March 15, 2025 • 31 mins
Big Ben talks about a flurry of moves in the NFL including D.K. Metcalf getting traded to the Steelers, Devante Adams signing with the Rams, Sam Darnold going to the Seahawks, the Cowboys lone "splashy" signing, Maller's Mountain of Money: Jon Hamm Edition, and more!
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
So our lead this hour as well.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
We'll get started with the high speed Transaction wire, the
sports wire blowing up if you will. Yeah, it was
an actual sound. We had an actual dynamite and it exploded.
A very busy weekend. Now the legal tampering period, which
I always look forward to it. We actually have it
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checked off on the calendar of my phone. It's always
a special time in the Malor Household them in with
legal tampering.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
What fun is that? So it's underway here the next
couple of days.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Free agency this week in the NFL, and musical chairs
and everyone bouncing all over the place here, a lot
of name brand players relocating people we've heard of in
the NFL. The biggest of the bunch, the news that
came down in the last news cycle here. Maybe you
were not paying attention. Dk Metcalf has a new team.
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Maybe you were tuned out, you didn't see it. Perhaps
you missed it. So we learned that the Seattle football
team has said bye bye to wide receiver DK Metcalf.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
As he going? Now, where is he going? Good question?
I know? You know, Okay, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
DK Metcalf will be heading to Western Pennsylvania. He's a
inser now going to the Steelers in exchange for a
second round pick. The deal also includes a swap, the
old swappy swap of draft picks, a sixth and seventh rounder.
Who cares about that? So let us discuss the question
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in the big picture. Did dk Metcalf get what he
wanted in this trade to the Steeers? Remember he and
raised a hullabaloo? Did he get what he wanted? So
I've got pot luck, dinner, whisker, and Sutter's mill, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make a Traduccan. Yeah, that's right, we're
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gonna make it. Just put a chicken in turkey and
throw it all together. Answered Traducant.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
All right, So to taled off here, I'm gonna I'm
gonna shake my head.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
No, no, I'm not to know that. The answer is no,
DK Metcalff did not get what he wanted. Now, that
does not mean that it is a bad situation.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
We were led to believe that DK.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Wanted out of Seattle because they were losers, and they
are losers in Seattle, right.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
We were led to believe.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
That and dead end Street no chance at any postseason glory.
And his wish list, if you believe the scuttle butt,
was he wanted to play for a contender, not a
pretender like Seattle. He wanted an established quarterback. He wanted
a warm weather location. So if that was accurate, that
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that was the criteria. He wanted to play for a
legit contender, not a pretender, warm weather, established quarterback. That
strike one, strike two, strike three. Now, it's not to
say the Steelers aren't a playoff team playoffs. Yes, the
Steelers always known as a fox contender. They're a good
regular season game, they played pretty disciplined football under Mike Tomlin,
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and they end up winning right around the sweet spot,
which is nine ten eleven games that gets you into
wildcard conversation every year, so most of the time they
make the playoffs, they have at least he's the winning
record pretty much every year. However, if you do a
side by side comparison of the Pittsburgh football team to
CANNSA City or even those other folk contenders in the
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AFC like Buffalo and Baltimore, the other teams are a
country mile ahead of where the Pittsburgh Steelers find themselves.
The y Insers, though, here's the biggest issue. They have
no quarterback. DK knows about playing with a bum at quarterback.
He had that stiff Gino Smith, who was also traded
more than that later over the weekend to the Raiders.
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Well can you imagine, say, it's bad enough having Gino
Smith as your quarterback and then imagining the team that
traded for Gino Smith.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Holy crap. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Anyway, the Pittsburgh what I've been to Pittsburgh before, beautiful city.
Not exactly in the Sun Belt, though not exactly in
the Sun Belt. The tropical conditions of Pittsburgh, it is tropical.
If you're coming out of Antarctica or Siberia. It's very
very tropical there. The average temperature in the month of
December forty two degrees and it's not that bad. But
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it snows about half the time, about half the month.
There'll be snow in the month of December. Now, nevertheless,
the malor report card on the DK Metcalf trade. I'm
gonna give the Steelers a B and Metcalf I give
a C minus. The only reason I'm giving them a
C minus here is it's a pot luck dinner situation.
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It's a piecemeal for DK Metcalf, and you have to
take the good with the bad. Now, the good is
you got Mike Tomlin, top coach, one of the top
coaches in the NFL. The really good is DK Metcalf said,
you know what I would like to win. I want
to plan on one weather city but quarterback. If I
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have enough money, I can buy a really nice heater.
I can buy all kinds of bells and whistles and
so it doesn't matter. I can make Pittsburgh tropical. Yeah,
I put a sonic there and it's like I'm hanging
out in Miami. For one hundred and fifty million dollars.
That's the contract he agreed to to stay in Pittsburgh. Now,
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research finds, by the way, research does find that money
can indeed buy happiness. Some people say that's not true.
Songs have been written saying you can't buy happiness. Well,
it's proven you can. The more wealth you have, the
happier you get. That's the reality.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Now, meanwhile, we will now see if this mix actually happens.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
You've got George Pickens on one side, the diva with
the capital D. You've got DK Metcalf on the other side,
who always seems like he should be playing better, like
DK always seems like he should be a better player
than he actually turns out to be the average only
six targets a game the final nine games it would
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turn out to be the final nine games in his
Seattle Seahawks career. And you would assume that if you
do keep Pickings and who trade George Pickens and get
rid of his ass. But if they keep Pickens and
DK Metcalf in Pittsburgh, that's a pretty lethal deep passing game. Unfortunately,
eighty five percent of modern football is not the deep
passing game. It's the intermediate and the short passing game.
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That's where most games are won. They got to get
a quarterback, and I keep seeing people tossing justin fields
out there. I don't get it. The reason I'll get
it is because Justin Fields blows.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Now. Aaron Rodgers makes sense.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Now, he also stinks, but at least he's had some
success in the NFL. Justin Fields no no, no no.
