Hour 1 - Parting of the Parsons

Ben Maller talks about who won the Micah Parsons trade from the Cowboys to the Packers, how you decode Jerry Jones saying the Parsons trade was in the "best interest" of the Cowboys organization, how Parsons' back tightness will affect the Packers, and more!

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that together. Slug But here now our number one. Who
won the Micah Parsons Trade? Cowboys or Packers? How did
you decode Jerry Jones saying that Michah Parsons trade was
the in the best interest of the Cowboys organization for
the future and this season and now that he's headed
to Green Bay, how is Micah Parson's back tightness going

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to affect the Packers? Wink wink, nod nod. It's all
there for you. In our number one, the parting of
the Parsons Welcome in the beginning of another night of
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lead this hour right to Jerry's world and you know,
if you're with me most nights or even maybe once

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in a while, I generally do not talk about the
same story every hour. I don't do that. There's some
people that do this for a living. They do one
topic and they do a three hour show and they
repeat the same thing. It's the lazy river of sports radio.
I haven't done that very well often because I think

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it's terrible. It's a bad listen. Uh, that's number one.
Number two. I would get bored. I would I would
be bored. I'm not bored with this, and so I
think there's a lot to it. You know, I got
in the radio. I went to clown sportscaster Clown College,
and they teach you about the topic tree. You know,
you got to do a talk radio show. You have

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to have the topic tree, and you have all the
branches of the tree and all there's a lot of
branches to the tree, and so there's there's enough meat
on the bone that we it's not a small turkey.
It's it's it's not a small turkey, it's a big turkey.
There's a lot to the turkey, and we're gonna talk
about the turkey most of the night. Now you can

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call up and rant and rave about other things. There's
some other stuff I'll get to throughout the show, but
I'm just setting it up. So we have a resolution.
We have a resolution to the NFL cold war between
Jerry Jones and Micah Parsons. I assume you've heard by now,
maybe you knew something was going to happen. They've been
at loggerheads for a while. The other players that were

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bitching about their contracts, they agreed to to either new deals,
like Washington Commanders and their wide receiver Terry McLaurin. The
Cincinnati Bengals gave Trey Hendrickson a raise. But there was
one left party of one party of one That would
be Micah Parsons, who is never going to wear the

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Dallas Cowboy uniform again. Bye bye. Parsons headed to the
Green Bay Packers in a blockbuster trade, leaving America's team
following a month's long, highly publicized, highly talked about contract dispute.
So what did Dallas get? Well, Packers got some Powerball

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Powerball cards. They got that couple first round picks one
in twenty twenty six, one in twenty twenty seven, and
they also acquired a defensive tackle you've never heard of
named Kenny Clark, Yeah, Kenny Clark. And they give up
Michael Parsons, who agreed immediately cite unseen to a contract

(05:14):
extension to live in Wisconsin and have a big cheshire
Cat smile on his face. We are told that Parsons
and the Packers have agreed to a record setting contract
one hundred and eighty eight million dollars over four years.
That's a good money if you can get it. Now
we know these contracts are for Gayzy. The total amounts,

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how much is guaranteed? So for that it's one hundred
and twenty million dollars guaranteed. So Michaeh. Parsons will be
buying dinner. And what does that mean in the big picture?
It means that Parsons has become the highest paid non
quarterback in NFL history, highest paid. So what you get
a couple of sacks a game for that? That's what?

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What is that per game? I don't have the math
on the per game salary, but just per sack. Let's
say he gets I don't know, fifteen sacks this year
and he's but he's making forty five forty seven million
something like that. There you go, all right, So let
us discuss the question who is in the winners circle

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on the Micah Parsons trade from the Cowboys to the Packers.
So my thoughts on this, I've got Pirouet, Cotton Candy,
and Walgreens and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make some delicious, crunchy tacos.
My friend back in the day, so those are gringo tacos,

(06:40):
but we're gonna make them now because I like him. Yeah,
So a listen, this is not that hard. We're not
talking about open heart surgery here. We're not talking about
something complex. We're talking about sports. The Green Bay Packers
did just did something they weren't supposed to do at
a time they weren't supposed to do it. This is
something they never do. Now, some of you said, oh,

