December 4, 2024 • 39 mins
Big Ben talks about a report that says the Bears are making a run at 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan, Tom Brady supporting the penalizing of quarterbacks for late slides, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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from where else but the NFL is the story that
came across my radar as I spend all.
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Of my free time trying to find things that.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I find interesting to share with you, to talk with
you about my dedicated what they pay me for it.
It's not like I do it out of charity and
when they stop paying me, I'll stop doing it. But
our lead from the Bay Area, a team that many were.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Buzzing about early in the year.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
They were going to get back to the championship of
the NFL the Super Bowl has not worked out for
the forty nine ers. They in fact are on the
outside looking in. They still have a chance because they're
in the NFC West, which blows you know, the division
not good of Geno Smith is in first place. But
right now the Niners are two games under five hundred
and things have shattered.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
They've hit rock bottom with back to.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Back blowouts gutless weather soft West Coast team blown away
at lambeau Field and Green Bay and then they went
to Orchard Park in New York and the Buffalo roamed
right over them. So now there is chatter after the
season ending injury to their MVP running back Christian McCaffrey,
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who got the Madden jinks, there's a lot of chatter
that the Niners coaching room could be to change.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I don't have you heard this or not. Maybe you
saw something about it, maybe you didn't. But there was a.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Very speculative report.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Which is bouncing around the echo chamber that claims the
Chicago Bears should could, would might call the Niners, and
the Bears would call the Niners up and say, hey, hey,
we'd like to have Kyle Shanahan coach the Bears. Let's
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make a deal. You know how this works. You send
a couple of scratcher tickets over if you're Chicago, you
send those scratcher tickets back over to the Bay Area
and boom goes to dynamite and you get a proven
commodity as coach, granted a guy that that has not
been able to win the big game as a coach,
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the spawn of another NFL head coach. But it was
positioned the report as pure speculation by the muckrakers over
at Pro Football Talk. But regardless of that, this storyline
has created some buzz around NFL circles and certainly worthy
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of a few minutes of our time here. So let
us discuss the question, how does this report about the
Bears making a run at a deal for forty nine
Ers coach Kyle Shanahan hit you? So I've got pigeon, alicia,
keys and good table manners, and we will combine all
of these things together and we will be like lambs
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at the slaughter, which is what the Bears have been
for years and what the forty nine ers are right now.
So a lot to unpack on this one. While it
is easy for the naysayer to dismiss this just purely
clickbait headline reporting, I have a sneaking suspicion, having worked
in that world, that this is more of a transformer storyline,
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meaning more than meets the eye, connecting the dots here
connecting the dots, it is more likely than not that
someone of influence, someone on the inside, helped craft this
train of thought, likely likely connected to Kyle Shanahan now
using Mike Florio as a useful idiot, which many have said,
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he is over the years, feed the pigeon. In this case,
he is a messenger pigeon. You throw out the story, say, well,
what if the Bears and they need a coach? What
if they called the Niners? Would Kyle Shanahan want the job?
Would the Niners be willing to trade him? You toss
this out as a blind eye. I'm just talking. I'm
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just speculating harmless. It's benign, and you just toss it
out there. See where it goes. Does it gain any traction?
It actually makes some sense.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It does. It makes some sense. Now page two. Here
the question that.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Must be answered, and I don't know the answer, and
you don't know the answer. Is Kyle Shanahan happy in
San Francisco? And are the Niners happy with him? There's
two sides to the room here. On one side of
the aisle you have Shanahan? Is he happy? On the
other side you have the organization on Now, I can't
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imagine anyone's happy because the Niners suck this year.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
So it's the great unknown. It would appear that in.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
This moment we do the show today, and in this
moment the forty nine ers window of success has closed,
that they got to a couple of Super Bowls.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
They got there with Garoppolo.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
They got there, of course last year losing yet again
with Brock Purty. So they got to a couple of
Super Bowls. They ended up with Bupkiss. Brock Party is
about to get a bag, a giant bag filled with
a bunch of dough and the roster. If you look
at the depth chart, they're growing old at several key spots.
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So they're growing old some key spots. We just discussed
a few seconds ago, the star running back Christian McCaffrey,
who has now broken down. You're now getting the full
Christian McCaffrey experience. He's like the player he was in Carolina.
So if you're looking to escape, if you're Shanahan and
you're looking to escape the Titanic before it sinks out
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in the ocean, the Bear's Job would be a good
lifeboat to get into. You feel me on that, Like,
the Bear's Job would be pretty good. It shoots in ladders,
fresh start with a young stud quarterback and a team
in theory that is climbing up the ladder. Although you
would know it based on their record this year, the
Bears they're climbing up the ladder rather than your current situation.
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You've already climbed up the ladder and now you're on
a trash choote going the wrong direction. The Niners and
the other part of this, which is rather obvious if
you look at this from the outside. In your advising
Kyle Shanahan, the reason you would be more likely than
not to plant this story is q the Alicia Keys
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tune show Me Love right, Because this story, at some
point John Lynch is going to be asked, the GM
of the Niners is going to be asked by the
media dopes, Hey, do you support Kyle Shannan If the
Bears called the Niners, would you trade him? So then
John Lynch has to say either we love Kyle Shanahan,
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we would never consider trading him. Ownership loves him, and
they would have to publicly endorse Shanahan.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Which is the most likely outcome, or he would say
something along the lines, well, we're not at that point yet.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
We'll see what happens, but we if if Kyle's happy,
you want him here and give a vague answer. But
in many ways, this is a play out of the
college football play But you see this all the time
in big time collegiate football, where let's say you're the
head coach at Washington.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
It's just happened a few months back.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
You're the head coach at Washington, and let's say Nick
Saban leaves Alabama and they're interested, and so then the
ball's in the court of the University of Washington. You're like,
all right, you either get a raise and you stay
at Washington, or you say bye bye and they give
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you a couple of Brinks trucks filled with cash to
head to Tuscal, loose Alabama and take the money and
then last a couple of years and get whacked because
you're not Nick Saban.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
All right? Now the last word here.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
The entire story involving an NFL coach being traded, the
entire story bring up an interesting quagmire, a conundrum, if
you will.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
That the question asked me is why don't.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
We see this more often where coaches are traded.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
In the NFL. Now it has happened. It has happened.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
John Gruden was traded, Bill Belichick famously traded from the
Jets to the Patriots, the most famous coach traded of
all time, and there have been some others. There have
been some others. There's also been some near misses. The
story was years ago Jim Harball when he was with
the forty nine ers. The Cleveland Browns tried to trade
for him and it was gonna happen, and then it
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didn't happen. At the last minute, the thing fell apart.
But by and large, to answer the question why don't
we see coaches traded more often in the NFL, have
a theory on this. I'll run this by you here.
My theory is good table manners, good tableman out of
professional courtesy. You don't flirt with someone who's married to
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another team some other teams coaches. It is seen as
a breach of etiquette, is what it's seen as. And
when you consider the shortage of quality coaches, the supply
chain shortage of coaches, it does make you scratch your
head and what are we doing here? It's rather odd
that that has continued over the years. I've been doing
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this job a long time and very rarely does it
get discussed a head coach being traded in the NFL.
