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January 13, 2025 • 39 mins

Ben Maller talks about what went wrong for the Packers and Jordan Love against the Eagles, if this victory by the Eagles takes coach Nick Sirianni off the hot seat, A.J. Brown reading a book during the game, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh, way we go.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our number two, hour two of the original Recipe podcast.
Hope you had a good weekend, you survived it, and
we're analyzing slicing, up, putting under the Mallard microscope the
NFL postseason wild card weekend? Where did things not work
out for Jordan Love? Here the Packers quarterback Jordan Love
not exactly getting things done. There a lot of mistakes

(00:24):
for the Packers. Also thumbs up or thumbs down on
this playoff victory by the Eagles, taking coach Nick Sirianni
off the hot seat. We'll discuss that. How do you
categorize the Eagles wide receiver A. J. Brown reading a
book during the game? He was on the sidelines reading
a book. We'll discuss that and much more. Right now

(00:46):
here it is our number.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Two birds of a feather.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
I've heard they flock together, but what about the playoff playoffs?
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we continue, are all night hooting Nanny looking back at
the NFL. Plus now we still have a game to

(01:58):
go in Arizona. The Rams and the Vikings. I think
it's just wonderful. The Rams and Vikings playing in the
stadium named after an insurance company that bailed out on California.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
It's just great.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Anyway, our lead this hour is from Philadelphia. The NFC matchup,
and oh what a matchup. It was supposed to be
Jordan Love and the Packers versus Jalen Hurts and the Eagles.
And it was on it was on Fox. Did you watch?
You gotta watch. Tom Brady was there, he's a big deal.
It makes a lot of money. And Kevin Burkhardt also

(02:34):
on hand. So Jalen Hurts in this game did not
have a Gotti stat line. He did throw a pair
of touchdown passes and the.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Hey gee l e egles.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
The Eagles let their defense do the rest, a surgical
twenty two to ten takedown, a playoff victory over the
Green Bay Packers. They have been eliminated. Now they are,
as Tony Brune used to say, they're on the clock
for the NFL Draft, getting ready for the NFL Draft.
So Kwan Barkley one hundred and nineteen yards in his

(03:09):
first postseason game as a member of the Birds. But
the better story is on the side of the cheeseheads
in the losing locker room. So that is where we're
going to focus things here, at least at the beginning.
And where did things go As we discussed where did
things go wrong for Jordan Love? Where did things go
a little sideways there for Jordan Love? So that would

(03:32):
be the moment he got out of bed from his
five star Philadelphia area hotel. That would be when things
went sideways for Jordan Love. Love, who looked so good.
Granted it was against the Cowboys in the playoffs a
year ago. Got his first taste of the new playoffs

(03:52):
this year, and he needed someone to contact a lifeguard.
They needed Baywatch to come in because he was the
Eagles defense, which is good. Let me say something before
I go forward here. Eagles have a good defense. I
get that right. You hear that a lot over the
next couple days. Eagles have a good defense.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Well. Spoiler alert, spoiler alert.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
If you're truly one of the great quarterbacks in the NFL,
you are what's known as match up proof, meaning it
doesn't matter who you go against, it doesn't matter how
good the opposite opposition is.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
If you're that good.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Jordan Love's the real deal, then it doesn't matter whether
the Eagles have great defensive numbers or not. You're gonna
go out there and you're gonna produce, and you' gonn
produce big, and you're gonna do well, and you're gonna
make the smart play. Jordan Love did none of those things. Okay,
So I don't want to hear about Jordan Love. And
you know all the love of Jordan Love and this,
that and the other thing. Uh, he went out there.
It doesn't matter, It should not matter who the opposition is.

(04:45):
And he had a real clunker and most of the
packer marching and chatter society.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Well, he was hurt or you know this, that and
the other. The defense is really good. You know stop stop.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
That was a goodie bag delivery from green Bay to
Philadelphia inside the baggie?

Speaker 1 (05:06):
What's in the goodie bag? Whether it was that?