(07:01):
you got a wrong, Ben, you got it wrong. Okay,
the take was the proper take. And the reason that
this Micah Parsons trade is so outrageous is because that
was the proper take. I nailed the take. I got
amazing credit for that take. That was an amazing take.
I dotted the eye on the take. But the Packer said,
screw the take. We're gonna change it up. We're gonna

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go to Vegas. We're gonna bet the house. We're gonna
gonna go down to Fremont Street, one of those sleazy
hotels on Fremont Street. We're gonna put all the chips
in the middle. And they got a guy who, in theory, again,
in theory, is good enough to elevate the Green Bay Packers,
who were a playoff team last year. Now I have
my doubts. We'll get to that as we go through

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the night. But if you check out the Richter scale
on the Micah Parsons trade from Dallas to Green Bay,
this is not just your normal transaction. This is a
full blown I call it a cheese quake. In titled USA,
the Green Bay Packers, those buttoned up, conservative draft and

(08:05):
developed monks of the NFL monastery, just ripped off the road.
They shrutted down the catwalk and shouted f them picks,
and they did a little piraauet like they were at
fashion Week in Perie, a little parrouete right there on
the catwalk. And talk about a bizarro world situation. The

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last team you would think would do this would be
the Green Bay Packers. And here we are right and
to repeat for those of you in the back of
the room, they're a little slow. The Packers don't do splash,
they don't they don't do drama. They don't do one
hundred and eighty eight million dollar contracts with one hundred
and twenty million dollars guaranteed. They do quiet draft nights

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and passive aggressive news conferences. But now are they having
a midlife crisis at lambeau Field? Are they the person
in the middle of life going out and buying h
Cherry read Ferrari. They're dancing with Michaeh Parsons and they're
doing it with a lampshade on their head, dancing on
the table, yelling we're all in, baby, We're all in. Okay. Well,

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hopefully Jordan Love doesn't ride the vomit comet, and he
certainly regressed the somewhat last year for the Green Bay Packers.
Now page two. So Jerry Jones addressed the media following
the Micah Parson's trade. We're gonna take a lot of
quotes out of this as we work our way through
the overnight. Jerry is always good with the sound bites
and so one of the things that stood out Jerry

(09:35):
said that quote. We did think it was the bet
in the best interest of our organization for the future
and this season as well. Apparently the editing department did
not put any sound in, but that's what he said.
So how do you decode Jerry Jones saying that Michael
Parsons trade, the Michael Parsons trade was in the best interest,

(09:59):
he said, best interest of the Cowboys organization for the
future and this season. So I'll tell you how I
d Coode that this is known as pre packaged. It's
a pre packaged line. We've heard it hundreds of times
over the years. It's not an answer. It's a stock
thing that you're right on a on a card like

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a birthday card or a Hallmark card. You could slap
that line on literally any move the Cowboys make. It's
one size fits all, that line. The Dallas Cowboys could
have traded Michael Parsons to the Green Bay Packers and
they could have acquired you know, you know, a beer vendor,

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or they could have traded the guys selling the hot dogs.
Whatever they would have done, it doesn't matter. It's always
in the best interest of the organization. If Jerry Jones
decides to take a bowel movement, it's in the best
interest to the cowboy organization. It's a fortune cookie answer
you op. It's the same message every time. And listen,

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I understand, I understand. We talk about this seemingly every
other night. Jerry Jones is like a carnye and he's
coming to town and he's running the cotton candy machine,
the carney, and he's spinning sugar. And there's really nothing
of substance there, just a sticky mess that dissolves the
second you put it in your mouth. It just vanishes.
But the best interest means absolutely nothing, and the best

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means as good as all the rest. We say that
all the time. It's like saying, hey, the sun will
rise in a few hours from now in the east. Okay,
thank you very much, appreciate that. So Jerry Jones is
obviously not explaining what he is doing. He's a salesman.
Jerry is selling. He's the guy at the state fair yelling,

(11:52):
yelling at you. Hey, this is a two headed goat,
two headed come see the two headed goat. The future
of farming is here a two headed goat. That's it.
That's true. So you're you're supposed to walk away dazzled,
not actually informed, but just dazzled with Jerry Jones. All right, now,

