September 17, 2025 • 47 mins
Big Ben talks about Dodgers manager Dave Roberts pulling Shohei Ohtani from a no-hitter after 5 innings, Tua Tagovailoa saying that he can't do "half of what Josh Allen does," Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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So how does one stop greatness? I don't know in
all sports, but I know in baseball. If you want
to slow down greatness, have Dave Roberts and the Nerds
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We don't normally talk baseball during the regular season. It's
not much of a talker. I picked my spots on that,
especially when there's football going on. Another amazing night of
baseball at Dodgers Stadium, the Dodgers and the Phillies. Phillies
winning the National League East, not that that means much anymore,
but they did do that, and trying to wrap up
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the home field advantage is one of the top two teams.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
They and the Brewers will likely get home field advantage.
Not that that matters.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
There's really no home field in baseball. So anyway, get
to the point, please so show Hail Tani might know
this by now, maybe you haven't been paying attention. So
show hal Tani was pitching a no hitter.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
No granted it was midway through the game.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
It was five innings into the game, so it wasn't
in the eighth or the ninth inning. But he was
pitching no hit baseball for five innings. And then Dave
Roberts did what Dave Roberts does. He cuts the balls
off history. That's what Dave Roberts does. He neuters hit
any chance at history. Dave Roberts chop, chop, cut, cut,
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there goes history, and he pulled them over the game.
Now Dodgers had a four to nothing lead, and at
that point I might as well have been the Philly fanatic.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I was go Phillies, Go, Go Phillies go. I admit it.
I'm not ashamed to admit it. I admit it.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And then I got my wish. Philadelphia conducted batting practice
that years ago.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I used to go to batting practice.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
They hit the ball harder during the game than they
do in batting practice. Okay, extended BP for the fight
in Phills against that wobbly Dodger bullpen, and Philadelphia put
up six runs in the sixth inning, five consecutive.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
It's ended with six runs.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Then the TODs came back to tie the game, and
of course the Phillies teeing off more on that Dodger bullpen.
They ended up hitting another big home run the ninth,
and he ended up with a nine to six victory
in the game. And we again, we don't only talk
about baseball other than the playoffs, and we picked our
spots at this time of the year.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
But this is the exception of the rule.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
And then I saw some of Dave Roberts commentary after
the game, and Dave Roberts said that it was predetermined
that the decision was made prior to the game that
Otani was only going to go five innings no matter what. Now,
keep in mind he had only thrown sixty eight pitches.
Sixty eight pitches, and this schmndrick Dave Roberts takes him
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out of the game. Sixty eight pitches out of the game.
No hitter doesn't matter, all right, So let us discuss.
Give me your school of thought on the Dodgers philosophy.
It's the organizational philosophy led by Dave Roberts, who's in
the dugout for pulling sho hail Tani from a no
hitter after just sixty eight pitches. So I've got Jim Nance,
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Milli Vanilli and Tiny Vodka Battle, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make corn dogs because the Dodgers have a lot of
time beat corn dogs because they're not gonna be in
the playoffs very long with these morons are anyway, all right,
So hey, let's just start with this. I've determined based
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on years and years of watching this in this era
of the Dodgers, this is on brand.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
It is on brand.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Dave Roberts and the Dodgers are the only team in
baseball that consistently consistently does this. Like there are other
teams that do it occasionally, the Dodgers lead all of
baseball in this. Individual greatness is not allowed when you
play for the Dodgers. It is not allowed. Dave Roberts
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has taken more pitchers out with no hitters than anyone
in the history of baseball. That's my stat I don't
even know if it is true. We're just gonna go
with it. And they always do it out of an
abundance of caution.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Which drives me Bukers okay, drives me bokers, no, but
he knows when someone's gonna get hurt.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Nobody knows what the perfect amount of pitches is. People
say a hundred pitches, but that's only because it's a
round number, and people love round numbers. And there have
been pitchers from the old school that pitched way more
than that and didn't have any problems. And there are
pictures in the modern game that throw a lot less
than one hundred pitches.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
They're hurt all the time.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
But yet gotta pull o'tani, Gotta take o'tani out of
the game, right and put the parade of terribles, the
horribles out of the bullpen there. And its organizational malpractice
is what it is. And the Dodters are mastereda now.
As I said on the Socials, if Dave Roberts managed
Nolan Ryan, the greatest strikeout artist in baseball history, if
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Dave Roberts managed Nolan Ryan, he would have ended his
career with no no hitters, zero, no no hitters. Bumpkis
all right, and he'd be he'd be sitting the dugout
after the fifth inning, and Dave Roberts would say, hey, Nolan,
I got to talk to you, and Dave would go
down and Nolan would say, yes, skip, what do you need?
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And Roberts would then explain that that seventy two pitches
wish you through. That's what the computer says. We got
to take you out because we don't like your chances
facing the lineup the third time through.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Well, wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
In a previous life, I had seven no hitters. Doesn't matter,
doesn't matter, doesn't matter. You'd never even have heard of
the Ryan Express, the greatest strikeout pitcher of all time,
if he got to play with Dave Roberts.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
It's unbelievable. And then the other.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Part about this, the Dodgers coddle these guys. They absolutely
call you baby. They're pitchers. They hide behind pitch counts
and the analytics, and they are convinced that they are
the smartest people.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
In the room. And you're a moron. I'm a dumb dumb.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
We're all idiots and they know everything. And what's the result.
It's a kunga line. If Tommy John surgeries, you get it,
Tommy John, you get it. Tommy John to Tommy John,
as Jim Nance would say, all right, they've turned elbow surgery,
Tommy John surgery into a franchise tradition unlike any other.
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It's right next to the Dodger Dog and the late
great Vinscully. That's the Dodgers, all right. That's how they
operate a pyramid of shredded ligaments behind Dodger Stadium from
their pictures and despite all the evidence indicating what they
are doing is fundamentally broken. All right, what they are
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doing doesn't work. They won't change. They will They're stubborn.
They will not change, they will not adapt, won't do it.
It's kind of like bad parenting. Now, you think about
bad parenting. If you're a parent and you expect very
little from your children, you're going to get very little
from your children. If you expect greatness, you may get greatness,
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but at least you'll get some good stuff, even if
it's not greatness. And Dave Roberts so robotic, and he's
the face as I realize there's other people making these decisions,
and he's just getting a fat check to hang out
with the sports writers and bust balls before the game.
But Dave Roberts a robotic it's by the book, and
it's middle manager Bull crap, which I can't stand. There's
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no room for the human element in coaching. Like sometimes
you have to trust your gut. Occasionally you have to
trust your gut. It does not happen. And this is
a great example. They had Otani who's on the mound
dealing and no, cannot do it, cannot have it, cannot
risk it, abundance of car sh add cannot do it.
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The iPad in the dugout says, five innings, Max, I
am merely following my orders. Yeah, okay, So what happened
to go to the bullpen and give up nine runs?
Nine runs? Rather than have a picture push the limits?
You can never push the limits of the human body
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and test the boundaries, which I think I thought was
kind of athletic competition testing the limits and things like that,
But I guess not.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Things have changed, not for the better.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
So but they again, this is the whole thing, and
it drives me's The Dodgers organizational philosophy is to have
guys do the bare minimum, clock in, just do enough,
make it look like you're busy when you're futzing around
on your phone, just make it look like you're actually
doing something right. And that's it and just do enough.
Never ever strive, never ever.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Strive for anything more than that. Don't do it.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
That's the Dodgers. Don't expect greatness. Because they don't expect greatness,
and you get paid.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
A lot of money.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
There's no room for improv no room for improv at all.
Just the dogma of the nerd, the dogma of the nerd.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
That's the Dodgers. It's a box checking exercise.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I have a couple people I still know over there
when I did stuff years ago with the Dodgers, and
I actually was sending messages to a few of them,
and I said, listen, you could literally take anyone out
of the pavilion a Dodgers and put them in the
dugout as long as they can just follow the script.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
It's unbelievable. All right now, turning the pace, we go
to the NFL. Why why not? And we're gonna start
in Philadelphia. The e A gee l e egles.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
They're left tackle. Jordan Blata not happy. He's had enough
of the evil media. He's upset. You see this, He's
upset with the media narrative that his team won the
Super Bowl rematch against the Chiefs this past weekend because
of Tushy.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
During a Philly radio interview. I'm sure that was riveting
Jordan Mylotta rather than me, say let's go to the
audio tip. Here's the Eagles left tackle commenting on his
distaste for the media stories regarding the outcome of that
Eagle Chiefs game.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I understand the outrage.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
What I don't understand is nam using it as an
excuse to why we won the game. I think it's
incredibly disrespectful to our defense and our special teams who
bowled out my brothers on defense, the special teams who
out that game, who had outbacks when we went moving
the ball or we went doing anything. That pisses me
off because we give so much to this game and
to kind of base of a short yattage play that
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is a football play, and say that we won the
game off that, but not not how a defense played,
not how our special teams have played, putting us in
those positions. You know, I think it's I think it's
bull crap. I just think it's rubbish. That's absolutely rubbish.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Man.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
It makes me makes my blood boil just thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
All right, So question, what is the most puzzling thing
about the Eagles left tackle.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
There Jordan Malata.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Grumbling, grumble, grumble, grumble about the media's obsession with the Tuschwitz.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
By the way, that's either a accent from from from
Georgia or from Australia, one of those two. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
No, he's from Australia, so this is a rather bizarre
mountain to die on. Like, and by the way, he's
from Australia, does he really know American football? I mean,
let's be honest here, come on, I mean, it's a
rugby play. It's a rugby It's like Ozzie rules football.
