January 16, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Jim Harbaugh saying that criticism of Justin Herbert is "completely unfair," Harbaugh being set to have a heart procedure and hip surgery this offseason, talk that Deshaun Watson's injury led to 'different energy' in the Browns locker room, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ding No.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
The Ben Mathers Show is on here. It is our
number two, Hour two of the original Recipe podcast. Stayed
up all night to provide you with marginal audio this hour.
In hour two, we start out with the Bolts Chargers
coach Jim Harball.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
He's a Michigan man.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
He says that Justin Herbert's criticism in the media is
completely unfair after his playoff performance. Does Herbert deserve a
pardon for sucking at a time you cannot suck? Also,
Jim Harbaugh said to have heart and hip surgery this offseason.
How does that hit you? And talk out of Cleveland
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that Deshaun Watson's injury led to a different energy in
the Browns locker room. Can you decipher what that really means?
We'll get to all of it and who knows what
else here it is our number two. That's my quarterback.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Well.
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In the beginning of another hour of the Ben Malor Show,
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a lot of valuable talk Rado real Estate this week
talking about the Steelers, a couple of stories out of Pittsburgh.
We have not spent much time talking about the team
in Los Angeles that also has been exterminated from the playoffs.
And our lead this hour is from LA the eulogy
of the twenty twenty four Chargers, who finished their season
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with a dud and out of whack performance in Houston.
Much of the focus on that play was from the
quarterback of the LA football team. Now, Jim Harbaugh addressed
the HeLa monster.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
In the room.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
If you did not hear what he had to say,
we have some audio. We're gonna play for you. So
Jim Harbaugh said that the criticism of Justin Herbert, his quarterback, unwarranted, unwarranted,
and well, rather than me tell you what he said,
let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Here's Jim harbaugh My responsibility.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
We did not put him in We did him in
disservice and didn't put him in the positions to be
successful enough. But he played like a beast. I mean,
there's nobody And that was your question, how do I
think he played? Yeah, after watching the tape, you know
I I second that double down on that statement. There's nobody.
There's nobody in this entire organization who gives more blood,
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sweat and tears and contributes more, produces more for the
entire organization than Justin's Justin Herbert.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Okay, well, I think you missed a spot. All right,
So let us discuss the question. Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh,
as you just heard, says Justin Herbert's criticism there, but
he says, just as I said, it was unfair, he
actually did say the words unfair at one point. Does
Herbert deserve a pardon? Does he deserve a pardon for
his playoff performance or lack thereof playoff performance. So I
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have Hurricane Penguin and seven to eleven, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a moneyball, something the Clippers made a lot
of when they won their basketball game by fifty nine points.
That's a real professional sports game where one team was
fifty nine points better than.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
The other team.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
All right, So to answer the question Jim Harball making
the statement, it's unfair, the criticism completely unfair and all that.
Does Herbert deserve a pardon? Absolutely not. There are no
partons handed out, And we get that. Jim Harbaugh has
to say this stuff. He's a rider die coach. He
likes to say, who has it better than us? Well,
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the answer, who has it better than us? That would
be the Houston Texans, that would be every other team
alive in the divisional round or the playoffs. And he's
standing by his man. I understand that's how it works.
And you've got to play the role. And if he
had said something to it, imagine if Jim Harby said, oh, yeah,
he sucked, he was terrible.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Justin Herbert.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
It's almost like he had an infestation of maggots all
over his body.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
He was that bad. Now, that would be a story.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
But instead he whispered sweet nothings into his quarterback's ears.
Here and he regularly rhapsodizes about his quarterback most coaches do.
He goes next level, goes next level, Jim Harble. However,
the real ones know right that was not only a quarterback.
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That was a fu bar performance, a fu bar performance
from the aforementioned Justin Herbert. He's in the high Ran
district watching him play against the Texans, it was like
watching during a hurricane and the Levy breaks. Okay, two
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playoff games, two playoff games, one of the great choke
jobs of all time against Jacksonville when you had a
what twenty seven point lead, I believe in that game
along those lines, you blew that lead. And now you
became the first quarterback in the modern NFL, the first
one in the modern NFL to have more interceptions in
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a playoff than you did during the regular season.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
An abysmal failure.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
So yeah, I'm not giving out pardons and none of that.
And I have no skin in the game. I'm just
calling it like it is here. And when you're the
franchise quarterback and you've got the two hundred and sixty
million dollar contract. You got to do better, you got
to be better, and there's no excuse for that. And
not all of those interceptions were on Justin Herbert, but
at least two of them were pathetic, pathetic throws by
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Justin Herbert. And the Chargers in Houston had a chance
to come out and jump all over the Texas because
of some mistakes by Houston in the first quarter, and
they were only up.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Six to nothing.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Got a couple of Measley field goals in that game,
all right, not pitch you. So Jim Harball has also
an announced that he is well. He's not going to retire,
but he's had some medical problems.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Not gonna retire.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Instead, he's going to have a lot of visits to hospitals,
a lot of visits to doctors over the next couple
of weeks, the next couple of months, Harball set to
undergo heart surgery and hip replacement surgery. Say what, remember
there was that incident early in the football season where
Jim Harbaugh had a heart heart beat that was a
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little off.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Remember that.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, so that happened and the hip thing's been a deal.
So Jim Harbaugh said to have a heart procedure and
hip surgery. How does that one hit you? Well, it's
going to hit him worse than it's going to hit me.
But we wish a good good thoughts to Jim Harbaugh here.
The heart conditions just scares her. Right, that's kind of
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the big deal. That's seeing you get the two big things.
You get the brain over here, you get the heart
over here. Those are the big ones, right, those are
the big ones that you need. And so he's really
going to the app store. It's like, you need to
update the app. You got to fix the bug problems there,
performance enhancements, that kind of thing. So that's what he's
he's doing here, and it does seem like a big
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deal though. Now they claim this is a common procedure
that's gonna be done on the guy's heart, But it
seems like a like a big deal. You're messing with
the big one, right, the big gohuna there. So that's
a problem. And as for the rest watching Jim Harball
walk on the sideline, So they show him on TV
a lot because he's cartoonish. When you watch Jim Harball
walk around, he's got a comical git to him.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
He does and it's it's like going to the San Diego.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Zoo and you're observing the penguins wattle wattle waddle. The
penguins are waddling. That's how Jim Harball walks side to side.
Be very painful. I know a couple people that had it.
The one of the people he's dead now. But Tommy Lesorta,
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he had it. He had both of his hips were placed,
and I think his knee replaced when he was you know,
obviously I'm not managing, he's managed with the Dodgers, but
he said that was the most pain he had ever
had in his life, was hip replacement surgery. It'll message
and it doesn't guarantee you're gonna be able to walk perfectly.
Now supposedly it's improved and all that, but it's it
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is a pain in the hip, not the tukes, because
the hip, even though the hip kind of goes up
to the tuckish.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
But it's a pain in the hip, is what it is.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Final point. So we now stop over to Cleveland. Why
do we stop in Cleveland because there's some new reporting
out that goes into great detail after the fact. Mind you,
this is after the fact reporting. This was not reported
while it was happening, but after the season loose lips
sink football ships, and so the report behind a paywall
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the Old Gray Lady, otherwise known as the Athletic. The
report says, the atmosphere in the Browns facility, the Browns
locker room has become had become much more positive, much
more positive, the atmosphere there after Deshaun Watson tore his achilles.
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He shredded his achilles. That was on October twentieth, so
a couple of weeks before Halloween, when he stopped playing.
The storm cloud had been lifted over the Browns facility.
So that's the report. Let us discuss the question, the
talk that Deshaun Watson his injury led to a different
(10:36):
type of energy in the Browns facility. Can you decipher?
Can you decipher what that really means? Yes, of course
we have all the answer. I got a microphone, I
got headphones, you got all the answers. So this is
really a referendum on Kevin Stefanski. Now, Stefanski kept his job.
