January 13, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about where things went wrong for Baker Mayfield and the Bucs against Jayden Daniels and the Washington Commanders, the chances Todd Bowles is out as Bucs HC, if the NFL will remove Brady as broadcaster of Lions/Commanders, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome to a brand new week of the Ben Mathers Show.
Happy Monday. It's the thirteenth day of January, and we
start out with the NFL Playoffs. The Sunday night game,
the last game on the busy wild Card Sundays, saw
the win go to the team from Washington. Where did
things go wrong for Baker Mayfield's Bucks the turning point
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of the game. Also, what are the chances that Todd
Bowles is out as coach of the Buccaneers? And will
the NFL step in and remove Tom Brady as a
broadcaster for the Lions commander's game because of an obvious
conflict of interest involving his ties to the Raiders. We'll
talk about all that and much more right now. Say
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not out at all, and the wind's supposed to pick
up here over the next couple of days, so we'll
see what happens here. Thirty eight thousand, six hundred and
twenty nine acres have burned. To put that in perspective,
that's over sixty miles of southern California has burned up
in the week and not even a full weeks since
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last Tuesday when the fires started. So our thoughts go
out to those affected, also the first responders the Palisades fire,
which over the weekend actually shut down the Fox Sports
radio studios which are just below down the hill, and
they had to evacuate the studios over the weekend for
I think it was Friday night and a Saturday. Anyway,
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the Palisades Fire which is still burning thirteen percent containment,
so we'll keep an eye on all that. But our lead.
You're here for the sports, and we are here to
give you the sports. It's sporty mal our lead from Tampa.
That was the site that was the site of the
made for TV Sunday night prime time matchup, Jayden Daniels
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and the Commanders popping in for a visit. The baker
Mayfield Bucks the opponent first playoff game for Jayden Daniels
popping his cherry, and there was Tarrico and collins Worth.
They had the call on the Peacock. I don't know
if you were engaged in this game or not. Maybe
you don't really give a rats ask about either one
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of these teams. Don't worry. We watched so you would
not have to. Jaydeen Daniels running for a critical first
down and that set things up and allowed Washington to
run the clock down and set up a game winning
field goal opportunity for Zanganza's thirty seven yard field goal
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attempt for zan Gonzalez and he donked it. He doinked
it off the right, upright and it still went in
the kick went in. That football went through anyway, despite
jinking off the upright as time expired. Turnout the last
the parties over on the Buccaneers. They did not fire
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the cannons as the Commanders win the NFC Wild Card
game on Sunday Night, the franchise's first playoff win in
six nine and forty five days. But who's counting. Joe
Gibbs was the head coach of a team known as
the Redskins. Yes, they were known as the Redskins the
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last time they won a playoff game. And now the
team with the dopey name, Commanders will face the number
one overall Seaton, the Detroit Lions, in the divisional round.
The better story is in the losing locker room, So
that is where we are going to focus. In the
losing locker room. Let's start with the quarterback. If you
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saw the game, you know why we're starting with the quarterback.
So where did things go wrong for Baker Mayfield's Buccaneers.
Where did things go wrong? Here? So I've got vending machine,
Peter Principal, and sleep score, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
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a nice cigar. You can get really good cigars. Tony
Bruno used to work here, and Tony would say, you
go to Tampa and they have those great Cuban cigars
in Tampa. See that's where you get them from, right there,
all right. So a sometimes when you process everything going
on in the certain segment of the sports world, sometimes
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the questions are easy, the answers are hard. Other times
the questions are hard, the answers are easy. But this
time the questions and the answers are simple. The real ones.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Know.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
If you watched the Sunday night game, the script flipped
in the fourth quarter. Aker Mayfield played relatively well for
the Tampa Bay offense. Wasn't great, wasn't great, but relatively well. However,
he did the thing you can't do at the time.
You cannot do it. He went to the vending machine
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and he got a candy bar. It was a butter
finger because Baker Mayfield. As we have said for many,
many years, most games are lost, they're not one. And
this is a classic example. As the Buccaneers were set up,
the Bucks defense had forced the team formerly known as
the Redskins to turn the ball over on downs. They
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got the ball back deep inside their own territory. They
picked up a first down, Mike Evans picked up a
first down. So now they're starting to matriculate the ball
down the field these day. They feel pretty good at
that point. Tampa Bay and they're nursing a four point lead.
So at that point, you get a field goal, you're
up by a touchdown, You're you're not gonna lose most
likely unless the Commanders come down, score a touchdown, go
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for two at that point, and then it happened. Then
it happened. Baker Mayfield had a he had a cough,
He coughed up the football. He botched an elementry play,
a handoff the wide receiver Jalen McMillan, simple basic football play.
If you're a professional quarterback making tons of money, you
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should be able to make that play every single time.
The ball ended up on the grass, the Commanders. The
linebacker former Ram and Sea Bobby Wagner jumped on it.
Fumble fumble Ruski. He jumped right on top of it,
and four plays later, touchdown Washington and the script had
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been flipped. It was rewritten. The game was not lost
at that point, but it set things going the other direction. Now,
a lot of you say what moment moment What Bucks
had all the momentum. There's no such thing as momentum,
you dummies, does not exist. But Baker Mayfield does get
a nice Dunce cap for that mistake there at the
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and here's Baker explaining the thing that went wrong at
the time it went wrong. Take a listen. There's some
dumb stuff today that across the team. So it's uh yeah,
it's gonna wear on me for a while.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
The first one all year that happened on so obviously
timing of it not great. Getting backed up defense had
just done a hell of a job getting us the
ball another fourth down stop and stay unfortunate for that
foot that falls on me right now.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
The other storyline here for the Buccaneers, what are the
chances that Todd Bowles is out as coach of the Bucks?
They made the Playoffsously, you can't get rid of coach
when they make the playoffs. Well, you gotta fire Todd Bulls,
but can you encourage him to step aside? So I'm
going to set the malarods that Todd Bowles is out
dun skis as coach in Tampa Bay. I'm gonna set
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the odds Mallard Sports Book gods at plus two twenty five.
That implies a thirty percent chance. Another way to look
at this in baseball, it's a three hundred hitter. In baseball,
you have a three hundred hitter, you're feel pretty good.
You're gonna get a base hit. Now, it doesn't get
a hit all the time. Seven of ten times you
don't get a hit. But three hundred batting average, that's
where I am. There has been a grassroots movement to
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have Todd Bowles step aside to retire to get some
ceremonial position in the Buccaneers organization. Now, remember the Bucks
did this with their last head coach. They kind of
forced him out to retire, and so there is a
precedent there. The critics have pointed out they do not
like the Todd Bowles is from the old country, that
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he's not one of these new new coaches. He's a throwback,
no nonsense type guy and a product of the Peter
principle where he has been promoted because he was on
the previous coaching staff. He's been promoted until he's reached
the highest level of incompetence there and he's remained there
and then you have the Komodo dragon in the room.
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The clock management issues. Bulls botched the clock multiple times
in the wild Card game. It was a dereliction of
duties clock management. At the end of the first half
the Buccaneers, Todd Bowles led over ten seconds run off
the clock. The Bucks had reached the ends the red zone,
so they only had seventeen seconds by the time they
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called the time out. Now, he got bailed out by
his team because they ended up scoring a touchdown. So
if you get bailed out, people are like, well, it
doesn't matter, I scored a touchdown anyway. Okay, fine, But
he did the same thing in the second half of
the game. Jaden Daniels and the team formerly known as
the Redskins were trying to milk the clock. Was kind
of obvious that their goal was to, at least in
a tie game, either kick the game winning field goal
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or at worst go to overtime to run out the clock.
Milk it like it's a cow. And that was the plan.
But they got help from Todd Bowles, who screwed that up.
