February 8, 2025 • 34 mins
Big Ben talks about the bombshell NBA trade that saw Luka Doncic get sent to the Lakers in exchange for Anthony Davis, Cooper Kupp saying that the Rams are looking to trade him immediately, Maller's Mountain of Money: Warwick Davis Edition, and more!
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You know where our lead's from. Yeah, that's right. Everyone's
talking about this here pro bouncy Ball. It's pretty funny
because all the media elites, the sports media elites, are
in New Orleans for the Super Bowl, and nobody gives
a rats ass about that game. Right now. It's all
about these NBA trades and what a week in It
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was a hu dinger, a hum dinger of a weekend,
a door buster, door buster type trade. In fact, a
couple of big trades, but the biggest. We're gonna start
play the hits. Play the hits, mom, man, We'll play
the hits. And if you didn't hear about I don't
know how you could have missed it. If you're a
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sports fan, you're listening to a sports talk radio show
at an ungodly hour, I would think you've paid attention,
but maybe not. Luka Doncik is gone, traded, excommunicated from
Dallas bye bye. As he was traded to the Lakers.
The historians get Luca Doncik part of a three team
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deal between Dallas, LA and Utah. Anthony Davis the big
name going back to the Mavericks, there's some spare parts
in spam to make the numbers work that change teams.
The Jazz, they're just there to help trades go through,
to facilitate trades, take on draft picks and things like that,
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and they help the money situation work out. The Jazz
are just a filler team at this point, not trying
to win, just trying to help the rest of the
league out. That's their role. So let us discuss the question,
how do you grade the mega mega mega mega mega trade?
Luca goes from the MAVs to the Lakers for Anthony Davis,
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those are the headliners. We focus on the headliners. So
I've got Puddy, Sandra Bullock, and Return of the Jedi,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we will follow our nose wherever our nose takes us.
And I got a big schnaz, I got a really
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large nas, so I will just go wherever the nose
takes us. So my first thought on this is when
you're when you're grading, it's the Mallord report card when
it comes to grading trades, and we are the industry
leader in great transactions. Absolutely, nobody is more trusted nobody
in overnight delivery of a report card on transactions on
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this show in the middle of the night on Fox.
Nobody has this kind of information. So on the Malor
report Card, the Malor report Card on the big trade
over the weekend, Dallas and LA the Lakers reluctantly, I
will give them a B minus on the trade. I
will give them a B minus. The Mavericks get an F,
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and then I don't know that I can go lower?
Is there anything lower than an F? I would like
to go lower than F? Is there anything beyond F?
Can I go beyond F? Anyway? LA also picked up
a couple of roster span players in the trade, Maxi
Kliebah who hit a game winning shot against them a
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while back, and Mark, the much traveled Markkeith Morris. He
also goes to the Lakers. It is a foo bar situation.
It is I'm a chumpion to still process the transactionan
the math ain't mathing on this one on many many levels,
many many many levels. They're Lakers were just handed on
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a silver platter a Luka Doncic and they didn't have
to bid against anyone. Why Why would you do that.
That's malfeasance, that's bad management, that's incompetence, that's wrong on
many levels. Why would you do that? Wouldn't you fire
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the general manager if you own the team and that
is how they did business, I think you would. But
it's like, oh, we're gonna call one team and we'll
just give you the buy now price and that's it,
and you don't have to bid and just submit an offer.
We'll make it happen. Yeah. Now, back when the NBA
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actually had leadership, you know, guys with hair on their
chest and balls and things like that. David Stern would
have vetoed this trade. He vetoed the Chris Paul trade. Right,
He would have vetoed this trade. Also said, well, that's
not we're not going to do that. But it's playing
with putty. The whole thing's playing with putty. Putty explosives.
We're talking ballistics here is what we're talking about, plastic explosives. Now, Luca,
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he turns twenty six later this month, Happy birthday. There's
some great cake, great bakeries in Los Angeles. You love
the bakries in LA. And he was traded for a
player who is near the end of his athletic prime,
who has the superpower of missing games. His nickname is
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street Clothes Anthony Davis, that's his nickname. He is more
known for not showing up the work than showing up
the work. And that's who the Dallas Mavericks had to
get their hands on. Why I don't get it. Davis
turns thirty two in the month of March. Now, these
aren't your daddy's Mavericks. That is fair to say. Anybody,
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it still thinks. And not everyone heard the news, but
Mark Cuban, who was a fanboy. I mean getting the
Mark Cuban's got a lot of issues there. But Cuban's
a fanboy, and he owned the Mavericks for a long time,
and he sold out. Everyone's got their price, and Magic Christian,
Everyone's got the price. Mark Cuban sold out for three
point five billion dollars. And that's the cost for Mark
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Cuban to allow this to happen. If Mark Cuban still
owned the Dallas Mavericks controlling interest of the Mavericks, he
would not have done this. This was not a possibility,
it was it. But that's not the case here. And
Cuban even if he felt he had to trade Luca
for whatever reason, would have rather sent him to an
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expansion franchise in Papa New Guinea than send him to
the Lakers. There's no way that would have happened. And
of course there's a lot of dumb people that don't
know that Mark Cuban sold out. He's a sellout. He
sold the team. Good for him three point five billion,
and he's just kind of there as like a make
a wish thing. When he travels with the Mavericks and
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all that, it's.
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Like, hey, wee, I don't really own the team.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I don't control anything, but I get to sit by
the bench and the players like me and all that. Yeah. Wow,
so new regime, new blood, and you get what you get.
You get what you get now, Page two. What makes
the Lukka the Luca trade so unique? It makes it
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so unique? Well, this is like Sandra Bullock's Academy Award
winning performance in the old movie The blind Side. The
blind Side. Listen, if someone had called up this talk
show and said, hey, Ben, I'd like to make a trade.
How about the Mavericks s and Luka Doncic to the
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Lake for Anthony Davis In some spare parts, some pocket
length to be named later. We would have said something
along the lines of, well, what bath salts are you
sniffing right now, sir, and please go to the mini bar,
and we would have hung up on them. That's what
we would have done. A video game would have rejected
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that trade, would have said, no, that's not a proper trade. No,
no way. A twenty twenty nine first round pick. That's
all you're getting in terms of future draft picks and
scratcher tickets. One scratcher ticket in twenty twenty nine, that's it.