When you look around aside from a franchise quarterback, and
there's only a few of those aside from a franchise quarterback,
a top level head coach, A quality coach.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Is next on.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
The big board, not a list, not a list, big board,
big board, big.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Bangs, big board.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
But the point is a quality head coach, which is
also hard to find. There's a lot of Broni's, right,
a lot of dingle Berry's head coach in the NFL,
A lot of them. You're much more likely to find
another Matt Eberflus than you are to find the next
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Mike Tomlin or Sean McVay. Right, the old line, you
gotta kiss a lot of frogs before you find a
prince and all that.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
But a quality coach so they're worth their weight in goal.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
They set the foundation, the environment, They make the right
decisions on.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Who to play and who not to play, and all that.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
So when it gets time to hire a new coach,
would you rather hire a retread coach who may or
may not have had success in their last job, some
unproven coordinator, some hotshot coordinator who's never been a head coach?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Or would you.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Rather trade a third round pick and a conditional draft
pick for a battle tested head coach with a track
record of success.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I would be willing to trade a first run. But
now Kyle Shannan is he even though he's.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Got his foibles, he's got his weaknesses. Among the NFL coaches,
at least during the regular season, Shannan has proven to
be a pretty good coach in the regular season that
has some issues there in big games, going back to
his days as a coordinator with the Atlanta Falcons. No
need to go back down that road. But the point
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stands that if you need a head coach and you're
not really sure, I mean, you can hire some college coach,
but who knows if they're going to work out or not.
It seems rather obvious. It seems rather obvious that would
be the direction that you would want to go.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
We'll see if anything.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Happens because of this report. Again, we always try to
find out who leaked the story. And while many will
say it's just a made up story, I tend to
think it's coming from the Shanahan camp.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
It's coming from the Kyle Shannahan camp. And there's something there.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
There's meat on the bone with this. Now, how much
meat is on the bone, I don't know. I'm not
eating the meal. I'm not I'm just talking about the meal.
But I'm not actually I'm fasting through the meal.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I'm not actually eating the meal.
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Speaker 3 (15:32):
We didn't start the show with this. I thought the
Kyle Shanahan story was more interesting.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
But our lead this hour is from the post mortem
on the suspension herd. Around the NFL, the other shoe
dropped on Tuesday, the NFL Big Brother came down the
hammer of God, suspending Texans linebacker Aziz Allshire for not one,
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not two, but three games they claim for repeated violations
of players Safety rule guidelines.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
This after the hit to Jacksonville quarterback Trevor.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Lawrence, which started a melee in Jacksonville. Now, reactions have
been pouring in from around the NFL. NFL media elites
have commented on this players former players.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
The one with the most traction is an ex pat.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
So that's the one we're gonna focus in on here.
If you didn't hear, perhaps not Fox's Tom Brady. Tom
Brady suggesting that quarterbacks be penalized or even fined for
plays like Trevor Lawrence made that resulted an Aziz al
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Shier being suspended for three games.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Now, he appeared on FSR here with.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Our colleague Colin Cowherd, and Brady said maybe they fine
or penalize quarterbacks for sliding ladies. Look, if we don't
want these hits to take place, Brady continued, we've got
to penalize the offense and the defense rather than just
penalize the defensive player for every single play that happens
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when there's a hit on the quarterback.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Okay, close quote.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Let us discuss the question, Tom Brady supporting the penalizing
of quarterbacks for late slides and that type of activity
on these bang bang plays.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Your thoughts.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
So I've got pendulum, popular vote, and oprah, and we
will combine all of these things.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Together and we are going to put the biscuit in
the basket.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
So Num Burn now, generally speaking, which is what we do,
we do general talk radio, the sports variety. But generally speaking,
if you've heard the show over the years, you know
that my position is one where I'm in agreement with
Tom Brady on this. I had the unpopular opinion which
clearly the NFL did not agree with, that this was
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not a war crime. That the hitden question the other day.
But as far as what Brady said now supporting the
penalizing the punishment of quarterbacks for late slides, the pearl
clutching crowd who hide behind their smartphones are going to
have to sit this one on. What Brady is saying
for me is just common sense. But again, I grew
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up in the era with the NFL's Hardest Hits by
NFL films and celebrating that type of football. And we've
done a one eighty, Like, we've done a one eighty
from what that was to what this is now, and
it's I just can't I can't imagine where we're going next.
But how is the defense? Let me ask you this
serious question, how is the defender supposed to know what you,
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as the quarterback, are going to do when you haven't
started sliding until it's too late for them to stop. Now,
a lot of this is gamesmanship. That's the word here.
It's games and ship. The quarterbacks realize that they're special people.
They're a protected class if you're a quarterback, so they
are taking full advantage of dumb people.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
That's the key to life, You take advantage of dumb people.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
So quarterbacks know, since they are a protected class, that
they're going to take advantage of the rule book and
they'll wait to slide the very last moment, trying to
get as many yards, of course, as possible. They also
know that they're more likely to draw a penalty. And
the whole thing is horse poop. It's fifty shades of
greg The pendulum has swung too far in favor of
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the quarterback rights, and we need the pigskin Supreme Court.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
To get involved. Rules need to be changed.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Quarterbacks should not be able to fake a slide or
stutter step along the sidelines and pretend like they're going
out of buns and then do the old the old
psych just kidding and get some extra yards, right. Shouldn't
be able to do that. Should not happens all the time.
All right, now, pitchdo as far as the big picture,
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because we're all about the big picture here on the
Overnight Show, what did you make of the NFL's adjudication
of Texas linebacker Aziz al Schier, which included from some
very very saucy language directed at the ballplayer, so that
aside just well focusing on the punishment. So the sentence
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was handed down to win the popular vote.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
The sentence was handed down to win the.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Popular The NFL knew that that is going to get
support from the casuals, and that's who most of their
customers are they're not hardcore people. Most of the people
that support the NFL are casual fans and people who
don't understand how fast the game of football is played.