He's the coach in Cleveland, and there was talk he
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was on the hot seats. Stefanski, He's gonna turn as
coach of the Browns. But this is an indictment of
Stefanski that the Browns coach treated Deshaun Watson to non
stop spongebass.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
He just got lots of soap, little soapy hot water
and the sponge and rubber dub dub uh oh. Yeah,
I had a little yellow rubber ducky, yellow rubber ducky
in the tub and he gave him a nice big spongeback.
The other thought here, we're hearing that Stefanski would regularly
not only dig him the spongeback, he would go down
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to seven to eleven and he'd hand Watson a slurpee.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
It was a slurp fest in team meetings. So, I
don't you know this, but.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Apparently Watson's not good at his job as a quarterback.
The creepy quarterback, DeShawn Watson would regularly make many mistakes.
But we are told, based on this report, during team meetings,
Kevin Stefanski, the head coach, wouldn't not acknowledge the obvious
mistakes that the other players recognized, like that's a mistake,
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that's a mistake, that's a mistake that and he.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Wouldn't talk about that.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Why Deshaun Watson not only does he have a ton
of money, but he also has to be coddled and pampered.
I demand to be peppered. That's possibly what he said.
I wasn't there. He might have gone up to Stefanskin
and said cottle coddaquaddle, I need to be coddled.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
That could have been said.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
But either way, thin skin, which is not surprising. We
knew about this years ago when Deshaun Watson was leaving Clemson,
the famous story those of you that have been with
the show a long time.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
No, there was a social.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Media Donnie brook a brew haha that took place between
yours truly and Deshaun Watson, who was laying it on.
I was watching I was watching something and Deshaun Watson
was like, oh, I've overcome the odds and all this.
You know, he was like a five star recruit, had
offered some all these power schools, and he wanted to
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make it seem like he you know, he was like
an unrecruited player going to college and all that.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
So I called him on his bull crap. He got upset.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
He blocked me because of stuff I said on this
radio show, which is fine whatever, And I didn't like
tag him in. He just he was searching his name
out and he saw some of the stuff I had
said on monologues got all upset.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
So we knew going back to his days out of
Clemson he was a he was a weenie. We knew that.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
And he never got criticized. And so now the reporting is,
once Watson got hurt, Stefanski would put a highlighter on
how bad Jameis Winston was playing and the other Browns quarterbacks.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
And so it just.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Didn't play well in the locker room, didn't play well.
The Browns invested not one, not two, but three first
round picks and they garanteed two hundred and thirty million dollars,
and what they got was a cream puff. They got
their own creampuff to play quarterback. And the creampuff you
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can pose the creampuff in the Happy Baby Yoga pos.
You can put the creampuff down there in the Happy.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Baby Yoga post.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
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will pick up steam this coming weekend and the Chargers
will be out golfing. Well maybe they don't golf, maybe
they'll be playing tennis or racquetball or whatever whatever activity
they want to do to kill their time. But straight ahead,
we had a sports faux pas, a fat faux pas
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in sports that took place. Also, an NFL team is
being sued by the city they play it. That's right,
an NFL team being sued by the city they plan
in a sports fashion faux paw.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
We'll get to all of that.
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We'll take your calls, the whole thing, and we will
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the FSR Tech Queen. And now back to the nonsense.
Actually there's no nonsense, Bill none. I would like to
update the honorable Mallard militia. I did speak to buck
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Nuts and we had a time zone malfunction. Now buck
Nuts does deliver pactice. What can Brown do for you?
He was supposed to be part of the Octagon Last
Hour with Alameda Lou and we had Alama Lou and
buck Nuts wasn't there, so he called up. I picked
up the phone. I said, hey, buck Nuts, the bit
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was last Hour. He said, I hadn't missed the bit.
I said, you missed the bit? The bit was last Hour?
I said, I didn't miss the bit. He said, I
double triple checked with Justin Cooper and Justin Cooper said
it was at two am Central time.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
That is not true at all.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
He told me it was two am a Central time,
so he said, I was getting ready for work. I
took a shower, and I called in at two am
Central time early. I called in early. He said, so, Coop,
he's claiming that you told him the Central time, not
Eastern time.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
I told you, I told you he was blaming you, Coop,
I told you that's a that's a lie.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Well, he's seemed very confident. He's seemed very confident. Thought.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
In fact, I think he should be banned from the
OCGEN for lying. I'm not kidding. I picked up the phone.
I told him we're going to do it two thirty
your time. And he lives in Columbus, which is an
Eastern time yeah. And then so after I said two,
I said two twenty to two thirty your time, and
he goes Central time or Eastern.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Time, okay.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
So I say that, and I said Eastern time okay,
because you live in Columbus, yeah, which is in the
Eastern times.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
That I understand.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Well, he travels though he does drive a truck, so
he travels around different time zones there. But he did
say he had that conversation. He's claiming that he called
up on time, that he was given incorrect information.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
That's his first said Central. I said, I said Eastern.
Why would Central even come up. I don't even know
why Central come up. That's what I mean. I don't
know what he was by men in Central Time, so there.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Was a time zone. He says, he's going to be there.
I told him, I said, listen that it's gonna be
the three am hour, So this hour Sunday.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
And the Monday. He says he's going to be there.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
I also told him two twenty to two thirty.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I never said two am.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
He said he called in. He said I called in
early because it was based on Central time.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I just tell you the conversation. He said.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
He's at work right now. He's actually he's driving to
he's in Nashville, driving down to Nashville. He's from Columbus.
Hope this guy loses. Wow, you gonna rig the game.
You're gonna rig the game. We'll find out anyway. Let's
see what are the masses have to say here? Page
and Glenn writes and says, normally, I'd be kind of
pissed about the octagon being canceled the delayed but Alamlu
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was just dreadful in that one from a year.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Or two ago. I think it was two years ago.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I hope he's improved because the last performance made a
Mayweather fight seem almost entertaining while shots fired by Glenn Yeah,
all right, Late night Drug Tester writes in Sensus messages
on x he says, I think Justin Herbert should get
even more criticism for canceling Eddie and missus Garcia's tripp
(19:34):
to Kansas City for the divisional round game.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah, Well, I don't know anything about that, but I
guess Eddie was on his podcast was talking about Kansas City.
They've never been. I told that when he worked there.
I said, what are you doing? Kansas City is a
great town. You can have the Ben mallor Chicken figures.
Go to Kansas City hanging out, have a great time,
good people there. And Arrowhead's one of the historic NFL
stadiums you would want to check out.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
It's so big. I don't think you could really kind
of get your mouth around it.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I mean, well, you could not put your mouth around
Airhead State And that is accurate, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
You could not do that.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
But it's a beautiful place and there's a lot of
history there, and if you love football like we do,
you want to check it out, you want to be
part of it. And he hasn't hasn't made it there.
So Gunner is he's sending these really terrible messages and
I don't know, I feel bad for him.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Maybe we should do a wellness check.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
He's talking trash about the Clippers, but his Minnesota timberl
was just lost to the Golden State Warriors at home,
at home, the Golden State Warriors with Steph Curry and
like four Dwarfs or something around Steph Curry. It's like,
you know Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It's Steph
Curry and the four Dwarfs. I think dopey, sneezy. Yeah,
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the Warriors have crappy, pathetic and dumb.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Dumb is what they have. And loser they have those
those are the ones they have. Right, let's go all
the phones.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Let's say hello to eeny meenie miney mall. We'll say
hello to Angry Bill, who's always upset about something. He
is in Florida. Hello, Angry Bill.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
How you doing? Everybody? Man? I gotta admit with Glenn
Ben Bill, whatever your name is, I gotta admit one thing.
