September 15, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Patrick Mahomes saying the Chiefs are "close" to figuring things out after falling to 0-2 with a loss to the Eagles, the latest kerfuffle over the Eagles' tush push, Aaron Glenn taking the blame for not having the Jets ready to play, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome to our number one hour one,
Happy be Happy, be Monday to you. It's the fifteenth
day of September. As we travel around the globe here spinning, spinning, spinning.
We sit up all night to record this podcast on
the Ben Mather Show. So help us out. Thank you
for listening. Tell a friend, and here in hour number one,
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can you please decode the message from Patrick Mahomes that
the Chiefs are quote close to figuring things out. Also,
give me your reaction to the latest kurffluffle over the
Eagles Jalen hurts Tush push as the referees allowed the
Eagles to jump off sides multiple players. Also, how do
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you react to coach Aaron Glenn taking the blame for
not having the Jets ready to play as it looked
like they had just put the team together in the
parking lot, said hey, how would you like to play
the Buffalo Bills. What an embarrassing day for the Jets.
And that's saying something, as you know the Jets of
the day definition of embarrassment. But here it is our
number one, a.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Super Bowl rematch that was lacking the wow factor. Welcome
in the beginning of another week of the Ben Mahlor Show.
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normally we start with the Sunday Night Game. It was
such a dud. I mean, my god, you all told
me JJ McCarthy, all, JJ McCarthy, he's gonna be better
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because he didn't play as a rookie. He got hurt,
and he went to all the meetings and he learned everything,
and oh man, he's so good. The guy blows. Okay,
two games in McCarthy sucks and it's bad television. How
did that game end up in Sunday night football? How
does Minnesota and Atlanta? What a clunker that was?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
In my opinion, that sucked.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
So in an active protest against this malfeasans by the
NFL that's supposed to put the top teams in the
Sunday night window, we're gonna skip over that game till later.
We've got four hours and instead a rematch the game
of the weekend, which also wasn't all that great, but
it was at Arrowhead Stadium in Cannes City, and so
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that is where we will start, and that is our
lead here. As the Chiefs, who have been consistently dominant,
even when they're bad, they get to the AFC Championship game.
They're at the point now where mathematically it's not looking
very good. Two weeks into the NFL season, it's not
looking very good. Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs are zero
and two. They are all and two, which I'm told
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is not good. I didn't play in the NFL. I
know Ryan Clark probably doesn't want me to give a
take on this, but I don't think that's that good.
I don't think it's not good. So oh and two
after losing the much anticipated rematch there on America's Game
of the Week. Don know if you saw this game
or not. We're watching it was everywhere. Not a lot
going on in the late television window. And if you
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didn't see it, well listen. We know the better stories
in the losing locker room, So that is where we're
going to focus here. While it's not the outcome that
is shocking. I picked on Benny versus the pay. We
had to be the Eagles on that. If you watch
the YouTube show, we had the Eagles in that game
on a few things we got right this weekend, So
it's not shocking the Chiefs loss. This is only a
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second time Mahomes has been an underdog at home, and
there's a reason he was an underdog because the Chief's
an't very good. Right now they're owing to Mahomes was
asked about this, he said, well, it's not the start
we wanted. Mahomes said he believes Kansas City is quote
close he said to figuring things out. Quote I know
it sucks to hear it for the fans, Mahomes said,
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but you know what butt means. He said, I feel
like we're close. He said, we're We've got to keep
working and get ready for the Giants next week. All right.
Close quote on that, So let us discuss the question.
Can you please decode the message within the message from
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Patrick Mahomes and as the chiefs are as he says, close,
they're close to figuring things out, all right. So my
thoughts on this, I've got Tutoring, Lightning and Marvel comics,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make some delicious, crunchy taketos is
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what we're going to make. We're gonna make those. So ah,
there's not too deep to dig in this particular commentary
from Patrick Mahomes. He here's what Mahomes is really saying.
Keep it simple, stupid is what he's saying. He's saying that, Hey,
we've got he said it, We got the Giants on
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NBC coming up on Sunday night. That is the NFL's
version of a layup line. That is a pitch and
putt is what that is. That is homecoming opponent time
when you play well. The Giants scored a lot of
points against the Cowboys. How'd that turn out? Yeah, they
scored their quota of points, which means the Giants are
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likely they're gonna go back to scoring I don't know,
seventeen points or something like that next week. That is
a pinata game. You want that game. That is a
well scheduled game. It's show up, collect a win, and
Moms is essentially admitting here that, hey, the Chiefs are
not right all right. The schedule maker, though, handed us
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a gift and that's a nice soft serve cone. That's
a delicious soft serve cone. And so don't worry about it.
We're gonna be back on track here and we'll be okay,
we'll win the game. It's not gonna be pretty, but
we're gonna win the game. That's it. The Giants are
exactly exactly what the Kansas City Chiefs need right now.
And let's not kid ourselves here. This Chiefs offense is lacking.
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They're lacking a lot. I mean they are. It's a
hot mess. It's a stew, and not a good kind
of stew. That's similarly there there there's not a lot
of meat on the ball where dazzle, there's not a
lot of razzle dazzle. Where's the circus sole, the Circus
Act that used to terrify defenses and all that stuff.
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Where's that It's gone? I doubt see it. Do you
see it? I don't see it. Maybe my eyesight's going back.
I do not see it. When I watch the Chiefs play,
I don't see that in the first two games. And
this is a plodding team. It is a paint drying
type team. Offensively, when you watch this team go about
their business, there is just not Eliza Well, they're good injuries. Okay,
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as far as Mahomes saying we're close to figuring it out,
isn't the whole job to figure it out when the
when the games begin, and not a couple of weeks
into the season. Isn't the whole thing to come out here?
You've been around, You've got the championship pedigree and all
that stuff, and you just come out of the gates
and get it going. Well. Andy Reid chimed in on
this big right, Andy Reid, And do you think Andy
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Reid is blaming Mahomes? Do you think he's blaming Travis Kelcey,
or do you think he's doing what every else coach,
every other coach in the world does say I'm the guy,
blame me, I'm the guy.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Let's take its I'll take four responsibilities for the game.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
All right.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I probably said too aggressive on that, and that's my responsibility.
But my guys played their tail off and played hard
and aggressive football, and they stuck together throughout the game,
and they'll pay for us down the road when as
we continue to grow.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
So you're never ever there's a couple of cardinal rules
in sports. One of them is you can never ever
say your team is lazy and they don't play hard.
That is a capital offense, right, that gets you fired.
So even when your team is terrible, you have to
say they're playing hard. You have to say that, but
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you look at the offense. I keep going back to
this paint drying type situation here, but is a lot
of playmakers that are more like traffic cones when you
watch them go about their business. There there's nobody that
really scares you. Nobody that scares you you. Kelsey has
continued to get he's old. He's an old player, and
he's more worried about podcast and is a little lady
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friend that he's gonna marry and that's fine, that's his life,
but doesn't help the Chiefs out right now. You talk
about what he was, not what he is anymore because
he's a shell of what he used to be, and
that's normally how that works. But he's still out there
that can't get rid of him because he's Travis Kelsey.
You got to keep throwing his rotting carcass out on
the field in every game. But you look around. The
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defense is legit in Kansas City, so you figure they
just got to get a little bit more, just a
little slightly more on offense and they can be okay.