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last word here, So this is my favorite part of
all of this, the health of Micah Parsons. You might
remember earlier this week, state sponsored NFL media told us
that Micah Parsons was frantically trying to leave the Dallas
Airport and he was desperately seeking a second opinion. I'm
my aching back. Holy crap, my god. The guy's got

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a chronic back injury. He needed to see another doctor.
So the Cowboys had Parsons undergo an MRI on his
back over the week, and the result said the back
was pretty clean. Suppose, so Parsons was, for lack of
a better term, doctor shopping to find a friendly doctor

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that would sign off on his back being all up
so he could miss games. So, now that Micah Parsons
is headed to Green Bay, how is parsons back tightness
going to affect the Packers? Should they be worried? Should
they be concerned at Lambo that Micah Parsons has damaged

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goods that they just traded, not one but two first
round picks to get Micah Parsons, and he's got a
bad back. So this trade from Green Bay or two
Green Bay from Dallas. The deal is like a trip
to Walgreens for meds. You don't need to get a
quarter zone shot. Forget about that. No quarter zone shot.

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You don't need physical therapy, you don't need an ice bath,
you don't need any of that. Because we've determined, after
years and years of research doing talk radio, that the
greatest anti inflammatory known to mankind is money. Money, money.
Oh yeah, you know it, right, you right, you write

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one of those big cartoon checks for one hundred and
twenty million gairon teed guaranteed, and all of a sudden,
Micah is hopping around like he's on a pogo stick,
like he's in one of those one of those temper
pedic commercials. You know, Oh, I'm feeling great. The thing
that this is, and it's a classic story as old

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as time in professional sports, players disgruntled players, not happy,
and so they fake an injury, They lie about an injury.
That's what Michael Parsons did. He's a liar. Michael Parsons
is a liar, and this is a it's a Manny
Wood situation. I would say in my life working in
radio and talking about athletes, that is the single greatest

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I'm faking an injury story of all time. So years ago,
the Red Sox had this guy named Manny Ramirez, was
a good player. You know, he's kind of a looney tune.
And Manny was upset with the Red Sox so famously
it's a great story. So he complained, oh my aching,
Manny Ramirez complained, and he actually missed a couple of

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Red Sox games. And then in the clubhouse at Finway,
one of the reporters went up to man and said,
you know which which knee is is bothering you? And
Manny was gobsmacked. He could not remember which knee was
hurting because he made it up. So the Red Sox doctors,

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I remember the story, they had to They had to
have him have MRIs on both his knees and it
was all it was all scam. It was all scam.
Much like back tightness. Remember when I covered the NBA
years ago, years ago, and the go to injury if
a guy was out too late, boozing it up and
chasing chicks was a lower back injury. If they were

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hung over and couldn't play on the back to back,
they'd say they had a lower back injury. Because there's
really no test for a lower back injury, and so
back tightness, I would assume that's the that's the new
term for lower back injury. Like well, if you say
your back shirt, your back shirt, that's it. Really nothing
you can do, and you can take some tests, but
there's really not much for sure. It says it hurts,
it hurts, and all that stuff. Anyway, it is the

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Ben Mahler Show. What do you think about all this?
The big transaction of the day. Everyone's yapping about this,
a little upside down action as Micah Parson's hopping off
the Green Bay and lickety split. The Dallas Cowboys have
already raised the white flag on this season, so we
can just chock up another lost year for the Dallas Cowboys.

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this is the original Recipe radio show, and we're all
about the trade. We're all about to trade big transaction there. Benito,

(20:03):
the long suffering Cowboy fan, is reporting in he's got
breaking news, breaking news, He says.

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The time for the breaking news.

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According to Benito, it is let's hit that button right there, here.

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We go breaking news from Fox Sports.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
All right, breaking news. According to Benito, the long suffering
cowboy fan of the Dallas Cowboys have been eliminated from
the NFL playoffs. So it's unfortunate, but that's bad Benito's report.
Uh spocks Weed says, yay, the vomit comet has been
sighted over the skies of Jerry's world and Eke and Roseville,

(20:39):
Minnesota had a great point. He said, if Parsons gets
to Green Bay and wears number four, he'd be for
Micah with the Packers. No, that's not the joke. See,
the joke is for Micah. Do you know what for Micah? Is?

Speaker 5 (20:56):
Is that another language? I don't know of?