He was up twos yet again when it came to
the clock and Bulls let more than ten seconds run
off the clock there as well, and the Washington football
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team did end up getting that field goal with a
couple seconds left. Tampa never got their hands on the
ball again and lost out as time ran out. Let's
hear I want to hear the second bite here from
balls this year, the second when here's Todd Bowles and
he's talking about the future and what things are looking
like for Tampa Bay going forward. Here's Todd Bowles on.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
That great court group going forward, very optimistic about those guys.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Just got to keep people healthy, add to it and
clean up some spots, and I think we'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Keep in mind, no one stays healthy all the time.
No one stays healthy. I mean, you're not gonna announce
I'm leaving right after the game. This is something that
will come out of the coming days. We'll see Todd Bowles.
I like Todd Bowles's He's an interesting cat. So I
don't think he's a great coach. I think he's a
nice dude and that I think he's entertaining. So that's
all I care about. I have no skin in the game,
all right. Now, last word to the scheduling department. Now
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we're Tom, righty, Tom, righty, We'll be in the fox
box that rocks for the Commander's Lions game next weekend.
The schedule has been announced on who's calling what game,
and people are up at arms because Tom Brady's calling
the Lions Commanders game. Now why is that? You ask?
Because if you haven't been paying attention Ben Johnson, Ben Johnson,
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the glorious offensive coordinator, probably fall on his face as
head coach. But Ben Johnson's the hottest person at the
bar right now, in the coaching carousel bar. And so
Ben Johnson is a top head coaching candidate. Tom Brady
owns about ten percent of the Raiders who are looking
for a coach. Tom Brady has been deputized to help
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find said head coach. So will will the NFL step
in and remove Tom Brady as a broadcaster for the
Lions Commander's game with this upheaval because of a conflict
of interest because of Brady's work with the Raiders and
the coaching job being opened up. So I'm gonna shake
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my head. No, I'm shaking my head no on this one.
And the NFL uses a special app, like I said,
one of those sleep scores type app things to track
the sleep patterns. If you track the NFL sleep patterns,
the entire operation in the NFL, the whole week is
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about as instuous as as you can get right and
metaphorically speaking, of course, they're in bed with everyone else.
And we've talked about this a lot over the years here,
and so there'll be a lot of noise. People write
pieces on social media, Look at me, Tom Brady shouldn't
be calling the game. Blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah bla ba.
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Brady will be allowed to broadcast. He's been allowed to
broadcast all year. They put some rules in which makes
it easier on Brady because he doesn't have to even
pretend like he's doing any homework for these games. He
can just roll in there at the last minute, no
production meetings, none of that stuff, and he just shows up,
calls the game, throws a bunch of cliches out there
that Jimmy and John's or Joe's or whatever, and then this,
that and the other thing gets out of there and
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they probably figure, hey, it's going to increase the ratings,
which it will not. I mean we did learn without
any reasonable doubt and that when Troy Aikman and Joe
Buck left Fox to go to Monday Night Football, the
ratings did not suffer on Fox. It didn't matter who
called the game, all right, my fat ass could be
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there calling the game, and if it's a cowboy game,
people are going to watch, and if it's not, people
aren't going to watch in the same amount of numbers.
That's the way that works, all right, is the Ben
Mahler Show. As we are just beginning here, your thoughts
focused a lot on the Sunday Night game movie. Had
four hours to work our way through on what stood
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out in the NFL playoffs. As if you watched Benny
versus Penny, Literally everything I said was going to happen
did not happen. This is if you faded my picks,
you have a perfect weekend going. If you faded my picks,
you have a perfect weekend going. Everything that was supposed
to happen did not happen. But I know I live
in the multiverse, so somewhere the information I give out
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was accurate. Somewhere that web not on the TV show,
but somewhere else it was accurate in the multiverse. But
we'll take your calls eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
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like a lump and listen. Either way, we are here.
It's a shocking thing. I know, it's an amazing thing.
So we will press on. We'll get to your calls.
Also straight ahead, a viral moment, a viral moment from
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the NFL weekend. We've got the audio on that. And
who is the NFL's least popular team in the playoffs,
the least popular team in the playoffs, we have double confirmation,
the team that has no juice, no juice in the
NFL playoffs. Well, get to that as well. We will
do it next.
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and Ben tells me, if things calm down this week,
we will debut the new game that was supposed to
happen last week or the week before. And it's still
not happened. Let's get back to it right now, here
we go, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right. Bill. So
we started with the Sunday night NFL game Owen Rights
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and he says, I hate to break it to fools,
but Jaden Daniels has been the league's MVP, not just
Rookie of the Year. It's a hot take right there.
It's not true, but it's a hot take. You'd rather
have Lamar Jackson regular season Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen
over Jaden Daniels. So it was a nice little story.
Somebody's running backs and all that. So don't be a
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prison of a moment there, owen bad job by you?
Who else do we have page down? Let's see here
legally blind Christopher writes and says, we're all going to
be boring. At least the Malor show will be an
entertaining stream. He says he's promoting the show there. I
don't know what it's entertaining or not. Your boy says
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he jointed it and prevented a perfectly good overtime opportunity. Ah, yeah,
that would have been a night. Well, it would have
been better if the Buccaneers had won by six and
a half. That would have been better for me. Spock's
weed rights and says Jaden Daniels popping his cherry seriously
been only a few people not in your prime demographic
will get that reference, like me. Well, I disagree. I
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think people know what cherrys are, and they've all popped
a cherry at some point here, So I don't know
what you're talking about. Spots Whee, you're getting very dirty,
I think with that reference now, Mickey and state forty
eighth as I'm happy for former ASU grates Jayden Daniels
and Zane Gonzalez as they carried the formerly named football
team to victory over the Buccaneers baseball. Note the new
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school fans prioritize ops over batting average. Yeah, I'm not
that big a dinosaur, Mickey, I'm aware of that. But
screw the nerds. Screw the nerds. That's what I say,
absolutely on that. Screwge Right since says I don't think
Todd Bowles is entirely the problem Ben the Bucks and
win fourteen, could win fourteen games next season, they still
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won't go far in the playoffs. As long as Baker
is their quarterback. He's another Dak Prescott, a guy that's
a regular season trash. And then that's that's that, so
he says Shane in des Moines, Right since says the
Chargers choked this year just like Michigan by that was epic.
The Chargers dominated the first quarter of that game and
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they only were up six to nothing over the Texans.
What a gutless group of football players. The Chargers turned
out to be pathetic, absolutely pathetic. And will rant about
that later but Justin Herbert, What a turd that guy is.
My god, he's got the cleanest toes in the NFL.
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Everyone licks that guy's toes. Justin Herbert. They love him
in the media, the football media. Oh he's so good. Yeah, yeah,
he said two. He's had two playof Justin Herbert blew
at twenty seven nothing Leader, which oh, by the way,
he didn't even play well in that game. He only
had one touchdown in that game. That was just because
Jacksonville that day kept turning the ball over. That's how
the Chargers built a twenty seven nothing lead. And in
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this game where the Texans are trying to hand you
the game and you just gave it back, pathetic, absolutely pathetic.
Who else do we have? Fergdog says, given how this
week's going for you so far, do you think I
should keep the faith and bet the Rams or should
I reluctantly fade your picks? No, at this point, you
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got to fade the pic. At this point, part of
me wants the Rams to lose and Minnesota to win,
because then you know how hard it is to get
every pick wrong. You know how difficult it is to
get every single pick when you spend time handicapping games,
and everything that's supposed to happen doesn't happen. Do you
understand that it's more difficult to get everything wrong? Like
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if I should just I waste all my time, I
should just not even bother handicapping, just show up and
then just throw some stuff out there. That's it. Who cares?
King Roy Wright, he says, do you think either the
Lions or the Commanders will suit up a punter next week?