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Not one, not too but three interceptions by Jordan Lovna.
I even give him a pass in the last one
because the game was already over, but he had two
when the game mattered. So two interceptions when the game mattered.
One turnover on downs for the team from Wisconsin. Philly
was given a head start here. On the opening kickoff,
the alleged ace returner for the green Bay Packers, Keishn Nixon,

(05:33):
was hit hard and he had the coughs like he
had COVID, except he coughed up the football and the
Eagles recovered and they scored. So green Bay getting the
ball first. No, they didn't get the ball first. They
turned the ball over, and I did appear that green
Bay had recovered that for some reason, things that make
you go hm M. The NFL, despite having replay assists,

(05:54):
which they love to tell you about, even though it
was clear that green Bay recovered, the officials gave the
ball to Philadelphia anyway, and they quickly got out and
had a touchdown to begin the game. So they were
playing from ahead the entire day. Now, page two, with
this win by Philadelphia. Right with this win by the
Philadelphia Eagles, we look at the coach thumbs up or

(06:17):
thumbs down, thumbs up or thumbs down on the playoff
victory for the Eagles, taking coach Nick Seriani off the
hot seat. So I'm gonna go thumbs down thumbs down
is where I'm going on this, And the reason I'm
going thumbs down drought like conditions. Philadelphia's win was devoid

(06:42):
of any style points.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Is that a fair criticism? I believe it is.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Philadelphia's win was devoid of any style points. It was
a handout from the team from Wisconsin. The Eagles scored
ten points off turnovers. They were handed ten points off turnovers,
and so green Bay without the green Man mistakes. Philadelphia
scored two field goals a touchdown. They missed the extra

(07:07):
point on that touchdown, So that's twelve points that the
offense generated despite having Sequon Barkley and Jalen Hurtz and
the stud here, there and everywhere, and Jalen Hurts yet
again was a jag just a guy, just a guy
out there. He finished with a pedestrian one hundred and
thirty one yards passing against the Green Bay Packers and

(07:29):
Philadelphia on third down, they had eleven third downs and
despite having the Tushy Pushy, they were two of eleven
eighteen percent efficiency on third down. Green Bay is a
lower level NFC team. They are not supposed to be
in the same category as Philadelphia, and yet they won
the statuet. The reason the Packers lost the game is

(07:52):
because then they kept turning the ball over and that
does not bode well going forward. And I know how
Philadelphia sports are wired. Nick Sirianni is not not out
of the woods. And those woods are thick. They are
thick wood, big trees, and they're everywhere. And we imagine
that the Birds, the Birds here will not be getting

(08:15):
four turnovers. Next week when they play the Rams or
the Vikings. That will be the matchup, and they will
get the benefit of either a soft dome team like
Minnesota or a soft West Coast team other Rams disability tougher. Now,
we'll see how tough they are in the game on

(08:36):
Monday night against the Vikings. But they do play not
in a dome. The NFL says that's not a dome
even though it has a roof on it. Sofi Stadium
in La not a dome. But that game tonight will
be in Arizona, so that'll be the matchup.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
A right final point.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
So let's go now to the moment of the game
that most people were talking about. In this Philadelphia Green
Bay game, the game was so dull. It was an
interaction that happened after there was a misconnection between Jalen
Hurtz and Aj Brown. How do you categorize Eagles wide
receiver AJ Brown being spotted by TV cameras reading a

(09:14):
book on the sidelines during the game. He was perusing
a book? Say why yeah, yeah, So my answer to
that question is worm like, worm like as in a
bookworm and Aj Brown a biblia file is the I

(09:35):
think that's the term biblio file. When you're really into books,
you're a biblio file. And this is a guy that
does love books. And I will say, based on a
minutes long malar investigation into this topic, unlike Lebron James,
whose phony when it comes to books and movies and
things like that, he's a fraud Lebron aj Brown. No,

(09:58):
this checks out. Its kosher. It's absolutely coacher. And how
do we know this. He showed the NFL network a
copy of the book and if you saw the clip,
and for those of you that are blind, I'll describe here.
The pages of the book are worn down, essentially down
to tissue. On this book, they're dog eared and they're
falling out. It's a self help book that he's reading.
We don't need to promote, it's already getting enough promotion.

(10:20):
But the excerpts of the book are highlighted the copy
that he showed in yellow marker, and the words are
even underlined. So, hey, he's reading the book. He wants
to read one of those motivational things. I bet you're
Robert Sala, the old Jets coach, probably read that book
seven or eight times. The book's well loved, and I

(10:41):
like the fact that he actually read the book. I'm
fine with that. You know, if he's allowed to read
a book on the sidelines, so be it. But remember
when Lebron. He's been caught multiple times over the years,
Lebron pretending, pretending to read books, and it's been hilarious.
It's always during the NBA playoffs. I remember famously, he
he'll promote on social media he's reading these books, and

(11:05):
so Lebron I remember, he's asked like, hey, what's your
favorite part of the book. He has no idea, he's
no concept, right, And it's the same thing with movies.
The book thing was like a Malcolm X book and
he was asked about it, and he was totally gobsmacked
when he was asked about this Malcolm X book that
he was reading. And then even the movie The Godfather

(11:26):
where he was bragging about watching The Godfather six times
during the NBA playoffs one year, and so somebody said, hey,
what's your favorite quote from The Godfather? And Lebron had
no idea. Now, I've only seen The Godfather a few times,
and I can tell you plenty of quotes in the movie,
at least the big ones, right, the big one, most
famous quote. What is the most famous quote from The Godfather?