Speaker 1 (20:59):
You don't? You don't know what for mic is? No?
Oh my god? Do you have in your in your kitchen?
Do you have countertops? Do you have? Yes?

Speaker 5 (21:08):
I do do?

Speaker 1 (21:08):
What kind of countertops are there?

Speaker 5 (21:10):
The ones that are kind of tile ish and they
have grout between them.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
So it's not quartz, it's not it's tile.

Speaker 5 (21:17):
Yeah, is for Micah? Like a really nice.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
Quartz that's like a laminate. I think I think it's
a laminate. If I'm correct, I don't I don't do kitchens,
but I believe it's a laminate for Micah.

Speaker 5 (21:28):
Sounds like you do kitchens.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
I spend time in the kitchen, but I don't know
I do the kitchen. I don't know I would do that.
But anyway, now a Reek in Minnesota, we love him,
big fan of the show, although he disappears for like
months at a time and then comes back every once
in a while. He says too much packer talk. Bed
as a Viking fan. I hate this trade. I heard
my quarterback JJ McCarthy started to cry a little after

(21:53):
hearing about the transaction. After hearing Jerry's presser, I've determined
that he is part of the Malord militia. He sounded
like many of your callers. There were some great moments there.
Super Market Steve writes in says, I actually think Jerry
got an A grade on the trade. He got a
defensive tackle who's good against the run, plus two first

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round picks. And ever since Parsons got to the Cowboys,
they've been to the bottom half of the league against
the run. So this is supermarket Steve trolling. I would
bet twenty thousand dollars he had no idea who the
defensive tackle is. In fact, he didn't even mention the
guy's name in this and so he failed to mention

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Kenny Clark's name, a generic name, Kenny Clark. You can't
give the trade an A because you don't know what
the Cowboys are gonna do with the DRAFTI the most
you can give that trade as a C. So the
fact that you're saying it's an A tells me that
you're just a troll. You're just a low level punk troll,
supermarket Steve, that's all you are. Bad job by you.
It's a bad job by you. And is Michael Parson's

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job to stop the run? Or is his job as
an edge rusher to get to the quarterback? What is
his job to get to the quarterback? To hit the quarterback?
That's his job. The argument against Parsons is that he
turtles up in big games, that he's he's hair brawings
what you're looking at, But he does not rise to

(23:18):
the challenge. How about that? That's another word. But he
has some issues and uh and and that's that. So
there's no way you can give it an a trade. Now, No,
stre Denis from Seattle checks in and he says the
Packers deal will end up exactly like when the Seahawks
sent two first rounders to the Jets for Jamal Adams,
a complete disaster. Yeah, the first round thick, the first

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round picks that get traded. It's so it's such a
hack because sports fans are programmed to believe every first
round pick is going to be good, even though year
after year the vast majority of first round picks are
abject failures. Yet when you trade for future first round picks,
the default position is, oh my god, oh we are

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so we are so set, we are so it's gonna
be so great. Oh my god. You know that's the
whole mindset. Uh Azuzah Flynn wrights and says Micah disappeared
in big games. So if the Cowboys hit on those
number one here we go again. If they hit on
those number one picks, they won. Okay. So here's the
problem with Zusa Flynn. I have a talk show to

(24:27):
do today. I have to worry about tonight. I'm doing
an overnight talk radio show today. Right, this is our
Friday show. It's not tomorrow, Ben, it's still late on
Thursday night on the West Coast, but it's our Friday show.
It's the August twenty ninth show. Thank you. Now, I
promise Azuza, Flynn and every other dope that's gonna message

(24:48):
me that if you promise, and you tell the bosses
here at iHeart and Fox Sports Radio, if you tell
my bosses, Ben, don't give any takes, don't give any opinions.
Just wait till twenty twenty seven. Wait till the twenty
twenty seven season ends, which will be in twenty twenty
eight February of twenty twenty eight, because by then the

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Cowboys will have used their twenty twenty six first round
pick and their twenty twenty seven first round pick. Therefore
we'll have a better read on who won the trade. See.
The issue is I have to work every day during
the week and the podcast on the weekends until then,
so I don't have the pleasure of waiting to see
if the Cowboys hit on those number one picks. See,