Since both Campbell and Quinn like to play Madden Ball
and go for it on fourth down? Well, I'm not
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against it. Who wants to see punting? Punting boring?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Now?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Dan Campbell does go a little crazy, though, He'll go
for it deep in his own territory and all that.
That's a little a little awkward. Late Night trug Tester says,
is Todd Bowles becoming the Doc Rivers of the NBA
A title winner because of Brady? Yeah, well he was
not the head coach when that was all all going
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down there, but he was part of the staff when
that happened. Super Marcus steven says, going zero to five
on NFL Wildcard weekend, I wonder if Benny versus the
penny will be renewed. Watching a self clined expert lose
to a coin as pretty entertaining. Yeah, well I did
beat the penny last year, So the way I look
at it, we're one and one this year, one in
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one this year at this particular point. So uh, there
you go. Anyway, let's see when don't we want to
let's take a call about we go to Andre, who
is in the Commonwealth. Hello. Andre, oh, Ben, very good
to be with you.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Number of things you talked about in terms of this
week in the NFL. I don't believe it that Benny
versus the Penny was giving information that wasn't accurate.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Well, listen, the information was absolutely accurate at the time
the information was given, all right, the information was one
hundred percent accurate. Just weird things happened. There were weird
coincidence that took place. That's what that changed everything. See,
that's the deal.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Yeah, we understand the situation. Everybody has that plan until
they get punched in the mouth. Okay, But I dispute
the fact Benny versus the Penny gave you to write information.
But you know who can predict the unforeseen? No, no,
nobody knows this justin Herbert. How many interceptions did he
pro woll season? Then he's gonna go ahead and go
foreign inceptions one dog on games?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Well, yeah, well exactly. I mean that was the do factor.
So you got to believe in the Dow factor and
this happens a lot. Actually, I did not believe that
would I believe Jim Harbad built a tough team. I
didn't believe that he had put a team of pussy
kats out on the field wearing charge of universe. I
had no idea they were that soft. But apparently you
can change the coach and the players are still there,
and that's a soft football team. They looked like a
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soft football team to me.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
And you know it's gonna take harrball a little bit
of time. I got to give credit to Mike O'Ryan
because a lot of people, you know, picked the charges
in that game. Houston's a bit of an after thought
not having the number one.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Mic Well, the reason they were an afterthought is because
they deserved to be an afterthought. The way they finished
the year. They didn't deserve anyone taking them seriously. Why
would you the way they played? You're based on the results,
what had happened. They had not played well most of
the year in Houston, and they won because they're in
a crap bag division with teams like Indianapolis and Jacksonville
and Tennessee that all blow and so that they were
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that's the only reason they were there, because they were
in the right locale. And they then they come out
and they terribly early. CJ. Stroud was bad and they
still won the game because the Chargers decided they could
suck more.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
So take again, car Ball, you got your Kaki pants.
We're expecting you to just lightning in a bottle, you know,
in first year, you know, have this make this a
significant run. Uh, spending a little bit more time. We
gotta give credit to Meko Ry. But Ben, what we
saw in the Commander's Buccaneers game, we got to get
some credit where credited to. Well, what do they say,
luck is when preparation meets opportunity. Here's what it comes
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down to me that they couldn't easily miss that the
kicker he is not what's the guy's name for the
Buffalo bells, Scott something or another flashing back.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
That's old school though that's a dated reference. Scott Norwood.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Yes, yes, yes, I'm flashing back. You know, he he's fortunate.
You know, it goes into it if it does, it different,
different narrative. Here's the final point, mister dan Quinn. I
respect it going for an un fourth down, not once,
but twice. He got it the second time. You know,
if it's in bunch, we're candy nuts, we'd all have
a merry Christmas. But it turned out right. But I
respect you're keeping the same energy, keeping the same mentality,
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you know, and go for it.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Got it done.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
We're not. We're not. We're not killing him.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I don't and uh when Dan Campbell, the Lions will
eventually lose because Dan Campbell will screw up, you know,
with the fourth down, and we will kill him when
that happens. I'm on the record right now. It's going
to happen. The Lions are going to lose a game
because Dan Campbell's overly aggressive on fourth down, and we'll
hand the game to somebody else and we will be
here to pile on. We will dog pile on Dan
Campbell when that happens.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
That's good to dance, two gunslingers. I'm looking forward to it.
Next week. There's a different time. Ben.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Yeah, there's Andre, thank you first call a week Andre,
right out of the blox, right out of the blox.
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of the Washington football team. He now has more games
in his career where his team has no punts and
no turnovers three of them, which is, by the way,
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what happened in the game on Sunday night. Washington did
not turn the ball over and the game changed because
Tampa Bay did turn the ball over Baker Mayfield butterfingers
Mayfield fumbling the ball away. But Jaydan Daniels has more
games in his career where his team has no punts
and turnovers that includes the playoffs, than the combined careers
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of Tom Brady, Joe Montana, Peyton Manning, and Patrick Mahomes.
Those guys combined to have two of those games, and
already this year Jayden Daniels has three of them. And
we'll see if that can continue past this year, or
this is just beginner's luck and then he turns into CJ.
Stroud and makes a lot of mistakes next year. Stay tuned.
Inquiring minds would like to know we are on X
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at Bean mallor that's at Ben mallor MP wrights in
from San Jose's a San Jose native and he says
Revenge of the Nerds. James points out that Eddie garciro
Ol Buddy Eddie must be rolling over in his grave
after the Chargers performance. Well, now the Chargers, but the
Pittsburgh Steelers down twenty one to nothing at halftime to
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the Baltimore Ravens and Mike Tomlin now six game losing
streak in the playoffs. Six game losing streak for the
Pittsburgh Steelers. At least they didn't give up thirty something
points like they had in the past, but they still
lost a couple of I like couple of garbage time
garbage time touchdowns by Russell Wilson, a couple of garbage
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time touchdowns. Game opens. Yeah, where's where Sean the hook got?
All those Steeler fans that were doing a victory lap
when Russ took over? You know where are they at?
I think blew me off. I think what they should
do is re sign Russ. If you're like a Raven
fan or a Bengals fan or a Browns fan, you'd
(28:15):
be like, yeah, let's just keep Russing around. That's great.
Did such a good job. They should sign him to
an extension. And they gotta rid all those guys did.
Justin Field's gotta be gone, Russell Wilson's gotta be gone.
And they're just gonna have a revolving door at the
quarterback position because those guys ain't it? Now? Do also
be fair? The defense ain't it either? I mean they
were doing Mattador tackling. Oh they Derrick henry Man running
(28:44):
and then bouncing as defenders were bouncing off him. If
they even bothered to try to tackle him. Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce.
Let's go to Andrea, who's in Berkeley and she is
up next year. It is the ben Maler show. She's
the astrology lady. He's got all the star charts out.
There's a cosmic event taking place right now, is that correct?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
There? Certainly is. You know how much we like the
Farmer's Almanac.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Yes, we do, we do. And the moon looks very full.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
I know that exactly right. We have the first full
moon of twenty twenty five. Oh yes, indeed called the
wolf moon, so feel free to howl. Yes, and it's
January thirteenth, Monday.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Look at the wolves are out, but not the timberwolves,
the actual wolves are right.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
I remember Brian No always liked the howl. So January
thirteenth to twenty seven pm Monday, that's tomorrow, full moon
and cancer, so prayers continue to go out for those
affected by the fires in Los Angeles. Cancer rules home
and family. So we have the full moon, and that
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is again the first full moon of twenty twenty five.
So it's really good to you know, allow extra time
for emotions and all the things that come up during
a full moon. And justin Herbert, actually I happened to
look at his chart because I saw that you had
(30:17):
a post on your ex your Twitter that compared him
to Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Well, yes, because during the regular season we are told
he's on a Hall of Fame trajectory.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
During the right not performance.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Well, no, no, but Kershaw sucks in the playoffs too,
and then he's in. He's going to the Hall of Fame.
