Ben Maller Show Best of the Week

Big Ben talks about Davante Adams debut with the Jets as they lose to Russell Wilson in his debut with the Steelers, Baker Mayfield and the Bucs stumbling against Derrick Henry and the Ravens, Maller's Mountain of Money: Snoop Dogg Edition, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:32):
DeVante Adams in the house, but the jets not ready
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We did that last hour. Congratulations Dodgers and Yankees in

(01:34):
the World Series. Dodgers eliminated the Mets. They were knocked out,
and so we'll have the World Series starting on Friday,
La versus New York. The Dodgers can take ownership, can
just move back to Brooklyn because they will own New
York having beaten the Mets and the Yankees if they
win the World Series. But our lead this hour from
football and we start out in the merg That's right,

(01:58):
dec influence, the the Manahangahela, the Allegheny Rivers forming the
Ohio River right there in Pittsburgh, PA. Beautiful bridges, nice
skyline there in Pittsburgh. That was the setup as Davante
Adams made as much anticipated dab you in the cockpit
for the j e Ts Suck, Suck, suck, as Davante's

(02:20):
Jets taking on Russell Wilson and the team from Pittsburgh.
It was on the peacock with Chris Collinsworth and Mike Turrico.
And I don't know if you were watching this or not,
maybe you tuned it out. He was watching the baseball.
We were going back and forth as we were watching
both at the same time. It is our good Mitchfel today,
it is our good miss of the day. So Russell

(02:41):
Wilson threw for not one but two touchdowns. He ran
for another, Russell Wilson accounting for three touchdowns. Pittsburgh steamrolled
late in this game, a resounding exclamation point win thirty
seven fifteen, a beat down as the Jets were so

(03:04):
bad They're gonna be sent out to the boneyard after
that performance. The better story in the losing locker room,
and that is where we will go. The New York
side of things. Let us discuss the question what jumps
out at you after the latest loss from Aaron Rogers

(03:25):
and the Jets. So I've got Rubberneckers, Mensa, and Custer,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we will throw our terrible towel in the air everywhere.
Is what we're going to do. So the first thought
I had watching this game is how Aaron Rodgers has

(03:45):
added unscheduled, This was unplanned. He's had a little trip.
It appears watching the Jets offense with Rogers under center
that he has decided to take an in season darkness retreat.
Wowsers man. That was another winnable game, and the Jets
came out. They were up fifteen to six early, they

(04:05):
had possession of the ball, a chance to add on
to that lead, and then you make the big mistake
and next thing you know, the Steelers take advantage of it,
and the flag is up for Russell Wilson and Pittsburgh
and Rogers ended up handle him. Now, one of the
interceptions was tipped and whatnot, but the passes were questionable

(04:29):
as Rogers set Pittsburgh up in business here and then
after the game, Rogers the quote which everyone's breaking down
and analyzing. He said that the team came out flat,
that they didn't have the proper amount of energy. He said,
I mean Sunday Night Football on NBC, the only show
on TV. He says, I lived for these games, and

(04:50):
I just don't quite understand why the energy was a
little bit flat, so he said. He said also at
the beginning of the game, before the game said it
was flat from the Jets, but actually got off to
a decent start in the game and then everything went
to hell after that. But it's pretty obvious watching Gang
Green play here, watching the Jets in all these primetime

(05:12):
games so far this season, that you and I are rubberneckers. Okay,
we're not fans, we're not observers, we're rubberneckers, and we're
watching this slow motion train wreck of a Jets season
and say, well, it'd be a plane crash, but I
think it's more fun when it's a train wreck. The
New York defense, they've haunted Judge defense. Oh my god,

(05:33):
they're so good. The Jets defense allowed the Steelers to
score on each of their final five possessions of this game,
so Pittsburgh scored the game's final thirty one points and
the Jets also had a missed field goal in that
stretch of time. As it's Murphy's law, anything that can
go wrong is going wrong at this particular point, at

(05:54):
the worst possible time for the Jets in the last
four weeks, Aaron Rodgers, it's the great savior. I know
people in Wisconsin and Packer fans were smiling from ear
to ear right now, enjoying some shot in freude at
the expense of Aaron Rodgers, because the last four weeks,
Aaron Rodgers five touchdown passes, six interceptions, a passer rating

(06:15):
of seventy seven point one for the Hall of Fame
quarterback Aaron Rodgers. And oh, by the way, the Jets,
I believe, are oh to four in their last four
games and are quickly free falling at this point. Now,
the good news is they're in a division with the
Patriots and also the Dolphins, so because of that, the