And there's some other names that have popped up here.
The students don't have a quarterback, they do have some
decent at least name guys at wide receiver now furthermore
mentioned DK Metcalf. He's not the only pass catcher changing
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zip codes. The wide receiver known as Davante Adams is
taking his talent somewhere else. If he didn't see this one.
The news coming out that the wide receiver late of
the Jets, late of the Jets later the Raiders. Former
packer has decided that he will doc you sign with
the La Rams. You can ram it all day and
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you can ram it all night. As DeVante Adams gets
a two year contract forty six million.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
It's not really what it appears.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
So question for the esteem panel, does this DeVante Adams signing.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Move the needle for the Rams? So I would be.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Pragmatic on this. You guys, well, you're a RAM for
you think it's a great move. Do you shut up? Okay,
it moves it, but only a whisker. It moves the needle,
but only a whisker. Davante Adams, I'm not gonna sit
here and sing and celebrate and all that, because, yeah,
it had been four years ago and Devonte Adams was
coming to the Rams.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
That would be a different story. That would be a
different story.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Got a new a heated debate with the Great Steve
the saga on his way out of the building. We
have virtual the Sega all night. But he was, Oh,
Devanta Adams can still play. He can play, but he's
thirty two, and generally at that point there's either a
slow decline or a rapid decline for ride receivers. But
I'll give Adams an a plus. I give the Rams
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a seat plus because of the age thing. He's thirty two,
and he did want to play on the West Coast,
So last I checked the Rams.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
You can't get much closer to the West Coast than
the Rams.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
You just go from Inglewood and you just drive a
couple towns over Boom. You're in the Pacific Ocean. So
twenty six million guaranteed for Devonte Adams and for the team.
It's you know, it's only money. It's not my money.
You'll Stan Kronke's got more money than anybody.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
He can afford it. Who cares?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Maybe it gets upset about the money thing. I don't understand,
but it is clear that the Rams believe that Cooper
Cupp has cracked and he can't play anymore. That they
wanted someone who's older but not as injury prone, even
though Devonte Adams has had his share of injuries had
five straight one thousand yard season.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
The Rams identity is defense.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
They've got Puka Naku as the clear number one, and
now Devonte Adams, in his middle age to older age
as an NFL receiver, will slide into the number two.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
The number two.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Chair yeah, will you have a Leprechaun on his shoulder?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
And Stafford, Matthew Stafford will have one premium wide receiver
and possibly too. Devonte Adams as a number two receiver
should be all right.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Last thing, we now moved to the quarterback room of
the NFL.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Money mane mane, Yeah, money, many money.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
The Buffalo Bills, on a quiet weekend in early March, said,
let's pay the man and pay the man they did
and vade pay of the financial game. You see, the
Buffalo Bills have inked Josh Allen to a six year,
three hundred and thirty million dollars contract to play quarterback
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in Western New York. So how does this Josh Allen
massive extension with the Bills compute with you?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
All right? So it computes to me like.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
A paper shredder, because that's what the Buffalo Bills needed
to do this. They needed a paper shredder. From what
I understand, the Bills took the four years that were
left on Josh Allen's contract and put it in a
paper shredder. Is that that's it? And they started fresh.
They said, you have four years left. You imagine what
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other business when you have four years left on your
contract to They say, you know, we want to read
it goes. We just want to pay you more money.
We don't have to pay you more money. What we
feel like paying you more money?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Who does that? Not my business? I know that.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
No, no, no, I don't do that my business. Uh
maybe they do that in your business, but not in
my business. So the NFL, here's the way I look
at Josh add four years left on the deal, and
so now he gets instead of that six years, three
hundred and thirty million, includes an all time record two
hundred and fifty million guarantee guaranteed. So it's not my money,
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and that's fine. Bills want to burn money on Josh Allen,
good for them. But the NFL has discovered and this
has gone on for years, it's been blown up the
last couple of years that they've discovered there's new goal
at Sutter's Mill. If you know about the history of California,
Sutter's Mill is kind of a big thing. And so
the NFL, they've got their pig skin gold rush going
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on right now. And the reason they can afford all
these ridiculous contracts, well, they make money handover fish. But
one hundred and ten billion dollar television deal, one hundred
and ten billion dollar contract in television, and it's likely
going to go up above that. And so this is
a mixed bag situation with Josh Allen. The raining NFL MVP.
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Allen turns twenty nine in the month of May, so
you're giving him, if my math is correct, you're giving
him a contract that will be through his age thirty
five season. So you've got that going for you a
not ideal from a book keeping perspective, though it's not bad.
Now why is it not bad? Because even with Josh
Allen getting this massive amount of money, the highest paying
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guaranteed contract in league history, and he actually will pass
the creepy quarterback Deshaun Watson in a total number of
guaranteed dollars by like twenty million. But Josh Allen not
to get caught up in the minutia. But we're about
to get caught up in the minutia. So Josh Allen
fifty five million average annual value with the Buffalo Bills.
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That is nineteen point seven percent of the salary cap,
which ranks thirteenth among quarterback deals. So it's number thirteen,
which is and when you think about it, it's like
that's he's one of the top five quarterbacks. Certainly has
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his weaknesses, but he's one of the top five quarterbacks
in the NFL. You've got absolute stiffs like Alligator Arms
Murray in Arizona, the creepy quarterback Deshaun Watson, Trevor Lawrence
and his flowing locks in Jacksonville, and Tua Headache Khlova
there in.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Miami who have all all had higher.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Percentages of their contracts against the cap than Josh Allen.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
So from that perspective, it's fine.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
And will the Bills win anything, Well, they've never won
any in my lifetime. They've been close, they've been close,
but they haven't been able to get over the hump.