So here's I don't want to understand why these guys
don't embrace it. I've said this, like their coach is
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like a schmuck. Everyone hates who's not an Eagle fan,
Nick Sirianni. So why not just embrace the dark side?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Right?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Be Darth Vader, be Palpatine, be the become the meme,
let the hate flow through you all that.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Instead, you've got Jordan Mylotta out there.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Who's on on the radios you heard, and he's pouting
like somebody left him out of the group chat, like
he's upset by that many around the NFL are starting
to reevaluate the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Right, And this is what Jordan Mylotta doesn't like and
the Eagles don't like. And I get it. I wouldn't
like it either if I was the Eagles.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
But people are revisiting the Eagles here in this success
and they're like, well, wait a minute. You know, this
is about as authentic as the Grammy that Millie Vanilli
won back in the day.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
If you don't know who that is, look it up.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
It's a they did lip syncing, very popular years ago,
and they did lip syncing. They never sang the song curl.
You know it's true, you know it's true. Is it
wrong to say that the Eagles are the Milli Vanilli
of the twenty twenty five NFL?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Right now?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
They're one trick. Their lip syncing is what they're doing,
and they're really lipsticking their way through the NFL with
that one play. So if I ask you what is
great about the Philadelphia Eagles, what is top of the line,
A number one pedigree?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
What is it? What are you gonna tell me? Well,
they have a good defense.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Okay, it's not the eighty five Chicago Bears defense. It's okay,
it's fine. Let's peel this thing back, all right, so
we peel it back. Jalen Hurts is he an elite quarterback? Well,
I mean, if you expect a quarterback to throw for
less than one hundred yards in some games, less than
one hundred and fifty yards, Okay, that's elite for me.
That's not a lead. I know you're just being a critic.
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Jalen Hurts not elite. Sekwan Barkley is elite. That's terrific,
But he's a running back. Doesn't make it tingle in
modern football. It doesn't on defense and special teams fights.
But nobody's posting on social media about the Eagles defense
and special teams.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
The only thing, the only.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Thing that is head and shoulders above the rest of
the NFL is the tush push. That's it, end of it.
That's that's all. They're it, and that's it. That's the
entire act of the Philadelphia Eagles. That's it, and that's
why people talk about this and Jordan Mailatta doesn't like it,
and the Eagles get all testy about this because it's
it's for them. It's like the Staples easy button running
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that play first and nine every time it's not first
and ten, because if it's if it's fourth and one,
they automatically get the first down. They convert ninety six
point six percent of the time, ninety six point six
percent of the time. That's how they operate. That's their
secret ingredient right there. And so instead of just laughing
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it off and say oh, you know whatever, no, it
makes you look soft the reaction the Eagles have had
to this, And if you're really, really good, you don't
care what people are saying, because you're so dominant, you
don't really care. However, the fact that factions of the
philadel Fi Eagles they're.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
So bothered by this proves one thing that we have
nailed it.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
That Again, I don't think you should be banned the
toush push.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
However, it's going.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
To end up being banned now, like at this point,
we do the show right now and in this moment,
if you ask me, will this thing be banned?
Speaker 3 (16:39):
I say yes.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
But again, my advice here, unsolicited advice of the Eagles,
rather than whine and complain about it and have a
conniption fit, is just embrace the tush push. Embrace the
hate because the second that play gets banished by the NFL,
the philadel Fi Eagles become a nine to eight type
team there and eight and nine just the middle of
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the pack NFC team. They're nothing special.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
With that play. They are special without that play. Eh,
you know you don't really care about it? All right?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Now, last word, we go to Minnesota, the quarterback shake
up continues and the Vikings filling out their quarterback room
with Desmond.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Ridder as the backup.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Now, I normally would not would not partake in this
because I really care about Desmond Ridder, but the coverage
on this got my attention. So that's what I wanted
to talk with you about. So the question on this one,
where are you at? On the NFL network reporting glowingly
that the Vikings have added Desmond Ridder as a proven,
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experienced starter. All right, So this is the old case
of if you go and pick up a big heifer
at the farm there, big giant, fat pig, and you
put lipstick on it, it's still a pig. And so
Desmond Ridder, we all agree, we've decided he stinks, and
he's got eighteen starts with the Falcons and the Raiders
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and sixteen touchdowns, fourteen interceptions. That's not experienced. That is evidence,
is what it is. It's evidence to show that he's
not good. Call a spade a spade. We believe in that,
and so stop treating the people that consume your product
like idiots. The state sponsored NFL media, the prop the
news service of the NFL. People can google things. There's chat,
GPT and other AI platforms now these days, so you
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can look up the numbers, you can dig.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Around the numbers and all that.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
And if you look, Desmond Ridder is a dog with fleas,
How would you like to be Kevin O'Connell, Kevin O'Connell.
It was all a quarterback whisper Kevin O'Connell. The man's
got Carson Wentz on one side of the quarterback room
and Desmond Ritter on the other side.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
This like raiding the mini bar.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
You're really really hungry, You go to your hotel, you
raid the mini bar after your flight got canceled, you
haven't eaten, the restaurants are closed. You end up getting
a little tin bottle of vodka and you have like
five M and ms that you pay thirty five dollars
for and then you immediately have therapy on speed dial.
Is it's depressing Carson Wentz and Desmond Ridder the dynamic
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fire duo, as in dumpster fire, not good fire, dumpster
fire here. And so that's the quarterback room. It smells.
It smells like a wet dog, is what it smells like.
My God rolled in garbage. And there's the NFL.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Network, those bastions of truth who are reporting, Oh no, up,
it's like that. They love. They must love polishing turds
over there, they must love it. It's like Desmond Ridder
is the Hope Diamond. No, it's a turd, and that's
what it is. But he's an experienced starter. What are
you talking about?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I'd like the quote Nick Saban who famously said back
at Alabama when was asked about experience and returning starters
and all that, he pointed out that just because you
have experience does not mean you're good.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
It does not mean that you're good. And so it's
gas lighting People's what it is. And I think are they.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Think we're all a bunch of rubes, And you can
maybe speak for yourself. I don't believe I'm a rube.
I don't, and you do not need some kind of
telescope to realize the desmer Ritder stinks.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
You just don't.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
You don't need that, and even Stevie Metpauls who's blind,
can see he can see that.
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buying should be. So we'll get back to the Otani
conversation in a few minutes. Get a bunch of people
on holding on a rant and complain as Otani the
Dodger game he was taken out, had a no hitter,
and Dave Roberts announced after the game they had already
been decided before the game that Otani was coming out
after five minutes, sixty eight pitches. That's your modern Dodger
baseball right there. That's your Dodgers right there. Gutless, absolutely gutless.
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Buy the book. Follow the numbers. Pathetic, all right, But
our lead this hour from the NFL, we go to Miami.
Speaking of pathetic, the Miami Dolphins continue to be floundering,
but they're good for business, so we're happy about that.
The Dolphins continue to fill up the content machine here
at Fox Sports Radio. They play an island game, the
Island Life on Thursday night in Orchard Park, just outside Buffalo.
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There that the lead up to the in the lead
up us in the lead up to the game, there
was a there was some conversation here that caught my attention,
and a quote by the quarterback who provides entertainment not
much for the fans in South Florida, went viral. So
if you didn't see this, perhaps not. Dolphins quarterback Tua Tongue.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Of Eyloa was waxing loquacious about Josh Allen, who he's
going against his divisional opponent there in a Buffalo Bill's uniform,
and let's just say he went a little over the top.
Let's go to the audio tape. Here's Tua.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
He's top tier.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
You know, if it's not with his arm, it's with
his legs. You know that dude can do literally anything
he wants. So definitely different skill set for me, I
can't do half of what he does when it comes
to running the ball and any of that. And then
with how he can just chuck the ball down the field,
you know, with how far and the arm strength that
he has, you know, he's supreme when it comes to that.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
All right, so we laiter it on fixed.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
So let us discuss that has gone viral, the question
how do you assess tua tongue of Eyloa the Dolphins
quarter saying he can't do half of what Josh Allen does.
So I've got taxi cab, doctor Drew, and moon boots
and we will combine all of these things together and
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the proper amount of nuts and pretzels and mix them
all together and it's just perfect. So number I said
number one, this might be the number of games the
Dolphins will win. My first thought is this must have
been a lou Holtz thing. When I saw this quote
and then I heard the audio, my initial thought was,
this is the old Golden Domers coach from back in
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the day. It was on television for a long time,
and this was what he used to do, and many
coaches did this for a long time.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
It's a term called poor mouthing. I didn't make that up.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Poor mouthing, and that is where you poor mouth the opponent.
You embellish, you go over the top, so when you
beat them, you look like a Goliath slayer. You butter
up the opponent is what you're supposed to do. However,
with Tua, I didn't get that vibe.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
I did not like.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
To me, this is genuine, that he's such a sweetheart
to a tongue about loa that.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
He actually like believes I believe he means it. Like like,
I think that's legit.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Like it like Tua's basically starring in an HBO remake
of Taxi Cab Confessions NFL quarterback variety, pouring out his
heart and soul. Pouring out his heart and soul. Now, listen,
self awareness is cute. We like self awareness. But let's
not kid ourselves here that Tua is telling the world
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that he is a knockoff brand, that he is a
generic brand quarterback.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
He is the iPhone.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Well, I guess Josh Allen would be the iPhone in
this one, and then Tua would be like he'd be
like the Android, but not a good Android, like the
kind that overheats when it gets into the it gets
too many things going like Netflix or some like that
on the phone. But let's put the finances to the
love test.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
What do you think here? The love test?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
So Tua has a one hundred and sixty seven million guarantee,
and then you've got Josh Allen who's at two hundred
and fifty million.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
So if I.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Believe the math on that, it's about Josh Allen compared
to Tua, Tua makes about thirty three percent less in
terms of guaranteed money as opposed to Josh Allen. So
it's kind of like comparing a waterfront mansion in Buffalo
to a condo on the twenty second floor in Miami
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in South Beach. Like Miami Beach, that area, the square
footage is not even close, right, the square footage is
not that close. Now, toua admitting that he can't keep up.
