February 10, 2025 • 32 mins
Big Ben talks about the Chiefs getting blown out by the Eagles in Super Bowl 59 and who is to blame, the end of the conspiracy theory that the NFL is rigging game for the Chiefs, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and more!
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Well, sometimes it goes the.
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Way you think it's gonna go, and then other times, Man,
the game's over at halftime.
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What was that crap?
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talk about the entire night here, all the way through
the overnight hours. One topic radio, one time. You know
what that topic is, the superbolbo Yes.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Right, goright, So our lead here lights camera ash. There
was in Norland Super Bowl fifty ninety crescendo of the
twenty twenty four season.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Here in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Five, a champion has been crowned, and this is the
game we all watch.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Right, you're listening to sports talk radio late at night,
Chances you probably watched.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
The game the Eagles and Chiefs wrangling in a neutral field,
a neutral field right.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
There, and how did that turn out? How did that
turn out? Well?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Jalen Hurt threw for two touchdowns, he also ran for
a score, and the Vic Fangier Uncle Vic defense getting
it done a domination situation. The Eagles did not even
need Sequon Barkley to flex his muscles. He did not,
and Philadelphia certainly did forty to twenty two the final.
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They take home the Lombardi Trophy. It was a Harvard
boat race.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
That means that the Eagles jumped out early and never
looked back.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Right the game was.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
It was closed at the end of the first core
seven to nothing, and halftime was twenty four to nothing,
and later on oh my thirty four nothing before the
Chiefs scored. However, the better is in the losing locker room.
So we asked the question, as we discuss here, We
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asked the question.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Choked up here. We asked the question any sound cool?
We have? Any sound we do? All right?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Anyway, I asked the question who gets the Dunce cap?
Who gets the Dunce cap of blame for the Chiefs
losing and not just losing It's one thing to lose
on a late field goal or a late touchdown.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
They lost.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
The game was over at halftime, twenty four to nothing
at halftime, So let us discuss the question.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
My thoughts on this.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I've got torts, folk song and Yiddish and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a cough lozenge, is what we're going to make.
So a It obviously starts at the top, and Patrick
Maholmes deserves all the praise he's gotten, but he also
deserves to be criticized for this performance that was unbecause
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of Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
In this game.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
And people are gonna defend Mahomes, are gonna blame other
people for the outcome of the game. But to me,
it starts with Mahomes. He was bad. He was bad, bad, bad,
bad bad. Now he had some garbage time stats, but
when the game was in the balance, which it really
was only for a quarter here, Mahomes did not step up.
He did not get her done, did not get her
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done at all. And there's the saying, sometimes you're the windshields,
sometimes you're the bug. And we know that the Mahomes
that played on Super Bowl Sunday. There that was a
torts performance. As the great hockey coach John Tortorella has
pointed out, he sucked at a time you cannot suck,
which was the balance of the game. The balance of
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the game there. Now many people are gett passing the buckets. Well,
the defense wasn't good, the offensive line wasn't good, and
since the offensive line could have been better, Mahomes several
little sacks were on Mahomes, though the sack is a
quarterback stat. Holmes held the ball for too long. I
thought I was watching Caleb Williams playing the Super Bowl
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as long as he was holding the ball. Bad job
by Mahomes, bad job by him here. And there were
so many negative plays, and that poured gasoline on the fire.
Here a pair of backbreaking interceptions. There was also a
fumble by Mahomes here, But whichever courter. Typically, it's not
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that I spent a lot of time to do a
TV show during the football season handicapping NFL games, and
it often comes down to who makes the fewer negative plays,
who makes the fewer negative plays, And in this game
now negative plays are interceptions, interceptions incompletion, sacks, and fumbles,
those are considered bad plays.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Mahomes.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
You how many negative plays Mahomes had when you can
bind fumbles, sacks, incompletions, interceptions, Mahomes had twenty. He had
twenty negative plays in the Super Bowl, and he's getting
a pass because he's Mahomes, not on this show. He's
not getting a pass. And Jalen Hurts, to his credit,
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he only had eight. There were eight negative plays. He
did throw an interception, but it was deep inside Kansas
City territory, so Chiefs took over inside.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Their own five yard line on that play.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
But hey, listen, a plus twelve negative play ratio for
your quarterback versus the other team's quarterback, you should win
forty to twenty two, which is exactly what Philadelphia pulled
off here. Now, what was the turning point? I was
looking for the turning point for the Eagles that flipped
the game right in their direction. Now this game, you said, well,
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the turning point was? I know exactly when the turning
point was. It's an American folk song and we can
all sing along here. The wheels on the bus go
round and round, The wheels on the bus go round
and round.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
The moment the.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Chiefs caravan showed up, the buses showed up to the
super Dome. They were cooked, right, they were done. You
had Travis Kelcey walk out there, and he showed up
wearing that you see what he was gonna, had that
burnt orange suit, the wide lapel suit on.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
He had the.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Matching trousers there, a little burnt orange. He had the
patterned buttoned up shirt as well. He was doing cosplay,
is what he was doing. Well, Kelsey was doing some
cosplay there. He looked like he had just pulled up
out of the hot tub time machine and he was
out of the time machine there, and he was from
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like nineteen seventies. He was doing like a nineteen seventies
cosplay thing. And he said, well, that's not a good sign.
And Kansas City, it proved not. Could have turned out
the other way, but it turned out that you saw that,
you said, well that's not good and they were cooked.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
What happened to the championship pedigree we hear so much
lead up to these games, Well that disappeared because the
out didn't go that way.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
The Chiefs did not win.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
They don't lose games like this, well they did, They
just lost the Chiefs just lost. But the moment that
was the turning point was when they showed up to
the stadium and the Eagles stomped all over. That's an understatement,
a domination situation. And do not let the garbage time
numbers in the fourth quarter sway the outcome. I mean,
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I don't have to say you didn't watch the game,
but maybe you tuned it out. And a lot of
people watched the Super Bowl at parties. It's a social
event and you're not really paying that close attention. Well,
if you weren't paying close attention, you say, well, what
happened twenty to twenty two?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Mahomes?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
You know, had some made some plays? Well, yeah he did.