You have this propensity to be so lucky. A different
garbage stories pop up. Now you got this Leon Sanders's
gonna go coach the Cowboys. He's just lucky where there's
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craft pops up.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
You know how how am I lucky? I have nothing
to do with that story. I'm just reacting to the
story doing it.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
You're going to have.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Something to talk about for the next forty years.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Well, I mean not the next forty years, but we
there's always something to talk about. I don't if you
know this, angry Bill, there's a whole industrial complex of
sports based on things like this to talk about.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Of course, there's always gonna.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Be somebody to talk about it, not like not like this.
This can be left u your general manager. There is
probably in heaven and poland dish Joan Watson on himself.
I mean, you know, it's it's amazing how different things
pop up with some type of magnitude. Okay, well yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
That happens all the time. I mean, this has been
going on my entire career. Though this has always happened.
There's always been stories, it's always been.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Kept your career going. What are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Well, well, listen, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I'd come in here and read Wikipedia pages if you want.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
And we proved one thing that's great about this angry
but we proved during the pandemic when there were no
sports going on and we had the highest ratings we've
ever had at Fox Sports Radio with no sports to
talk about. The sports don't really matter that we want
one hundred. We went one hundred and thirty four days
without sports back in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Of your lucky things, the pandemic, there's always different things.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
How how was how exactly was the pandemic lucky?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
How was that?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Like?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Oh that was that was great?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I loved it.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, I loved it. Yeah, it was so good. It
was so good. I love those masks.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
I have to think back and then think of all
the dumb things that pop up it it can't be roll.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Well, we had Tim Tebow. That was big for a while,
remember Tim Tebow. We had Deshaun Watson made us made
it through an NFL offseason, Watson.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Doing his thing.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
There's been a bunch of them. The Tawny gambling story,
it was a good story that went away.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
That was yeah, that way too quick.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
That was that was a good story, but it just
kind of disappeared. I'm sure there was no funny business
going on, and.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yeah, this is not at all.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Not at all.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Of course, I didn't even have weed Man Hippie.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I got weed Man, sir. He's serving up my gabba
ghoul every night. I get the gabba gul from weed
Man Hippie every single night.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Yeah, I'm really I gonna you're not gonna believe this,
But from the bottom my heart, I'm glad for you.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Bet Well, thank you, angry girl. I appreciate that. I
appreciate I like you.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I like the idea that these things pop up and
you can keep talking and talking and you get rid
of it, and you go ahead and get rid of Eddie.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I didn't get I didn't get rid of Eddie. The
company got rid of Eddie. I did not get rid
of it.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
You were in charge of that one. It me.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Yes, I have so much infl it's here at the company.
I'm still doing the Overnight show after twenty five years. Yes, exactly.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Why why are all these people that are going on now?
Is named Bill? I'm Bill tell these other people that gow.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Would you like to say something to Bill Miller?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
You want to say something to Bill Miller?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I can't. Then you brought me off the ear. I
don't want to talk like that.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
You hear in a good mood. Angry Bill, you're angry
right now.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I'm a rebuilt I'm a rebuilt man.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
You're a new man, all right. You got those pills.
Those pills are working out for you.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
That's what I'm reading. You don't talk about Kaitlyn Clark.
He's a legit story.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Well, I was worried. I was worry. We were worried
about you.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
We're gonna get her. I thought you got arrested because
you know me. People send me the story. You'd be
very happy about the angry Bill. I had my email,
I had multiple and many people. I don't I didn't
keep track of it, but there were many people saying,
is this angry Bill? Is that what angry Bill looks like?
Did you get arrestlers in jail in Indianapolis? They thought
they thought you were that guy, the guy that said
(24:58):
guilty on all charges of stock Caitlyn Clark.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I'd like to be in her town and just take
a look at her. I mean, that's all I want.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
That's not creepy at all.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
That's what I want to her.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
So you're a peeping You're a peeping tom is what
you are in this case.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Peeping a bill on Monday. All right, well, what is
thought is Thursday? What is Thursday?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Thursday is music called nude Panny.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Nude panties. All right, thank you? Angry all right, going,
you're welcome.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I hang up on yourself. There's angry Bill. It's four
minutes of our life. Will never get back from angry Bill.
We have a fashion faux paw, a fashion faux pas.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
From the world of sports.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
We're taken that to the NBA Random Random Wednesday night
in the NBA, and fans were bemused, bemused when they
checked out the Knickerbockers and the Philadelphia seventy six is
the game played in Philadelphia. And it is it true
that New York knickerbocker Carl Anthony Towns, known as the
(26:08):
Cat Kiddy Cat Carl Anthony Towns was not playing for
the Knickerbockers, sat on the Knickerbocker bench in Philadelphia out
with a thumbsprain wearing Philidelphia Eagle team gear representing a
New York sports team yet rocking Philadelphia Eagle merch. But
(26:37):
is it also true that Carl Anthony Towns in the
second half changed his outfit and no longer no longer
had the Eagles sweater on. Yeah, so Towns is claiming
that he got a little sweaty. He had that swamp ass,
(26:57):
I guess, and it was affecting him, and so he
he said that's why he changed.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
But imagine that.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
I know he's from I know he's from He's from Jersey,
and Jersey is this weird thing? I got family there,
Like half the state's Philly fans and the upper half
New York fans. Right, so it's like the lower half's
Philadelphia fans because southern New Jersey and Philadelphia the Jersey Shore,
they go to shore if you're.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
In that part.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
But then in the upper part usually New York fans.
But I believe Karl Anthony Towns is from the New
York party.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
He's an Eagles fan. Obviously, it's like, you can't what
are you doing? I guess he's.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
A huge obviously huge fan enough to wear the Eagle
merch while he is working for a New York team.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
It's wild.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I did somebody say, hey, maybe you shouldn't wear that,
Maybe maybe you should should avoid that Man a life
Scrooge rights and says, I agree with Coop that jackass
goes by a central time.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
The excuse the exhoses people use now, he.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Says. The Russian kid writes in from the Highways and
Byways of America says Coop, totally agree with you. When
people are scared and don't want to face consequences of
being embarrassed, they create excuses to make no sense. Why
would he even think about central time? Just to admit
you forgot or backed out ban him from the octagon.
(28:27):
So the problem with banning him is then we got
to find somebody else to get into the octagon. And
the guy said he's gonna be there on Sunday night,
So we'll give him one more chance, and if he
doesn't show up on Sunday night, we will have someone else.
We'll just put out a call to somebody else. We
have a lot of listeners.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
We're on all over.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Ohio, from Cleveland down to Cincinnati and all parts in between,
and so we'll get somebody else to a big state.
Somebody else will call up and they'll defend the buck
Eyes and that'll be that. Now to a man who
doesn't care about Ohio or Notre Dame, we say hello
to Jay who fled, who's in the swamp land of Florida. Hello,
(29:04):
Jed who fled?
Speaker 9 (29:07):
That guy is buck That's a nuts for sure. To
blame the man to pick up the phone and runs
the show. I'm just show the running gun. That's what
you blame. You don't do that.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
You gotta lie? Can you?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Can you pick up? And you got the nickname Jed
who fled? You know all about that. You gotta pick
up the phone, by the way, Jed, so we can
hear every ridiculous thing that you say. However, you got
the nickname Jed who fled from leaving the Octa and
you were supposed to go against real talk and the
Octagon and you didn't show up.
Speaker 8 (29:37):
Do you ever think the facts like we've got an
open line right now. The fact that I come in
and snored that line affected my segular quality. Dude, I
didn't come in and I didn't I didn't go to
the Octagon with real thoughts because my sister.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
You can't you can't even wait, you cannot even wait
to snort until you get off the show.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Bad job by you.
Speaker 8 (29:53):
I started to be if you start two lines before
starting lines, now you more I mean pretty.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Much the blind. But you do something, you do something like, uh,
let's say your.