But at the moment, and we do the show today
and at the moment, that is a yawn fest. That
is an absolute yawn fest. And let's not gloss over
this that Patrick Mahomes himself has not been good enough.
So well, he doesn't know the playmakers, all right. Wasn't
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it the quarterback that makes the players around him better?
Isn't that always the argument that we make that the elevator,
the quarterback elevates the people around him. And the early
placement exam a couple weeks into the regular season and
Kansas City needs some tutoring, is what they need they do.
The Eagles are a measuring stick game. Every man, woman
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and child knows that. And Kansas City they got measured
and they got weighed and they were found wanting. Is
the way it was right. The game was again, it
was not. They had a chance. They did have a
chance to win the game. And you know the mathematically
in the fourth quarter and you can do the math
on that. But both offenses looked like they were slogging
through the mud. And I didn't see any mud. Did
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you see mud? I didn't see mud. Did you see
I didn't see ny mud? Some of homes saying we're
close and using that line is really like, hey, please,
you loyal minions, you loyal minions. Do not freak out. No, no,
nothing to see here. We've got the Giants, and that's
a feel good opponent. That is a feel good opponent.
When you play the Giants, feel good. But the week
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after that, the Ravens they come a call in at Arrowhead.
So you gotta beat the Giants. You don't beat the
Giants the way the unless the Chiefs get a bunch
of guys back that all of a sudden can run
and catch passes and run through the defense. Then you're looking.
If they don't beat the giants and you're going to
zero four, then's doomsday prophecies. So you gotta beat the
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You've got to beat the giants, and then maybe you're
pulling upset against Baltimore you are at home, but that's
a wood chipper game after that. So yeah, close in
chiefs verbiage saying you're close. You know, we're close to
getting a get well game, get well game. You're close
to that there, and then we get slapped back in
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the face right after that. Now, meanwhile, the story within
the story, you're the subplot from this particular game. I
think you know where I'm going with this. It involves
one of my favorite things to talk about, the tush push.
That's right the touchboard. So instead of everyone focused in
on Mahomes, I started with Ohlmes. But instead of most
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people focusing in on Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid and
even Nick Sirianni, it's all the conversation, all the rage,
all the rage. It's all about Jalen Hurts and the
caboose being pushed. Push the caboose, push the caboose, push
the caboose. Just like that, you're being shoved across the
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line togain the line of scrimmage here. So it was
a famous play. I say famous relatively speaking. In the
fourth quarter of this game, Tom Brady was on the
call on Fox and he still stinks as a broadcaster.
But Tom Brady was crying a foul, crying a foul
about the Eagles offensive line moving early, which is day
obviously did you don't have to have seen the play
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even are blind listeners. No, they moved early. So the
question on this one, it's not just that particular play
that was the ignition point, if you will. So it's
not just that play that was the ignition point. But
the question me your reaction, Give me your reaction to
the latest kurffluffle over the Eagles. Jalen hurts push push,
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as this is now like the swallows returning to Capistrano,
and it's it's a nons It's a story that every year,
every single year, becomes a talking point here and a
couple of times a year. And so anyway, here's Andy
Reid again. Here's Andy Reid his take on what appeared
to be a clear violation that was not called by
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the referees. The Eagles jumped off side.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Stikele is you know, you try to get penetration as
what you try to do and be able to stop it.
That's a pretty rough one.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
You know.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
I might have a couple that they got off a
little early on, but we'll look at that.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yeah, what is there to look at. We all saw it.
You don't have to look at it. You know it's
gonna change anything, all right. So the NFL spends all
this money on replay, and they spend all all this Yeah,
and we got every call right, every call right, of course,
not the human elements part of it was obvious thing.
It's like three guys jumped off sides, at least two,
probably three, and they didn't call it. So on the
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play in question, the obvious off sides. The officials, it
was like Ray Charles and his friends were all there,
as we had Stevie, Meatball's blind Emmett. We had that
guy used to call a show that quits like a
lunatic every other week, Blind Scott. They all did it.
They were all the referees there. Clearly, we had Inker
Terror he was the lead official in this. So the
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Zebras they need to go out to Lens crafters is
what they do here, and a multiple bird brain linemen
who were doing the cha cha cha before they were
supposed to be doing the chat cha cha before the snap.
Of course, people lose their minds. Oh my god, lose
their minds because this was supposed to be America's Game
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of the Week, right, get the calls right, all that stuff,
Mahomes versus Hurts, a Super Bowl rematch for the ages
two time Super Bowl rematch. Instead, it's another mcmillion scandal,
is what it is for the Philadelphia football team, some
shady business instead of stealing the McDonald's monopoly piece, one
of the great documentaries of all time, that mcmillion documentary
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from a few years ago. But Nick Sirianni, Nick Sirianti,
the very pompous, arrogant a hole coach of the Philadelphia Eagles.
They're stealing firsts by shoving Jalen Hurts, shoving his Badonka
Donk over the line to gain. And so it's infuriating
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the many. That's the whole point of this. People are
very upset by this. And here's why, because nobody, nobody
does it like Philadelphia. We've had these conversations the last
couple of years. This thing's been around for several years,
and it's for the Eagles. It's going to Disneyland. It's
the lightning it's the Lightning Lane. You got pay a
little extra four, but you go to Pirates of the Caribbean,
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it's lined up around the block. It doesn't matter. Straight
to the front of the line, right, go right to
the front of the line. There works every single time.
And the Eagles, they are the unstoppable locomotive, the unstoppable
locomotive Philadelphia Eagles. When they run that play, it's a
freebie for Jalen Hurts. And it's shocking how often they
have a third and one or a fourth and one
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right wild. It's like trying to win the electoral College.
They can't get enough votes. Roger Goodell in terms of
they tried to get rid of it the last couple
of years. They came a few votes short. But the
electoral college, too many teams are like, ah, we don't care,
we don't want to get rid of it. And it's
the same old argument. The argument against the torch pushes.
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It's clear, it's it's unsafe, it's unfair, it's ruining the
purity of the game. It's the same argument back in
the day. I've read about in college basketball win for
a few years. In the nineteen sixties, they got rid
of the slam dunk because a guy named Luel Sinder,
who would change his name to Kareem Aldul Jabbar was
a dunking and they had to get rid of it
and all that stuff. But the same exact argument, the
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same exact argument. It's a different decade years later, and
the whining is extreme. So here's my take. My take is,
don't ban it do I like the bottle, love to play,
but I wouldn't ban the play just like I would.
That's the cowardly thing to do. That's what baseball does.
That's what you don't want to be like baseball. Right,
the shift, we gotta ban the shift. No, you don't
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need to ban the shift, but they did because they're dumb.
They're weak. Don't be dumb. Don't be weak. Don't be dumb.
Don't be weak. That's what baseball is. Don't be that,
don't be that, don't do that. Don't do that. NFL.
So I wouldn't ban it, right, I'd copy it. And
that's the thing. These teams are so stupid in the NFL.
The Eagles have spelled out an unstoppable play and you're
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so you're so worried about your high You're daviad quarterback.
You can run the play seriously like you look at
the Andy Reid. Do the Chiefs ever run the Toush push?