But here we are. Here we are the unthinkable, the unimaginable.
It's the first time in NBA history that two raining
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all NBA players have been traded for each other at
mid season, as the trade deadlines not until later this week,
but the trades, the big ones have already happened at
this point in the modern era. This is the craziest trade,
the Luca trade of them all, and the thing that
stands out though in the world we're living in right now,
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twenty four to seven round the clock and the business
of basketball, the currency of basketball. I've had this conversation
with many people over the years who are in this
world and the rumor and I ran a gossip site
for years before I was working here at the same time.
But I ran a rumor site for many, many years.
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And the rumor is more important than the reality. Like
the rumor gets people talk. And what happened with this
particular trade here, you know, it's it's stunning because there
was not even a peep, right, Loose lips in the
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NBA are commonplace. Happens all the time. They work. Clandestine
is how they worked this time, is how they work.
Cloak and dagger. Mission zero, dark thirty, everyone say it
moving under the cover of darkness, and twas the night
before the trade deadline week was upon, us went all
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through the house, all through the house. Not a creature
was stirring, not even a unibrow. And then the Lakers,
they played the Knicks Midtown Manhattan on National TV. Huhum.
And then car boom the volcano exploded. But there was
no bubbling up of this. There was no chatter that
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Dallas is unhappy with Luca, They're going to trade him.
This came out of relatively thin air, so much so
people were convinced that Shams was hacked. This was not real.
There was some funny business going on all right. Now. Lastly,
so how does this Luka don Chick transaction play with
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the electorate in Dallas. Now we're on in Dallas. You
guys can answer if you want to call in and
give the pulse of the people. But from the outside,
the way I see it, the Dallas Mavericks are cooked.
They have violated the bubble of trust. And once you
violated the bubble of trust, there is no going back.
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You have done the thing you can't do at the time.
You can't do it. You have sold the Church of
Maverick Basketball and you have just traded the deacon. You
have said, get out of here. You're done. And as
we understand it, despite enjoying a hearty meal and not
really taking conditioning all that. Seriously, Luca was beloved and
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he was their next Dirk. They were just in the
NBA finals against the Celtics last summer, and it's wild
that you would make this particular move at this time.
And the sales pitch, we've seen the sales pitch. The
sales pitch played out. It's simple. The Mavericks they're claiming,
hey me seven years with this guy and we were
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waiting for Luca, for the light bulb to go off,
for the epiphany to take place for Luca, and he
never did. And so what we got was a character
from Return of the Jedi. You might remember Job of
the Hut. That's what we got. The guys out of shape.
He can score, that's it. He's never taken him, you know,
his job seriously in terms of being in top physical condition. Now,
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Luca has been out since Christmas. Here we are in
early February with a strained left cap and the word
the streets of the NBA saying that there are factions
in Dallas that are convinced the reason he hurt himself
is because he's a fat pig and that's why he
injured himself and has been out since since Christmas. Just
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poor conditioning and all that. But doesn't that seem like
a temporary problem more than a permanent problem. You know,
I don't know, but that's the Mavericks. They're planning all
these stories to justify the trade, saying you're like two
hundred and sixty pounds and MAVs ownership didn't trust him.
I've heard that. Bouncing around the pinball machine of the
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hot take here that there was other mitigating factors. They
didn't want to pay him the Supermax contract, They didn't
want to invest that kind of money this summer. Give
him another contract, and well at it's already backfired. Netorcks
aren't winning anything with Anthony Davis. You come on, Anthony
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never won with the Lakers. They never won a championship,
not a real one, fake one. They never want a
real one with the Lakers. Not gonna win now with Kyrie,
they're both going to get hemorrhoids playing rock paper scissors
on the bench while the other players are out there
playing yikes. And as far as Luke, listen, if he
had problems with self discipline with the Dallas Mavericks, wait
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till you get to the Lakers and to all those
Hollywood f's kiss your ass and invite you to all
those parties with pile of drugs and amazing food. And
you're on the A list everywhere in La because you
wear the historian's uniform. That's what Luca has to look
forward to. So if you can't get joy yourself in Dallas,
I know those famous people in Dallas, I know those
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rich people in Dallas. But it's a different animal in
La and good luck, good luck, Luca, good luck.
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So I lead this hour to begin the night the
Talk festivis you and I together Here from the swap
meet of football Super Bowl fifty nine days away on
tap this weekend. So the Eagles and Chiefs have to
play a game, but for everyone else, they're getting ready
for next year. It's hurry up, get ready for next
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year and the twenty twenty five regular season, which will
kick off sometime in early September. Big move, not surprising,
but big moves coming from La La Land. And if
you have not been following, because you actually have a
life and you're not obsessing with all of this, we
have learned that wide receiver Cooper Cup has been informed
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by the Rams his services are no longer needed for
the team that shares Sofi Stadium, that the team will
be seeking to trade him immediately. How do we know that?
We know that because it came from the horse's mouth,
Cooper Cup saying, quote, I don't agree with the decision
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and I always believed it was going to begin and
end in La close quote a Cup making a statement
on the social media. What's all that all the kids
are doing it on the social media? So he does
not agree with the RAMS decisions. So Cup the team
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working together, Allegedly they're working together to have him on
the next train out of La La Land heading somewhere else. Says.
The effort there to find the right place to continue
competing for championships. So the story goes and he is
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highly motivated, and he says healthy. He says, Cooper Cup's healthy.
So let's let you know that as they head into
the next seasons. I got healthy quick. The RAMS eliminated
a couple weeks back. He's already healthy. Who knew? All right?
So let us discuss the question. Former super Ball hero
Cooper Cup says that he is not happy. He does
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not agree, but the RAMS are working to trade him. Immediately,
give me your school of thought on this. So I
have Steve Harvey, bipartisan and car shopping. That sounded like
a from Bell. What happened to our bell? That was
not the same bell? Okay, that seemed a little I
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don't know. It seems a little off. The original bell
seemed a little offt I don't know. Did somebody mess
with our bell? Did someone pressed the wrong bell button?