Speaker 8 (30:02):
Sister had a heart attack, where the karmatic tornado blows
into town later few years later and you end up
with heart problems. That's definitely hypothetical, definitely not me what
I did.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
No, Kara Karma would not bite you in the heart.
That would not happen at.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
All, the owner of the tacked out heart. But see,
I'm glad because I really didn't earn shaw Shank dead.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
That makes me like I've been in a long time.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Oh yeah, that was your nickname. You were shaw Shan.
I remember that, Shah Shank Jed.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
I hadn't thought about that in a while, but that
was your original nickname on the show. And then you
forever have been known as Jed who Fled, and a
great nickname it is, and well earned, well deserved Jed
who Fled it is, and it's.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Become my life. Dude.
Speaker 8 (30:42):
I get right home, absolutely, dude, I gotta run.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
I grabbed something the car real quick.
Speaker 8 (30:50):
That just to come out for sola because this world
that means that is that's very solid. Let me ask
you this. You think gms get the general manager, front
officers ever line up but praise and they've got like
the head. Let me take something they're talking. I've got
I've got Bay Bruce and Mickey Mantle for three hundred dollars.
Just go babe at the freaking pizza Hut at midnight
(31:10):
and they just didn't you show up to get them,
and they don't.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
They just ghost you forever.
Speaker 8 (31:15):
Because in my hero manical world about game world, that
crap happened just yesterday. And I don't know. You think
Jim's sight like you trade you to the act. So
next time I see I'm on whoop your ASTs random
g Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Yeah, I think they meet it like Chuck e Cheese
and they play ski ball is what they do.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
They play the ski ball.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Those guys are bravers.
Speaker 8 (31:34):
Hell, dude, those are those those animals, those lof sized
animals were the stuff of nightmares.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Man.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
They don't have those anymore. They got rid of those.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
I heard that, and that's probably you're dating yourself, Jaed
with that. They don't have those anymore animal.
Speaker 9 (31:47):
Shower.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Dude, how do you know I'm dating myself? What are
you talking about? Looking?
Speaker 8 (31:49):
I'm just a bill, just I'm just angry Bill. Caitlyn Clark,
your curtains look good for real?
Speaker 3 (31:56):
You know you got stuff.
Speaker 8 (31:57):
Let's love y'all.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Right and ladies.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Yeah, there's a jeedhoo fled So an NFL team is
being sued by the city they play in. It is happening.
There were rumors of this a couple of weeks ago,
but it is now on. Like Donkey Kong, the city
of Cleveland in a legal brew haha with the Browns,
Holy Ohio albatman. Yes, this all over the plans. The
(32:22):
Browns have to say bye bye and leave downtown in
the dust, leave Cleveland behind, and they proposed to build
a dome stadium out in the burbs outside Cleveland. They
announced plans you might remember this at the end of
twenty twenty four, so like a few weeks ago, and
the city, though, is attempting to find a way to
(32:45):
handcuff them inside Cleveland proper. They filed a formal lawsuit
to stop the Browns from leaving Cleveland's lakefront. Their lease
expires in twenty twenty eight. Now it is convoluted because
when the Browns left, they became the Ravens. In nineteen
(33:07):
and ninety five, that evil bastard Art Modell moved the
team over to Baltimore, and so they got a rule,
a law, if you will.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
It's a messy situation.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
There's a model law, which, as I understand it is
the story says any professional sports team. The law says,
any professional sports team that uses state funding for its
facility or for home games cannot leave without permission or
providing advanced notice. So that law was passed in nineteen
(33:41):
ninety six. It also gives residents in Cleveland a chance
to buy the team or find a new buyer. And
so in the lawsuit, the city comes the Browns violated
the law by not doing either of those things, and
the Browns have kept their mouth shut. They have not
commented all on this situation. So that's where we are
(34:04):
with the Browns getting a nice lawsuit from the city
of Cleveland, and that law will not stand up in court.
So the Browns are free to do whatever they want.
They'll have to pay a little bit of money, but
that's how that's gonna go. It is the Ben Mahler Show.
We are rolling, rolling, rolling through the overnight and we've
got the Mallard of the third degree portion of the
(34:26):
show that's coming up in a couple of minutes, and
we'll also have the Insta trivia. That's right the Insta trivia.
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quarterbacks in twenty twenty four with the highest checkdown rate. Again,
(35:10):
Blank led all NFL quarterbacks in twenty twenty four with
the highest checkdown rate at twenty percent.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
That is the Insta Trivia. The answer next.
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Back to it we go. And here's the Insta trivia
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the highest checkdown rate at twenty percent. Charlie Checkdown. Call
him Charlie checkdown. That is the question. What is the answer?
(36:37):
Mary Elizabeth Winstead is the answer from I forty ian
John Witkowski from Rob in Minnesota, Gary kaspar Off, the
chess champion. Who else we have r a Dicky Cy
Young Winner back in the day, mister nice guy, that's
(36:58):
his answer, x rams Our Kurt Warner from Shane in
de Mooin, Charlie Batch from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Late
Night Drug Tester says Joe Flacco, who is forty? Captain
Clarence over from Mister Milkman Mike in Colorado, Mason Rudolph
guests by Dante mac Davis from Barbecuing Len, Who's up
(37:19):
with his cousin? It from Trucker Joe, Josh Allen guests
by Dat Boy Malcolm, Rusty Hilger from Steve the Misplaced,
San Diegan, Mike Tyson from Play Hoot. What say you,
Lorena the.
Speaker 7 (37:32):
Leader of Leaders Ben Yankee Doodle Dandy Yankee Doodle Dandy,
No wrong.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
The correct answer is Jared Goff Jared Goff of her
Detroit Lions twenty point four percent, followed by Tua tongue
by a law here to.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
The third degree, were.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
Is one?
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Big Ben gets grailled and Google.
Speaker 7 (37:59):
In a It's an episode of the in season Hard Knocks,
Miles Garrett said that he had talked to Browns GM,
the Browns GM, and went on to say we're closer
than some may think we are. Now, Ben, do you
think this squashes any chance of a trade request from
Miles Garrett.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Well, publicly, he's not gonna do that because he's beloved
in Cleveland, so he's trying to be Paullyannish, right, he's
optimistic things are gonna be better in Cleveland. Then, yeah,
don't don't hold your brother minds me of Joe Thomas.
This is not gonna be one of those made for
TV movies. You're gonna play in Cleveland. You'll make the
playoffs a couple of times, you won't win anything, and
(38:35):
you'll retire and that'll be that. So it's not off
the table because teams are gonna call the Browns and
try to trade for Miles Garrett. So it's up to
the Browns to decide where they want to do next.
Speaker 7 (38:45):
Now, the only truly competitive game over wild Card weekend
was the Bucks and Commanders. Many are saying that this
proves that expanding to a fourteen team playoff was a
bad idea, Ben, Do you think this will give the
league pause when it comes to the idea of expanding
the playoffs even further?
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Absolutely not, because, first of all, it's not about the
quality of the product. It's about getting people to watch.
And so even though these games were bad, these games
would be bad. People watch, and television wants.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
More, more and more and more and more and more,
more and more and more and more and more more.
So as long as TV wants it, there'll be more
NFL games.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
They'll keep expanding because there's an audience there and it's
the only thing people watch live on TV is sports.
Speaker 7 (39:21):
Next the following Zion Williamson getting suspended by the Pelicans
for multiple instances of tardiness.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Steven A.
Speaker 7 (39:27):
Smith said this week that Zion does not want to
be in New Orleans and he wants to be in
a major market like New York or La. Ben do
you think this is Zion pushing for a trade.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
It is inevitable. Zion is going to end up in
LA or New York and Dennis acoombo uh Giannis is
going to end up in a bigger market. That's how
the NBA does business. They've always been that way. How
did we go you pass this? That is a way
you can put it on. The more I want right now,
I'm a winner.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
You're not impressed.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
I'm willing you thank you.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Oh, all right,
Ding No.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
The Ben Mathers Show is on here. It is our
number two, Hour two of the original Recipe podcast. Stayed
up all night to provide you with marginal audio this hour.