That's essentially what I took away, And I was like, listen,
I'm not as good as this guy. This guy's much
better than me. Now, it's refreshing honesty. It is refreshingly
honest that Tua said this It also undermines a problem
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that Tua's un minding the Dolphins is what he's doing
here because he's he's the guy. They knew that he
was wobbly, they gave him the contract, and so Miami
is rolling into what is supposed to be a heavyweight fight.
They're big underdogs on the game Thursday night, So the
Dolphins go into that and the Bills are a heavy
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favorite in that game, and the quarterback matchup between Tua
and Josh Allen, Tua just admitted, not listen, I'm not
in the same class.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
Not.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
That's not exactly a raw Rah speech where you're like,
we're gonna go shock the world. That's another episode of
the Miami Dolphins twenty twenty five season, which at this
point is like a sitcom. It's like a sitcom here
at this point for the Dolphins. You q the laugh track.
Miami is zero to two. Their defense, I believe is
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ranked thirty first in points allowed. They would be thirty second,
but the Bears played the Lions.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
They're perfect and they were terrible.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
So now their quarterback, to a tongue of bila Is
is basically writing fan mail to the guy that he's
supposed to be competing with in the division. And it's
for get hard knocks. This is like everybody loves tour.
This is and everyone loves to a thing every week.
It's a new script. You've got the half baked coach
in the space cadet coach there, Mike McDaniel, who's on
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the sidelines. All right, now to green Bay, speaking of wacky,
we go to green Bay here where Packers wide receiver
Jaden Reid decided or someone around him decided to go
live on Instagram immediately after a collarbone surgery and the
anesthesia was still doing laps in his bloodstream as he
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went on the Instagram live.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Now, how do we know this? How could you not
be see it? You know, he's a little batty there,
he said. The green Bay Packers wide receivers said, quote
and this among other things, the.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Packers to the ball brawl. We turned, we going all
the effing way, he said. All right, so let us
discuss the question on this one. What is your big
takeaway from Green Bay's Jaden Reid going live on social
media from a hospital bed moments after surgery. All right,
(29:22):
so this is classic addiction? Is it not addiction? Everyone's
addicted to their phones. I'm addicted to my phone, I admitted,
but you none of us can put it down. But
I at least I dreamed that. I'm not on like
the social media stuff much during the day, as I've said,
because you all are a holes, so.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I stay away from that.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
But Jaden Reid literally was out of surgery. He's I
can't emphasize this enough. He's in the hospital bed, he's
wearing the hospital gowned, and he's out of surgery. And
his first instinct is is not, hey, maybe I'll sleep
this off, let me rest up a little bit. It's
let's go live on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
This is what it is now. To be fair, there
was some woman I don't know if that was his
mom or his girlfriend or his sister. I don't know who.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
This mystery woman was in there, and she was encouraging
him on what to say on the Instagram feet. So
the whole thing was rather pathetic. We've reached the point
now where so many of us, but especially like the
players in the NFL, they're not just players really, everyone is.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Everything has to be live. You have to do it live.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
It's all content, and you have to broadcast every second
of your life. It is an absolute disease. It reminds
me of when Lebron passed Kareem Abdul Jabbar to become
the all time leading scorer in NBA history. There was
this iconic shot behind the basket and there were twelve
thousand people behind the basket, all of them doing the
Statue of Liberty, holding up their phone trying to get
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a photo of it, not watching what was right in
front of them because they wanted to get some clicks
and all that. And then you had like Phil Knight
of Nike who was actually standing up and watching and.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
The whole thing. It was very bizarre.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
But it is addition like bring in doctor Drew, the
addiction therapist and all that stuff. And you know you're
half conscious if you're the Green Bay player, you're high
on anesthesia and the phone is still right there in
your face, and it's not enough to just have surgery
and try to recover and come back and play football
on that. Now you got to perform for strangers, not
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your family. You know, I can understand going on the
phone and say I'm fine, I survived the operation. You know,
I didn't die on the operating tab. But no, you
gotta to total strangers. You got to go out there.
Here's what I'm doing. You know, the phone has become
like an IV grip, if you will, we don't need painkillers.
Forget about the painkillers, right. The real drug is that
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social media attention. That phone might as well have been
a needle in the arm, like the same buzz, same hit,
same you know, feel good situation.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Social media is the drug. It's like crack. And you know,
take the phone away. You can't take the phone. Do
not take the phone away. You're gonna cut off my
oxygen supply. What is wrong with you. I'm gonna start twitching.
It's wrong with you. So couldn't wait, could not.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Wait to go live because again the guys addicted screen
Bay packers, receiver gotta get all those hearts. You don't
get the hearts if you don't go live. You gotta
go live to get the hearts. And so you override
common sense. You say bye bye to common sense because
the clout matters more. That's more important, all right, now,
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final point to Los Angeles we go. That is where
Rams coach Sean McVay ended up on the injury report.
McVeigh tore his planter fasci is fascy itis. Easier for
me to say it's a foot injury. It happened on
the sideline during the Rams game in Nashville. Now, McVeigh
(33:00):
popped up on the Sean A Coach McVeigh Show, which
is produced in house by the Ram Spin doctors. I'm
sure that's I'm sure that's riveting. So McVeigh was asked,
I guess he brought this up on his own ash.
But here's a McVeigh commenting. We'll go to the audio tip.
Here's McVeigh on injuring his foot during the Ram Titan game.
Speaker 7 (33:22):
Foot's good.
Speaker 8 (33:22):
You know I did tear my planner fascist So noh's
I think? Because now I guess it allows you to
heal a little bit faster. But you know I was
being dramatic limping around towards the end of the game.
But you know the MRI confirmed I did that. But
good news is I'm not playing, so I'm just on
the sidelines watching. So if I have a little cool
limp to add some swag, then you'll know why.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Okay, he's got the cool limp, little swag there.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
So what stands out about Sean McVeigh injuring a foot
while coaching the Rams. Now, to my knowledge, he didn't
get hit by a Titan defender or a Ram player
on the sidelines. So the injury in station taking down coaches,
now taking that even clapping on the sidelines is risky business.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
In the NFL in twenty twenty five. Make it stop, somebody,
make it's up.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
So Sean McVay, a top three coach in the entire NFL,
Sean McVay obviously needs bigger shoes. I did a little
research on this, so they say that if you have
this type of injury, it means your shoes are too
small and you need to go down to foot locker
and you need to size up and stop wearing kid
shoes essentially, So as I understand it, yeah, maybe I'm wrong,
(34:35):
but as I understand it, it's the body telling you, like, hey,
you're cramming your foot into some kind of trendy sneaker.
It doesn't fit properly. And instead of just worrying about
you know, who cares about what you're wearing, just go
out there and coach.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
It doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Be more like big Red. To me, that's the lesson
be more like Big Red. Look at Andy Reid. You
watch Andy Reid on the sidelines. He's disheveled. He might
as well be wearing orthopedic moon boots while he's walking
around in his moo moo eating chicken fingers. There is
zero chance that Andy Reid will tear anything but possibly
(35:14):
a napkin. And he'll certainly tear open that honey mustard
sauce packet. That's it, but not a body part. So
any Reid in Kansas City right now, somewhere having a
late night snack and he's chomping down probably not a cheeseburger,
late night cheeseburger, laughing his ass off.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
This guy's tearing tissue.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
McVeigh on the sidelines, and here here's Andy Reid sitting down,
he's got his laminated play sheet and he's just enjoying
his cheeseburger. Now that said, you cannot deny the theater
of all of this. That McVeigh left it all on
the field. My coach will get hurt coaching all the
way right there, the bottom of your foot right there,
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messed up. Of course, it is not the end of
the world. The injury is supposed to take four to
six weeks to heal. So some pharmacy, greade, ibuprofen, or
just rub some dirt on it. I believe he'll be okay.
The Rams are in Philadelphia to take on the Eagles
coming up this weekend, one of the bigger games of
the weekend.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
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Speaker 3 (36:22):
All right, here we go, here we go, here we go. Mallar,
how about.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
That to the third degree, this is one big Ben
gets grilled.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Well, speaking of the guy, it's almost like that was
made to be.
Speaker 9 (36:35):
Yeah, yeah, Daniel Jones has a big reason that he
has shined in his first two stars with the Colts
has been the coaching staff and his teammates. Ben was
Jones just being held back on the Giants.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
No, and there will be a major regression to the
meme with Daniel Jones. This will last a few more
weeks or whatever. I'm not buying that.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
This is legit coop and it's easy to say, well,
I was being held back. The sole every coach the
Giants hired was to make Daniel Jones good. Every draft
pick was to make Daniel Jones good, and the common
denominator was Daniel Jones sucked with all those guys, all right.
Speaker 9 (37:11):
Next, Sean Payton took the blame on Monday for the
penalty that cost the Denver Broncs the game against Indianapolis.
He said the play was meant to block a game
winning field goal attempt, but he should have changed it
due to the length of the kick. Ben, do you
think he's just trying to protect his coordinator.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
That's by the book. You always, you never, you always
as the coach have to be the top of the pyramid.