People that believe that these are actually robots and that
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they can stop on a dime, and that people over
at Tesla Elon Musk and the people at Tesla have
cooked up a wonderful way to make these people seem human,
but they're they're not. Maybe they're they're robots or lizard
people whatever, but they're not humans. And so they can
stop in mid air. And the low information fans seize
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this punishment and they just lick their chops and they
love it and they can't get enough. It will get
matrix level approval in the NFL in many ways. And
all these these teams have not figured out that that
social media is not real, right, It's that it's it's
a fake world that is manipulated.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
They haven't figured that out.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
So the bots, the cyborgs, the sock puppet accounts will
support this punishment and make an example out of a
zizou Shire.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Now, by MO.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Means do I support his politics. I think the guy's
alluding to him. But we're merely judging him on the
football play, which is all I care about. I'm in
it for the football stuff.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
And that other you know, other nonsense.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
You can save that for somewhere else, but just from
a pure football standpoint.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
And they absolutely buried him.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
And I did see the Texans come out the GM
of the Texans, and he came out and supported his player,
which you would expect him to do, and he used
some saucy language. He used the naughty word. Oh my god,
he used the naughty word. Oh he's gonna get punished,
all right.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Now, final point. I'm going to turn the page.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Now, turn the page from the Tom Brady and his
reaction to Aziz al Shier, the Texans linebacker.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
We'll get your thoughts on that if you want. But
final point.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
We turned Now the Pinwheel Lands and we are going
to Jacksonville, another crap bag team. That's the other half
of this question, right, The Texans Jags Trevor Lawrence, according
to some Internet reports, decapitated.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
He was not. So I saw this and I thought
this was amusing.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
A fan shared what appears to be a cameo video
of former Ohio state coach Urban Byer Urbanbyyer.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yeah, Urban Meyer. So in this clip which has gone
round and round and round the echo chamber. In the clip,
Urban Meyer, who was coach in Jacksonville for about a minute,
about a minute, endorsed Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson. He's
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all about the Johnson Urban Meyer to replace Doug Peterson
as Jacksonville's head coach.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
In the clip, which has picked up a lot of
steam here, Erbin Meyer says, all right, mister shad as
in Shod Cohn, the owner there, you invest a lot
into this frame, Urban said, and now it is time
to make the right decision to get a return. Meyer
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went on to say, the kid you've got down there
as a gunslinger, Frank Trevor Lawrence A build it around him,
building around him. Don't go for the old guard, go
for the young and the fresh higher band, not Bill Well.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
I like that, meaning belichicker forth higher Ben.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
All right, So how do you react to erban Byer
and his They're calling it accidental endorsement of Lions offensive
coordinator Ben Johnson.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
For the Jacksonville coaching job. So I love this, right,
I think.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
This is hilarious, and this is the world we're in.
And it's it was Oprah like. It was Oprah like.
Remember during the election, which was just a few weeks ago,
when when Kamala Harris's camp paid Oprah Winfrey like two
and a half million dollars or something for some town
hall and there was this big controversy about that bunch
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of celebrities got paid. They claimed it wasn't for endorsements,
but most people that have a brain, picket was for endorsement.
So so in that respect, urban Meyer is a cheap date, okay,
because I looked it up and on cameo he charges
three hundred and forty five dollars. So some fan will
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call the fan I don't know the fans name Joe Blow.
So Joe Blow fan pays three hundred and forty five dollars.
Has urban Meyer do a cameo sending a pep talk
to Sead Khan, the owner of the Jacksonville football team.
It then goes viral. You talk about a discount rate,
Now I should raise my rate. I'm on cameo. I
don't promote it much, but if every once in a
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while a few people are are big super fans, and
there's a couple guys every year you know, birthdays come
up or some event, and I'll go little.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Cameo for him.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
But I'm charging a fraction of that. I mean, as
someone on cameo. It does go with the territory. It
does go with the territory. And you get these requests
and you have to decide a do I make this public?
What's the point of not making a public because anything
you do is going to be public anyway. And then
you're like, do I accept this or not? Like there's
a lot that goes into it, and then you're like, well,
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I'm greedy.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
I want the money, so I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
And that's normally how how that goes in the end.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
I have turned some down. There have been something that.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I've heard down that I felt like would come back
and cause problems down the line, so I've rejected those
for a nominal fee that I did turn down. Every
once in a while, it does happen. Urban Meyer, we're
three hundred and forty five dogs. We should have Urban Meyer.
We should we should pay him. I endorse the Ben Malacer.
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We just get a bunch of celebrities to endorse the show,
and then we'll just play that on the show and
then we're good, but make it seem like we're very
popular with powerful people, but we're more popular which like
regular people.
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Speaker 3 (27:08):
It's Mallard. How about that? To the third degree? This
is one big Ben gets grill kubelu coldt said.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Coach Shane Stiken gave a recent interview and talked about
how Anthony Richardson has quote made great strides and shown
growth in all aspects of his game since his demotion
earlier in the season.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
Ben, do you agree with Stiking?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
No, he had.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
The one thing that Anthony richards has done is he's
shown that he can make plays in the clutch that
at nineteen play drive against the Patriots. Overall, though he's
been bad, he's the thirty third ranked quarterback in the
NFL over the last month. He's actually played worse statistically
than Joe Flacco. So I don't know what the bleep
Shane Stike is talking about other than a few plays
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late in the game, which if you look at the
Patriot game, that two point conversion he made with his
legs not his arm, and they're paying him to be
a quarterback. That's the problem. So I do not agree
with Shane Steichen overall.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Next, it is being reported that multiple teams have inquired
about signing All Star closer Clay Holmes.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
What up Holmes as a starting pitcher?
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (28:11):
Ben? Do you think Holmes will go that route? And
will it be successful?
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Well? He was so bad with the Yankees last year.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I think he led baseball and blown saves that this
is this makes it.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
You make more money as a starter than you do
as a reliever.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
And if you suck as a reliever and you can
build your arm up and be a starter, why would
you not do it? You can continue on get get
fully vested in that MLB pension.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
That's the way to go. Next, there is.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
A topic that I've seen popping up all over social
media lately, Ben, and that is that Joe Burrow is
the next Dan Marino.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
How do you feel about this comparison?
Speaker 1 (28:46):
How about the next Philip Rivers? You know, I don't
know about Dan Dan Rago, Philip Rivers. Oh yeah, Burrow
got to a Super Bowl lost to the Rams, and
it seems unlikely the Bengals are ever going to get
back to another Super Bowl in my lifetime at least
anytime soon with Burroughs.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
So uh yeah, all right, how read out.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
You pass this edition?
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That is a win put on the board. I won.
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Dear ry.
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You heard the man, It's time for love. On the
Ben Mala Show. I'm your side host, Lorena, take it away.
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Ben.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
I like that you have the announcing voice there. It's
was it good announcing? Uh yeah, sure? Why not? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
And I also like the fact that we're still using
the temporary open sent in by a listener that we
are using after all these months.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
That is tremendous. Impressed, absolutely tremendous.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
I would like a Christmas version though, Okay, so.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Our guy in Oklahoma wants to send a Christmas version,
you can do.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
That is Queen of Hearts. Here comes Queen of Hearts.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Okay, you're very specific. You're very needy. If anyone wants
to call up, we'll take some calls coople. Let me know.
We have people lined up for you at eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
But the first one is gonna help you get.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Cowboy Killer says he has two questions. He says, does
age really matter? And is it okay to be talking
to multiple people while not being committed?
Speaker 7 (30:40):
Live your best life, baby? Yeah, until anyone actually puts
a ring on it or you say you are committed,
you are free to do as you please. At least
that's how the love life works these days. What was
the first part of that question?