When the game was over. The game was over, he
made made a few plays. That was take out the
trash time out. Now the last word here, So what
adjustments could Andy Reid have made better? Shall we say
better adjustments in Super Bowl fifty nine? So the obvious
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one is, I don't know, it's not that deep r
it's Ockham's razor. The simplest solution is the obvious one.
Don't fall behind thirty four to nothing in the Super Bowl,
thirty four to nothing in the Super Bowl, and the
obvious one is you got to find some early offense,
and there was nothing there.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
And you know, don't tell me all the Eagles.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Washington was able to score against that Eagles defense. The
La Rams scored the ball against that Eagle defense. Kansas
City should have been able to score the ball when
it mattered against the Eagles defense, and they did not.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
So excuse my Yiddish year.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
The entire Eagles offense they were klutzes, that's how they looked.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
And in the early part of.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
That game there, and maybe they passed out before the game.
Everyone took the same stupid pills before the game there.
But they were playing uphill the entire day. They were
playing uphill here, and they really stumbled out of the gains.
It was only seven nothing at the end of the
first quarter. So if you weren't paying attention, because maybe
you were having some of those little appetizers and you
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weren't paying attention, seven nothing, it was not that big
a deal. However, it was actually much worse than that.
The Eagles had one hundred and fifteen yards of offense.
The Chiefs had nineteen at the end of the first quarter.
Several of you pointed out the main thing the Chiefs
had overcome was the curse of Poppy, as our guy
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Poppy picked Kansas City, and I knew I was doomed.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I knew I might.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Pick on the TV show was cooked because of Poppy
and that jinx. And sure enough that played out there,
But the floodgates really opened up. You know, you played bad.
You're like, oh, it's a bad quarter, but you're only
down seven nothing. And then Patrick Mahomes stepped out there
and just kept handing the ball away, and that the
floodgates opened up in that second quarter, and it was
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one hundred and seventy nine yards to twenty three. At halftime,
the Eagles had thirteen first as the Chiefs had won.
It said, well, it was just the box score, but
it actually looked worse than that, watching the game looked
worse than that. If that's if that's possible. All right, anyway,
it is the Ben Malord Show. Here is Patrick maholme.
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This there's some postgame flavor for you. Here's Mahomes on
the many mistakes, mention those negative plays. Mahomes had twenty
of them. Jalen Hurts only had eight. Here's Mahomes talking
about sucking in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Obviously, the turnovers hurt, and I mean I just kind
of take all the blame for that. I mean, just
those early turnovers swing the momentium of the game. And
then they capitalized on them and they scored. I mean
they scored on the one and then they got a
touchdown immediately after. So that's fourteen points that I kind
of gave them. And it's hard to come back from
that and the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
And you didn't.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
You didn't come back, all right, But wait, there's more.
Here's Mahomes and he wants you to know that this
is going to follow him around. He is going to
turn a negative into a positive.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Anytime he lose the Super Bowl, it's sort of worse
still in the world.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
They'll stick with you.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
The rest of your career. I mean, these will be
the two losses that will motivate me to be even
better to the rest of my career, because you only
get so a few of these, and you have to
capitalize on these, and they hurt probably more than the wins.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Feel good.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Okay, well, didn't you learn from the last time you
lost in the Super Bowl? The Tampa Bay a couple
of years back. Come on, all right, here's one more
Andy Reid, who is chasing the legendary Bill Belichick and
still on track, Andy Reid, if his health is there
and he keeps going here to set the all time
wins record, he's chasing Don Shula's record. But this is
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about Super Bowl wins, and this was a golden opportunity
going into the game. The Chiefs favored by a point
and a half and could have added another one of
those Lombardi Trophies. They obviously did the opposite. Here's a
Andy Reider what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
We'll learn from this.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Okay, most games here when you don't do very well, Yeah,
you learn from it.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
As a coach, You learn from it as a player,
and you move on. Okay, just keep learning.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
How come the bad teams never like the teams that
suck in the NFL, They never like Tennessee is the
worst team in the NF. They must have learned a
lot this year, the Tennessee Titans, because they had the
worst record, So they must have learned like the Patriots
must have learned a lot also, Yeah, learn from losses.
So I have nothing to say. So I'm gonna fall
back on my sports cliches. That is what I'm going
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to do.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
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Speaker 1 (14:36):
Time to put away that tinfoil hat for another year.
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Speaker 3 (15:29):
Away as the s We're talking about it all night.
One topic radio.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I don't like doing one topic radio, but you gotta
know it it's the biggest event of the year.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
It was the end of.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
The football season and our lead from the Bayou the
biggest stage in American sport. I'm not gonna say the
world stage, because you know, people like their football and whatnot,
But for us, it's this is it right, this is
the be's knees here, super Bowl fifty nine. And I
don't know how closely you paid attention. It's one of
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those deals. There's a lot of people go to parties
and stuff, and it's like a.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Social event and it's about eating.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
It's not necessarily about the game itself, unless you're an
Eagles fan or a Chiefs fan, and so maybe you
were not paying attention. I feel like we did our
good mits for the day. I paid close attention the
entire game, and this was one of those games. If
I didn't have a radio show to do, I wouldn't.
I would have turned the game off at halftime and
I would have said, that's it, let me know if
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the Chiefs come back, I'm done.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
But I stayed. I stayed. I watched the whole game.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
And Wowser's Wowser's, Wowser's Wowser's on his twenty second birthday
Cooper Dejen where they picked six off Patrick Mahomes, Josh
Swtt bird dogging Mahomes as well. The Eagles defense the
birds all over the place and they route Cansa City
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to the tune of forty to twenty two all wop situation,
and they secure the second Lombardi Trophy in franchise history.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Move over Nick Foles and the.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Philly Special, as the Eagles have won again. The dream
of the three pete has ended for Kansas City as
they fail to get or done. So let us discuss
the question what happened to the deep state conspiracy regarding
Roger Goodell and the NFL fixing games for Patrick Mahomes
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and Andy Reid and the Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
What happened to it?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
So I've got Ralph Waldo Emerson chewing gum and friendly skies,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a bottle of champagne, something
that the Chiefs did not get this year. They did
not get to celebrate with a bubbly bath as they
were losers. So number I said, Number number that storyline
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about the NFL ringing the games for the Chiefs is
da that would be dead on arrival. A lot of
dumb people have a bitter pill to swallow. But I
know how this works. I know how this works. It's
not my first barbecue. I've been here in the past.