I don't know, wrong all right? Anyway, my first thought
on this, Cooper Cup is one of the great overachievers, right,
this be real here? Cooper Cup third round draft pick
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out of a school that is not known as the
Alabama of the Pacific Northwest and wonderful, wonderful, wonderful Eastern Washington.
It was a third round pick and at one point
for the twenty twenty one season, Cooper Cup was the
top receiver in the NFL. There was no one better
than this guy, no one. For one year, Cooper Cup
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was at the very top of all the receiver numbers.
He dominated the NFL for one season, and he got
paid for it, so you don't feel bad. He got
paid ninety plus US million dollars in his time with
the Rams. A fun player to watch. However, when you
look at this from thirty thousand feet up in the sky, right,
you look down and the words of Steve Harvey. We
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broadcast from one of Steve Harvey's old studios here, and
Steve Harvey had a line years ago that loyalty has
an expiration date, so the Rams were loyal to Cooper Cup.
Cooper Cup was loyal to the Rams. At some point,
the Rams had an epiphany. They had a come to
Jesus moment. They realized that they had taken the lemon
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and they had goweezed all of the juice out of
the lemon, and they were done with the lemon. There
was no more there there. They could make like lemon
zest out of it, but they didn't want to do that.
They just wanted to squeeze all the juice out of
it and there you go. So there was loyalty. They
paid him. It's like, it's like this business, and I
was like, we do well here. If they can find
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some that works cheaper and can make the company more money,
I'll be gone. That's the way it works. That's how
this operates. That's how anyone operates. So people getting upset.
I get an email from RAMSA and you should rip
the Rams. I'm like, oh no, not really. I understand.
Cooper cuple go somewhere else and they'll have a chance
to have a second act in his career. But remember,
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at the end of this last regular season for the Rams,
Cooper Cup was bad, bad to the bone, and not
a good way, not a good way. He was held
under two catches in three of the final five games
that he appeared in for the Rams, and he went
over thirty yards one time over the final five games.
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That's that's not thirty million dollars a year. That's not
you know, that's not top notch wide receiver money. And
so Pooka Nakula poo Ca, Pooka Nakua has zoomed passed
him and he is at the very peak of his
superpowers right now, another unknown Puka Nakua who is at
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the very top of the Rammed depth chart at this
particular point. So Cooper Cup is at a fork in
the road. He's at the crossroads here, and what does
he do? What does he do? Right? The Rams are
saying he is a diminishing asset, that his great salad
days are behind him and that he will be nothing
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special the rest of the way. That's what they're betting on.
So where should Cooper Cup attempt to relocate? Where should
he go? So you immediately try to eliminate all these
NFC teams, say, Well, the Rams will cover themselves. They'll
think well, he's not that good anymore, but we just
in case he does turn out to be good, we're
gonna send him to the AFC. So right away, you're like,
all right, he says he wanted to begin and end
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his career in La. Well, the Chargers don't have any receivers.
Their receivers blow. How about the Chargers and stay in
Sofi Stadium. The Rams and Chargers can work out of
trade and you can go play there. If not to
charge Buffalo, they don't have any receivers, so why not
the Buffalo Bills. It's just fine until he gets cold
in Buffalo, and then it doesn't matter if you have
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receivers or not, because they don't do anything in cold weather.
And the Kansas City Chiefs who are always looking to
add players for Patrick Mahomes and so that's also a possibility.
They're all all right there at the top, and there
is money on the table for Cooper Cup. You'd have
to renegotiate his contract. Now he's not the only but
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Big Day. If you like players you've heard of in
the NFL who would like a relocation situation, you were
all joned up on Monday because to Cleveland we go
the land where Miles Garrett announced all those nice things
said by the Cleveland front office. Yeah, I don't care.
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I went out, that's it. Yeah. So Miles Garrett announced
he has requested a relocation. He wants a job transfer.
He wants to enter the transfer portal and get out
of Cleveland. The announcement coming just a few days after
Andrew Barry gave Miles Garrett a manny and a petty
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on live microphones, licking the toes of Miles Garrett and
said the Browns would not entertain the thought of trading
Garrett well. In a prepared statement Miles Garrett released, Garrett said,
as the dominant pass rusher for the Browns that his
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goal was not to go from Cleveland to Canton, which
is what Andrew Berry the GM said. It has always
been to compete and to win a Super Bowl. So
he says a goal. The Browns, of course, are nowhere
close to. There's some high school football teams that are
closer to winning a Super Bowl than the Cleveland Browns
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at three and four teen and still handcuffed, handcuff to
the creepy quarterback. So what are the odds? What are
the odds that Miles Garrett ends up getting what he
wants at the Browns bend and knee and end up
saying bye bye to Miles Garrett. So I'm gonna want
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up the Mallard Sportsbook odds on this. The Mallard Sportsbook
odds minus three hundred. Now, if you're not good at math,
minus three hundred indicates a seventy five percent chance that
Miles Garrett is wearing different colored laundry and a different
colored plastic helmet when they kick off to twenty twenty
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five NFL season. And how deep here's where we are?
How deep is Miles Garrett willing to go? We'd like
to know, we'd like to And what about the Browns? Right?
Are they? Are? The Browns locked in the Browns saying
we haven't changed our position now Cleveland. This is fascinating
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to me. Cleveland is in such a deep dark place
their football team that there is said to be bipartisan
support from people that hate the Browns and people that
like the Browns, even Brown's loyalists, that Miles Garrett should
be traded. The team such a dumpster fire, that they
should get rid of Miles Garrett and they have no
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ill will towards him, and we're in the early stages
of this drama orama as it plays out as a
high stakes, very emotional, very emotional complex situation. Will they
heated emotions? Will they diffuse over time? Is there enough
time for that to happen? Stay tuned, developing hot dot
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dot dot Now last word, so let's play Malord Matchmaker.
We're gonna play Malord Matchmaker's fun game. You can play afyone,
but I'm gonna play first. So Malar Matchmaker, where should
Miles Garrett look to end off this offseason? We've already
told you the Cooper Cup, Chargers, Bills, Chiefs obvious, but
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what about Miles Garrett? He wants out. Where should he go?