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Well, he's worried about you know, his age matter.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
Oh no, it doesn't. It doesn't matter long they're not
a minor. My parents for twenty years apart. Yeah, and
granted she was a minor when they started it. Amn, hello, hello,
it's in the details. It was the eighties, it didn't count, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Sure, well yeah, that's what Pete Rose said when he
got in trouble anyway. Matt Jack writes in says, for
the Queen of Hearts, what are good inexpensive gift ideas
for a significant other holidays?
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Of course, here.
Speaker 7 (31:21):
Maybe you should get them a cross stitch pattern book.
It's a great way.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
To kill time.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Random. How about adult coloring book?
Speaker 6 (31:30):
Oh, you know sometimes those are cool, but also coloring
I don't know. It's fun. It's fun. You're about to
take a shot.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
You were about to take a shot.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
I just don't I'm not into coloring books. I tried.
I have my sloth book.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Well now, man, if you can help this man, Lorena,
you're gonna win a Marconi Award. Diamonds and yeah, hollering, James.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Has called in. Oh, hi, some advice, James. His right
hand is getting a workout. Hello James, Hi, Lorena was
a boo. What's up, Ben, James? You sound depressed? Everything okay, James?
Speaker 6 (32:07):
Hey, you know my thirty six pills a day in
the morning, night in the evening.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
They just stay getting it.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
Lorena, I need some vig do you?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I mean, how could she possibly? You might? You might
need it.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
A lot of people suffer from a rectile dysfunction, So
you know what, do what you need?
Speaker 5 (32:29):
Baby?
Speaker 6 (32:29):
How did you get what you need?
Speaker 3 (32:32):
I don't think you necessarily need it. You normally need
it if you have somebody else in the room. But anyway, right,
thank you. James A ferg Dog.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Writes, ins is how important is it to drink pineapple
juice before.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
A hot date? Is that a thing?
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (32:46):
What is that? The legend doctor kidding told me?
Speaker 5 (32:52):
I don't know, but I like that.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
King Roy writes and says, what is the right age
to tell my kids?
Speaker 3 (32:59):
That say is not real? The right age?
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (33:03):
Oh no, no, you never tell them.
Speaker 7 (33:05):
You just let them see you putting the gifts out,
and usually by then they're old enough to go and
then go, oh, that's really sweet.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
My parents did that for me.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Well, typically you don't have to. The kids in the
playground will say it right, they're a holes.
Speaker 7 (33:19):
So you got that, and then don't come and then
your kid will come home crying.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Well, nowadays it's a lot easier sause you got all
the answers and once once the kid's on the phone on.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
The internet, it's over, so they'll, you know, look everything up. JT.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
The Wingman writes in for the Queen of Hearts, is
it okay for me to buy lingerie for my girlfriend's mother?
Speaker 3 (33:39):
I'm asking for a friend? Wow, dad, wow, wow.
Speaker 7 (33:44):
Lingerie is great always you know that's fine? Back to
that pineapple thing real fast. Oh yeah, suggest consuming it
more than right before, because you want it to work
into your systems on.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
A regular basis.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
Yeah, you just constantly be drinking pineapple juice.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
A lot of pineapple.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
That's that's the other about that.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Any other things people could drink there, Lorraine, and it
might help.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
I don't know, I heard any type of fruit, to
be honest, can be very puntent in changing flavors. Probably
more citrusy though, Yeah, get it to taste like Kiwi's.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Like a kiwi type thing my mouth.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
But they're very acidic, which makes me think of.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
That, well very specific there.
Speaker 7 (34:24):
You ever eat a kiwi and it like literally burns
your mouth because it's so acidic.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
No, anyway, Kathy and Madison writes in as she says,
your majesty, what should a nice girl do if a
gentleman sends her a six pick?
Speaker 6 (34:41):
A six pick? Yeah, like a six pick, like a
picture of a six She.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Sent a six pig? Well, I think she might have
meant something.
Speaker 7 (34:49):
Oh yeah, I hate that solicited I absolutely hate unsolicited.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Pack Like you'd like to request that you want to?
Speaker 7 (35:00):
I know I would like to have it from someone
that I enjoy their appendage.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
I don't want to see randoms. That's weird.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
You don't like the random I.
Speaker 7 (35:08):
Had someone do that when I was walking on the
sidewalk one time. They ran up with their cell phone.
They're like, what do you think.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Really? Lie man? I that's that's an interesting movie.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
Might as well have been wearing a trench coat.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Yeah, there you go, Queen of Hearts right there the ring.
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Is password, you idiot. Password the word Game of the Stars.
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Speaker 3 (35:54):
I get that Bill O'Reilly reference. There you go. It's
a classic moment in television. Who do you like to
partner up with? Mark? You got me coop? Or Lorena?
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Would Loraine not like to play with me? Wow?
Speaker 3 (36:09):
That sounds very appropriate. Lorain? You want to play the game?
Speaker 4 (36:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Say all right, let's say a load to keg drinking.
Steve keg drinking Steve, who do you want to partner
up with?
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Buddy? I want to come.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
With a Ben Mirror show.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Did you know this girl's making four million.
Speaker 6 (36:27):
Dollars a month on Instagram?
Speaker 2 (36:29):
This eighteen year old is a devout Christian and a Virgin.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
I think it's the only fans is where she's making
the money. But good for her. There you go, all right,
who do you want to part of me? Or coop?
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Ben Marror?
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Okay, there you go. He sounds all right? Stop that right?
Stop mark pick up word one to ten? Please hurry up?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Top top seven, number seven, all right, number seven, Loraina?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Number seven? Oh boy, cord rope? Now, how about uh,
let's go with yarn yarn?
Speaker 5 (37:20):
I see that's yours. That's your turn?
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Are you there, Steve? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, well yarn?
Speaker 6 (37:27):
Oh my god, your clue is yarn?
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Yarn? What is the word we're looking for?
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Yarn?
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Yeah? Uh?
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (37:36):
Show what he said? Sewing?
Speaker 1 (37:41):
I'm getting I'm getting sad, bagging me, sir, Lorena.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
We should be able to beat the drunk guy, right, Uh, stitch, stitch?
How about I got one rope? How about rope? What
are you stupid?
Speaker 7 (38:14):
All right?
Speaker 3 (38:14):
You know I'm gonna ban you from this game. Dude,
I'm gonna ban your ass.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
Mis Okay, let's try this one.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
You're not trying, You're you're an a hole.
Speaker 6 (38:22):
Go ahead, yarn.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
I said that, didn't I say that.
Speaker 6 (38:26):
I'm gonna try it again.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Works like thin thin yarn. Oh that's cheating.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
Oh yeah, that is cheating.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
You cannot can't that the words No, the word is string.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
String.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
All right, and you heard the single worst edition of password,
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sandbagged the entire Efford game. And I want integrity, I
want I want people that want
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came across my radar as I spend all.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Of my free time trying to find things that.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I find interesting to share with you, to talk with
you about my dedicated what they pay me for it.