I don't see it. Kyle Shanahan and San Francisco, Sean
McVay with the Rams, Dan Campbell, run it yourself. You
know no one can stop it. Right if everyone's doing it,
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if every team's doing a version of the Toush push,
then it will not be an advantage anymore. It's not
gonna be I until then, Jalen hurts tush push is
the most unstoppable thing around and people know they can
run it, and they have chosen not to run it
all right now, last word to New Jersey. We go
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quick right where Josh Allen and here we go. Buffalow
had a dominant victory over Gang Green blow out City
at the Meadowlands there as the Jets head coach Aaron
Glenn stealing the headlines here, Aaron Glenn said, much like
Andy Reid said, blame me, It's my fault. I'm the
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guy well, Jets coach Aaron Glenn said that his preparation
was lacking in the days leading up to the game
with Buffalo. Buffalo wins this game by twenty points. It
was not even that close, he said. Quote Apparently Aaron
Glenn said, Apparently, I didn't have the guys ready to play.
He said, it's not okay to lose like that close. Quote.
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Glenn answered several other questions from the assembled media about
individual performances that were lacking by saying he has to
watch the tape, which is, of course the default position.
So question is, how do you react to Aaron Glenn
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taking the blame for not having the Jets prepared to
play a divisional opponent at home in week two of
his first year on the job as a head coach
in the NFL. So Aaron Glenn is, he's got his
shoes on, his dand sing he's singing. It's the old
standard head coach song and dance routine. That's what you're
doing here. I didn't have the guys ready. You gotta
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go watch the tape. Gotta watch the tape. That's it.
Gotta go watch the tape. Yeah, buy the book. As
in the comic book. This is Marvel Comics, the Iron
Man Act. Absorb the grenades and deflect with cliches. That's
how you do it there. You just knock yourself out.
And why not. That's the oldest trick in the coaching playbook. There.
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You take the bullet, you deflect the heat, and you hope,
you hope people don't notice that your team just got
absolutely steamrolled. They just look like the same old Jets, right,
the same old pathetic Jets. There was just pathetic, absolutely
pathetic anyway you slice it. And we listen, we get
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what's really going on here. It's a cover job. We
know it's a cover job. A bunch of players who
didn't show up. That's on them, you know, that's on them.
And Aaron Glenn knows it. He knows who wasn't prepared
to play, who was prepared to play, and deep down
the people within the Jets know who was ready to perform.
One guy in particular, who was horrific, justin Fields. Holy crap, man,
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that guy we know he sucks. He looked good last week.
He actually looked like he knew what he was doing.
Against the Pittsburgh Steelers. The defense was not very good,
but the Justin Fields experience, in particular My God and
the Jets defense made James Cook look like vintage Thurman
Thomas or Marshawn Lynch or someone like that. They're a
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true Gang Green performance. And we know with Gang Green
there you just chop it off before it infects the
entire body. Of course, you'd have to chop off multiple
limbs of this Jets team. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
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now back to it, all right, and we get right
back to it. Femi in Minnesota, says Ben JJ McCarthy
is still cooking. Remember those who their first year Terry Brads,
Troy Aikman, Peyton Manning, John Elway, and Brett Farbes Skull
Vikings No no fami. He already set out a year
(24:10):
to learn. He set out a year. It looks like
he'd never picked up a football. He doesn't know whether
it's puffed or stuffed. Watching him try to play quarterback
for the Vikings, but god, he blows, I could do better.
He is so bad, Like, why can't we just say that?
Why do we have to hide it?
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Well?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
You see, oh he's still cooking. O. All we have
is today and I'm looking. I looked at that game.
I was like, okay, I'll get into it. That's not
my ideal matchup Vikings and Falcons. I think that should
be played a regional broadcast early TV window, but they
put it on NBC amor National Game. Whole thing and McCarthy,
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are we gonna get another story? He told the guys
we were gonna come back and win the game. I'll
bet you you want to remember last week that bull
crap in Chicago. Well, he told the guys they were
gonna come back and win the game. Yeah, I'll bet
you he did the same thing, except they he didn't
come back and win the game. That story doesn't get
out because he didn't come back and win the game.
McCarthy terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, alf the
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alien opineer says, the starting about Marshmallows, football and Travis
Kelcey and some random things all mixed together. Mark the
full name guys is unhinged, hiding behind his phone like
a you know, typical dope. Stevie Meatball says, yeah, you
guys are close, mahomes, just like your cell phone is
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still also so close to you a mere moment after
it slips out of your grasp, before it hits water,
and before it descends all the way to the C
four fifteen thousand feet below. So close yet so very
far away, so he says. See. Mister Luciano says nine
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point nine out of ten on the Mala monologue with
some Chiefs tiers on the side. My prediction is the
Chiefs are going to have a losing record this season,
says mister Luciana. EM go that far it. Let's not
go too crazy here. It's a bad two games. I
do that. I love losers. Losers are good talk radio
(26:16):
Scrooge in the Bay Area, right since says, Hey, Ben,
I think you undersold Week three for the Chiefs. If
they lose to Russell Wilson's washed ass and that crap
called the New York Giants, their season is done Overcook.
The Chiefs team isn't winning a Super Bowl this season.
He's got the cleanest ass. Let's see about that. I
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don't want to go too deep in here because it's
getting sticky. It's a little sticky there, a little too sticky.
We'll go to the phones. It is a call in shows.
We started with the America's Game of the Week. A
lot of angst about the tush push and all that.
Also coming up a little bit later in the hour.
Trash talk with some truth mixed in. But people don't
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want want to hear the truth. But we'll go We'll
go there in a bit. Let's go to the phones,
and we'll say hello to Dennis in Vermont, who's cashing
a golden ticket. Hello, Dennis in Vermont, Welcome back.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
I've got a golden tickets.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah, I gotta go there. He is, Dennis holding down
the fort Now.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I'm actually semi sober tonight what's wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
First call sober? Who had that? I did not expect
to call sober. Call semi. Okay, all right, so you
haven't had a drink in a few hours.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
It's been a rough day. All right. I need I
need some I need you to either tell me yay
or nay on this. Okay, forty six years I've been
a Jet fan. I've suffered immensely obviously. Yeah, okay, And
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I'm not trying to switch to a team like the
Eagles or the Chiefs. But what do you think about?
Can I divorce the Jets? And like can I? I'm
thinking the Falcons? I like, I like the owner, I
like the coach, I like Panics.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
You don't wait if you know if you're going to
leave the Jets. You don't want to go to the Falcons.
That's a lateral move. You got to upgrade. You can't
go to it. You can't go to the Falcons. That's
a terrible that's a terrible that's a terrible statement.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Why I upgrade?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
I look like I'm just going for a team that wins.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
All the Falcons aren't gonna win anything. No, No, I sucked. Yeah,
they're losers, Panicks doesn't. Panis doesn't look that good to
me either. Does anyone think Penis is good? I don't think.
He doesn't look that good to me. I don't know.
He looks like I got a typical average quarterback. He
looks like you'll have a three year career and then
he'll be out of the He'll be a backup for
(28:56):
a couple of years, then he'll be out of the NFL.
That's what he looks like to me.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I don't know. I like so, I like their coach,
I like the owner.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
I mean, what are you a big fan of home depot?
You like their owner? Whoever says I like the owner,
whoever picks whoever picks a team because I like the owner.