So much like the process of elimination we did earlier
in this exercise, we're going to immediately eliminate the AFC
heavyweight contenders, the Chiefs, the Bills, the Ravens. Even though
Cleveland is several thousand country miles away from getting to
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that level, they will likely not play ball with any
of those teams, So you eliminate them right off the top. Boom,
there's your haircut. So then you go to the NFC
and say, all right, well, where's a good possibility, And
my crystal ball said, car shopping as in a Ford
or a Dodge and Ford Field. You can stay in
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the Great Lakes region there, the rust Belt region in
and go up to the Lions who play at Ford
Field and have no defense, and if they can trade
a gaggle of draft picks and other promissory nodes, they
can combine Miles Garrett and Aiden Hutchinson as a dynamic
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duo on defense, and why not two impact players until
they get hurt. That'd be pretty good for a couple
of years in the Motor City little Motown madness on defense.
If you're the Lions, why would you not go out
and do that? In the other option, I mentioned car
shopping and of course Ford Field for the Lions. But
how about the Rams, right, because much like a Dodge,
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the marketing slogan of Dodge built Ram tough, Miles Garrett,
the Rams have a blossoming defense that started to really
click the last part of the season. Now that's no
guarantee they're going to be that good next year, but
you had Miles Garrett, with all those young players around
Miles Garrett and one of the top coaches in the
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NFL and Sean McVay, who you know, is going to
be in the playoffs every year. Look at the division,
the Niners, their quarterback's been exposed now brock Perty. The
Cardinals are sending out alligator arms Murray and Seattle. They've
got Geno Smith at this point who stinks. So the
Rams have a great chance of being right back in
the playoffs again next year and with a little defense.
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You look around the NFC and nobody thinks Philadelphia is invincible.
Detroit is certainly not. There's some good teams in the NFC,
but there's not like a great team. There's not Kansas
City in the NFC. That does not exist.
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Why don't we welcome in our contestants and then we'll
play the game. What do you say? Let's do that?
Why not? Who do we have here? Let's see here
aenie meenie miney moe. We've got Chris in the Commonwealthho's
gonna play? Hello, Chris, Welcome, good morning from my first crack.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
So I'm a new piece of this one.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
What were you born? What are you born again? Game?
You play all these games? What are you talking about?
You love the games?
Speaker 3 (29:10):
But I never done I've never done this.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
All right, all right, fine, I don't always too much.
Who do you want to partner up with? I'll go
with two? All right, hold on a sec. You're gonna play.
And Brian is in Illinois? What's going on? Brian? Welcome?
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Man?
Speaker 1 (29:26):
What's going on? You want to play the game? Mallards
amount of money? Yeah, let's give it a shot. All right?
Who do you want to partner up with? It was
left Ben or Lorena? Man, we'll give it a shot. Okay, Sorry, Lorena,
You're out of there. You're out of the bit. I'm
sorry about that. You seem excited. Brian, And what do
you What do you do there? Brian? You know Chris
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is a regular? What do you do in Illinois? I'm
an assembly supervisor a local plant. There you go, it
works for the factory. There, I got you? All right?
Well it's real quick.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Cool pick the categories here general, all right, we have
this is Mallard's Mountain of Money, The Warwicked Davis edition
turn fifty five years old. We got Return of the Jedi, Leprechaun,
Harry Potter, and the Prisoner.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
Of Azkaban and small town Folk. Chris, which category would
you like?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Return of the Jedi?
Speaker 5 (30:14):
All right, then, Brian, how about you?
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Jim me? Harry Potter? All right? You got daughter? All right? Everyone,
hold on, We'll have Malard's amount of money? Innocent tired?
You don't hang up, guys, We'll get to that next.
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listen live now Malor's Mountain of Money? Hell, do you
have what it takes to get to the top? Probably?
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Not?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
All right? Right to the game? Matchup a set. Chris
is in the commonweal if he's with Coop and Brian
is a guy who works at a factory there in Illinois.
He's matched up with me and Coop. You're up first,
Return of the Jedi. The category will put forty five
seconds on the club five. Are you there? Rises? All right?
These athletes all return to their original team. You're on
your way, go all right.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
The m v P quarterback for the Carolina Panthers, h
Cam Newton, Yes, Hall of Fame, tight end for the Broncos,
and he also played for the Ravens.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Yes, all right, Michael Jordan's sidekick.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Uh, yes, you're having a hard time.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Oh my god?
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Okay, uh number five for the Cardinals and the Angels.
He's a slugger from the Dominican Republic.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
H Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Five?
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Wow, you got that, Cam Newton, h Shannon Sharp, Scottie Pippin.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Sure will be like a friend.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Remember Shark who wants to take notes for next time? Okay,
all right, well that's all better.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
Luck pick Robert nobody.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Knows who he is, okay, hall of Famer. Okay, now, Brian,
are you that? Brian? Yeah? All right, you picked Harry
Harry Potter and the prisoner of what was it, Azkaban Askaban?
All right? Yeah, these athletes have all spent some time
in prison. Are you ready, Brian? All right? Buffalo Bill's
running back. He killed two people. Okay, nobody knows who
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that is. No, he was convicted of in his dead anyway,
who cares? Puppy killing quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons. Yes,
Charlie Hustle for the Cincinnati Reds. He bet on baseball Yes,
known as Nails. He was an outfielder for the Mets
in the eighties and the Phillies in the nineties. He
gave he gives stock market advice, went to jail for that. No,
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how about this wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers. He
had his pregnant girlfriend murdered in uh and went to
jail for a long time to one. Okay, well you
got it right. I don't need to go back. Nickname
big Baby for the Celtics. I think he's yeah, the
buzzer at the ball. You didn't get Ray Caru, all right?
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And all right, he didn't get Lenny Chris. Do you
once you got Leprechaun or small town folk leprechan all right?
