September 18, 2025 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson calling out his players practice habits on Wednesday, why rooking RB Ashton Jeanty is in Pete Carroll's Raiders doghouse, Chargers WR Keenan Allen going viral for the CRAZIEST shoulder joints you'll ever see, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hybernation mode. Here we go. It's our number one, our
number one of the Ben Maler Show podcast. Happy Thursday
to you at the NFL weekend kicking off later today tonight,
and we stayed up all night recording this episode of
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and a best of It's amazing. But here in our
number one. We start out on this eighteenth day of
September with the Chicago Bears high drama in the Windy City.
What do you think of Ben Johnson already calling out
his Chicago players after the Z and two start, essentially
saying they're lazy in practice? Also, why is hot shot
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rookie running back Ashton Genty already in Pete Carroll's doghouse?
And Chargers wide receiver Keenan Allen has gone viral not
for his great play on the field, for the craziest
shoulder joints that we've ever seen. How do you evaluate that?
We'll go there and everywhere else as well. Here it
is our number one. It is a Bear jamboree. Welome
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But our lead this you gotta play the hit, small Man,
one of wor old bosses used to say, play the hits.
So we'll start out in sweet home Chicago, where the
Bears are the story here. They won the offseason. Congratulations.
They had a big celebration there in Chicago. Another offseason
championship for the Bears. Always exciting when you win the offseason.
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But the Bears first two games of the year and
they are in hybernation mode, the hibernating Bears, du Bears.
So Chicago, the football team off to the zero to
two start, got absolutely blitched. They gave up against the Lions.
That's gutlass football. You don't give up fifty points if
you're halfway decent and you're trying. They gave up on
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their coach in the second game of the year. And
now some payback. Because anything that works in that business
knows if you're trying. You don't give up fifty plus points.
You just don't do that. So the new coach there
has decided to go on the offensive, which is not
surprising considering he is an offensive coordinator, although you wouldn't
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know the way the Bears offense is going. So if
you didn't see this, maybe not Ben Johnson publicly putting
his players on blast. He was talking to a short
sound bite, but he was talking about the practiced habits
of the Chicago Bears. Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I think our practice habits are are yet to reflect
the championship caliber team.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Dah.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Now, he went on and expanded on that, but that
one playing the guy, Play the guy and listen to this.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I think our practice habits are are yet to reflect
the championship caliber team.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
All right, So he expanded on that. But that's where
we're gonna jump off. So let us discuss the question,
what do you think of Bears coach Ben Johnson calling
out his Chicago players and what they're doing at practice.
So my thoughts on this, I've got a shampoo commercial,
dunk Tank, and Spirit Halloween, and we will combine all
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of these things together and we're gonna make delicious PISTROMI
fries is what we're gonna do. So A, I love
this hot shot coach gets a new job, everyone says
they can't be stopped, and it all falls apart right away.
I got a big bucket of movie theater great popcorn,
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the kind that fills your insides and you can't get
it out for years. Two weeks, that's it. Two weeks
into the season and Ben Johnson is announcing that the
practices think He went on to say the fundamentals are
not very good. So I guess that means they're garbage.
That the basics blocking and tackling are not there. Ball security,
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this is Pop Warner football level mistakes by the Chicago Bears.
He's essentially saying. The way I translated is I used
the Mallard Rosetta stone that the coach of the Bears
is saying that the team is playing grab ass all
week like the true Bears fans like Yafimi and Tree
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in Chicago and Eugene in Chicago, all those guys, they
put more effort into it than the actual player on
the team. Now, in life, the saying is you are
what you eat. You probably heard that when you were younger.
You are what you eat in football, you are how
you practice. Like that's been the mantra of football forever
and ever. Is anyone shocked? Anyone shocked that already this
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is coming out and you know this has been going
on for months, right, This is not something that all
of a sudden just bubbled up out of nowhere. It's
been hanging out there. And because you always try to
handle this stuff internally before you go in front of
the cameras and the microphones and say this kind of thing.
So Ben Johnson's been dealing with this for some time.
But you can't be shocked by it. And here's why
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the Bears are who we thought they were. They're losers.
They've been losers for decades. It's the culture that's the
Chicago Bears. That stuff doesn't just go away because you
hired the latest offensive genius, who's the flavor of the
month in the NFL. And so Ben Johnson's like he's
up there like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. Where
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not in Kansas anymore? Gus in this case, we're not
in Detroit anymore because he was with the Lions. Well,
no kidding, you're in Chicago. Great pizza, bad football, good pizza,
bad football, good popcorn, bad football. You've inherited the island
of misfit toys. Congratulations. Now, I've never been to bebarssed practice.
I'm assuming you have an either. It must be like
animal house, though I imagine just a total frat party
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like guys have like zombie mode. Right, I mean he's
called it, what is Ben Johnson's really What he's really
doing here is not even calling out the core of
the roster. The way that I heard, this is a
direct shot at his quarterback, Caleb Williams. This is a
direct shot at Caleb Williams your career. Disagree with that point,
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then me make my argument here. Now, he didn't say
his name, and I watched the news coming he didn't
say KYLEB. Williams name in regards to this. However, the
reason I'm going down that road is because your quarterback
is supposed to be the tone setter, right, they're the
ones lee by example. You're supposed to be the leader
of men, and instead, you know Caleb, Well, this is
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all going on. He's probably looking out. He's auditioning for
some shampoo commercial somewhere, or he's at the nail salon
getting that French manicure while the coach is begging his
team to actually finish a play in practice and all that.
And so this is Ben Johnson's way of calling out
Caleb Williams that he's not holding guys accountable, that there's
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no pride in product in Chicago and they're grinding it
out in practice unless they're not. And that's what Ben
Johnson is telling you. He's begging for the quarterback to
be the grown up in the room and act like
it here. Instead, he's got a team full of Instagram influencers.
They got a lot of clout online. Let's be honest here,
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come on. I mean they're bad at football, but they're
really good online. The Bears are solid. They got a
lot of those fake bots following. Anyway, you can't build
the culture if your quarterback is part of the problem,
becomes an issue. We'll see if that changes, but at
this point unlikely. Now, speaking of problems, because we love
problems on the Ben Malor Show, we celebrate problems because
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we got problems. Now we go to Vegas, Lost Wages, Nevada,
I spent. If you listen to my fifth hour podcast
on the weekends. I told the story with Danny g
I spent eighty dollars to park in one day in Vegas.