You have to take the blame for everything, even though
on this one it's not I think Sean Payton's involved
that in the minutia of the special teams, I don't
believe that at all.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
And it was really a chicken ass way to lose.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
A game, and so the whole You always say that
even when a player, like in baseball will drop a
fly ball, Oh it's a team wall, No, it's that
guy's an idiot.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
But the coach, that was my fault. I shouldn't have
had him in the outfre all right.
Speaker 7 (37:54):
Next, the new Colts owner Carly Ers Gordon.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Yeah, she's quite the lady. Have you seen this woman?
Speaker 9 (37:59):
I have.
Speaker 7 (38:00):
She's the case.
Speaker 9 (38:00):
She's made waves online as she was shown on the
sidelines wearing headphones taking notes during the game. Then do
you like an owner that cares this much or do
you see it as micromanaging?
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Well, I wouldn't want to work for an owner like that,
But if I own an NFL team, I would be
just like her. I would be on the field, standing
right next to the coach. I'd be like Jerry Jones.
And I don't know why you would want to own
a team not to act like that, So I don't
have a I think it's pretty funny. How do we
do you pass this? That's the word put on the phone.
Speaker 5 (38:26):
I want the guy, Poppy, I want the game Poppy.
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Speaker 7 (38:48):
Gear Rye, gear Rye to night, gear ry to night.
Speaker 10 (38:53):
Dear ry You know the imaging is good when Koop
is singing out on the side. Welcome to the love zone.
Here on the Ben Mallory Show. You know me and
Ben even Coop, we all love love.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
They're talking about me. I'm not Yeah, I don't know
about that.
Speaker 7 (39:08):
Obviously love love. You're married, committed your life.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
I don't know, Mas some people would look at that oppositely.
I don't know, but I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 7 (39:18):
How dare you interesting?
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Well?
Speaker 10 (39:20):
Anyways, this week on the Ben Malory Show, for the
love segment, I wanted to point out, maybe have a
nice little truth moment with your loved one, get something
off your chest, maybe something that's been bugging you, because
open honesty and conversation is so healthy for a relationship,
and it's good to practice it everywhere, even on the radio,
even on the radio.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Even on the radio.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Well, this question came in from and by the way,
we'll take some calls if you want eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox you want to try to sneak
in here eight seven seven nine nine six six three
sixty nine, Doug wrote in Now he did not use
the hashtag. I just happened to see this message. Normally
I would ignore this message, but I just happened to
see this message. You bad job by you, Doug. He's
question for the queen. Why can't the wife and I
(40:03):
ever agree on what's for dinner?
Speaker 3 (40:05):
Always what do you want? And after I rattle off
several options, she's like, Nope, none of those sound good.
So why ask Well, you know, just to keep great.
That's a great question. That's a great question, Doug.
Speaker 6 (40:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (40:19):
And actually I know a lot of couples and I
know this seems like a lot, but they'll cook two
separate meals. So I know people who have vegetarian wives
or husbands, and so they actually have to cook two
different things.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
But how about a set menu.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
How about you sit down at the beginning of the
week or the end of the week and so here's
we're gonna eat next week for dinner. Boom done, argue
about it, fight about it, debate it, and that's the schedule.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
Yeah and whatever. And they would be like Dave Roberts,
the Dodger manage whatever on the schedule. We just go
with the schedule.
Speaker 10 (40:47):
And we talked about communication. That sounds a great like
a great way to communicate. Honey, what are we having
this week?
Speaker 7 (40:52):
That's great?
Speaker 3 (40:52):
I love that. Okay, there we've solved a problem. We've
solved the problem. All right, let's see Ferg dog rights
and says Lorena.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Would you would you dump a guy if he got
scared on the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland?
Speaker 3 (41:05):
My ex girlfriend did with me. I mean, if he
was actually scared.
Speaker 10 (41:11):
Maybe it was cute, like, oh my gosh, I need
to hide in my face, in your bosom because I'm
so scared.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
Well, I think a lot of guys need to do that.
Speaker 7 (41:18):
But be romantic.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
Well, yeah, you know who knows well first, got stuff
going on, you know, Firg's got that's the beauty of it.
Speaker 10 (41:27):
Be careful on the Haunted Mansion, though, because they have
cameras that look directly at you, so everything that you
do they are seeing.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
That's true. That is true because people have been making
whoopye on them, and they'll.
Speaker 10 (41:36):
Make whoopye, they'll smoke, they'll do all sorts of things on.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
That right, they stop it immediately.
Speaker 9 (41:41):
Yeah, yeah, I've gotten Please please keep your hands to yourself.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Oh man, imagine having that job.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Additionally, and your job is to sit there and stare
at people riding the Haunted Mansion.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
That's your gig there, man, So weird.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Mike the leprechat rights and says, would you be impressed
by a man who offered to share a single burger
and an ice cream sunscreen flavored with you on their
first date?
Speaker 10 (42:09):
Definitely not sunscreen flavor.
Speaker 7 (42:10):
I mean saw that.
Speaker 10 (42:11):
I thought that would be fun, like, oh, pineapple, I
like pineapple stuff. But honestly, I love that you bring
this up because I love a man who knows he
needs to finish my food. Okay, so splitting a burger
sounds great. I take like a quarter, you take three quarters.
But I'm never sharing anything with you.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
I was raised to finish my food. I was raised
even if I wanted to ben I get sick my mom.
I have arguments.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
I don't want to eat the I don't want to
eat the peas, mom, No you gotta eat the piece
it's on the I don't want to eat them. No,
you're not leaving the table to eat your peace. I'm
peese are so good for the disgusting. I don't want
to eat them, And I sit there until I eat
the damn thing, and we fighting it.
Speaker 7 (42:49):
Put some butt on it.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
About a JT.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
The wingman says, is it wrong to demand that me,
me and my significant other? The watch Benny versus the
penny while making love asking for a friend.
Speaker 10 (43:02):
Oh my gosh, Wna, add some ambiance to your love making.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
That's got this nice deep voice.
Speaker 7 (43:09):
You know what you want to go a step above?
Don't you have those voice?
Speaker 10 (43:12):
Things you can do where people can like buy a voice.
Speaker 7 (43:14):
Like a mesa.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
Oh oh yeah, cameo. You know what I do, like
a seduction one.
Speaker 7 (43:19):
This is ben.
Speaker 3 (43:21):
That's not helpful. Where can you do that's not That's
not good advice, Lorena, Nobody, nobody wants that. Let's go
to the phones.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Keg Drinking Steve has a question on the phones at
eight seven seven ninety nine one Fox.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
I'm sure this is legit. Hello, Keg Drinking Steve.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
Lorena.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
My question is I was reading online there was a
gentleman in Arkansas who is suing an exotic danswer in
in Las Vegas.
Speaker 3 (43:47):
For ten million dollars.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Oh wow, over a ten year over a ten year period,
because he's broke.
Speaker 4 (43:54):
Do you think he's got a possibility of winning?
Speaker 3 (43:57):
And all right, great question. We a lot of time, Lorena,
what a you gosh man?
Speaker 10 (44:00):
I will tell you this once and I'll tell you
this Twhy stop giving these strippers all your money.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
They look so good, Loreino, they look so good. They're
soaper man, it's like a piece.
Speaker 6 (44:09):
Of not one.
Speaker 7 (44:10):
What do you expect from Well?
Speaker 3 (44:11):
I think I know what they expect, Lorraine. I think
we know what they We all know what they want.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
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Speaker 3 (44:34):
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
Let's welcome in our contestants. We have Mitch in man
Cato who's going to be one of our contestants.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
Hello, Mitch, Hello, how are you doing? You seem full
of energy? Is everything okay with you?
Speaker 7 (44:47):
Mitch?
Speaker 3 (44:48):
I have fantastic you sure about that? You've been up
all night?
Speaker 7 (44:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
You sound a little down. I don't know. All right, Well, Mitch,
who do you want to partner up with? You got Loraina?
You got Coop? Who do you want to partner Coop?
All right?
Speaker 7 (45:06):
Chosen Ben too?
Speaker 9 (45:07):
You know?
Speaker 3 (45:07):
Oh he knows I'm tice talking to me. He knows,
and he knows he knows that. All right? Mitch? Is
you and Cooper exciting, and we have Mike in New Hampshire. Hello, Mike,
welcome my father.
Speaker 7 (45:21):
Here he is. I love the horn.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
It's all about the horn. Mike. Who do you want
to partner up with on password? Well, I think we're
gonna go with you, all right, all.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
Right, that's the matchup. Put your bets in right now,
all right, and make sure you're locked in. Hold on
a second.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
Okay, let's get to it. We have a listen to
work quickly, quickly. Pick a number, Mitch, one to ten, Mitch,
number seven, number seven, cool? All right?
Speaker 7 (45:51):
Uh, Mitch, let's go with worldwide Technology.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
No, Mike, I'm gonna say how about planet. I'm gonna
say global.
Speaker 7 (46:11):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (46:12):
All right, we got a nine, then, good job.
Speaker 1 (46:15):
Get my clue, all right, pick a number one to ten,
but not seven, please, Mike in New Hampshire.
Speaker 9 (46:21):
Let's go number three.
Speaker 3 (46:23):
Number three is he is? All right? Let's see here.
Let's go with unwind unwind all right, Coop to tie
the game?
Speaker 7 (46:40):
All right, Mitch, you heard Ben's clue.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
Leave me out of this, okay, pretend I'm gonna hear
I'm not here.
Speaker 7 (46:46):
You heard Ben's clue. The clue I'm gonna give you
is rest.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
Say it again.
Speaker 7 (46:53):
Please remember remember Ben's and then my clue is rest H.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
Five four three two one no answer. We won the
game batchop, Are you Coob?
