September 16, 2025 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about how things are looking for C.J. Stroud and the Texans after their MNF loss to the Buccaneers falling to 0-2, if there are any positives for Texans coach DeMeco Ryans, what stands out about Baker Mayfield's late-game heroics, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Houston. We have a problem. Well, come in. It's our
number one, our one of the Ben Maler Show podcast
on this Tuesday, the sixteenth day of September. As the
Buccaneers fire, the Cannons come back and win in the
final seconds in Houston, and another stinker from the quarterback
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of the hometown team. How are things looking for Texans
quarterback CJ. Stroud two games in to what was supposed
to be a redemption twenty twenty five season. Also, are
there any positives for Texans coach Demko Ryans, whose team
off to that zero to two start. What stands out
on the winning side about Baker Mayfield and his late
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game heroics for the Buccaneers pirate ship. We'll talk about
all that and much more right now here. It is
our number one. Well the Baker did it? The Baker
did it? Well, come in not be begaining of another
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from double Header Action in the NFL on a Monday night,
and I was debating on the game that ended, if
not that long ago, as we crank up the old
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audio box here in Vegas, was a not a very
good game. And b we are being covered up by
some of our affiliates for postgame coverage. Believe it or not.
Who the hell wants to hear that crap. But anyway,
so I'm gonna wait on that. I'm gonna wait on
that till later. That's why we have the iHeartRadio apps.
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I could have if the game was good, I would
have started with it. They're goods. Start with the good game.
Why talk about the bad game? I'll talk about the
good game. So that's what I'm gonna do. So our
lead this hour is from Houston. That was the undercard
on the Monday night football double eder. You had Baker
Mayfield versus C. J. Stroud. Now, I don't know if
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you were watching this game or not. It was another
full six hour, seven hour period with football activity, and
maybe you did not watch it. Our old buddy cHj.
Reeves and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to the sidelines on
the radio there for the Bucks. So the Buccaneers and
the Texans that the matchup not a lot of wow
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factor in this so we watched. Don't worry, you did
not have to watch. We watched so you would not
have to watch. And the game came down to the
bitter end. It was nail biting time. The Buccaneers got
the ball, they were trailing. They needed a touchdown down
by five, and Baker Mayfield he took his samurai sword
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and he worked his way, navigated his way down the
field an eleven play eighty yard drive capped off by
a Rashad White two yard touchdown run with just six seconds.
That's it, six seconds to go, and Tampa Bay said
turn out the last. The parties over on the Texans
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who are zero to two and have a chance to
go ohen seventeen. They have a chance to lose every
game this year. Tampa Bay did go for two, they
didn't get it, so they ended winning game twenty to nineteen.
The final score. Baker Mayfield not a sexy stat line.
He only had two hundred and fifteen yards passing, did
have a couple of touchdowns. But the Buccaneers who also
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won in the final seconds thanks to the idiot kicker
for the Atlanta Falcons in Week one. So the Buccaneers
now off to the two and zero start, and Baker
Mayfield also had a couple of big plays with his
legst fifteen yard scramble on a fourth and ten to
keep the game winning drive alive and they end up
going on to win the game. But the better story
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is in the losing locker room. The Houston sections are
off to the h to two start. Pee Yeah what stick?
So they had a five point lead. As we said
it was nineteen fourteen. Offense was lacking nineteen fourteen. They
led because of they couldn't run the ball all night
until the end of it. When Nick Chubb. Chubb a
love the old Cleveland round. He sucks now, but he
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had a twenty five yard run and it looked like
he was gonna be the hero. There were two ten
to go in the game, Houston goes for two. C J. Stroud, though,
was sacked, and that was the theme of the night.
Stroud threw for just two hundred and seven yards and
a touchdown, and after the first couple of times Houston
had the ball, it was downhill, way downhill, and failed
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to move the offense efficiently effectively. For the balance of
the game. It was a snooze fest in the second
half for the Houston Texans, who have some questions that
must be answered now, cause that was not good. Now,
I got no skin in the game on this, but
that was not good at all. All right, Well, here's
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let's hear from CJ. Stroud, the Texans quarterback. Then we'll
slice and dice mister Stroud. But here's c J. Stroud
explaining that things offensively for Houston are not let's cut
to by the way, things are not going all that well.
Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I think right now we need more confidence as an offense,
at least just confident playing better together. I think that's
a big thing. We're all we haven't played again a
lot of us. So the more confidence that we build,
I think, the better that we'll be off.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Okay, so that was a whole lot of enough thing,
So let us discuss the question. How are things looking
for the Texans quarterback CJ. Stroud two games in to
the seventeen game season here in twenty twenty five. So
my thoughts on this. I've got YouTube, kiddy table, and
water supply, and we will combine all of these things
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together and we're going to make some tex mechs, which
is likely better than the Texans offense at this particular point.
They just put a container of text mechs under center,
and that would actually be better. But hey, listen, the
Texans fans thought they were getting a bounce back season.
The assumption was, hey, we're getting a bounce back season here. CJ.
Stroud was really good when he came into the NFL.
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Some said, well, beginner's luck. And then he fell off
a mountain. And of course I was the bad guy,
not to make this all about me, but I pointed
out c J. Stroud not very good, and then I
got a lot of crap from the seven Texans fans
that exist in the world. Well, you don't know what
you're talking about, that's why you're doing overlights. Okay, Well
let's see what we've got right now. There's supposed to
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be a bounce back seaton. You told me, you told
me bounce back season for CJ. Stroud. You told me
that two games in again good as a rookie, bad
second year player, c J. Stroud. So here we owe
two games in year three and c J. Stroud does
he not look a lot like Zach Wilson. That's not
a compliment, not a compliment. Based on what we have seen.
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We have a show to do today, right, we have
a show to do tonight overnight. But based on that
what we have seen, do you believe in CJ. Stroud?
Do be honest, don't lie to me. He's gone from
hotshot rookie to what's wrong with his guy? To now
the invisible man, the invisible man, pathetic performance much like
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he played against the Rams in the opener. Was bad
in that game and c J. Stroud supposed to be
the alpha dog or alpha dog didn't look like it
looked like a chihuahua a lot of yappin, you know,
tack the mailman, all bark, no bite, a lot of that,
and it's like a cryptos stock, but not a good one.
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It's like, hey, one of your friends convinces you buy
some cryptos. I didn't really want to do that. Well
you need to buy, ok I'll buy some. I got
this great one, right, So you thought you were buying
you through the text as you're like, oh, we got
some bitcoin, right, that's to the moon. Instead you got
doge coin. That's what you got. Congratulations. Yeah, pump and dump,
pump and dump. That's how it goes. But a few
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of you knuckleheads, you know who you are. And I'm
not talking about mister irrigation because mister Irrigation's already had
enough of c J. Stroud based on some comments that
he posted on social media. But the other fanboys, you'll
give him time. It's not his fall. He doesn't have
a great offensive a line, give him protection, all that crap. Okay,
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So CJ. Stroud stinks, you're telling me. Unless he has
a great offensive line and great playmakers and everything's perfect
around him, Okay, then he's not very good. You're admitting
he's not very good because anyone will have success if
they have a great offensive line. Anyone will have success
if they have a great offensive line and great playmakers
and all that stuff. All right, So Tamiko Ryans can
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spin this and say all he wants and the other
people in Houston about it's not CJ. Stroud's fault all this,
and it's this guy dropped a pass or this guy
didn't block, and it's all that. But it's like the
Irish rock band You two and their classic tune that's
been over twenty years. Elevation, right, you got to elevate
the elite guys make it work. They find a way
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to make it work no matter what. They elevate those
around him. That's the job description for a top level Now.