(11:49):
It's I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse, right,
that is it. I'm gonna make him an offer he
can't refuse. And the scene with the horse said and
the bed and all that. I mean, there's some iconic
moments there's some iconic moments there. His brains are his signature.
Another one. Lebron could not do any of that. There
was none of that. He had no idea how to

(12:09):
handle that situation. So anyway, now, as far as the
postgame flavor from this game, Matt Lafleur, do you think
the head coach of the Green Bay Packers go back
to the suck bag performance by Jordan Love. Do you
think that mister Lafleur, the coach of the Green Bay Packers,
do you think he's a going to criticize Jordan Love

(12:30):
for sucking at a time you can a suck be
blame someone else, or see none of the above make
an excuse for Jordan Love. Let's go to the audio tape.
Here's the Green Bad Packers head coach.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
I love Jordan Love beats and the work he puts in,
and I think he's going to get better and better
and better. And certainly there are some lessons along the way,
some tough lessons. Anytime you end up in defeat, I mean,
that's hard to deal with. But he is very critical
of himself. He does such a great job of learning
from every experience. So I think you know through this.

(13:05):
I think we'll all be better for it. Although it's
tough to go through, but I think there's there's gonna
be a lot of learning over the course of the
next However, many months before next year arrives.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Didn't you learn last year when you lost the forty
nine ers in the playoffs? I guess you didn't learn enough?
So you got to be reminded. Why don't you lose
every year? Then you'll get you you learn a lot.
The Packers should just lose every year in the playoffs
and they'll learn so much. It'll be great main or
that to learn everything. That'll be the smartest team in
the NFL. They won't win anything, but they're gonna learn
every year when they lose. Like the Steelers should be
really smart because they've lost six straight playoff games over

(13:38):
the year. So Mike Tomlins gotta have like the smartest
team in the NFL because they learn from losing. Here's
a Jordan Love the Man himself pointing out that he's garbage.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
It's tough, you know, I'm definitely you know, it's the
end of the season. You know you lose playoff game.
You know we've been here before. It sucks it's not fun.
It's not fun being to that locker room after a game,
and you know, it's just sucks.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Well, especially considering the Green Bay Packers actually won the statue, right,
So if you just hold on to the football, possession
is nine tenths of victory, you're gonna win the game.
Look at the Washington football team on Sunday night. They
didn't turn the ball over, didn't punt, won the game
because they just waited for Baker Mayfield to puke all
over himself and he did by routine fumble there late

(14:26):
late in the game in his own territory.

Speaker 5 (14:28):
Right.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Here's one and more from Jordan Love, the Green Bay quarterback,
pointing out that these were self inflicted wounds.

Speaker 4 (14:34):
You know, I think that's really the thing that hurt
us in a lot of games is we talked about it.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
You know.

Speaker 4 (14:39):
I feel like a lot of the times this season
was just feeling like we're you know, we're not getting
beat by the other team, We're kind of beating ourselves. So,
you know, whether it's penalties, turnovers, stall drive, things like that,
you know, I think it all comes back down to
just the details and execution and a lack of executions
in those areas, so something you gotta be folks, so

(15:00):
we can go out there and try and limit that stuff.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
So in other words, it's not a well coached team
because they make a lot of mistakes. They've made the
same mistakes all years pretty much that Jordan Love calling
out Matt Lafleur and the coaching staff that these things
cannot be cleaned up that they've had all year. They've
known since the regular season, early in the regular season
this was a problem and they can't clean it up.
So Jordan Love's blaming the head coach and claiming that

(15:25):
the Packers are great, it would never lose if they
didn't make these mistakes, but they can't coach the players
out of the mistakes. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
You want to come out on any of that. We're
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Speaker 2 (16:20):
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Speaker 1 (16:59):
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Speaker 2 (17:06):
See you didn't say my name against Ben aying out here.
Shanon Moyle says the Raven Steeler game bored me more
than a call from Sir scratch Off. Well, he didn't
call the show anymore. He's retired. He can't handle the show.
Although he did say over the weekend, since there's a
lot of people struggling with the fires, that life should stop,
that we should all stop having fun because there's people

(17:27):
that are dealing with the fires.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
So it seems like I feel like that. I don't
feel like that at all. I don't. You gotta live
your life. You want to get a limited amount of time.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
If you're lucky, you get eighty years, maybe a little more,
maybe a little less. You got to enjoy it. You
don't enjoy your time on the planet and compartmentalized.

