he's been to the last three MALA meet
greets in Minnesota, in Charleston, and in all.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
We did one in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
How about uh differentiate? Wow, jeez, I got dumber.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
God Eddie.
Speaker 8 (35:03):
How about what is that? He said? Opposite? How about analyze?
Speaker 9 (35:14):
No, I got one, I got about jucks, I got nothing.
Juxtapose see it again, Yeah, you're not gonna get it.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Juxtapose.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Now, the word was compare. You're looking for the word compare.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
This means that means Eddie. Cheeah. So I went again.
It's not your manu, it's the Malleur move.
Speaker 8 (35:45):
It's not think everyone for everyone. It's the world.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
I have the trademark. My name's on it.
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