C J. Stroud says average, Okay, he's average, fine, dime
A doesn't average, average, not elite. Elite makes it work.
And c J. Stroud looks like he's floating on a
on a dinghy out in the Gulf of Mexico somewhere
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Golf of America. What do you want to call it?
Two games in, I don't see a franchise quarterback. I
don't see it. I see a jag If you want
to call him that, right, just a guy and nothing spectacular.
This keeps off. CJ. Stroud's not leading Houston anywhere except
back to the quarterback quandary. And he'll get coaches fired,
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whether it's the head coach, Demico Ryans or the offensive
coaching staff, and they'll be like, we gotta fix this guy,
so we got to change coaches. He'll be a coach killer.
That's what happens. You play like that, you get your
coach fired. Somebody's getting fired. Now. Speaking of the coach, well,
we've got Demico Ryans who is also feeling the raff
of c J. Stroud. Here's a Demico Ryans pointing out
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as far as this game on Monday, now, you will
when you have a chance to finish things you might
want to do that. Take a listen, you lot a
good team like this tick around for too long.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
It's what we did and they ended up making a
play there, Baker scrambling going forth down, which we knew.
That's that's who he is. That's how he make the
players of scrambling. He made a big time play on
fourth and ten. You know we got to find a
way to tackle and get him down. And stop him there.
Even on the goal line, we're in position to make
a tackle. We got the guy back and make a
tackle to win the game. That's what the game comes
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down to. We had multiple opportunities to win that game,
and we didn't make the plays we needed to make.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
So you didn't name anyone specifically. It was a more
of a collective suck than an individual suck. So yeah,
name everybody. But here's the question, are there any positives?
Are there any positives for Texans coach Demiko Ryans based
on the Monday night game? Now Houston ohing too. So
I watched the entire game because I'm getting paid to
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watch it, Otherwise I probably wouldn't. I did watch it,
and so I saw Here's what I saw in terms
of positive zero, n A, zilch, none, bumpkis that's what
I saw.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
A right.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I can't find one positive from the game itself. I
cannot do it, not one positive aout. Jamiico Ryans was
brought in as a defensive mastermind check right. Came over
from the forty nine ers, and that's his calling card.
That's what he's known for. Meat and potatoes all that,
and this game came down to what came down to defense.
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Came down to defense. Texans had a five point lead.
The other team has to score a touchdown to beat you.
All you need is a defensive stand. And the Texans
defense did they make the plays? Obviously not. They lost
the game game on the line, Tampa matriculating the ball
down the field and that Texans defense melting faster than
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a KitKat that you'll eve on your dashboard in August.
You ever done that or September for that missed a
lot here right right, man, I don't know the KitKat
gets all gooy, it kind of folds together. To me,
that melts more than any of some people say hershey's
bar that that melts. But to me it's the kitcat
like that. I've always had bad experiences with melted KitKat.
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And that was the Texans defense late in the game.
You're at home, you're a slight favorite, you lost week one,
so you got to come back here and you gag
demoralizing capital D for the Houston Texans there and if
you're the defensive guru, Dimiko Ryans as he said, you
got to finish the game. I'm not attacking. And also
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he says his own words, you got to finish the game,
and instead they allowed Baker Mayfield to convert on that
fourth and ten and essentially Baker punked them, which is
embarrassing for the Texans defense, which I played pretty well.
Now there is a twisted silver lining, So I will
be Benny Bright's side. I am going to be Benny
bright side on this one because pee yet what stinks?
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That would be the division the Texans find themselves in.
So despite being owing to the good thing about sitting
at the kiddy table in the NFL, when you're owing to,
you're still very much alive. The division stinks. Jacksonville for Gayzy, right,
they got the coach and the quarterback fighting with each other.
More on that later, Tennessee stump bums. I don't know,
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they're not even trying. It's just a developmental year. And
maybe by the end of the year, cam Ward will
know what he's doing and they'll find a couple offensive
linemen and that's it. They'll get another top ten pick.
And then you have the Colts, which right now look amazing. Right,
they got Daniel Jones out there two weeks in a
row painting the Mona. Lisa haven't punted yet in the
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NFL this season the Indianapolis Colts, So that's pretty good.
I'm told didn't play, So I don't know if I
can comm on that. I have to check with Ryan Clark.
But give them a month. I give them a month,
Give the Colts a month there, and then that masterpiece,
methinks is see we have this conversation by late October
about Halloween, the masterpiece will turn into a Denny's kids menu.
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You know how they give you the crayons and then
the kids draw on the crayon. Yeah, like that and
then with ketchup on it. That's what it's gonna look like.
And as so as much as the Texans are in
a bad spot right now and they are the redheaded
step Show, and that's always like the most embarrassing division
for the NFL because that team that wins that division
has to play the first that early Saturday window on
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wild Card weekend where they It's like in the NBA,
if the Toronto Raptors ever make the playoffs, they always
put them in that early window because they want to
hide the team they're kind of embarrassed about. They're shamed
by the team that's whoever wins that AFC South Division.
The Texas though still mathematically very much alive because the
Culture gonna lose plenty of games and all that stuff,
and one of these bad News Bears franchises is going
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to make the playoffs and they'll be cannon fodder for
one of the better teams to play. By then you
know somebody's backing into January, into the postseason, whether they
deserve it or not. So there's still that why will
be Benny Brightside in that regard? Now the Detections look
like they're a playoff team, of course not. They're zero too,
and the offense looks completely limp. At this point. We
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so listen, congratulations though because of location, location, location, the GPS,
the zip code, all that stuff, you're still still okay,
all right, now, last word, we go to the other
side to Tampa Bay where the Buccaneers, the cardiac kids
off to the two and on start now as they
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get it done again. Another gutty performance by Baker Mayfield,
who appears to have that junkyard dog in him as
opposed to the other kind of dog. Yeah, and laying
the game down the stretch, Baker Mayfield, he looked like
he was in aerobics class out there huffing and puffing
and bouncing around off defenders, sometimes getting stomped on by defenders,
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sweating it out like he's on a StairMaster at a
jam at three in the morning doing all that, and
and somehow, in some way he drags Tampa across the
finish line with the help of his friends. So what
stands out about Baker Mayfield's late game heroics for the
Buccaneers the Tampa Bay football team, So I continue to
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be missing. When Baker got to Tampa, I was like, well,
this is good, but it's not gonna last. And here
we are. How many years he's been there? A couple
years now, three years, he's still going. And so what
stands out about Baker Mayfield is the fact he's like
the NFL's Robert Downey Junior, left for dead after Cleveland
and that experience. He was so bad in Cleveland. Baker
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Mayfield's dad was used at by Baker or Odell Beckham's
dad rather, was used by the kid to get messages
out on social media so he could get away from
Baker Mayfield. I'll Beckham wanted to get away from Baker Mayfield.
He went to Carolina Garbage, went to the Rams, had
like a one night stand with the Rams. And now
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he's found himself and he's iron Man in Tampa Bay.
Baker Mayfield's Robert Downey Jerrer's iron Man, and he's building
a suit out of scraps in a cave somewhere and
it's going pretty well. It's going pretty well. And that's
Baker Mayfield in a buccaneer uniform at this particular point.