Speaker 1 (47:10):
We won Mica in New Hampshire nine nothing shut out
pass words?
Speaker 7 (47:13):
Why was he muted
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baseball at Dodgers Stadium, the Dodgers and the Phillies. Phillies
winning the National League East, not that that means much anymore,
but they did do that, and trying to wrap up
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the home field advantage is one of the top two teams.
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They and the Brewers will likely get home field advantage.
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to the point, please so show Hail Tani might know
this by now, maybe you haven't been paying attention. So
show hal Tani was pitching a no hitter.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
No granted it was midway through the game.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
It was five innings into the game, so it wasn't
in the eighth or the ninth inning. But he was
pitching no hit baseball for five innings. And then Dave
Roberts did what Dave Roberts does. He cuts the balls
off history. That's what Dave Roberts does. He neuters hit
any chance at history. Dave Roberts chop, chop, cut, cut,
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there goes history, and he pulled them over the game.
Now Dodgers had a four to nothing lead, and at
that point I might as well have been the Philly fanatic.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I was go Phillies, Go, Go Phillies go. I admit it.
I'm not ashamed to admit it. I admit it.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And then I got my wish. Philadelphia conducted batting practice
that years ago.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I used to go to batting practice.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
They hit the ball harder during the game than they
do in batting practice. Okay, extended BP for the fight
in Phills against that wobbly Dodger bullpen, and Philadelphia put
up six runs in the sixth inning, five consecutive.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
It's ended with six runs.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Then the TODs came back to tie the game, and
of course the Phillies teeing off more on that Dodger bullpen.
They ended up hitting another big home run the ninth,
and he ended up with a nine to six victory
in the game. And we again, we don't only talk
about baseball other than the playoffs, and we picked our
spots at this time of the year.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
But this is the exception of the rule.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
And then I saw some of Dave Roberts commentary after
the game, and Dave Roberts said that it was predetermined
that the decision was made prior to the game that
Otani was only going to go five innings no matter what. Now,
keep in mind he had only thrown sixty eight pitches.
Sixty eight pitches, and this schmndrick Dave Roberts takes him
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out of the game. Sixty eight pitches out of the game.
No hitter doesn't matter, all right, So let us discuss.
Give me your school of thought on the Dodgers philosophy.
It's the organizational philosophy led by Dave Roberts, who's in
the dugout for pulling sho hail Tani from a no
hitter after just sixty eight pitches. So I've got Jim Nance,
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Milli Vanilli and Tiny Vodka Battle, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make corn dogs because the Dodgers have a lot of
time beat corn dogs because they're not gonna be in
the playoffs very long with these morons are anyway, all right,
So hey, let's just start with this. I've determined based
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on years and years of watching this in this era
of the Dodgers, this is on brand.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
It is on brand.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Dave Roberts and the Dodgers are the only team in
baseball that consistently consistently does this. Like there are other
teams that do it occasionally, the Dodgers lead all of
baseball in this. Individual greatness is not allowed when you
play for the Dodgers. It is not allowed. Dave Roberts
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has taken more pitchers out with no hitters than anyone
in the history of baseball. That's my stat I don't
even know if it is true. We're just gonna go
with it. And they always do it out of an
abundance of caution.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Which drives me Bukers okay, drives me bokers, no, but
he knows when someone's gonna get hurt.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Nobody knows what the perfect amount of pitches is. People
say a hundred pitches, but that's only because it's a
round number, and people love round numbers. And there have
been pitchers from the old school that pitched way more
than that and didn't have any problems. And there are
pictures in the modern game that throw a lot less
than one hundred pitches.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
They're hurt all the time.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
But yet gotta pull o'tani, Gotta take o'tani out of
the game, right and put the parade of terribles, the
horribles out of the bullpen there. And its organizational malpractice
is what it is. And the Dodters are mastereda now.
As I said on the Socials, if Dave Roberts managed
Nolan Ryan, the greatest strikeout artist in baseball history, if
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Dave Roberts managed Nolan Ryan, he would have ended his
career with no no hitters, zero, no no hitters. Bumpkis
all right, and he'd be he'd be sitting the dugout
after the fifth inning, and Dave Roberts would say, hey, Nolan,
I got to talk to you, and Dave would go
down and Nolan would say, yes, skip, what do you need?
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And Roberts would then explain that that seventy two pitches
wish you through. That's what the computer says. We got
to take you out because we don't like your chances
facing the lineup the third time through.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Well, wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
In a previous life, I had seven no hitters. Doesn't matter,
doesn't matter, doesn't matter. You'd never even have heard of
the Ryan Express, the greatest strikeout pitcher of all time,
if he got to play with Dave Roberts.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
It's unbelievable. And then the other.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Part about this, the Dodgers coddle these guys. They absolutely
call you baby. They're pitchers. They hide behind pitch counts
and the analytics, and they are convinced that they are
the smartest people.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
In the room. And you're a moron. I'm a dumb dumb.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
We're all idiots and they know everything. And what's the result.
It's a kunga line. If Tommy John surgeries, you get it,
Tommy John, you get it. Tommy John to Tommy John,
as Jim Nance would say, all right, they've turned elbow surgery,
Tommy John surgery into a franchise tradition unlike any other.
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It's right next to the Dodger Dog and the late
great Vinscully. That's the Dodgers, all right. That's how they
operate a pyramid of shredded ligaments behind Dodger Stadium from
their pictures and despite all the evidence indicating what they
are doing is fundamentally broken. All right, what they are
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doing doesn't work. They won't change. They will They're stubborn.
They will not change, they will not adapt, won't do it.
It's kind of like bad parenting. Now, you think about
bad parenting. If you're a parent and you expect very
little from your children, you're going to get very little
from your children. If you expect greatness, you may get greatness,
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but at least you'll get some good stuff, even if
it's not greatness. And Dave Roberts so robotic, and he's
the face as I realize there's other people making these decisions,
and he's just getting a fat check to hang out
with the sports writers and bust balls before the game.
But Dave Roberts a robotic it's by the book, and
it's middle manager Bull crap, which I can't stand. There's
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no room for the human element in coaching. Like sometimes
you have to trust your gut. Occasionally you have to
trust your gut. It does not happen. And this is
a great example. They had Otani who's on the mound
dealing and no, cannot do it, cannot have it, cannot
risk it, abundance of car sh add cannot do it.
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The iPad in the dugout says, five innings, Max, I
am merely following my orders. Yeah, okay, So what happened
to go to the bullpen and give up nine runs?
Nine runs? Rather than have a picture push the limits?
You can never push the limits of the human body
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and test the boundaries, which I think I thought was
kind of athletic competition testing the limits and things like that,
But I guess not.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Things have changed, not for the better.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
So but they again, this is the whole thing, and
it drives me's The Dodgers organizational philosophy is to have
guys do the bare minimum, clock in, just do enough,
make it look like you're busy when you're futzing around
on your phone, just make it look like you're actually
doing something right. And that's it and just do enough.
Never ever strive, never ever.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Strive for anything more than that. Don't do it.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
That's the Dodgers. Don't expect greatness. Because they don't expect greatness,
and you get paid.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
A lot of money.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
There's no room for improv no room for improv at all.
Just the dogma of the nerd, the dogma of the nerd.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
That's the Dodgers. It's a box checking exercise.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I have a couple people I still know over there
when I did stuff years ago with the Dodgers, and
I actually was sending messages to a few of them,
and I said, listen, you could literally take anyone out
of the pavilion a Dodgers and put them in the
dugout as long as they can just follow the script.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
It's unbelievable. All right now, turning the pace, we go
to the NFL. Why why not? And we're gonna start
in Philadelphia. The e A gee l e egles.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
They're left tackle. Jordan Blata not happy. He's had enough
of the evil media. He's upset. You see this, He's
upset with the media narrative that his team won the
Super Bowl rematch against the Chiefs this past weekend because
of Tushy.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
During a Philly radio interview. I'm sure that was riveting
Jordan Mylotta rather than me, say let's go to the
audio tip. Here's the Eagles left tackle commenting on his
distaste for the media stories regarding the outcome of that
Eagle Chiefs game.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I understand the outrage.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
What I don't understand is nam using it as an
excuse to why we won the game. I think it's
incredibly disrespectful to our defense and our special teams who
bowled out my brothers on defense, the special teams who
out that game, who had outbacks when we went moving
the ball or we went doing anything. That pisses me
off because we give so much to this game and
to kind of base of a short yattage play that
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is a football play, and say that we won the
game off that, but not not how a defense played,
not how our special teams have played, putting us in
those positions. You know, I think it's I think it's
bull crap. I just think it's rubbish. That's absolutely rubbish.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Man.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
It makes me makes my blood boil just thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
All right, So question, what is the most puzzling thing
about the Eagles left tackle.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
There Jordan Malata.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Grumbling, grumble, grumble, grumble about the media's obsession with the Tuschwitz.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
By the way, that's either a accent from from from
Georgia or from Australia, one of those two. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
No, he's from Australia, so this is a rather bizarre
mountain to die on. Like, and by the way, he's
from Australia, does he really know American football? I mean,
let's be honest here, come on, I mean, it's a
rugby play. It's a rugby It's like Ozzie rules football.