Speaker 7 (17:42):
Yeah, you see, I was feeling really nocturnal this weekend, Ben.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
You were feeling What do you mean by that? What
do you?

Speaker 5 (17:48):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (17:48):
You know where you're up late? I was up to
like four every night, so there's nothing to do besides
go out.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well, no, you can like watch movies, you can play
video games, you can there's things you can do. So
you went out till four in the morning because.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
I felt bad about the fires.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
Yeah, but the places are open, Like you gotta like live,
where would you anyway? I don't know somewhere, you know,
a club in Hollywood or something like that. A lot
of places aren't even open till four in the morning anymore.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
New shoes and go out when they go out. You
could have gone out when you sit home and sulk,
are you gonna do?

Speaker 8 (18:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Really?

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (18:24):
No?

Speaker 2 (18:24):
I feel bad. I feel bad for the people affected.
My sister in law was displaced most of last week
and her her my sister in law's dad.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
What's that make him? No relation to me?

Speaker 5 (18:35):
Right?

Speaker 1 (18:35):
No? No, no relationship father? Yeah no, not really no relation.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
But his place burned down in the hills there in Alcadena.
So uh yeah, So I feel terrible, but I still
have to live life, you know. So I didn't like
not watch football this weekend. I wish I hadn't. I
got every pick wrong. I wish I hadn't watched football.
That would have been great, ye, I would have. I
would have not been throwing things at the at the TV.
I know, Coop probably, or that opening drive by the Broncos,

(19:01):
and then you should have turned the game off after
that coup seven nothing Broncos two minutes and you know,
twenty six seconds or whatever they drive down the field
bow Nicks boom touchdown, Broncos up seven to nothing and
they stopped playing after that.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Yeah, Sa, no comment, He has no comment to add
to that.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
I will take your calls. Also, I want to mention
this guy Ivan. I don't think it's the same, but we
just to have a game. Ivan the Terrible, But I
don't think it's the same guy. And he's all upset.
He's in Houston, and he was sending in messages upset
because I was pointing out how unpopular the Texans are.
But these people in Houston are so soft they cannot
handle facts. They cannot handle when you point out the reality.

(19:43):
If you're in the early television window in the NFL playoffs,
you you are not popular. And that's back to back
weeks the Texans have been in the early television window.
They are the common denominator, Ivan, They're the common denominate.
And as far as you inviting me to Houston, listen,
if the station wants to fly me to Houston and

(20:05):
pay for a mal Or meet and Green, I'd be
happy to show up. And there are many more people
that are rational, people that live in Houston that know
what I'm saying is not outrageous is not shocking, its reality, right,
And I'll even bring you a new trash can so
your baseball team will have a new trash can to
bang on. I might even bring a whistle. Yeah, I
could do that as well. Man, I do get a

(20:29):
kick out of how many people were so upset that
I dared speak ill of Clayton Kershell. I love the Dodgers,
and I also am smart enough to realize Clayton Kershaw
has been a bane on the Dodgers' existence in the
playoffs and is objectively the worst good pitcher in baseball
history in the playoffs. And I don't even know there's
much debate if there's anyone a close second to Kershaw

(20:51):
when you look at how good he had been in
the regular season on a Wednesday night against the Rockies
or a Tuesday afternoon against the Padres or against whoever
the Giant, and then in the playoffs, that guy he's
got diarrhea, Die die diarrhea.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
And he's Dodger fan.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
How about the real Dodger suck up fan defending Kershaw
like well, he's a two time champion.

Speaker 9 (21:15):
He didn't even pitch in the postseason this year. He
got a participate You're not even a participation ring. He
couldn't even pitch it a playoff. You're gonna cut that
as a Turshaw championship.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
What kind of dumb.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
Fan are you?

Speaker 1 (21:26):
What kind of loser fan are you?

Speaker 9 (21:29):
The guy didn't even pitch you the pussy He's a
two top champion.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
Come on, wash your mouth out with soo Dodgers who
have like five or six championships in this run. If
Kershaw was as good as he was during the regular
season in the playoffs, but we don't want to talk
about that part out loud. Do we know we don't
want to talk about that part out loud?