I know how these conspiracy theory things work. Not that
I'm against all conspiracies. This one I thought was lame
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from Jump Street. I thought it was lame. But you
are a sucker if you're one of the people that
bought into this, and there's a lot of people that did.
It was always rubbish, as we pointed out using malor math.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
If you actually check.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
The receipts, the calls in close games all season long
were not in favor of Kansas City. There were sporadic
calls that were in favor of Kansas City, but if
you look at the overall data from the season, it
doesn't back up the narrative. It does not. And there's
a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson and I think applies
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to this that people only see what they are prepared
to see, and you also look for evidence to back
up your argument. Right that if you are someone that
believes that the games are rigged in favor of Kansas City,
you're going to look for any questionable call.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
You're going to ignore.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
The data where or the evidence that goes against your hypothesis,
and so it was never a peer reviewed conspiracy theory.
I am convinced of a few conspiracy theories that the
NBA draft lottery was fixed for Pat trick.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Ewing to end up with the Knickerbockers. I believe that
to be true.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I also believe that the power outage at Camden Yards
in Baltimore that happened on one night and only affected
the few blocks around the ballpark on a night where
there was something that happened with Cal Ripken of the
Orioles and a game against the Merriors, I believe that
to be true. Now there's some other one that I
also bought. I believe Kurt Schilling had ketchup in his
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sock to enhance the drama for the Red Sox, and
Doug Mirabelly talked about that and told Gary Thorne. I
believe that to be true. But this one I never
bought into. And I like a good conspiracy, I do.
I never bought into it, and it's now over right,
so we can forget about that. And in this game,
there was a questionable call early and if you're watching you,
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AJ Brown was called for a push off.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
It would have been a first.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Down for Philadelphia and the call went in favor of
Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
So immediately dumb people, oh, it's rigg. It's rigged, dude,
it's rigg.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Okay, that drove them out. Was short lived and the
entire story was known as gas lighting. People were deliberately
fed false information and that led them to question watching
NFL games even though the outcomes they thought they knew.
They were questioning because of the gas lighting. But the
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whole storyline was farming. It was engagement farming. The way
you make money on social media and they'll pay you
on platforms like X is engagement. And how do you
engage people You tell them that a game is rigged,
and dumb people love that and they buy into it
and they're all about it.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Since the Eagles dominated this.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Game one going away, it was thirty four nothing at
one point forty to twenty two only because of garbage time,
the conspiracy theory is completely ignored. Or you do the
old switch or rue right the old what is the
old switcher? Well, they couldn't fix it because it's a
Super Bowl. That's why the game was. It was a
fair game, and that's why the outcome was the way
it was. But either way, it's buried six feet under.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Now turn the page thumbs up or thumbs down on
Jalen Hurts winning Super Bowl MVP on his thumbs up
or thumbs down.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
So after a minus in his long Mallard deliberation, I'm
going to go thumbs up.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
It's a rather obvious that he was going to win
the MVP watching the game the way it unfolded here,
it is an offensive award. As effective as the Eagles
defense was, this is an offensive award. So the fact
that the Eagles offense had really little impact for it,
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hardly any impact from sequon Barkley, right, And so you
look at that, and the defense bottled up Barkley, and
they dared Jalen Hurts to make plays to beat them,
and Jalen Hurts made plays to beat the Kansas City Chiefs.
Barkley had fifty seven yards on I think it was
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like twenty five carries somebody. He averaged two point three
yards per carrey two point three yards per carry, had
no touchdowns. So bupkis right, the Eagles won anyway, and
they won anyway because of, as they say in the
Chewing Gum Game, double bubble. Now, what was the double bubble.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
For the he Goes.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
It was Jalen Hurts, who was really good. He only
had a few incompletetions I think five incompletions.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Of the entire game.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
He was so effective that that stiff Kenny Pickett was
out there playing in garbage time in the fourth quarter.
And then you had Patrick Mahomes who went to Texas Tech,
but it looked like he was at duke. He was
the duke of Puke Mahomes, And so that was the
double bubble. You had Jalen Hurts good, Mahomes was not
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and Hurts the three touchdowns and then Jalen Hurts opponent
there Mahomes with three turnovers, handing points to Philadelphia, setting
him up for the win. And so you do the
arithmetic on that, and that is how Jalen Hurts ends
up as the Super Bowl MVP.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Final point, So, which big name player, which big name
player for the Chiefs suffered the most from tight tuckis syndrome?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Tight took his syndrome, all.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Right, So I'm gonna I'm gonna stay away from Mahomes
is the obvious one. We've already destroyed Mahomes and he
deserves it. The way he played it was unbecoming of
the legend. So I'm not gonna pile on, But let
me spend a few good minutes on everyone's favorite podcasting,
tight End Travis Kelcey, Americus Darling, Americas Darling, Travis Kelcey
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writing the Friendly Skies on a plane that I called
the Vomit Comet. He was on the vomit Comet, Travis Kelcey.
He showed up dress like he was ready for Halloween.
Maybe he thought the super Bowl was Halloween, and he
had that seventies style sued on. And it was really
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more like a nineteen seventies classic occult classic movie, The
Rocky Horror Picture Show, is what it was watching Travis
Kelcey play tight end. Here he had in the first
three quarters of the game catches for twenty two yards,
zero impact. But now he had had a couple catches
in garbage time in the fourth quarter. But it was
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like Taylor Swift was singing blank Space for Travis Kelsey
because he was a blank space on the Bingo card
for Andy Reid.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
And the Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
And there were rumors on Saturday that were likely driven
by Engagement farming, that Travis Kelcey may end up retiring.