In hour two, we start out with the Bolts Chargers
coach Jim Harball.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
He's a Michigan man.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
He says that Justin Herbert's criticism in the media is
completely unfair after his playoff performance. Does Herbert deserve a
pardon for sucking at a time you cannot suck? Also,
Jim Harbaugh said to have heart and hip surgery this offseason.
How does that hit you? And talk out of Cleveland
(00:42):
that Deshaun Watson's injury led to a different energy in
the Browns locker room. Can you decipher what that really means?
We'll get to all of it and who knows what
else here it is our number two. That's my quarterback.
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Well.
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the number ten thousand. So our lead this hour begin
is from the fallout from a playoff elimination. We spent
(02:09):
a lot of valuable talk Rado real Estate this week
talking about the Steelers, a couple of stories out of Pittsburgh.
We have not spent much time talking about the team
in Los Angeles that also has been exterminated from the playoffs.
And our lead this hour is from LA the eulogy
of the twenty twenty four Chargers, who finished their season
(02:32):
with a dud and out of whack performance in Houston.
Much of the focus on that play was from the
quarterback of the LA football team. Now, Jim Harbaugh addressed
the HeLa monster.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
In the room.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
If you did not hear what he had to say,
we have some audio. We're gonna play for you. So
Jim Harbaugh said that the criticism of Justin Herbert, his quarterback, unwarranted, unwarranted,
and well, rather than me tell you what he said,
let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Here's Jim harbaugh My responsibility.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
We did not put him in We did him in
disservice and didn't put him in the positions to be
successful enough. But he played like a beast. I mean,
there's nobody And that was your question, how do I
think he played? Yeah, after watching the tape, you know
I I second that double down on that statement. There's nobody.
There's nobody in this entire organization who gives more blood,
(03:29):
sweat and tears and contributes more, produces more for the
entire organization than Justin's Justin Herbert.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Okay, well, I think you missed a spot. All right,
So let us discuss the question. Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh,
as you just heard, says Justin Herbert's criticism there, but
he says, just as I said, it was unfair, he
actually did say the words unfair at one point. Does
Herbert deserve a pardon? Does he deserve a pardon for
his playoff performance or lack thereof playoff performance. So I
(04:00):
have Hurricane Penguin and seven to eleven, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a moneyball, something the Clippers made a lot
of when they won their basketball game by fifty nine points.
That's a real professional sports game where one team was
fifty nine points better than.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
The other team.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
All right, So to answer the question Jim Harball making
the statement, it's unfair, the criticism completely unfair and all that.
Does Herbert deserve a pardon? Absolutely not. There are no
partons handed out, And we get that. Jim Harbaugh has
to say this stuff. He's a rider die coach. He
likes to say, who has it better than us? Well,
(04:41):
the answer, who has it better than us? That would
be the Houston Texans, that would be every other team
alive in the divisional round or the playoffs. And he's
standing by his man. I understand that's how it works.
And you've got to play the role. And if he
had said something to it, imagine if Jim Harby said, oh, yeah,
he sucked, he was terrible.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Justin Herbert.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
It's almost like he had an infestation of maggots all
over his body.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
He was that bad. Now, that would be a story.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
But instead he whispered sweet nothings into his quarterback's ears.
Here and he regularly rhapsodizes about his quarterback most coaches do.
He goes next level, goes next level, Jim Harble. However,
the real ones know right that was not only a quarterback.
(05:29):
That was a fu bar performance, a fu bar performance
from the aforementioned Justin Herbert. He's in the high Ran
district watching him play against the Texans, it was like
watching during a hurricane and the Levy breaks. Okay, two
(05:50):
playoff games, two playoff games, one of the great choke
jobs of all time against Jacksonville when you had a
what twenty seven point lead, I believe in that game
along those lines, you blew that lead. And now you
became the first quarterback in the modern NFL, the first
one in the modern NFL to have more interceptions in
(06:12):
a playoff than you did during the regular season.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
An abysmal failure.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
So yeah, I'm not giving out pardons and none of that.
And I have no skin in the game. I'm just
calling it like it is here. And when you're the
franchise quarterback and you've got the two hundred and sixty
million dollar contract. You got to do better, you got
to be better, and there's no excuse for that. And
not all of those interceptions were on Justin Herbert, but
at least two of them were pathetic, pathetic throws by
(06:43):
Justin Herbert. And the Chargers in Houston had a chance
to come out and jump all over the Texas because
of some mistakes by Houston in the first quarter, and
they were only up.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Six to nothing.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Got a couple of Measley field goals in that game,
all right, not pitch you. So Jim Harball has also
an announced that he is well. He's not going to retire,
but he's had some medical problems.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Not gonna retire.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Instead, he's going to have a lot of visits to hospitals,
a lot of visits to doctors over the next couple
of weeks, the next couple of months, Harball set to
undergo heart surgery and hip replacement surgery. Say what, remember
there was that incident early in the football season where
Jim Harbaugh had a heart heart beat that was a
(07:27):
little off.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Remember that.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, so that happened and the hip thing's been a deal.
So Jim Harbaugh said to have a heart procedure and
hip surgery. How does that one hit you? Well, it's
going to hit him worse than it's going to hit me.
But we wish a good good thoughts to Jim Harbaugh here.
The heart conditions just scares her. Right, that's kind of
(07:50):
the big deal. That's seeing you get the two big things.
You get the brain over here, you get the heart
over here. Those are the big ones, right, those are
the big ones that you need. And so he's really
going to the app store. It's like, you need to
update the app. You got to fix the bug problems there,
performance enhancements, that kind of thing. So that's what he's
he's doing here, and it does seem like a big
(08:11):
deal though. Now they claim this is a common procedure
that's gonna be done on the guy's heart, But it
seems like a like a big deal. You're messing with
the big one, right, the big gohuna there. So that's
a problem. And as for the rest watching Jim Harball
walk on the sideline, So they show him on TV
a lot because he's cartoonish. When you watch Jim Harball
walk around, he's got a comical git to him.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
He does and it's it's like going to the San Diego.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Zoo and you're observing the penguins wattle wattle waddle. The
penguins are waddling. That's how Jim Harball walks side to side.
Be very painful. I know a couple people that had it.
The one of the people he's dead now. But Tommy Lesorta,
(08:56):
he had it. He had both of his hips were placed,
and I think his knee replaced when he was you know,
obviously I'm not managing, he's managed with the Dodgers, but
he said that was the most pain he had ever
had in his life, was hip replacement surgery. It'll message
and it doesn't guarantee you're gonna be able to walk perfectly.
Now supposedly it's improved and all that, but it's it
(09:17):
is a pain in the hip, not the tukes, because
the hip, even though the hip kind of goes up
to the tuckish.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
But it's a pain in the hip, is what it is.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Final point. So we now stop over to Cleveland. Why
do we stop in Cleveland because there's some new reporting
out that goes into great detail after the fact. Mind you,
this is after the fact reporting. This was not reported
while it was happening, but after the season loose lips
sink football ships, and so the report behind a paywall
(09:50):
the Old Gray Lady, otherwise known as the Athletic. The
report says, the atmosphere in the Browns facility, the Browns
locker room has become had become much more positive, much
more positive, the atmosphere there after Deshaun Watson tore his achilles.
(10:12):
He shredded his achilles. That was on October twentieth, so
a couple of weeks before Halloween, when he stopped playing.
The storm cloud had been lifted over the Browns facility.
So that's the report. Let us discuss the question, the
talk that Deshaun Watson his injury led to a different
(10:36):
type of energy in the Browns facility. Can you decipher?
