September 24, 2024 • 36 mins
Big Ben talks about Joe Burrow and the Bengals falling to 0-3 with a loss to the Commanders, Trevor Lawrence and the Jaguars also going 0-3 with their loss to the Bills, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Nas Edition, and more!
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Hell to victory? What kind of Yeah? I'm glad that
the imagery department we said we need new music. You
can't play that ditty stuff anymore. And this is what
they came up with. Really, really, who wrote this song?
Can they go to jail too? Can they go?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
We don't even know who wrote this song? Anyway, Welcome in.
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This hour is from the Natty the scene of the
main event on Monday Night football. You had the Fox refugees,
Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. They were there hanging out
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Joe Burrow's Club, a massive, massive favorite, expected to dominate,
get in the win column, put on a happ beat dance.
They were big time favorites over the Commanders in that
game on Monday Night. Now, I don't know if you
saw it or not. We had two games. Two games, now,
why not just stagger the games? That one started about
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forty minutes before the other. That would be the Bills
Jaguars game. Fortunately, Jacksonville decided not to show up to
that game, so we could focus in on the Cincinnati
Washington game. But it was a night that was stolen
by Jaden Daniels, who upstaged his fellow LSU comrade Joe Burrow.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
He threw not one, but two touchdowns. We had a
fat guy touchdown. Fat guy touchdown first, Jaden Daniels touchdown
to a fat guy one of his offensive linemen. If
he actually turns out to be as good as people
think he's gonna be, It's one of those great who
am I game questions? Who caught the first touchdown for
Jaden Daniels, But he also ran for a score and
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did a little bit of this, a little bit of that.
The whole thing a historical performance for Jaden Daniels, the
Washington football team, leaving the Bengals stunned, dazed, confused, thirty
eight to thirty three. The final Jayden Daniels twenty one
of thirty three. If you like stat humping, that's really good.
Two hundred and fifty four yards an NFL rookie record
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for a completion percentage of over ninety percent, ninety one
point three on the FM dial, ninety one point three.
So the Commanders at two and one, they scored on
every possession except when they kneeled down. You can't score
when you kneel down at the end of each half.
And they have not punted now in the past two games,
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and they have not turned the ball over in the
past two games. Now, I didn't play in the NFL,
but I think that's a recipe for success. But what
do I know now? Neither Washington or Cincinnati, either one
of these teams punted or turned the ball over collectively.
We're told by the nerds it's the first time that's
ever happened in the Super Bowl era, the modern era
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of the NFL. But the better story, the better story,
is in the losing locker room. So let us discuss
the question. All right, are you prepared to write the
eulogy for Joe Burrows twenty twenty four Bengals? They sit
zero to three. Historically, the odds are against them based
on what has happened, not what's going to happen. So
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I've got Dandy Don Monster Mash and fra Did Flakes,
and we will combine all of these things together, and
we are going to slide on in deeper into your
ear drums, is what we're going to do. So Ay
to answer the question, are you prepared to write the
eulogy for Joe Burrow's twenty twenty four Bengals, I am
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nodding my head. Yes, I am nodding my head, yes, yes,
And I don't want to do it. I like Burrow.
You know that I'm a Burrow sick of pant and
all that, but I am a realist here. I hope
I'm wrong. However, however, the mantra on this show, what
are the many mantras that we have here late at night,
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is the never ending battle. I stole this from a
cartoon character, the never ending battle for truth, justice, and
the sports talk radio way. That's exactly what Superman taught
me when I was a kid. And we can all agree,
every man, woman and child can agree that you are
not allowed more than one really snink bomb loss? Can
we read on that like every team's gonna lose a game.
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You're like, ah, crap, why they lose? That's embarrassing. You
get one of those what the Bengals have done in
the first month of the season is impossible. It was
unimaginable if I told you this before the season. It's
unthinkable that it's happened. They have picked up the double whammy.
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They have the double whammy. They lost at home to
Jacoby Brissett and the Patsys. They lost to the Patriots
in week one. Okay, well, okay, you'll forgive them, but
they can't have another bad loss. And here we are tada.
They have lost to the Commanders. Now you might think
Washington's gonna have a good team, and they're off to
a good start two wins. They beat the Giants, which
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is hardly impressive win. But all of that for Cincinnati
coming in the first month of the season, you don't
come back from that. That's good evening and good night
is what that is. Forget even good afternoon. The ghost
of Dandy Don is warming up somewhere right turn out
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the last the parties over Cincinnati is porked. They're cooked,
however you want to say it, whatever you want to
use to describe it. At this moment in time, the
ben Gals are dun Skies. They're back to be in
the bungles. And do we still love Joe Brow Sure
does that matter? No, it doesn't matter. I don't see
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a scenario at this moment, based on the way they're
playing right now today, that that is a playoff team. Oh,
that's an outrageous take. No, it's not all right now.
Page two. Here why the question of why why why
are the ben Gals in the ditch along the side
of the NFL road at this point after three weeks
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and my theory on this and I cook this up
on the long drive from the north Woods here to
the mothership, and I want to thank management for making
sure that I have that long drive from the mothership
here into the mothership. But Cincinnati their problem. Now, they
got a lot of problems, but the big one is
the monster Mash. We're gonna call it the green Eyed Monster.
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That's the problem. Under attack, under siege by the green
Eyed Monster because they made a strategic decision. This is
one of those deals. I was talking to the Saga
in the hallways here, saw him passing like ships in
the night. That it's you're damned if you do, you're
damned if you don't. Because some of these teams have
paid their players, like the Cowboys, Dak Prescott blows right,
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we know that not a big game guy. Now, just
looked terrible last couple weeks. Fine got some garbage time stats,
so people that don't watch the games think he's better
than he is. But Cincinnati went the other way. I
we're not paying anybody, and so t Higgins he's playing,
but he didn't get the extension. Jamar Chase playing didn't
get massive extension. Pretty much everyone got paid. Everyone around
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the NFL got paid. Even turds like Trevor Lawrence got paid, right,
he sucks. He got paid for some reason. He must
have compromising photos of Shad Khan, the owner. I don't know,
but the Bengal said, now we're gonna draw a line
in the mud, is what we're gonna do. We're not
paying anybody. So you started out with Higgins and Chase bitter,
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had that bitter beer face on offense. But you mix
in a defensive star, Trey Hendrickson, who also requested a
trade out of Dodge. He wanted to get out of Dodge,
and he's on the defensive side, and everything starts bubbling up. Resentment,
bad vibrations, all of that, and so you have a quagmire. Now,
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for instance, Adnati. Nobody is going to confuse, not a
single person is going to confuse Zach Taylor as the
second coming of Vince Lombardi. So he's the head coach,
and he's got he's always got this kind of I
don't know what's going on here, he's got that kind
of look. But then you look at the defensive coordinator
and you've got Lou and a Removemo. What's his name, Mumo?