We'll see and then this will not last long. Josh
Allen got paid and now Mahomes will get new money
and Lamar Jackson and Joe Burrow and they'll just be
passing around money, money, money, all right. It is the
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Speaker 1 (15:15):
So our lead this hour is from the legal tampering period,
which is just really the starter free agency. It's a
bit of a nonsense thing, right. There's a bunch of
players have changed teams in the NFL, and if you
love the transaction. It was an orgasmic kind of a day,
an orgasmic kind of a day here, the feeding frenzy
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of the transaction in the NFL players going here, there,
and everywhere around the NFL.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
All roads, all of them.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Leading to massive piles of pesos, lots of money, money, money, money,
including Sam Doerld, the one hit wonder Sam Darnald, who
has departed the Twin Cities. We knew he was not
going back there. Did you see where he ended up?
I assume you know by now, but there's a chance
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you actually have a life and are not possessed by
the football demons and pay attention NonStop. So if you
missed it, we learned here at Fox Sports Rado that
Sam Donald has agreed to take his talents wink wink,
nod nod to the Pacific Northwest. The former Minutnesota Viking
quarterback goes to Seattle, the team called the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Not a lot of hawk there.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
The Seattle Seahawks get Sam Donald a three year contract for.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
One hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Includes double nichols in guaranteed millions, fifty five million garon
teed and somewhere you heard crying Craig in Seattle, crying,
he was so excited about this move. Seven and a
half million for Sam Donald coming up here in twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
So he gets a lot of cash.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Not the greatest contract for a quarterback, but considering his
very flimsy resume. Sam Donald laughing at the amount of
money that he is getting. So let us discuss the
question what stands out about Sam Donald? Now QB one
in Seattle. So I've got amnesia, Fortnite and cupcake, and
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we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make some amazing gobbagool. We're gonna make
the gobbagool, all right. So ah, the first thing that
stands out It's hard to argue with this point the
stubborn nature of the Seattle football team. You don't want
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to be the team that signs the one hit wonder
because most of the time I'm the one hit wonder.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
One hit and that's all Sam Donald we mentioned. He's laughing,
He's laughing all the way to the bank.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Here.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Fifty five million gar on teed gar, and he didn't
even have the complete season. They had some good numbers
and all that, and you look at his resume of
failure with the Jets, and then he bounced around. His
passport has been stamped at places like Carolina, San Francisco, Minnesota,
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and he went to all those places trying to get
rid of the stank that he had from his time
with the Jets. And all it takes is one sucker,
and the sucker is the Seattle Seahawks. They're the sucker.
And it's confusing because it doesn't seem like they really
are trying to win. They weren't trying to win when
they had Geno Smith. They're certainly not trying to win.
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When you signed Sam Donald, you're announcing to the world
we're out of trying to win. You don't sign Sam
Donald to win. That's not the player you signed to win.
You don't touch Sam Donald if you're trying to win.
But I just love the amnesia aspect of this story
that you're overlooking a clear design deffect.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
There's a defect with Sam Darnald. There is when the.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Game is on the line, right when it's nut cutting time,
you know what happens.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
He pukes.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
He pukes all over himself is what he does a
game on the line. We saw it in Minnesota Vikings
and Lions final game, chance to be the number one
seat in the entire NFL. And what does Sam Darnald do.
He gets a seat in the cockpit on the vomit comet, right.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
There in the vomit comet. Payout hey puked all over
the field, Sam Donald, he did, and.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Then he did it again against the Rims. Now, I
enjoyed that. I like the Rams. I enjoyed when he
wrote the vomit comet against the Rams, and that playoff
game was wonderful. Had his tail between his legs. It
was so good.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
All right?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Now, continuing with this theme of the hour here, but
we turn the page. Have the Seattle Seahawks upgraded, going
from Geno Smith, who they unloaded unceremoniously to the Raiders.
Sit here, take our trash. We'll make it look all pretty.
You're gonna have our trash, and you're going to Sam Darnald,
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So I'm shaving him.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I had no on this.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
This is clearly not an upgrade, and they've managed to
do the impossible. You would think if you got rid
of Sam Donald, there's a very low percented chance you
were going to get somebody who's worse Now I know
the nerds like Sam Donald and anything the nerds like,
I like to go away from in sports. So if
the nerds are on that side, I go away from that.
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But just as a general rule, here you said, well,
the see Us are going to improve at the quarterback position. No,
Sam Donald, It's like the Fortnite emote, the sideway shuffle.
They're doing a little sideway shoffle here the Seattle Seahawks.
And it turns out the sequel is about the equal,
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about the equal. Here Donald leaves Minnesota. And last I checked,
the Seahawks did not acquire Justin Jefferson or Jordan Addison
from the Vikings. And so Seattle is in the process
of reshuffling the deck. And so they got rid of
DK Metcalf. They kicked his ass out of Seattle. He
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was traded at Pittsburgh Tyler Lockett. I guess they said
he was too old, so they got rid of They
fired his ass. And the Seattle Seahawks right now have
Jackson Smith in Jigba.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
And that's it. I don't I mean, I don't make
there's other names. I don't recognize these names.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
They got one guy, they got one guy, and Sam Donald.
We've seen Sam Donald with one guy that can catch passes.
You know what happens to Sam Donald. He starts seeing
go it's Poultergeist here, there and everywhere. It's Poulter Geys
for Sam Donald. And so it's like Seattle's like they
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not really want they don't want to win.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
You don't sign Sam Donald if you're trying to win.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
And yet they don't want to completely embrace the suck,
which I'm okay, I don't like teams that embrace the
suck completely. But it's a very odd situation here, and
it's like not a total demo. They're trying to do
some slight improvements here and there, and they don't want
to tear the whole house down. But there's infestation of
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vermin in the house. And then you've got as vestis
and so there's a lot going on. There's a lot
going on now. Last word, so the Dallas Cowboys, and
normally we were not talking about this move, but it's
the Dallas Cowboys, and we are contractually obligated for obligatory
mention of the Dallas Cowboys at some point through the overnight,
and so I thought we'd just get it right out
there in the open right now, because the Cowboys made
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a move. The Dallas Cowboys made a move. That's right,
Jerry Jones. Ah, we don't need free agency. Oh you
want to bet, Jerry want to bet? Jerry Jones, who
belittled free agency, went out there with a humdinger of
a move.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Now, I don't if you saw it or not.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
The Dallas Cowboys did sign a free agent or agreed
to a deal. That can't sign it until Wednesday. The
Boys are are making a move.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
What did they do?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Well, move over Emmett Smith the new running back of
running backs for the Dallas Cowboys. They have signed former
Bronco running back Javonte Williams to a one year contract.