I could have parked in Manhattan. They just at some
point Vegas will realize probably not a good idea, Probably
not a good idea for those parking fees. Anyway, So
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we get to the Raiders. Now they look horrible, and
we ripped apart Geno Smith for his performance or lack
thereof performance in the game. Back on Monday night, and
this is our Thursday show. But the latest hullabaloo from
Raiderland running back Ashton Genty. He revealed that he wants
a bigger workload, he said. This week he said, quote,
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I don't think you draft a guy like me to
not give me carries, he said. Now it is true.
Out of Boise State, Genty was the number six, number
six pick in the twenty six is but we have
a button for everything, number six pick in the twenty
twenty five NFL draft and had a prolific career in Idaho,
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but so far in his NFL right so, it's only
a couple of games. What we've got a show to
do right now, the results have been ugly, absolutely ugly,
so the question, as we discussed the question is why
why is Ashton genty apparently in Pete Carroll's doghouse with
the Raiders already. So this is an early reality check,
(10:38):
That's the way I see it, Like the Silver and
Black heighte machine after they had drafted drafted this guy
gent this is home run hitter. Remember Bo Jackson back
in the day. If you're really old, you remember this
guy named Bo Jackson and all that highlight reel reborn.
And we're a couple of weeks into the process or
the process, and he looks much more like Trent Richardson
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than he does the second coming of Bo Jackson, which
is not a compliment, I don't believe. So plotting through
defense is that Patriot game was really bad. The Charger
game was not great. But plotting through defense like he's
trudging through wet cement, Ashton gent and against the Patriots,
the lowly Patriots, he had nineteen carries and thirty eight
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yards if my math is correct on that, and I
believe that's two yards of pop using malor math, that'll
get you right back to full back dive territory. That's
like the nineteen eighty three NFL all over again, and
then against the Chargers there was a little bit of improvement.
He had forty three yards, so five more yards and
average three point nine yards per carry. Limited work, nothing special.
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So Ashton Genty's NFL christening has been a flaming dunk
tank at this point, baptism by fire, and he's got
third degree burns to prove it. And then he has
the hoods. But I want more carries. Okay, of course,
of course you want more carries. Be careful what you
wish for, though, the more touches that you get right,
more times you touch the ball right now, the more
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Raider fans are reminded that you don't draft a running
back in the top ten of the draft, right, you
don't do that. You drafted running back in the sixth round,
not the sixth overall pick. And you know, again, Pete
Carroll forever the ultimate college rah rah optimist coach. We
all know that, right, we all know that. And you
know he insists he wants to give Genty the football
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and all that. But Pete Carroll, well he's mister raw raw.
He's also not a country bumpkin like if you don't
earn it, you're not just gonna get it. And because
you know, you slap some EyeBlack on or whatever, and
it's not all of a sudden you're gonna be mister
techmo bull back in the day. This is like, this
isn't Boise State versus Hawaii. There is no blue turf
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in the NFL. Right in the NFL, the the linebackers.
You don't play a school where the linebackers are biology
majors on scholarship. These are all the top one percent
of the top one percent. And Ashton Genty, you know,
he just has looked clunky. It's like he's auditioning for
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the role of Frankenstein, like real stiff, like a universal
reboot of Frankenstein or something like that. But it is
too early to say, oh, this guy's a total bust
and slap that label on this guy's locker. However, uh,
you know, in Vegas and just in general, like the
first impression, this is it. You're judged by that and
you have to overcome that. Once you get that in
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the mind, it's very difficult to overcome that. And Ashton
genty what he really needs? And I looked at the schedule. Unfortunately,
I didn't see this. Ashton Genty needs a Washington State
or Georgia Southern on the schedule like he had when
he was at Boise State. A total cupcake game, and
there's only a few of those in the NFL that
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would be like your New Orleans Saints, So you're Carolina
Panther somebody like that, and then you can look like
the All Americans stud all over again. Unfortunately for him,
the NFL does not do cupcakes very often. Right right
now that the highlight reel two games into Ashton Gent's
career is more of a blooper reel than a highlight reel.
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A right now, last word, we go to La La Land.
A viral video popping up here of a charger. Now,
how often does that happen? Let's stop right there. How
often does a charger end up in a viral video?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Well?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Charges wide receiver Keenan Allen with the Monday Night Game
the other night video videos making the rounds here. I
don't know if you've seen it or if you're blind
you've heard it, but Keenan Allen exposed his giant bumpity
bumps on his shoulders during a Monday Night pregame hype video.
I think it's actually his postgame a hype video there
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against the Raiders. So the question, and again this is
more a visual thing. I know we're on an audio platform.
Just imagine Keenan Allen has these big bumps on each shoulder,
like not natural, not normal skeleton bumps. So the question
Chargers wide receiver Keenan Allen going viral for the craziest
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shoulder joints you will ever see or Nazi, So how
do you evaluate this one? So this clip's kind of
like watching Discovery Channel, like a special show on Discovery
Channel on human anatomy gone wrong. Like we're used to
seeing football players in shoulder pads. It's kind of a
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regular occurrence. This guy's got shoulder spikes as an all
the way to say it, Like you line up against
him and it's not press coverage when you're playing Keenan Allen,
it's assault with a deadly weapon. He could literally poke
defensive backs in the eye before the snap and injury.
They couldn't even able to see him, and he'd run
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by him. Keenan plays, he kind of plays like he's
got a chip on his shoulder. Anyway, He's got an
edge to his game and turns out, based on this
photographic video evidence, that he not only has a chip
on his shoulder, he has two giant bones sticking out
of each shoulder. There. Both of these things we are
told based on a minute long Mallar investigation, they were
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grade three separations that he never got fixed. They had
the separation, and he's supposed to have those surgically fixed.
He never did. And so now it's like when I
was a kid, I always wonder what would have happen
if that skeletor came to life. What do we look like?
And now I know? Now I know, just have a
grade three shoulder separation, do not have surgery, and then
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you can put on a number thirteen jersey for the
Los Angeles Chargers and you're good to go. Now it's
not all badness. I will be Benny Brightside on this. Well,
visually it's not very attractive. Keenan Allen will not need
to go to Spirit Halloween. He's already got his own
swoopy costume. He looks like he's wearing. I'm gonna go
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old school here. But professional wrestling, there was this tag
team group called the Road Warriors back in the day,
and they had shoulder pads with spikes on them, and
it kind of looks like that, kind of looks like that, right,
you know what a rush, except it's it's not a gimmick, like,
this is his body. This is what happens. And then
you see some really nasty photos of basketball players with
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their fingers bent the wrong way from playing in the NBA,
or toes that are really wacky. Right, and this is
like that, right, this is like that, and yet he's
still out there running routes and roots and all that.