Supposed to be at this time, you'd say, based on
what he did in Cleveland and Carolina, you'd say it
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by this time, Baker Mayfield should have been put on
the cast of Dancing with the Stars and doing a
bad podcast like every other hack Jock does and washed
up Jock. But instead, instead he's out there beating a
team that was in the playoffs in the fourth quarter,
making plays. And so I would say, check the water
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supplies what I would say, because Ponce Deli owns fountain
of youth there in Tampa. I remember Tom Brady when
he went to Tampa. Tom Brady, we thought he was toast.
He was done in New England and then suddenly he's
chugging the avocado tequila and winning a super Bowl in Tampa,
and Baker's obviously we know he's not Tom Brady. We
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know that, we know that, we know that, we know that,
we know that, we know that, we know that, we
know that. However, he has reinvented himself, and the reinvention
vibe very similar. There continues to be the youth thought
I was washed. He really rides that you thought I
was washed? And think again, you think again. It's been
a total rebrand, total rebrand. It's like our caller in Vegas,
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big balls Bob in case, big balls Baker getting it
done there at the end of the game there and
so good for him, good for him right against the
defense that was supposed to be pretty good, was pretty
good most of the second half of that game until
the very end there in Baker Mayfield like an NFL
cockroach and it's nuclear winter, doesn't matter. He's still out
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there crawling around. He does that and you can't kill him,
and shows up and a head butt a lineman here
and do all that and knock you out anyway. It
is the bang mallor show you want to come in on.
That or the late Monday night game. Let's saw the
Chargers dominate the Raiders. How's that Gino Smith working out
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for your Raider fan? You like that? You enjoy that? Yeah,
you like the taste of that. Yeah you like down car?
You do? Oh yeah, you got to how many more?
Fifteen more games of that?
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Yell me?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
What did they think was going to happen when they
acquired Gino Smith? Like what were they expecting? Like do
you think they were getting a good quarterback? Because he's
like sucked? Like did they actually think he would be
good because he put on different laundry? Is that where
they thought?
Speaker 5 (20:51):
God?
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Is he so bad? That's one of the great stories.
They should do a documentary how Geno Smith has started
for this many years in the NFL not being any good.
It's wild, Like it's it's a multi billion dollar business.
There's such a shortage of quarterbacks. So the guy like
Baker Mayfield, who we know is an abject failure as
an NFL quarterback, and yet he bounces around and it's
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like they move him to different teams and he's just bad,
bad to the bone. All right. It is the Ben
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Wearing my cowboy hat? Is that your victory hata their winner?
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to it all, right, back to it we go, and
a lot of you have hot takes, love to send
in your hot takes, and so we are here for
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the hot takes. Absolutely, Late night drug tester says, letting
Baker cook in Tampa seems to work. I bet Dick
and Dayton wishes he was still on the Browns. No, no, no, Now,
Dick and Dayton calls in the last hour of the show,
and I think this is a day that he's I've
got to check the payroll, but I think he's supposed
to call in today. I think we're give him a
(25:24):
couple of bucks to call in from the old timers
home there and Dayton, thank you, said, Usually a day
he calls in, Dick and Dayton. If you gave him
truth serum and said, Dick, what should the Browns do
at quarterback? He would say, bring back Bernie Cozar. That's
what he would say, Bring back Bernie. Yeah, that's what
he's say. Ferg Dog says, Justin Herbert has put the
(25:45):
whole league on notice. He's here and he's not to
be trifled, a trifled, trifled, trifle, trifled. There we go with. Also,
I believe Jason Smith let it get warm in the
studio so he can do hot yoga during the show. Well,
there's a hot yoga place right across the courtyard here,
so if you want to go to hot yoga, it's
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right across the courtyard. And I've not been in there.
I see a lot of people who love to socialize
walking out of there when I'm getting into the building.
They love to sit in the parking lot and talk.
Which is funny because our security guard, who's he used
to work, he finds them. Well, he used to work
the overnight shift. Great guy, love the guy right, writes
comic books. He's an interesting dude. So this guy, our
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security guard, they only validate. They charge a lot of
money to park in the building, like a ridiculous amount
of money, like an insane amount of money, like like
you've lost your mind type of money. Right, So they
charge a lot of party and they validate at this
hot yoga studio which is across the way. They validate
for a couple hours. The problem is at these people
sit there and they talk for forty minutes in the
(26:51):
parking lot, and then they end up having to pay,
and then they lose their mind and then they yelled
the security guard. But as Lurana pointed out, oftentimes the
security guard is the one socialized with the people. I've
seen him, not like, Okay, I'll follow you guys to
the exit. Yeah, well he falls into the exit. He
told me. He goes out there because a lot of
the people they don't understand. Apparently they make a lot
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of money, because that thing's not cheap. The yoga place
over there, they're not. It's like when somebody's really smart
in one area and they're stupid in the other. Like
these people are doctors and lawyers and stuff like that,
but they can't seem to figure out the parking. They're
lost by the parking. So I don't understand alf the alien,
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(27:34):
What must be the gremlins. That's what happens when we
do the show from your remote studio. There's gremlins. It's
great to me, Bet, I don't know, man, the's gremlin's
attacking my remote studio. You think I'd go in there
and hang out with you, please, He says, I thought
it was Ben Malor's mike, but it continued into the break.
I'm switching to another feed to see if it continues. Well, Alf,
there our boots on the ground, so let us know
(27:56):
if there's any kind of problems there. Yeah, Femi writes
in from the Great state of Minnesota, he's one of
the top uber eats spape. I think he's number one
right there in Minnesota. In Minneapolis, he says Ben, with
Todd Bowles success in Tampa, maybe the Jets real problem
is the water in New Jersey. Is it too wet?
(28:17):
It's the water too wet. No, it's the swamp land
of New Jersey that there's a curse that has been
put on the swamp land of New Jersey where where
they end up playing there. Aileen rights in says, Nimiko
Ryans was my forty nine ers defensive corner. Aileen in
San Francisco twenty one to twenty two, left to be
the Houston head coach. There's no excuse for Houston's bad defense,
(28:39):
and she says, break me off a piece of that
kit Cat bar. Well, it's all I'd break you off
a piece, but it's melted. See that's the problem. You
do not want And have you noticed like I've done
this a few times where I've left the kit Cat
bar out and then you put it in the freezer
or refrigerator and it never's the same. It looks funny,
it looks really odd, like the chocolate's all melted. It's
this shape is kind of there, but it's not. It's
(29:02):
it's a message. Let's go to the phones. Cashing a
golden ticket in the leadoff chair. We say hello to
Mike in Tucson right away, a golden tech X.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
I'm gonna go, hey, Ben, If I was any better,
I would be a Raider when I Las Vegas Traders.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Because we just choked it up on prime time. That's
why we don't get these primetime games. You know what
hurts me the most, Bet, I have three sons and
they all say, Dad, why do you make me Raider fan?
I force him to be Raider fans. It's so much
disappointment every year.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Well, you should you should tell you, you should tell
your tell your kids that listen, say kids, the problem
you kids is that you were born too late. You
should have been born fifty years earlier. And then the
Raiders were good you you waited too late to be born.
That's a bad job by you.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Are we courage?
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Is the coaching?
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Is that?