Maybe he already did retire. The way he played looked
like he was ready to retire.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
It was terrible.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
So if that's how Travis Kelsey gonna play, and then
let him retire, there somebody else in there who will
actually get the job done because Kelsey did not get
it done. And then we're staying at star level players
who suffer from tight Tuker syndrome. You gotta say Chris Jones,
the defensive star who's a Hall of Fame defensive player
for Kansas City, and you didn't even know he was
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on the field. Now he left the game early injury,
but the game was already decided by the time he
left with an injury. And Chris Jones, number ninety five
in your program, but number zero on your scorecard, made
one more play than you and I did.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
In Super Bowl fifty nine.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
He was credited on the on the stat sheet with
one quarterback hit, one, no tackles, no nothing, bupkiss everything else.
Bupkis for Chris Jones, zero tackles, one quarterback hit, no sacks.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
That's Chris Jones. You're the top paid defensive player and
you don't show up. And that goes in line with
their tight end. That goes with the quarterback. The biggest
stars for Kansas City did not show up. Now, to
be fair, the biggest star for Philadelphia did not show
up either, Sakwon Barkley, but didn't matter because Jalen Hurts
was that good.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I want to get your thoughts pulse of the people
on Super Bowl fifty nine at eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. That's eight seven seven nine nine six
six three. Later this hour, we will have Mallard of
the Third Degree. We'll have the Insta Trivia that'll be
coming up for you a little bit later in the
hour as well. We we look forward to that in
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who was at the Super Bowl a Dodger fan.
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We'll explain what that's all about.
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Speaker 3 (27:45):
How about that gets Grail? All right? Cool? What do
we have?
Speaker 2 (27:53):
All right?
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Ben?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
So you heard the clip we played earlier.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Patrick Mahomes said that this loss is going to motivate
him for the rest of the career, and on social media,
a lot of people we're celebrating the demise of Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Goat talk. Do you think that no matter what Patrick.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Mahomes does the rest of his career, this will always
be a talking point.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Well, if he ends up tying Brady, Tye goes to
Brady because unless Mahomes can win three in a row,
so it is a setback. But Tom Brady lost Super
Bowl of what three Super bowls tom Brady lost, I
believe during his career, So it's like you can lose
a couple of Super Bowls. But Mahomes has been to five.
He's three and two, which is not all that great.
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It's good, but it could be better. So yeah, the
debate will be there, which is good for my business.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Next, Ben, the Lakers trade for the Charlotte Hornets Mark Williams.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I saw this.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
It was rescinded. Yeah, so now Dunk connect is coming
back to the Lakers. Mark Williams is staying in Charlotte.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
Lakers have Jackson Hayes as their center. Yea, what do
you think the best the Lakers can do with what
they've got?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
They could win in the first round of the playoffs
and then they'll be eliminated in the second round.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
What happened to that guy that called up last week's
Mark Williams was the next Will Chamberlain?
Speaker 3 (29:02):
What happened to that guy? Coop? Next?
Speaker 5 (29:04):
All right, Ben, I just need to ask you what
was your favorite Super Bowl commercial?
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Well, that would be from Rocket. That was the one
take Me Home Country Roads.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I was singing along. It was better than the halftime show. Coop,
How did we know you passed this?
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Initions? What I got? I think it was my final answer.
I think that was the one, the final answer that
did it.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
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Speaker 3 (29:48):
Here some interesting advice Hold that thun no one's paid
attention to me for ten whole seconds. And if you
don't like it anyway we go. It's the incident advice line.
Who needs our advice?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Well, that would be the team that lost Super Bowl
fifty nine. Can's City Chiefs, Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid.
Any advice to the Chiefs. They were non competitive, down
thirty four to nothing at one point on the biggest
stage of them all, a domination situation. So advice to
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Mahomes and Andy Reid after they get their doors blown
off by the Philadelphia Eagles. You're live on the air.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
When you hear my voice at eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. Hello, Line one, you're on the air.
Advice to the Eagles. Line one, Oh, I want that
chef Pat so bad? All right?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Well than a contactor. Line two, You're on the air
at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. Advice to
Paddy Mahomes, Andy Reid and the losers in this sit.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
The lead that come too big to rigs screw the Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Screw the red all right, thank you for that. That
sounded like ferg dog. Line three, you're on the airline three.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
It doesn't matter if.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
To get rid of pennies because you don't want to
slip a real penny. Anyways, it's all CD.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Oh stop, it's TV, it's Hollywood. What do you want,
you loser? Line four, you're on the airline Hello.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
In morning time, Hey, fricking Maryland Patrick mahone saw a
ghost and her name was Serena Wingim.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Oh yes, and half time I saw Serena popped up.
Line one. You're on the airline one. Hello, no more, swifty,
no more. That's it. Let's go to a random line.
You're on the air random line Hello. Advice to mahomes,
Andy Reid and the Chiefs. Random line developed their own
play called the butt Cheek.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Sneak the butt Cheeks. I think you've already mastered that.
Jed who fled?
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Line one, Hello, Line one, you're on the air Hey,
it's line one. I'm just saying hello, Ben all right, Hello,
thank you. Line one. Line two you're on the air
line too. Hello. We are not only the world, we
are the children. Oh yes, it's all about the children.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Line three, Hello, Line three, advice to Mahomes and Andy Reid.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Line three, you got how to go.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Back to Gray school, learned to play poper football.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Oh yeah, that's buddy from Iowa. Line four. You're on
the airline. I know all these people are called. It's
very scary line for Hello, Line four.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Did Kelsey make a hard in the end zone?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Oh see, that was our buddy from the Bay area,
Tony in the Bay. Line six, Hello, line six, you're
on the air Line six is not paying attention. We're
back to line one.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Line one, instant advice line for Mahomes, Andy Reid and
the chiefs.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Hello, all celibratory, Burton noises good to February.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Okay, thank you. Yes, we'll do one more, only one
more of it's good. I'll take credit of not I'll
blame the Cooper. The final call. Instant advice line for
the chiefs. Line four, Line number four. You're on the
airline for go is.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
A painting officials.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
While at the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
There's a guy from made payoff the referees.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Uh man, I remember that guy.
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Well, sometimes it goes the.
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Way you think it's gonna go, and then other times, Man,
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So we'll see, we'll see what Fats has in store.