These athletes all have Irish heritage. Forty five second, let's
begin the goat from the Patriots. Brady, Yes, floats like
a butterflies, things like a bee.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
What what?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
God? It didn't work out for you? A bad cell
reception out in the sticks outside outside Boston.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
A stick stick pass word, Chris, all right, didn't work out.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
We went in the golden ticket for you, Brian. You
went to goall that ticket, you win a call that
take I got close by you, that's a winner. Muhammad
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You know where our lead's from. Yeah, that's right. Everyone's
talking about this here pro bouncy Ball. It's pretty funny
because all the media elites, the sports media elites, are
in New Orleans for the Super Bowl, and nobody gives
a rats ass about that game. Right now. It's all
about these NBA trades and what a week in It
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was a hu dinger, a hum dinger of a weekend,
a door buster, door buster type trade. In fact, a
couple of big trades, but the biggest. We're gonna start
play the hits. Play the hits, mom, man, We'll play
the hits. And if you didn't hear about I don't
know how you could have missed it. If you're a
(02:20):
sports fan, you're listening to a sports talk radio show
at an ungodly hour, I would think you've paid attention,
but maybe not. Luka Doncik is gone, traded, excommunicated from
Dallas bye bye. As he was traded to the Lakers.
The historians get Luca Doncik part of a three team
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deal between Dallas, LA and Utah. Anthony Davis the big
name going back to the Mavericks, there's some spare parts
in spam to make the numbers work that change teams.
The Jazz, they're just there to help trades go through,
to facilitate trades, take on draft picks and things like that,
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and they help the money situation work out. The Jazz
are just a filler team at this point, not trying
to win, just trying to help the rest of the
league out. That's their role. So let us discuss the question,
how do you grade the mega mega mega mega mega trade?
Luca goes from the MAVs to the Lakers for Anthony Davis,
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those are the headliners. We focus on the headliners. So
I've got Puddy, Sandra Bullock, and Return of the Jedi,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we will follow our nose wherever our nose takes us.
And I got a big schnaz, I got a really
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large nas, so I will just go wherever the nose
takes us. So my first thought on this is when
you're when you're grading, it's the Mallord report card when
it comes to grading trades, and we are the industry
leader in great transactions. Absolutely, nobody is more trusted nobody
in overnight delivery of a report card on transactions on
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this show in the middle of the night on Fox.
Nobody has this kind of information. So on the Malor
report Card, the Malor report Card on the big trade
over the weekend, Dallas and LA the Lakers reluctantly, I
will give them a B minus on the trade. I
will give them a B minus. The Mavericks get an F,
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and then I don't know that I can go lower?
Is there anything lower than an F? I would like
to go lower than F? Is there anything beyond F?
Can I go beyond F? Anyway? LA also picked up
a couple of roster span players in the trade, Maxi
Kliebah who hit a game winning shot against them a
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while back, and Mark, the much traveled Markkeith Morris. He
also goes to the Lakers. It is a foo bar situation.
It is I'm a chumpion to still process the transactionan
the math ain't mathing on this one on many many levels,
many many many levels. They're Lakers were just handed on
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a silver platter a Luka Doncic and they didn't have
to bid against anyone. Why Why would you do that.
That's malfeasance, that's bad management, that's incompetence, that's wrong on
many levels. Why would you do that? Wouldn't you fire
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the general manager if you own the team and that
is how they did business, I think you would. But
it's like, oh, we're gonna call one team and we'll
just give you the buy now price and that's it,
and you don't have to bid and just submit an offer.
We'll make it happen. Yeah. Now, back when the NBA
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actually had leadership, you know, guys with hair on their
chest and balls and things like that. David Stern would
have vetoed this trade. He vetoed the Chris Paul trade. Right,
He would have vetoed this trade. Also said, well, that's
not we're not going to do that. But it's playing
with putty. The whole thing's playing with putty. Putty explosives.
We're talking ballistics here is what we're talking about, plastic explosives. Now, Luca,
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he turns twenty six later this month, Happy birthday. There's
some great cake, great bakeries in Los Angeles. You love
the bakries in LA. And he was traded for a
player who is near the end of his athletic prime,
who has the superpower of missing games. His nickname is
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street Clothes Anthony Davis, that's his nickname. He is more
known for not showing up the work than showing up
the work. And that's who the Dallas Mavericks had to
get their hands on. Why I don't get it. Davis
turns thirty two in the month of March. Now, these
aren't your daddy's Mavericks. That is fair to say. Anybody,
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it still thinks. And not everyone heard the news, but
Mark Cuban, who was a fanboy. I mean getting the
Mark Cuban's got a lot of issues there. But Cuban's
a fanboy, and he owned the Mavericks for a long time,
and he sold out. Everyone's got their price, and Magic Christian,
Everyone's got the price. Mark Cuban sold out for three
point five billion dollars. And that's the cost for Mark
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Cuban to allow this to happen. If Mark Cuban still
owned the Dallas Mavericks controlling interest of the Mavericks, he
would not have done this. This was not a possibility,
it was it. But that's not the case here. And
Cuban even if he felt he had to trade Luca
for whatever reason, would have rather sent him to an
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expansion franchise in Papa New Guinea than send him to
the Lakers. There's no way that would have happened. And
of course there's a lot of dumb people that don't
know that Mark Cuban sold out. He's a sellout. He
sold the team. Good for him three point five billion,
and he's just kind of there as like a make
a wish thing. When he travels with the Mavericks and
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all that, it's.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Like, hey, wee, I don't really own the team.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I don't control anything, but I get to sit by
the bench and the players like me and all that. Yeah. Wow,
so new regime, new blood, and you get what you get.
You get what you get now, Page two. What makes
the Lukka the Luca trade so unique? It makes it
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so unique? Well, this is like Sandra Bullock's Academy Award
winning performance in the old movie The blind Side. The
blind Side. Listen, if someone had called up this talk
show and said, hey, Ben, I'd like to make a trade.
How about the Mavericks s and Luka Doncic to the
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Lake for Anthony Davis In some spare parts, some pocket
length to be named later. We would have said something
along the lines of, well, what bath salts are you
sniffing right now, sir, and please go to the mini bar,
and we would have hung up on them. That's what
we would have done. A video game would have rejected
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that trade, would have said, no, that's not a proper trade. No,
no way. A twenty twenty nine first round pick. That's
all you're getting in terms of future draft picks and
scratcher tickets. One scratcher ticket in twenty twenty nine, that's it.
But here we are. Here we are the unthinkable, the unimaginable.