Getting open catching passes is insane. It's also grotesque but impressive.
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It can be both things at the same time. It's
like one of those carnival sideshow acts that you'll see
right every once in a while. You know, set right up,
every man, woman, and child. See the wide receiver with
the dislocated skeleton right here. So Keenan Allen playing football
in a full horror show mode must be uncomfortable when
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he's got the shoulder pads on, because he's already got
a weapon below the shoulder pads. So it's not about
fighting for the respect. Everyone wants respect. This is the
shoulders are already throwing punches like the shoulders are ready
to go. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. We are
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the cousin? What about the cousin? We'll get to that,
or cousins if you will, we'll get to that and
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piece of feedback we get real time feedback from Milkman
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Mike in Colorado. He says a WrestleMania level opening monologue.
Major props for referencing one of the greatest tag teams
in pro wrestling history. Two bad NFL players can't even
act like they care when they're playing, Well some of
them do, yeah, Femi says Ben. Aren't keenan Allen's shoulders
an extra advantage over the opposing team. They definitely look scary.
(21:35):
Maybe the owners should take a vote to ban them. Well,
did they convert ninety six percent of the time like
the toush push just Josh writes in he says, hey,
he's in Cincinnati. Bears practice being like an animal house,
probably more like a sorority house with a bunch of
dudes wearing face mask while getting their nails painted. Right
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there you go, says Ben. I'm glad you're on tonight.
I was worried you'd be taking taking a day off
after seeing how much trouble one of your former co
workers is. No, that was not one of my favorite
wind No, he's he's ferg dogs can he's conflating stories here. No,
when I when I got started in LA radio years ago,
(22:19):
Jimmy Kimmel was doing mornings at k Rock, and he
was like a goofy morning guy and I was I
was like a night guy or whatever doing radio. And
then I guess he got his shows suspended the FC season.
I don't know what that's all about. I just saw
the headlines, but I'm he didn't work here for dogs,
so I don't know what you're talking about. Late night
drug tester says, no surprise. This time of the year,
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Bears are usually finishing up their summer feeding, getting ready
to hibernate. Unless you have a coach keeping them awake
all season. Then then they are Super Bowl winners. Yes, absolutely.
Spock's weed rights in from the Oregon Trail. He says,
the Bears are on the island of misfit to is,
how does Ben pull so it's wonderful metaphors out of
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his took us there you go. Uh, well, it's just
a lot of weird, random thoughts in my head. Truck
stop Fungus a legend rights and he's now retired, but
he's always on this show known as truck stop Funks.
She pointed out all the interesting truck stops along the way,
says old battle Axes in Florida playing MLB twenty five
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and my tidy white. He's eating chicken wings, drinking mister
PIB and now it's time for the Maller show. Well,
what a great visual that is. What a truck stop
fungus there, old enough to be retired, you know, probably
got a lot of weight on him, and he's just
sitting there in his tidy white. He's living his life.
What a dream? Is that? Not the perfect retirement? You
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just sit down there, You got nowhere to be, nothing
to do. You got your underwear on, you got your
chicken wings in one hand, you got mister PIB in
the other, and then you got the video game. When
you want to play the video game, and you're good
to go, You're good to go. Shanon de Mooyes says,
the only thing that has ever been noteworthy about Tom
Brady is his Patriots career. The rest is annoying, ubnoxious,
(24:08):
and worthless. Like Brady himself shots fired there from shit.
I think he did win a championship with TJ. Reeves
Tampa Bay Buccaneers, if I'm not mistaken. So they did
win a little bit of a championship. So that's not
a terrible thing there. We'll take your calls. Eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox is the number eight seven
seven nine nine six sixty three six'. Nine so there's
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been a bunch of quarterbacks that have already been. Hurt
Joe burrow knocked, out likely for the season In, cincinnati he's.
Gone Justin field's gonna miss The jets game this. WEEKEND
jj McCarthy out In, Minnesota bye bye for. Now you've
also got the quarterback In washington dinged, up might, play
might not play this. Weekend and then you look down
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In atlanta and you're, like, WELL i know a cousin
or a cousins that can come in, there and he's
got some. Experience he could step in and. Play so
what's going? On what is the latest scuttle? About you
ask about the quarterback formerly of The Minnesota vikings and
years ago with The Washington. Redskins what's this all? About,
well it appears if you believe the reporting here that
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Kirk cousins is seen as quote done by a number
of people around THE, nfl and that is why people
haven't traded for Kirk, cousins because he is done. Right
so a couple things on. This first of, ALL i
don't buy. THIS i buy if The Atlanta falcons were
(25:38):
willing to give Kirk cousins away for a nominal asking,
price then they would be able to trade. Him so
does he look like he's on the back. Nine, absolutely
he's on the back, nine and he might even be
in the clubhouse having On Arnold palmer right. Now, however
you look at the financials on the he's making this,
(26:02):
YEAR i believe what is it average anuaalside forty five
million dollars From atlanta out after this. YEAR i know
you're very concerned about the economics Of Kirk cousins and
all that At. Atlanta if they, want they can get
out of that contract at the end of the. Year
so that, would in theory mean that If cousins is
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traded to The vikings or The, bengals then that that could.
Happen so the WAY i read the, room the second
part of this is the WAY i read the room
is that these teams want to see what they have
with the backup, quarterbacks like In Cincinnati Jake, browning who
actually looked halfway decent a while. Back when he plays
like he's gonna be, okay and then if he. Stinks
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remember the trade deadlines not for a, while we got
we got another month or so to go a little
over a month to the trade, Deadline so you got
plenty of time to manipulate and to play around with
it and see what you. Got you don't have to
like rush into. It you don't have to rush into,
it so you can kind of. Wait and so that's
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my that's my theory on this as. Well Regarding Kirk.