(06:36):
math still works out in their favor. Buffalo is the
team they have to worry about this particular point. Now,
on the other side, you're gonna go thumbs up or
thumbs down. Have the Steelers now solved their quarterback conundrum
with Russell Wilson and his performance in this game? So

(06:58):
I'm not going thumbs up, I'm gonna go thumbs down.
I'm gonna go thumb sideways. My thumb is sideways at
this particular point. I'm not convinced. I am not convinced
that Russell Wilson is going to be able to even
play at this level. And it's not like Russ was
perfect in this game. He was not. I mean, there

(07:19):
were some passes that could have been intercepted and whatnot,
but weren't. Fine, that happens whatever, But he had three
touchdowns and was a big part of everything in that
onslaught that absolute domination at the end of the game
for the Pittsburgh Steelers when they just took ownership of

(07:39):
the game, and so Russ played well. I'll give him
his due on that, but I'm in the middle. My
thumb's in the middle on that. I would pump the
brakes on the celebratory party because I know that given
enough time, teams will be able to figure this out
and it will not be sustainable. And a lot of
what the Steelers did was a gift from the Jets,

(07:59):
and so I would say the Steelers are still They're
in the eye of the hurricane at this particular point.
That's how I would describe things. Russell Wilson took off
like a rocket in the second half of this particular game,
and for a night, Mike Tomlin looks like an absolute
men's Even though early on in this game, my TV

(08:20):
was working properly. They were chanting for Justin Fields his name,
there was rhythmic chanting going on and all that. But Wilson,
in order for us to be convinced he has to
do this again. There has to be a carbon copy
of this type of performance again, because even with the Broncos,
as bad as he was with the Broncos, occasionally he'd
have good numbers and people, oh, Russell Wilson, there you go,

(08:41):
that's what they got him from Seattle. And then you
have four or five bad games after that, and that's
where we are. So I would imagine at some point
Justin Fields will get back out there, either because Russ
won't play well or he'll get hurt. That's the most
likely scenario. But the bar's very low. Pittsburgh had the
twenty eighth passing office. That's why Justin Fields was benched

(09:02):
because they were not a good team at moving the
ball down the field through the air, despite all the
fanboys and all the ones that had the brown nose
supporting Justin Fields. The reality of the situation, Mike Tomlin. Fortunately,
it's like, well, I live in reality land. I don't
live in social media land, the matrix.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
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Speaker 1 (09:32):
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begin the night here double barrel action on a Monday night,

(10:41):
now into a Tuesday on our Tuesday shown, but our
lead this hour from the Sunshine State. That is where
we will begin the conversation. That is where the main
event took place, a doubleheader. You had Lamar Jackson and
the Ravens trying to keep the happy days alive and
well taking on the Baker Mayfield Buccaneers. Oh yeah, no

(11:05):
creamsicle uniforms. It was one of those throwback nights. It
was not that at all, but that was the matchup.
You had the Fox refugees, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman.
They were there working for a small little cable channel
out of Bristol, Connecticut these days. I don't know if
you're watching or not. Perhaps you did not have this
game on. I don't know you were staring at a
wall or something like that, but I don't worry. We

(11:26):
watched so you would not have to. And Lamar Jackson
getting it done. He threw for two hundred and eighty
one yards and not one, not two, not three, not four.
And when I say this, I'm not kidding. Five touchdowns,
five touchdowns. The Ravens fell behind ten nothing, and then

(11:47):
the Buccaneers said, that's it, We're done. You score it
whenever you want, do whatever you want. It's like against air,
and that's what the Ravens did. By land, by sea,
by everything. Baltimore ends up winning forty one thirty one.
Tampa got some garbage time points to make it a
little closer. Lamar now twenty three and one straight up,

(12:08):
not against the spread, straight up against NFC teams. That
is the top mark by a quarterback against an opposing
conference in NFL history. But the better story is in
the losing locker room. And so that is where we
shall go. And the question, based on what we saw
in this Monday night game, and you talk about the

(12:28):
Buccaneers here, where where does this performance leave Baker Mayfield
and Tampa. So I've got transformer Moses and butterball Turkey,
and we will combine all of these random things together
and we are going to make a Smorgasborie is what
we're going to make. So a to answer the question,

(12:50):
where does this performance leave Baker Mayfield and Tampa? Rather quiet?
Right in doing some soul searching, I would say that
would be phrase I would use here. This is one
of those what have we done? What are we doing?
And where are we going situations during the NFL season
because Baker Mayfield and maybe it's just my TV. I