And he's been a terrible playoff pitcher. His numbers are
horrible in the postseason in his career, and Justin Herberts
had two playoff games and they are historically disastrous.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah, I mean four interceptions. He's born March tenth, nineteen
ninety eight, so he's a young in and you know,
timing is everything. Saturn is in Picce, he's been and
Saturn rules limitation and forration, and when you have a
Saturn transit to your son, it's only once every twenty
nine years, and that's when your ambition can be thwarted.
(31:09):
So that was really difficult. And I don't think he
threw like more than two or three interceptions all season,
and then he threw four.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Yeah, he had three, So he had more interceptions. He's
like the first guy ever to do that in the
mod have more interceptions in the playoffs in the regular season, right,
And most of them were his fault. There was one
that wasn't, but most of them were his fault. So
he's completely got choked. Let's call like it is justin
Herbert choked. Yeah, the Charges quarterback couldn't handle the pressure.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
He sucked and he did say he let the team down.
He took full responsibility. That's another thing with Saturdy.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Well, that doesn't make you feel any better though, because
he's going to be around. He's got the contract extension,
so okay, so they'll win a bunch of games, they'll
get to the playoffs again as a wild card next year,
and then he'll vomit all over himself again.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
So yeah, that was a tough one. Again, that Saturn
trans is it, you know, it's once every twenty nine years,
so that you know, domination of the Chargers when they
lost the wild card that that was tough to see
and it just wasn't his time. You know, that's just
a difficult transit and Saturn is well delay, not denial,
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but certainly you know, they called it a nightmare performance
and he talks about letting the team down. So Saturn
makes you feel responsibility intensely. It's kind of a meltdown.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Yeah, Well, he did melt that. I will leave it there. Andrea,
thank you, and Virgo on service. Virgirl in service? Right
is in service?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Yes, Virgo and service. And are you doing okay? I
really do mean? How you doing?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
We're doing fun? We're doing okay? Lot smoky. Yeah, my
eyes are a little red, but other than that, I'm fun.
Thank you all right, there's a good care. Andrea. Do
we have an air filter in the building, by the way,
I feel like we need an air filter. We have
an we don't have an air film. I doubt we
have an air filter. Air filter? Yeah. I remember years
ago there were like fires around here because it happens
the year or two there's big fires. And they had
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like fans and they had like air filters and stuff
like that. I would love one just pointed right at
my face. You want a fan pointed at your face?
Right at my face? Right there? Okay? Interesting? So who's
the least popular team in the NFL? We know it
has been double confirmed, the least popular team in the NFL.
We said, this guy call the show from Houston named
(33:25):
Chris and Houston, but he sold that one to the
day shift. It's his Houston Texans by far. The least
popular team in the NFL. In fact, they're so unpopular
the Texans that they are playing in the early television
window on the divisional round of the playoffs. The Chiefs
and Texans game at four point thirty Eastern, the early
(33:45):
kickoff on Saturday, the worst possible television window. That is,
two weeks in a row the Texans a play. The
amazing thing, though, is the Texans are such a fleabag
franchise that even the Taylor Swift effect, the Travis Kelce,
Taylor Swift, Patrick Mahomes Chiefs cannot sway television to move
(34:08):
the Chiefs out of there, right, I mean the Chiefs.
You think that they're one of the more popular teams.
I'd have been great back to back Super Bowls, trying
for three in a row here in Kansas City. And
even with that, the Texans are such an unattractive team
that they have no national following that they are in
the early television window. So it's Chiefs Texans early Saturday,
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Lions Commanders the late game that's on Fox on Saturday night,
and then on Sunday Eagles will play either the Rams
or the Vikings early and then the late game the
Bills Ravens. That's actually on CBS. NBC's got the early
Game on Sunday. Bill's Ravens on CBS will be the Well,
it's a late game, but it's not at night. It's well,
(34:54):
not late night, not eight o'clock, it's six thirty Eastern time,
three thirty in the West. We'll take some more of
your eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox if you
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now for the who am I? Game? It's where I
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and your answer, otherwise I won't see it. Washington's Jaden
Daniels became the first rookie quarterback to throw two or
more touchdown passes in a playoff debut on the road.
Since me again?
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Who?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Jadeen Daniels became the first rookie quarterback to throw two
or more touchdown passes and a playoff debut on the road,
Since me? Who am I? That is the question? The
answer will get to it. We will do it next.
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who Am I? Game? This is where we pretend to
be somebody else in a blatant attempt to get you
to listen a little bit longer. Who Am I Going? Who?
Washington's Jade and Daniels becoming the first rookie quarterback to
throw two or more touchdown passes in a playoff debut
(36:58):
on the road since me Who am I That is
the question. What is the answer? And let's see does
anyone know the answer? Will go page down here Jayhawk Legend,
Rex Walters guessed by Christopher in can City, Page down.
(37:22):
Tom Brady from alf the alien O Piner very nice,
Chief Wahoo McDaniel from rob in Vegas, Stony Case. Guess
by Malibu Rubin. That's his answer. Mark Brunell from poly
d Aluminum Man guessed by King Rory. That's his answer.
Who else do we have? Christopher legally blind? Christopher says,
(37:45):
of course a box of chocolate donuts. Yumy, those are
chocolate filled donuts. I'm anti chocolate filled donuts. I believe
the donut should be filled with like apple or strawberry.
Ben I don know the chocolate. I do unapprove of
the chocolate on top of the doughnut. And I'm okay
with Buddy Lemon. I like the lemon. I'm pro lemon.
(38:06):
I'm not anti Lemon. I like the lemon. I forty
Ian says Emperor Nero is the answer. Who else do
we have? Page down? Man well in Guardina says Harry
of Harry and the Hindoo's film fame. That's at kool Aid,
(38:27):
McKinstry from Mickey and State forty eight Satchel Page Guess
by the k C car Haller, Jim Everett from Eke
in Roseville, Minnesota. Vince Ferragamo from gumby Dave. That's his answer.
The Muffin Man. Oh, it's a good night. If the
Muffin Man is listening, he says, Nate MVP Peterman is
the answer. Tim Rittee from Rob in Minnesota. Who else
(38:51):
you have? Dj Spin says the answer has to be
the other LSU Tiger Joe cool Burrow, Go Tigers, he says,
Cam Scataboo from The Nature Boy. Captain America. I guess
by Shane and Des Moines Gunner YouTube influencer. Gunner going
with Daffy Duck is his answer, Big Lou saying Michael
(39:13):
Westbrook is the way to go. All right, enough of that, Loraina,
Do you have an answer? LORRAINA to the yes, who
am I getting? But I believe it is Peyton Manning
Peyton Manny finanswer finance incorrect? Now Jade and Daniels the
first rookie quarterback to throw two or more touchdown passes
in a playoff debut on the road since me, that
(39:35):
would be Mac Jones us torpedoing, torpedoing the story. I
mean Mac Jones against Buffalo in a game that did
not go well for the Patriots back in twenty twenty one.
Matt Ryan before him was the last to do it
back in twenty eight, So not quite as impressive Jaden
(39:55):
Daniels when you're compared to Mac Jones, the mac Daddy
at quarter back, Yce
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome to a brand new week of the Ben Mathers Show.