You don't pick a team because an owner, who would
you pick a team because he's an owner, that's a
that's the aristocrat. You don't pick a team because of that.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
It trickles down.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I mean, O, no, it does. I believe that's not
true if you ask, If you ask NFL players, who
treats their players the best? Jerry Jones spoils his players.
So from an employee perspective, you would want to play
with Jerry Jones because Jerry Jones gives them that death
(29:41):
star thing in Texas is amazing. These guys are pampered babies,
those Dallas cowboys. They don't win anything, but he takes
care of him. He's a great owner. If you played
for him, he's the kind of boss. He spoils his players.
I take as long as long as you don't bring
the agent up, and then he'll dump your ass.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
We want them to be fat and sassy and spoiled.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Yeah, it is a job. Yeah, Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Sure, I gave him forty I gave it just forty five.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Good run generally. Listen. My rule is if the team leaves,
if the Jets were to relocate to Sheboygan or something
like that, you would be free to become a fan.
Because I was a Ram, I'm a Rams fan, But
when they left LA to go to Saint Louis, I
said I'm out and I did not continue to follow
the Rams. Now I did bits on the radio every year.
I'd have people vote for my new team, and then
(30:29):
we used to have voter interference and they rigged the ballot.
So I was fans of terrible teams some years, like
the Browns or the Jaguars, and they tried to punish
me and see.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Eighteen yards of offense at half time?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Oh I know. It looked like they just got a
group of guys out in the parking lot and said, hey,
how would you like to play the Buffalo Bills today? Okay,
I'll play the Buffalo Bill. Do I get pat Sure
you will give you a uniform. Just pretend like you
know what you're doing. Go out there and run out
in the field. Sure, no problem, I'll do that. All right? Done?
My god? I uh, you just expect all you expect
(31:05):
is an honest effort. That was not an honest effort.
That was empathetic.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
It looked like, I mean, he was Justin Fields was
two p eight for twenty something yards? Tyrod Taylor came
in and double his passing yards in like two series.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Yeah, well that's why. Why would it be any different?
Justin Fields has sucked for two other NFL teams. Why
all of a sudden he's gonna become good with the Jets.
He played well last week? Fine, but this is that
is real Justin Fields. That is it. That is the
full Justin Fields experience. And these people in the NFL
are so stupid. These people running these teams. You'd think
(31:44):
they'd know better, but no, they're like, we're smart. We're
smarter than everyone else. We're gonna put this guy in
our uniform and our system. He's gonna figure it out. No,
the guys, it's baked into him. It's like spice it
up in a pot roast. It's baked into him.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
He doesn't know how to throw the football. I mean
he can run, and he's a great runner.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Okay, that's wonderful. Yeah, I know, all right, all right, listen,
I don't what to do. Danni's listen. Yeah, so you're
getting me the okay, though, I don't care. Do whatever
you're you're a grown man. Do what you want, all right,
you're a grown up. You got your own place, Do
whatever the hell you want. But you've invested a lot
of time, and you know what's gonna happen Murphy's law, Dennis,
You're gonna go run off and be a Falcon fan,
(32:27):
and then the Jets are gonna win the Super Bowl,
and you'd be like, oh crap, So the way it works,
all right, I gotta thank you, go away. Let's go.
Here's a blast in the past. Cardiac Stanley. One of
the great calls in the history of the show, the
great cardiac Stanley from the Cincinnati area. Hello, Cardiac Stanley. Welcome, Hey,
welcome Ben.
Speaker 8 (32:47):
As Jick Dayton would say, how are you?
Speaker 1 (32:51):
If if I was any better, Stanley, I would be
a Bengal, but not a Cincinnati bag. Even in victory,
you cannot have any nice. You cannot celebrate, even in victory,
you cannot do it. Can't do it.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Man.
Speaker 8 (33:07):
Joe Mauer what's his name?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Joe for the Bengals.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Yes, Joe Mauer is playing quarterback. Joe Burrow used to
play for the Twins. Joe Mowers now the quarterback.
Speaker 8 (33:19):
Of the Oh yeah, anyway, I'm forced to watch Browns games.
Then I live in Browns Country.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
My condolences, Yeah, I know it, right? Do they put it?
Is it true? I heard a rumor they put a
disclaimer before the Browns broadcast that it's not for women
and children or those for the faint of heart, which
I think you are of the faint of heart, Stanley.
So I don't know that you should be watching that.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Yeah they sure.
Speaker 8 (33:44):
I didn't watch the Bengeles. I couldn't get it. Watch
of Brown. So anyway, another bad performance, Joe lightweight. Burrow's
going to be out on the eye at least four weeks.
You watch and see that my prediction.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Well, they're talking about him being gone for three months,
which would take you all the way into around week
fifteen of the season, which would mean maybe he comes back,
and then what's gonna happen? The Bengals will be so bad.
He'll be like, ah, I just shut her down for
the season. That's it, season ending injury. But if you
do the math on that three months, then today is September.
(34:24):
What do we hitting the fifteenth of September? So week
fifteen is December fourteenth, So if my math is correct,
that's three about three months, so that's when he could
come back. Yeah, how's your health? How's your health? Dad?
Everything okay with you?
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (34:43):
I'm having one? Just finish one?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Okay? Hey is that doctor recommended? I don't. I don't know.
Uh yeah, sure, why not? You know?
Speaker 8 (34:54):
But anyways, then.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
That's my thought.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
All right, buddy, A well, thank you, sir. I appreciate that. Great.
All right, look at that. We started with a Jets
fan wanting to leave the Jets and cardiac Stanley. If
you're new to the show, one of the great moments
in the history of my time here at Fox Sports Radio.
Stanley had a heart attack on the air, and it
happened live on the radio, and that's how he got
(35:20):
the nickname Cardiac. Stanley obviously survived because of my intervention there.
I saved a life. Really heroic move. I think we
can all agree on that. So I didn't get any
award for that. I didn't get any write up, and
nothing saved the man's life. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (35:36):
You're a hero.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Thank you, audio hero all right. Time now for the
who am I? Game? And here it is Bengals wide
receiver Jamar Chase. Fourth player in NFL history with at
least fourteen receptions in three career games. He joins me,
Antonio Brown, Jason Whitten, Actually, Jason Witten, I should say
(35:58):
it properly, so Jamar Chase, the banks fourth player in
NFL history at least fourteen receptions in three career games.
He joins Antonio Brown, Jason Witten, and me, Who am I?
That is the question. The answer will get to it
and we will do it next.
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Bengals wide receiver Jamar Chase, the fourth player in NFL
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(38:20):
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can you please decode the message from Patrick Mahomes that
the Chiefs are quote close to figuring things out. Also,
give me your reaction to the latest kurffluffle over the
Eagles Jalen hurts Tush push as the referees allowed the
Eagles to jump off sides multiple players. Also, how do
(00:44):
you react to coach Aaron Glenn taking the blame for
not having the Jets ready to play as it looked
like they had just put the team together in the
parking lot, said hey, how would you like to play
the Buffalo Bills. What an embarrassing day for the Jets.
And that's saying something, as you know the Jets of
the day definition of embarrassment. But here it is our
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normally we start with the Sunday Night Game. It was
such a dud. I mean, my god, you all told
me JJ McCarthy, all, JJ McCarthy, he's gonna be better
(02:24):
because he didn't play as a rookie. He got hurt,
and he went to all the meetings and he learned everything,
and oh man, he's so good. The guy blows. Okay,
two games in McCarthy sucks and it's bad television. How
did that game end up in Sunday night football? How
does Minnesota and Atlanta? What a clunker that was?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
In my opinion, that sucked.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
So in an active protest against this malfeasans by the
NFL that's supposed to put the top teams in the
Sunday night window, we're gonna skip over that game till later.