But our lead store and the story we're going to
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talk about the entire night here, all the way through
the overnight hours. One topic radio, one time. You know
what that topic is, the superbolbo Yes.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Right, goright, So our lead here lights camera ash. There
was in Norland Super Bowl fifty ninety crescendo of the
twenty twenty four season.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Here in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Five, a champion has been crowned, and this is the
game we all watch.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Right, you're listening to sports talk radio late at night,
Chances you probably watched.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
The game the Eagles and Chiefs wrangling in a neutral field,
a neutral field right.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
There, and how did that turn out? How did that
turn out? Well?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Jalen Hurt threw for two touchdowns, he also ran for
a score, and the Vic Fangier Uncle Vic defense getting
it done a domination situation. The Eagles did not even
need Sequon Barkley to flex his muscles. He did not,
and Philadelphia certainly did forty to twenty two the final.
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They take home the Lombardi Trophy. It was a Harvard
boat race.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
That means that the Eagles jumped out early and never
looked back.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Right the game was.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
It was closed at the end of the first core
seven to nothing, and halftime was twenty four to nothing,
and later on oh my thirty four nothing before the
Chiefs scored. However, the better is in the losing locker room.
So we asked the question, as we discuss here, We
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asked the question.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Choked up here. We asked the question any sound cool?
We have? Any sound we do? All right?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Anyway, I asked the question who gets the Dunce cap?
Who gets the Dunce cap of blame for the Chiefs
losing and not just losing It's one thing to lose
on a late field goal or a late touchdown.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
They lost.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
The game was over at halftime, twenty four to nothing
at halftime, So let us discuss the question.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
My thoughts on this.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I've got torts, folk song and Yiddish and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a cough lozenge, is what we're going to make.
So a It obviously starts at the top, and Patrick
Maholmes deserves all the praise he's gotten, but he also
deserves to be criticized for this performance that was unbecause
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of Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
In this game.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
And people are gonna defend Mahomes, are gonna blame other
people for the outcome of the game. But to me,
it starts with Mahomes. He was bad. He was bad, bad, bad,
bad bad. Now he had some garbage time stats, but
when the game was in the balance, which it really
was only for a quarter here, Mahomes did not step up.
He did not get her done, did not get her
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done at all. And there's the saying, sometimes you're the windshields,
sometimes you're the bug. And we know that the Mahomes
that played on Super Bowl Sunday. There that was a
torts performance. As the great hockey coach John Tortorella has
pointed out, he sucked at a time you cannot suck,
which was the balance of the game. The balance of
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the game there. Now many people are gett passing the buckets. Well,
the defense wasn't good, the offensive line wasn't good, and
since the offensive line could have been better, Mahomes several
little sacks were on Mahomes, though the sack is a
quarterback stat. Holmes held the ball for too long. I
thought I was watching Caleb Williams playing the Super Bowl
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as long as he was holding the ball. Bad job
by Mahomes, bad job by him here. And there were
so many negative plays, and that poured gasoline on the fire.
Here a pair of backbreaking interceptions. There was also a
fumble by Mahomes here, But whichever courter. Typically, it's not
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that I spent a lot of time to do a
TV show during the football season handicapping NFL games, and
it often comes down to who makes the fewer negative plays,
who makes the fewer negative plays, And in this game
now negative plays are interceptions, interceptions incompletion, sacks, and fumbles,
those are considered bad plays.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Mahomes.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
You how many negative plays Mahomes had when you can
bind fumbles, sacks, incompletions, interceptions, Mahomes had twenty. He had
twenty negative plays in the Super Bowl, and he's getting
a pass because he's Mahomes, not on this show. He's
not getting a pass. And Jalen Hurts, to his credit,
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he only had eight. There were eight negative plays. He
did throw an interception, but it was deep inside Kansas
City territory, so Chiefs took over inside.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Their own five yard line on that play.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
But hey, listen, a plus twelve negative play ratio for
your quarterback versus the other team's quarterback, you should win
forty to twenty two, which is exactly what Philadelphia pulled
off here. Now, what was the turning point? I was
looking for the turning point for the Eagles that flipped
the game right in their direction. Now this game, you said, well,
(07:40):
the turning point was? I know exactly when the turning
point was. It's an American folk song and we can
all sing along here. The wheels on the bus go
round and round, The wheels on the bus go round
and round.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
The moment the.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Chiefs caravan showed up, the buses showed up to the
super Dome. They were cooked, right, they were done. You
had Travis Kelcey walk out there, and he showed up
wearing that you see what he was gonna, had that
burnt orange suit, the wide lapel suit on.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
He had the.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Matching trousers there, a little burnt orange. He had the
patterned buttoned up shirt as well. He was doing cosplay,
is what he was doing. Well, Kelsey was doing some
cosplay there. He looked like he had just pulled up
out of the hot tub time machine and he was
out of the time machine there, and he was from
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like nineteen seventies. He was doing like a nineteen seventies
cosplay thing. And he said, well, that's not a good sign.
And Kansas City, it proved not. Could have turned out
the other way, but it turned out that you saw that,
you said, well that's not good and they were cooked.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
What happened to the championship pedigree we hear so much
lead up to these games, Well that disappeared because the
out didn't go that way.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
The Chiefs did not win.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
They don't lose games like this, well they did, They
just lost the Chiefs just lost. But the moment that
was the turning point was when they showed up to
the stadium and the Eagles stomped all over. That's an understatement,
a domination situation. And do not let the garbage time
numbers in the fourth quarter sway the outcome. I mean,
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I don't have to say you didn't watch the game,
but maybe you tuned it out. And a lot of
people watched the Super Bowl at parties. It's a social
event and you're not really paying that close attention. Well,
if you weren't paying close attention, you say, well, what
happened twenty to twenty two?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Mahomes?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
You know, had some made some plays? Well, yeah he did.
When the game was over. The game was over, he
made made a few plays. That was take out the
trash time out. Now the last word here, So what
adjustments could Andy Reid have made better? Shall we say
better adjustments in Super Bowl fifty nine? So the obvious
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one is, I don't know, it's not that deep r
it's Ockham's razor. The simplest solution is the obvious one.