(10:02):
That's not his name. What's his name, Coop? You guys name?
Coop has no idea the defensive coordinator for the Bengals.
Coop is looking it up right now. Uh, Martin has it.
Martin has it. What's his name? Martin? Lou and a
Rumo and a Rumo. That's a weird name. The reason
I know his name Martin heard that name, I know
I would I would fire his if I own the Bengals,
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I would fire him, is what I would do after
that performance. But I don't think he's in Ex's and
O's with it. One thing about the broadcasters, though, I've noticed,
they're all friends with the coaches, so they don't criticize anybody.
Every time I watch an NFL games, it's like it
doesn't matter. There could be a toxic cloud billowing of
smoke up from the coaches room, and everything's great. These
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guys are wonderful, they're they're just great and all that stuff.
But we have now I did the math. We have
forty three shopping days left till the trade deadline. It's
on November fifth, is the trade deadline. And since and
that he's in business here, they keep going like this
and they don't want to pay anybody. Why wouldn't they
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trade one of these cats that are available right now?
Jamar Chase, who knows. I don't even know if they
can trade t Higgins because of the salary cap stuff,
and he's on the franchise tag. But there are players
available if you want. They're in the display case there
in Cincinnati. Our last word here, So we go to
the winning locker room. Not the better story, but we
go to the winning locker room. And how would you
describe Jaden Daniels and his performance for the Commanders. So
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you know, normally we have the Malor report card, but
there's no reason to even bother with the Malor report
card because it was picture perfect, it was impeccable and
very rarely do you see an unblemished performance. But that
was what I watched. It was great. It's like he
was back at LSU playing Vanderbilt or something like that.
My god, good for him. It was a frosted Flakes
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type performance. And you watch the box score. You look
at the game, you're like, oh, man, those numbers, it's
like Tony the Tiger. They're great. And they were, and
that is a snapshot on what the future could hold. Now,
this does not just budge the needle. The performance of
Jaden dangles, It moves mountains. Right. That's must see TV.
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If he can recreate that. Of course, the key is
you have to do that consistently right most of the time.
That's the difference between being just good occasionally and then
being Baffosaco and a franchise quarterback. And but man alive,
that was. That was great. I would advise the owner
of the Washington football team to get rid of the
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dumb Commanders placeholder nickname. Get a real nickname. If you
do have a real quarterback, you want to get a
real nickname. And you look at the Washington Commanders. Here
dumb name, but they're two and one and they've got
Arizona beatable opponent. It's in Arizona. But Cardinals can lose
every game. They win most games, so they can lose
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them too, So that's it's awesome. Then you play the
creepy quarterback Deshaun Watson after that, so those are Cleveland,
Come on back up, I should win those games. So
now you're sitting in four and one, and at four
and one you start daydreaming. The other thing. You look
at the collateral damage from Jaden Daniels putting up a
Mona Lisa performance like this on Monday Night football with
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everyone watching in Chicago. You've got Caleb Williams who is
not putting up Mona Lisa performance this year, and so
you're gonna have the finger biting and all that, people pointing.
What's going on? I don't understand. How come he's not
playing like this other guy And we had the number
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one pick we passed over Jayden Dancer. This guy, what's
up with that?
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The way tire bond should be. I know Derek the
Bill's Monster, and Andy the comic book guy in Felexus
and all the Bills Mafia people all excited. They're all giddy,
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raw Raw. What an easy night, No anxiety in one
of those games. If you're you had Buffalo, and I
picked Buffalo for the TV show, I had no concern.
I was bored. I was waiting for the other game
to start. That game was over, the Bills Jacksonville game
over by the time the second Monday night game started.
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In terms of competition, but early. This hour is from
Orchard Park, New York as a Monday night football double dip.
The undercard, not the main event, not the main event.
In the undercard had Josh Allen and the majestic Buffalo
Bill offense. He threw four touchdowns. If you watched it,
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you notice not one, not two, not three, but four
touchdowns for Josh Allen in the first half. The Bills
had five drives in the first half. They scored on
all of them. There was a theme of the night,
and they ended up winning forty seven to ten. It
was so bad the backup quarterbacks for both teams played
in garbage time as Josh Allen put on a master
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class against an unengaged, uninterested Jacksonville defense and, much to
the dismay of the Buffalo Bill fanbase, the better story
is in the losing locker room. So that is where
we go. Let us discuss the question for the esteem panel,
who gets the biggest piece of the Jacksonville blame pie?
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How did they end up in this predicament?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Right?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
How did they end up this predicament? So I've got
pontoon Boat, Alice Cooper and Sippy Cups and we'll combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make a headache, which is what a lot of big
shots in Jacksonville who care about that football team they have,
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they have a headache right now thinking about the situation
that team finds themselves in. So number a little slow,
number better. There are plenty, plenty of slices of the
blame pie to pass around here inside the locker room,
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in the coaching room. But these wacker doodles, right, they
had the hood spat leading up to this game to
talk about how this was essentially a placement test game,
that this game, after the oh and two start, they
had a chance to save their season. Blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
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That's what they did, all right. Then they went out there,
they took the exam. They didn't get one question right.
They flucked. You gotta go to continuation school. I know
a thing or two about that. You're done. It's over right,
Come on now, they just they sucked at a time
he cannot suck. And that's the bottom line, and they
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I mean, it was an epic no show. I was
texting a buddy of mine during the game and I said,
that's the kind of performance. Were the teams trying to
get the coach fired? Like we saw that in basketball.
You see that a lot in the NBA. If the
team's tired of a coach, they'll just go out and
lose a game by forty five points and they we'll
get rid of the coach. In football, it doesn't happen
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as often, but it does happen. Like my takeaway was,
they must hate their coach. They must just can't they
can't stand the coach. Because the Jacksonville franchise, the twenty
twenty four vintage, it's like they're on a pontoon boat
and they happen to be out on Lake Erie there
and they're sinking to the bottom of Lake Erie here.
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And actually the way they played more like a dinghy
than a pontoon boats. Someone call a lifeguard, called the coastguard.
Because they are rounding, they are drowning. They can't throw,
they can't run, they can't block, they can't tackle. Other
than that, they're pretty good. Other than those things, they're
in good shape here. Now the first piece of the
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blame pie goes to the head coach, because, oh man,
what a stench what el Stenko is coming out of
the coaches room here. Now they say that the Jaguar
rots from the head down. I remember when Doug Peterson
was hired a couple years ago. What was the selling
point of Doug Peterson? You remember because I remember, I remember.