Speaker 5 (29:53):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Because every year is something you don't spit pray so
bad And now you know why he'ston down someth three
picks who was so terrible to like, I need to
see why he bounced around so much that.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Well, yeah he sucks. I mean, but listen, and I'll
give credit to the Raider for unlike those dopes. And
see I used to fight with No stradinas in Seattle,
not JJ and Retten, but no studious. He was like
defender of Geno Smith metaphorically. Of course I liked No stroudenis,
but we would fight about Gino Smith and I was like,
this guy stanks and he's oh, no, he's going he's
going no, no, no. You know the moment I knew
(30:28):
the moment I knew. The moment I knew Mike the
Gino Smith is a bum was when he was at
West Virginia. They were playing in the Pinstripe Bowl at
Yankee Stadium, and I was. It was like over the holidays,
and I was I was at the gym and I
was watching the game and he was horrific, and I
(30:48):
was like, this guy blows right. So I sent out
a comment on social media, and as the game had
just ended, like literally like like five minutes after the
game ended, and I get a notification from this account
which claimed to be Gino Smith right, who was attacking
my attacking what I had said. And I kind of
(31:08):
forgot about it, and I was like, all right, whatever
is probably a burner account of fake or whatever. It's
not a real Geno Smith acount. So then when the
NFL draft came around, he was drafted, I think in
the second round. They put up his Twitter account. It
was the same account. He was the same agout. This
guy is sitting there and I didn't tag him. I
didn't know he was on social media. He was looking
for his name right after what he was It must
(31:31):
have still been in uniform. He had a dirty, smelly
jockstrap on and he's looking his name up on social media.
And that's the moment I do this guy can't play.
And then he confirmed it when he went to the Jets.
You remember Mike, he didn't know that the Pacific time zone.
He missed meetings when he I think it was with
the Jets. He did not realize the Pacific time zone
(31:51):
was three hours behind the Eastern time zone.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
Yeah, and he was with the Jets too.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Yeah. No, he was terrible and he wasn't He wasn't
average in Seattle, and he'll be average with theirs. That
was one of the worst games he'll have. We'll break
it down next hour, as you know, Mike, we will
have the in depth team coverage of that Raider Charger
game next hour. But Gino, he'll have four or five
games like he did in that game on Monday Night,
and there'll be a few games where Gino looks really
(32:18):
good and he'll fool people and then he'll turn back
into what he is here, you know.
Speaker 7 (32:23):
So that's me.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Let me ask you, Loraina. Can this guy asked me
a question? Loraina? What do you think I suppose we
have time? Okay, quick one, quick one?
Speaker 4 (32:32):
What do the Raiders do? You're cousins, what do the
Riders do?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Well? Pete Carroll's just stopping over right, So Pete Carroll's
going to be there, what two years tops? This year
and another year, so then when Pete's gone, uh to retirement,
they'll get rid of him. And Gino is only going
to be there one or two years. So these are
just like these are stop gap things. So now we'll
see what tom Brady. Tom Brady didn't want want Pete
Carroll or Gino Smith. Tom Brady want not that this
(33:01):
looks any better for the Raiders, but he wanted Ben Johnson,
who is the Bears coach, and he thought he was
going to get Ben Johnson, and Ben Johnson said no,
I want to coach coach the Bears. And then he
didn't want Gino Smith. Remember, he wanted Matthew Stafford. He
tried to get Stafford from the Rams, and Safford didn't
want to play for Tom Brady. So these are just
stop gap things. But they've got to obviously find you
start with a quarterback. To me, the quarterbacks more important
(33:22):
than the coach, because a good quarterback can make up
for an a competent coach, and a competent coach can't
make up for a bad quarterback. But we'll leave it there. Mike,
thank you, the great Mike in Tucson cashing a golden ticket.
I hope these kids don't file for like child abuse
or anything like that because he made him a Raider fan,
you know, like, Dad, you made me a Raider fan
that they might win again and then he'll feel much pride.
(33:45):
Gumby Dave says, Ben alf is correct. It sounds like
a bowl of rice crispies here. Snap crackle pop. Yeah,
I like snap crackle pop. Well, it's nothing on our end.
This is obviously a corporate thing at iHeart right, everything's
the same here. All the buttons are the same and
all everything looks great on my end, and you're not
(34:06):
even overcomeats I am, I'm I'm not. I would never
go in, do you understand? I mean major talent talk
tra host. I can't be bothered to drive all the
way in the crime, the despair that's at outside those studios.
I can't go with the coyotes. I can't be bothered
with that. Well, the Chiefs are owing too, but that
did not stop the party, as Taylor Swift and Travis
(34:28):
Kelsey joined Patrick Mahomes for his thirtieth birthday celebration right
after the Chiefs loss celebrate good stuff Come on cell ub.
Of course, the event took place at the steakhouse they
co own in Kansas City. And they were all out
there having a grand old time, celebrating a little celebration
(34:49):
in Kansas City. And did they have I don't know.
They have cake. Gotta have cake, right, gotta have cake,
gotta do it. Yeah, there you go, having a grand
old time. Of course, the paparazzo was outside. They got
all kinds of photos. Taylor Swift, they're hanging out with
my home smile them behind a big curtain. Uh no.
And they well, they want promotion. They want it because
that gets people to eat steak. So they need that, right,
(35:11):
any people eat steak, So if they see the restaurant
and the tabloids and people go eat steak. And anyway,
here's the who am I game? This is where I
pretend to be somebody else? There's a steak before it's steak.
Here's the who am I game? Who the Chicago Bears
the aforementioned Ben Johnson. Ben Johnson became the first NFL
coach since me to have his team blow a double
(35:33):
digit lead in one game and allow fifty or more
points in another game in the first two games of
a single NFL season. Again, the Chicago Bears. Ben Johnson
became the first NFL coach since me to blow double
digit have his team blow a double digit lead in
one game and allow fifty or more points in another
game in the first two games of a season. Who
(35:54):
am I? That's the question. The answer will get to
it and we will do it next.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
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his team have his team allow fifty or more points
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Who am I The last coach to do it before
the Chicago Bears been Johnson? And let's see, does anyone
(38:01):
know the answer? Herbie the Lovebug guest by Bobby in Florida,
Eric Mangini from Josh, That's his answer, Robbie the Merrier
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Houston. We have a problem. Well, come in. It's our
number one, our one of the Ben Maler Show podcast
on this Tuesday, the sixteenth day of September. As the
Buccaneers fire, the Cannons come back and win in the
final seconds in Houston, and another stinker from the quarterback
(00:22):
of the hometown team. How are things looking for Texans
quarterback CJ. Stroud two games in to what was supposed
to be a redemption twenty twenty five season. Also, are
there any positives for Texans coach Demko Ryans, whose team
off to that zero to two start. What stands out
on the winning side about Baker Mayfield and his late
(00:42):
game heroics for the Buccaneers pirate ship. We'll talk about
all that and much more right now here. It is
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from double Header Action in the NFL on a Monday night,
and I was debating on the game that ended, if
not that long ago, as we crank up the old
(02:12):
audio box here in Vegas, was a not a very
good game. And b we are being covered up by
some of our affiliates for postgame coverage. Believe it or not.
Who the hell wants to hear that crap. But anyway,
so I'm gonna wait on that. I'm gonna wait on
that till later. That's why we have the iHeartRadio apps.
(02:32):
I could have if the game was good, I would
have started with it. They're goods. Start with the good game.
Why talk about the bad game? I'll talk about the
good game. So that's what I'm gonna do. So our
lead this hour is from Houston. That was the undercard
on the Monday night football double eder. You had Baker
Mayfield versus C. J. Stroud. Now, I don't know if
(02:54):
you were watching this game or not. It was another
full six hour, seven hour period with football activity, and
maybe you did not watch it. Our old buddy cHj.