(13:10):
don't know, maybe I have a bad TV. However, it
certainly appears that what I'm watching from Baker Mayfield recently
is a regression in front of my face, in front
of my schnaz am. I the only one seeing this.
I'm I the only person seeing a Baker Mayfield regression.
That this chicken soup for the soul story of Baker

(13:33):
Mayfield turning his career around to Tampa. At this point,
it's no longer delicious chicken soup. It's borsh is what
it is, right, It's just boot. It's terrible. Baker Mayfield
is a Transformer. He's more than meets the eye. He
is right now, forget Megatron or Optimus Prime or into
the classic Transformers. It's a different kind of autobot. I

(13:56):
looked at Baker Mayfield's recent play here for the Buccaneers,
and it's more of a scouting scouting autobot. If you
will Baker Mayfield, it turns out the Girl Scouts version,
or I should have say, the Brownies version of Baker
Mayfield certainly appears recently that we have seen the mistake
prone quarterback that left the Browns in a cloud of

(14:20):
dust and was the standard bearer of the Browns in
those years where he turned the ball over. Ton led
in the NFL in turnovers, and Baker Mayfield now he
finished the game. If you're a Baker Mayfield, member of
the Marching and Chowder Society. He had three hundred and
seventy yards passing in three touchdowns. However, tell me you

(14:41):
didn't watch the game without telling me you didn't watch
the game, because Mayfield had one hundred and ninety six
of those yards, almost two hundred of them, almost half
of them, and he had those in the fourth quarter.
In fact, there was actually more than half in the
fourth quarter. Two of those touchdowns also came in the
fourth quart of the game. Was over call that stat
bandito activity gotta be fair, all right. We say that

(15:04):
about you guys like Dak Prescott, you also have to
point that out about Baker Mayfield. And when we saw
the game and the balance, he was sitting in the
cockpit of the vomit comet. And that's the reality, right.
And you knew this was gonna be a high scoring
game because the Bucks don't have a good defense. The
path to salvation for the Buccaneers was to score and

(15:26):
to keep up with the Ravens. And they jumped out.
They were a nice start to the game, ten nothing lead.
You're feeling pretty good about yourself, and they couldn't keep
it up. They couldn't do anything for the middle part
of that game, and Baker an interception in the end
zone that is a cardinal sin, but not an Arizona
cardinal sin. We'll get to them later. Two official interceptions

(15:46):
by Mike count I jotted down on my little note
thing on my phone. There were two other passes that
Mayfield threw that should have could have would have been intercepted,
that were either dropped or bounced off a Raven defender.
So it was a bad, bad night. Then you have
the heel a monster in the room? What was the

(16:06):
heel of monster room? You sell the game? You know
what I'm about to talk about. So very late in
the game, some of us who might have had a
financial stake in the game were watching to the very end.
But near the very end of the game, Buck Star
wide receiver Chris Godwin suffered a gnarly dislocated ankle. Now
I can't describe what happened because it was so disgusting

(16:30):
they would not show it on the TV broadcast. They
did not show a replay, but it was with forty
three seconds left in the game, and immediately the do girders.
Oh my god, you've gotta killed Todd Bowles the coach,
and tem what are you doing Todd Bowles? Right? Should
Todd Bowles be held accountable for having Chris Godwin in

(16:50):
in the final minute of a game that was not winnable,
realistically winnable for the Buccaneers And should he be accountable? Well,
coaches are held accountable for everything. But do I blame him?

Speaker 2 (17:03):
No?

Speaker 1 (17:03):
I do not blame him. So I'm gonna shake my head. No,
I do not blame Todd Bowles. Todd Bowles is a
mediocre coach in the NFL. You are what record says
you are. I kind of like the guy though he
doesn't play the games. I like that and I at
the point now watching sports when people do things in
the old school way, it just resonates with me. Like

(17:24):
finishing the game, playing all the way to the end,
sixty minutes, you know, the whole thing. I just like it. Now,
that doesn't mean the pain, does it sting deep? For Tampa?
There's no debate on that. However, Again, for all you
worry a warts out there, you hoped or rush well,
Todd Boles said that Chris Godwin wanted to play, and

(17:46):
he wanted to play to the end. Of the game.
You don't want to raise the white flag. But the
whole argument, I say, fui too. You cannot coach scared,
you cannot play scared. And if you have that mindset,
you're a loser. You were an absolute loser. And on
some level I respect the Buccaneers not for playing defense,
because they played none, but for finishing the game. That's