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let's see what are the chances the coming Now Again,
I am not a Micah Parsons fan. I'm not. I
think he's highly overrated and a lot of that is
because he plays for the Dallas Cowboys. With that said,
though with that said, as the context you look at Parsons,
He's been at times elite Micah Parsons again against some

(25:50):
of the weaker competition in the NFL, has put up
really good numbers, really really good numbers, and then against
some of the better teams, he just he vanishes. He's
just nowhere to be seen and all that. But if
you look at the body of work here, he's a
two time All Pro. I'll bet you dollars to donuts

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that the Cowboys, the two players they draft, if they
keep those picks in the first round, they won't get
two All Pro appearances out of both those picks. And
I can say that, and I can be very confident
because you'll forget about that take by the time we
get to twenty twenty eight. Anyway, all right, you'll forget
about that take. All right, what else do we have here?

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Everyone's got a hot take. Here, everyone's got a hot take.
Let's see page down. Just Josh in the Natty says,
another lost year for the Cowboys, how about another lost decade?
This once proud franchise will not see relevance again until
Jerry's pushing up daisies. There you go, all right, very
positive comment there. King Rory writes in and says the

(26:56):
Packers have officially punched their ticket to the Super Bowl. Boy,
for the most part, the Packers waste their first round
picks anyway, Well, most teams do. Clark is old. He's
not old. He's thirty. It's not old. I think thirty
is old? Is thirty old? Really?

Speaker 5 (27:16):
I'm thirty two.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
Really you think you're old. I don't think you're old anyway.

Speaker 5 (27:23):
And the younger people, uh, well.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
There's always somebody older and somebody younger to get really
old and there's nobody older, and then you know that's it.
And then if you're really young, you don't realize it,
so it doesn't really matter, you know. I said it anyway.
King Roy says, I'll eat my hat if the Packers
don't make the Super Bowl. Make sure you do that
on on camera and send me the clip and wear

(27:47):
a Mallard shirt or something like that when you do it,
and and we'll be good. We'll be good on that. Yeah,
yell me. There is a turd in the punch bowl
for the Green Bay Packer. I yeah, you don't. You
don't like that, And I'm not not really all in
on that Jordan Love. I'm not. I'm not there. I

(28:10):
know some of you guys like to tickle his toes
and wax poetic about how amazing Jordan Love is. Oh
feel the love, feel Jordan Love. Oh my god, he's
so good. I eh, I'm not. I'm not there. I'm
not feeling the good vibrations that some of you people are.
You know who you are, the Jordan Love Marching and
Shoud Society. He had a stretch a couple of years

(28:33):
ago where he had I think it was four or
five games, maybe maybe less than that, maybe game or
two more. I don't, I don't have it. It's just
off the top of my head here where he was
really wonderful, just so so damn good Jordan Love. And
it was like, man, this is the Packers have their guy.
But it was only a few games, and the key

(28:55):
to domination is consistency, and Jordan Love last season was
the you know, he was not not all that great.
Uh And he said, well, the eyeball test. I usually
go by the eyeball test, but if you want to
do the nerd test. But some of you like the
nerd You like the nerd test, you like the stat test,
you like and you cherry pick a stat and all
that said, Well, what about this number? What about Jordan

(29:17):
Love was the nineteenth ranked quarterback in the NFL and
as my consultant in Seattle knows, the great Noster Denas
who we No, he's not a nerd. No, he's a
man's man, although his wife is a vegan. Anyway, a
Noster denis my man. Noster Denas one of my great consultants.
He knows for me average to bad quarterback Gino Smith.

(29:41):
Is it true that Jordan Love Jordan Love actually had
a worse passer rating than Geno Smith last season? That
would be accurate ding ding ding ding ding ding ding.

Speaker 6 (29:54):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Uh, And Jordan Love was worse than Bo Nicks, who
was pretty average for the Broncos. Ouch. Yeah, I mean
this is.

Speaker 5 (30:04):
Just would that make him the best?

Speaker 4 (30:06):
Ben?