Reeves and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to the sidelines on
the radio there for the Bucks. So the Buccaneers and
the Texans that the matchup not a lot of wow
(03:14):
factor in this so we watched. Don't worry, you did
not have to watch. We watched so you would not
have to watch. And the game came down to the
bitter end. It was nail biting time. The Buccaneers got
the ball, they were trailing. They needed a touchdown down
by five, and Baker Mayfield he took his samurai sword
(03:35):
and he worked his way, navigated his way down the
field an eleven play eighty yard drive capped off by
a Rashad White two yard touchdown run with just six seconds.
That's it, six seconds to go, and Tampa Bay said
turn out the last. The parties over on the Texans
(03:57):
who are zero to two and have a chance to
go ohen seventeen. They have a chance to lose every
game this year. Tampa Bay did go for two, they
didn't get it, so they ended winning game twenty to nineteen.
The final score. Baker Mayfield not a sexy stat line.
He only had two hundred and fifteen yards passing, did
have a couple of touchdowns. But the Buccaneers who also
(04:19):
won in the final seconds thanks to the idiot kicker
for the Atlanta Falcons in Week one. So the Buccaneers
now off to the two and zero start, and Baker
Mayfield also had a couple of big plays with his
legst fifteen yard scramble on a fourth and ten to
keep the game winning drive alive and they end up
going on to win the game. But the better story
(04:40):
is in the losing locker room. The Houston sections are
off to the h to two start. Pee Yeah what stick?
So they had a five point lead. As we said
it was nineteen fourteen. Offense was lacking nineteen fourteen. They
led because of they couldn't run the ball all night
until the end of it. When Nick Chubb. Chubb a
love the old Cleveland round. He sucks now, but he
(05:02):
had a twenty five yard run and it looked like
he was gonna be the hero. There were two ten
to go in the game, Houston goes for two. C J. Stroud, though,
was sacked, and that was the theme of the night.
Stroud threw for just two hundred and seven yards and
a touchdown, and after the first couple of times Houston
had the ball, it was downhill, way downhill, and failed
(05:25):
to move the offense efficiently effectively. For the balance of
the game. It was a snooze fest in the second
half for the Houston Texans, who have some questions that
must be answered now, cause that was not good. Now,
I got no skin in the game on this, but
that was not good at all. All right, Well, here's
(05:47):
let's hear from CJ. Stroud, the Texans quarterback. Then we'll
slice and dice mister Stroud. But here's c J. Stroud
explaining that things offensively for Houston are not let's cut
to by the way, things are not going all that well.
Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I think right now we need more confidence as an offense,
at least just confident playing better together. I think that's
a big thing. We're all we haven't played again a
lot of us. So the more confidence that we build,
I think, the better that we'll be off.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Okay, so that was a whole lot of enough thing,
So let us discuss the question. How are things looking
for the Texans quarterback CJ. Stroud two games in to
the seventeen game season here in twenty twenty five. So
my thoughts on this. I've got YouTube, kiddy table, and
water supply, and we will combine all of these things
(06:35):
together and we're going to make some tex mechs, which
is likely better than the Texans offense at this particular point.
They just put a container of text mechs under center,
and that would actually be better. But hey, listen, the
Texans fans thought they were getting a bounce back season.
The assumption was, hey, we're getting a bounce back season here. CJ.
Stroud was really good when he came into the NFL.
(06:58):
Some said, well, beginner's luck. And then he fell off
a mountain. And of course I was the bad guy,
not to make this all about me, but I pointed
out c J. Stroud not very good, and then I
got a lot of crap from the seven Texans fans
that exist in the world. Well, you don't know what
you're talking about, that's why you're doing overlights. Okay, Well
let's see what we've got right now. There's supposed to
(07:20):
be a bounce back seaton. You told me, you told
me bounce back season for CJ. Stroud. You told me
that two games in again good as a rookie, bad
second year player, c J. Stroud. So here we owe
two games in year three and c J. Stroud does
he not look a lot like Zach Wilson. That's not
a compliment, not a compliment. Based on what we have seen.
(07:44):
We have a show to do today, right, we have
a show to do tonight overnight. But based on that
what we have seen, do you believe in CJ. Stroud?
Do be honest, don't lie to me. He's gone from
hotshot rookie to what's wrong with his guy? To now
the invisible man, the invisible man, pathetic performance much like
(08:06):
he played against the Rams in the opener. Was bad
in that game and c J. Stroud supposed to be
the alpha dog or alpha dog didn't look like it
looked like a chihuahua a lot of yappin, you know,
tack the mailman, all bark, no bite, a lot of that,
and it's like a cryptos stock, but not a good one.
(08:28):
It's like, hey, one of your friends convinces you buy
some cryptos. I didn't really want to do that. Well
you need to buy, ok I'll buy some. I got
this great one, right, So you thought you were buying
you through the text as you're like, oh, we got
some bitcoin, right, that's to the moon. Instead you got
doge coin. That's what you got. Congratulations. Yeah, pump and dump,
pump and dump. That's how it goes. But a few
(08:48):
of you knuckleheads, you know who you are. And I'm
not talking about mister irrigation because mister Irrigation's already had
enough of c J. Stroud based on some comments that
he posted on social media. But the other fanboys, you'll
give him time. It's not his fall. He doesn't have
a great offensive a line, give him protection, all that crap. Okay,
(09:10):
So CJ. Stroud stinks, you're telling me. Unless he has
a great offensive line and great playmakers and everything's perfect
around him, Okay, then he's not very good. You're admitting
he's not very good because anyone will have success if
they have a great offensive line. Anyone will have success
if they have a great offensive line and great playmakers
and all that stuff. All right, So Tamiko Ryans can
(09:32):
spin this and say all he wants and the other
people in Houston about it's not CJ. Stroud's fault all this,
and it's this guy dropped a pass or this guy
didn't block, and it's all that. But it's like the
Irish rock band You two and their classic tune that's
been over twenty years. Elevation, right, you got to elevate
the elite guys make it work. They find a way
(09:55):
to make it work no matter what. They elevate those
around him. That's the job description for a top level Now.
C J. Stroud says average, Okay, he's average, fine, dime
A doesn't average, average, not elite. Elite makes it work.
And c J. Stroud looks like he's floating on a
on a dinghy out in the Gulf of Mexico somewhere
(10:15):
Golf of America. What do you want to call it?
Two games in, I don't see a franchise quarterback. I
don't see it. I see a jag If you want
to call him that, right, just a guy and nothing spectacular.
This keeps off. CJ. Stroud's not leading Houston anywhere except
back to the quarterback quandary. And he'll get coaches fired,
(10:37):
whether it's the head coach, Demico Ryans or the offensive
coaching staff, and they'll be like, we gotta fix this guy,
so we got to change coaches. He'll be a coach killer.
That's what happens. You play like that, you get your
coach fired. Somebody's getting fired. Now. Speaking of the coach, well,
we've got Demico Ryans who is also feeling the raff
of c J. Stroud. Here's a Demico Ryans pointing out
(11:00):
as far as this game on Monday, now, you will
when you have a chance to finish things you might
want to do that. Take a listen, you lot a
good team like this tick around for too long.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
It's what we did and they ended up making a
play there, Baker scrambling going forth down, which we knew.
That's that's who he is. That's how he make the
players of scrambling. He made a big time play on
fourth and ten. You know we got to find a
way to tackle and get him down. And stop him there.