It's the first time in NBA history that two raining
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all NBA players have been traded for each other at
mid season, as the trade deadlines not until later this week,
but the trades, the big ones have already happened at
this point in the modern era. This is the craziest trade,
the Luca trade of them all, and the thing that
stands out though in the world we're living in right now,
(10:06):
twenty four to seven round the clock and the business
of basketball, the currency of basketball. I've had this conversation
with many people over the years who are in this
world and the rumor and I ran a gossip site
for years before I was working here at the same time.
But I ran a rumor site for many, many years.
(10:27):
And the rumor is more important than the reality. Like
the rumor gets people talk. And what happened with this
particular trade here, you know, it's it's stunning because there
was not even a peep, right, Loose lips in the
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NBA are commonplace. Happens all the time. They work. Clandestine
is how they worked this time, is how they work.
Cloak and dagger. Mission zero, dark thirty, everyone say it
moving under the cover of darkness, and twas the night
before the trade deadline week was upon, us went all
(11:11):
through the house, all through the house. Not a creature
was stirring, not even a unibrow. And then the Lakers,
they played the Knicks Midtown Manhattan on National TV. Huhum.
And then car boom the volcano exploded. But there was
no bubbling up of this. There was no chatter that
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Dallas is unhappy with Luca, They're going to trade him.
This came out of relatively thin air, so much so
people were convinced that Shams was hacked. This was not real.
There was some funny business going on all right. Now. Lastly,
so how does this Luka don Chick transaction play with
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the electorate in Dallas. Now we're on in Dallas. You
guys can answer if you want to call in and
give the pulse of the people. But from the outside,
the way I see it, the Dallas Mavericks are cooked.
They have violated the bubble of trust. And once you
violated the bubble of trust, there is no going back.
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You have done the thing you can't do at the time.
You can't do it. You have sold the Church of
Maverick Basketball and you have just traded the deacon. You
have said, get out of here. You're done. And as
we understand it, despite enjoying a hearty meal and not
really taking conditioning all that. Seriously, Luca was beloved and
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he was their next Dirk. They were just in the
NBA finals against the Celtics last summer, and it's wild
that you would make this particular move at this time.
And the sales pitch, we've seen the sales pitch. The
sales pitch played out. It's simple. The Mavericks they're claiming,
hey me seven years with this guy and we were
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waiting for Luca, for the light bulb to go off,
for the epiphany to take place for Luca, and he
never did. And so what we got was a character
from Return of the Jedi. You might remember Job of
the Hut. That's what we got. The guys out of shape.
He can score, that's it. He's never taken him, you know,
his job seriously in terms of being in top physical condition. Now,
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Luca has been out since Christmas. Here we are in
early February with a strained left cap and the word
the streets of the NBA saying that there are factions
in Dallas that are convinced the reason he hurt himself
is because he's a fat pig and that's why he
injured himself and has been out since since Christmas. Just
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poor conditioning and all that. But doesn't that seem like
a temporary problem more than a permanent problem. You know,
I don't know, but that's the Mavericks. They're planning all
these stories to justify the trade, saying you're like two
hundred and sixty pounds and MAVs ownership didn't trust him.
I've heard that. Bouncing around the pinball machine of the
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hot take here that there was other mitigating factors. They
didn't want to pay him the Supermax contract, They didn't
want to invest that kind of money this summer. Give
him another contract, and well at it's already backfired. Netorcks
aren't winning anything with Anthony Davis. You come on, Anthony
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never won with the Lakers. They never won a championship,
not a real one, fake one. They never want a
real one with the Lakers. Not gonna win now with Kyrie,
they're both going to get hemorrhoids playing rock paper scissors
on the bench while the other players are out there
playing yikes. And as far as Luke, listen, if he
had problems with self discipline with the Dallas Mavericks, wait
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till you get to the Lakers and to all those
Hollywood f's kiss your ass and invite you to all
those parties with pile of drugs and amazing food. And
you're on the A list everywhere in La because you
wear the historian's uniform. That's what Luca has to look
forward to. So if you can't get joy yourself in Dallas,
I know those famous people in Dallas, I know those
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rich people in Dallas. But it's a different animal in
La and good luck, good luck, Luca, good luck.
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So I lead this hour to begin the night the
Talk festivis you and I together Here from the swap
meet of football Super Bowl fifty nine days away on
tap this weekend. So the Eagles and Chiefs have to
play a game, but for everyone else, they're getting ready
for next year. It's hurry up, get ready for next
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year and the twenty twenty five regular season, which will
kick off sometime in early September. Big move, not surprising,
but big moves coming from La La Land. And if
you have not been following, because you actually have a
life and you're not obsessing with all of this, we
have learned that wide receiver Cooper Cup has been informed
(16:16):
by the Rams his services are no longer needed for
the team that shares Sofi Stadium, that the team will
be seeking to trade him immediately. How do we know that?
We know that because it came from the horse's mouth,
Cooper Cup saying, quote, I don't agree with the decision
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and I always believed it was going to begin and
end in La close quote a Cup making a statement
on the social media. What's all that all the kids
are doing it on the social media? So he does
not agree with the RAMS decisions. So Cup the team
(16:59):
working together, Allegedly they're working together to have him on
the next train out of La La Land heading somewhere else. Says.
The effort there to find the right place to continue
competing for championships. So the story goes and he is
(17:20):
highly motivated, and he says healthy. He says, Cooper Cup's healthy.
So let's let you know that as they head into
the next seasons. I got healthy quick. The RAMS eliminated
a couple weeks back. He's already healthy. Who knew? All right?
So let us discuss the question. Former super Ball hero
Cooper Cup says that he is not happy. He does
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not agree, but the RAMS are working to trade him. Immediately,
give me your school of thought on this. So I
have Steve Harvey, bipartisan and car shopping. That sounded like
a from Bell. What happened to our bell? That was
not the same bell? Okay, that seemed a little I
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don't know. It seems a little off. The original bell
seemed a little offt I don't know. Did somebody mess
with our bell? Did someone pressed the wrong bell button?
I don't know, wrong all right? Anyway, my first thought
on this, Cooper Cup is one of the great overachievers, right,
this be real here? Cooper Cup third round draft pick
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out of a school that is not known as the
Alabama of the Pacific Northwest and wonderful, wonderful, wonderful Eastern Washington.