Don't fall behind thirty four to nothing in the Super Bowl,
thirty four to nothing in the Super Bowl, and the
obvious one is you got to find some early offense,
and there was nothing there.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
And you know, don't tell me all the Eagles.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Washington was able to score against that Eagles defense. The
La Rams scored the ball against that Eagle defense. Kansas
City should have been able to score the ball when
it mattered against the Eagles defense, and they did not.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
So excuse my Yiddish year.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
The entire Eagles offense they were klutzes, that's how they looked.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
And in the early part of.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
That game there, and maybe they passed out before the game.
Everyone took the same stupid pills before the game there.
But they were playing uphill the entire day. They were
playing uphill here, and they really stumbled out of the gains.
It was only seven nothing at the end of the
first quarter. So if you weren't paying attention, because maybe
you were having some of those little appetizers and you
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weren't paying attention, seven nothing, it was not that big
a deal. However, it was actually much worse than that.
The Eagles had one hundred and fifteen yards of offense.
The Chiefs had nineteen at the end of the first quarter.
Several of you pointed out the main thing the Chiefs
had overcome was the curse of Poppy, as our guy
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Poppy picked Kansas City, and I knew I was doomed.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I knew I might.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Pick on the TV show was cooked because of Poppy
and that jinx. And sure enough that played out there,
But the floodgates really opened up. You know, you played bad.
You're like, oh, it's a bad quarter, but you're only
down seven nothing. And then Patrick Mahomes stepped out there
and just kept handing the ball away, and that the
floodgates opened up in that second quarter, and it was
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one hundred and seventy nine yards to twenty three. At halftime,
the Eagles had thirteen first as the Chiefs had won.
It said, well, it was just the box score, but
it actually looked worse than that, watching the game looked
worse than that. If that's if that's possible. All right, anyway,
it is the Ben Malord Show. Here is Patrick maholme.
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This there's some postgame flavor for you. Here's Mahomes on
the many mistakes, mention those negative plays. Mahomes had twenty
of them. Jalen Hurts only had eight. Here's Mahomes talking
about sucking in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Obviously, the turnovers hurt, and I mean I just kind
of take all the blame for that. I mean, just
those early turnovers swing the momentium of the game. And
then they capitalized on them and they scored. I mean
they scored on the one and then they got a
touchdown immediately after. So that's fourteen points that I kind
of gave them. And it's hard to come back from
that and the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
And you didn't.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
You didn't come back, all right, But wait, there's more.
Here's Mahomes and he wants you to know that this
is going to follow him around. He is going to
turn a negative into a positive.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Anytime he lose the Super Bowl, it's sort of worse
still in the world.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
They'll stick with you.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
The rest of your career. I mean, these will be
the two losses that will motivate me to be even
better to the rest of my career, because you only
get so a few of these, and you have to
capitalize on these, and they hurt probably more than the wins.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Feel good.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Okay, well, didn't you learn from the last time you
lost in the Super Bowl? The Tampa Bay a couple
of years back. Come on, all right, here's one more
Andy Reid, who is chasing the legendary Bill Belichick and
still on track, Andy Reid, if his health is there
and he keeps going here to set the all time
wins record, he's chasing Don Shula's record. But this is
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about Super Bowl wins, and this was a golden opportunity
going into the game. The Chiefs favored by a point
and a half and could have added another one of
those Lombardi Trophies. They obviously did the opposite. Here's a
Andy Reider what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
We'll learn from this.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Okay, most games here when you don't do very well, Yeah,
you learn from it.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
As a coach, You learn from it as a player,
and you move on. Okay, just keep learning.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
How come the bad teams never like the teams that
suck in the NFL, They never like Tennessee is the
worst team in the NF. They must have learned a
lot this year, the Tennessee Titans, because they had the
worst record, So they must have learned like the Patriots
must have learned a lot also, Yeah, learn from losses.
So I have nothing to say. So I'm gonna fall
back on my sports cliches. That is what I'm going
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to do.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
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Speaker 1 (14:36):
Time to put away that tinfoil hat for another year.
Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
Maler Show. We are in the air everywhere as we
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Speaker 3 (15:29):
Away as the s We're talking about it all night.
One topic radio.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I don't like doing one topic radio, but you gotta
know it it's the biggest event of the year.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
It was the end of.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
The football season and our lead from the Bayou the
biggest stage in American sport. I'm not gonna say the
world stage, because you know, people like their football and whatnot,
But for us, it's this is it right, this is
the be's knees here, super Bowl fifty nine. And I
don't know how closely you paid attention. It's one of
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those deals. There's a lot of people go to parties
and stuff, and it's like a.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Social event and it's about eating.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
It's not necessarily about the game itself, unless you're an
Eagles fan or a Chiefs fan, and so maybe you
were not paying attention. I feel like we did our
good mits for the day. I paid close attention the
entire game, and this was one of those games. If
I didn't have a radio show to do, I wouldn't.
I would have turned the game off at halftime and
I would have said, that's it, let me know if
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the Chiefs come back, I'm done.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
But I stayed. I stayed. I watched the whole game.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
And Wowser's Wowser's, Wowser's Wowser's on his twenty second birthday
Cooper Dejen where they picked six off Patrick Mahomes, Josh
Swtt bird dogging Mahomes as well. The Eagles defense the
birds all over the place and they route Cansa City
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to the tune of forty to twenty two all wop situation,
and they secure the second Lombardi Trophy in franchise history.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Move over Nick Foles and the.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Philly Special, as the Eagles have won again. The dream
of the three pete has ended for Kansas City as
they fail to get or done. So let us discuss
the question what happened to the deep state conspiracy regarding
Roger Goodell and the NFL fixing games for Patrick Mahomes
(17:35):
and Andy Reid and the Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
What happened to it?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
So I've got Ralph Waldo Emerson chewing gum and friendly skies,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a bottle of champagne, something
that the Chiefs did not get this year. They did
not get to celebrate with a bubbly bath as they
were losers. So number I said, Number number that storyline
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about the NFL ringing the games for the Chiefs is
da that would be dead on arrival. A lot of
dumb people have a bitter pill to swallow. But I
know how this works. I know how this works. It's
not my first barbecue. I've been here in the past.