Speaker 1 (21:47):
No, it says Femi is in San Diego. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Is this the same femmy that calls from Minnesota? Hello, Femi, welcome, Hey,
multiple famies, there are more.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
Who knew there.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Was more than one family because I've met that there's
a Femi in Minnesota who who does like uber eats.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
But you're you're a different Fami. You're a Femi in
San Diego.

Speaker 5 (22:12):
Yeah, my ear flickers every time you mentioned him.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
But uh no, I'm sorry about that man. How many
other people do you know name Femi?

Speaker 5 (22:19):
It's a common Nigerian name.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
Oh is it really? I did not know this.

Speaker 5 (22:23):
Kind of like the equivalent of John in my My
family's Nigerian. I don't have a I love your show.
I wanted to talk about the Chargers for one minute.
I think that we forget the Chargers wouldn't be here
without Herbert. He dragged these plumbers into the playoffs. We
got a first round receiver who can't catch the ball.

(22:43):
I'm not sure how many other teams he would start,
let alone play on Will Disley. This guy's our tight
end fame situation. What other team does he start on?
He played bad in his two playoff appearances. I agree,
but he's had four offensive coordinators in five years, so
I think there is hope to have in him. It's

(23:04):
just he shows a bad day to have a bad day.
In my opinion, his defense was terrible his first few
years in the league. Now his offense is prehistoric. So
I'm not sure what to think. I love the man,
but it's just Chargers a curse. I don't know what
to think.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
All right, Well, for me, you've made a number of
excuses for Justin Herbert, so congratulations on that.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
I know you like it. You like the Chargers.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
You're defending your guy. I get it. But I'm on
the other side. I'm like, yeah, you know, you got
to produce. You're making a lot of money. You know,
justin Herbert Is. They showed him the money and the
ultimate judgment ground is in the playoffs, so they rewarded
him with the riches of Solomon. He's very wealthy, so
congratulations on that, and he's got a two hundred and

(23:49):
sixty two million dollar contract. Did that look like the
kind of performance by that type of quarterback in the playoffs?

Speaker 1 (23:56):
I don't think it did. That's just me.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
I mean, he's making thirty seven you gonna make forty
six million next year. Good for him, But you got
if you're gonna make that money. I don't have a
problem with you making the money, but you got a liver.
You can't be the reason your team lost the game.
He was the reason they lost the game. See Femi
ran off right now. He's hearing himself on the radio
as we speak. All right, thank you for me. I'll

(24:18):
hang up on you. Let me know how it sounds.
Femi so I did not realize that was a common
Nigerian name. I've not spending time in Nigeria, so I
did not know that. Yeah, Loraina, you knew that you
spent a lot of time in Nigeria.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
Never and no, I had no idea. I thought it
was a nickname, to be honest.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
Now, when Femi I have this photo, say, one of
my favorite photos is when the Femi from Minnesota went
to Nigeria and had a giant poster of mine and
all the kids were wearing there like pajamas in Nigeria
and they're standing around the photo of me.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
It's one of the great photos of all time. And
it was just have a frame in the studio, Ben.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
I should well, at least the home student. I don't
think I can put it here. I think that might
be offensive to like Covino and Rich. They might be
offended by that or something like that.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
But it's a wonderful photo and I appreciate the effort
of the Femi in Minnesota, and this Femi in San
Diego sounds like a fine lad, a nice caller and
all that wonderful. So really great. So anyway, let's see
what else do we have. Page down. I can't read
that bill says you picked Denver at Buffalo, You moron,

(25:25):
Yes I did.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
Bill.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
The Denver Broncos had lost one game all year by
more than the points spread in that game. The Buffalo
Bill's defense, you wouldn't know this because of the way
the Denver Broncos urinated all over themselves public defecation. But
the Buffalo Bills defense is not that good. They had
been a middling defense, and yet it looked like they

(25:48):
were the classic Bill's defense of years gone by. Super
Mark Steve says, there are fires in Riverside and in
my neck of the woods in Foothill every year, and
the people in La still party every night. Just because
this happened a lot of famous rich people affected by
the fires does not mean it happened. There's words missing supermarket, Seeve.