Can you decipher what that really means? Yes, of course
we have all the answer. I got a microphone, I
got headphones, you got all the answers. So this is
really a referendum on Kevin Stefanski. Now, Stefanski kept his job.
He's the coach in Cleveland, and there was talk he
(10:58):
was on the hot seats. Stefanski, He's gonna turn as
coach of the Browns. But this is an indictment of
Stefanski that the Browns coach treated Deshaun Watson to non
stop spongebass.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
He just got lots of soap, little soapy hot water
and the sponge and rubber dub dub uh oh. Yeah,
I had a little yellow rubber ducky, yellow rubber ducky
in the tub and he gave him a nice big spongeback.
The other thought here, we're hearing that Stefanski would regularly
not only dig him the spongeback, he would go down
(11:35):
to seven to eleven and he'd hand Watson a slurpee.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
It was a slurp fest in team meetings. So, I
don't you know this, but.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Apparently Watson's not good at his job as a quarterback.
The creepy quarterback, DeShawn Watson would regularly make many mistakes.
But we are told, based on this report, during team meetings,
Kevin Stefanski, the head coach, wouldn't not acknowledge the obvious
mistakes that the other players recognized, like that's a mistake,
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that's a mistake, that's a mistake that and he.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Wouldn't talk about that.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Why Deshaun Watson not only does he have a ton
of money, but he also has to be coddled and pampered.
I demand to be peppered. That's possibly what he said.
I wasn't there. He might have gone up to Stefanskin
and said cottle coddaquaddle, I need to be coddled.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
That could have been said.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
But either way, thin skin, which is not surprising. We
knew about this years ago when Deshaun Watson was leaving Clemson,
the famous story those of you that have been with
the show a long time.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
No, there was a social.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Media Donnie brook a brew haha that took place between
yours truly and Deshaun Watson, who was laying it on.
I was watching I was watching something and Deshaun Watson
was like, oh, I've overcome the odds and all this.
You know, he was like a five star recruit, had
offered some all these power schools, and he wanted to
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make it seem like he you know, he was like
an unrecruited player going to college and all that.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
So I called him on his bull crap. He got upset.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
He blocked me because of stuff I said on this
radio show, which is fine whatever, And I didn't like
tag him in. He just he was searching his name
out and he saw some of the stuff I had
said on monologues got all upset.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
So we knew going back to his days out of
Clemson he was a he was a weenie. We knew that.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
And he never got criticized. And so now the reporting is,
once Watson got hurt, Stefanski would put a highlighter on
how bad Jameis Winston was playing and the other Browns quarterbacks.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
And so it just.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Didn't play well in the locker room, didn't play well.
The Browns invested not one, not two, but three first
round picks and they garanteed two hundred and thirty million dollars,
and what they got was a cream puff. They got
their own creampuff to play quarterback. And the creampuff you
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can pose the creampuff in the Happy Baby Yoga pos.
You can put the creampuff down there in the Happy.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Baby Yoga post.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
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they'll be playing tennis or racquetball or whatever whatever activity
they want to do to kill their time. But straight ahead,
we had a sports faux pas, a fat faux pas
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in sports that took place. Also, an NFL team is
being sued by the city they play it. That's right,
an NFL team being sued by the city they plan
in a sports fashion faux paw.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
We'll get to all of that.
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And Lorrainea you can find her at the FSR Tech Queen,
the FSR Tech Queen. And now back to the nonsense.
Actually there's no nonsense, Bill none. I would like to
update the honorable Mallard militia. I did speak to buck
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Nuts and we had a time zone malfunction. Now buck
Nuts does deliver pactice. What can Brown do for you?
He was supposed to be part of the Octagon Last
Hour with Alameda Lou and we had Alama Lou and
buck Nuts wasn't there, so he called up. I picked
up the phone. I said, hey, buck Nuts, the bit
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was last Hour. He said, I hadn't missed the bit.
I said, you missed the bit? The bit was last Hour?
I said, I didn't miss the bit. He said, I
double triple checked with Justin Cooper and Justin Cooper said
it was at two am Central time.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
That is not true at all.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
He told me it was two am a Central time,
so he said, I was getting ready for work. I
took a shower, and I called in at two am
Central time early. I called in early. He said, so, Coop,
he's claiming that you told him the Central time, not
Eastern time.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
I told you, I told you he was blaming you, Coop,
I told you that's a that's a lie.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Well, he's seemed very confident. He's seemed very confident. Thought.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
In fact, I think he should be banned from the
OCGEN for lying. I'm not kidding. I picked up the phone.
I told him we're going to do it two thirty
your time. And he lives in Columbus, which is an
Eastern time yeah. And then so after I said two,
I said two twenty to two thirty your time, and
he goes Central time or Eastern.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Time, okay.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
So I say that, and I said Eastern time okay,
because you live in Columbus, yeah, which is in the
Eastern times.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
That I understand.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Well, he travels though he does drive a truck, so
he travels around different time zones there. But he did
say he had that conversation. He's claiming that he called
up on time, that he was given incorrect information.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
That's his first said Central. I said, I said Eastern.
Why would Central even come up. I don't even know
why Central come up. That's what I mean. I don't
know what he was by men in Central Time, so there.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Was a time zone. He says, he's going to be there.
I told him, I said, listen that it's gonna be
the three am hour, So this hour Sunday.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
And the Monday. He says he's going to be there.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
I also told him two twenty to two thirty.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I never said two am.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
He said he called in. He said I called in
early because it was based on Central time.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I just tell you the conversation. He said.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
He's at work right now. He's actually he's driving to
he's in Nashville, driving down to Nashville. He's from Columbus.
Hope this guy loses. Wow, you gonna rig the game.
You're gonna rig the game. We'll find out anyway. Let's
see what are the masses have to say here? Page
and Glenn writes and says, normally, I'd be kind of
pissed about the octagon being canceled the delayed but Alamlu
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was just dreadful in that one from a year.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Or two ago. I think it was two years ago.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I hope he's improved because the last performance made a
Mayweather fight seem almost entertaining while shots fired by Glenn Yeah,
all right, Late night Drug Tester writes in Sensus messages
on x he says, I think Justin Herbert should get
even more criticism for canceling Eddie and missus Garcia's tripp
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to Kansas City for the divisional round game.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah, Well, I don't know anything about that, but I
guess Eddie was on his podcast was talking about Kansas City.
They've never been. I told that when he worked there.
I said, what are you doing? Kansas City is a
great town. You can have the Ben mallor Chicken figures.
Go to Kansas City hanging out, have a great time,
good people there. And Arrowhead's one of the historic NFL
stadiums you would want to check out.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
It's so big. I don't think you could really kind
of get your mouth around it.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I mean, well, you could not put your mouth around
Airhead State And that is accurate, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
You could not do that.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
But it's a beautiful place and there's a lot of
history there, and if you love football like we do,
you want to check it out, you want to be
part of it. And he hasn't hasn't made it there.
So Gunner is he's sending these really terrible messages and
I don't know, I feel bad for him.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Maybe we should do a wellness check.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
He's talking trash about the Clippers, but his Minnesota timberl
was just lost to the Golden State Warriors at home,
at home, the Golden State Warriors with Steph Curry and
like four Dwarfs or something around Steph Curry. It's like,
you know Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It's Steph
Curry and the four Dwarfs. I think dopey, sneezy. Yeah,
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the Warriors have crappy, pathetic and dumb.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Dumb is what they have. And loser they have those
those are the ones they have. Right, let's go all
the phones.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Let's say hello to eeny meenie miney mall. We'll say
hello to Angry Bill, who's always upset about something. He
is in Florida. Hello, Angry Bill.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
How you doing? Everybody? Man? I gotta admit with Glenn
Ben Bill, whatever your name is, I gotta admit one thing.