It's not like I do it out of charity and
when they stop paying me, I'll stop doing it. But
our lead from the Bay Area, a team that many were.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Buzzing about early in the year.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
They were going to get back to the championship of
the NFL the Super Bowl has not worked out for
the forty nine ers. They in fact are on the
outside looking in. They still have a chance because they're
in the NFC West, which blows you know, the division
not good of Geno Smith is in first place. But
right now the Niners are two games under five hundred
and things have shattered.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
They've hit rock bottom with back to.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Back blowouts gutless weather soft West Coast team blown away
at lambeau Field and Green Bay and then they went
to Orchard Park in New York and the Buffalo roamed
right over them. So now there is chatter after the
season ending injury to their MVP running back Christian McCaffrey,
(03:06):
who got the Madden jinks, there's a lot of chatter
that the Niners coaching room could be to change.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I don't have you heard this or not. Maybe you
saw something about it, maybe you didn't. But there was a.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Very speculative report.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Which is bouncing around the echo chamber that claims the
Chicago Bears should could, would might call the Niners, and
the Bears would call the Niners up and say, hey, hey,
we'd like to have Kyle Shanahan coach the Bears. Let's
(03:42):
make a deal. You know how this works. You send
a couple of scratcher tickets over if you're Chicago, you
send those scratcher tickets back over to the Bay Area
and boom goes to dynamite and you get a proven
commodity as coach, granted a guy that that has not
been able to win the big game as a coach,
(04:02):
the spawn of another NFL head coach. But it was
positioned the report as pure speculation by the muckrakers over
at Pro Football Talk. But regardless of that, this storyline
has created some buzz around NFL circles and certainly worthy
(04:23):
of a few minutes of our time here. So let
us discuss the question, how does this report about the
Bears making a run at a deal for forty nine
Ers coach Kyle Shanahan hit you? So I've got pigeon, alicia,
keys and good table manners, and we will combine all
of these things together and we will be like lambs
(04:48):
at the slaughter, which is what the Bears have been
for years and what the forty nine ers are right now.
So a lot to unpack on this one. While it
is easy for the naysayer to dismiss this just purely
clickbait headline reporting, I have a sneaking suspicion, having worked
in that world, that this is more of a transformer storyline,
(05:11):
meaning more than meets the eye, connecting the dots here
connecting the dots, it is more likely than not that
someone of influence, someone on the inside, helped craft this
train of thought, likely likely connected to Kyle Shanahan now
using Mike Florio as a useful idiot, which many have said,
(05:34):
he is over the years, feed the pigeon. In this case,
he is a messenger pigeon. You throw out the story, say, well,
what if the Bears and they need a coach? What
if they called the Niners? Would Kyle Shanahan want the job?
Would the Niners be willing to trade him? You toss
this out as a blind eye. I'm just talking. I'm
(05:55):
just speculating harmless. It's benign, and you just toss it
out there. See where it goes. Does it gain any traction?
It actually makes some sense.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It does. It makes some sense. Now page two. Here
the question that.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Must be answered, and I don't know the answer, and
you don't know the answer. Is Kyle Shanahan happy in
San Francisco? And are the Niners happy with him? There's
two sides to the room here. On one side of
the aisle you have Shanahan? Is he happy? On the
other side you have the organization on Now, I can't
(06:30):
imagine anyone's happy because the Niners suck this year.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
So it's the great unknown. It would appear that in.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
This moment we do the show today, and in this
moment the forty nine ers window of success has closed,
that they got to a couple of Super Bowls.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
They got there with Garoppolo.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
They got there, of course last year losing yet again
with Brock Purty. So they got to a couple of
Super Bowls. They ended up with Bupkiss. Brock Party is
about to get a bag, a giant bag filled with
a bunch of dough and the roster. If you look
at the depth chart, they're growing old at several key spots.
(07:13):
So they're growing old some key spots. We just discussed
a few seconds ago, the star running back Christian McCaffrey,
who has now broken down. You're now getting the full
Christian McCaffrey experience. He's like the player he was in Carolina.
So if you're looking to escape, if you're Shanahan and
you're looking to escape the Titanic before it sinks out
(07:34):
in the ocean, the Bear's Job would be a good
lifeboat to get into. You feel me on that, Like,
the Bear's Job would be pretty good. It shoots in ladders,
fresh start with a young stud quarterback and a team
in theory that is climbing up the ladder. Although you
would know it based on their record this year, the
Bears they're climbing up the ladder rather than your current situation.
(08:00):
You've already climbed up the ladder and now you're on
a trash choote going the wrong direction. The Niners and
the other part of this, which is rather obvious if
you look at this from the outside. In your advising
Kyle Shanahan, the reason you would be more likely than
not to plant this story is q the Alicia Keys
(08:21):
tune show Me Love right, Because this story, at some
point John Lynch is going to be asked, the GM
of the Niners is going to be asked by the
media dopes, Hey, do you support Kyle Shannan If the
Bears called the Niners, would you trade him? So then
John Lynch has to say either we love Kyle Shanahan,
(08:45):
we would never consider trading him. Ownership loves him, and
they would have to publicly endorse Shanahan.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Which is the most likely outcome, or he would say
something along the lines, well, we're not at that point yet.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
We'll see what happens, but we if if Kyle's happy,
you want him here and give a vague answer. But
in many ways, this is a play out of the
college football play But you see this all the time
in big time collegiate football, where let's say you're the
head coach at Washington.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
It's just happened a few months back.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
You're the head coach at Washington, and let's say Nick
Saban leaves Alabama and they're interested, and so then the
ball's in the court of the University of Washington. You're like,
all right, you either get a raise and you stay
at Washington, or you say bye bye and they give
(09:40):
you a couple of Brinks trucks filled with cash to
head to Tuscal, loose Alabama and take the money and
then last a couple of years and get whacked because
you're not Nick Saban.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
All right? Now the last word here.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
The entire story involving an NFL coach being traded, the
entire story bring up an interesting quagmire, a conundrum, if
you will.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
That the question asked me is why don't.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
We see this more often where coaches are traded.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
In the NFL. Now it has happened. It has happened.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
John Gruden was traded, Bill Belichick famously traded from the
Jets to the Patriots, the most famous coach traded of
all time, and there have been some others. There have
been some others. There's also been some near misses. The
story was years ago Jim Harball when he was with
the forty nine ers. The Cleveland Browns tried to trade
for him and it was gonna happen, and then it
(10:38):
didn't happen. At the last minute, the thing fell apart.
But by and large, to answer the question why don't
we see coaches traded more often in the NFL, have
a theory on this. I'll run this by you here.
My theory is good table manners, good tableman out of
professional courtesy. You don't flirt with someone who's married to
(11:03):
another team some other teams coaches. It is seen as
a breach of etiquette, is what it's seen as. And
when you consider the shortage of quality coaches, the supply
chain shortage of coaches, it does make you scratch your
head and what are we doing here? It's rather odd
that that has continued over the years. I've been doing
(11:24):
this job a long time and very rarely does it
get discussed a head coach being traded in the NFL.