(26:12):
Doesn't happen to thousands of Californians every year.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Like, if you if you think about like stopping your
life every time there's really like terrible things that happen,
you would just not live your life.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
You'd just be a shut in and you would not
mean because there's.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
Always whether it's it's obviously close to us because we're
here and we go outside, well, we smell the smoke,
and we see the extra fire trucks around here that
are putting out the fire.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
But like, even if all the helicopters in the there's
a lot of helicopters over here.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
But even if that wasn't happening, somewhere in the world,
there's really bad stuff happening. And even like in the
United States, and you go from from Hawaii to Alaska
to Maine to Florida, there's always something bad happening, which
is unfortunate, but there's also a lot of good stuff
that's happened. Eugene in Chicago, all right, since he says,

(27:01):
all right, Mallard, it's time for the Ben Mallard quarterback grades,
meaning who gets an A, who gets an F? And
you know I don't do lists, Eugene. I don't because
Terry in England would be very upset. Not in London,
by the way, many hours away from London.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
He hates that.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
He says, he hates the A holes in London. But
I might do a big board if you want, eugen
Maybe tomorrow I'll do a big board.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
That could happen. Let's go to the phones.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
We'll say hello to Jed, who fled, who's in the
Sunshine State. Hello, Jed, who fled?

Speaker 5 (27:31):
Man?

Speaker 8 (27:32):
That guy?

Speaker 5 (27:32):
You get your branching out.

Speaker 8 (27:33):
I gotta say he was nine Chierian, dude, and you
call him a last that's the right, dude.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
I called him? What what did I call him?

Speaker 5 (27:42):
Last? L?

Speaker 8 (27:42):
A d dude, that's what that's a rachel, is it?

Speaker 5 (27:46):
I'm looking up the term gun now.

Speaker 8 (27:47):
I really don't really comfortable any of them.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
I didn't know that. I hadn't no idea.

Speaker 8 (27:54):
You didn't know you Nigerian words for friends.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
I don't even on the word a lad a corner
of the dictionary is a boy or young man, a
form form of address.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
That's what it says.

Speaker 5 (28:08):
Address, dude, dude. No, there's no way that's the dress.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
Dude.

Speaker 8 (28:12):
You're messing up words.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
What is this like a blue dress, green dress, burb.

Speaker 8 (28:15):
Jest or something.

Speaker 5 (28:16):
It's not a former address, dude.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
And anyway, this is the term lad in Nigerian English
refers to a male child from birth to the age
of puberty or a son.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
There you go, so it says, you know, my tweet
lord what?

Speaker 2 (28:29):
The Oxford English Dictionary has added twenty two Nigerian English words.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
There you go, so there's twenty two words.

Speaker 5 (28:38):
What would you have done with?

Speaker 8 (28:41):
What was puberty like for you?

Speaker 5 (28:42):
Man? What was it was it?

Speaker 4 (28:44):
Like?

Speaker 8 (28:44):
Like I'm the sistatics machine, Like, I mean, what were you?

Speaker 2 (28:48):
You're asking me what puberty was like? It was the
same as everyone else. There's a lot going on. There's
a lot going on.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
What's that? Father?

Speaker 5 (28:56):
Why didn't you get together? You had a lot of confidence.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
I can't even understand what you're saying. I have no idea.

Speaker 5 (29:05):
Well, welcome to my family's life.

Speaker 8 (29:06):
Man, I wouldn't try therapy.

Speaker 5 (29:08):
I wouldn't do that. I had worked with them.

Speaker 8 (29:10):
So just what you do with Jade Daniels.

Speaker 5 (29:12):
You go back to.

Speaker 8 (29:13):
Florida State a couple of years ago. You're beaten twice,
back to back. Jadien Daniels domination. Go google the hit
right and I don't google. That'd be terrible for your problems.

Speaker 5 (29:23):
Go being, don't do beings.

Speaker 8 (29:24):
Dang, Internet searched with your own privacy. Uh the hit
that Jaden Daniels received from Florida State a few years ago.

Speaker 5 (29:32):
Don't know the guy's name.

Speaker 8 (29:33):
It was w W E Worthy?

Speaker 2 (29:35):
Like, so is that the greatest moment is at the
greatest moment? The last great moment in seminole history was
a hit against Jayden Daniels.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
That was it.

Speaker 8 (29:43):
Let me tell you, let me tell you something, because
let me just break to tell you. ESPN has sold
his soul because if High State did but Florida State
did the end of the season two years ago before
they drove a stake into our program's hard Herbstreet would
have mel the entire earth. Him and fine baumb finebombs
like that character of Men in Black Dude when he

(30:05):
touched his ears and he's like the Gallas's on around.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
He's a freaking fine bomb. Will not exist to me.
He doesn't.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
I don't listen to his radio, I don't watch them,
I don't watch him on TV. So I don't care
what he said. Why do you worry about what Paul
Finbaum says?

Speaker 1 (30:21):
Who cares?