Cousins BUT i, mean, listen the, guys the guy was
pretty bad last. Year they, claim, well his campus, say
OH i was, hurt that's why he didn't get a
chance to, play and all that stuff that was that
was the. Issue but, man it is you got Brock
perty who's. Out maybe he comes, back BUT i don't
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think he's going TO i don't think he's going to
play his chance he's going to. Play so it's it's
great that they much like. Baseball my theory on football
much like. Baseball they baby it's like The dodgers coddle
all these pitchers and they all run over to The
South bay IN la to Get Tommy john. Surgery and in,
football the players don't, press they don't practice, physically they
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don't play in exhibition games out of an abundance of,
caution and then they get hurt. Anyway so but you'd
rather they get hurt during. Game well maybe if they
played a little. More maybe if they played a little,
more they might actually grow some what's the scar? TISSUE
i guess is the believe that's the. Term there go
a little scar tissue and then they'll be they'll be
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good to go By Is coop there by the, WAY
i haven't heard From. Coop i've been doing the show
for thirty six. Minutes is he there by the? WAY
i don't? Know is he in the? Building? Yeah oh? There, okay? Good,
anyway we'll take your calls at eight, seven seven ninety
nine On fox eight seven seven nine, nine six sixty six.
Nine NOW. J. J McCarthy one of those injured, quarterbacks
and he's in the. Boot he is in the boot right.
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Now and they, SAY i love the early reports From kevin,
O'Connell the coach of The, vikings like, well McCarthy's responding
very well to the ankle. Injury it's how many days has?
Speaker 4 (28:51):
It?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Big it's been a few, days responding Very how do
you like? It come? On these these over the top reports?
ARE i find them a. Music it's LIKE i remember
back in the day WHEN i was around baseball players a,
lot and anytime a player had an, operation the immediate
(29:12):
news release went out and it said that so and
so his operation was, successful and that was the that
was the statement from the. Team it was a successful
operation and all. That she's, like, okay that's that's. Wonderful
and of course a couple of those were. Not in,
fact one of the people THAT i was around a
little bit he had elbow surgery and was never the
(29:35):
same the rest of his career because the surgeon botched
the operation and as a result of, that as a
result of, that he ended his career. Prematurely but they
said when he had the, operation he, said, well it
was a successful, operation nothing nothing to worry, about so everything's.
Good and it turned out not to be the. Case
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the case all, Right The Green Bay gobbler has checked.
In by the, way we'd like to alert all the
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Wow so we can continue on with the, normal normal.
Show one of the funny things the other night In,
tampa or actually was In, houston The buccaneers and The Houston.
(30:23):
Texans you had clear at the end of the game
when The buccaneers defense they did what we call The
mattador defense ooray o ola, oa the Old matador defense
there where they kind of stood down and allowed not
kind of they. Did they stood down and Allowed houston to,
(30:44):
score which turned out to be. Brilliant they Allowed Nick
chubb to score a. Touchdown So Todd bowles was asked
about that seemed rather obvious to anyone watching the game
that it Was mattador defense by The buccaneers and they
essentially Escorted Nick chubb into the end. Zine houston could
not run the. Ball they were horrific at running the
ball pretty much the entire. Night and then all of a,
(31:06):
Sudden Nick chubb breaks away for a twenty five yard
touchdown run against a Stout buccaneer defense with just over
two minutes, remaining in the, game almost like that was
part of the plan to Give Baker mayfield the ball
at the very end there and allow The buccaneers to come.
Back and they did eventually score the game winning touchdown
(31:28):
in the final ten seconds of that. Game so get
to the, point, Please so a reporter Asked tampa Coach
Todd bowles said if the plan was to Allow Nick
chubb to, score and he responded by, saying, QUOTE i
don't think it. Matters he, said we won the, game
(31:50):
so we'll go from there close quote all, Right so
the answer, me let me dissect that here From. Todd
what he is saying IS i am not allowed to
say we allowed the team to score because of, gambling all,
right because these people bet on these, games they bet
(32:12):
on props and, Whatnot and you're not allowed to allow
the other team to. Score and if you say the
other team, scored if you announced that the other team
scored and you allowed them to, score then that will
lead to what that will lead to a, lawsuit is
What that's. Correct that will lead to a. Lawsuit and
someone is going to sue THE nfl now that they
(32:36):
likely won't. Win it'll be a frivolous lawsuit, because as
we mentioned in previous episodes of the, show THE nfl
technically is an entertainment, company so they are allowed THE,
nfl they are allowed to if they. Want they can fix.
Anything it's like professional. Wrestling they're not really a sports company.
Competition they're an entertainment, company so they can mess around with.
(32:57):
It so, ANYWAY i love That Todd. Bowles he, knows
he knows what he's allowed to say and what he's
not allowed to. Say you cannot you cannot go. There
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box at the highest rate in THE nfl so far this,
year forty three percent of the. Time despite, THIS i
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Hybernation mode. Here we go. It's our number one, our
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number one. We start out on this eighteenth day of
September with the Chicago Bears high drama in the Windy City.
What do you think of Ben Johnson already calling out
his Chicago players after the Z and two start, essentially
saying they're lazy in practice? Also, why is hot shot
(00:41):
rookie running back Ashton Genty already in Pete Carroll's doghouse?
And Chargers wide receiver Keenan Allen has gone viral not
for his great play on the field, for the craziest
shoulder joints that we've ever seen. How do you evaluate that?
We'll go there and everywhere else as well. Here it
is our number one. It is a Bear jamboree. Welome
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But our lead this you gotta play the hit, small Man,
one of wor old bosses used to say, play the hits.
So we'll start out in sweet home Chicago, where the
Bears are the story here. They won the offseason. Congratulations.
They had a big celebration there in Chicago. Another offseason
championship for the Bears. Always exciting when you win the offseason.
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But the Bears first two games of the year and
they are in hybernation mode, the hibernating Bears, du Bears.
So Chicago, the football team off to the zero to
two start, got absolutely blitched. They gave up against the Lions.
That's gutlass football. You don't give up fifty points if
you're halfway decent and you're trying. They gave up on
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their coach in the second game of the year. And
now some payback. Because anything that works in that business
knows if you're trying. You don't give up fifty plus points.
You just don't do that. So the new coach there
has decided to go on the offensive, which is not
surprising considering he is an offensive coordinator, although you wouldn't
(03:59):
know the way the Bears offense is going. So if
you didn't see this, maybe not Ben Johnson publicly putting
his players on blast. He was talking to a short
sound bite, but he was talking about the practiced habits
of the Chicago Bears. Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I think our practice habits are are yet to reflect
the championship caliber team.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Dah.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Now, he went on and expanded on that, but that
one playing the guy, Play the guy and listen to this.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I think our practice habits are are yet to reflect
the championship caliber team.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
All right, So he expanded on that. But that's where
we're gonna jump off. So let us discuss the question,
what do you think of Bears coach Ben Johnson calling
out his Chicago players and what they're doing at practice.