We've got four hours and instead a rematch the game
of the weekend, which also wasn't all that great, but
it was at Arrowhead Stadium in Cannes City, and so
(03:07):
that is where we will start, and that is our
lead here. As the Chiefs, who have been consistently dominant,
even when they're bad, they get to the AFC Championship game.
They're at the point now where mathematically it's not looking
very good. Two weeks into the NFL season, it's not
looking very good. Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs are zero
and two. They are all and two, which I'm told
(03:31):
is not good. I didn't play in the NFL. I
know Ryan Clark probably doesn't want me to give a
take on this, but I don't think that's that good.
I don't think it's not good. So oh and two
after losing the much anticipated rematch there on America's Game
of the Week. Don know if you saw this game
or not. We're watching it was everywhere. Not a lot
going on in the late television window. And if you
(03:53):
didn't see it, well listen. We know the better stories
in the losing locker room, So that is where we're
going to focus here. While it's not the outcome that
is shocking. I picked on Benny versus the pay. We
had to be the Eagles on that. If you watch
the YouTube show, we had the Eagles in that game
on a few things we got right this weekend, So
it's not shocking the Chiefs loss. This is only a
(04:15):
second time Mahomes has been an underdog at home, and
there's a reason he was an underdog because the Chief's
an't very good. Right now they're owing to Mahomes was
asked about this, he said, well, it's not the start
we wanted. Mahomes said he believes Kansas City is quote
close he said to figuring things out. Quote I know
it sucks to hear it for the fans, Mahomes said,
(04:38):
but you know what butt means. He said, I feel
like we're close. He said, we're We've got to keep
working and get ready for the Giants next week. All right.
Close quote on that, So let us discuss the question.
Can you please decode the message within the message from
(04:58):
Patrick Mahomes and as the chiefs are as he says, close,
they're close to figuring things out, all right. So my
thoughts on this, I've got Tutoring, Lightning and Marvel comics,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make some delicious, crunchy taketos is
(05:19):
what we're going to make. We're gonna make those. So ah,
there's not too deep to dig in this particular commentary
from Patrick Mahomes. He here's what Mahomes is really saying.
Keep it simple, stupid is what he's saying. He's saying that, Hey,
we've got he said it, We got the Giants on
(05:40):
NBC coming up on Sunday night. That is the NFL's
version of a layup line. That is a pitch and
putt is what that is. That is homecoming opponent time
when you play well. The Giants scored a lot of
points against the Cowboys. How'd that turn out? Yeah, they
scored their quota of points, which means the Giants are
(06:02):
likely they're gonna go back to scoring I don't know,
seventeen points or something like that next week. That is
a pinata game. You want that game. That is a
well scheduled game. It's show up, collect a win, and
Moms is essentially admitting here that, hey, the Chiefs are
not right all right. The schedule maker, though, handed us
(06:24):
a gift and that's a nice soft serve cone. That's
a delicious soft serve cone. And so don't worry about it.
We're gonna be back on track here and we'll be okay,
we'll win the game. It's not gonna be pretty, but
we're gonna win the game. That's it. The Giants are
exactly exactly what the Kansas City Chiefs need right now.
And let's not kid ourselves here. This Chiefs offense is lacking.
(06:49):
They're lacking a lot. I mean they are. It's a
hot mess. It's a stew, and not a good kind
of stew. That's similarly there there there's not a lot
of meat on the ball where dazzle, there's not a
lot of razzle dazzle. Where's the circus sole, the Circus
Act that used to terrify defenses and all that stuff.
(07:10):
Where's that It's gone? I doubt see it. Do you
see it? I don't see it. Maybe my eyesight's going back.
I do not see it. When I watch the Chiefs play,
I don't see that in the first two games. And
this is a plodding team. It is a paint drying
type team. Offensively, when you watch this team go about
their business, there is just not Eliza Well, they're good injuries. Okay,
(07:32):
as far as Mahomes saying we're close to figuring it out,
isn't the whole job to figure it out when the
when the games begin, and not a couple of weeks
into the season. Isn't the whole thing to come out here?
You've been around, You've got the championship pedigree and all
that stuff, and you just come out of the gates
and get it going. Well. Andy Reid chimed in on
this big right, Andy Reid, And do you think Andy
(07:53):
Reid is blaming Mahomes? Do you think he's blaming Travis Kelcey,
or do you think he's doing what every else coach,
every other coach in the world does say I'm the guy,
blame me, I'm the guy.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Let's take its I'll take four responsibilities for the game.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
All right.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I probably said too aggressive on that, and that's my responsibility.
But my guys played their tail off and played hard
and aggressive football, and they stuck together throughout the game,
and they'll pay for us down the road when as
we continue to grow.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
So you're never ever there's a couple of cardinal rules
in sports. One of them is you can never ever
say your team is lazy and they don't play hard.
That is a capital offense, right, that gets you fired.
So even when your team is terrible, you have to
say they're playing hard. You have to say that, but
(08:47):
you look at the offense. I keep going back to
this paint drying type situation here, but is a lot
of playmakers that are more like traffic cones when you
watch them go about their business. There there's nobody that
really scares you. Nobody that scares you you. Kelsey has
continued to get he's old. He's an old player, and
he's more worried about podcast and is a little lady
(09:09):
friend that he's gonna marry and that's fine, that's his life,
but doesn't help the Chiefs out right now. You talk
about what he was, not what he is anymore because
he's a shell of what he used to be, and
that's normally how that works. But he's still out there
that can't get rid of him because he's Travis Kelsey.
You got to keep throwing his rotting carcass out on
the field in every game. But you look around. The
(09:31):
defense is legit in Kansas City, so you figure they
just got to get a little bit more, just a
little slightly more on offense and they can be okay.
But at the moment, and we do the show today
and at the moment, that is a yawn fest. That
is an absolute yawn fest. And let's not gloss over
this that Patrick Mahomes himself has not been good enough.
So well, he doesn't know the playmakers, all right. Wasn't
(09:52):
it the quarterback that makes the players around him better?
Isn't that always the argument that we make that the elevator,
the quarterback elevates the people around him. And the early
placement exam a couple weeks into the regular season and
Kansas City needs some tutoring, is what they need they do.
The Eagles are a measuring stick game. Every man, woman
(10:15):
and child knows that. And Kansas City they got measured
and they got weighed and they were found wanting. Is
the way it was right. The game was again, it
was not. They had a chance. They did have a
chance to win the game. And you know the mathematically
in the fourth quarter and you can do the math
on that. But both offenses looked like they were slogging
through the mud. And I didn't see any mud. Did
(10:38):
you see mud? I didn't see mud. Did you see
I didn't see ny mud? Some of homes saying we're
close and using that line is really like, hey, please,
you loyal minions, you loyal minions. Do not freak out. No, no,
nothing to see here. We've got the Giants, and that's
a feel good opponent. That is a feel good opponent.
When you play the Giants, feel good. But the week
(11:00):
after that, the Ravens they come a call in at Arrowhead.