Happy Monday. It's the thirteenth day of January, and we
start out with the NFL Playoffs. The Sunday night game,
the last game on the busy wild Card Sundays, saw
the win go to the team from Washington. Where did
things go wrong for Baker Mayfield's Bucks the turning point
(00:26):
of the game. Also, what are the chances that Todd
Bowles is out as coach of the Buccaneers? And will
the NFL step in and remove Tom Brady as a
broadcaster for the Lions commander's game because of an obvious
conflict of interest involving his ties to the Raiders. We'll
talk about all that and much more right now. Say
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lead here in a minute, as the story continues to
be where we broadcast from the fires which are not out,
(02:05):
not out at all, and the wind's supposed to pick
up here over the next couple of days, so we'll
see what happens here. Thirty eight thousand, six hundred and
twenty nine acres have burned. To put that in perspective,
that's over sixty miles of southern California has burned up
in the week and not even a full weeks since
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last Tuesday when the fires started. So our thoughts go
out to those affected, also the first responders the Palisades fire,
which over the weekend actually shut down the Fox Sports
radio studios which are just below down the hill, and
they had to evacuate the studios over the weekend for
I think it was Friday night and a Saturday. Anyway,
(02:47):
the Palisades Fire which is still burning thirteen percent containment,
so we'll keep an eye on all that. But our lead.
You're here for the sports, and we are here to
give you the sports. It's sporty mal our lead from Tampa.
That was the site that was the site of the
made for TV Sunday night prime time matchup, Jayden Daniels
(03:10):
and the Commanders popping in for a visit. The baker
Mayfield Bucks the opponent first playoff game for Jayden Daniels
popping his cherry, and there was Tarrico and collins Worth.
They had the call on the Peacock. I don't know
if you were engaged in this game or not. Maybe
you don't really give a rats ask about either one
(03:30):
of these teams. Don't worry. We watched so you would
not have to. Jaydeen Daniels running for a critical first
down and that set things up and allowed Washington to
run the clock down and set up a game winning
field goal opportunity for Zanganza's thirty seven yard field goal
(03:54):
attempt for zan Gonzalez and he donked it. He doinked
it off the right, upright and it still went in
the kick went in. That football went through anyway, despite
jinking off the upright as time expired. Turnout the last
the parties over on the Buccaneers. They did not fire
(04:15):
the cannons as the Commanders win the NFC Wild Card
game on Sunday Night, the franchise's first playoff win in
six nine and forty five days. But who's counting. Joe
Gibbs was the head coach of a team known as
the Redskins. Yes, they were known as the Redskins the
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last time they won a playoff game. And now the
team with the dopey name, Commanders will face the number
one overall Seaton, the Detroit Lions, in the divisional round.
The better story is in the losing locker room, So
that is where we are going to focus. In the
losing locker room. Let's start with the quarterback. If you
(04:58):
saw the game, you know why we're starting with the quarterback.
So where did things go wrong for Baker Mayfield's Buccaneers.
Where did things go wrong? Here? So I've got vending machine,
Peter Principal, and sleep score, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
(05:21):
a nice cigar. You can get really good cigars. Tony
Bruno used to work here, and Tony would say, you
go to Tampa and they have those great Cuban cigars
in Tampa. See that's where you get them from, right there,
all right. So a sometimes when you process everything going
on in the certain segment of the sports world, sometimes
(05:41):
the questions are easy, the answers are hard. Other times
the questions are hard, the answers are easy. But this
time the questions and the answers are simple. The real ones.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Know.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
If you watched the Sunday night game, the script flipped
in the fourth quarter. Aker Mayfield played relatively well for
the Tampa Bay offense. Wasn't great, wasn't great, but relatively well. However,
he did the thing you can't do at the time.
You cannot do it. He went to the vending machine
(06:14):
and he got a candy bar. It was a butter
finger because Baker Mayfield. As we have said for many,
many years, most games are lost, they're not one. And
this is a classic example. As the Buccaneers were set up,
the Bucks defense had forced the team formerly known as
the Redskins to turn the ball over on downs. They
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got the ball back deep inside their own territory. They
picked up a first down, Mike Evans picked up a
first down. So now they're starting to matriculate the ball
down the field these day. They feel pretty good at
that point. Tampa Bay and they're nursing a four point lead.
So at that point, you get a field goal, you're
up by a touchdown, You're you're not gonna lose most
likely unless the Commanders come down, score a touchdown, go
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for two at that point, and then it happened. Then
it happened. Baker Mayfield had a he had a cough,
He coughed up the football. He botched an elementry play,
a handoff the wide receiver Jalen McMillan, simple basic football play.
If you're a professional quarterback making tons of money, you
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should be able to make that play every single time.
The ball ended up on the grass, the Commanders. The
linebacker former Ram and Sea Bobby Wagner jumped on it.
Fumble fumble Ruski. He jumped right on top of it,
and four plays later, touchdown Washington and the script had
(07:38):
been flipped. It was rewritten. The game was not lost
at that point, but it set things going the other direction. Now,
a lot of you say what moment moment What Bucks
had all the momentum. There's no such thing as momentum,
you dummies, does not exist. But Baker Mayfield does get
a nice Dunce cap for that mistake there at the
(08:00):
and here's Baker explaining the thing that went wrong at
the time it went wrong. Take a listen. There's some
dumb stuff today that across the team. So it's uh yeah,
it's gonna wear on me for a while.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
The first one all year that happened on so obviously
timing of it not great. Getting backed up defense had
just done a hell of a job getting us the
ball another fourth down stop and stay unfortunate for that
foot that falls on me right now.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
The other storyline here for the Buccaneers, what are the
chances that Todd Bowles is out as coach of the Bucks?
They made the Playoffsously, you can't get rid of coach
when they make the playoffs. Well, you gotta fire Todd Bulls,
but can you encourage him to step aside? So I'm
going to set the malarods that Todd Bowles is out
dun skis as coach in Tampa Bay. I'm gonna set
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the odds Mallard Sports Book gods at plus two twenty five.
That implies a thirty percent chance. Another way to look
at this in baseball, it's a three hundred hitter. In baseball,
you have a three hundred hitter, you're feel pretty good.
You're gonna get a base hit. Now, it doesn't get
a hit all the time. Seven of ten times you
don't get a hit. But three hundred batting average, that's
where I am. There has been a grassroots movement to
(09:05):
have Todd Bowles step aside to retire to get some
ceremonial position in the Buccaneers organization. Now, remember the Bucks
did this with their last head coach. They kind of
forced him out to retire, and so there is a
precedent there. The critics have pointed out they do not
like the Todd Bowles is from the old country, that
(09:25):
he's not one of these new new coaches. He's a throwback,
no nonsense type guy and a product of the Peter
principle where he has been promoted because he was on
the previous coaching staff. He's been promoted until he's reached
the highest level of incompetence there and he's remained there
and then you have the Komodo dragon in the room.
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The clock management issues. Bulls botched the clock multiple times
in the wild Card game. It was a dereliction of
duties clock management. At the end of the first half
the Buccaneers, Todd Bowles led over ten seconds run off
the clock. The Bucks had reached the ends the red zone,
so they only had seventeen seconds by the time they
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called the time out. Now, he got bailed out by
his team because they ended up scoring a touchdown. So
if you get bailed out, people are like, well, it
doesn't matter, I scored a touchdown anyway. Okay, fine, But
he did the same thing in the second half of
the game. Jaden Daniels and the team formerly known as
the Redskins were trying to milk the clock. Was kind
of obvious that their goal was to, at least in
a tie game, either kick the game winning field goal
(10:30):
or at worst go to overtime to run out the clock.
Milk it like it's a cow. And that was the plan.
But they got help from Todd Bowles, who screwed that up.
He was up twos yet again when it came to
the clock and Bulls let more than ten seconds run
off the clock there as well, and the Washington football
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team did end up getting that field goal with a
couple seconds left. Tampa never got their hands on the
ball again and lost out as time ran out. Let's
hear I want to hear the second bite here from
balls this year, the second when here's Todd Bowles and
he's talking about the future and what things are looking
like for Tampa Bay going forward. Here's Todd Bowles on.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
That great court group going forward, very optimistic about those guys.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Just got to keep people healthy, add to it and
clean up some spots, and I think we'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Keep in mind, no one stays healthy all the time.