You have this propensity to be so lucky. A different
garbage stories pop up. Now you got this Leon Sanders's
gonna go coach the Cowboys. He's just lucky where there's
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craft pops up.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
You know how how am I lucky? I have nothing
to do with that story. I'm just reacting to the
story doing it.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
You're going to have.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Something to talk about for the next forty years.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Well, I mean not the next forty years, but we
there's always something to talk about. I don't if you
know this, angry Bill, there's a whole industrial complex of
sports based on things like this to talk about.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Of course, there's always gonna.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Be somebody to talk about it, not like not like this.
This can be left u your general manager. There is
probably in heaven and poland dish Joan Watson on himself.
I mean, you know, it's it's amazing how different things
pop up with some type of magnitude. Okay, well yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
That happens all the time. I mean, this has been
going on my entire career. Though this has always happened.
There's always been stories, it's always been.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Kept your career going. What are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Well, well, listen, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I'd come in here and read Wikipedia pages if you want.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
And we proved one thing that's great about this angry
but we proved during the pandemic when there were no
sports going on and we had the highest ratings we've
ever had at Fox Sports Radio with no sports to
talk about. The sports don't really matter that we want
one hundred. We went one hundred and thirty four days
without sports back in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Of your lucky things, the pandemic, there's always different things.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
How how was how exactly was the pandemic lucky?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
How was that?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Like?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Oh that was that was great?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I loved it.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, I loved it. Yeah, it was so good. It
was so good. I love those masks.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
I have to think back and then think of all
the dumb things that pop up it it can't be roll.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Well, we had Tim Tebow. That was big for a while,
remember Tim Tebow. We had Deshaun Watson made us made
it through an NFL offseason, Watson.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Doing his thing.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
There's been a bunch of them. The Tawny gambling story,
it was a good story that went away.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
That was yeah, that way too quick.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
That was that was a good story, but it just
kind of disappeared. I'm sure there was no funny business
going on, and.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yeah, this is not at all.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Not at all.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Of course, I didn't even have weed Man Hippie.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I got weed Man, sir. He's serving up my gabba
ghoul every night. I get the gabba gul from weed
Man Hippie every single night.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Yeah, I'm really I gonna you're not gonna believe this,
But from the bottom my heart, I'm glad for you.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Bet Well, thank you, angry girl. I appreciate that. I
appreciate I like you.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I like the idea that these things pop up and
you can keep talking and talking and you get rid
of it, and you go ahead and get rid of Eddie.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I didn't get I didn't get rid of Eddie. The
company got rid of Eddie. I did not get rid
of it.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
You were in charge of that one. It me.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Yes, I have so much infl it's here at the company.
I'm still doing the Overnight show after twenty five years. Yes, exactly.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Why why are all these people that are going on now?
Is named Bill? I'm Bill tell these other people that gow.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Would you like to say something to Bill Miller?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
You want to say something to Bill Miller?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I can't. Then you brought me off the ear. I
don't want to talk like that.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
You hear in a good mood. Angry Bill, you're angry
right now.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I'm a rebuilt I'm a rebuilt man.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
You're a new man, all right. You got those pills.
Those pills are working out for you.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
That's what I'm reading. You don't talk about Kaitlyn Clark.
He's a legit story.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Well, I was worried. I was worry. We were worried
about you.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
We're gonna get her. I thought you got arrested because
you know me. People send me the story. You'd be
very happy about the angry Bill. I had my email,
I had multiple and many people. I don't I didn't
keep track of it, but there were many people saying,
is this angry Bill? Is that what angry Bill looks like?
Did you get arrestlers in jail in Indianapolis? They thought
they thought you were that guy, the guy that said
(24:58):
guilty on all charges of stock Caitlyn Clark.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I'd like to be in her town and just take
a look at her. I mean, that's all I want.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
That's not creepy at all.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
That's what I want to her.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
So you're a peeping You're a peeping tom is what
you are in this case.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Peeping a bill on Monday. All right, well, what is
thought is Thursday? What is Thursday?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Thursday is music called nude Panny.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Nude panties. All right, thank you? Angry all right, going,
you're welcome.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I hang up on yourself. There's angry Bill. It's four
minutes of our life. Will never get back from angry Bill.
We have a fashion faux paw, a fashion faux pas.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
From the world of sports.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
We're taken that to the NBA Random Random Wednesday night
in the NBA, and fans were bemused, bemused when they
checked out the Knickerbockers and the Philadelphia seventy six is
the game played in Philadelphia. And it is it true
that New York knickerbocker Carl Anthony Towns, known as the
(26:08):
Cat Kiddy Cat Carl Anthony Towns was not playing for
the Knickerbockers, sat on the Knickerbocker bench in Philadelphia out
with a thumbsprain wearing Philidelphia Eagle team gear representing a
New York sports team yet rocking Philadelphia Eagle merch. But
(26:37):
is it also true that Carl Anthony Towns in the
second half changed his outfit and no longer no longer
had the Eagles sweater on. Yeah, so Towns is claiming
that he got a little sweaty. He had that swamp ass,
(26:57):
I guess, and it was affecting him, and so he
he said that's why he changed.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
But imagine that.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
I know he's from I know he's from He's from Jersey,
and Jersey is this weird thing? I got family there,
Like half the state's Philly fans and the upper half
New York fans. Right, so it's like the lower half's
Philadelphia fans because southern New Jersey and Philadelphia the Jersey Shore,
they go to shore if you're.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
In that part.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
But then in the upper part usually New York fans.
But I believe Karl Anthony Towns is from the New
York party.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
He's an Eagles fan. Obviously, it's like, you can't what
are you doing? I guess he's.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
A huge obviously huge fan enough to wear the Eagle
merch while he is working for a New York team.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
It's wild.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I did somebody say, hey, maybe you shouldn't wear that,
Maybe maybe you should should avoid that Man a life
Scrooge rights and says, I agree with Coop that jackass
goes by a central time.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
The excuse the exhoses people use now, he.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Says. The Russian kid writes in from the Highways and
Byways of America says Coop, totally agree with you. When
people are scared and don't want to face consequences of
being embarrassed, they create excuses to make no sense. Why
would he even think about central time? Just to admit
you forgot or backed out ban him from the octagon.
(28:27):
So the problem with banning him is then we got
to find somebody else to get into the octagon. And
the guy said he's gonna be there on Sunday night,
So we'll give him one more chance, and if he
doesn't show up on Sunday night, we will have someone else.
We'll just put out a call to somebody else. We
have a lot of listeners.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
We're on all over.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Ohio, from Cleveland down to Cincinnati and all parts in between,
and so we'll get somebody else to a big state.
Somebody else will call up and they'll defend the buck
Eyes and that'll be that. Now to a man who
doesn't care about Ohio or Notre Dame, we say hello
to Jay who fled, who's in the swamp land of Florida. Hello,
(29:04):
Jed who fled?
Speaker 9 (29:07):
That guy is buck That's a nuts for sure. To
blame the man to pick up the phone and runs
the show. I'm just show the running gun. That's what
you blame. You don't do that.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
You gotta lie? Can you?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Can you pick up? And you got the nickname Jed
who fled? You know all about that. You gotta pick
up the phone, by the way, Jed, so we can
hear every ridiculous thing that you say. However, you got
the nickname Jed who fled from leaving the Octa and
you were supposed to go against real talk and the
Octagon and you didn't show up.
Speaker 8 (29:37):
Do you ever think the facts like we've got an
open line right now. The fact that I come in
and snored that line affected my segular quality. Dude, I
didn't come in and I didn't I didn't go to
the Octagon with real thoughts because my sister.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
You can't you can't even wait, you cannot even wait
to snort until you get off the show.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Bad job by you.
Speaker 8 (29:53):
I started to be if you start two lines before
starting lines, now you more I mean pretty.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Much the blind. But you do something, you do something like, uh,
let's say your.