Way to go, unbelievable. What a bold move by Jerry Jones.
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So does Dallas adding running back Javonte Smith count as
a splash move? That count well only if you're deep
inside the tushy of the Death Star where the Cowboys
practice at there the Death Star. We imagine that Jerry Jones,
when he eventually does talk to the media, will sing
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the praises wax poetic about this running back from the Broncos,
And it's akin to if you have a cupcake and
you want frosting, don't spit on the cupcake and say
you put frosting on it.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
But that's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
And my supporting evidence on that, I will tell you
that Jamonte Adams broke Jamaday Williams rather broke a tackle
on just five point seven percent of his carries last season.
There were only eleven running backs who saw at least
seventy five rushes that had a lower rate in the
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entire NFL. So he's in the bottom percentile at breaking tackles.
But wait, there's more, Ramandre Stevenson to the Patriots and
a journeyman running back Alexander Madison. The only running backs
in the entire NFL we are told who had a
lower rush EPA than Jamonte Williams, who is now a
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Dallas Cowboy. So Jerry Jones continuing to build up that
Dallas Cowboy team.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Oh my, what a move.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
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Speaker 3 (25:24):
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Manuel in Guardina. Welcome, Hey, Benny, Hello, man, he is
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Holy smoke, he's a rambling man. Who do you want
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Hold on a second now, Loraina picked door number one,
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Speaker 3 (25:50):
Go ahead, Lorena number three? All right?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Well you picked Ron, who is also in southern California.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Hello, Ron, Welcome, big Ben.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
How you doing Ron? If I was any better, I'd
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I'm happy to be here. And Ron, welcome here.
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It's the John Ham addition. And we'll get right to it.
So we have time.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Manuel and Guardina your teamed up with me? Yes, you
picked mad men?
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Is that correct? All right?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
These athletes were known for having a short temper. We
need the first and last name, first and last.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Name, and here we go, forty five seconds on the clock.
We're on our way.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Go.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Quarterback of the Patriots to the glory years. He's on.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Yes, MVP for Oklahoma City, played for the Lakers and
the Clippers. He's with Denver now. Yes, a wide receiver
traded from Seattle to Pittsburgh this week. Yes, quarterback for
the Rams in the nineteen eighties. He got happy feet
against the yes uh picked the closer for the Atlanta Braves.
He had problems with the new Yes choked his coach
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out for.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
The Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
In the Yes pitcher for the Cubs, he kept attacking
gatorade bottles and bron y'ah my man, all right, we
got we ran the Barn's that's why you are the
Game show contestant of the Year last year.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Man, well, unbelievable. All right, Ron, it's all over, Coop.
You might as well quick.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
We've got thirty, Rob You're cooked. These athletes all ware
or war number thirty. Are you ready, ron yep?
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Go for it?
Speaker 4 (28:25):
All right, forty five seconds, let's begin splash brother on
the Warriors right now.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Pretty Copton.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
No, the guy who's still on the Warriors best three
point shooter of all time hurt? Yes, okay, this guy
is the all time leading strikeout pitcher.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
No.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Yes, this guy was the running back for the Broncos
when they won the Super Bowl with John Elway. Carl David. Yes,
this guy's son was the kid for the Mariners Jr.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Yeah, but the dada here.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Yes, this guy got a lot of technical fouls for
the Pistons and the Trailblazers.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Nope, the other one. The other one, Jesus on the
other Wallace. Wait, I was offended by that, Justin, and
Cincinnati's offended by that too.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
No, you think it was right, Rashid Wallace. Both teams
played hard by man, Rashid Wallace.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
And all right, well, all right, so that's one hundred points.
So we're back up again, Ron. Would you like Early
Bird Special or the Town.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Special? Early Bird Special? Chop up? All right? The hold on? Hey,
I need to read the description.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
These athletes all won a championship their rookie season. Forty
five seconds? Yeah, how does it feel? Forty five seconds?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Begin? All right?
Speaker 4 (29:57):
This guy is the best point guard of all time
for the Akers? No, yes, the captain for the Yankees,
the captain. Yes, this guy plays from Argentina. He was
on the San Antonio Spurs when they won other championships.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
What's his full name?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
What?
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Running back that got to two thousand yards for the
Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Henry?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Nope? No, all right? Basketball player nicknamed silk.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Yeah, I didn't get enough, did I don't think you
might try to run it up quickly?
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Manuel?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
And all right, all right, these are some of the
best athletes to play in Boston, a city you hate.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
I know, Manuell, but here we go. Uh tight End
a similar name to mine.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
The last name is like a jacket in the In
the two thousand's tight End for the Patriots. No boxer
nicknamed uh Marvelous. Yes, outfielder was very long last name,
a lot of weird letters in there.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
For the Red Sox and the sixties and seventies. No Carl.
Yes we won though we won, so there you go.
Yeahes They called them yaz
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
So our lead this hour as well.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
We'll get started with the high speed Transaction wire, the
sports wire blowing up if you will. Yeah, it was
an actual sound. We had an actual dynamite and it exploded.
A very busy weekend. Now the legal tampering period, which
I always look forward to it. We actually have it
(00:56):
checked off on the calendar of my phone. It's always
a special time in the Malor Household them in with
legal tampering.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
What fun is that? So it's underway here the next
couple of days.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Free agency this week in the NFL, and musical chairs
and everyone bouncing all over the place here, a lot
of name brand players relocating people we've heard of in
the NFL. The biggest of the bunch, the news that
came down in the last news cycle here. Maybe you
were not paying attention. Dk Metcalf has a new team.