No one stays healthy. I mean, you're not gonna announce
I'm leaving right after the game. This is something that
will come out of the coming days. We'll see Todd Bowles.
I like Todd Bowles's He's an interesting cat. So I
don't think he's a great coach. I think he's a
nice dude and that I think he's entertaining. So that's
all I care about. I have no skin in the game,
all right. Now, last word to the scheduling department. Now
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we're Tom, righty, Tom, righty, We'll be in the fox
box that rocks for the Commander's Lions game next weekend.
The schedule has been announced on who's calling what game,
and people are up at arms because Tom Brady's calling
the Lions Commanders game. Now why is that? You ask?
Because if you haven't been paying attention Ben Johnson, Ben Johnson,
(12:06):
the glorious offensive coordinator, probably fall on his face as
head coach. But Ben Johnson's the hottest person at the
bar right now, in the coaching carousel bar. And so
Ben Johnson is a top head coaching candidate. Tom Brady
owns about ten percent of the Raiders who are looking
for a coach. Tom Brady has been deputized to help
(12:27):
find said head coach. So will will the NFL step
in and remove Tom Brady as a broadcaster for the
Lions Commander's game with this upheaval because of a conflict
of interest because of Brady's work with the Raiders and
the coaching job being opened up. So I'm gonna shake
(12:48):
my head. No, I'm shaking my head no on this one.
And the NFL uses a special app, like I said,
one of those sleep scores type app things to track
the sleep patterns. If you track the NFL sleep patterns,
the entire operation in the NFL, the whole week is
(13:09):
about as instuous as as you can get right and
metaphorically speaking, of course, they're in bed with everyone else.
And we've talked about this a lot over the years here,
and so there'll be a lot of noise. People write
pieces on social media, Look at me, Tom Brady shouldn't
be calling the game. Blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah bla ba.
(13:30):
Brady will be allowed to broadcast. He's been allowed to
broadcast all year. They put some rules in which makes
it easier on Brady because he doesn't have to even
pretend like he's doing any homework for these games. He
can just roll in there at the last minute, no
production meetings, none of that stuff, and he just shows up,
calls the game, throws a bunch of cliches out there
that Jimmy and John's or Joe's or whatever, and then this,
that and the other thing gets out of there and
(13:52):
they probably figure, hey, it's going to increase the ratings,
which it will not. I mean we did learn without
any reasonable doubt and that when Troy Aikman and Joe
Buck left Fox to go to Monday Night Football, the
ratings did not suffer on Fox. It didn't matter who
called the game, all right, my fat ass could be
(14:13):
there calling the game, and if it's a cowboy game,
people are going to watch, and if it's not, people
aren't going to watch in the same amount of numbers.
That's the way that works, all right, is the Ben
Mahler Show. As we are just beginning here, your thoughts
focused a lot on the Sunday Night game movie. Had
four hours to work our way through on what stood
(14:34):
out in the NFL playoffs. As if you watched Benny
versus Penny, Literally everything I said was going to happen
did not happen. This is if you faded my picks,
you have a perfect weekend going. If you faded my picks,
you have a perfect weekend going. Everything that was supposed
to happen did not happen. But I know I live
in the multiverse, so somewhere the information I give out
(14:56):
was accurate. Somewhere that web not on the TV show,
but somewhere else it was accurate in the multiverse. But
we'll take your calls eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
That's eight seven seven nine nine six six three sixty nine.
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like a lump and listen. Either way, we are here.
It's a shocking thing. I know, it's an amazing thing.
So we will press on. We'll get to your calls.
Also straight ahead, a viral moment, a viral moment from
(15:43):
the NFL weekend. We've got the audio on that. And
who is the NFL's least popular team in the playoffs,
the least popular team in the playoffs, we have double confirmation,
the team that has no juice, no juice in the
NFL playoffs. Well, get to that as well. We will
do it next.
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and Ben tells me, if things calm down this week,
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happen last week or the week before. And it's still
not happened. Let's get back to it right now, here
we go, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right. Bill. So
we started with the Sunday night NFL game Owen Rights
(17:16):
and he says, I hate to break it to fools,
but Jaden Daniels has been the league's MVP, not just
Rookie of the Year. It's a hot take right there.
It's not true, but it's a hot take. You'd rather
have Lamar Jackson regular season Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen
over Jaden Daniels. So it was a nice little story.
Somebody's running backs and all that. So don't be a
(17:39):
prison of a moment there, owen bad job by you?
Who else do we have page down? Let's see here
legally blind Christopher writes and says, we're all going to
be boring. At least the Malor show will be an
entertaining stream. He says he's promoting the show there. I
don't know what it's entertaining or not. Your boy says
(18:00):
he jointed it and prevented a perfectly good overtime opportunity. Ah, yeah,
that would have been a night. Well, it would have
been better if the Buccaneers had won by six and
a half. That would have been better for me. Spock's
weed rights and says Jaden Daniels popping his cherry seriously
been only a few people not in your prime demographic
will get that reference, like me. Well, I disagree. I
(18:23):
think people know what cherrys are, and they've all popped
a cherry at some point here, So I don't know
what you're talking about. Spots Whee, you're getting very dirty,
I think with that reference now, Mickey and state forty
eighth as I'm happy for former ASU grates Jayden Daniels
and Zane Gonzalez as they carried the formerly named football
team to victory over the Buccaneers baseball. Note the new
(18:45):
school fans prioritize ops over batting average. Yeah, I'm not
that big a dinosaur, Mickey, I'm aware of that. But
screw the nerds. Screw the nerds. That's what I say,
absolutely on that. Screwge Right since says I don't think
Todd Bowles is entirely the problem Ben the Bucks and
win fourteen, could win fourteen games next season, they still
(19:07):
won't go far in the playoffs. As long as Baker
is their quarterback. He's another Dak Prescott, a guy that's
a regular season trash. And then that's that's that, so
he says Shane in des Moines, Right since says the
Chargers choked this year just like Michigan by that was epic.
The Chargers dominated the first quarter of that game and
(19:30):
they only were up six to nothing over the Texans.
What a gutless group of football players. The Chargers turned
out to be pathetic, absolutely pathetic. And will rant about
that later but Justin Herbert, What a turd that guy is.
My god, he's got the cleanest toes in the NFL.
(19:50):
Everyone licks that guy's toes. Justin Herbert. They love him
in the media, the football media. Oh he's so good. Yeah, yeah,
he said two. He's had two playof Justin Herbert blew
at twenty seven nothing Leader, which oh, by the way,
he didn't even play well in that game. He only
had one touchdown in that game. That was just because
Jacksonville that day kept turning the ball over. That's how
the Chargers built a twenty seven nothing lead. And in
(20:11):
this game where the Texans are trying to hand you
the game and you just gave it back, pathetic, absolutely pathetic.
Who else do we have? Fergdog says, given how this
week's going for you so far, do you think I
should keep the faith and bet the Rams or should
I reluctantly fade your picks? No, at this point, you
(20:32):
got to fade the pic. At this point, part of
me wants the Rams to lose and Minnesota to win,
because then you know how hard it is to get
every pick wrong. You know how difficult it is to
get every single pick when you spend time handicapping games,
and everything that's supposed to happen doesn't happen. Do you
understand that it's more difficult to get everything wrong? Like
(20:52):
if I should just I waste all my time, I
should just not even bother handicapping, just show up and
then just throw some stuff out there. That's it. Who cares?
King Roy Wright, he says, do you think either the
Lions or the Commanders will suit up a punter next week?