So you gotta beat the Giants. You don't beat the
Giants the way the unless the Chiefs get a bunch
of guys back that all of a sudden can run
and catch passes and run through the defense. Then you're looking.
If they don't beat the giants and you're going to
zero four, then's doomsday prophecies. So you gotta beat the
(11:21):
You've got to beat the giants, and then maybe you're
pulling upset against Baltimore you are at home, but that's
a wood chipper game after that. So yeah, close in
chiefs verbiage saying you're close. You know, we're close to
getting a get well game, get well game. You're close
to that there, and then we get slapped back in
(11:42):
the face right after that. Now, meanwhile, the story within
the story, you're the subplot from this particular game. I
think you know where I'm going with this. It involves
one of my favorite things to talk about, the tush push.
That's right the touchboard. So instead of everyone focused in
on Mahomes, I started with Ohlmes. But instead of most
(12:03):
people focusing in on Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid and
even Nick Sirianni, it's all the conversation, all the rage,
all the rage. It's all about Jalen Hurts and the
caboose being pushed. Push the caboose, push the caboose, push
the caboose. Just like that, you're being shoved across the
(12:23):
line togain the line of scrimmage here. So it was
a famous play. I say famous relatively speaking. In the
fourth quarter of this game, Tom Brady was on the
call on Fox and he still stinks as a broadcaster.
But Tom Brady was crying a foul, crying a foul
about the Eagles offensive line moving early, which is day
obviously did you don't have to have seen the play
(12:47):
even are blind listeners. No, they moved early. So the
question on this one, it's not just that particular play
that was the ignition point, if you will. So it's
not just that play that was the ignition point. But
the question me your reaction, Give me your reaction to
the latest kurffluffle over the Eagles. Jalen hurts push push,
(13:10):
as this is now like the swallows returning to Capistrano,
and it's it's a nons It's a story that every year,
every single year, becomes a talking point here and a
couple of times a year. And so anyway, here's Andy
Reid again. Here's Andy Reid his take on what appeared
to be a clear violation that was not called by
(13:32):
the referees. The Eagles jumped off side.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Stikele is you know, you try to get penetration as
what you try to do and be able to stop it.
That's a pretty rough one.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
You know.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
I might have a couple that they got off a
little early on, but we'll look at that.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yeah, what is there to look at. We all saw it.
You don't have to look at it. You know it's
gonna change anything, all right. So the NFL spends all
this money on replay, and they spend all all this Yeah,
and we got every call right, every call right, of course,
not the human elements part of it was obvious thing.
It's like three guys jumped off sides, at least two,
probably three, and they didn't call it. So on the
(14:13):
play in question, the obvious off sides. The officials, it
was like Ray Charles and his friends were all there,
as we had Stevie, Meatball's blind Emmett. We had that
guy used to call a show that quits like a
lunatic every other week, Blind Scott. They all did it.
They were all the referees there. Clearly, we had Inker
Terror he was the lead official in this. So the
(14:35):
Zebras they need to go out to Lens crafters is
what they do here, and a multiple bird brain linemen
who were doing the cha cha cha before they were
supposed to be doing the chat cha cha before the snap.
Of course, people lose their minds. Oh my god, lose
their minds because this was supposed to be America's Game
(14:57):
of the Week, right, get the calls right, all that stuff,
Mahomes versus Hurts, a Super Bowl rematch for the ages
two time Super Bowl rematch. Instead, it's another mcmillion scandal,
is what it is for the Philadelphia football team, some
shady business instead of stealing the McDonald's monopoly piece, one
of the great documentaries of all time, that mcmillion documentary
(15:20):
from a few years ago. But Nick Sirianni, Nick Sirianti,
the very pompous, arrogant a hole coach of the Philadelphia Eagles.
They're stealing firsts by shoving Jalen Hurts, shoving his Badonka
Donk over the line to gain. And so it's infuriating
(15:40):
the many. That's the whole point of this. People are
very upset by this. And here's why, because nobody, nobody
does it like Philadelphia. We've had these conversations the last
couple of years. This thing's been around for several years,
and it's for the Eagles. It's going to Disneyland. It's
the lightning it's the Lightning Lane. You got pay a
little extra four, but you go to Pirates of the Caribbean,
(16:01):
it's lined up around the block. It doesn't matter. Straight
to the front of the line, right, go right to
the front of the line. There works every single time.
And the Eagles, they are the unstoppable locomotive, the unstoppable
locomotive Philadelphia Eagles. When they run that play, it's a
freebie for Jalen Hurts. And it's shocking how often they
have a third and one or a fourth and one
(16:26):
right wild. It's like trying to win the electoral College.
They can't get enough votes. Roger Goodell in terms of
they tried to get rid of it the last couple
of years. They came a few votes short. But the
electoral college, too many teams are like, ah, we don't care,
we don't want to get rid of it. And it's
the same old argument. The argument against the torch pushes.
(16:48):
It's clear, it's it's unsafe, it's unfair, it's ruining the
purity of the game. It's the same argument back in
the day. I've read about in college basketball win for
a few years. In the nineteen sixties, they got rid
of the slam dunk because a guy named Luel Sinder,
who would change his name to Kareem Aldul Jabbar was
a dunking and they had to get rid of it
and all that stuff. But the same exact argument, the
(17:11):
same exact argument. It's a different decade years later, and
the whining is extreme. So here's my take. My take is,
don't ban it do I like the bottle, love to play,
but I wouldn't ban the play just like I would.
That's the cowardly thing to do. That's what baseball does.
That's what you don't want to be like baseball. Right,
the shift, we gotta ban the shift. No, you don't
(17:34):
need to ban the shift, but they did because they're dumb.
They're weak. Don't be dumb. Don't be weak. Don't be dumb.
Don't be weak. That's what baseball is. Don't be that,
don't be that, don't do that. Don't do that. NFL.
So I wouldn't ban it, right, I'd copy it. And
that's the thing. These teams are so stupid in the NFL.
The Eagles have spelled out an unstoppable play and you're
(17:56):
so you're so worried about your high You're daviad quarterback.
You can run the play seriously like you look at
the Andy Reid. Do the Chiefs ever run the Toush push?
I don't see it. Kyle Shanahan and San Francisco, Sean
McVay with the Rams, Dan Campbell, run it yourself. You
know no one can stop it. Right if everyone's doing it,
(18:19):
if every team's doing a version of the Toush push,
then it will not be an advantage anymore. It's not
gonna be I until then, Jalen hurts tush push is
the most unstoppable thing around and people know they can
run it, and they have chosen not to run it
all right now, last word to New Jersey. We go
(18:41):
quick right where Josh Allen and here we go. Buffalow
had a dominant victory over Gang Green blow out City
at the Meadowlands there as the Jets head coach Aaron
Glenn stealing the headlines here, Aaron Glenn said, much like
Andy Reid said, blame me, It's my fault. I'm the
(19:02):
guy well, Jets coach Aaron Glenn said that his preparation
was lacking in the days leading up to the game
with Buffalo. Buffalo wins this game by twenty points. It
was not even that close, he said. Quote Apparently Aaron
Glenn said, Apparently, I didn't have the guys ready to play.
He said, it's not okay to lose like that close. Quote.
(19:25):
Glenn answered several other questions from the assembled media about
individual performances that were lacking by saying he has to
watch the tape, which is, of course the default position.