It was a third round pick and at one point
for the twenty twenty one season, Cooper Cup was the
top receiver in the NFL. There was no one better
than this guy, no one. For one year, Cooper Cup
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was at the very top of all the receiver numbers.
He dominated the NFL for one season, and he got
paid for it, so you don't feel bad. He got
paid ninety plus US million dollars in his time with
the Rams. A fun player to watch. However, when you
look at this from thirty thousand feet up in the sky, right,
you look down and the words of Steve Harvey. We
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broadcast from one of Steve Harvey's old studios here, and
Steve Harvey had a line years ago that loyalty has
an expiration date, so the Rams were loyal to Cooper Cup.
Cooper Cup was loyal to the Rams. At some point,
the Rams had an epiphany. They had a come to
Jesus moment. They realized that they had taken the lemon
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and they had goweezed all of the juice out of
the lemon, and they were done with the lemon. There
was no more there there. They could make like lemon
zest out of it, but they didn't want to do that.
They just wanted to squeeze all the juice out of
it and there you go. So there was loyalty. They
paid him. It's like, it's like this business, and I
was like, we do well here. If they can find
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some that works cheaper and can make the company more money,
I'll be gone. That's the way it works. That's how
this operates. That's how anyone operates. So people getting upset.
I get an email from RAMSA and you should rip
the Rams. I'm like, oh no, not really. I understand.
Cooper cuple go somewhere else and they'll have a chance
to have a second act in his career. But remember,
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at the end of this last regular season for the Rams,
Cooper Cup was bad, bad to the bone, and not
a good way, not a good way. He was held
under two catches in three of the final five games
that he appeared in for the Rams, and he went
over thirty yards one time over the final five games.
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That's that's not thirty million dollars a year. That's not
you know, that's not top notch wide receiver money. And
so Pooka Nakula poo Ca, Pooka Nakua has zoomed passed
him and he is at the very peak of his
superpowers right now, another unknown Puka Nakua who is at
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the very top of the Rammed depth chart at this
particular point. So Cooper Cup is at a fork in
the road. He's at the crossroads here, and what does
he do? What does he do? Right? The Rams are
saying he is a diminishing asset, that his great salad
days are behind him and that he will be nothing
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special the rest of the way. That's what they're betting on.
So where should Cooper Cup attempt to relocate? Where should
he go? So you immediately try to eliminate all these
NFC teams, say, Well, the Rams will cover themselves. They'll
think well, he's not that good anymore, but we just
in case he does turn out to be good, we're
gonna send him to the AFC. So right away, you're like,
all right, he says he wanted to begin and end
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his career in La. Well, the Chargers don't have any receivers.
Their receivers blow. How about the Chargers and stay in
Sofi Stadium. The Rams and Chargers can work out of
trade and you can go play there. If not to
charge Buffalo, they don't have any receivers, so why not
the Buffalo Bills. It's just fine until he gets cold
in Buffalo, and then it doesn't matter if you have
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receivers or not, because they don't do anything in cold weather.
And the Kansas City Chiefs who are always looking to
add players for Patrick Mahomes and so that's also a possibility.
They're all all right there at the top, and there
is money on the table for Cooper Cup. You'd have
to renegotiate his contract. Now he's not the only but
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Big Day. If you like players you've heard of in
the NFL who would like a relocation situation, you were
all joned up on Monday because to Cleveland we go
the land where Miles Garrett announced all those nice things
said by the Cleveland front office. Yeah, I don't care.
(22:54):
I went out, that's it. Yeah. So Miles Garrett announced
he has requested a relocation. He wants a job transfer.
He wants to enter the transfer portal and get out
of Cleveland. The announcement coming just a few days after
Andrew Barry gave Miles Garrett a manny and a petty
(23:15):
on live microphones, licking the toes of Miles Garrett and
said the Browns would not entertain the thought of trading
Garrett well. In a prepared statement Miles Garrett released, Garrett said,
as the dominant pass rusher for the Browns that his
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goal was not to go from Cleveland to Canton, which
is what Andrew Berry the GM said. It has always
been to compete and to win a Super Bowl. So
he says a goal. The Browns, of course, are nowhere
close to. There's some high school football teams that are
closer to winning a Super Bowl than the Cleveland Browns
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at three and four teen and still handcuffed, handcuff to
the creepy quarterback. So what are the odds? What are
the odds that Miles Garrett ends up getting what he
wants at the Browns bend and knee and end up
saying bye bye to Miles Garrett. So I'm gonna want
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up the Mallard Sportsbook odds on this. The Mallard Sportsbook
odds minus three hundred. Now, if you're not good at math,
minus three hundred indicates a seventy five percent chance that
Miles Garrett is wearing different colored laundry and a different
colored plastic helmet when they kick off to twenty twenty
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five NFL season. And how deep here's where we are?
How deep is Miles Garrett willing to go? We'd like
to know, we'd like to And what about the Browns? Right?
Are they? Are? The Browns locked in the Browns saying
we haven't changed our position now Cleveland. This is fascinating
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to me. Cleveland is in such a deep dark place
their football team that there is said to be bipartisan
support from people that hate the Browns and people that
like the Browns, even Brown's loyalists, that Miles Garrett should
be traded. The team such a dumpster fire, that they
should get rid of Miles Garrett and they have no
(25:26):
ill will towards him, and we're in the early stages
of this drama orama as it plays out as a
high stakes, very emotional, very emotional complex situation. Will they
heated emotions? Will they diffuse over time? Is there enough
time for that to happen? Stay tuned, developing hot dot
(25:49):
dot dot Now last word, so let's play Malord Matchmaker.
We're gonna play Malord Matchmaker's fun game. You can play afyone,
but I'm gonna play first. So Malar Matchmaker, where should
Miles Garrett look to end off this offseason? We've already
told you the Cooper Cup, Chargers, Bills, Chiefs obvious, but
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what about Miles Garrett? He wants out. Where should he go?