(18:09):
how I want you to approach. You only get seventeen games.
You're guaranteed seventeen games. That's it, and you're not supposed
to finish those games. Now it didn't work out, and
Tampa is now a weather beaten team. The war of
attrition has kicked in for the Buccaneers. Is Godwin is

(18:29):
out for who knows how long, maybe the whole year,
based on the fact he was on a cart and
he dislocated at ankle and Mike Evans also injured whammy
to the hammi for Mike Evans as he was certing
this game. So this is becoming a Moses. I'm gonna biblical,
this is a Moses situation. Okay, this is the parting

(18:50):
of the Red Sea, or in this case, the parting
of the NFC South. Have you looked around things are
breaking perfectly in the atl For the Dirty Birds, the
Carolina is a powder puff football team. They're a joke.
And then you look at the New Orleans team that's
Pop Warner, but not Pop Warner All Star in New Orleans.

(19:10):
They don't play any defense, they have no chance. And
then you look at the Buccaneers, who are broken into
little pieces, and via the process of elimination, Kirk Cousins
is smiling from ear to ear in Georgia as the
Falcons just by showing up are going to win the
NFC South and have a home playoff game in Atlanta?

(19:33):
Am I wrong in that? Am I wrong in pointing
this out?

Speaker 2 (19:35):
All?

Speaker 1 (19:35):
Right? Now, last we're here the better story, not in
the winning locker room, but we will spend a little
bit of time in the winning locker room. How should
Lamar Jackson and the Ravens feel about this domination situation?
Win on the road against the Bucks. So, if you're
the Ravens, if you're the other Harball, not Jim John,
if you're John Harball, you're like bona fide certified and

(19:59):
gratified with this win on the road. For Lamar, it
was a Mona Lisa performance. And it's the kind of
performance that makes you wonder, why can't he play more
like that in a playoff game? Why does he only
do this on a primetime game during the season on
the island life, but then when it's an island situation

(20:19):
in the playoffs, not so much. He has twelve point
eight yards per pass and Lamar. I'll tell you what
Lamar looked like in that stretch where they scored thirty
four unanswered points. Lamar looked like he was at Thanksgiving
in the kitchen. He had a carving knife and he
was carving up a butterball turkey on Thanksgiving. That's what
he looked like. I mean, wowsers. But in the big

(20:42):
wide angle lens, it is just another rung on the
ladder that you have another step along the way and
you enjoy the journey and all that you're climbing up
higher and higher. But regular season raven football is a juggernaut.
We know that the testing ground, the proving round, the
litmus test is the playoffs. Lamar Jackson, that is his kryptonite.
The guy blows in the Plus, he's one of the

(21:03):
worst playoff quarterbacks. Considering two MVP awards, I've ever seen
in my life. In fact, statistically he's the worst when
you consider how great he has been during the regular season.
And the road is going to take them at some
point back through Arrowhead Stadium. They already lost there to
begin the year, and is there any reason to think
it's going to be any different when they play in
January against the Chiefs and the AFC Playoffs on my

(21:25):
score Cardinal. On my score Cardinal.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
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Speaker 1 (21:33):
I'm thinking we're going to try something a little different
here on the game. Here, we're gonna play mallas amount
and let's se loose the contestants. Here, we're gonna have
we haven't done this. I think we've done this in
some other games. I don't know if we've done on
a mallars amount of money. The All Blind Edition celebrating
the Blind. We have love this. We have legally blind Christopher. Hello,
legally blind Christopher. He's from Michigan, but he lives in

(21:54):
the Carolinas. Hello Christopher. Man, I can't wait to eat
breakfast at the Homa Center now, Man, I'm starved I'm ready.
Let's not for you, Yeah, for the players, do not
have to pay for it? Yeah, all right, you're gonna play.
Who do you want to partner up with? Quickly? I'm
just you be well say it like that a jerk

(22:16):
out there? All right, Hold on a second, and we
have another blind blind listener of the blind leading the
blind here blind Emmett the Seahawks fan who sarcastically clearly uneducated,
said that you cannot spread Uh well am it? Yeah,
we looked on the inner by the way, you can't
spread pneumonia from It's not like that though.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
If you haven't a week a week immune system or.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
It's not likely. According to the Internet, it is likely.
So how about how about I get how about I
get anemonia? Right? We don't have time. I don't have
time to face. I don't have time for that. I
spoke my lug up in your fights, and you don't
worry about you losers? Who are you playing with? What
are the categories? I just I just em.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
It's young and he's not gonna do well on this sport.
But no, I believe in you.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
See that he trashed you, he hates you, he hates
blind all right.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
Uh no, this m it's not potted up. Uh, this
is this is Malard's Mountain of Money. Snoop Dog edition.
He turned he turned fifty.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
No you're not. I don't know, I don't know some
other random guy.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
He turned fifty three years old this week. The categories
are gin and juice. The next episode, lay low and
drop it like it's hot.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
Christopher, Oh my god, hurry drop it. Okay, blind, we
are the let's do drop what's the third?