When you look around aside from a franchise quarterback, and
there's only a few of those aside from a franchise quarterback,
a top level head coach, A quality coach.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Is next on.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
The big board, not a list, not a list, big board,
big board, big.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Bangs, big board.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
But the point is a quality head coach, which is
also hard to find. There's a lot of Broni's, right,
a lot of dingle Berry's head coach in the NFL,
A lot of them. You're much more likely to find
another Matt Eberflus than you are to find the next
(12:13):
Mike Tomlin or Sean McVay. Right, the old line, you
gotta kiss a lot of frogs before you find a
prince and all that.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
But a quality coach so they're worth their weight in goal.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
They set the foundation, the environment, They make the right
decisions on.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Who to play and who not to play, and all that.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
So when it gets time to hire a new coach,
would you rather hire a retread coach who may or
may not have had success in their last job, some
unproven coordinator, some hotshot coordinator who's never been a head coach?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Or would you.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Rather trade a third round pick and a conditional draft
pick for a battle tested head coach with a track
record of success.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I would be willing to trade a first run. But
now Kyle Shannan is he even though he's.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Got his foibles, he's got his weaknesses. Among the NFL coaches,
at least during the regular season, Shannan has proven to
be a pretty good coach in the regular season that
has some issues there in big games, going back to
his days as a coordinator with the Atlanta Falcons. No
need to go back down that road. But the point
(13:26):
stands that if you need a head coach and you're
not really sure, I mean, you can hire some college coach,
but who knows if they're going to work out or not.
It seems rather obvious. It seems rather obvious that would
be the direction that you would want to go.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
We'll see if anything.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Happens because of this report. Again, we always try to
find out who leaked the story. And while many will
say it's just a made up story, I tend to
think it's coming from the Shanahan camp.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
It's coming from the Kyle Shannahan camp. And there's something there.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
There's meat on the bone with this. Now, how much
meat is on the bone, I don't know. I'm not
eating the meal. I'm not I'm just talking about the meal.
But I'm not actually I'm fasting through the meal.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I'm not actually eating the meal.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
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tire buying showed be so the story that everyone's talking about.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
We didn't start the show with this. I thought the
Kyle Shanahan story was more interesting.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
But our lead this hour is from the post mortem
on the suspension herd. Around the NFL, the other shoe
dropped on Tuesday, the NFL Big Brother came down the
hammer of God, suspending Texans linebacker Aziz Allshire for not one,
(15:58):
not two, but three games they claim for repeated violations
of players Safety rule guidelines.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
This after the hit to Jacksonville quarterback Trevor.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Lawrence, which started a melee in Jacksonville. Now, reactions have
been pouring in from around the NFL. NFL media elites
have commented on this players former players.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
The one with the most traction is an ex pat.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
So that's the one we're gonna focus in on here.
If you didn't hear, perhaps not Fox's Tom Brady. Tom
Brady suggesting that quarterbacks be penalized or even fined for
plays like Trevor Lawrence made that resulted an Aziz al
(16:50):
Shier being suspended for three games.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Now, he appeared on FSR here with.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Our colleague Colin Cowherd, and Brady said maybe they fine
or penalize quarterbacks for sliding ladies. Look, if we don't
want these hits to take place, Brady continued, we've got
to penalize the offense and the defense rather than just
penalize the defensive player for every single play that happens
(17:17):
when there's a hit on the quarterback.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Okay, close quote.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Let us discuss the question, Tom Brady supporting the penalizing
of quarterbacks for late slides and that type of activity
on these bang bang plays.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Your thoughts.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
So I've got pendulum, popular vote, and oprah, and we
will combine all of these things.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Together and we are going to put the biscuit in
the basket.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
So Num Burn now, generally speaking, which is what we do,
we do general talk radio, the sports variety. But generally speaking,
if you've heard the show over the years, you know
that my position is one where I'm in agreement with
Tom Brady on this. I had the unpopular opinion which
clearly the NFL did not agree with, that this was
(18:10):
not a war crime. That the hitden question the other day.
But as far as what Brady said now supporting the
penalizing the punishment of quarterbacks for late slides, the pearl
clutching crowd who hide behind their smartphones are going to
have to sit this one on. What Brady is saying
for me is just common sense. But again, I grew
(18:33):
up in the era with the NFL's Hardest Hits by
NFL films and celebrating that type of football. And we've
done a one eighty, Like, we've done a one eighty
from what that was to what this is now, and
it's I just can't I can't imagine where we're going next.
But how is the defense? Let me ask you this
serious question, how is the defender supposed to know what you,
(18:56):
as the quarterback, are going to do when you haven't
started sliding until it's too late for them to stop. Now,
a lot of this is gamesmanship. That's the word here.
It's games and ship. The quarterbacks realize that they're special people.
They're a protected class if you're a quarterback, so they
are taking full advantage of dumb people.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
That's the key to life, You take advantage of dumb people.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
So quarterbacks know, since they are a protected class, that
they're going to take advantage of the rule book and
they'll wait to slide the very last moment, trying to
get as many yards, of course, as possible. They also
know that they're more likely to draw a penalty. And
the whole thing is horse poop. It's fifty shades of
greg The pendulum has swung too far in favor of
(19:45):
the quarterback rights, and we need the pigskin Supreme Court.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
To get involved. Rules need to be changed.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Quarterbacks should not be able to fake a slide or
stutter step along the sidelines and pretend like they're going
out of buns and then do the old the old
psych just kidding and get some extra yards, right. Shouldn't
be able to do that. Should not happens all the time.
All right, now, pitchdo as far as the big picture,
(20:14):
because we're all about the big picture here on the
Overnight Show, what did you make of the NFL's adjudication
of Texas linebacker Aziz al Schier, which included from some
very very saucy language directed at the ballplayer, so that
aside just well focusing on the punishment. So the sentence
(20:39):
was handed down to win the popular vote.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
The sentence was handed down to win the.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Popular The NFL knew that that is going to get
support from the casuals, and that's who most of their
customers are they're not hardcore people. Most of the people
that support the NFL are casual fans and people who
don't understand how fast the game of football is played.