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Maybe you were tuned out, you didn't see it. Perhaps
you missed it. So we learned that the Seattle football
team has said bye bye to wide receiver DK Metcalf.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
As he going? Now, where is he going? Good question?
I know? You know, Okay, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
DK Metcalf will be heading to Western Pennsylvania. He's a
inser now going to the Steelers in exchange for a
second round pick. The deal also includes a swap, the
old swappy swap of draft picks, a sixth and seventh rounder.
Who cares about that? So let us discuss the question
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in the big picture. Did dk Metcalf get what he
wanted in this trade to the Steeers? Remember he and
raised a hullabaloo? Did he get what he wanted? So
I've got pot luck, dinner, whisker, and Sutter's mill, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make a Traduccan. Yeah, that's right, we're
(02:36):
gonna make it. Just put a chicken in turkey and
throw it all together. Answered Traducant.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
All right, So to taled off here, I'm gonna I'm
gonna shake my head.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
No, no, I'm not to know that. The answer is no,
DK Metcalff did not get what he wanted. Now, that
does not mean that it is a bad situation.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
We were led to believe that DK.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Wanted out of Seattle because they were losers, and they
are losers in Seattle, right.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
We were led to believe.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
That and dead end Street no chance at any postseason glory.
And his wish list, if you believe the scuttle butt,
was he wanted to play for a contender, not a
pretender like Seattle. He wanted an established quarterback. He wanted
a warm weather location. So if that was accurate, that
(03:25):
that was the criteria. He wanted to play for a
legit contender, not a pretender, warm weather, established quarterback. That
strike one, strike two, strike three. Now, it's not to
say the Steelers aren't a playoff team playoffs. Yes, the
Steelers always known as a fox contender. They're a good
regular season game, they played pretty disciplined football under Mike Tomlin,
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and they end up winning right around the sweet spot,
which is nine ten eleven games that gets you into
wildcard conversation every year, so most of the time they
make the playoffs, they have at least he's the winning
record pretty much every year. However, if you do a
side by side comparison of the Pittsburgh football team to
CANNSA City or even those other folk contenders in the
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AFC like Buffalo and Baltimore, the other teams are a
country mile ahead of where the Pittsburgh Steelers find themselves.
The y Insers, though, here's the biggest issue. They have
no quarterback. DK knows about playing with a bum at quarterback.
He had that stiff Gino Smith, who was also traded
more than that later over the weekend to the Raiders.
(04:34):
Well can you imagine, say, it's bad enough having Gino
Smith as your quarterback and then imagining the team that
traded for Gino Smith.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Holy crap. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Anyway, the Pittsburgh what I've been to Pittsburgh before, beautiful city.
Not exactly in the Sun Belt, though not exactly in
the Sun Belt. The tropical conditions of Pittsburgh, it is tropical.
If you're coming out of Antarctica or Siberia. It's very
very tropical there. The average temperature in the month of
December forty two degrees and it's not that bad. But
(05:04):
it snows about half the time, about half the month.
There'll be snow in the month of December. Now, nevertheless,
the malor report card on the DK Metcalf trade. I'm
gonna give the Steelers a B and Metcalf I give
a C minus. The only reason I'm giving them a
C minus here is it's a pot luck dinner situation.
(05:25):
It's a piecemeal for DK Metcalf, and you have to
take the good with the bad. Now, the good is
you got Mike Tomlin, top coach, one of the top
coaches in the NFL. The really good is DK Metcalf said,
you know what I would like to win. I want
to plan on one weather city but quarterback. If I
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have enough money, I can buy a really nice heater.
I can buy all kinds of bells and whistles and
so it doesn't matter. I can make Pittsburgh tropical. Yeah,
I put a sonic there and it's like I'm hanging
out in Miami. For one hundred and fifty million dollars.
That's the contract he agreed to to stay in Pittsburgh. Now,
(06:08):
research finds, by the way, research does find that money
can indeed buy happiness. Some people say that's not true.
Songs have been written saying you can't buy happiness. Well,
it's proven you can. The more wealth you have, the
happier you get. That's the reality.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Now, meanwhile, we will now see if this mix actually happens.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
You've got George Pickens on one side, the diva with
the capital D. You've got DK Metcalf on the other side,
who always seems like he should be playing better, like
DK always seems like he should be a better player
than he actually turns out to be the average only
six targets a game the final nine games it would
(06:52):
turn out to be the final nine games in his
Seattle Seahawks career. And you would assume that if you
do keep Pickings and who trade George Pickens and get
rid of his ass. But if they keep Pickens and
DK Metcalf in Pittsburgh, that's a pretty lethal deep passing game. Unfortunately,
eighty five percent of modern football is not the deep
passing game. It's the intermediate and the short passing game.
(07:16):
That's where most games are won. They got to get
a quarterback, and I keep seeing people tossing justin fields
out there. I don't get it. The reason I'll get
it is because Justin Fields blows.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Now. Aaron Rodgers makes sense.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Now, he also stinks, but at least he's had some
success in the NFL. Justin Fields no no, no no.
And there's some other names that have popped up here.
The students don't have a quarterback, they do have some
decent at least name guys at wide receiver now furthermore
mentioned DK Metcalf. He's not the only pass catcher changing
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zip codes. The wide receiver known as Davante Adams is
taking his talent somewhere else. If he didn't see this one.