So my thoughts on this, I've got a shampoo commercial,
dunk Tank, and Spirit Halloween, and we will combine all
(04:51):
of these things together and we're gonna make delicious PISTROMI
fries is what we're gonna do. So A, I love
this hot shot coach gets a new job, everyone says
they can't be stopped, and it all falls apart right away.
I got a big bucket of movie theater great popcorn,
(05:11):
the kind that fills your insides and you can't get
it out for years. Two weeks, that's it. Two weeks
into the season and Ben Johnson is announcing that the
practices think He went on to say the fundamentals are
not very good. So I guess that means they're garbage.
That the basics blocking and tackling are not there. Ball security,
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this is Pop Warner football level mistakes by the Chicago Bears.
He's essentially saying. The way I translated is I used
the Mallard Rosetta stone that the coach of the Bears
is saying that the team is playing grab ass all
week like the true Bears fans like Yafimi and Tree
(05:53):
in Chicago and Eugene in Chicago, all those guys, they
put more effort into it than the actual player on
the team. Now, in life, the saying is you are
what you eat. You probably heard that when you were younger.
You are what you eat in football, you are how
you practice. Like that's been the mantra of football forever
and ever. Is anyone shocked? Anyone shocked that already this
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is coming out and you know this has been going
on for months, right, This is not something that all
of a sudden just bubbled up out of nowhere. It's
been hanging out there. And because you always try to
handle this stuff internally before you go in front of
the cameras and the microphones and say this kind of thing.
So Ben Johnson's been dealing with this for some time.
But you can't be shocked by it. And here's why
(06:38):
the Bears are who we thought they were. They're losers.
They've been losers for decades. It's the culture that's the
Chicago Bears. That stuff doesn't just go away because you
hired the latest offensive genius, who's the flavor of the
month in the NFL. And so Ben Johnson's like he's
up there like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. Where
(07:00):
not in Kansas anymore? Gus in this case, we're not
in Detroit anymore because he was with the Lions. Well,
no kidding, you're in Chicago. Great pizza, bad football, good pizza,
bad football, good popcorn, bad football. You've inherited the island
of misfit toys. Congratulations. Now, I've never been to bebarssed practice.
I'm assuming you have an either. It must be like
animal house, though I imagine just a total frat party
(07:22):
like guys have like zombie mode. Right, I mean he's
called it, what is Ben Johnson's really What he's really
doing here is not even calling out the core of
the roster. The way that I heard, this is a
direct shot at his quarterback, Caleb Williams. This is a
direct shot at Caleb Williams your career. Disagree with that point,
(07:43):
then me make my argument here. Now, he didn't say
his name, and I watched the news coming he didn't
say KYLEB. Williams name in regards to this. However, the
reason I'm going down that road is because your quarterback
is supposed to be the tone setter, right, they're the
ones lee by example. You're supposed to be the leader
of men, and instead, you know Caleb, Well, this is
(08:05):
all going on. He's probably looking out. He's auditioning for
some shampoo commercial somewhere, or he's at the nail salon
getting that French manicure while the coach is begging his
team to actually finish a play in practice and all that.
And so this is Ben Johnson's way of calling out
Caleb Williams that he's not holding guys accountable, that there's
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no pride in product in Chicago and they're grinding it
out in practice unless they're not. And that's what Ben
Johnson is telling you. He's begging for the quarterback to
be the grown up in the room and act like
it here. Instead, he's got a team full of Instagram influencers.
They got a lot of clout online. Let's be honest here,
(08:46):
come on. I mean they're bad at football, but they're
really good online. The Bears are solid. They got a
lot of those fake bots following. Anyway, you can't build
the culture if your quarterback is part of the problem,
becomes an issue. We'll see if that changes, but at
this point unlikely. Now, speaking of problems, because we love
problems on the Ben Malor Show, we celebrate problems because
(09:09):
we got problems. Now we go to Vegas, Lost Wages, Nevada,
I spent. If you listen to my fifth hour podcast
on the weekends. I told the story with Danny g
I spent eighty dollars to park in one day in Vegas.
I could have parked in Manhattan. They just at some
point Vegas will realize probably not a good idea, Probably
not a good idea for those parking fees. Anyway, So
(09:31):
we get to the Raiders. Now they look horrible, and
we ripped apart Geno Smith for his performance or lack
thereof performance in the game. Back on Monday night, and
this is our Thursday show. But the latest hullabaloo from
Raiderland running back Ashton Genty. He revealed that he wants
a bigger workload, he said. This week he said, quote,
(09:53):
I don't think you draft a guy like me to
not give me carries, he said. Now it is true.
Out of Boise State, Genty was the number six, number
six pick in the twenty six is but we have
a button for everything, number six pick in the twenty
twenty five NFL draft and had a prolific career in Idaho,
(10:15):
but so far in his NFL right so, it's only
a couple of games. What we've got a show to
do right now, the results have been ugly, absolutely ugly,
so the question, as we discussed the question is why
why is Ashton genty apparently in Pete Carroll's doghouse with
the Raiders already. So this is an early reality check,
(10:38):
That's the way I see it, Like the Silver and
Black heighte machine after they had drafted drafted this guy
gent this is home run hitter. Remember Bo Jackson back
in the day. If you're really old, you remember this
guy named Bo Jackson and all that highlight reel reborn.
And we're a couple of weeks into the process or
the process, and he looks much more like Trent Richardson
(11:03):
than he does the second coming of Bo Jackson, which
is not a compliment, I don't believe. So plotting through
defense is that Patriot game was really bad. The Charger
game was not great. But plotting through defense like he's
trudging through wet cement, Ashton gent and against the Patriots,
the lowly Patriots, he had nineteen carries and thirty eight
(11:24):
yards if my math is correct on that, and I
believe that's two yards of pop using malor math, that'll
get you right back to full back dive territory. That's
like the nineteen eighty three NFL all over again, and
then against the Chargers there was a little bit of improvement.
He had forty three yards, so five more yards and
average three point nine yards per carry. Limited work, nothing special.
(11:46):
So Ashton Genty's NFL christening has been a flaming dunk
tank at this point, baptism by fire, and he's got
third degree burns to prove it. And then he has
the hoods. But I want more carries. Okay, of course,
of course you want more carries. Be careful what you
wish for, though, the more touches that you get right,
more times you touch the ball right now, the more
(12:06):
Raider fans are reminded that you don't draft a running
back in the top ten of the draft, right, you
don't do that. You drafted running back in the sixth round,
not the sixth overall pick. And you know, again, Pete
Carroll forever the ultimate college rah rah optimist coach. We
all know that, right, we all know that. And you
know he insists he wants to give Genty the football
(12:30):
and all that. But Pete Carroll, well he's mister raw raw.