So here's I don't want to understand why these guys
don't embrace it. I've said this, like their coach is
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like a schmuck. Everyone hates who's not an Eagle fan,
Nick Sirianni. So why not just embrace the dark side?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Right?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Be Darth Vader, be Palpatine, be the become the meme,
let the hate flow through you all that.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Instead, you've got Jordan Mylotta out there.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Who's on on the radios you heard, and he's pouting
like somebody left him out of the group chat, like
he's upset by that many around the NFL are starting
to reevaluate the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Right, And this is what Jordan Mylotta doesn't like and
the Eagles don't like. And I get it. I wouldn't
like it either if I was the Eagles.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
But people are revisiting the Eagles here in this success
and they're like, well, wait a minute. You know, this
is about as authentic as the Grammy that Millie Vanilli
won back in the day.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
If you don't know who that is, look it up.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
It's a they did lip syncing, very popular years ago,
and they did lip syncing. They never sang the song curl.
You know it's true, you know it's true. Is it
wrong to say that the Eagles are the Milli Vanilli
of the twenty twenty five NFL?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Right now?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
They're one trick. Their lip syncing is what they're doing,
and they're really lipsticking their way through the NFL with
that one play. So if I ask you what is
great about the Philadelphia Eagles, what is top of the line,
A number one pedigree?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
What is it? What are you gonna tell me? Well,
they have a good defense.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Okay, it's not the eighty five Chicago Bears defense. It's okay,
it's fine. Let's peel this thing back, all right, so
we peel it back. Jalen Hurts is he an elite quarterback? Well,
I mean, if you expect a quarterback to throw for
less than one hundred yards in some games, less than
one hundred and fifty yards, Okay, that's elite for me.
That's not a lead. I know you're just being a critic.
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Jalen Hurts not elite. Sekwan Barkley is elite. That's terrific,
But he's a running back. Doesn't make it tingle in
modern football. It doesn't on defense and special teams fights.
But nobody's posting on social media about the Eagles defense
and special teams.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
The only thing, the only.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Thing that is head and shoulders above the rest of
the NFL is the tush push. That's it, end of it.
That's that's all. They're it, and that's it. That's the
entire act of the Philadelphia Eagles. That's it, and that's
why people talk about this and Jordan Mailatta doesn't like it,
and the Eagles get all testy about this because it's
it's for them. It's like the Staples easy button running
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that play first and nine every time it's not first
and ten, because if it's if it's fourth and one,
they automatically get the first down. They convert ninety six
point six percent of the time, ninety six point six
percent of the time. That's how they operate. That's their
secret ingredient right there. And so instead of just laughing
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it off and say oh, you know whatever, no, it
makes you look soft the reaction the Eagles have had
to this, And if you're really, really good, you don't
care what people are saying, because you're so dominant, you
don't really care. However, the fact that factions of the
philadel Fi Eagles they're.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
So bothered by this proves one thing that we have
nailed it.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
That Again, I don't think you should be banned the
toush push.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
However, it's going.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
To end up being banned now, like at this point,
we do the show right now and in this moment,
if you ask me, will this thing be banned?
Speaker 3 (16:39):
I say yes.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
But again, my advice here, unsolicited advice of the Eagles,
rather than whine and complain about it and have a
conniption fit, is just embrace the tush push. Embrace the
hate because the second that play gets banished by the NFL,
the philadel Fi Eagles become a nine to eight type
team there and eight and nine just the middle of
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the pack NFC team. They're nothing special.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
With that play. They are special without that play. Eh,
you know you don't really care about it? All right?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Now, last word, we go to Minnesota, the quarterback shake
up continues and the Vikings filling out their quarterback room
with Desmond.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Ridder as the backup.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Now, I normally would not would not partake in this
because I really care about Desmond Ridder, but the coverage
on this got my attention. So that's what I wanted
to talk with you about. So the question on this one,
where are you at? On the NFL network reporting glowingly
that the Vikings have added Desmond Ridder as a proven,
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experienced starter. All right, So this is the old case
of if you go and pick up a big heifer
at the farm there, big giant, fat pig, and you
put lipstick on it, it's still a pig. And so
Desmond Ridder, we all agree, we've decided he stinks, and
he's got eighteen starts with the Falcons and the Raiders
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and sixteen touchdowns, fourteen interceptions. That's not experienced. That is evidence,
is what it is. It's evidence to show that he's
not good. Call a spade a spade. We believe in that,
and so stop treating the people that consume your product
like idiots. The state sponsored NFL media, the prop the
news service of the NFL. People can google things. There's chat,
GPT and other AI platforms now these days, so you
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can look up the numbers, you can dig.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Around the numbers and all that.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
And if you look, Desmond Ridder is a dog with fleas,
How would you like to be Kevin O'Connell, Kevin O'Connell.
It was all a quarterback whisper Kevin O'Connell. The man's
got Carson Wentz on one side of the quarterback room
and Desmond Ritter on the other side.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
This like raiding the mini bar.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
You're really really hungry, You go to your hotel, you
raid the mini bar after your flight got canceled, you
haven't eaten, the restaurants are closed. You end up getting
a little tin bottle of vodka and you have like
five M and ms that you pay thirty five dollars
for and then you immediately have therapy on speed dial.
Is it's depressing Carson Wentz and Desmond Ridder the dynamic
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fire duo, as in dumpster fire, not good fire, dumpster
fire here. And so that's the quarterback room. It smells.
It smells like a wet dog, is what it smells like.
My God rolled in garbage. And there's the NFL.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Network, those bastions of truth who are reporting, Oh no, up,
it's like that. They love. They must love polishing turds
over there, they must love it. It's like Desmond Ridder
is the Hope Diamond. No, it's a turd, and that's
what it is. But he's an experienced starter. What are
you talking about?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I'd like the quote Nick Saban who famously said back
at Alabama when was asked about experience and returning starters
and all that, he pointed out that just because you
have experience does not mean you're good.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
It does not mean that you're good. And so it's
gas lighting People's what it is. And I think are they.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Think we're all a bunch of rubes, And you can
maybe speak for yourself. I don't believe I'm a rube.
I don't, and you do not need some kind of
telescope to realize the desmer Ritder stinks.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
You just don't.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
You don't need that, and even Stevie Metpauls who's blind,
can see he can see that.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
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buying should be. So we'll get back to the Otani
conversation in a few minutes. Get a bunch of people
on holding on a rant and complain as Otani the
Dodger game he was taken out, had a no hitter,
and Dave Roberts announced after the game they had already
been decided before the game that Otani was coming out
after five minutes, sixty eight pitches. That's your modern Dodger
baseball right there. That's your Dodgers right there. Gutless, absolutely gutless.
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Buy the book. Follow the numbers. Pathetic, all right, But
our lead this hour from the NFL, we go to Miami.
Speaking of pathetic, the Miami Dolphins continue to be floundering,
but they're good for business, so we're happy about that.
The Dolphins continue to fill up the content machine here
at Fox Sports Radio. They play an island game, the
Island Life on Thursday night in Orchard Park, just outside Buffalo.
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There that the lead up to the in the lead
up us in the lead up to the game, there
was a there was some conversation here that caught my attention,
and a quote by the quarterback who provides entertainment not
much for the fans in South Florida, went viral. So
if you didn't see this, perhaps not. Dolphins quarterback Tua Tongue.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Of Eyloa was waxing loquacious about Josh Allen, who he's
going against his divisional opponent there in a Buffalo Bill's uniform,
and let's just say he went a little over the top.
Let's go to the audio tape. Here's Tua.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
He's top tier.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
You know, if it's not with his arm, it's with
his legs. You know that dude can do literally anything
he wants. So definitely different skill set for me, I
can't do half of what he does when it comes
to running the ball and any of that. And then
with how he can just chuck the ball down the field,
you know, with how far and the arm strength that
he has, you know, he's supreme when it comes to that.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
All right, so we laiter it on fixed.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
So let us discuss that has gone viral, the question
how do you assess tua tongue of Eyloa the Dolphins
quarter saying he can't do half of what Josh Allen does.
So I've got taxi cab, doctor Drew, and moon boots
and we will combine all of these things together and
we're gonna make your Babushka's favorite snack mix. And it's
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the proper amount of nuts and pretzels and mix them
all together and it's just perfect. So number I said
number one, this might be the number of games the
Dolphins will win. My first thought is this must have
been a lou Holtz thing. When I saw this quote
and then I heard the audio, my initial thought was,
this is the old Golden Domers coach from back in
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the day. It was on television for a long time,
and this was what he used to do, and many
coaches did this for a long time.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
It's a term called poor mouthing. I didn't make that up.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Poor mouthing, and that is where you poor mouth the opponent.
You embellish, you go over the top, so when you
beat them, you look like a Goliath slayer. You butter
up the opponent is what you're supposed to do. However,
with Tua, I didn't get that vibe.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
I did not like.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
To me, this is genuine, that he's such a sweetheart
to a tongue about loa that.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
He actually like believes I believe he means it. Like like,
I think that's legit.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Like it like Tua's basically starring in an HBO remake
of Taxi Cab Confessions NFL quarterback variety, pouring out his
heart and soul. Pouring out his heart and soul. Now, listen,
self awareness is cute. We like self awareness. But let's
not kid ourselves here that Tua is telling the world
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that he is a knockoff brand, that he is a
generic brand quarterback.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
He is the iPhone.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Well, I guess Josh Allen would be the iPhone in
this one, and then Tua would be like he'd be
like the Android, but not a good Android, like the
kind that overheats when it gets into the it gets
too many things going like Netflix or some like that
on the phone. But let's put the finances to the
love test.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
What do you think here? The love test?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
So Tua has a one hundred and sixty seven million guarantee,
and then you've got Josh Allen who's at two hundred
and fifty million.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
So if I.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Believe the math on that, it's about Josh Allen compared
to Tua, Tua makes about thirty three percent less in
terms of guaranteed money as opposed to Josh Allen. So
it's kind of like comparing a waterfront mansion in Buffalo
to a condo on the twenty second floor in Miami
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in South Beach. Like Miami Beach, that area, the square
footage is not even close, right, the square footage is
not that close. Now, toua admitting that he can't keep up.