The news coming out that the wide receiver late of
the Jets, late of the Jets later the Raiders. Former
packer has decided that he will doc you sign with
the La Rams. You can ram it all day and
(08:09):
you can ram it all night. As DeVante Adams gets
a two year contract forty six million.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
It's not really what it appears.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
So question for the esteem panel, does this DeVante Adams signing.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Move the needle for the Rams? So I would be.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Pragmatic on this. You guys, well, you're a RAM for
you think it's a great move. Do you shut up? Okay,
it moves it, but only a whisker. It moves the needle,
but only a whisker. Davante Adams, I'm not gonna sit
here and sing and celebrate and all that, because, yeah,
it had been four years ago and Devonte Adams was
coming to the Rams.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
That would be a different story. That would be a
different story.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Got a new a heated debate with the Great Steve
the saga on his way out of the building. We
have virtual the Sega all night. But he was, Oh,
Devanta Adams can still play. He can play, but he's
thirty two, and generally at that point there's either a
slow decline or a rapid decline for ride receivers. But
I'll give Adams an a plus. I give the Rams
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a seat plus because of the age thing. He's thirty two,
and he did want to play on the West Coast,
So last I checked the Rams.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
You can't get much closer to the West Coast than
the Rams.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
You just go from Inglewood and you just drive a
couple towns over Boom. You're in the Pacific Ocean. So
twenty six million guaranteed for Devonte Adams and for the team.
It's you know, it's only money. It's not my money.
You'll Stan Kronke's got more money than anybody.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
He can afford it. Who cares?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Maybe it gets upset about the money thing. I don't understand,
but it is clear that the Rams believe that Cooper
Cupp has cracked and he can't play anymore. That they
wanted someone who's older but not as injury prone, even
though Devonte Adams has had his share of injuries had
five straight one thousand yard season.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
The Rams identity is defense.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
They've got Puka Naku as the clear number one, and
now Devonte Adams, in his middle age to older age
as an NFL receiver, will slide into the number two.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
The number two.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Chair yeah, will you have a Leprechaun on his shoulder?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
And Stafford, Matthew Stafford will have one premium wide receiver
and possibly too. Devonte Adams as a number two receiver
should be all right.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Last thing, we now moved to the quarterback room of
the NFL.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Money mane mane, Yeah, money, many money.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
The Buffalo Bills, on a quiet weekend in early March, said,
let's pay the man and pay the man they did
and vade pay of the financial game. You see, the
Buffalo Bills have inked Josh Allen to a six year,
three hundred and thirty million dollars contract to play quarterback
(11:02):
in Western New York. So how does this Josh Allen
massive extension with the Bills compute with you?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
All right? So it computes to me like.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
A paper shredder, because that's what the Buffalo Bills needed
to do this. They needed a paper shredder. From what
I understand, the Bills took the four years that were
left on Josh Allen's contract and put it in a
paper shredder. Is that that's it? And they started fresh.
They said, you have four years left. You imagine what
(11:36):
other business when you have four years left on your
contract to They say, you know, we want to read
it goes. We just want to pay you more money.
We don't have to pay you more money. What we
feel like paying you more money?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Who does that? Not my business? I know that.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
No, no, no, I don't do that my business. Uh
maybe they do that in your business, but not in
my business. So the NFL, here's the way I look
at Josh add four years left on the deal, and
so now he gets instead of that six years, three
hundred and thirty million, includes an all time record two
hundred and fifty million guarantee guaranteed. So it's not my money,
(12:12):
and that's fine. Bills want to burn money on Josh Allen,
good for them. But the NFL has discovered and this
has gone on for years, it's been blown up the
last couple of years that they've discovered there's new goal
at Sutter's Mill. If you know about the history of California,
Sutter's Mill is kind of a big thing. And so
the NFL, they've got their pig skin gold rush going
(12:35):
on right now. And the reason they can afford all
these ridiculous contracts, well, they make money handover fish. But
one hundred and ten billion dollar television deal, one hundred
and ten billion dollar contract in television, and it's likely
going to go up above that. And so this is
a mixed bag situation with Josh Allen. The raining NFL MVP.
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Allen turns twenty nine in the month of May, so
you're giving him, if my math is correct, you're giving
him a contract that will be through his age thirty
five season. So you've got that going for you a
not ideal from a book keeping perspective, though it's not bad.
Now why is it not bad? Because even with Josh
Allen getting this massive amount of money, the highest paying
(13:23):
guaranteed contract in league history, and he actually will pass
the creepy quarterback Deshaun Watson in a total number of
guaranteed dollars by like twenty million. But Josh Allen not
to get caught up in the minutia. But we're about
to get caught up in the minutia. So Josh Allen
fifty five million average annual value with the Buffalo Bills.
(13:47):
That is nineteen point seven percent of the salary cap,
which ranks thirteenth among quarterback deals. So it's number thirteen,
which is and when you think about it, it's like
that's he's one of the top five quarterbacks. Certainly has
(14:07):
his weaknesses, but he's one of the top five quarterbacks
in the NFL. You've got absolute stiffs like Alligator Arms
Murray in Arizona, the creepy quarterback Deshaun Watson, Trevor Lawrence
and his flowing locks in Jacksonville, and Tua Headache Khlova
there in.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Miami who have all all had higher.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Percentages of their contracts against the cap than Josh Allen.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
So from that perspective, it's fine.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
And will the Bills win anything, Well, they've never won
any in my lifetime. They've been close, they've been close,
but they haven't been able to get over the hump.
We'll see and then this will not last long. Josh
Allen got paid and now Mahomes will get new money
and Lamar Jackson and Joe Burrow and they'll just be
passing around money, money, money, all right. It is the
(14:53):
Ben Mahler Show. If you would like to be part
of this, you can join us right now as we
open up the lines for the new week and jump
right in.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
If you want to do a belly whopper, Yeah, belly
whopper would be great.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
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Speaker 1 (15:15):
So our lead this hour is from the legal tampering period,
which is just really the starter free agency. It's a
bit of a nonsense thing, right. There's a bunch of
players have changed teams in the NFL, and if you
love the transaction. It was an orgasmic kind of a day,
an orgasmic kind of a day here, the feeding frenzy
(15:40):
of the transaction in the NFL players going here, there,
and everywhere around the NFL.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
All roads, all of them.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Leading to massive piles of pesos, lots of money, money, money, money,
including Sam Doerld, the one hit wonder Sam Darnald, who
has departed the Twin Cities. We knew he was not
going back there. Did you see where he ended up?