Even on the goal line, we're in position to make
a tackle. We got the guy back and make a
tackle to win the game. That's what the game comes
(11:30):
down to. We had multiple opportunities to win that game,
and we didn't make the plays we needed to make.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
So you didn't name anyone specifically. It was a more
of a collective suck than an individual suck. So yeah,
name everybody. But here's the question, are there any positives?
Are there any positives for Texans coach Demiko Ryans based
on the Monday night game? Now Houston ohing too. So
I watched the entire game because I'm getting paid to
(11:58):
watch it, Otherwise I probably wouldn't. I did watch it,
and so I saw Here's what I saw in terms
of positive zero, n A, zilch, none, bumpkis that's what
I saw.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
A right.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I can't find one positive from the game itself. I
cannot do it, not one positive aout. Jamiico Ryans was
brought in as a defensive mastermind check right. Came over
from the forty nine ers, and that's his calling card.
That's what he's known for. Meat and potatoes all that,
and this game came down to what came down to defense.
(12:36):
Came down to defense. Texans had a five point lead.
The other team has to score a touchdown to beat you.
All you need is a defensive stand. And the Texans
defense did they make the plays? Obviously not. They lost
the game game on the line, Tampa matriculating the ball
down the field and that Texans defense melting faster than
(12:58):
a KitKat that you'll eve on your dashboard in August.
You ever done that or September for that missed a
lot here right right, man, I don't know the KitKat
gets all gooy, it kind of folds together. To me,
that melts more than any of some people say hershey's
bar that that melts. But to me it's the kitcat
like that. I've always had bad experiences with melted KitKat.
(13:20):
And that was the Texans defense late in the game.
You're at home, you're a slight favorite, you lost week one,
so you got to come back here and you gag
demoralizing capital D for the Houston Texans there and if
you're the defensive guru, Dimiko Ryans as he said, you
got to finish the game. I'm not attacking. And also
(13:43):
he says his own words, you got to finish the game,
and instead they allowed Baker Mayfield to convert on that
fourth and ten and essentially Baker punked them, which is
embarrassing for the Texans defense, which I played pretty well.
Now there is a twisted silver lining, So I will
be Benny Bright's side. I am going to be Benny
bright side on this one because pee yet what stinks?
(14:08):
That would be the division the Texans find themselves in.
So despite being owing to the good thing about sitting
at the kiddy table in the NFL, when you're owing to,
you're still very much alive. The division stinks. Jacksonville for Gayzy, right,
they got the coach and the quarterback fighting with each other.
More on that later, Tennessee stump bums. I don't know,
(14:33):
they're not even trying. It's just a developmental year. And
maybe by the end of the year, cam Ward will
know what he's doing and they'll find a couple offensive
linemen and that's it. They'll get another top ten pick.
And then you have the Colts, which right now look amazing. Right,
they got Daniel Jones out there two weeks in a
row painting the Mona. Lisa haven't punted yet in the
(14:54):
NFL this season the Indianapolis Colts, So that's pretty good.
I'm told didn't play, So I don't know if I
can comm on that. I have to check with Ryan Clark.
But give them a month. I give them a month,
Give the Colts a month there, and then that masterpiece,
methinks is see we have this conversation by late October
about Halloween, the masterpiece will turn into a Denny's kids menu.
(15:20):
You know how they give you the crayons and then
the kids draw on the crayon. Yeah, like that and
then with ketchup on it. That's what it's gonna look like.
And as so as much as the Texans are in
a bad spot right now and they are the redheaded
step Show, and that's always like the most embarrassing division
for the NFL because that team that wins that division
has to play the first that early Saturday window on
(15:43):
wild Card weekend where they It's like in the NBA,
if the Toronto Raptors ever make the playoffs, they always
put them in that early window because they want to
hide the team they're kind of embarrassed about. They're shamed
by the team that's whoever wins that AFC South Division.
The Texas though still mathematically very much alive because the
Culture gonna lose plenty of games and all that stuff,
and one of these bad News Bears franchises is going
(16:04):
to make the playoffs and they'll be cannon fodder for
one of the better teams to play. By then you
know somebody's backing into January, into the postseason, whether they
deserve it or not. So there's still that why will
be Benny Brightside in that regard? Now the Detections look
like they're a playoff team, of course not. They're zero too,
and the offense looks completely limp. At this point. We
(16:25):
do have advertisers will help you out on that, and
so listen, congratulations though because of location, location, location, the GPS,
the zip code, all that stuff, you're still still okay,
all right, now, last word, we go to the other
side to Tampa Bay where the Buccaneers, the cardiac kids
off to the two and on start now as they
(16:45):
get it done again. Another gutty performance by Baker Mayfield,
who appears to have that junkyard dog in him as
opposed to the other kind of dog. Yeah, and laying
the game down the stretch, Baker Mayfield, he looked like
he was in aerobics class out there huffing and puffing
and bouncing around off defenders, sometimes getting stomped on by defenders,
(17:09):
sweating it out like he's on a StairMaster at a
jam at three in the morning doing all that, and
and somehow, in some way he drags Tampa across the
finish line with the help of his friends. So what
stands out about Baker Mayfield's late game heroics for the
Buccaneers the Tampa Bay football team, So I continue to
(17:32):
be missing. When Baker got to Tampa, I was like, well,
this is good, but it's not gonna last. And here
we are. How many years he's been there? A couple
years now, three years, he's still going. And so what
stands out about Baker Mayfield is the fact he's like
the NFL's Robert Downey Junior, left for dead after Cleveland
and that experience. He was so bad in Cleveland. Baker
(17:53):
Mayfield's dad was used at by Baker or Odell Beckham's
dad rather, was used by the kid to get messages
out on social media so he could get away from
Baker Mayfield. I'll Beckham wanted to get away from Baker Mayfield.
He went to Carolina Garbage, went to the Rams, had
like a one night stand with the Rams. And now
(18:15):
he's found himself and he's iron Man in Tampa Bay.
Baker Mayfield's Robert Downey Jerrer's iron Man, and he's building
a suit out of scraps in a cave somewhere and
it's going pretty well. It's going pretty well. And that's
Baker Mayfield in a buccaneer uniform at this particular point.
Supposed to be at this time, you'd say, based on
what he did in Cleveland and Carolina, you'd say it
(18:38):
by this time, Baker Mayfield should have been put on
the cast of Dancing with the Stars and doing a
bad podcast like every other hack Jock does and washed
up Jock. But instead, instead he's out there beating a
team that was in the playoffs in the fourth quarter,
making plays. And so I would say, check the water
(18:58):
supplies what I would say, because Ponce Deli owns fountain
of youth there in Tampa. I remember Tom Brady when
he went to Tampa. Tom Brady, we thought he was toast.
He was done in New England and then suddenly he's
chugging the avocado tequila and winning a super Bowl in Tampa,
and Baker's obviously we know he's not Tom Brady. We
(19:20):
know that, we know that, we know that, we know that,
we know that, we know that, we know that, we
know that. However, he has reinvented himself, and the reinvention
vibe very similar. There continues to be the youth thought
I was washed. He really rides that you thought I
was washed? And think again, you think again. It's been
a total rebrand, total rebrand. It's like our caller in Vegas,
(19:45):
big balls Bob in case, big balls Baker getting it
done there at the end of the game there and
so good for him, good for him right against the
defense that was supposed to be pretty good, was pretty
good most of the second half of that game until
the very end there in Baker Mayfield like an NFL
cockroach and it's nuclear winter, doesn't matter. He's still out
(20:07):
there crawling around. He does that and you can't kill him,
and shows up and a head butt a lineman here
and do all that and knock you out anyway. It
is the bang mallor show you want to come in on.