Speaker 8 (30:02):
Sister had a heart attack, where the karmatic tornado blows
into town later few years later and you end up
with heart problems. That's definitely hypothetical, definitely not me what
I did.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
No, Kara Karma would not bite you in the heart.
That would not happen at.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
All, the owner of the tacked out heart. But see,
I'm glad because I really didn't earn shaw Shank dead.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
That makes me like I've been in a long time.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Oh yeah, that was your nickname. You were shaw Shan.
I remember that, Shah Shank Jed.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
I hadn't thought about that in a while, but that
was your original nickname on the show. And then you
forever have been known as Jed who Fled, and a
great nickname it is, and well earned, well deserved Jed
who Fled it is, and it's.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Become my life. Dude.
Speaker 8 (30:42):
I get right home, absolutely, dude, I gotta run.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
I grabbed something the car real quick.
Speaker 8 (30:50):
That just to come out for sola because this world
that means that is that's very solid. Let me ask
you this. You think gms get the general manager, front
officers ever line up but praise and they've got like
the head. Let me take something they're talking. I've got
I've got Bay Bruce and Mickey Mantle for three hundred dollars.
Just go babe at the freaking pizza Hut at midnight
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and they just didn't you show up to get them,
and they don't.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
They just ghost you forever.
Speaker 8 (31:15):
Because in my hero manical world about game world, that
crap happened just yesterday. And I don't know. You think
Jim's sight like you trade you to the act. So
next time I see I'm on whoop your ASTs random
g Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Yeah, I think they meet it like Chuck e Cheese
and they play ski ball is what they do.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
They play the ski ball.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Those guys are bravers.
Speaker 8 (31:34):
Hell, dude, those are those those animals, those lof sized
animals were the stuff of nightmares.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Man.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
They don't have those anymore. They got rid of those.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
I heard that, and that's probably you're dating yourself, Jaed
with that. They don't have those anymore animal.
Speaker 9 (31:47):
Shower.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Dude, how do you know I'm dating myself? What are
you talking about? Looking?
Speaker 8 (31:49):
I'm just a bill, just I'm just angry Bill. Caitlyn Clark,
your curtains look good for real?
Speaker 3 (31:56):
You know you got stuff.
Speaker 8 (31:57):
Let's love y'all.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Right and ladies.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Yeah, there's a jeedhoo fled So an NFL team is
being sued by the city they play in. It is happening.
There were rumors of this a couple of weeks ago,
but it is now on. Like Donkey Kong, the city
of Cleveland in a legal brew haha with the Browns,
Holy Ohio albatman. Yes, this all over the plans. The
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Browns have to say bye bye and leave downtown in
the dust, leave Cleveland behind, and they proposed to build
a dome stadium out in the burbs outside Cleveland. They
announced plans you might remember this at the end of
twenty twenty four, so like a few weeks ago, and
the city, though, is attempting to find a way to
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handcuff them inside Cleveland proper. They filed a formal lawsuit
to stop the Browns from leaving Cleveland's lakefront. Their lease
expires in twenty twenty eight. Now it is convoluted because
when the Browns left, they became the Ravens. In nineteen
(33:07):
and ninety five, that evil bastard Art Modell moved the
team over to Baltimore, and so they got a rule,
a law, if you will.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
It's a messy situation.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
There's a model law, which, as I understand it is
the story says any professional sports team. The law says,
any professional sports team that uses state funding for its
facility or for home games cannot leave without permission or
providing advanced notice. So that law was passed in nineteen
(33:41):
ninety six. It also gives residents in Cleveland a chance
to buy the team or find a new buyer. And
so in the lawsuit, the city comes the Browns violated
the law by not doing either of those things, and
the Browns have kept their mouth shut. They have not
commented all on this situation. So that's where we are
(34:04):
with the Browns getting a nice lawsuit from the city
of Cleveland, and that law will not stand up in court.
So the Browns are free to do whatever they want.
They'll have to pay a little bit of money, but
that's how that's gonna go. It is the Ben Mahler Show.
We are rolling, rolling, rolling through the overnight and we've
got the Mallard of the third degree portion of the
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out for the Insta trivia. Blank led all NFL starting
quarterbacks in twenty twenty four with the highest checkdown rate. Again,
(35:10):
Blank led all NFL quarterbacks in twenty twenty four with
the highest checkdown rate at twenty percent.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
That is the Insta Trivia. The answer next.
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next hour. Back to it. That's right, that's right, to build.
Back to it we go. And here's the Insta trivia
Blank lead all NFL quarterbacks in twenty twenty four with
the highest checkdown rate at twenty percent. Charlie Checkdown. Call
him Charlie checkdown. That is the question. What is the answer?
(36:37):
Mary Elizabeth Winstead is the answer from I forty ian
John Witkowski from Rob in Minnesota, Gary kaspar Off, the
chess champion. Who else we have r a Dicky Cy
Young Winner back in the day, mister nice guy, that's
(36:58):
his answer, x rams Our Kurt Warner from Shane in
de Mooin, Charlie Batch from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Late
Night Drug Tester says Joe Flacco, who is forty? Captain
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guests by Dante mac Davis from Barbecuing Len, Who's up
(37:19):
with his cousin? It from Trucker Joe, Josh Allen guests
by Dat Boy Malcolm, Rusty Hilger from Steve the Misplaced,
San Diegan, Mike Tyson from Play Hoot. What say you,
Lorena the.
Speaker 7 (37:32):
Leader of Leaders Ben Yankee Doodle Dandy Yankee Doodle Dandy,
No wrong.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
The correct answer is Jared Goff Jared Goff of her
Detroit Lions twenty point four percent, followed by Tua tongue
by a law here to.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
The third degree, were.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
Is one?
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Big Ben gets grailled and Google.
Speaker 7 (37:59):
In a It's an episode of the in season Hard Knocks,
Miles Garrett said that he had talked to Browns GM,
the Browns GM, and went on to say we're closer
than some may think we are. Now, Ben, do you
think this squashes any chance of a trade request from
Miles Garrett.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Well, publicly, he's not gonna do that because he's beloved
in Cleveland, so he's trying to be Paullyannish, right, he's
optimistic things are gonna be better in Cleveland. Then, yeah,
don't don't hold your brother minds me of Joe Thomas.
This is not gonna be one of those made for
TV movies. You're gonna play in Cleveland. You'll make the
playoffs a couple of times, you won't win anything, and
(38:35):
you'll retire and that'll be that. So it's not off
the table because teams are gonna call the Browns and
try to trade for Miles Garrett. So it's up to
the Browns to decide where they want to do next.
Speaker 7 (38:45):
Now, the only truly competitive game over wild Card weekend
was the Bucks and Commanders. Many are saying that this
proves that expanding to a fourteen team playoff was a
bad idea, Ben, Do you think this will give the
league pause when it comes to the idea of expanding
the playoffs even further?
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Absolutely not, because, first of all, it's not about the
quality of the product. It's about getting people to watch.
And so even though these games were bad, these games
would be bad. People watch, and television wants.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
More, more and more and more and more and more,
more and more and more and more and more more.
So as long as TV wants it, there'll be more
NFL games.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
They'll keep expanding because there's an audience there and it's
the only thing people watch live on TV is sports.
Speaker 7 (39:21):
Next the following Zion Williamson getting suspended by the Pelicans
for multiple instances of tardiness.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Steven A.
Speaker 7 (39:27):
Smith said this week that Zion does not want to
be in New Orleans and he wants to be in
a major market like New York or La. Ben do
you think this is Zion pushing for a trade.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
It is inevitable. Zion is going to end up in
LA or New York and Dennis acoombo uh Giannis is
going to end up in a bigger market. That's how
the NBA does business. They've always been that way. How
did we go you pass this? That is a way
you can put it on. The more I want right now,
I'm a winner.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
You're not impressed.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
I'm willing you thank you.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Oh, all right,
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