Since both Campbell and Quinn like to play Madden Ball
and go for it on fourth down? Well, I'm not
(21:14):
against it. Who wants to see punting? Punting boring?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Now?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Dan Campbell does go a little crazy, though, He'll go
for it deep in his own territory and all that.
That's a little a little awkward. Late Night trug Tester says,
is Todd Bowles becoming the Doc Rivers of the NBA
A title winner because of Brady? Yeah, well he was
not the head coach when that was all all going
(21:39):
down there, but he was part of the staff when
that happened. Super Marcus steven says, going zero to five
on NFL Wildcard weekend, I wonder if Benny versus the
penny will be renewed. Watching a self clined expert lose
to a coin as pretty entertaining. Yeah, well I did
beat the penny last year, So the way I look
at it, we're one and one this year, one in
(22:00):
one this year at this particular point. So uh, there
you go. Anyway, let's see when don't we want to
let's take a call about we go to Andre, who
is in the Commonwealth. Hello. Andre, oh, Ben, very good
to be with you.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Number of things you talked about in terms of this
week in the NFL. I don't believe it that Benny
versus the Penny was giving information that wasn't accurate.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Well, listen, the information was absolutely accurate at the time
the information was given, all right, the information was one
hundred percent accurate. Just weird things happened. There were weird
coincidence that took place. That's what that changed everything. See,
that's the deal.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Yeah, we understand the situation. Everybody has that plan until
they get punched in the mouth. Okay, But I dispute
the fact Benny versus the Penny gave you to write information.
But you know who can predict the unforeseen? No, no,
nobody knows this justin Herbert. How many interceptions did he
pro woll season? Then he's gonna go ahead and go
foreign inceptions one dog on games?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Well, yeah, well exactly. I mean that was the do factor.
So you got to believe in the Dow factor and
this happens a lot. Actually, I did not believe that
would I believe Jim Harbad built a tough team. I
didn't believe that he had put a team of pussy
kats out on the field wearing charge of universe. I
had no idea they were that soft. But apparently you
can change the coach and the players are still there,
and that's a soft football team. They looked like a
(23:23):
soft football team to me.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
And you know it's gonna take harrball a little bit
of time. I got to give credit to Mike O'Ryan
because a lot of people, you know, picked the charges
in that game. Houston's a bit of an after thought
not having the number one.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Mic Well, the reason they were an afterthought is because
they deserved to be an afterthought. The way they finished
the year. They didn't deserve anyone taking them seriously. Why
would you the way they played? You're based on the results,
what had happened. They had not played well most of
the year in Houston, and they won because they're in
a crap bag division with teams like Indianapolis and Jacksonville
and Tennessee that all blow and so that they were
(23:58):
that's the only reason they were there, because they were
in the right locale. And they then they come out
and they terribly early. CJ. Stroud was bad and they
still won the game because the Chargers decided they could
suck more.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
So take again, car Ball, you got your Kaki pants.
We're expecting you to just lightning in a bottle, you know,
in first year, you know, have this make this a
significant run. Uh, spending a little bit more time. We
gotta give credit to Meko Ry. But Ben, what we
saw in the Commander's Buccaneers game, we got to get
some credit where credited to. Well, what do they say,
luck is when preparation meets opportunity. Here's what it comes
(24:33):
down to me that they couldn't easily miss that the
kicker he is not what's the guy's name for the
Buffalo bells, Scott something or another flashing back.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
That's old school though that's a dated reference. Scott Norwood.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Yes, yes, yes, I'm flashing back. You know, he he's fortunate.
You know, it goes into it if it does, it different,
different narrative. Here's the final point, mister dan Quinn. I
respect it going for an un fourth down, not once,
but twice. He got it the second time. You know,
if it's in bunch, we're candy nuts, we'd all have
a merry Christmas. But it turned out right. But I
respect you're keeping the same energy, keeping the same mentality,
(25:09):
you know, and go for it.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Got it done.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
We're not. We're not. We're not killing him.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I don't and uh when Dan Campbell, the Lions will
eventually lose because Dan Campbell will screw up, you know,
with the fourth down, and we will kill him when
that happens. I'm on the record right now. It's going
to happen. The Lions are going to lose a game
because Dan Campbell's overly aggressive on fourth down, and we'll
hand the game to somebody else and we will be
here to pile on. We will dog pile on Dan
Campbell when that happens.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
That's good to dance, two gunslingers. I'm looking forward to it.
Next week. There's a different time. Ben.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Yeah, there's Andre, thank you first call a week Andre,
right out of the blox, right out of the blox.
And that leads to you. And we need a fun fact.
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focus on growing your business. Jayden Daniels growing the business
of the Washington football team. He now has more games
in his career where his team has no punts and
no turnovers three of them, which is, by the way,
(26:24):
what happened in the game on Sunday night. Washington did
not turn the ball over and the game changed because
Tampa Bay did turn the ball over Baker Mayfield butterfingers
Mayfield fumbling the ball away. But Jaydan Daniels has more
games in his career where his team has no punts
and turnovers that includes the playoffs, than the combined careers
(26:47):
of Tom Brady, Joe Montana, Peyton Manning, and Patrick Mahomes.
Those guys combined to have two of those games, and
already this year Jayden Daniels has three of them. And
we'll see if that can continue past this year, or
this is just beginner's luck and then he turns into CJ.
Stroud and makes a lot of mistakes next year. Stay tuned.
Inquiring minds would like to know we are on X
(27:10):
at Bean mallor that's at Ben mallor MP wrights in
from San Jose's a San Jose native and he says
Revenge of the Nerds. James points out that Eddie garciro
Ol Buddy Eddie must be rolling over in his grave
after the Chargers performance. Well, now the Chargers, but the
Pittsburgh Steelers down twenty one to nothing at halftime to
(27:33):
the Baltimore Ravens and Mike Tomlin now six game losing
streak in the playoffs. Six game losing streak for the
Pittsburgh Steelers. At least they didn't give up thirty something
points like they had in the past, but they still
lost a couple of I like couple of garbage time
garbage time touchdowns by Russell Wilson, a couple of garbage
(27:55):
time touchdowns. Game opens. Yeah, where's where Sean the hook got?
All those Steeler fans that were doing a victory lap
when Russ took over? You know where are they at?
I think blew me off. I think what they should
do is re sign Russ. If you're like a Raven
fan or a Bengals fan or a Browns fan, you'd
(28:15):
be like, yeah, let's just keep Russing around. That's great.
Did such a good job. They should sign him to
an extension. And they gotta rid all those guys did.
Justin Field's gotta be gone, Russell Wilson's gotta be gone.
And they're just gonna have a revolving door at the
quarterback position because those guys ain't it? Now? Do also
be fair? The defense ain't it either? I mean they
were doing Mattador tackling. Oh they Derrick henry Man running
(28:44):
and then bouncing as defenders were bouncing off him. If
they even bothered to try to tackle him. Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce.
Let's go to Andrea, who's in Berkeley and she is
up next year. It is the ben Maler show. She's
the astrology lady. He's got all the star charts out.
There's a cosmic event taking place right now, is that correct?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
There? Certainly is. You know how much we like the
Farmer's Almanac.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Yes, we do, we do. And the moon looks very full.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
I know that exactly right. We have the first full
moon of twenty twenty five. Oh yes, indeed called the
wolf moon, so feel free to howl. Yes, and it's
January thirteenth, Monday.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Look at the wolves are out, but not the timberwolves,
the actual wolves are right.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
I remember Brian No always liked the howl. So January
thirteenth to twenty seven pm Monday, that's tomorrow, full moon
and cancer, so prayers continue to go out for those
affected by the fires in Los Angeles. Cancer rules home
and family. So we have the full moon, and that
(29:56):
is again the first full moon of twenty twenty five.