So question is, how do you react to Aaron Glenn
(19:46):
taking the blame for not having the Jets prepared to
play a divisional opponent at home in week two of
his first year on the job as a head coach
in the NFL. So Aaron Glenn is, he's got his
shoes on, his dand sing he's singing. It's the old
standard head coach song and dance routine. That's what you're
doing here. I didn't have the guys ready. You gotta
(20:08):
go watch the tape. Gotta watch the tape. That's it.
Gotta go watch the tape. Yeah, buy the book. As
in the comic book. This is Marvel Comics, the Iron
Man Act. Absorb the grenades and deflect with cliches. That's
how you do it there. You just knock yourself out.
And why not. That's the oldest trick in the coaching playbook. There.
(20:32):
You take the bullet, you deflect the heat, and you hope,
you hope people don't notice that your team just got
absolutely steamrolled. They just look like the same old Jets, right,
the same old pathetic Jets. There was just pathetic, absolutely
pathetic anyway you slice it. And we listen, we get
(20:53):
what's really going on here. It's a cover job. We
know it's a cover job. A bunch of players who
didn't show up. That's on them, you know, that's on them.
And Aaron Glenn knows it. He knows who wasn't prepared
to play, who was prepared to play, and deep down
the people within the Jets know who was ready to perform.
One guy in particular, who was horrific, justin Fields. Holy crap, man,
(21:18):
that guy we know he sucks. He looked good last week.
He actually looked like he knew what he was doing.
Against the Pittsburgh Steelers. The defense was not very good,
but the Justin Fields experience, in particular My God and
the Jets defense made James Cook look like vintage Thurman
Thomas or Marshawn Lynch or someone like that. They're a
(21:39):
true Gang Green performance. And we know with Gang Green
there you just chop it off before it infects the
entire body. Of course, you'd have to chop off multiple
limbs of this Jets team. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
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back to it. Femi in Minnesota, says Ben JJ McCarthy
is still cooking. Remember those who their first year Terry Brads,
Troy Aikman, Peyton Manning, John Elway, and Brett Farbes Skull
Vikings No no fami. He already set out a year
(24:10):
to learn. He set out a year. It looks like
he'd never picked up a football. He doesn't know whether
it's puffed or stuffed. Watching him try to play quarterback
for the Vikings, but god, he blows, I could do better.
He is so bad, Like, why can't we just say that?
Why do we have to hide it?
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Well?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
You see, oh he's still cooking. O. All we have
is today and I'm looking. I looked at that game.
I was like, okay, I'll get into it. That's not
my ideal matchup Vikings and Falcons. I think that should
be played a regional broadcast early TV window, but they
put it on NBC amor National Game. Whole thing and McCarthy,
(24:48):
are we gonna get another story? He told the guys
we were gonna come back and win the game. I'll
bet you you want to remember last week that bull
crap in Chicago. Well, he told the guys they were
gonna come back and win the game. Yeah, I'll bet
you he did the same thing, except they he didn't
come back and win the game. That story doesn't get
out because he didn't come back and win the game.
McCarthy terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, alf the
(25:11):
alien opineer says, the starting about Marshmallows, football and Travis
Kelcey and some random things all mixed together. Mark the
full name guys is unhinged, hiding behind his phone like
a you know, typical dope. Stevie Meatball says, yeah, you
guys are close, mahomes, just like your cell phone is
(25:33):
still also so close to you a mere moment after
it slips out of your grasp, before it hits water,
and before it descends all the way to the C
four fifteen thousand feet below. So close yet so very
far away, so he says. See. Mister Luciano says nine
(25:54):
point nine out of ten on the Mala monologue with
some Chiefs tiers on the side. My prediction is the
Chiefs are going to have a losing record this season,
says mister Luciana. EM go that far it. Let's not
go too crazy here. It's a bad two games. I
do that. I love losers. Losers are good talk radio
(26:16):
Scrooge in the Bay Area, right since says, Hey, Ben,
I think you undersold Week three for the Chiefs. If
they lose to Russell Wilson's washed ass and that crap
called the New York Giants, their season is done Overcook.
The Chiefs team isn't winning a Super Bowl this season.
He's got the cleanest ass. Let's see about that. I
(26:38):
don't want to go too deep in here because it's
getting sticky. It's a little sticky there, a little too sticky.
We'll go to the phones. It is a call in shows.
We started with the America's Game of the Week. A
lot of angst about the tush push and all that.
Also coming up a little bit later in the hour.
Trash talk with some truth mixed in. But people don't
(26:59):
want want to hear the truth. But we'll go We'll
go there in a bit. Let's go to the phones,
and we'll say hello to Dennis in Vermont, who's cashing
a golden ticket. Hello, Dennis in Vermont, Welcome back.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
I've got a golden tickets.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah, I gotta go there. He is, Dennis holding down
the fort Now.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I'm actually semi sober tonight what's wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
First call sober? Who had that? I did not expect
to call sober. Call semi. Okay, all right, so you
haven't had a drink in a few hours.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
It's been a rough day. All right. I need I
need some I need you to either tell me yay
or nay on this. Okay, forty six years I've been
a Jet fan. I've suffered immensely obviously. Yeah, okay, And
(27:54):
I'm not trying to switch to a team like the
Eagles or the Chiefs. But what do you think about?
Can I divorce the Jets? And like can I? I'm
thinking the Falcons? I like, I like the owner, I
like the coach, I like Panics.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
You don't wait if you know if you're going to
leave the Jets. You don't want to go to the Falcons.
That's a lateral move. You got to upgrade. You can't
go to it. You can't go to the Falcons. That's
a terrible that's a terrible that's a terrible statement.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Why I upgrade?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
I look like I'm just going for a team that wins.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
All the Falcons aren't gonna win anything. No, No, I sucked. Yeah,
they're losers, Panicks doesn't. Panis doesn't look that good to
me either. Does anyone think Penis is good? I don't think.
He doesn't look that good to me. I don't know.
He looks like I got a typical average quarterback. He
looks like you'll have a three year career and then
he'll be out of the He'll be a backup for
(28:56):
a couple of years, then he'll be out of the NFL.
That's what he looks like to me.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I don't know. I like so, I like their coach,
I like the owner.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
I mean, what are you a big fan of home depot?
You like their owner? Whoever says I like the owner,
whoever picks whoever picks a team because I like the owner.
You don't pick a team because an owner, who would
you pick a team because he's an owner, that's a
that's the aristocrat. You don't pick a team because of that.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
It trickles down.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I mean, O, no, it does. I believe that's not
true if you ask, If you ask NFL players, who
treats their players the best? Jerry Jones spoils his players.
So from an employee perspective, you would want to play
with Jerry Jones because Jerry Jones gives them that death
(29:41):
star thing in Texas is amazing. These guys are pampered babies,
those Dallas cowboys. They don't win anything, but he takes
care of him. He's a great owner. If you played
for him, he's the kind of boss. He spoils his players.
I take as long as long as you don't bring
the agent up, and then he'll dump your ass.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
We want them to be fat and sassy and spoiled.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Yeah, it is a job. Yeah, Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Sure, I gave him forty I gave it just forty five.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Good run generally. Listen. My rule is if the team leaves,
if the Jets were to relocate to Sheboygan or something
like that, you would be free to become a fan.