That's essentially what I took away, And I was like, listen,
I'm not as good as this guy. This guy's much
better than me. Now, it's refreshing honesty. It is refreshingly
honest that Tua said this It also undermines a problem
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that Tua's un minding the Dolphins is what he's doing
here because he's he's the guy. They knew that he
was wobbly, they gave him the contract, and so Miami
is rolling into what is supposed to be a heavyweight fight.
They're big underdogs on the game Thursday night, So the
Dolphins go into that and the Bills are a heavy
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favorite in that game, and the quarterback matchup between Tua
and Josh Allen, Tua just admitted, not listen, I'm not
in the same class.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
Not.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
That's not exactly a raw Rah speech where you're like,
we're gonna go shock the world. That's another episode of
the Miami Dolphins twenty twenty five season, which at this
point is like a sitcom. It's like a sitcom here
at this point for the Dolphins. You q the laugh track.
Miami is zero to two. Their defense, I believe is
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ranked thirty first in points allowed. They would be thirty second,
but the Bears played the Lions.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
They're perfect and they were terrible.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
So now their quarterback, to a tongue of bila Is
is basically writing fan mail to the guy that he's
supposed to be competing with in the division. And it's
for get hard knocks. This is like everybody loves tour.
This is and everyone loves to a thing every week.
It's a new script. You've got the half baked coach
in the space cadet coach there, Mike McDaniel, who's on
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the sidelines. All right, now to green Bay, speaking of wacky,
we go to green Bay here where Packers wide receiver
Jaden Reid decided or someone around him decided to go
live on Instagram immediately after a collarbone surgery and the
anesthesia was still doing laps in his bloodstream as he
(28:45):
went on the Instagram live.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Now, how do we know this? How could you not
be see it? You know, he's a little batty there,
he said. The green Bay Packers wide receivers said, quote
and this among other things, the.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Packers to the ball brawl. We turned, we going all
the effing way, he said. All right, so let us
discuss the question on this one. What is your big
takeaway from Green Bay's Jaden Reid going live on social
media from a hospital bed moments after surgery. All right,
(29:22):
so this is classic addiction? Is it not addiction? Everyone's
addicted to their phones. I'm addicted to my phone, I admitted,
but you none of us can put it down. But
I at least I dreamed that. I'm not on like
the social media stuff much during the day, as I've said,
because you all are a holes, so.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I stay away from that.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
But Jaden Reid literally was out of surgery. He's I
can't emphasize this enough. He's in the hospital bed, he's
wearing the hospital gowned, and he's out of surgery. And
his first instinct is is not, hey, maybe I'll sleep
this off, let me rest up a little bit. It's
let's go live on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
This is what it is now. To be fair, there
was some woman I don't know if that was his
mom or his girlfriend or his sister. I don't know who.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
This mystery woman was in there, and she was encouraging
him on what to say on the Instagram feet. So
the whole thing was rather pathetic. We've reached the point
now where so many of us, but especially like the
players in the NFL, they're not just players really, everyone is.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Everything has to be live. You have to do it live.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
It's all content, and you have to broadcast every second
of your life. It is an absolute disease. It reminds
me of when Lebron passed Kareem Abdul Jabbar to become
the all time leading scorer in NBA history. There was
this iconic shot behind the basket and there were twelve
thousand people behind the basket, all of them doing the
Statue of Liberty, holding up their phone trying to get
(30:54):
a photo of it, not watching what was right in
front of them because they wanted to get some clicks
and all that. And then you had like Phil Knight
of Nike who was actually standing up and watching and.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
The whole thing. It was very bizarre.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
But it is addition like bring in doctor Drew, the
addiction therapist and all that stuff. And you know you're
half conscious if you're the Green Bay player, you're high
on anesthesia and the phone is still right there in
your face, and it's not enough to just have surgery
and try to recover and come back and play football
on that. Now you got to perform for strangers, not
(31:28):
your family. You know, I can understand going on the
phone and say I'm fine, I survived the operation. You know,
I didn't die on the operating tab. But no, you
gotta to total strangers. You got to go out there.
Here's what I'm doing. You know, the phone has become
like an IV grip, if you will, we don't need painkillers.
Forget about the painkillers, right. The real drug is that
(31:49):
social media attention. That phone might as well have been
a needle in the arm, like the same buzz, same hit,
same you know, feel good situation.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Social media is the drug. It's like crack. And you know,
take the phone away. You can't take the phone. Do
not take the phone away. You're gonna cut off my
oxygen supply. What is wrong with you. I'm gonna start twitching.
It's wrong with you. So couldn't wait, could not.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Wait to go live because again the guys addicted screen
Bay packers, receiver gotta get all those hearts. You don't
get the hearts if you don't go live. You gotta
go live to get the hearts. And so you override
common sense. You say bye bye to common sense because
the clout matters more. That's more important, all right, now,
(32:39):
final point to Los Angeles we go. That is where
Rams coach Sean McVay ended up on the injury report.
McVeigh tore his planter fasci is fascy itis. Easier for
me to say it's a foot injury. It happened on
the sideline during the Rams game in Nashville. Now, McVeigh
(33:00):
popped up on the Sean A Coach McVeigh Show, which
is produced in house by the Ram Spin doctors. I'm
sure that's I'm sure that's riveting. So McVeigh was asked,
I guess he brought this up on his own ash.
But here's a McVeigh commenting. We'll go to the audio tip.
Here's McVeigh on injuring his foot during the Ram Titan game.
Speaker 7 (33:22):
Foot's good.
Speaker 8 (33:22):
You know I did tear my planner fascist So noh's
I think? Because now I guess it allows you to
heal a little bit faster. But you know I was
being dramatic limping around towards the end of the game.
But you know the MRI confirmed I did that. But
good news is I'm not playing, so I'm just on
the sidelines watching. So if I have a little cool
limp to add some swag, then you'll know why.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Okay, he's got the cool limp, little swag there.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
So what stands out about Sean McVeigh injuring a foot
while coaching the Rams. Now, to my knowledge, he didn't
get hit by a Titan defender or a Ram player
on the sidelines. So the injury in station taking down coaches,
now taking that even clapping on the sidelines is risky business.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
In the NFL in twenty twenty five. Make it stop, somebody,
make it's up.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
So Sean McVay, a top three coach in the entire NFL,
Sean McVay obviously needs bigger shoes. I did a little
research on this, so they say that if you have
this type of injury, it means your shoes are too
small and you need to go down to foot locker
and you need to size up and stop wearing kid
shoes essentially, So as I understand it, yeah, maybe I'm wrong,
(34:35):
but as I understand it, it's the body telling you, like, hey,
you're cramming your foot into some kind of trendy sneaker.
It doesn't fit properly. And instead of just worrying about
you know, who cares about what you're wearing, just go
out there and coach.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
It doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Be more like big Red. To me, that's the lesson
be more like Big Red. Look at Andy Reid. You
watch Andy Reid on the sidelines. He's disheveled. He might
as well be wearing orthopedic moon boots while he's walking
around in his moo moo eating chicken fingers. There is
zero chance that Andy Reid will tear anything but possibly
(35:14):
a napkin. And he'll certainly tear open that honey mustard
sauce packet. That's it, but not a body part. So
any Reid in Kansas City right now, somewhere having a
late night snack and he's chomping down probably not a cheeseburger,
late night cheeseburger, laughing his ass off.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
This guy's tearing tissue.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
McVeigh on the sidelines, and here here's Andy Reid sitting down,
he's got his laminated play sheet and he's just enjoying
his cheeseburger. Now that said, you cannot deny the theater
of all of this. That McVeigh left it all on
the field. My coach will get hurt coaching all the
way right there, the bottom of your foot right there,
(35:57):
messed up. Of course, it is not the end of
the world. The injury is supposed to take four to
six weeks to heal. So some pharmacy, greade, ibuprofen, or
just rub some dirt on it. I believe he'll be okay.
The Rams are in Philadelphia to take on the Eagles
coming up this weekend, one of the bigger games of
the weekend.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
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Speaker 3 (36:22):
All right, here we go, here we go, here we go. Mallar,
how about.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
That to the third degree, this is one big Ben
gets grilled.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Well, speaking of the guy, it's almost like that was
made to be.
Speaker 9 (36:35):
Yeah, yeah, Daniel Jones has a big reason that he
has shined in his first two stars with the Colts
has been the coaching staff and his teammates. Ben was
Jones just being held back on the Giants.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
No, and there will be a major regression to the
meme with Daniel Jones. This will last a few more
weeks or whatever. I'm not buying that.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
This is legit coop and it's easy to say, well,
I was being held back. The sole every coach the
Giants hired was to make Daniel Jones good. Every draft
pick was to make Daniel Jones good, and the common
denominator was Daniel Jones sucked with all those guys, all right.
Speaker 9 (37:11):
Next, Sean Payton took the blame on Monday for the
penalty that cost the Denver Broncs the game against Indianapolis.
He said the play was meant to block a game
winning field goal attempt, but he should have changed it
due to the length of the kick. Ben, do you
think he's just trying to protect his coordinator.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
That's by the book. You always, you never, you always
as the coach have to be the top of the pyramid.
You have to take the blame for everything, even though
on this one it's not I think Sean Payton's involved
that in the minutia of the special teams, I don't
believe that at all.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
And it was really a chicken ass way to lose.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
A game, and so the whole You always say that
even when a player, like in baseball will drop a
fly ball, Oh it's a team wall, No, it's that
guy's an idiot.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
But the coach, that was my fault. I shouldn't have
had him in the outfre all right.