Speaker 8 (30:23):
Because he's influenced Florida State whenever.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
They're there life, I know, but it doesn't matter if
he if you don't pay attention to him, he doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
I don't pay that. I don't know. I've never heard
the show one time my life.

Speaker 8 (30:33):
He influenced Losers Losers and then influenced things a playoff,
then we don't play.

Speaker 5 (30:38):
Our good players.

Speaker 8 (30:38):
Georgia did and we got down from there.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Floria State season was over after two games. What are
you talking.

Speaker 8 (30:43):
About, Ben, We've we've started, We've kicked men out of school.
We went back to a girls college. They killed our programs,
is what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
They killed the problem.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Okay, well they did, but that Yeah, some of those
I'm old on from I'm old I remember when they
were good.

Speaker 8 (30:56):
So it has been we're going to be known as
gauchos or some crap.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
For well, the gauchos aren't even noticing the guy that's
offensive that you know, they changed. They're not the gauchos
are the bobcats?

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Now?

Speaker 2 (31:06):
Gaucho's offensive? What a bunch of woods? All right, hey,
I gotta thank you're annoying me, go away?

Speaker 1 (31:12):
All right?

Speaker 2 (31:12):
Hey, the bald and the beautiful were taken out of
Lincoln Financial Field a media brew Haha. Things getting a
little cranked up outside the press box at the link
during the Packers Eagles game. Is it true that a

(31:33):
drunk woman caused to stir outside the press box? A
Green Bay Packer beat writer explained what happened. The containment,
he said, was lost in the press box. A drunk
woman who loves the Eagles was spotted right in front

(31:53):
of the press box window. She was heckling Robert Sala,
who was there on behalf of the Green Bay packers.
Sala is a consultant, which makes you get paid a
lot of money to do nothing. So Robert Sala was
there and other bald folks in the row, calling them
bald blank.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
That's another word that kind of rhymes with.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
Puck, And one of the Green Bay reporters then banged
back on the glass towards the drunken woman, the drunk
and drunken damsel not in distress, and told her to
sit the blank down another word that rhymes with kluck

(32:37):
right there, So that that happened there, the woman taking
shots at Robert Sala and other bald men sitting in
the press box there, and they did not take that
sitting down well actually worth sitting down.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
But one of them banged on the glass and said,
that's it.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
How about the prop plooza Eagles running back Saquon Barky.
You were watching the Philadelphia Green Bay game. Saquon Barkley,
he had a breakaway run, would have likely taken it
all the way to the house. In the playoff game,
he slid down. He slid down, Down Gos Barkley, Down,
Gos Barkley. He slid down, and a lot of money

(33:15):
changed hands. I've seen different numbers. I don't I don't
have an exact number on this how much money changed hands.
But a number of people bet on Barkley on the
on the props to score a touchdown, and he was
off to the races. He was on his way and
very likely would have scored a touchdown, and he had
the prop here Barkley scored a touchdown, was the third

(33:37):
most popular leg of all parlays in the game on Sunday,
and he was on his way. And the thing that's
confusing about this he slid down, he said, because he
wanted to wrap up the win. He said, it wasn't tempting.
He said, the first down you win the game. But
a touchdown you win the game. You're already up by
two scores. You're already up by two score, you're up

(34:00):
twenty two to ten. There's one to nine to play
in the game. So if Barkley goes down, scores a touchdown,
they kick the extra point, you're up twenty nine to ten,
so you've just extended the game's already over. Barkley was
a minus one ninety favorite to score a touchdown. He
finished with one hundred and nineteen yards but no touchdowns.

(34:20):
So the prop buster Barkley sliding down even though the
game was already two scores up with a minute to
go in the game. Touchdown there, You're You're fine, You're
still going to win the game.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
What's up with that? All right?

Speaker 2 (34:35):
Tred Ad, We're going to have mallard of the third degree.
Here's the insta trivia. Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry combined
for two hundred and sixty seven yards in Baltimore's wildcard
win over the weekend. That is the second most rushing
yards by a quarterback running back duo in a playoff
game in NFL history, trailing only blank and Blank again Barkley, No,

(34:57):
not Barkley, brother Henry, Derreck Henry and Lamar Jackson and
two hundred and sixty seven yards in Baltimore's wildcard win
against the Gutlass Steelers. That is the second most rushing
yards by a QB running back duo in a playoff
game in NFL history.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
Trailing only blank and blank.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
That's the Insta Trivia, the answer and Mallard of the
third degree.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
Next.