He's also not a country bumpkin like if you don't
earn it, you're not just gonna get it. And because
you know, you slap some EyeBlack on or whatever, and
it's not all of a sudden you're gonna be mister
techmo bull back in the day. This is like, this
isn't Boise State versus Hawaii. There is no blue turf
(12:54):
in the NFL. Right in the NFL, the the linebackers.
You don't play a school where the linebackers are biology
majors on scholarship. These are all the top one percent
of the top one percent. And Ashton Genty, you know,
he just has looked clunky. It's like he's auditioning for
(13:14):
the role of Frankenstein, like real stiff, like a universal
reboot of Frankenstein or something like that. But it is
too early to say, oh, this guy's a total bust
and slap that label on this guy's locker. However, uh,
you know, in Vegas and just in general, like the
first impression, this is it. You're judged by that and
you have to overcome that. Once you get that in
(13:36):
the mind, it's very difficult to overcome that. And Ashton
genty what he really needs? And I looked at the schedule. Unfortunately,
I didn't see this. Ashton Genty needs a Washington State
or Georgia Southern on the schedule like he had when
he was at Boise State. A total cupcake game, and
there's only a few of those in the NFL that
(13:56):
would be like your New Orleans Saints, So you're Carolina
Panther somebody like that, and then you can look like
the All Americans stud all over again. Unfortunately for him,
the NFL does not do cupcakes very often. Right right
now that the highlight reel two games into Ashton Gent's
career is more of a blooper reel than a highlight reel.
(14:17):
A right now, last word, we go to La La Land.
A viral video popping up here of a charger. Now,
how often does that happen? Let's stop right there. How
often does a charger end up in a viral video?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Well?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Charges wide receiver Keenan Allen with the Monday Night Game
the other night video videos making the rounds here. I
don't know if you've seen it or if you're blind
you've heard it, but Keenan Allen exposed his giant bumpity
bumps on his shoulders during a Monday Night pregame hype video.
I think it's actually his postgame a hype video there
(14:54):
against the Raiders. So the question, and again this is
more a visual thing. I know we're on an audio platform.
Just imagine Keenan Allen has these big bumps on each shoulder,
like not natural, not normal skeleton bumps. So the question
Chargers wide receiver Keenan Allen going viral for the craziest
(15:17):
shoulder joints you will ever see or Nazi, So how
do you evaluate this one? So this clip's kind of
like watching Discovery Channel, like a special show on Discovery
Channel on human anatomy gone wrong. Like we're used to
seeing football players in shoulder pads. It's kind of a
(15:39):
regular occurrence. This guy's got shoulder spikes as an all
the way to say it, Like you line up against
him and it's not press coverage when you're playing Keenan Allen,
it's assault with a deadly weapon. He could literally poke
defensive backs in the eye before the snap and injury.
They couldn't even able to see him, and he'd run
(15:59):
by him. Keenan plays, he kind of plays like he's
got a chip on his shoulder. Anyway, He's got an
edge to his game and turns out, based on this
photographic video evidence, that he not only has a chip
on his shoulder, he has two giant bones sticking out
of each shoulder. There. Both of these things we are
told based on a minute long Mallar investigation, they were
(16:21):
grade three separations that he never got fixed. They had
the separation, and he's supposed to have those surgically fixed.
He never did. And so now it's like when I
was a kid, I always wonder what would have happen
if that skeletor came to life. What do we look like?
And now I know? Now I know, just have a
grade three shoulder separation, do not have surgery, and then
(16:43):
you can put on a number thirteen jersey for the
Los Angeles Chargers and you're good to go. Now it's
not all badness. I will be Benny Brightside on this. Well,
visually it's not very attractive. Keenan Allen will not need
to go to Spirit Halloween. He's already got his own
swoopy costume. He looks like he's wearing. I'm gonna go
(17:03):
old school here. But professional wrestling, there was this tag
team group called the Road Warriors back in the day,
and they had shoulder pads with spikes on them, and
it kind of looks like that, kind of looks like that, right,
you know what a rush, except it's it's not a gimmick, like,
this is his body. This is what happens. And then
you see some really nasty photos of basketball players with
(17:25):
their fingers bent the wrong way from playing in the NBA,
or toes that are really wacky. Right, and this is
like that, right, this is like that, and yet he's
still out there running routes and roots and all that.
Getting open catching passes is insane. It's also grotesque but impressive.
(17:45):
It can be both things at the same time. It's
like one of those carnival sideshow acts that you'll see
right every once in a while. You know, set right up,
every man, woman, and child. See the wide receiver with
the dislocated skeleton right here. So Keenan Allen playing football
in a full horror show mode must be uncomfortable when
(18:06):
he's got the shoulder pads on, because he's already got
a weapon below the shoulder pads. So it's not about
fighting for the respect. Everyone wants respect. This is the
shoulders are already throwing punches like the shoulders are ready
to go. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. We are
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(18:27):
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Bill Miller and you. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
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Sounded more like a car than a plane, but that's
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nine six six three sixty nine. Also on the X
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to Lorraine the FSR Tech, clean the Sleepy Bear and
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say Hello to the kooperloop at uh Brocco fan. Your
comments can and will be used against you in the
kangaroo court of sports radio, so please act accordingly. Wow,
and now back to it all right, And the first
piece of feedback we get real time feedback from Milkman
(21:14):
Mike in Colorado. He says a WrestleMania level opening monologue.
Major props for referencing one of the greatest tag teams
in pro wrestling history. Two bad NFL players can't even
act like they care when they're playing, Well some of
them do, yeah, Femi says Ben. Aren't keenan Allen's shoulders
an extra advantage over the opposing team. They definitely look scary.
(21:35):
Maybe the owners should take a vote to ban them. Well,
did they convert ninety six percent of the time like
the toush push just Josh writes in he says, hey,
he's in Cincinnati. Bears practice being like an animal house,
probably more like a sorority house with a bunch of
dudes wearing face mask while getting their nails painted. Right
(21:58):
there you go, says Ben. I'm glad you're on tonight.
I was worried you'd be taking taking a day off
after seeing how much trouble one of your former co
workers is. No, that was not one of my favorite
wind No, he's he's ferg dogs can he's conflating stories here. No,
when I when I got started in LA radio years ago,
(22:19):
Jimmy Kimmel was doing mornings at k Rock, and he
was like a goofy morning guy and I was I
was like a night guy or whatever doing radio. And
then I guess he got his shows suspended the FC season.