Speaker 1 (30:07):
Well, he's the best. He's as good as all the
rest of there. You go, average ferg dog says Jerry Jones.
Did it again, Ben? The Cowboys absolutely fleece the Packers.
Thoose picks. Jerry's getting the band back together, Aikman, Irving
and Smith are going to form Voltron again and win
three more Super Bowls. Scrooge says the Cowboys weren't winning

(30:28):
with Micah anyway. Ceedee, Lamb and Dak need to go next.
Cowboys will never win with them being their top paid players,
says Scrooge. From northern California, while he's wearing his forty
nine er Onesie unless he's not. Ozzie was from Western
Australia rights in and says, hey, Ben, did the Packers
tell Nico Harrison to hold my beer? Or Jerry Jones

(30:49):
to Nico Harrison to hold my beer? On? Who can
make the team better for the future? Yes, one of
the great periods of time to be a sports fan
in Dallas, US. Have we done a wellness check on
the Texas trucker? Have we? Have we done that? Have we?

Speaker 6 (31:06):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah? Uh? Scrooge also says Michael Parsons is an overrated
defensive end. He plays elite for ten games and falls
off the rest of the season, a complete no show
in the playoffs. I doubt he'll be any better in
the frozen tundra of Green Bay. All right, let's go
to the phones and we'll say hello to Enie Meenie,
Miney Moe. Let's go to Bubba. Hello, Bubba, welcome, You're

(31:29):
on the Ben Malors Show on Fox. Hi, Bubba, Hey,
how you doing hanging out as Yeahppen, I.

Speaker 7 (31:37):
Hear it, I hear it.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
Well.

Speaker 7 (31:40):
With the Parsons trade, I mean it's something to where
you look at he's kind of still in his prime.
I think he's twenty six and to what the Green
Bay Packers probably need. They needed dominant, you know, Rusher
Tenny Clark is good, don't even wrong with their past,
Rush wasn't.

Speaker 6 (31:59):
There and hopefully he can bring something to that and
basically that might be the one piece they might need
to get over the hump.

Speaker 7 (32:09):
But also on the offensive side, Jordan Love does need
to step up and get rid of the ball a
little bit quicker because they have a young team and
their window just got a little bit bigger. Because I'm
a Packer fan, but I think that on paper it
looks decent. You just got to put it together on
the field. And everybody has their calendars now circle for

(32:30):
Week four against the Cowboys in Jerry's world, and we
saw the mistakes that Jerry made last season where he
didn't pick up Derrick Henry and he ran all over him.
And I think that with the Cowboys, Jerry loves offense.
There hasn't really been any really good defensive players out

(32:53):
of Dallas. He usually goes for offense. That's why there's
Dak Seedee Lamb. Do you think Elliott offensive guy? So
you're looking at yes, and then they kind of fumbled
the back. I'm not sure we will see most the season.

Speaker 6 (33:09):
Starts, but you know, if it goes sour, then hey,
Jerry made a good, good choice.

Speaker 7 (33:15):
If it goes good for green Bay, then what is
Jerry doing now?

Speaker 1 (33:18):
The pack The Packers won the trade. You know, even
if Michael Parsons only plays twelve games well out of
the year, that's gonna be better. I don't want to
hear about Oh they got draft picks and salary cap space.
It's such a bull It's such a bull craft. Anyway,
I gotta go, but thank you, Bubby the Great Bubba,
not Bubba the love Sponge, but just a guy named Bubba.

(33:39):
They call the show so the name game. People people
up in arms because if you if you were able
to hear or watch some of the Jerry Jones news conference.
He called Micah Parsons Michael multiple times and is being
blasted for this. Jerry Jones, Oh my god, what an embarrassment. Now.

(33:59):
I get people trying to get engagement and all that stuff,
and I understand that a person's name is the to
that person, the sweetest, most important sound. I read that
Dale Carnegie book back in the day like everyone else,
so I get that. But Jerry's done this multiple It's
not the first time he's done this, Like Mikeah. For Jerry,

(34:20):
Mike is not annoyous. He's Michael. He's going to go
default Michael. Here's michaeh. He says, Michael. Not the worst
thing on.

Speaker 5 (34:27):
People think it's like offensive. I think it's really like
a speech thing.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
Yeah. I don't think it was an intentional like at
Jerry's old.