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You don't remember. So they were saying, like, Doug Peterson
is an adult, he's grown up in the room, mature
football coach. He won a championship on a fluke run
with Nick Foles in Philadelphia, and they hired him because
he was the antithesis of what Urban Meyer had been
in Jacksonville. And this might not be true anymore. It's
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not in terms of it gets hated in the NFL,
but it's supposed to be a results based business. You
are what your record says you are. And Doug Peterson,
now in his third season in Jacksonville, is a game
under five hundred, So he's mediocre. Doug mediocre. Doug Peterson
eighteen wins, nineteen losses, a four to eighty six winning percentage,
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And if Peterson keeps the job, and why would they
not keep him someone you would think would be sacrificed
to Doug. The defensive coordinator for Doug Peterson is a
guy named Ryan Nielsen. I'd looked that up. I don't
know who that is. Defensive coordinator in Jacksonville. You would
think that he would be excommunicated after that performance. Buffalo
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five of five possession scores five or five and touchdowns
in the first half, nineteen first downs, two hundred and
eighty eight yards of offense in the first thirty minutes.
That is a fireable offense, at least it used to be.
It used to be a fireable fence. Is it still
a fireable fan? I don't know. I mean, you look
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at that division and Tennessee blows right. They don't have
a quarterback. Levis stinks. The Texans don't look invincible. They
lost to Sam Donald the Vikings, and even though they
won a couple of games early, Houston has not really
looked like a dominant team so far this year. So
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you're like that division Indianapolis, they don't have a quarterback,
and yet you're sitting at zero three in a suck
bag of vision. You're just gonna sit there and no changes,
same old Samuel now page two. You're staying in Jacksonville.
The Komodo drag him the HeLa monster in the room
if you will. What do the Jaguars do with Trevor Lawrence?
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He's not good? Spoiler alart spoiler video on eleven. He's
not good. He's not the answer the question, though, what
do the Jags do with Trevor Lawrence. They've already shot
their shot. They've made their decision. They have. It's like
that Alice Cooper song bet of Nails. They've made their
forget nails. That's like a better Razor blades. Cuddle up. Yeah,
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that's essentially what they've done here, following the time tested,
never wrong Peter principle. I assume you know what the
Peter principle is. But Trevor Lawrence has been promoted until
he reached his highest level of incompetence, and it appears
he will stay there. He will remain there. You can
forget about the Big Mac or the Whopper, because Jacksonville
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has on their menu for Trevor Lawrence a turt Berger
that they're serving up. And he said, well, the defense
let him down. It's not his fault.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I know the.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Quarterback apologists will they always do. They always have a
defense for the sucky quarterback. There's no news fault. Yeah, okay,
and it is true Jacksonville's defense is terrible. That does
not absolve Trevor Lawrence from not counterpunching and cheaping Jacksonville
within striking distance and at least matriculating the ball down
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the field. And so this guy the Peter principle for
some reason. And I'm not that smart, So maybe you
can explain to me why. My theory is it's just
because they're a small market operation and they're a minor
league outfit in Jacksonville. They had to keep him, but
he was given undeserved money. I have no problem of
guys great and gets paid a lot of money. It
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makes no sense to me. And this is another thing
that's changed in my lifetime. It used to be you
had to double and triple prove yourself to get paid.
The modern NFL, it's like El Choppo is the NFL.
All these teams have so much money. They're like El Chopo.
They're burying money in the ground. They don't know what
they're do with it, and they're they're giving guys that
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aren't very good, massive amounts of money, like Trevor Lawrence
two hundred and seventy five million dollars. Did anyone think
that he was worth that amount of money? Anyone other
than his parents? Maybe even they have their doubts. And
the deal comes with an average of fifty five million
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per year for that that's your quarterback? Are you so
afraid of losing? Trevor Lawrence is flowing locks? My god?
You know what he is. Trevor Lawrence is a peeping
tom quarterback. He shows you a flash every now and
again to keep you excited, but there's really nothing there.
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There's really nothing there all right now, final point on
the winner side. As a pacifier to the Bills mafia.
Are you drinking the punch? Are you drinking the punch
that Josh Allen and the Bills are serving up? So
that's the question. And I'll tell you this much. I'm
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not getting wasted on the kool aid.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
It's more like a sippy cup. Take a sip. You're like,
I'm good. I little sip there, And here's why, all right,
I'm not gonna be a prisoner of the mall. Now,
it is true we do the show today and as
of today, Jacksonville bad team, Bills beat a bad team.
Who else did they beat? They beat the Dolphins. Dolphins
will not be a playoff team this year? Is that?
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Can we agree on that? To us not coming back?
So they're not a playoff team. Cardinals not a playoff team.
So they've beaten three teams who they were supposed to
beat who are not playoff teams. That doesn't get you
all tingling. Now they've looked good, and I will agree
they've looked very good. Josh Allen has played like a
holy terror, and Buffalo against a lethargic Jacksonville team was unstoppable.
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They were absolutely unstoppable. And when you look at the
big picture though, the Bills taking care of business, what
that does is it lays the groundwork, you know, the
building blocks to get yourself a better seed in the
playoffs and home games in Buffalo. Not that it mattered
last year against the Chiefs they lost anyway at home,
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but you separate yourself from some other teams. Cincinnati, we've
already given the eulogy on the Bengals. They're done. Baltimore
off to the one and two start, they saved there
behind by beating the Cowboys rather convincingly, even though Dak
got his garbage time stats there. Now, do I have
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the Bills at the same level as Kansas City? No,
I don't, even with Travis Kelsey looking washed up, I
don't have that. You should be cautiously optimistic, but also
you have to be realistic. Next week that's more of
a placement test. I'm still not completely sold that Baltimore
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is amazing and all that, but that's a game that's
a highlight game. In week four, the Ravens playing host
to the Bills, and so we'll see what that game produces.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
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how about that to the third degree, this is one
big event? Gets grail all right?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Cool loop.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
So with the Steelers now at three and oher with
Justin Fields under center, is there any way that they
can go to Russell Wilson when he's healthy.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yes, listen, I know it seems impossible to say. This
is an unpopular opinion. The Steelers are not winning because
of Justin Fields. They have their defenses played great, they
have the twenty ninth ranked passing offense in the NFL.
The only teams that have been worse at throwing the
football in terms of yardish per game are the Chargers
and the Patriots. That's it. So it's they're not getting
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a lot out of the passing game. It is not
a sustainable formula down the line. So it's not out
of the realm of possibility that Russell Wilson will get
an opportunity. I don't think he's any good either though,
so that's the problem. Next.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Baker Mayfield told the media after has lost to the
Broncos that it is a good lets about how the
Bucks have to prepare. Oh stop, Ben, Do you think
they fell victim to a trap game or is there
a bigger problem here?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Well, there's two problems. It was a trap game. Everyone
was kissing their ass after they beat the Lions and
arah Ron. It was a big win for Tampa Bay
to go to Detroit and win that game by four points. Congratulations,
But they clearly did not prepare the right way. But
to me, the Buccaneers or there's a lot of teams
like this in the NFL, the Bucks are the type
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of team that can beat just about anybody and can
also lose to just about anybody. That's most of the NFL.