I don't know what that's all about. I just saw
the headlines, but I'm he didn't work here for dogs,
so I don't know what you're talking about. Late night
drug tester says, no surprise. This time of the year,
(22:40):
Bears are usually finishing up their summer feeding, getting ready
to hibernate. Unless you have a coach keeping them awake
all season. Then then they are Super Bowl winners. Yes, absolutely.
Spock's weed rights in from the Oregon Trail. He says,
the Bears are on the island of misfit to is,
how does Ben pull so it's wonderful metaphors out of
(23:03):
his took us there you go. Uh, well, it's just
a lot of weird, random thoughts in my head. Truck
stop Fungus a legend rights and he's now retired, but
he's always on this show known as truck stop Funks.
She pointed out all the interesting truck stops along the way,
says old battle Axes in Florida playing MLB twenty five
(23:24):
and my tidy white. He's eating chicken wings, drinking mister
PIB and now it's time for the Maller show. Well,
what a great visual that is. What a truck stop
fungus there, old enough to be retired, you know, probably
got a lot of weight on him, and he's just
sitting there in his tidy white. He's living his life.
What a dream? Is that? Not the perfect retirement? You
(23:47):
just sit down there, You got nowhere to be, nothing
to do. You got your underwear on, you got your
chicken wings in one hand, you got mister PIB in
the other, and then you got the video game. When
you want to play the video game, and you're good
to go, You're good to go. Shanon de Mooyes says,
the only thing that has ever been noteworthy about Tom
Brady is his Patriots career. The rest is annoying, ubnoxious,
(24:08):
and worthless. Like Brady himself shots fired there from shit.
I think he did win a championship with TJ. Reeves
Tampa Bay Buccaneers, if I'm not mistaken. So they did
win a little bit of a championship. So that's not
a terrible thing there. We'll take your calls. Eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox is the number eight seven
seven nine nine six sixty three six'. Nine so there's
(24:31):
been a bunch of quarterbacks that have already been. Hurt
Joe burrow knocked, out likely for the season In, cincinnati he's.
Gone Justin field's gonna miss The jets game this. WEEKEND
jj McCarthy out In, Minnesota bye bye for. Now you've
also got the quarterback In washington dinged, up might, play
might not play this. Weekend and then you look down
(24:52):
In atlanta and you're, like, WELL i know a cousin
or a cousins that can come in, there and he's
got some. Experience he could step in and. Play so
what's going? On what is the latest scuttle? About you
ask about the quarterback formerly of The Minnesota vikings and
years ago with The Washington. Redskins what's this all? About,
well it appears if you believe the reporting here that
(25:17):
Kirk cousins is seen as quote done by a number
of people around THE, nfl and that is why people
haven't traded for Kirk, cousins because he is done. Right
so a couple things on. This first of, ALL i
don't buy. THIS i buy if The Atlanta falcons were
(25:38):
willing to give Kirk cousins away for a nominal asking,
price then they would be able to trade. Him so
does he look like he's on the back. Nine, absolutely
he's on the back, nine and he might even be
in the clubhouse having On Arnold palmer right. Now, however
you look at the financials on the he's making this,
(26:02):
YEAR i believe what is it average anuaalside forty five
million dollars From atlanta out after this. YEAR i know
you're very concerned about the economics Of Kirk cousins and
all that At. Atlanta if they, want they can get
out of that contract at the end of the. Year
so that, would in theory mean that If cousins is
(26:24):
traded to The vikings or The, bengals then that that could.
Happen so the WAY i read the, room the second
part of this is the WAY i read the room
is that these teams want to see what they have
with the backup, quarterbacks like In Cincinnati Jake, browning who
actually looked halfway decent a while. Back when he plays
like he's gonna be, okay and then if he. Stinks
(26:45):
remember the trade deadlines not for a, while we got
we got another month or so to go a little
over a month to the trade, Deadline so you got
plenty of time to manipulate and to play around with
it and see what you. Got you don't have to
like rush into. It you don't have to rush into,
it so you can kind of. Wait and so that's
(27:06):
my that's my theory on this as. Well Regarding Kirk.
Cousins BUT i, mean, listen the, guys the guy was
pretty bad last. Year they, claim, well his campus, say
OH i was, hurt that's why he didn't get a
chance to, play and all that stuff that was that
was the. Issue but, man it is you got Brock
perty who's. Out maybe he comes, back BUT i don't
(27:30):
think he's going TO i don't think he's going to
play his chance he's going to. Play so it's it's
great that they much like. Baseball my theory on football
much like. Baseball they baby it's like The dodgers coddle
all these pitchers and they all run over to The
South bay IN la to Get Tommy john. Surgery and in,
football the players don't, press they don't practice, physically they
(27:53):
don't play in exhibition games out of an abundance of,
caution and then they get hurt. Anyway so but you'd
rather they get hurt during. Game well maybe if they
played a little. More maybe if they played a little,
more they might actually grow some what's the scar? TISSUE
i guess is the believe that's the. Term there go
a little scar tissue and then they'll be they'll be
(28:14):
good to go By Is coop there by the, WAY
i haven't heard From. Coop i've been doing the show
for thirty six. Minutes is he there by the? WAY
i don't? Know is he in the? Building? Yeah oh? There, okay? Good,
anyway we'll take your calls at eight, seven seven ninety
nine On fox eight seven seven nine, nine six sixty six.
Nine NOW. J. J McCarthy one of those injured, quarterbacks
and he's in the. Boot he is in the boot right.
(28:38):
Now and they, SAY i love the early reports From kevin,
O'Connell the coach of The, vikings like, well McCarthy's responding
very well to the ankle. Injury it's how many days has?
Speaker 4 (28:51):
It?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Big it's been a few, days responding Very how do
you like? It come? On these these over the top reports?
ARE i find them a. Music it's LIKE i remember
back in the day WHEN i was around baseball players a,
lot and anytime a player had an, operation the immediate
(29:12):
news release went out and it said that so and
so his operation was, successful and that was the that
was the statement from the. Team it was a successful
operation and all. That she's, like, okay that's that's. Wonderful
and of course a couple of those were. Not in,
fact one of the people THAT i was around a
little bit he had elbow surgery and was never the
(29:35):
same the rest of his career because the surgeon botched
the operation and as a result of, that as a
result of, that he ended his career. Prematurely but they
said when he had the, operation he, said, well it
was a successful, operation nothing nothing to worry, about so everything's.