I assume you know by now, but there's a chance
(16:11):
you actually have a life and are not possessed by
the football demons and pay attention NonStop. So if you
missed it, we learned here at Fox Sports Rado that
Sam Donald has agreed to take his talents wink wink,
nod nod to the Pacific Northwest. The former Minutnesota Viking
quarterback goes to Seattle, the team called the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Not a lot of hawk there.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
The Seattle Seahawks get Sam Donald a three year contract for.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
One hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Includes double nichols in guaranteed millions, fifty five million garon
teed and somewhere you heard crying Craig in Seattle, crying,
he was so excited about this move. Seven and a
half million for Sam Donald coming up here in twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
So he gets a lot of cash.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Not the greatest contract for a quarterback, but considering his
very flimsy resume. Sam Donald laughing at the amount of
money that he is getting. So let us discuss the
question what stands out about Sam Donald? Now QB one
in Seattle. So I've got amnesia, Fortnite and cupcake, and
(17:32):
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make some amazing gobbagool. We're gonna make
the gobbagool, all right. So ah, the first thing that
stands out It's hard to argue with this point the
stubborn nature of the Seattle football team. You don't want
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to be the team that signs the one hit wonder
because most of the time I'm the one hit wonder.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
One hit and that's all Sam Donald we mentioned. He's laughing,
He's laughing all the way to the bank.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Here.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Fifty five million gar on teed gar, and he didn't
even have the complete season. They had some good numbers
and all that, and you look at his resume of
failure with the Jets, and then he bounced around. His
passport has been stamped at places like Carolina, San Francisco, Minnesota,
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and he went to all those places trying to get
rid of the stank that he had from his time
with the Jets. And all it takes is one sucker,
and the sucker is the Seattle Seahawks. They're the sucker.
And it's confusing because it doesn't seem like they really
are trying to win. They weren't trying to win when
they had Geno Smith. They're certainly not trying to win.
(18:53):
When you signed Sam Donald, you're announcing to the world
we're out of trying to win. You don't sign Sam
Donald to win. That's not the player you signed to win.
You don't touch Sam Donald if you're trying to win.
But I just love the amnesia aspect of this story
that you're overlooking a clear design deffect.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
There's a defect with Sam Darnald. There is when the.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Game is on the line, right when it's nut cutting time,
you know what happens.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
He pukes.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
He pukes all over himself is what he does a
game on the line. We saw it in Minnesota Vikings
and Lions final game, chance to be the number one
seat in the entire NFL. And what does Sam Darnald do.
He gets a seat in the cockpit on the vomit comet, right.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
There in the vomit comet. Payout hey puked all over
the field, Sam Donald, he did, and.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Then he did it again against the Rims. Now, I
enjoyed that. I like the Rams. I enjoyed when he
wrote the vomit comet against the Rams, and that playoff
game was wonderful. Had his tail between his legs. It
was so good.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
All right?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Now, continuing with this theme of the hour here, but
we turn the page. Have the Seattle Seahawks upgraded, going
from Geno Smith, who they unloaded unceremoniously to the Raiders.
Sit here, take our trash. We'll make it look all pretty.
You're gonna have our trash, and you're going to Sam Darnald,
(20:28):
So I'm shaving him.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I had no on this.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
This is clearly not an upgrade, and they've managed to
do the impossible. You would think if you got rid
of Sam Donald, there's a very low percented chance you
were going to get somebody who's worse Now I know
the nerds like Sam Donald and anything the nerds like,
I like to go away from in sports. So if
the nerds are on that side, I go away from that.
(20:53):
But just as a general rule, here you said, well,
the see Us are going to improve at the quarterback position. No,
Sam Donald, It's like the Fortnite emote, the sideway shuffle.
They're doing a little sideway shoffle here the Seattle Seahawks.
And it turns out the sequel is about the equal,
(21:13):
about the equal. Here Donald leaves Minnesota. And last I checked,
the Seahawks did not acquire Justin Jefferson or Jordan Addison
from the Vikings. And so Seattle is in the process
of reshuffling the deck. And so they got rid of
DK Metcalf. They kicked his ass out of Seattle. He
(21:33):
was traded at Pittsburgh Tyler Lockett. I guess they said
he was too old, so they got rid of They
fired his ass. And the Seattle Seahawks right now have
Jackson Smith in Jigba.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
And that's it. I don't I mean, I don't make
there's other names. I don't recognize these names.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
They got one guy, they got one guy, and Sam Donald.
We've seen Sam Donald with one guy that can catch passes.
You know what happens to Sam Donald. He starts seeing
go it's Poultergeist here, there and everywhere. It's Poulter Geys
for Sam Donald. And so it's like Seattle's like they
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not really want they don't want to win.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
You don't sign Sam Donald if you're trying to win.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
And yet they don't want to completely embrace the suck,
which I'm okay, I don't like teams that embrace the
suck completely. But it's a very odd situation here, and
it's like not a total demo. They're trying to do
some slight improvements here and there, and they don't want
to tear the whole house down. But there's infestation of
(22:37):
vermin in the house. And then you've got as vestis
and so there's a lot going on. There's a lot
going on now. Last word, so the Dallas Cowboys, and
normally we were not talking about this move, but it's
the Dallas Cowboys, and we are contractually obligated for obligatory
mention of the Dallas Cowboys at some point through the overnight,
and so I thought we'd just get it right out
there in the open right now, because the Cowboys made
(22:59):
a move. The Dallas Cowboys made a move. That's right,
Jerry Jones. Ah, we don't need free agency. Oh you
want to bet, Jerry want to bet? Jerry Jones, who
belittled free agency, went out there with a humdinger of
a move.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Now, I don't if you saw it or not.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
The Dallas Cowboys did sign a free agent or agreed
to a deal. That can't sign it until Wednesday. The
Boys are are making a move.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
What did they do?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Well, move over Emmett Smith the new running back of
running backs for the Dallas Cowboys. They have signed former
Bronco running back Javonte Williams to a one year contract.
Way to go, unbelievable. What a bold move by Jerry Jones.