I don't think Tampa Bay is a lock to make
the playoffs. They could beat anybody they play. They could
beat Kansas City down the line of the forty nine ers,
and they could also lose to the Giants or the
Carolina Panthers or something like that. That's just the way
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it's next.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
There's nothing that listeners love more than way too early predictions.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yes, we love that. Who people they love big boards.
They love big boards.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Also, that's right. Also known as lists, no, not a list.
A big board is not a list.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Okay. A big board is different than when you do
a list. You're a relevant. When you do a big board,
you're not irrelevant. Sure.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Yeah, So that leads me to the question, Ben, who
do you like for offensive Rookie of the Year through
week three weeks of the NFL season.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Let me see, Coop, let me see there. Let's see
there's a quarterback I forget his name, he's in Washington
who just had a perfect game. You think maybe maybe
that he's like way out in front like secretariat. Elik
Neighbors has done it for three weeks Jayden Daniels done it.
For one. Quarterbacks coop are more important people they play quarterback.
(29:41):
If Jaden Daniels is anywhere close, he's not gonna be
like that obviously every week. But if he's playing at
a high level consistently, Washington, they got a chance to win,
you know, seven or eight games something like that. Jayden
Daniels is gonna be your offensive rookie year. But you
ask me right now and right now again. You gotta
(30:02):
go buy public sentiment and all that and the odds
and all that. It's it's Jaden Daniels. It is his
and uh and forget Marvin Harrison Junior on the outside.
He had a big game a couple of games ago,
but then he followed up with just a mediocre performance
against the lines. Anyway, there it is Mallard of the
third degree. Notice bot Nicks not on the list. How
(30:24):
did we do he will become the end of the series.
Really yeah, but I guess he passes. That is a
where you don't get pull on the ball. It's about time.
I'm the all time wins king at that game.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I am.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
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Speaker 1 (31:02):
Not all Let's get to the game right now. We
welcome in our contestants. We have Frank in San Diego. Hello, Frank, Hello,
who can hear me? Can you hear me? Now? Frank?
What part of San Diego are you in? Frank? Oh,
(31:24):
look at you? Very bougie Pacific Beach. Very nice, Frank.
You want to play the game? I assume who do
you want to partner up with? Frank? You got me?
Ben Eddie is away with Martin. We have the Cooper Loop,
and if you really want to have fun, pickle Lorena. Lorena,
(31:46):
here's sarcastic. All right, who do you want to partner with? Frank? Seriously?
All right? Cool? Very good? All right, hold on second,
you will play the game. And we have Jacob in Delaware. Hello, Jacob, Hey,
how you doing? Ben? Good sir? How's everything with you?
Everything's good, buddy? All right, you're on the phone, Frank, Jacob,
(32:08):
Who do you want to partner up with? Jacob? I'll
go with you, Ben, all right, we're in it to
win it. What are the categories? Hoopulo?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
What are we?
Speaker 3 (32:15):
All right, gentlemen, this is Maler's Mountain of Money NAS edition.
He turned fifty one years old last weekend. Category one
is New York state of Mind. Category two is one Love,
Category three if I ruled the world, and category four
nothing lasts forever.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Frank, you were on first. Which category would you like
to start with?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
We go to New York.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
All right, New York State of mine, and Jacob, which
one do you want? I will go one Love, one love?
Speaker 3 (32:41):
All right, good, all right, New York state of Mind. Frank,
You're gonna have forty five seconds and need the first
and last name of the athlete. These athletes were all
born in New York City. Forty five seconds on the clock.
Let's go his Aernest the greatest basketball player of all time, Michael. Yes,
this was a running back for the Giants. He is
(33:02):
now on the Eagles. Yes, this guy was the manager
for the Yankees when they won all their championships in
the nineties. All right, we'll skip it. We'll skip it.
Running back for the Ravens. He punched a woman in
an elevator. Hmm, yeah for yet big sto. Okay, all right,
(33:29):
let's go with the cornerback for the Patriots. He's played
in more postseason games than any defensive back in history.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
He has a twin back job. Cooper. I think he
said it at the end. No, he didn't say how
many points? Was that like ten? Or what did you say?
He didn't say it stopped? But how many points did
he give? Mat I wasn't keeping score. What did you say, Frank?
Stop it? All right? Let's h Jacob? Are you there? Jacob?
(33:57):
You got thirty two points? All right? All right, Jacob,
here we go. You picked one. Love. These athletes only
have eyes for one woman, as far as we know,
went went not. Are you ready? I am? All right?
Forty five seconds on o'clock, Here we go the around
mound rebound from t Yes coach of the Golden State Warriors. Yes,
(34:19):
tight end for the old San Diego Chargers. He never been. Yeah,
here you go, shortstop for the Red Sox with a
really long last name. Back.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Guard for the Miami Heat with a killer killer crossover,
played with the Golden State Warriors. Also his kid, Yes,
guard for Utah Jazz went to Illinois, went to Illinois
point guard, real tall guy. Else describe him, Darren, Yeah,
you're you're almost there guy, Yeah, that's sure, all right, quarterback.
(34:55):
His brother played in the Super Bowl. He's on ESPN
R racist all right. Deron Williams was who you were
looking Darren? I think he said Darren. It looks like darn,
but they said Darren. Was it Darren? Yeah? It was Darren.
Was Darren Williams. He played at Illinois. I made. They
played Arizona. He came back from like fifteen down. I
I lost. I don't want to get into it anyway,
(35:16):
all right, all right, all right, all right? Uh Frank,
what's the score? A lot too? A little? Alright?
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Hold on undred and sixteen? All right, all right, Frank,
do you want if I ruled the world or nothing
lasts forever?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Hurry up? All right?
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Forty five These athletes went on to become GMS. Forty
five seconds, let's begin, no chance, Hall of Fame. Quarterback
for the Broncos, one number seven. Yes, uh, this guy
was the logo of the NBA. White guy for the Lakers.
Oh my god, he's dead.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
He is the current GM for the forty nine ers
no chance. His father owned a radio station I worked for.
He used to be a safety on the on the
Tampa Bay Bucks. His father did own a radio station, Sandy,
but he doesn't. All right, we're out of time. Congratulations Jacob.
Another win on the All Time Wednesday at Malor's Mountain
(36:17):
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Hell to victory? What kind of Yeah? I'm glad that
the imagery department we said we need new music. You
can't play that ditty stuff anymore. And this is what
they came up with. Really, really, who wrote this song?
Can they go to jail too? Can they go?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
We don't even know who wrote this song? Anyway, Welcome in.