That or the late Monday night game. Let's saw the
Chargers dominate the Raiders. How's that Gino Smith working out
(20:29):
for your Raider fan? You like that? You enjoy that? Yeah,
you like the taste of that. Yeah you like down car?
You do? Oh yeah, you got to how many more?
Fifteen more games of that?
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Yell me?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
What did they think was going to happen when they
acquired Gino Smith? Like what were they expecting? Like do
you think they were getting a good quarterback? Because he's
like sucked? Like did they actually think he would be
good because he put on different laundry? Is that where
they thought?
Speaker 5 (20:51):
God?
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Is he so bad? That's one of the great stories.
They should do a documentary how Geno Smith has started
for this many years in the NFL not being any good.
It's wild, Like it's it's a multi billion dollar business.
There's such a shortage of quarterbacks. So the guy like
Baker Mayfield, who we know is an abject failure as
an NFL quarterback, and yet he bounces around and it's
(21:13):
like they move him to different teams and he's just bad,
bad to the bone. All right. It is the Ben
Mahlor Show. If you would like to be part of this.
You can join us right now, and how do you
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So remember that. You got to remember that and follow
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me on there, otherwise your comments will not be read
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What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do?
You gotta sell celebrate bad times, sell, lebrate bad times.
We'll get to that. We'll take your calls, the whole thing,
and we will do it next.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
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Speaker 1 (22:57):
Celebrating good times. I think to thank you everyone, what
a great championship, one of my great wins of all time.
It is I Bill Miller and you were locked in
on the Ben Mallor Show. It is an interactive experience.
Now most of you will not interact with us at all.
There's these things called consultants, and they've done surveys and
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Don't worry, don't worry, it's just pay.
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The tot, And every once in a while they would
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So you do not have to participate. You can just
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it's amazing, unbelievable. Jerk yourself away. So here's how you
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It's a social media platform. It used to be called Twitter,
then Elon Musk bought it, changed the name to X
and he charges people to go on it, and I don't.
I don't pay for it, so I'm limited how much
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I can do on there because I'm giving you my
money away. Come on. Social media is supposed to be free.
You are the product. And Loraina, the FSR Tech Queen,
very excited about that. Cowboy is that your cowboy victory hat?
Wearing my cowboy hat? Is that your victory hata their winner?
Well not really and Cooper Loop at a Bronco fan
(24:42):
not wearing it. I'm not wearing not wearing a Bronco
hat and trying to avoid jumping on any special teams
players there anyway say hello, you know the drill. Back
to it all, right, back to it we go, and
a lot of you have hot takes, love to send
in your hot takes, and so we are here for
(25:03):
the hot takes. Absolutely, Late night drug tester says, letting
Baker cook in Tampa seems to work. I bet Dick
and Dayton wishes he was still on the Browns. No, no, no, Now,
Dick and Dayton calls in the last hour of the show,
and I think this is a day that he's I've
got to check the payroll, but I think he's supposed
to call in today. I think we're give him a
(25:24):
couple of bucks to call in from the old timers
home there and Dayton, thank you, said, Usually a day
he calls in, Dick and Dayton. If you gave him
truth serum and said, Dick, what should the Browns do
at quarterback? He would say, bring back Bernie Cozar. That's
what he would say, Bring back Bernie. Yeah, that's what
he's say. Ferg Dog says, Justin Herbert has put the
(25:45):
whole league on notice. He's here and he's not to
be trifled, a trifled, trifled, trifle, trifled. There we go with. Also,
I believe Jason Smith let it get warm in the
studio so he can do hot yoga during the show. Well,
there's a hot yoga place right across the courtyard here,
so if you want to go to hot yoga, it's
(26:07):
right across the courtyard. And I've not been in there.
I see a lot of people who love to socialize
walking out of there when I'm getting into the building.
They love to sit in the parking lot and talk.
Which is funny because our security guard, who's he used
to work, he finds them. Well, he used to work
the overnight shift. Great guy, love the guy right, writes
comic books. He's an interesting dude. So this guy, our
(26:29):
security guard, they only validate. They charge a lot of
money to park in the building, like a ridiculous amount
of money, like an insane amount of money, like like
you've lost your mind type of money. Right, So they
charge a lot of party and they validate at this
hot yoga studio which is across the way. They validate
for a couple hours. The problem is at these people
sit there and they talk for forty minutes in the
(26:51):
parking lot, and then they end up having to pay,
and then they lose their mind and then they yelled
the security guard. But as Lurana pointed out, oftentimes the
security guard is the one socialized with the people. I've
seen him, not like, Okay, I'll follow you guys to
the exit. Yeah, well he falls into the exit. He
told me. He goes out there because a lot of
the people they don't understand. Apparently they make a lot
(27:11):
of money, because that thing's not cheap. The yoga place
over there, they're not. It's like when somebody's really smart
in one area and they're stupid in the other. Like
these people are doctors and lawyers and stuff like that,
but they can't seem to figure out the parking. They're
lost by the parking. So I don't understand alf the alien,
Opiner writes and says, is anyone else having audio quality issues?
A problem with the iHeart FSR feed scratching and popping.
(27:34):
What must be the gremlins. That's what happens when we
do the show from your remote studio. There's gremlins. It's
great to me, Bet, I don't know, man, the's gremlin's
attacking my remote studio. You think I'd go in there
and hang out with you, please, He says, I thought
it was Ben Malor's mike, but it continued into the break.
I'm switching to another feed to see if it continues. Well, Alf,
there our boots on the ground, so let us know
(27:56):
if there's any kind of problems there. Yeah, Femi writes
in from the Great state of Minnesota, he's one of
the top uber eats spape. I think he's number one
right there in Minnesota. In Minneapolis, he says Ben, with
Todd Bowles success in Tampa, maybe the Jets real problem
is the water in New Jersey. Is it too wet?
(28:17):
It's the water too wet. No, it's the swamp land
of New Jersey that there's a curse that has been
put on the swamp land of New Jersey where where
they end up playing there. Aileen rights in says, Nimiko
Ryans was my forty nine ers defensive corner. Aileen in
San Francisco twenty one to twenty two, left to be
the Houston head coach. There's no excuse for Houston's bad defense,
(28:39):
and she says, break me off a piece of that
kit Cat bar. Well, it's all I'd break you off
a piece, but it's melted. See that's the problem. You
do not want And have you noticed like I've done
this a few times where I've left the kit Cat
bar out and then you put it in the freezer
or refrigerator and it never's the same. It looks funny,
it looks really odd, like the chocolate's all melted. It's
this shape is kind of there, but it's not. It's
(29:02):
it's a message. Let's go to the phones. Cashing a
golden ticket in the leadoff chair. We say hello to
Mike in Tucson right away, a golden tech X.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
I'm gonna go, hey, Ben, If I was any better,
I would be a Raider when I Las Vegas Traders.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Because we just choked it up on prime time. That's
why we don't get these primetime games. You know what
hurts me the most, Bet, I have three sons and
they all say, Dad, why do you make me Raider fan?
I force him to be Raider fans. It's so much
disappointment every year.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Well, you should you should tell you, you should tell
your tell your kids that listen, say kids, the problem
you kids is that you were born too late. You
should have been born fifty years earlier. And then the
Raiders were good you you waited too late to be born.
That's a bad job by you.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Are we courage?