Speaker 5 (34:34):
I just deleted it off my page the other day.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Oh he did. Okay, thanks for thanks for sharing. I
appreciate that absolutely, absolutely. The gambling market, by the gambing market,
which is some often actually sometimes often a pretty good indicator,
not always, not always, but often a pretty good indicator.
The Green Bay Packers getting a huge bumpety bump with

(34:57):
the Betty market after acquiring my Parsons. So will you
have a gambling problem? Damn right, So of course they
they got the better player in the trade. And so
you look at the odds and things improving for the
green Bay Packers. The odds makers made green Bay following

(35:20):
the trade. Following the trade, if you look at the
numbers prior to the trade and after the trade, the
Packers improved. Their Super Bowl odds improved, their NFC Championship
game odds improved, and their division NFC North title odds.
All of those things improved made green Bay is a
slight favorite now to win the NFC North. Oh what

(35:41):
are the Vikings going to do? What are they going
to do? Anyway, it's Ben Ali show. We press on,
we will get to your calls and the whole thing here, Yeah,
the whole deal here. And here's the who am I game?
Since Jerry Jones bought the Dallas Cowboys way back in
nineteen eighty nine, I am the only player that he

(36:01):
traded away immediately after a Pro Bowl season before Micah
Parsons again, Jerry Jones got the Cowboys in eighty nine.
I'm the only other player all these years that was
traded by Jerry Jones immediately after a Pro Bowl season.
Who am I? That is the question? The answer. We'll
get to it. We will do it next.

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(37:37):
right now and now back to it.

Speaker 7 (37:39):
Thank God for the Internet.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Back to it we go, and the who am I Game?
A blatant attempt to get you to listen a little
bit longer. We call it the who am I? Game?
And here who is so? Since Jerry Jones bought the
Dallas Cowboys way back in nineteen eighty nine, I am
the only player, the only one that he's it away
immediately after a Pro Bowl season, prior to Micah Parsons.

(38:04):
Prior to Micah Parsons. That is the question. What is
the answer? James is going with Turk Stevens as his answer.
GM managed in Chicago says Doris Burke, or as I
like to call her, demoted Doris.

Speaker 5 (38:17):
You love her.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
Yes, she got demoted. Apparently I was right stop it. Well,
I think she did. If you're good at your job,
I'll talk about it. If you're bad at your job,
I'll talk about it. Alfie Allena Pino says Andrea Virgo
in service the astrology Insider, Berg Dog says Lorena, who
does not look a day over thirty one, Jason says

(38:42):
herschel Walker. Todd Benzinger from mister nice guy good random
baseball name. Larry McCarron from Donkey Sausage, The Flying Spaghetti
Monster guests by King Rory, the Bambino Babe Ruth from
Scrooge the Raider Fan the Great Bob Villa from the
Real Martin in Denver. Who else do we have? Jonathan

(39:05):
Moxon from Rich Dick, Butt GISs from Ozzy Waz, Cowboy
Coke Snorting Legend, Quincy Carter. That's allegedly from Eloy from Compton.
I don't think allegedly. H oh, it's Friday. Just josh
as Alexa Bliss is the answer. Super Dave Osborne from
The Nature Boy, Tommy Everett guessed by a Riek. That's

(39:28):
it's his answer there. Who else do we have? He
says he cheated. Aileen's going with Charles Haley Eileen in
San Francisco, uh page Dan al Bundy from Spock's Weed.
Yeah's skip over that one. A mod Rashad from Perito

(39:49):
the Perito check in. Jumbo Elliott from Sean in the
Valley of the Son, The Great Jumbo Elliott, the fun
Names the butt Fumble, Mark san Is from.

Speaker 5 (40:00):
Keith I read about that.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
Nor Cal Real highlights of the NFL Terry Porter NBA
Sharpshooter from Big Rig Rob makes a lot of sense there.
Who else do we have? Page Dan is he from Joe?
That's is? Do you have an answer, Lorraine?

Speaker 5 (40:19):
Yeah, I'm gonna go with pickle Rick Ben.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
Pickle Rick, because did you eat the pickles yet?

Speaker 5 (40:23):
No, I'm going to go live and do it this weekend.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
You're doing it live. Who sent the pickles? Do we know? Who's? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (40:28):
King of course?

Speaker 1 (40:29):
Oh King, okay, all right. The correct answer is you're wrong,
and we did have a cheater. The correct answer is
the great Thomas Everett saved you. Thomas Everett a recheated
You got it right? That was That was back in
nineteen ninety four. Nineteen ninety four the last time the
Cowboys traded an all or All Pro Pro Bowl player.