It is the beginning of another night. How am I
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This hour is from the Natty the scene of the
main event on Monday Night football. You had the Fox refugees,
Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. They were there hanging out
(02:20):
Joe Burrow's Club, a massive, massive favorite, expected to dominate,
get in the win column, put on a happ beat dance.
They were big time favorites over the Commanders in that
game on Monday Night. Now, I don't know if you
saw it or not. We had two games. Two games, now,
why not just stagger the games? That one started about
(02:41):
forty minutes before the other. That would be the Bills
Jaguars game. Fortunately, Jacksonville decided not to show up to
that game, so we could focus in on the Cincinnati
Washington game. But it was a night that was stolen
by Jaden Daniels, who upstaged his fellow LSU comrade Joe Burrow.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
He threw not one, but two touchdowns. We had a
fat guy touchdown. Fat guy touchdown first, Jaden Daniels touchdown
to a fat guy one of his offensive linemen. If
he actually turns out to be as good as people
think he's gonna be, It's one of those great who
am I game questions? Who caught the first touchdown for
Jaden Daniels, But he also ran for a score and
(03:24):
did a little bit of this, a little bit of that.
The whole thing a historical performance for Jaden Daniels, the
Washington football team, leaving the Bengals stunned, dazed, confused, thirty
eight to thirty three. The final Jayden Daniels twenty one
of thirty three. If you like stat humping, that's really good.
Two hundred and fifty four yards an NFL rookie record
(03:48):
for a completion percentage of over ninety percent, ninety one
point three on the FM dial, ninety one point three.
So the Commanders at two and one, they scored on
every possession except when they kneeled down. You can't score
when you kneel down at the end of each half.
And they have not punted now in the past two games,
(04:12):
and they have not turned the ball over in the
past two games. Now, I didn't play in the NFL,
but I think that's a recipe for success. But what
do I know now? Neither Washington or Cincinnati, either one
of these teams punted or turned the ball over collectively.
We're told by the nerds it's the first time that's
ever happened in the Super Bowl era, the modern era
(04:33):
of the NFL. But the better story, the better story,
is in the losing locker room. So let us discuss
the question. All right, are you prepared to write the
eulogy for Joe Burrows twenty twenty four Bengals? They sit
zero to three. Historically, the odds are against them based
on what has happened, not what's going to happen. So
(04:55):
I've got Dandy Don Monster Mash and fra Did Flakes,
and we will combine all of these things together, and
we are going to slide on in deeper into your
ear drums, is what we're going to do. So Ay
to answer the question, are you prepared to write the
eulogy for Joe Burrow's twenty twenty four Bengals, I am
(05:17):
nodding my head. Yes, I am nodding my head, yes, yes,
And I don't want to do it. I like Burrow.
You know that I'm a Burrow sick of pant and
all that, but I am a realist here. I hope
I'm wrong. However, however, the mantra on this show, what
are the many mantras that we have here late at night,
(05:37):
is the never ending battle. I stole this from a
cartoon character, the never ending battle for truth, justice, and
the sports talk radio way. That's exactly what Superman taught
me when I was a kid. And we can all agree,
every man, woman and child can agree that you are
not allowed more than one really snink bomb loss? Can
we read on that like every team's gonna lose a game.
(05:58):
You're like, ah, crap, why they lose? That's embarrassing. You
get one of those what the Bengals have done in
the first month of the season is impossible. It was
unimaginable if I told you this before the season. It's
unthinkable that it's happened. They have picked up the double whammy.
(06:19):
They have the double whammy. They lost at home to
Jacoby Brissett and the Patsys. They lost to the Patriots
in week one. Okay, well, okay, you'll forgive them, but
they can't have another bad loss. And here we are tada.
They have lost to the Commanders. Now you might think
Washington's gonna have a good team, and they're off to
a good start two wins. They beat the Giants, which
(06:41):
is hardly impressive win. But all of that for Cincinnati
coming in the first month of the season, you don't
come back from that. That's good evening and good night
is what that is. Forget even good afternoon. The ghost
of Dandy Don is warming up somewhere right turn out
(07:01):
the last the parties over Cincinnati is porked. They're cooked,
however you want to say it, whatever you want to
use to describe it. At this moment in time, the
ben Gals are dun Skies. They're back to be in
the bungles. And do we still love Joe Brow Sure
does that matter? No, it doesn't matter. I don't see
(07:24):
a scenario at this moment, based on the way they're
playing right now today, that that is a playoff team. Oh,
that's an outrageous take. No, it's not all right now.
Page two. Here why the question of why why why
are the ben Gals in the ditch along the side
of the NFL road at this point after three weeks
(07:44):
and my theory on this and I cook this up
on the long drive from the north Woods here to
the mothership, and I want to thank management for making
sure that I have that long drive from the mothership
here into the mothership. But Cincinnati their problem. Now, they
got a lot of problems, but the big one is
the monster Mash. We're gonna call it the green Eyed Monster.
(08:05):
That's the problem. Under attack, under siege by the green
Eyed Monster because they made a strategic decision. This is
one of those deals. I was talking to the Saga
in the hallways here, saw him passing like ships in
the night. That it's you're damned if you do, you're
damned if you don't. Because some of these teams have
paid their players, like the Cowboys, Dak Prescott blows right,
(08:29):
we know that not a big game guy. Now, just
looked terrible last couple weeks. Fine got some garbage time stats,
so people that don't watch the games think he's better
than he is. But Cincinnati went the other way. I
we're not paying anybody, and so t Higgins he's playing,
but he didn't get the extension. Jamar Chase playing didn't
get massive extension. Pretty much everyone got paid. Everyone around
(08:52):
the NFL got paid. Even turds like Trevor Lawrence got paid, right,
he sucks. He got paid for some reason. He must
have compromising photos of Shad Khan, the owner. I don't know,
but the Bengal said, now we're gonna draw a line
in the mud, is what we're gonna do. We're not
paying anybody. So you started out with Higgins and Chase bitter,
(09:16):
had that bitter beer face on offense. But you mix
in a defensive star, Trey Hendrickson, who also requested a
trade out of Dodge. He wanted to get out of Dodge,
and he's on the defensive side, and everything starts bubbling up. Resentment,
bad vibrations, all of that, and so you have a quagmire. Now,
(09:40):
for instance, Adnati. Nobody is going to confuse, not a
single person is going to confuse Zach Taylor as the
second coming of Vince Lombardi. So he's the head coach,
and he's got he's always got this kind of I
don't know what's going on here, he's got that kind
of look. But then you look at the defensive coordinator
and you've got Lou and a Removemo. What's his name, Mumo?
(10:02):
That's not his name. What's his name, Coop? You guys name?
Coop has no idea the defensive coordinator for the Bengals.
Coop is looking it up right now. Uh, Martin has it.