People that believe that these are actually robots and that
(21:08):
they can stop on a dime, and that people over
at Tesla Elon Musk and the people at Tesla have
cooked up a wonderful way to make these people seem human,
but they're they're not. Maybe they're they're robots or lizard
people whatever, but they're not humans. And so they can
stop in mid air. And the low information fans seize
(21:31):
this punishment and they just lick their chops and they
love it and they can't get enough. It will get
matrix level approval in the NFL in many ways. And
all these these teams have not figured out that that
social media is not real, right, It's that it's it's
a fake world that is manipulated.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
They haven't figured that out.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
So the bots, the cyborgs, the sock puppet accounts will
support this punishment and make an example out of a
zizou Shire.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Now, by MO.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Means do I support his politics. I think the guy's
alluding to him. But we're merely judging him on the
football play, which is all I care about. I'm in
it for the football stuff.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
And that other you know, other nonsense.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
You can save that for somewhere else, but just from
a pure football standpoint.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
And they absolutely buried him.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
And I did see the Texans come out the GM
of the Texans, and he came out and supported his player,
which you would expect him to do, and he used
some saucy language. He used the naughty word. Oh my god,
he used the naughty word. Oh he's gonna get punished,
all right.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Now, final point. I'm going to turn the page.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Now, turn the page from the Tom Brady and his
reaction to Aziz al Shier, the Texans linebacker.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
We'll get your thoughts on that if you want. But
final point.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
We turned Now the Pinwheel Lands and we are going
to Jacksonville, another crap bag team. That's the other half
of this question, right, The Texans Jags Trevor Lawrence, according
to some Internet reports, decapitated.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
He was not. So I saw this and I thought
this was amusing.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
A fan shared what appears to be a cameo video
of former Ohio state coach Urban Byer Urbanbyyer.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yeah, Urban Meyer. So in this clip which has gone
round and round and round the echo chamber. In the clip,
Urban Meyer, who was coach in Jacksonville for about a minute,
about a minute, endorsed Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson. He's
(23:39):
all about the Johnson Urban Meyer to replace Doug Peterson
as Jacksonville's head coach.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
In the clip, which has picked up a lot of
steam here, Erbin Meyer says, all right, mister shad as
in Shod Cohn, the owner there, you invest a lot
into this frame, Urban said, and now it is time
to make the right decision to get a return. Meyer
(24:08):
went on to say, the kid you've got down there
as a gunslinger, Frank Trevor Lawrence A build it around him,
building around him. Don't go for the old guard, go
for the young and the fresh higher band, not Bill Well.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
I like that, meaning belichicker forth higher Ben.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
All right, So how do you react to erban Byer
and his They're calling it accidental endorsement of Lions offensive
coordinator Ben Johnson.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
For the Jacksonville coaching job. So I love this, right,
I think.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
This is hilarious, and this is the world we're in.
And it's it was Oprah like. It was Oprah like.
Remember during the election, which was just a few weeks ago,
when when Kamala Harris's camp paid Oprah Winfrey like two
and a half million dollars or something for some town
hall and there was this big controversy about that bunch
(25:08):
of celebrities got paid. They claimed it wasn't for endorsements,
but most people that have a brain, picket was for endorsement.
So so in that respect, urban Meyer is a cheap date, okay,
because I looked it up and on cameo he charges
three hundred and forty five dollars. So some fan will
(25:28):
call the fan I don't know the fans name Joe Blow.
So Joe Blow fan pays three hundred and forty five dollars.
Has urban Meyer do a cameo sending a pep talk
to Sead Khan, the owner of the Jacksonville football team.
It then goes viral. You talk about a discount rate,
Now I should raise my rate. I'm on cameo. I
don't promote it much, but if every once in a
(25:51):
while a few people are are big super fans, and
there's a couple guys every year you know, birthdays come
up or some event, and I'll go little.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Cameo for him.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
But I'm charging a fraction of that. I mean, as
someone on cameo. It does go with the territory. It
does go with the territory. And you get these requests
and you have to decide a do I make this public?
What's the point of not making a public because anything
you do is going to be public anyway. And then
you're like, do I accept this or not? Like there's
a lot that goes into it, and then you're like, well,
(26:21):
I'm greedy.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
I want the money, so I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
And that's normally how how that goes in the end.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
I have turned some down. There have been something that.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I've heard down that I felt like would come back
and cause problems down the line, so I've rejected those
for a nominal fee that I did turn down. Every
once in a while, it does happen. Urban Meyer, we're
three hundred and forty five dogs. We should have Urban Meyer.
We should we should pay him. I endorse the Ben Malacer.
(26:51):
We just get a bunch of celebrities to endorse the show,
and then we'll just play that on the show and
then we're good, but make it seem like we're very
popular with powerful people, but we're more popular which like
regular people.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
It's Mallard. How about that? To the third degree? This
is one big Ben gets grill kubelu coldt said.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Coach Shane Stiken gave a recent interview and talked about
how Anthony Richardson has quote made great strides and shown
growth in all aspects of his game since his demotion
earlier in the season.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
Ben, do you agree with Stiking?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
No, he had.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
The one thing that Anthony richards has done is he's
shown that he can make plays in the clutch that
at nineteen play drive against the Patriots. Overall, though he's
been bad, he's the thirty third ranked quarterback in the
NFL over the last month. He's actually played worse statistically
than Joe Flacco. So I don't know what the bleep
Shane Stike is talking about other than a few plays
(27:51):
late in the game, which if you look at the
Patriot game, that two point conversion he made with his
legs not his arm, and they're paying him to be
a quarterback. That's the problem. So I do not agree
with Shane Steichen overall.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Next, it is being reported that multiple teams have inquired
about signing All Star closer Clay Holmes.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
What up Holmes as a starting pitcher?
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (28:11):
Ben? Do you think Holmes will go that route? And
will it be successful?
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Well? He was so bad with the Yankees last year.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I think he led baseball and blown saves that this
is this makes it.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
You make more money as a starter than you do
as a reliever.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
And if you suck as a reliever and you can
build your arm up and be a starter, why would
you not do it? You can continue on get get
fully vested in that MLB pension.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
That's the way to go. Next, there is.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
A topic that I've seen popping up all over social
media lately, Ben, and that is that Joe Burrow is
the next Dan Marino.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
How do you feel about this comparison?
Speaker 1 (28:46):
How about the next Philip Rivers? You know, I don't
know about Dan Dan Rago, Philip Rivers. Oh yeah, Burrow
got to a Super Bowl lost to the Rams, and
it seems unlikely the Bengals are ever going to get
back to another Super Bowl in my lifetime at least
anytime soon with Burroughs.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
So uh yeah, all right, how read out.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
You pass this edition?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
That is a win put on the board. I won.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
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Speaker 5 (29:23):
It's of it buzz with Lorrain at ten nine, clean
up Hearts, going to help you. Dear rye gear Rye
to night, dear ry to nine.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Dear ry.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
You heard the man, It's time for love. On the
Ben Mala Show. I'm your side host, Lorena, take it away.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Ben.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
I like that you have the announcing voice there. It's
was it good announcing? Uh yeah, sure? Why not? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
And I also like the fact that we're still using
the temporary open sent in by a listener that we
are using after all these months.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
That is tremendous. Impressed, absolutely tremendous.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
I would like a Christmas version though, Okay, so.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Our guy in Oklahoma wants to send a Christmas version,
you can do.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
That is Queen of Hearts. Here comes Queen of Hearts.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Okay, you're very specific. You're very needy. If anyone wants
to call up, we'll take some calls coople. Let me know.
We have people lined up for you at eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
But the first one is gonna help you get.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Cowboy Killer says he has two questions. He says, does
age really matter? And is it okay to be talking
to multiple people while not being committed?
Speaker 7 (30:40):
Live your best life, baby? Yeah, until anyone actually puts
a ring on it or you say you are committed,
you are free to do as you please. At least
that's how the love life works these days. What was
the first part of that question?