So much like the process of elimination we did earlier
in this exercise, we're going to immediately eliminate the AFC
heavyweight contenders, the Chiefs, the Bills, the Ravens. Even though
Cleveland is several thousand country miles away from getting to
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that level, they will likely not play ball with any
of those teams, So you eliminate them right off the top. Boom,
there's your haircut. So then you go to the NFC
and say, all right, well, where's a good possibility, And
my crystal ball said, car shopping as in a Ford
or a Dodge and Ford Field. You can stay in
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the Great Lakes region there, the rust Belt region in
and go up to the Lions who play at Ford
Field and have no defense, and if they can trade
a gaggle of draft picks and other promissory nodes, they
can combine Miles Garrett and Aiden Hutchinson as a dynamic
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duo on defense, and why not two impact players until
they get hurt. That'd be pretty good for a couple
of years in the Motor City little Motown madness on defense.
If you're the Lions, why would you not go out
and do that? In the other option, I mentioned car
shopping and of course Ford Field for the Lions. But
how about the Rams, right, because much like a Dodge,
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the marketing slogan of Dodge built Ram tough, Miles Garrett,
the Rams have a blossoming defense that started to really
click the last part of the season. Now that's no
guarantee they're going to be that good next year, but
you had Miles Garrett, with all those young players around
Miles Garrett and one of the top coaches in the
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NFL and Sean McVay, who you know, is going to
be in the playoffs every year. Look at the division,
the Niners, their quarterback's been exposed now brock Perty. The
Cardinals are sending out alligator arms Murray and Seattle. They've
got Geno Smith at this point who stinks. So the
Rams have a great chance of being right back in
the playoffs again next year and with a little defense.
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You look around the NFC and nobody thinks Philadelphia is invincible.
Detroit is certainly not. There's some good teams in the NFC,
but there's not like a great team. There's not Kansas
City in the NFC. That does not exist.
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Why don't we welcome in our contestants and then we'll
play the game. What do you say? Let's do that?
Why not? Who do we have here? Let's see here
aenie meenie miney moe. We've got Chris in the Commonwealthho's
gonna play? Hello, Chris, Welcome, good morning from my first crack.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
So I'm a new piece of this one.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
What were you born? What are you born again? Game?
You play all these games? What are you talking about?
You love the games?
Speaker 3 (29:10):
But I never done I've never done this.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
All right, all right, fine, I don't always too much.
Who do you want to partner up with? I'll go
with two? All right, hold on a sec. You're gonna play.
And Brian is in Illinois? What's going on? Brian? Welcome?
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Man?
Speaker 1 (29:26):
What's going on? You want to play the game? Mallards
amount of money? Yeah, let's give it a shot. All right?
Who do you want to partner up with? It was
left Ben or Lorena? Man, we'll give it a shot. Okay, Sorry, Lorena,
You're out of there. You're out of the bit. I'm
sorry about that. You seem excited. Brian, And what do
you What do you do there? Brian? You know Chris
(29:47):
is a regular? What do you do in Illinois? I'm
an assembly supervisor a local plant. There you go, it
works for the factory. There, I got you? All right?
Well it's real quick.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Cool pick the categories here general, all right, we have
this is Mallard's Mountain of Money, The Warwicked Davis edition
turn fifty five years old. We got Return of the Jedi, Leprechaun,
Harry Potter, and the Prisoner.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
Of Azkaban and small town Folk. Chris, which category would
you like?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Return of the Jedi?
Speaker 5 (30:14):
All right, then, Brian, how about you?
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Jim me? Harry Potter? All right? You got daughter? All right? Everyone,
hold on, We'll have Malard's amount of money? Innocent tired?
You don't hang up, guys, We'll get to that next.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
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dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to
listen live now Malor's Mountain of Money? Hell, do you
have what it takes to get to the top? Probably?
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Not?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
All right? Right to the game? Matchup a set. Chris
is in the commonweal if he's with Coop and Brian
is a guy who works at a factory there in Illinois.
He's matched up with me and Coop. You're up first,
Return of the Jedi. The category will put forty five
seconds on the club five. Are you there? Rises? All right?
These athletes all return to their original team. You're on
your way, go all right.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
The m v P quarterback for the Carolina Panthers, h
Cam Newton, Yes, Hall of Fame, tight end for the Broncos,
and he also played for the Ravens.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Yes, all right, Michael Jordan's sidekick.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Uh, yes, you're having a hard time.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Oh my god?
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Okay, uh number five for the Cardinals and the Angels.
He's a slugger from the Dominican Republic.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
H Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Five?
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Wow, you got that, Cam Newton, h Shannon Sharp, Scottie Pippin.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Sure will be like a friend.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Remember Shark who wants to take notes for next time? Okay,
all right, well that's all better.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
Luck pick Robert nobody.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Knows who he is, okay, hall of Famer. Okay, now, Brian,
are you that? Brian? Yeah? All right, you picked Harry
Harry Potter and the prisoner of what was it, Azkaban Askaban?
All right? Yeah, these athletes have all spent some time
in prison. Are you ready, Brian? All right? Buffalo Bill's
running back. He killed two people. Okay, nobody knows who
(32:37):
that is. No, he was convicted of in his dead anyway,
who cares? Puppy killing quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons. Yes,
Charlie Hustle for the Cincinnati Reds. He bet on baseball Yes,
known as Nails. He was an outfielder for the Mets
in the eighties and the Phillies in the nineties. He
gave he gives stock market advice, went to jail for that. No,
(32:59):
how about this wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers. He
had his pregnant girlfriend murdered in uh and went to
jail for a long time to one. Okay, well you
got it right. I don't need to go back. Nickname
big Baby for the Celtics. I think he's yeah, the
buzzer at the ball. You didn't get Ray Caru, all right?
(33:22):
And all right, he didn't get Lenny Chris. Do you
once you got Leprechaun or small town folk leprechan all right?
These athletes all have Irish heritage. Forty five second, let's
begin the goat from the Patriots. Brady, Yes, floats like
a butterflies, things like a bee.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
What what?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
God? It didn't work out for you? A bad cell
reception out in the sticks outside outside Boston.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
A stick stick pass word, Chris, all right, didn't work out.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
We went in the golden ticket for you, Brian. You
went to goall that ticket, you win a call that
take I got close by you, that's a winner. Muhammad
Ali
Host
Ben Maller
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