Martin has it. What's his name? Martin? Lou and a
Rumo and a Rumo. That's a weird name. The reason
I know his name Martin heard that name, I know
I would I would fire his if I own the Bengals,
(10:24):
I would fire him, is what I would do after
that performance. But I don't think he's in Ex's and
O's with it. One thing about the broadcasters, though, I've noticed,
they're all friends with the coaches, so they don't criticize anybody.
Every time I watch an NFL games, it's like it
doesn't matter. There could be a toxic cloud billowing of
smoke up from the coaches room, and everything's great. These
(10:45):
guys are wonderful, they're they're just great and all that stuff.
But we have now I did the math. We have
forty three shopping days left till the trade deadline. It's
on November fifth, is the trade deadline. And since and
that he's in business here, they keep going like this
and they don't want to pay anybody. Why wouldn't they
(11:06):
trade one of these cats that are available right now?
Jamar Chase, who knows. I don't even know if they
can trade t Higgins because of the salary cap stuff,
and he's on the franchise tag. But there are players
available if you want. They're in the display case there
in Cincinnati. Our last word here, So we go to
the winning locker room. Not the better story, but we
go to the winning locker room. And how would you
describe Jaden Daniels and his performance for the Commanders. So
(11:32):
you know, normally we have the Malor report card, but
there's no reason to even bother with the Malor report
card because it was picture perfect, it was impeccable and
very rarely do you see an unblemished performance. But that
was what I watched. It was great. It's like he
was back at LSU playing Vanderbilt or something like that.
My god, good for him. It was a frosted Flakes
(11:55):
type performance. And you watch the box score. You look
at the game, you're like, oh, man, those numbers, it's
like Tony the Tiger. They're great. And they were, and
that is a snapshot on what the future could hold. Now,
this does not just budge the needle. The performance of
Jaden dangles, It moves mountains. Right. That's must see TV.
(12:18):
If he can recreate that. Of course, the key is
you have to do that consistently right most of the time.
That's the difference between being just good occasionally and then
being Baffosaco and a franchise quarterback. And but man alive,
that was. That was great. I would advise the owner
of the Washington football team to get rid of the
(12:40):
dumb Commanders placeholder nickname. Get a real nickname. If you
do have a real quarterback, you want to get a
real nickname. And you look at the Washington Commanders. Here
dumb name, but they're two and one and they've got
Arizona beatable opponent. It's in Arizona. But Cardinals can lose
every game. They win most games, so they can lose
(13:02):
them too, So that's it's awesome. Then you play the
creepy quarterback Deshaun Watson after that, so those are Cleveland,
Come on back up, I should win those games. So
now you're sitting in four and one, and at four
and one you start daydreaming. The other thing. You look
at the collateral damage from Jaden Daniels putting up a
Mona Lisa performance like this on Monday Night football with
(13:24):
everyone watching in Chicago. You've got Caleb Williams who is
not putting up Mona Lisa performance this year, and so
you're gonna have the finger biting and all that, people pointing.
What's going on? I don't understand. How come he's not
playing like this other guy And we had the number
(13:44):
one pick we passed over Jayden Dancer. This guy, what's
up with that?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
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The way tire bond should be. I know Derek the
Bill's Monster, and Andy the comic book guy in Felexus
and all the Bills Mafia people all excited. They're all giddy,
(15:02):
raw Raw. What an easy night, No anxiety in one
of those games. If you're you had Buffalo, and I
picked Buffalo for the TV show, I had no concern.
I was bored. I was waiting for the other game
to start. That game was over, the Bills Jacksonville game
over by the time the second Monday night game started.
(15:24):
In terms of competition, but early. This hour is from
Orchard Park, New York as a Monday night football double dip.
The undercard, not the main event, not the main event.
In the undercard had Josh Allen and the majestic Buffalo
Bill offense. He threw four touchdowns. If you watched it,
(15:45):
you notice not one, not two, not three, but four
touchdowns for Josh Allen in the first half. The Bills
had five drives in the first half. They scored on
all of them. There was a theme of the night,
and they ended up winning forty seven to ten. It
was so bad the backup quarterbacks for both teams played
in garbage time as Josh Allen put on a master
(16:07):
class against an unengaged, uninterested Jacksonville defense and, much to
the dismay of the Buffalo Bill fanbase, the better story
is in the losing locker room. So that is where
we go. Let us discuss the question for the esteem panel,
who gets the biggest piece of the Jacksonville blame pie?
(16:31):
How did they end up in this predicament?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Right?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
How did they end up this predicament? So I've got
pontoon Boat, Alice Cooper and Sippy Cups and we'll combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make a headache, which is what a lot of big
shots in Jacksonville who care about that football team they have,
(16:59):
they have a headache right now thinking about the situation
that team finds themselves in. So number a little slow,
number better. There are plenty, plenty of slices of the
blame pie to pass around here inside the locker room,
(17:20):
in the coaching room. But these wacker doodles, right, they
had the hood spat leading up to this game to
talk about how this was essentially a placement test game,
that this game, after the oh and two start, they
had a chance to save their season. Blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
(17:41):
That's what they did, all right. Then they went out there,
they took the exam. They didn't get one question right.
They flucked. You gotta go to continuation school. I know
a thing or two about that. You're done. It's over right,
Come on now, they just they sucked at a time
he cannot suck. And that's the bottom line, and they
(18:03):
I mean, it was an epic no show. I was
texting a buddy of mine during the game and I said,
that's the kind of performance. Were the teams trying to
get the coach fired? Like we saw that in basketball.
You see that a lot in the NBA. If the
team's tired of a coach, they'll just go out and
lose a game by forty five points and they we'll
get rid of the coach. In football, it doesn't happen
(18:26):
as often, but it does happen. Like my takeaway was,
they must hate their coach. They must just can't they
can't stand the coach. Because the Jacksonville franchise, the twenty
twenty four vintage, it's like they're on a pontoon boat
and they happen to be out on Lake Erie there
and they're sinking to the bottom of Lake Erie here.
(18:50):
And actually the way they played more like a dinghy
than a pontoon boats. Someone call a lifeguard, called the coastguard.
Because they are rounding, they are drowning. They can't throw,
they can't run, they can't block, they can't tackle. Other
than that, they're pretty good. Other than those things, they're
in good shape here. Now the first piece of the
(19:12):
blame pie goes to the head coach, because, oh man,
what a stench what el Stenko is coming out of
the coaches room here. Now they say that the Jaguar
rots from the head down. I remember when Doug Peterson
was hired a couple years ago. What was the selling
point of Doug Peterson? You remember because I remember, I remember.