Speaker 2 (23:46):
The third one?

Speaker 1 (23:48):
Low? All right, all right, hold on a sec. You there,
you there, and we will have Malard's Mountain of Money.
We'll get to it. We will do it next.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Fox Sports Rate has the best sports talk lineup in
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listen live. Now Mailor's Mountain of Money? Do you have
what it takes to get to the top? Probably not?

Speaker 1 (24:22):
All right, let's sue. Here we go, Malo's amount of Money.
We welcome in our contestas is the all Blind edition.
We lead sports talk radio in blind and dudes with
clogged arteries, and we embrace it. We love it. We
have blind Emmett, the Seahawk fan from the Pacific Northwest.
He's right there. He's gonna lose. He's with Coop. And
then we have my guy, legally blind Christopher. Now let

(24:44):
me ask you, blind Emmett. Do you count the legally
blind as blind? Or do you consider them fake blind?
I mean the legal for a reason. Okay, all right,
very good, Well that works. Are you ready there, legally blind, Christoph?
Let's rock. Let's do this year. We need the first
and last name. It's the Snoop Dog edition turned just

(25:06):
fifty three this week and you picked drop it like
a hot These sports figures all have notable blenders in
their career. Are you ready, Christopher yet her? All right,
here we go forty five seconds on the clock. You're
on your way go. He was the head coach of
the Seahawks when they lost the Super Bowl at the
one yard line. Coach at USC called the time out

(25:29):
for Michigan the FA fab five. That would have been
gram gonna bomb on this one to pass?

Speaker 2 (25:40):
All right?

Speaker 1 (25:41):
He was a bash brother for the Oakland Athletics, but
not Mark McGuire and would have been Hose think wow,
all right, you got beat up by Nolan Ryan was
played for the Chicago White Sox third baseman and was
a ranger White Sox game, Nolan Ryan kicked his ass.
I'll pass again. Are you stupid? I know you're I

(26:04):
know you're blind, but you're an idiot? All right? I mean,
my god, how old are you? I'm telling you, Ma,
I'm fifty eight and I'm gad. I'm gonna help you
lose again. Okay, you know what you're done. I don't
you're I'm hanging up on him. The guy who was
talking to the game. Just alright, I just hung up on.
Guy's a loser. He's a blind guys, a loser. Guys.

(26:27):
All right? Hold, this is are you that random line?
Random line?

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Thinking o?

Speaker 1 (26:35):
The random random line? Random? Are other random line? You're
that random line? Look at it? This is who what's
your name? Sir? All right? You don't have time for this.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Let me go all right, Emmett, We've got lay low.
These athletes didn't slash, don't draw attention themselves. Forty five
seconds on o'clock begin He's the biggest star on the Angels.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Last name was a fish my crowd.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
His son is the best wide receiver, best rookie ride receiver.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
In the league right now, Marvin Harrison.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
Yes, this guy was a running back for the Jets Patriots.
He's like the third leading rush of all time. All right,
this guy was a picture for the Yankees. He cried
when he admitted that he cheated. Okay, this guy was
a wide receiver for the Denver Broncos. His son is Christian,

(27:25):
the running back. Christian, yeah, the running back for the
forty nine ers. He's hurt right now, he's very upset.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Tafriano.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
First, oh jeez, all right, this guy was an outfielder
for the Yankees.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
And then, oh my god, how many points did we get?
You got thirty? So you're still ten behind a den
all right, one question?

Speaker 2 (27:46):
He got right?

Speaker 1 (27:46):
All right? Emmittt do you want gin and juice or
the next episode? This is so ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
All right, these sports figures all have a dui arrest.
Forty five seconds. Let's begin. Former tight end. He was
the coach of the nineteen eighty five Bears. That's the
stod Okay, this guy was a running back for the Chargers,
then he went to the Broncos.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
He fumbled a lot, Yes, we got all right, that's it.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
We win, alright, No, no, this guy was.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
The next level late chapter turn cast. We won the game.
We were in the game. The job s gosh, that
is bull that is bull ship.