(23:50):
So does Dallas adding running back Javonte Smith count as
a splash move? That count well only if you're deep
inside the tushy of the Death Star where the Cowboys
practice at there the Death Star. We imagine that Jerry Jones,
when he eventually does talk to the media, will sing
(24:11):
the praises wax poetic about this running back from the Broncos,
And it's akin to if you have a cupcake and
you want frosting, don't spit on the cupcake and say
you put frosting on it.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
But that's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
And my supporting evidence on that, I will tell you
that Jamonte Adams broke Jamaday Williams rather broke a tackle
on just five point seven percent of his carries last season.
There were only eleven running backs who saw at least
seventy five rushes that had a lower rate in the
(24:47):
entire NFL. So he's in the bottom percentile at breaking tackles.
But wait, there's more, Ramandre Stevenson to the Patriots and
a journeyman running back Alexander Madison. The only running backs
in the entire NFL we are told who had a
lower rush EPA than Jamonte Williams, who is now a
(25:11):
Dallas Cowboy. So Jerry Jones continuing to build up that
Dallas Cowboy team.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Oh my, what a move.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
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Speaker 3 (25:24):
All right, that's welcome our contestants.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
We have Manuel in Guardina, who's going me off, going
to play Hello?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Manuel in Guardina. Welcome, Hey, Benny, Hello, man, he is
bossor Scott?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Still talking? That guy rambles man?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Holy smoke, he's a rambling man. Who do you want
to partner up with? Manuel? Quickly? Please? All right? Well
that's a good choice. All right, very good.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Hold on a second now, Loraina picked door number one,
door number two or door number three?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Go ahead, Lorena number three? All right?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Well you picked Ron, who is also in southern California.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Hello, Ron, Welcome, big Ben.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
How you doing Ron? If I was any better, I'd
be sleeping, But I'm not. I'm here talking, which is fine.
I'm happy to be here. And Ron, welcome here.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
It sounds like you're driving around, is that correct? Yeah,
I'm way home from work, all right? Ver? And what
kind of work do you do in the health food?
All right? Coop? Yes, no, it's not for we've learned
enough about all.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Right, coop does not care about you. You're gonna play
with the coop? And what are the categories?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Quickly?
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
All right?
Speaker 4 (26:25):
This is the John Hamm edition. He turned fifty four yesterday.
Categories are early Bird, Special, mad Men, the Town, and
thirty Rock.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Manuel, you were on first? Which category would you like
you know, we're going mad man? All right? And Ron,
how about you? All right? All right? Everyone, hold on,
we're gonna have Malo's amount of money. It's entirety. We'll
get to that. We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio
dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to
listen live. Now, Mailer's Mountain of money? Do you have
what it takes to get to the top? Probably not.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
It's the John Ham addition. And we'll get right to it.
So we have time.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Manuel and Guardina your teamed up with me? Yes, you
picked mad men?
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Is that correct? All right?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
These athletes were known for having a short temper. We
need the first and last name, first and last.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Name, and here we go, forty five seconds on the clock.
We're on our way.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Go.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Quarterback of the Patriots to the glory years. He's on.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Yes, MVP for Oklahoma City, played for the Lakers and
the Clippers. He's with Denver now. Yes, a wide receiver
traded from Seattle to Pittsburgh this week. Yes, quarterback for
the Rams in the nineteen eighties. He got happy feet
against the yes uh picked the closer for the Atlanta Braves.
He had problems with the new Yes choked his coach
(27:57):
out for.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
The Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
In the Yes pitcher for the Cubs, he kept attacking
gatorade bottles and bron y'ah my man, all right, we
got we ran the Barn's that's why you are the
Game show contestant of the Year last year.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Man, well, unbelievable. All right, Ron, it's all over, Coop.
You might as well quick.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
We've got thirty, Rob You're cooked. These athletes all ware
or war number thirty. Are you ready, ron yep?
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Go for it?
Speaker 4 (28:25):
All right, forty five seconds, let's begin splash brother on
the Warriors right now.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Pretty Copton.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
No, the guy who's still on the Warriors best three
point shooter of all time hurt? Yes, okay, this guy
is the all time leading strikeout pitcher.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
No.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Yes, this guy was the running back for the Broncos
when they won the Super Bowl with John Elway. Carl David. Yes,
this guy's son was the kid for the Mariners Jr.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Yeah, but the dada here.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Yes, this guy got a lot of technical fouls for
the Pistons and the Trailblazers.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Nope, the other one. The other one, Jesus on the
other Wallace. Wait, I was offended by that, Justin, and
Cincinnati's offended by that too.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
No, you think it was right, Rashid Wallace. Both teams
played hard by man, Rashid Wallace.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
And all right, well, all right, so that's one hundred points.
So we're back up again, Ron. Would you like Early
Bird Special or the Town.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Special? Early Bird Special? Chop up? All right? The hold on? Hey,
I need to read the description.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
These athletes all won a championship their rookie season. Forty
five seconds? Yeah, how does it feel? Forty five seconds?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Begin? All right?
Speaker 4 (29:57):
This guy is the best point guard of all time
for the Akers? No, yes, the captain for the Yankees,
the captain. Yes, this guy plays from Argentina. He was
on the San Antonio Spurs when they won other championships.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
What's his full name?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
What?
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Running back that got to two thousand yards for the
Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Henry?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Nope? No, all right? Basketball player nicknamed silk.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Yeah, I didn't get enough, did I don't think you
might try to run it up quickly?
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Manuel?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
And all right, all right, these are some of the
best athletes to play in Boston, a city you hate.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
I know, Manuell, but here we go. Uh tight End
a similar name to mine.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
The last name is like a jacket in the In
the two thousand's tight End for the Patriots. No boxer
nicknamed uh Marvelous. Yes, outfielder was very long last name,
a lot of weird letters in there.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
For the Red Sox and the sixties and seventies. No Carl.
Yes we won though we won, so there you go.
Yeahes They called them yaz
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