I know how these conspiracy theory things work. Not that
I'm against all conspiracies. This one I thought was lame
(18:28):
from Jump Street. I thought it was lame. But you
are a sucker if you're one of the people that
bought into this, and there's a lot of people that did.
It was always rubbish, as we pointed out using malor math.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
If you actually check.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
The receipts, the calls in close games all season long
were not in favor of Kansas City. There were sporadic
calls that were in favor of Kansas City, but if
you look at the overall data from the season, it
doesn't back up the narrative. It does not. And there's
a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson and I think applies
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to this that people only see what they are prepared
to see, and you also look for evidence to back
up your argument. Right that if you are someone that
believes that the games are rigged in favor of Kansas City,
you're going to look for any questionable call.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
You're going to ignore.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
The data where or the evidence that goes against your hypothesis,
and so it was never a peer reviewed conspiracy theory.
I am convinced of a few conspiracy theories that the
NBA draft lottery was fixed for Pat trick.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Ewing to end up with the Knickerbockers. I believe that
to be true.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I also believe that the power outage at Camden Yards
in Baltimore that happened on one night and only affected
the few blocks around the ballpark on a night where
there was something that happened with Cal Ripken of the
Orioles and a game against the Merriors, I believe that
to be true. Now there's some other one that I
also bought. I believe Kurt Schilling had ketchup in his
(20:03):
sock to enhance the drama for the Red Sox, and
Doug Mirabelly talked about that and told Gary Thorne. I
believe that to be true. But this one I never
bought into. And I like a good conspiracy, I do.
I never bought into it, and it's now over right,
so we can forget about that. And in this game,
there was a questionable call early and if you're watching you,
(20:26):
AJ Brown was called for a push off.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
It would have been a first.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Down for Philadelphia and the call went in favor of
Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
So immediately dumb people, oh, it's rigg. It's rigged, dude,
it's rigg.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Okay, that drove them out. Was short lived and the
entire story was known as gas lighting. People were deliberately
fed false information and that led them to question watching
NFL games even though the outcomes they thought they knew.
They were questioning because of the gas lighting. But the
(21:00):
whole storyline was farming. It was engagement farming. The way
you make money on social media and they'll pay you
on platforms like X is engagement. And how do you
engage people You tell them that a game is rigged,
and dumb people love that and they buy into it
and they're all about it.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Since the Eagles dominated this.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Game one going away, it was thirty four nothing at
one point forty to twenty two only because of garbage time,
the conspiracy theory is completely ignored. Or you do the
old switch or rue right the old what is the
old switcher? Well, they couldn't fix it because it's a
Super Bowl. That's why the game was. It was a
fair game, and that's why the outcome was the way
it was. But either way, it's buried six feet under.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Now turn the page thumbs up or thumbs down on
Jalen Hurts winning Super Bowl MVP on his thumbs up
or thumbs down.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
So after a minus in his long Mallard deliberation, I'm
going to go thumbs up.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
It's a rather obvious that he was going to win
the MVP watching the game the way it unfolded here,
it is an offensive award. As effective as the Eagles
defense was, this is an offensive award. So the fact
that the Eagles offense had really little impact for it,
(22:23):
hardly any impact from sequon Barkley, right, And so you
look at that, and the defense bottled up Barkley, and
they dared Jalen Hurts to make plays to beat them,
and Jalen Hurts made plays to beat the Kansas City Chiefs.
Barkley had fifty seven yards on I think it was
(22:44):
like twenty five carries somebody. He averaged two point three
yards per carrey two point three yards per carry, had
no touchdowns. So bupkis right, the Eagles won anyway, and
they won anyway because of, as they say in the
Chewing Gum Game, double bubble. Now, what was the double bubble.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
For the he Goes.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
It was Jalen Hurts, who was really good. He only
had a few incompletetions I think five incompletions.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Of the entire game.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
He was so effective that that stiff Kenny Pickett was
out there playing in garbage time in the fourth quarter.
And then you had Patrick Mahomes who went to Texas Tech,
but it looked like he was at duke. He was
the duke of Puke Mahomes, And so that was the
double bubble. You had Jalen Hurts good, Mahomes was not
(23:32):
and Hurts the three touchdowns and then Jalen Hurts opponent
there Mahomes with three turnovers, handing points to Philadelphia, setting
him up for the win. And so you do the
arithmetic on that, and that is how Jalen Hurts ends
up as the Super Bowl MVP.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Final point, So, which big name player, which big name
player for the Chiefs suffered the most from tight tuckis syndrome?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Tight took his syndrome, all.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Right, So I'm gonna I'm gonna stay away from Mahomes
is the obvious one. We've already destroyed Mahomes and he
deserves it. The way he played it was unbecoming of
the legend. So I'm not gonna pile on, But let
me spend a few good minutes on everyone's favorite podcasting,
tight End Travis Kelcey, Americus Darling, Americas Darling, Travis Kelcey
(24:27):
writing the Friendly Skies on a plane that I called
the Vomit Comet. He was on the vomit Comet, Travis Kelcey.
He showed up dress like he was ready for Halloween.
Maybe he thought the super Bowl was Halloween, and he
had that seventies style sued on. And it was really
(24:47):
more like a nineteen seventies classic occult classic movie, The
Rocky Horror Picture Show, is what it was watching Travis
Kelcey play tight end. Here he had in the first
three quarters of the game catches for twenty two yards,
zero impact. But now he had had a couple catches
in garbage time in the fourth quarter. But it was
(25:08):
like Taylor Swift was singing blank Space for Travis Kelsey
because he was a blank space on the Bingo card
for Andy Reid.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
And the Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
And there were rumors on Saturday that were likely driven
by Engagement farming, that Travis Kelcey may end up retiring.