(19:35):
You don't remember. So they were saying, like, Doug Peterson
is an adult, he's grown up in the room, mature
football coach. He won a championship on a fluke run
with Nick Foles in Philadelphia, and they hired him because
he was the antithesis of what Urban Meyer had been
in Jacksonville. And this might not be true anymore. It's
(19:58):
not in terms of it gets hated in the NFL,
but it's supposed to be a results based business. You
are what your record says you are. And Doug Peterson,
now in his third season in Jacksonville, is a game
under five hundred, So he's mediocre. Doug mediocre. Doug Peterson
eighteen wins, nineteen losses, a four to eighty six winning percentage,
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And if Peterson keeps the job, and why would they
not keep him someone you would think would be sacrificed
to Doug. The defensive coordinator for Doug Peterson is a
guy named Ryan Nielsen. I'd looked that up. I don't
know who that is. Defensive coordinator in Jacksonville. You would
think that he would be excommunicated after that performance. Buffalo
(20:43):
five of five possession scores five or five and touchdowns
in the first half, nineteen first downs, two hundred and
eighty eight yards of offense in the first thirty minutes.
That is a fireable offense, at least it used to be.
It used to be a fireable fence. Is it still
a fireable fan? I don't know. I mean, you look
(21:06):
at that division and Tennessee blows right. They don't have
a quarterback. Levis stinks. The Texans don't look invincible. They
lost to Sam Donald the Vikings, and even though they
won a couple of games early, Houston has not really
looked like a dominant team so far this year. So
(21:26):
you're like that division Indianapolis, they don't have a quarterback,
and yet you're sitting at zero three in a suck
bag of vision. You're just gonna sit there and no changes,
same old Samuel now page two. You're staying in Jacksonville.
The Komodo drag him the HeLa monster in the room
if you will. What do the Jaguars do with Trevor Lawrence?
(21:52):
He's not good? Spoiler alart spoiler video on eleven. He's
not good. He's not the answer the question, though, what
do the Jags do with Trevor Lawrence. They've already shot
their shot. They've made their decision. They have. It's like
that Alice Cooper song bet of Nails. They've made their
forget nails. That's like a better Razor blades. Cuddle up. Yeah,
(22:15):
that's essentially what they've done here, following the time tested,
never wrong Peter principle. I assume you know what the
Peter principle is. But Trevor Lawrence has been promoted until
he reached his highest level of incompetence, and it appears
he will stay there. He will remain there. You can
forget about the Big Mac or the Whopper, because Jacksonville
(22:38):
has on their menu for Trevor Lawrence a turt Berger
that they're serving up. And he said, well, the defense
let him down. It's not his fault.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I know the.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Quarterback apologists will they always do. They always have a
defense for the sucky quarterback. There's no news fault. Yeah, okay,
and it is true Jacksonville's defense is terrible. That does
not absolve Trevor Lawrence from not counterpunching and cheaping Jacksonville
within striking distance and at least matriculating the ball down
(23:07):
the field. And so this guy the Peter principle for
some reason. And I'm not that smart, So maybe you
can explain to me why. My theory is it's just
because they're a small market operation and they're a minor
league outfit in Jacksonville. They had to keep him, but
he was given undeserved money. I have no problem of
guys great and gets paid a lot of money. It
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makes no sense to me. And this is another thing
that's changed in my lifetime. It used to be you
had to double and triple prove yourself to get paid.
The modern NFL, it's like El Choppo is the NFL.
All these teams have so much money. They're like El Chopo.
They're burying money in the ground. They don't know what
they're do with it, and they're they're giving guys that
(23:50):
aren't very good, massive amounts of money, like Trevor Lawrence
two hundred and seventy five million dollars. Did anyone think
that he was worth that amount of money? Anyone other
than his parents? Maybe even they have their doubts. And
the deal comes with an average of fifty five million
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per year for that that's your quarterback? Are you so
afraid of losing? Trevor Lawrence is flowing locks? My god?
You know what he is. Trevor Lawrence is a peeping
tom quarterback. He shows you a flash every now and
again to keep you excited, but there's really nothing there.
(24:30):
There's really nothing there all right now, final point on
the winner side. As a pacifier to the Bills mafia.
Are you drinking the punch? Are you drinking the punch
that Josh Allen and the Bills are serving up? So
that's the question. And I'll tell you this much. I'm
(24:51):
not getting wasted on the kool aid.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
It's more like a sippy cup. Take a sip. You're like,
I'm good. I little sip there, And here's why, all right,
I'm not gonna be a prisoner of the mall. Now,
it is true we do the show today and as
of today, Jacksonville bad team, Bills beat a bad team.
Who else did they beat? They beat the Dolphins. Dolphins
will not be a playoff team this year? Is that?
(25:15):
Can we agree on that? To us not coming back?
So they're not a playoff team. Cardinals not a playoff team.
So they've beaten three teams who they were supposed to
beat who are not playoff teams. That doesn't get you
all tingling. Now they've looked good, and I will agree
they've looked very good. Josh Allen has played like a
holy terror, and Buffalo against a lethargic Jacksonville team was unstoppable.
(25:41):
They were absolutely unstoppable. And when you look at the
big picture though, the Bills taking care of business, what
that does is it lays the groundwork, you know, the
building blocks to get yourself a better seed in the
playoffs and home games in Buffalo. Not that it mattered
last year against the Chiefs they lost anyway at home,
(26:03):
but you separate yourself from some other teams. Cincinnati, we've
already given the eulogy on the Bengals. They're done. Baltimore
off to the one and two start, they saved there
behind by beating the Cowboys rather convincingly, even though Dak
got his garbage time stats there. Now, do I have
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the Bills at the same level as Kansas City? No,
I don't, even with Travis Kelsey looking washed up, I
don't have that. You should be cautiously optimistic, but also
you have to be realistic. Next week that's more of
a placement test. I'm still not completely sold that Baltimore
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is amazing and all that, but that's a game that's
a highlight game. In week four, the Ravens playing host
to the Bills, and so we'll see what that game produces.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Mellership
weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. The smaller
how about that to the third degree, this is one
big event? Gets grail all right?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Cool loop.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
So with the Steelers now at three and oher with
Justin Fields under center, is there any way that they
can go to Russell Wilson when he's healthy.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yes, listen, I know it seems impossible to say. This
is an unpopular opinion. The Steelers are not winning because
of Justin Fields. They have their defenses played great, they
have the twenty ninth ranked passing offense in the NFL.
The only teams that have been worse at throwing the
football in terms of yardish per game are the Chargers
and the Patriots. That's it. So it's they're not getting
(27:44):
a lot out of the passing game. It is not
a sustainable formula down the line. So it's not out
of the realm of possibility that Russell Wilson will get
an opportunity. I don't think he's any good either though,
so that's the problem. Next.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Baker Mayfield told the media after has lost to the
Broncos that it is a good lets about how the
Bucks have to prepare. Oh stop, Ben, Do you think
they fell victim to a trap game or is there
a bigger problem here?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Well, there's two problems. It was a trap game. Everyone
was kissing their ass after they beat the Lions and
arah Ron. It was a big win for Tampa Bay
to go to Detroit and win that game by four points. Congratulations,
But they clearly did not prepare the right way. But
to me, the Buccaneers or there's a lot of teams
like this in the NFL, the Bucks are the type
(28:29):
of team that can beat just about anybody and can
also lose to just about anybody. That's most of the NFL.