So it's really good to you know, allow extra time
for emotions and all the things that come up during
a full moon. And justin Herbert, actually I happened to
look at his chart because I saw that you had
(30:17):
a post on your ex your Twitter that compared him
to Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Well, yes, because during the regular season we are told
he's on a Hall of Fame trajectory.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
During the right not performance.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Well, no, no, but Kershaw sucks in the playoffs too,
and then he's in. He's going to the Hall of Fame.
And he's been a terrible playoff pitcher. His numbers are
horrible in the postseason in his career, and Justin Herberts
had two playoff games and they are historically disastrous.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah, I mean four interceptions. He's born March tenth, nineteen
ninety eight, so he's a young in and you know,
timing is everything. Saturn is in Picce, he's been and
Saturn rules limitation and forration, and when you have a
Saturn transit to your son, it's only once every twenty
nine years, and that's when your ambition can be thwarted.
(31:09):
So that was really difficult. And I don't think he
threw like more than two or three interceptions all season,
and then he threw four.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Yeah, he had three, So he had more interceptions. He's
like the first guy ever to do that in the
mod have more interceptions in the playoffs in the regular season, right,
And most of them were his fault. There was one
that wasn't, but most of them were his fault. So
he's completely got choked. Let's call like it is justin
Herbert choked. Yeah, the Charges quarterback couldn't handle the pressure.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
He sucked and he did say he let the team down.
He took full responsibility. That's another thing with Saturdy.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Well, that doesn't make you feel any better though, because
he's going to be around. He's got the contract extension,
so okay, so they'll win a bunch of games, they'll
get to the playoffs again as a wild card next year,
and then he'll vomit all over himself again.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
So yeah, that was a tough one. Again, that Saturn
trans is it, you know, it's once every twenty nine years,
so that you know, domination of the Chargers when they
lost the wild card that that was tough to see
and it just wasn't his time. You know, that's just
a difficult transit and Saturn is well delay, not denial,
(32:19):
but certainly you know, they called it a nightmare performance
and he talks about letting the team down. So Saturn
makes you feel responsibility intensely. It's kind of a meltdown.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Yeah, Well, he did melt that. I will leave it there. Andrea,
thank you, and Virgo on service. Virgirl in service? Right
is in service?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Yes, Virgo and service. And are you doing okay? I
really do mean? How you doing?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
We're doing fun? We're doing okay? Lot smoky. Yeah, my
eyes are a little red, but other than that, I'm fun.
Thank you all right, there's a good care. Andrea. Do
we have an air filter in the building, by the way,
I feel like we need an air filter. We have
an we don't have an air film. I doubt we
have an air filter. Air filter? Yeah. I remember years
ago there were like fires around here because it happens
the year or two there's big fires. And they had
(33:03):
like fans and they had like air filters and stuff
like that. I would love one just pointed right at
my face. You want a fan pointed at your face?
Right at my face? Right there? Okay? Interesting? So who's
the least popular team in the NFL? We know it
has been double confirmed, the least popular team in the NFL.
We said, this guy call the show from Houston named
(33:25):
Chris and Houston, but he sold that one to the
day shift. It's his Houston Texans by far. The least
popular team in the NFL. In fact, they're so unpopular
the Texans that they are playing in the early television
window on the divisional round of the playoffs. The Chiefs
and Texans game at four point thirty Eastern, the early
(33:45):
kickoff on Saturday, the worst possible television window. That is,
two weeks in a row the Texans a play. The
amazing thing, though, is the Texans are such a fleabag
franchise that even the Taylor Swift effect, the Travis Kelce,
Taylor Swift, Patrick Mahomes Chiefs cannot sway television to move
(34:08):
the Chiefs out of there, right, I mean the Chiefs.
You think that they're one of the more popular teams.
I'd have been great back to back Super Bowls, trying
for three in a row here in Kansas City. And
even with that, the Texans are such an unattractive team
that they have no national following that they are in
the early television window. So it's Chiefs Texans early Saturday,
(34:32):
Lions Commanders the late game that's on Fox on Saturday night,
and then on Sunday Eagles will play either the Rams
or the Vikings early and then the late game the
Bills Ravens. That's actually on CBS. NBC's got the early
Game on Sunday. Bill's Ravens on CBS will be the Well,
it's a late game, but it's not at night. It's well,
(34:54):
not late night, not eight o'clock, it's six thirty Eastern time,
three thirty in the West. We'll take some more of
your eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox if you
would like to be part of the program and time
now for the who am I? Game? It's where I
pretend to be somebody else. You can answer this follow
me on X at Ben Maller and who tag me
(35:16):
and your answer, otherwise I won't see it. Washington's Jaden
Daniels became the first rookie quarterback to throw two or
more touchdown passes in a playoff debut on the road.
Since me again?
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Who?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Jadeen Daniels became the first rookie quarterback to throw two
or more touchdown passes and a playoff debut on the road,
Since me? Who am I? That is the question? The
answer will get to it. We will do it next.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
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(36:36):
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back at it here hanging out. Time now for the
who Am I? Game? This is where we pretend to
be somebody else in a blatant attempt to get you
to listen a little bit longer. Who Am I Going? Who?
Washington's Jade and Daniels becoming the first rookie quarterback to
throw two or more touchdown passes in a playoff debut
(36:58):
on the road since me Who am I That is
the question. What is the answer? And let's see does
anyone know the answer? Will go page down here Jayhawk Legend,
Rex Walters guessed by Christopher in can City, Page down.
(37:22):
Tom Brady from alf the alien O Piner very nice,
Chief Wahoo McDaniel from rob in Vegas, Stony Case. Guess
by Malibu Rubin. That's his answer. Mark Brunell from poly
d Aluminum Man guessed by King Rory. That's his answer.
Who else do we have? Christopher legally blind? Christopher says,
(37:45):
of course a box of chocolate donuts. Yumy, those are
chocolate filled donuts. I'm anti chocolate filled donuts. I believe
the donut should be filled with like apple or strawberry.
Ben I don know the chocolate. I do unapprove of
the chocolate on top of the doughnut. And I'm okay
with Buddy Lemon. I like the lemon. I'm pro lemon.
(38:06):
I'm not anti Lemon. I like the lemon. I forty
Ian says Emperor Nero is the answer. Who else do
we have? Page down? Man well in Guardina says Harry
of Harry and the Hindoo's film fame. That's at kool Aid,
(38:27):
McKinstry from Mickey and State forty eight Satchel Page Guess
by the k C car Haller, Jim Everett from Eke
in Roseville, Minnesota. Vince Ferragamo from gumby Dave. That's his answer.
The Muffin Man. Oh, it's a good night. If the
Muffin Man is listening, he says, Nate MVP Peterman is
the answer. Tim Rittee from Rob in Minnesota. Who else
(38:51):
you have? Dj Spin says the answer has to be
the other LSU Tiger Joe cool Burrow, Go Tigers, he says,
Cam Scataboo from The Nature Boy. Captain America. I guess
by Shane and Des Moines Gunner YouTube influencer. Gunner going
with Daffy Duck is his answer, Big Lou saying Michael
(39:13):
Westbrook is the way to go. All right, enough of that, Loraina,
Do you have an answer? LORRAINA to the yes, who
am I getting? But I believe it is Peyton Manning
Peyton Manny finanswer finance incorrect? Now Jade and Daniels the
first rookie quarterback to throw two or more touchdown passes
in a playoff debut on the road since me, that
(39:35):
would be Mac Jones us torpedoing, torpedoing the story. I
mean Mac Jones against Buffalo in a game that did
not go well for the Patriots back in twenty twenty one.
Matt Ryan before him was the last to do it
back in twenty eight, So not quite as impressive Jaden
(39:55):
Daniels when you're compared to Mac Jones, the mac Daddy
at quarter back, Yce
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