Speaker 6 (35:17):
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the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio
dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to
listen live.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
Bill Miller.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
Here, you are listening to the show live now. But
did you know you can also see how we make
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(35:50):
of video highlights from the Ben Maller Show and other shows.
But again, Ben wants you to only watch the Ben
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have instant access us the Fox Sports Radio videos and
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now back to the show.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
That's right, Bill, that's right. Back to the show. Time.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
Now for the Insta trivia, and here we go. Lamar
Jackson Derrick Henry combined for two hundred and sixty seven
rushing yards Baltimore's win over Pittsburgh. That is the second
most rushing yards by a quarterback running back duo in
a playoff game in NFL history. Trailing only blank and blank,
that is the question with a third degree up next

(36:30):
to sea. Does anyone know the answer? Let's see page then.
I can't read that, Marcus, that boy Malcolm going with
Steve mcnaer and Eddie, George Mark and Santa Monica says
fran Tarkington and Chuck Foreman, Christian Ponder and Chester Taylor
from Ben very funny. Who else do we have? Page down?
Lenny and Swiggy from JT the Wingman, Alan Trammell and

(36:52):
Lou Whaker tossed up by Rob in Minnesota. Mister Irrigation
from Shade in the Morning. It was great to see
mister Irrigation back. I hadn't heard from him in a
long time. I saw him on social media. Jim Plunkett
from dj smiin who else do we have? Paige, Dan
Beavis and butt Head from I forty Ian that's his answer,
Stan and Oli from Manuel in Guardina and also Laurel

(37:14):
and Hardy from Christopher Legally Blind Christopher Lore up, what's
say you?

Speaker 1 (37:19):
I say it's Tom and Jerry, Ben.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
I'm and Jerry fine dynamic duo. That is incorrect. You
correct answer. We go back to the twenty twelve divisional round,
some guy named Colin Kaepernick and Frank.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
Gore fine for three hundred rushing yards for the forty
nine ers. I don't know what happened to how about that?

Speaker 6 (37:39):
To the third degree? This is one big ben gets
grit Oh.

Speaker 7 (37:47):
On Fox NFL Sunday, Rob Gronkowski praised the patriots hiring
of Mike Rabel and implored him to go out and
hire Josh McDaniels back as the team's offensive coordinator.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
Bennet is a good idea or a bad idea?

Speaker 2 (37:58):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Why stop there?

Speaker 2 (37:59):
Hire Matt Patricia, bring back Charlie Wise, just keep it,
bring them all back.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
Now.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
See what I would like to see is higher the
next great offensive mine. But it sounds like it's already
a done deal that Josh McDaniels is going to go
back to the Patriots. But been there, done that. He's
a terrible head coach, he's an okay offensive word nator.
I would go another direction if I was Mike Rabel,
because I would want to bring somebody in who's a
little younger knows the new dynamic, but McDaniels will likely

(38:27):
be the safe choice next.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
All right man.

Speaker 7 (38:31):
Boise State running back and Heisman runner up Ashton Chancey
said in a recent interview that he would love to
play for the Cowboys. Ben, what do you think the
odds are of Dallas picking him up at number twelve?

Speaker 2 (38:41):
So, first of all, it depends on whether or not
Jerry Jones is going to be active in the draft.
They haven't even decided whether they're going to bring back
their fat coach yet, so I don't know if he's
going to be back or not.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
So they haven't decided on the coach.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
But if Jerry's in charge, there's a pretty good chance
because he loves the name. The Cowboys have drafted the
last couple of years offensive lineman, defense alignment.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
The last skilled player they picked, I think was twenty twenty.
It's now twenty.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
Twenty five and Jeni was a stud at Boise State.
He's the top running back. It would be good for
business for the Cowboys. They need a running back next.

Speaker 7 (39:12):
One NBA analyst is suggesting that Russell Westbrook is slowly
rebuilding his reputation in Denver.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
Do you think that's true.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
No, it's the season started. What Christmas, it's now. Nobody
pays attention to the NBA before Christmas. It's not January thirteenth.
Of course, no one's really paying to paying attention to
the NBA right now. No, because Westbrook's the same player
he was with the Clippers, the Lakers, and all the
other teams he played for. He can't make an outside
shot and he will be exposed when the playoffs come

(39:41):
around for the Denver Nuggets and will break their hearts
in Colorado, just like he broke the hearts everywhere else
he's played.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
So there we go. How did we do, Coop?

Speaker 6 (39:48):
You pass?

Speaker 1 (39:49):
That is a wain, Loraine?

Speaker 2 (39:50):
I won.

Speaker 5 (39:51):
I'm aware.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
N party.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
Don't stay home, Lorango, you run party playoffs, playoffs
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