I don't think Tampa Bay is a lock to make
the playoffs. They could beat anybody they play. They could
beat Kansas City down the line of the forty nine ers,
and they could also lose to the Giants or the
Carolina Panthers or something like that. That's just the way
(28:51):
it's next.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
There's nothing that listeners love more than way too early predictions.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yes, we love that. Who people they love big boards.
They love big boards.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Also, that's right. Also known as lists, no, not a list.
A big board is not a list.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Okay. A big board is different than when you do
a list. You're a relevant. When you do a big board,
you're not irrelevant. Sure.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Yeah, So that leads me to the question, Ben, who
do you like for offensive Rookie of the Year through
week three weeks of the NFL season.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Let me see, Coop, let me see there. Let's see
there's a quarterback I forget his name, he's in Washington
who just had a perfect game. You think maybe maybe
that he's like way out in front like secretariat. Elik
Neighbors has done it for three weeks Jayden Daniels done it.
For one. Quarterbacks coop are more important people they play quarterback.
(29:41):
If Jaden Daniels is anywhere close, he's not gonna be
like that obviously every week. But if he's playing at
a high level consistently, Washington, they got a chance to win,
you know, seven or eight games something like that. Jayden
Daniels is gonna be your offensive rookie year. But you
ask me right now and right now again. You gotta
(30:02):
go buy public sentiment and all that and the odds
and all that. It's it's Jaden Daniels. It is his
and uh and forget Marvin Harrison Junior on the outside.
He had a big game a couple of games ago,
but then he followed up with just a mediocre performance
against the lines. Anyway, there it is Mallard of the
third degree. Notice bot Nicks not on the list. How
(30:24):
did we do he will become the end of the series.
Really yeah, but I guess he passes. That is a
where you don't get pull on the ball. It's about time.
I'm the all time wins king at that game.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I am.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
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Speaker 1 (31:02):
Not all Let's get to the game right now. We
welcome in our contestants. We have Frank in San Diego. Hello, Frank, Hello,
who can hear me? Can you hear me? Now? Frank?
What part of San Diego are you in? Frank? Oh,
(31:24):
look at you? Very bougie Pacific Beach. Very nice, Frank.
You want to play the game? I assume who do
you want to partner up with? Frank? You got me?
Ben Eddie is away with Martin. We have the Cooper Loop,
and if you really want to have fun, pickle Lorena. Lorena,
(31:46):
here's sarcastic. All right, who do you want to partner with? Frank? Seriously?
All right? Cool? Very good? All right, hold on second,
you will play the game. And we have Jacob in Delaware. Hello, Jacob, Hey,
how you doing? Ben? Good sir? How's everything with you?
Everything's good, buddy? All right, you're on the phone, Frank, Jacob,
(32:08):
Who do you want to partner up with? Jacob? I'll
go with you, Ben, all right, we're in it to
win it. What are the categories? Hoopulo?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
What are we?
Speaker 3 (32:15):
All right, gentlemen, this is Maler's Mountain of Money NAS edition.
He turned fifty one years old last weekend. Category one
is New York state of Mind. Category two is one Love,
Category three if I ruled the world, and category four
nothing lasts forever.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Frank, you were on first. Which category would you like
to start with?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
We go to New York.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
All right, New York State of mine, and Jacob, which
one do you want? I will go one Love, one love?
Speaker 3 (32:41):
All right, good, all right, New York state of Mind. Frank,
You're gonna have forty five seconds and need the first
and last name of the athlete. These athletes were all
born in New York City. Forty five seconds on the clock.
Let's go his Aernest the greatest basketball player of all time, Michael. Yes,
this was a running back for the Giants. He is
(33:02):
now on the Eagles. Yes, this guy was the manager
for the Yankees when they won all their championships in
the nineties. All right, we'll skip it. We'll skip it.
Running back for the Ravens. He punched a woman in
an elevator. Hmm, yeah for yet big sto. Okay, all right,
(33:29):
let's go with the cornerback for the Patriots. He's played
in more postseason games than any defensive back in history.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
He has a twin back job. Cooper. I think he
said it at the end. No, he didn't say how
many points? Was that like ten? Or what did you say?
He didn't say it stopped? But how many points did
he give? Mat I wasn't keeping score. What did you say, Frank?
Stop it? All right? Let's h Jacob? Are you there? Jacob?
(33:57):
You got thirty two points? All right? All right, Jacob,
here we go. You picked one. Love. These athletes only
have eyes for one woman, as far as we know,
went went not. Are you ready? I am? All right?
Forty five seconds on o'clock, Here we go the around
mound rebound from t Yes coach of the Golden State Warriors. Yes,
(34:19):
tight end for the old San Diego Chargers. He never been. Yeah,
here you go, shortstop for the Red Sox with a
really long last name. Back.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Guard for the Miami Heat with a killer killer crossover,
played with the Golden State Warriors. Also his kid, Yes,
guard for Utah Jazz went to Illinois, went to Illinois
point guard, real tall guy. Else describe him, Darren, Yeah,
you're you're almost there guy, Yeah, that's sure, all right, quarterback.
(34:55):
His brother played in the Super Bowl. He's on ESPN
R racist all right. Deron Williams was who you were
looking Darren? I think he said Darren. It looks like darn,
but they said Darren. Was it Darren? Yeah? It was Darren.
Was Darren Williams. He played at Illinois. I made. They
played Arizona. He came back from like fifteen down. I
I lost. I don't want to get into it anyway,
(35:16):
all right, all right, all right, all right? Uh Frank,
what's the score? A lot too? A little? Alright?
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Hold on undred and sixteen? All right, all right, Frank,
do you want if I ruled the world or nothing
lasts forever?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Hurry up? All right?
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Forty five These athletes went on to become GMS. Forty
five seconds, let's begin, no chance, Hall of Fame. Quarterback
for the Broncos, one number seven. Yes, uh, this guy
was the logo of the NBA. White guy for the Lakers.
Oh my god, he's dead.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
He is the current GM for the forty nine ers
no chance. His father owned a radio station I worked for.
He used to be a safety on the on the
Tampa Bay Bucks. His father did own a radio station, Sandy,
but he doesn't. All right, we're out of time. Congratulations Jacob.
Another win on the All Time Wednesday at Malor's Mountain
(36:17):
of Money. Quit on the board.
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