Speaker 7 (37:54):
Next, the new Colts owner Carly Ers Gordon.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Yeah, she's quite the lady. Have you seen this woman?
Speaker 9 (37:59):
I have.
Speaker 7 (38:00):
She's the case.
Speaker 9 (38:00):
She's made waves online as she was shown on the
sidelines wearing headphones taking notes during the game. Then do
you like an owner that cares this much or do
you see it as micromanaging?
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Well, I wouldn't want to work for an owner like that,
But if I own an NFL team, I would be
just like her. I would be on the field, standing
right next to the coach. I'd be like Jerry Jones.
And I don't know why you would want to own
a team not to act like that, So I don't
have a I think it's pretty funny. How do we
do you pass this? That's the word put on the phone.
Speaker 5 (38:26):
I want the guy, Poppy, I want the game Poppy.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
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Speaker 4 (38:42):
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Speaker 7 (38:48):
Gear Rye, gear Rye to night, gear ry to night.
Speaker 10 (38:53):
Dear ry You know the imaging is good when Koop
is singing out on the side. Welcome to the love zone.
Here on the Ben Mallory Show. You know me and
Ben even Coop, we all love love.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
They're talking about me. I'm not Yeah, I don't know
about that.
Speaker 7 (39:08):
Obviously love love. You're married, committed your life.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
I don't know, Mas some people would look at that oppositely.
I don't know, but I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 7 (39:18):
How dare you interesting?
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Well?
Speaker 10 (39:20):
Anyways, this week on the Ben Malory Show, for the
love segment, I wanted to point out, maybe have a
nice little truth moment with your loved one, get something
off your chest, maybe something that's been bugging you, because
open honesty and conversation is so healthy for a relationship,
and it's good to practice it everywhere, even on the radio,
even on the radio.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Even on the radio.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Well, this question came in from and by the way,
we'll take some calls if you want eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox you want to try to sneak
in here eight seven seven nine nine six six three
sixty nine, Doug wrote in Now he did not use
the hashtag. I just happened to see this message. Normally
I would ignore this message, but I just happened to
see this message. You bad job by you, Doug. He's
question for the queen. Why can't the wife and I
(40:03):
ever agree on what's for dinner?
Speaker 3 (40:05):
Always what do you want? And after I rattle off
several options, she's like, Nope, none of those sound good.
So why ask Well, you know, just to keep great.
That's a great question. That's a great question, Doug.
Speaker 6 (40:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (40:19):
And actually I know a lot of couples and I
know this seems like a lot, but they'll cook two
separate meals. So I know people who have vegetarian wives
or husbands, and so they actually have to cook two
different things.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
But how about a set menu.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
How about you sit down at the beginning of the
week or the end of the week and so here's
we're gonna eat next week for dinner. Boom done, argue
about it, fight about it, debate it, and that's the schedule.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
Yeah and whatever. And they would be like Dave Roberts,
the Dodger manage whatever on the schedule. We just go
with the schedule.
Speaker 10 (40:47):
And we talked about communication. That sounds a great like
a great way to communicate. Honey, what are we having
this week?
Speaker 7 (40:52):
That's great?
Speaker 3 (40:52):
I love that. Okay, there we've solved a problem. We've
solved the problem. All right, let's see Ferg dog rights
and says Lorena.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Would you would you dump a guy if he got
scared on the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland?
Speaker 3 (41:05):
My ex girlfriend did with me. I mean, if he
was actually scared.
Speaker 10 (41:11):
Maybe it was cute, like, oh my gosh, I need
to hide in my face, in your bosom because I'm
so scared.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
Well, I think a lot of guys need to do that.
Speaker 7 (41:18):
But be romantic.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
Well, yeah, you know who knows well first, got stuff
going on, you know, Firg's got that's the beauty of it.
Speaker 10 (41:27):
Be careful on the Haunted Mansion, though, because they have
cameras that look directly at you, so everything that you
do they are seeing.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
That's true. That is true because people have been making
whoopye on them, and they'll.
Speaker 10 (41:36):
Make whoopye, they'll smoke, they'll do all sorts of things on.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
That right, they stop it immediately.
Speaker 9 (41:41):
Yeah, yeah, I've gotten Please please keep your hands to yourself.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Oh man, imagine having that job.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Additionally, and your job is to sit there and stare
at people riding the Haunted Mansion.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
That's your gig there, man, So weird.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Mike the leprechat rights and says, would you be impressed
by a man who offered to share a single burger
and an ice cream sunscreen flavored with you on their
first date?
Speaker 10 (42:09):
Definitely not sunscreen flavor.
Speaker 7 (42:10):
I mean saw that.
Speaker 10 (42:11):
I thought that would be fun, like, oh, pineapple, I
like pineapple stuff. But honestly, I love that you bring
this up because I love a man who knows he
needs to finish my food. Okay, so splitting a burger
sounds great. I take like a quarter, you take three quarters.
But I'm never sharing anything with you.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
I was raised to finish my food. I was raised
even if I wanted to ben I get sick my mom.
I have arguments.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
I don't want to eat the I don't want to
eat the peas, mom, No you gotta eat the piece
it's on the I don't want to eat them. No,
you're not leaving the table to eat your peace. I'm
peese are so good for the disgusting. I don't want
to eat them, And I sit there until I eat
the damn thing, and we fighting it.
Speaker 7 (42:49):
Put some butt on it.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
About a JT.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
The wingman says, is it wrong to demand that me,
me and my significant other? The watch Benny versus the
penny while making love asking for a friend.
Speaker 10 (43:02):
Oh my gosh, Wna, add some ambiance to your love making.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
That's got this nice deep voice.
Speaker 7 (43:09):
You know what you want to go a step above?
Don't you have those voice?
Speaker 10 (43:12):
Things you can do where people can like buy a voice.
Speaker 7 (43:14):
Like a mesa.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
Oh oh yeah, cameo. You know what I do, like
a seduction one.
Speaker 7 (43:19):
This is ben.
Speaker 3 (43:21):
That's not helpful. Where can you do that's not That's
not good advice, Lorena, Nobody, nobody wants that. Let's go
to the phones.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Keg Drinking Steve has a question on the phones at
eight seven seven ninety nine one Fox.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
I'm sure this is legit. Hello, Keg Drinking Steve.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
Lorena.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
My question is I was reading online there was a
gentleman in Arkansas who is suing an exotic danswer in
in Las Vegas.
Speaker 3 (43:47):
For ten million dollars.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Oh wow, over a ten year over a ten year period,
because he's broke.
Speaker 4 (43:54):
Do you think he's got a possibility of winning?
Speaker 3 (43:57):
And all right, great question. We a lot of time, Lorena,
what a you gosh man?
Speaker 10 (44:00):
I will tell you this once and I'll tell you
this Twhy stop giving these strippers all your money.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
They look so good, Loreino, they look so good. They're
soaper man, it's like a piece.
Speaker 6 (44:09):
Of not one.
Speaker 7 (44:10):
What do you expect from Well?
Speaker 3 (44:11):
I think I know what they expect, Lorraine. I think
we know what they We all know what they want.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
and the password is password, you idiot. Password the word
Game of the stars. Here's Ben Meler.
Speaker 3 (44:34):
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
Let's welcome in our contestants. We have Mitch in man
Cato who's going to be one of our contestants.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
Hello, Mitch, Hello, how are you doing? You seem full
of energy? Is everything okay with you?
Speaker 7 (44:47):
Mitch?
Speaker 3 (44:48):
I have fantastic you sure about that? You've been up
all night?
Speaker 7 (44:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
You sound a little down. I don't know. All right, Well, Mitch,
who do you want to partner up with? You got Loraina?
You got Coop? Who do you want to partner Coop?
All right?
Speaker 7 (45:06):
Chosen Ben too?
Speaker 9 (45:07):
You know?
Speaker 3 (45:07):
Oh he knows I'm tice talking to me. He knows,
and he knows he knows that. All right? Mitch? Is
you and Cooper exciting, and we have Mike in New Hampshire. Hello, Mike,
welcome my father.
Speaker 7 (45:21):
Here he is. I love the horn.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
It's all about the horn. Mike. Who do you want
to partner up with on password? Well, I think we're
gonna go with you, all right, all.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
Right, that's the matchup. Put your bets in right now,
all right, and make sure you're locked in. Hold on
a second.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
Okay, let's get to it. We have a listen to
work quickly, quickly. Pick a number, Mitch, one to ten, Mitch,
number seven, number seven, cool? All right?
Speaker 7 (45:51):
Uh, Mitch, let's go with worldwide Technology.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
No, Mike, I'm gonna say how about planet. I'm gonna
say global.
Speaker 7 (46:11):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (46:12):
All right, we got a nine, then, good job.
Speaker 1 (46:15):
Get my clue, all right, pick a number one to ten,
but not seven, please, Mike in New Hampshire.
Speaker 9 (46:21):
Let's go number three.
Speaker 3 (46:23):
Number three is he is? All right? Let's see here.
Let's go with unwind unwind all right, Coop to tie
the game?
Speaker 7 (46:40):
All right, Mitch, you heard Ben's clue.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
Leave me out of this, okay, pretend I'm gonna hear
I'm not here.
Speaker 7 (46:46):
You heard Ben's clue. The clue I'm gonna give you
is rest.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
Say it again.
Speaker 7 (46:53):
Please remember remember Ben's and then my clue is rest H.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
Five four three two one no answer. We won the
game batchop, Are you Coob?
Speaker 1 (47:10):
We won Mica in New Hampshire nine nothing shut out
pass words?
Speaker 7 (47:13):
Why was he muted
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