Good and it turned out not to be the. Case
(29:59):
the case all, Right The Green Bay gobbler has checked.
In by the, way we'd like to alert all the
affiliates down the line that The Green Bay gobbler has checked. In,
Wow so we can continue on with the, normal normal.
Show one of the funny things the other night In,
tampa or actually was In, houston The buccaneers and The Houston.
(30:23):
Texans you had clear at the end of the game
when The buccaneers defense they did what we call The
mattador defense ooray o ola, oa the Old matador defense
there where they kind of stood down and allowed not
kind of they. Did they stood down and Allowed houston to,
(30:44):
score which turned out to be. Brilliant they Allowed Nick
chubb to score a. Touchdown So Todd bowles was asked
about that seemed rather obvious to anyone watching the game
that it Was mattador defense by The buccaneers and they
essentially Escorted Nick chubb into the end. Zine houston could
not run the. Ball they were horrific at running the
ball pretty much the entire. Night and then all of a,
(31:06):
Sudden Nick chubb breaks away for a twenty five yard
touchdown run against a Stout buccaneer defense with just over
two minutes, remaining in the, game almost like that was
part of the plan to Give Baker mayfield the ball
at the very end there and allow The buccaneers to come.
Back and they did eventually score the game winning touchdown
(31:28):
in the final ten seconds of that. Game so get
to the, point, Please so a reporter Asked tampa Coach
Todd bowles said if the plan was to Allow Nick
chubb to, score and he responded by, saying, QUOTE i
don't think it. Matters he, said we won the, game
(31:50):
so we'll go from there close quote all, Right so
the answer, me let me dissect that here From. Todd
what he is saying IS i am not allowed to
say we allowed the team to score because of, gambling all,
right because these people bet on these, games they bet
(32:12):
on props and, Whatnot and you're not allowed to allow
the other team to. Score and if you say the
other team, scored if you announced that the other team
scored and you allowed them to, score then that will
lead to what that will lead to a, lawsuit is
What that's. Correct that will lead to a. Lawsuit and
someone is going to sue THE nfl now that they
(32:36):
likely won't. Win it'll be a frivolous lawsuit, because as
we mentioned in previous episodes of the, show THE nfl
technically is an entertainment, company so they are allowed THE,
nfl they are allowed to if they. Want they can fix.
Anything it's like professional. Wrestling they're not really a sports company.
Competition they're an entertainment, company so they can mess around with.
(32:57):
It so, ANYWAY i love That Todd. Bowles he, knows
he knows what he's allowed to say and what he's
not allowed to. Say you cannot you cannot go. There
that is. Forbidden it is, taboo absolutely taboo to go.
There cannot do, it cannot do. It it is The Ben Maler.
Show we'll press on and got a full, board so
(33:18):
don't bother. Calling but here's the who AM? I? Game
here we go the who AM? I? Game this is
WHERE i pretend to be somebody, else and here we.
GO i am a running back who a running back
who has faced eight or more men in the. Box
that's a that's a hard oh football. Term i'm a
running back who's faced eight or more men in the
(33:39):
box at the highest rate in THE nfl so far this,
year forty three percent of the. Time despite, THIS i
am still second in explosive rush, rate whatever the hell that?
Is so, AGAIN i am a running back who has
faced eight or more men in the? Box what's a whole?
Box at the highest rate in THE nfl this year
(34:00):
forty three. Percent despite, THIS i am still second in
explosive rush. Rate who AM?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
I that is the.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Question what is the. Answer we'll get to it and
we will do it.
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who am? High? Game SO i am a running back
who has faced eight or more men in the. Box
(35:51):
that's a hard o football term at the highest rate
in THE nfl this year forty three point four percent
of the. Time despite, THIS i am still second in
explosive rush. Rate who AM? I that is the? Answer who?
Or that's a? Question what is the? Answer bobby And
flora's going with the iconic Swimmer greg luganis see what
(36:12):
you did? There Benjamin franklin From, scrooge who's in the younger.
Demographic he loves to brag about. That in The Bay.
Area femei going With skeletor is his. Answer King roy's
going With guillemo from The Jimmy Kimmel. SHOW i hope
he's all, right germ. Good i've actually met him at
THE Nba finals years. Ago he's been doing that for
a long. Time who? Else Late Night drug tester, says
(36:33):
you Are Scottie, bowman who is ninety two. Today oh my,
god WHEN i covered. Hockey don't Tell, eddie my old, Buddy,
eddie BUT i covered hockey for several years And Scotty
bowman was still coaching in THE nhl and he was
like really old, then and that was a really long time.
Ago who play? One that's? Right shaneon And moys going
with Former Royal George. Brett who else do we Have
(36:53):
Page down The, Road, Warriors animal And hawk The Ice
box From Just josh And. Cincinnati, george that's your Boy
as going with his favorite, Hero Jenna. Jamison he loved her.
Work who else do we Have east? Going he's going
With Jimmy kimmel as his. Answer robbie The mariner fan
says a pager Or Bajon. Robinson who else do we?
(37:15):
Have let's see your Page downspaccoli's doing shout outs To
George Nori, okay Spinsycer regina From Far Out dave that's his.
Answer the bride And, Groom Ricky williams And Mike. Dicker
there there you go From Big lou he's on number,
Two Nature boy going with forty nine er Legend Ricky,
(37:38):
waters remember the guy from The. Autobahn he's stopped calling
the show when he moved back From, germany but he's
he Wanted Ricky waters in The hall Of. Fame that
was his big. Issue Brad muster from rich that's his.
Answer who else do we? Have Travis etn FROM jj truck,
stop fungus in his, underwear playing video, games eating chicken
(38:00):
wings and. Drinking mister pib going With Al. Bundy mike
From New hampshire says none other Than Yogi. Bear that's?
Right who? Else page Don, alright that's that's. Enough, lorrainea
do you have an? Answer. Lorrena one of my, Favorites
Clinton Portois clinton portis all right? Playing, really what team
(38:22):
did he play?
Speaker 3 (38:22):
For?
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Okay, uh he was so? Good you know you played
for all the? Teams, yeah he pretty much did play
for most of the. Teams, well the answer here's the question.
Again I'm i'm a Running, Yes i'm a running back
who have has faced eight men in the, box the
highest rate in THE nfl this. Year despite, This i'm
still second explosive rush. Rate who AM? I that would
Be Seattle seahawk running Back Kenneth. Walker Kenneth walker is the,
(38:47):
Answer and so there you. Go Kenneth walker fourth and
yards per carry, too not bad considering, WELL i don't
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