Because I was a Ram, I'm a Rams fan, But
when they left LA to go to Saint Louis, I
said I'm out and I did not continue to follow
the Rams. Now I did bits on the radio every year.
I'd have people vote for my new team, and then
(30:29):
we used to have voter interference and they rigged the ballot.
So I was fans of terrible teams some years, like
the Browns or the Jaguars, and they tried to punish
me and see.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Eighteen yards of offense at half time?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Oh I know. It looked like they just got a
group of guys out in the parking lot and said, hey,
how would you like to play the Buffalo Bills today? Okay,
I'll play the Buffalo Bill. Do I get pat Sure
you will give you a uniform. Just pretend like you
know what you're doing. Go out there and run out
in the field. Sure, no problem, I'll do that. All right? Done?
My god? I uh, you just expect all you expect
(31:05):
is an honest effort. That was not an honest effort.
That was empathetic.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
It looked like, I mean, he was Justin Fields was
two p eight for twenty something yards? Tyrod Taylor came
in and double his passing yards in like two series.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Yeah, well that's why. Why would it be any different?
Justin Fields has sucked for two other NFL teams. Why
all of a sudden he's gonna become good with the Jets.
He played well last week? Fine, but this is that
is real Justin Fields. That is it. That is the
full Justin Fields experience. And these people in the NFL
are so stupid. These people running these teams. You'd think
(31:44):
they'd know better, but no, they're like, we're smart. We're
smarter than everyone else. We're gonna put this guy in
our uniform and our system. He's gonna figure it out. No,
the guys, it's baked into him. It's like spice it
up in a pot roast. It's baked into him.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
He doesn't know how to throw the football. I mean
he can run, and he's a great runner.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Okay, that's wonderful. Yeah, I know, all right, all right, listen,
I don't what to do. Danni's listen. Yeah, so you're
getting me the okay, though, I don't care. Do whatever
you're you're a grown man. Do what you want, all right,
you're a grown up. You got your own place, Do
whatever the hell you want. But you've invested a lot
of time, and you know what's gonna happen Murphy's law, Dennis,
You're gonna go run off and be a Falcon fan,
(32:27):
and then the Jets are gonna win the Super Bowl,
and you'd be like, oh crap, So the way it works,
all right, I gotta thank you, go away. Let's go.
Here's a blast in the past. Cardiac Stanley. One of
the great calls in the history of the show, the
great cardiac Stanley from the Cincinnati area. Hello, Cardiac Stanley. Welcome, Hey,
welcome Ben.
Speaker 8 (32:47):
As Jick Dayton would say, how are you?
Speaker 1 (32:51):
If if I was any better, Stanley, I would be
a Bengal, but not a Cincinnati bag. Even in victory,
you cannot have any nice. You cannot celebrate, even in victory,
you cannot do it. Can't do it.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Man.
Speaker 8 (33:07):
Joe Mauer what's his name?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Joe for the Bengals.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Yes, Joe Mauer is playing quarterback. Joe Burrow used to
play for the Twins. Joe Mowers now the quarterback.
Speaker 8 (33:19):
Of the Oh yeah, anyway, I'm forced to watch Browns games.
Then I live in Browns Country.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
My condolences, Yeah, I know it, right? Do they put it?
Is it true? I heard a rumor they put a
disclaimer before the Browns broadcast that it's not for women
and children or those for the faint of heart, which
I think you are of the faint of heart, Stanley.
So I don't know that you should be watching that.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Yeah they sure.
Speaker 8 (33:44):
I didn't watch the Bengeles. I couldn't get it. Watch
of Brown. So anyway, another bad performance, Joe lightweight. Burrow's
going to be out on the eye at least four weeks.
You watch and see that my prediction.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Well, they're talking about him being gone for three months,
which would take you all the way into around week
fifteen of the season, which would mean maybe he comes back,
and then what's gonna happen? The Bengals will be so bad.
He'll be like, ah, I just shut her down for
the season. That's it, season ending injury. But if you
do the math on that three months, then today is September.
(34:24):
What do we hitting the fifteenth of September? So week
fifteen is December fourteenth, So if my math is correct,
that's three about three months, so that's when he could
come back. Yeah, how's your health? How's your health? Dad?
Everything okay with you?
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (34:43):
I'm having one? Just finish one?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Okay? Hey is that doctor recommended? I don't. I don't know.
Uh yeah, sure, why not? You know?
Speaker 8 (34:54):
But anyways, then.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
That's my thought.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
All right, buddy, A well, thank you, sir. I appreciate that. Great.
All right, look at that. We started with a Jets
fan wanting to leave the Jets and cardiac Stanley. If
you're new to the show, one of the great moments
in the history of my time here at Fox Sports Radio.
Stanley had a heart attack on the air, and it
happened live on the radio, and that's how he got
(35:20):
the nickname Cardiac. Stanley obviously survived because of my intervention there.
I saved a life. Really heroic move. I think we
can all agree on that. So I didn't get any
award for that. I didn't get any write up, and
nothing saved the man's life. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (35:36):
You're a hero.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Thank you, audio hero all right. Time now for the
who am I? Game? And here it is Bengals wide
receiver Jamar Chase. Fourth player in NFL history with at
least fourteen receptions in three career games. He joins me,
Antonio Brown, Jason Whitten, Actually, Jason Witten, I should say
(35:58):
it properly, so Jamar Chase, the banks fourth player in
NFL history at least fourteen receptions in three career games.
He joins Antonio Brown, Jason Witten, and me, Who am I?
That is the question. The answer will get to it
and we will do it next.
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(37:07):
and time now for the play of the day. Here
we go go the NFL for the play of the day.
So many games, so many highlights, but what will be
the tire Iraq play of the day. Let's find out.
Cook the loan setback. Here's the snap. It's another handoff
cooking a.
Speaker 6 (37:26):
Cut it back through a hole Dodges a defender up
and out and out the gate to the races down
to the twenty.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Ten five touchdown.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
James took forty.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Four big ones for the score. James Cook. That's Bills
Radio one hundred and thirty two yards rushing. Have a day?
Will you for? James Cook? The Bills blow out the Jets.
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dot Com Away tire Buying Chub. Here's the who am I? Game?
Bengals wide receiver Jamar Chase, the fourth player in NFL
history at least fourteen receptions in three career games. He
joins at Tonio Brown, Jason Witten and me, Who am I?
(38:20):
That is the question? What is the answer? Let's does
anyone know the answer? Bb King guests by Bobby in Florida.
He knows where all the good keylan pie is. Alf's
going with the undertaker Rob Lowe from Donkey Sausage. Who
else do we have page down? See can't read that?
T O guest by Josh Megatron, Calvin Johnson from Andy
(38:45):
and Lionel Lakes, Twinkie the Kid from Rob the Goatman,
Jim Klein, Saucer from James, Andy Ruried from King Rory
no nickname, Doug guest by Shane in des Moines of
Last in the Past, Susie Q from Mister Luciano, Paige Man,
Dave Casper guests by Scrooge, Ralph Machio from Just Josh.
(39:09):
Who else? This is the year? Donald the Driver from
Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. What do you say? Ray? That's
not Gary Hogebulm guests by Speccoli. I'm gonna go with
Travis Kelsey shorts. All right, No, it's actually Keenan Allen
of the Old Chargers. Keenan Allen, Keenan Allen. That's the
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