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Is the coaching?
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Is that?
Speaker 5 (29:53):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Because every year is something you don't spit pray so
bad And now you know why he'ston down someth three
picks who was so terrible to like, I need to
see why he bounced around so much that.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Well, yeah he sucks. I mean, but listen, and I'll
give credit to the Raider for unlike those dopes. And
see I used to fight with No stradinas in Seattle,
not JJ and Retten, but no studious. He was like
defender of Geno Smith metaphorically. Of course I liked No stroudenis,
but we would fight about Gino Smith and I was like,
this guy stanks and he's oh, no, he's going he's
going no, no, no. You know the moment I knew
(30:28):
the moment I knew. The moment I knew Mike the
Gino Smith is a bum was when he was at
West Virginia. They were playing in the Pinstripe Bowl at
Yankee Stadium, and I was. It was like over the holidays,
and I was I was at the gym and I
was watching the game and he was horrific, and I
(30:48):
was like, this guy blows right. So I sent out
a comment on social media, and as the game had
just ended, like literally like like five minutes after the
game ended, and I get a notification from this account
which claimed to be Gino Smith right, who was attacking
my attacking what I had said. And I kind of
(31:08):
forgot about it, and I was like, all right, whatever
is probably a burner account of fake or whatever. It's
not a real Geno Smith acount. So then when the
NFL draft came around, he was drafted, I think in
the second round. They put up his Twitter account. It
was the same account. He was the same agout. This
guy is sitting there and I didn't tag him. I
didn't know he was on social media. He was looking
for his name right after what he was It must
(31:31):
have still been in uniform. He had a dirty, smelly
jockstrap on and he's looking his name up on social media.
And that's the moment I do this guy can't play.
And then he confirmed it when he went to the Jets.
You remember Mike, he didn't know that the Pacific time zone.
He missed meetings when he I think it was with
the Jets. He did not realize the Pacific time zone
(31:51):
was three hours behind the Eastern time zone.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
Yeah, and he was with the Jets too.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Yeah. No, he was terrible and he wasn't He wasn't
average in Seattle, and he'll be average with theirs. That
was one of the worst games he'll have. We'll break
it down next hour, as you know, Mike, we will
have the in depth team coverage of that Raider Charger
game next hour. But Gino, he'll have four or five
games like he did in that game on Monday Night,
and there'll be a few games where Gino looks really
(32:18):
good and he'll fool people and then he'll turn back
into what he is here, you know.
Speaker 7 (32:23):
So that's me.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Let me ask you, Loraina. Can this guy asked me
a question? Loraina? What do you think I suppose we
have time? Okay, quick one, quick one?
Speaker 4 (32:32):
What do the Raiders do? You're cousins, what do the
Riders do?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Well? Pete Carroll's just stopping over right, So Pete Carroll's
going to be there, what two years tops? This year
and another year, so then when Pete's gone, uh to retirement,
they'll get rid of him. And Gino is only going
to be there one or two years. So these are
just like these are stop gap things. So now we'll
see what tom Brady. Tom Brady didn't want want Pete
Carroll or Gino Smith. Tom Brady want not that this
(33:01):
looks any better for the Raiders, but he wanted Ben Johnson,
who is the Bears coach, and he thought he was
going to get Ben Johnson, and Ben Johnson said no,
I want to coach coach the Bears. And then he
didn't want Gino Smith. Remember, he wanted Matthew Stafford. He
tried to get Stafford from the Rams, and Safford didn't
want to play for Tom Brady. So these are just
stop gap things. But they've got to obviously find you
start with a quarterback. To me, the quarterbacks more important
(33:22):
than the coach, because a good quarterback can make up
for an a competent coach, and a competent coach can't
make up for a bad quarterback. But we'll leave it there. Mike,
thank you, the great Mike in Tucson cashing a golden ticket.
I hope these kids don't file for like child abuse
or anything like that because he made him a Raider fan,
you know, like, Dad, you made me a Raider fan
that they might win again and then he'll feel much pride.
(33:45):
Gumby Dave says, Ben alf is correct. It sounds like
a bowl of rice crispies here. Snap crackle pop. Yeah,
I like snap crackle pop. Well, it's nothing on our end.
This is obviously a corporate thing at iHeart right, everything's
the same here. All the buttons are the same and
all everything looks great on my end, and you're not
(34:06):
even overcomeats I am, I'm I'm not. I would never
go in, do you understand? I mean major talent talk
tra host. I can't be bothered to drive all the
way in the crime, the despair that's at outside those studios.
I can't go with the coyotes. I can't be bothered
with that. Well, the Chiefs are owing too, but that
did not stop the party, as Taylor Swift and Travis
(34:28):
Kelsey joined Patrick Mahomes for his thirtieth birthday celebration right
after the Chiefs loss celebrate good stuff Come on cell ub.
Of course, the event took place at the steakhouse they
co own in Kansas City. And they were all out
there having a grand old time, celebrating a little celebration
(34:49):
in Kansas City. And did they have I don't know.
They have cake. Gotta have cake, right, gotta have cake,
gotta do it. Yeah, there you go, having a grand
old time. Of course, the paparazzo was outside. They got
all kinds of photos. Taylor Swift, they're hanging out with
my home smile them behind a big curtain. Uh no.
And they well, they want promotion. They want it because
that gets people to eat steak. So they need that, right,
(35:11):
any people eat steak, So if they see the restaurant
and the tabloids and people go eat steak. And anyway,
here's the who am I game? This is where I
pretend to be somebody else? There's a steak before it's steak.
Here's the who am I game? Who the Chicago Bears
the aforementioned Ben Johnson. Ben Johnson became the first NFL
coach since me to have his team blow a double
(35:33):
digit lead in one game and allow fifty or more
points in another game in the first two games of
a single NFL season. Again, the Chicago Bears. Ben Johnson
became the first NFL coach since me to blow double
digit have his team blow a double digit lead in
one game and allow fifty or more points in another
game in the first two games of a season. Who
(35:54):
am I? That's the question. The answer will get to
it and we will do it next.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill.
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(36:51):
Now we're gonna have the payoff on the who M
I Game? But first the play of the day. Very
rarely is an NFL game decided in the final ten seconds,
but that leads us into our big tire i RAC
play of the night. The Buccaneers trailing late against the
Texans and they had to score a touchdown. Mayfield sends
it back in motion, hands them ball over for Shotawhite
(37:13):
into the end zone.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Is he in? Is he in?
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Touch?
Speaker 5 (37:17):
Stout?
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Tampa Bay touchdown, Tampa Bay Buccaneers take the lead at
twenty to nineteen. Fire the cannons. That's the great Gene
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Now the big payoff on the who am I Game?
The Bears been Johnson, the first NFL coaches me to
blow a double digit lead, in one game and allow
his team have his team allow fifty or more points
in another in the first two games of a season.
Who am I The last coach to do it before
the Chicago Bears been Johnson? And let's see, does anyone
(38:01):
know the answer? Herbie the Lovebug guest by Bobby in Florida,
Eric Mangini from Josh, That's his answer, Robbie the Merrier
fan guess by Rob the Goatman Nick Jonas. Who's thirty
three today? From Late Night Drug Tester King Royce Gordon
with Hayden Fox. Is his answer? Ray j from scoos.
Do you have an answer to write your favorite stooge
Curly No, it's Rich Code Tight. Back in nineteen ninety five,
(38:25):
Rich Code Tite with the Jets, Rich Code Tite
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