Maybe he already did retire. The way he played looked
like he was ready to retire.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
It was terrible.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
So if that's how Travis Kelsey gonna play, and then
let him retire, there somebody else in there who will
actually get the job done because Kelsey did not get
it done. And then we're staying at star level players
who suffer from tight Tuker syndrome. You gotta say Chris Jones,
the defensive star who's a Hall of Fame defensive player
for Kansas City, and you didn't even know he was
(25:58):
on the field. Now he left the game early injury,
but the game was already decided by the time he
left with an injury. And Chris Jones, number ninety five
in your program, but number zero on your scorecard, made
one more play than you and I did.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
In Super Bowl fifty nine.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
He was credited on the on the stat sheet with
one quarterback hit, one, no tackles, no nothing, bupkiss everything else.
Bupkis for Chris Jones, zero tackles, one quarterback hit, no sacks.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
That's Chris Jones. You're the top paid defensive player and
you don't show up. And that goes in line with
their tight end. That goes with the quarterback. The biggest
stars for Kansas City did not show up. Now, to
be fair, the biggest star for Philadelphia did not show
up either, Sakwon Barkley, but didn't matter because Jalen Hurts
was that good.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I want to get your thoughts pulse of the people
on Super Bowl fifty nine at eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. That's eight seven seven nine nine six
six three. Later this hour, we will have Mallard of
the Third Degree. We'll have the Insta Trivia that'll be
coming up for you a little bit later in the
hour as well. We we look forward to that in
the next hour, the Mallor Riddle of the Day. We'll
(27:13):
have that as well. A group of people calling President Trump,
who was at the Super Bowl a Dodger fan.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
We'll explain what that's all about.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
We have the Shotgun Formation, and UH have a weekend
and then some we'll get to all of those stories.
We'll take your calls also comments on x at Ben
Mallor and we will do it next.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
How about that gets Grail? All right? Cool? What do
we have?
Speaker 2 (27:53):
All right?
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Ben?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
So you heard the clip we played earlier.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Patrick Mahomes said that this loss is going to motivate
him for the rest of the career, and on social media,
a lot of people we're celebrating the demise of Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Goat talk. Do you think that no matter what Patrick.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Mahomes does the rest of his career, this will always
be a talking point.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Well, if he ends up tying Brady, Tye goes to
Brady because unless Mahomes can win three in a row,
so it is a setback. But Tom Brady lost Super
Bowl of what three Super bowls tom Brady lost, I
believe during his career, So it's like you can lose
a couple of Super Bowls. But Mahomes has been to five.
He's three and two, which is not all that great.
(28:30):
It's good, but it could be better. So yeah, the
debate will be there, which is good for my business.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Next, Ben, the Lakers trade for the Charlotte Hornets Mark Williams.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I saw this.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
It was rescinded. Yeah, so now Dunk connect is coming
back to the Lakers. Mark Williams is staying in Charlotte.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
Lakers have Jackson Hayes as their center. Yea, what do
you think the best the Lakers can do with what
they've got?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
They could win in the first round of the playoffs
and then they'll be eliminated in the second round.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
What happened to that guy that called up last week's
Mark Williams was the next Will Chamberlain?
Speaker 3 (29:02):
What happened to that guy? Coop? Next?
Speaker 5 (29:04):
All right, Ben, I just need to ask you what
was your favorite Super Bowl commercial?
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Well, that would be from Rocket. That was the one
take Me Home Country Roads.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I was singing along. It was better than the halftime show. Coop,
How did we know you passed this?
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Initions? What I got? I think it was my final answer.
I think that was the one, the final answer that
did it.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Yeah, clearly, Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk
lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at
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here was you talking to sons?
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Here some interesting advice Hold that thun no one's paid
attention to me for ten whole seconds. And if you
don't like it anyway we go. It's the incident advice line.
Who needs our advice?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Well, that would be the team that lost Super Bowl
fifty nine. Can's City Chiefs, Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid.
Any advice to the Chiefs. They were non competitive, down
thirty four to nothing at one point on the biggest
stage of them all, a domination situation. So advice to
(30:18):
Mahomes and Andy Reid after they get their doors blown
off by the Philadelphia Eagles. You're live on the air.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
When you hear my voice at eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. Hello, Line one, you're on the air.
Advice to the Eagles. Line one, Oh, I want that
chef Pat so bad? All right?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Well than a contactor. Line two, You're on the air
at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. Advice to
Paddy Mahomes, Andy Reid and the losers in this sit.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
The lead that come too big to rigs screw the Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Screw the red all right, thank you for that. That
sounded like ferg dog. Line three, you're on the airline three.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
It doesn't matter if.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
To get rid of pennies because you don't want to
slip a real penny. Anyways, it's all CD.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Oh stop, it's TV, it's Hollywood. What do you want,
you loser? Line four, you're on the airline Hello.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
In morning time, Hey, fricking Maryland Patrick mahone saw a
ghost and her name was Serena Wingim.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Oh yes, and half time I saw Serena popped up.
Line one. You're on the airline one. Hello, no more, swifty,
no more. That's it. Let's go to a random line.
You're on the air random line Hello. Advice to mahomes,
Andy Reid and the Chiefs. Random line developed their own
play called the butt Cheek.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Sneak the butt Cheeks. I think you've already mastered that.
Jed who fled?
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Line one, Hello, Line one, you're on the air Hey,
it's line one. I'm just saying hello, Ben all right, Hello,
thank you. Line one. Line two you're on the air
line too. Hello. We are not only the world, we
are the children. Oh yes, it's all about the children.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Line three, Hello, Line three, advice to Mahomes and Andy Reid.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Line three, you got how to go.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Back to Gray school, learned to play poper football.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Oh yeah, that's buddy from Iowa. Line four. You're on
the airline. I know all these people are called. It's
very scary line for Hello, Line four.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Did Kelsey make a hard in the end zone?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Oh see, that was our buddy from the Bay area,
Tony in the Bay. Line six, Hello, line six, you're
on the air Line six is not paying attention. We're
back to line one.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Line one, instant advice line for Mahomes, Andy Reid and
the chiefs.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Hello, all celibratory, Burton noises good to February.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Okay, thank you. Yes, we'll do one more, only one
more of it's good. I'll take credit of not I'll
blame the Cooper. The final call. Instant advice line for
the chiefs. Line four, Line number four. You're on the
airline for go is.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
A painting officials.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
While at the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
There's a guy from made payoff the referees.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Uh man, I remember that guy.
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