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Well, he's worried about you know, his age matter.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
Oh no, it doesn't. It doesn't matter long they're not
a minor. My parents for twenty years apart. Yeah, and
granted she was a minor when they started it. Amn, hello, hello,
it's in the details. It was the eighties, it didn't count, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Sure, well yeah, that's what Pete Rose said when he
got in trouble anyway. Matt Jack writes in says, for
the Queen of Hearts, what are good inexpensive gift ideas
for a significant other holidays?
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Of course, here.
Speaker 7 (31:21):
Maybe you should get them a cross stitch pattern book.
It's a great way.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
To kill time.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Random. How about adult coloring book?
Speaker 6 (31:30):
Oh, you know sometimes those are cool, but also coloring
I don't know. It's fun. It's fun. You're about to
take a shot.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
You were about to take a shot.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
I just don't I'm not into coloring books. I tried.
I have my sloth book.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Well now, man, if you can help this man, Lorena,
you're gonna win a Marconi Award. Diamonds and yeah, hollering, James.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Has called in. Oh, hi, some advice, James. His right
hand is getting a workout. Hello James, Hi, Lorena was
a boo. What's up, Ben, James? You sound depressed? Everything okay, James?
Speaker 6 (32:07):
Hey, you know my thirty six pills a day in
the morning, night in the evening.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
They just stay getting it.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
Lorena, I need some vig do you?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I mean, how could she possibly? You might? You might
need it.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
A lot of people suffer from a rectile dysfunction, So
you know what, do what you need?
Speaker 5 (32:29):
Baby?
Speaker 6 (32:29):
How did you get what you need?
Speaker 3 (32:32):
I don't think you necessarily need it. You normally need
it if you have somebody else in the room. But anyway, right,
thank you. James A ferg Dog.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Writes, ins is how important is it to drink pineapple
juice before.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
A hot date? Is that a thing?
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (32:46):
What is that? The legend doctor kidding told me?
Speaker 5 (32:52):
I don't know, but I like that.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
King Roy writes and says, what is the right age
to tell my kids?
Speaker 3 (32:59):
That say is not real? The right age?
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (33:03):
Oh no, no, you never tell them.
Speaker 7 (33:05):
You just let them see you putting the gifts out,
and usually by then they're old enough to go and
then go, oh, that's really sweet.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
My parents did that for me.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Well, typically you don't have to. The kids in the
playground will say it right, they're a holes.
Speaker 7 (33:19):
So you got that, and then don't come and then
your kid will come home crying.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Well, nowadays it's a lot easier sause you got all
the answers and once once the kid's on the phone on.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
The internet, it's over, so they'll, you know, look everything up. JT.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
The Wingman writes in for the Queen of Hearts, is
it okay for me to buy lingerie for my girlfriend's mother?
Speaker 3 (33:39):
I'm asking for a friend? Wow, dad, wow, wow.
Speaker 7 (33:44):
Lingerie is great always you know that's fine? Back to
that pineapple thing real fast. Oh yeah, suggest consuming it
more than right before, because you want it to work
into your systems on.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
A regular basis.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
Yeah, you just constantly be drinking pineapple juice.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
A lot of pineapple.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
That's that's the other about that.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Any other things people could drink there, Lorraine, and it
might help.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
I don't know, I heard any type of fruit, to
be honest, can be very puntent in changing flavors. Probably
more citrusy though, Yeah, get it to taste like Kiwi's.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Like a kiwi type thing my mouth.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
But they're very acidic, which makes me think of.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
That, well very specific there.
Speaker 7 (34:24):
You ever eat a kiwi and it like literally burns
your mouth because it's so acidic.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
No, anyway, Kathy and Madison writes in as she says,
your majesty, what should a nice girl do if a
gentleman sends her a six pick?
Speaker 6 (34:41):
A six pick? Yeah, like a six pick, like a
picture of a six She.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Sent a six pig? Well, I think she might have
meant something.
Speaker 7 (34:49):
Oh yeah, I hate that solicited I absolutely hate unsolicited.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Pack Like you'd like to request that you want to?
Speaker 7 (35:00):
I know I would like to have it from someone
that I enjoy their appendage.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
I don't want to see randoms. That's weird.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
You don't like the random I.
Speaker 7 (35:08):
Had someone do that when I was walking on the
sidewalk one time. They ran up with their cell phone.
They're like, what do you think.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Really? Lie man? I that's that's an interesting movie.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
Might as well have been wearing a trench coat.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Yeah, there you go, Queen of Hearts right there the ring.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
and the password.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Is password, you idiot. Password the word Game of the Stars.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Here's Ben Meller.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
All right, let's do this doing live, all right, and
we just we're doing live. Let's welcome in our contestants.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
We have Mark and Acron Good morning, Mark, welcome And then.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
I get that Bill O'Reilly reference. There you go. It's
a classic moment in television. Who do you like to
partner up with? Mark? You got me coop? Or Lorena?
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Would Loraine not like to play with me? Wow?
Speaker 3 (36:09):
That sounds very appropriate. Lorain? You want to play the game?
Speaker 4 (36:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Say all right, let's say a load to keg drinking.
Steve keg drinking Steve, who do you want to partner
up with?
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Buddy? I want to come.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
With a Ben Mirror show.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Did you know this girl's making four million.
Speaker 6 (36:27):
Dollars a month on Instagram?
Speaker 2 (36:29):
This eighteen year old is a devout Christian and a Virgin.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
I think it's the only fans is where she's making
the money. But good for her. There you go, all right,
who do you want to part of me? Or coop?
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Ben Marror?
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Okay, there you go. He sounds all right? Stop that right?
Stop mark pick up word one to ten? Please hurry up?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Top top seven, number seven, all right, number seven, Loraina?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Number seven? Oh boy, cord rope? Now, how about uh,
let's go with yarn yarn?
Speaker 5 (37:20):
I see that's yours. That's your turn?
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Are you there, Steve? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, well yarn?
Speaker 6 (37:27):
Oh my god, your clue is yarn?
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Yarn? What is the word we're looking for?
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Yarn?
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Yeah? Uh?
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (37:36):
Show what he said? Sewing?
Speaker 1 (37:41):
I'm getting I'm getting sad, bagging me, sir, Lorena.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
We should be able to beat the drunk guy, right, Uh, stitch, stitch?
How about I got one rope? How about rope? What
are you stupid?
Speaker 7 (38:14):
All right?
Speaker 3 (38:14):
You know I'm gonna ban you from this game. Dude,
I'm gonna ban your ass.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
Mis Okay, let's try this one.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
You're not trying, You're you're an a hole.
Speaker 6 (38:22):
Go ahead, yarn.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
I said that, didn't I say that.
Speaker 6 (38:26):
I'm gonna try it again.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Works like thin thin yarn. Oh that's cheating.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
Oh yeah, that is cheating.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
You cannot can't that the words No, the word is string.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
String.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
All right, and you heard the single worst edition of password,
compliments of a drunk guy named keat drinking Steve who's
sandbagged the entire Efford game. And I want integrity, I
want I want people that want
Speaker 3 (38:58):
To win these games and are hammered
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