September 18, 2025 • 43 mins
Big Ben talks about Ben Johnson calling out the practice habits of his players, Shohei Ohtani saying that he's willing to play outfield so that the Dodgers can use him as a relief pitcher, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and more!
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You got to play the hit small Man one world
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 off season. But the
Bears first two games of the year and they are
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in hybernation mode.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
The hibernating Bears dull Bears.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So Chicago the football team off to the zero and
two start, got absolutely bitch. They gave up against the Lions.
That's gutless football. You don't give up fifty points if
you're halfway decent and you're trying. They gave up on
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.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
You just don't do that.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
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 know it 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.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Take a listen. I think our practice habits are are
yet to reflect the championship caliber team.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Dah.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Now he went on and expanded on that, but that
one playing the guy, play the guy and listen to this.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I think our practice habits are are yet to reflect
the championship caliber team. All right, So he expanded on that.
But that's where we're gonna jump off.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
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 of these things together and
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we're gonna make delicious Pistromi fries.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Is what we're gonna do. So A, I love this story.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Hot shot coach gets 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, the
kind that fills your insides and you can't get it
out for years.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Two weeks, that's it.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
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. This is Pop Warner football level mistakes by
the Chicago Bear. He's essentially saying, the way I translated this,
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I used to 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 in Chicago and Eugene in Chicago, all
those guys, they put more effort into it than the
actual players on the team. Now, in life, the saying
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is you are what you eat. You probably heard that
when you were younger.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
You are what you eat.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
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 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.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
It's been hanging out there.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
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 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
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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. We're not in Kansas anymore.
I guess 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,
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good popcorn, bad football. You've inherited the island of misfit toys. Congratulations. Now,
I've never been to Bears practice. I'm assuming you have
an either. It must be like animal House, though I imagine
just a total frat party like guys have like zombie mode. Right,
I mean, he's called what is Ben Johnson's really What
he's really doing here is not even calling out the
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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, then me make my argument here. Now,
he didn't say his name, and I watched the news
coming he didn't say Cayleb Williams name in regard to this. However,
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the reason I'm going down that road is because your
quarterback is supposed to be the tone setter, right, They're
the ones lead by example. You're supposed to be the
leader of men, and instead Caleb, Well, this is all
going on.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
He's probably looking out. He's auditioning for some.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
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
no pride in product in Chicago and they're grinding it
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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.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Like it here.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Instead, he's got a team full of Instagram influencers. They
got a lot of cloud online. Let's be honest here,
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. So we'll see if that changes, but
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at this point unlikely. Now, speaking of problems, because we
love problems on the Ben Malor Show, we celebrate problems
because we got problems. Now we go to Vegas, lost
wages in Nevadom 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.
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They just at some point Vegas will realize probably not
a good idea, Probably not a good idea for.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Those parking fees.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Anyway, so we get to the now they look horrible
and we ripped apart Geno Smith for his performance or
lack theirop 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.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Now it is true.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Out of Boise State, Genty was the number six, number
six pick in the twenty is we have a button
for everything, number six pick in the twenty twenty five
NFL draft and had a prolific career in Idaho, 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
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the question, as we discussed the question is why why
is Ashton Genty apparently in Peak Farrel's doghouse with the
Raiders already?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
So this is an early reality check, That's the way
I see it.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Like the silver and Black height 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 weeks into the
process or the process, and he looks much more like
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Trent Richardson 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 yards.
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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.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
That's like the nineteen eighty three NFL all over again.
And then against the Chargers there was a little bit
of improvement.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
He hit forty three yards, so five more yards and
average three point nine yards per carry. Limited work, nothing special.
So Ashton Gent'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. So, and then he
has the hoods. But I want more carries, Okay, of course,
of course you want more carries. Be careful what you
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wish for, though, the more touches that you get right,
more times you touch the ball. Right now, the more
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.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
We all know that, right, we all know that.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
And you know he insists he wants to give gent
the football 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 and because you know, you you slap some EyeBlack
on or whatever, and it's not all of a sudden
you're gonna be mister techmobile back in the day. This
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is like, this isn't Boise State versus Hawaii. There is
no blue turf in the NFL. Right, in the NFL,
the the linebackers. You don't play a school where the
linebackers are biology majors on scholarship, right that these are
these are all the top one percent of the top
one percent. And Ashton genty uh, you know he just
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has looked clunky. It's like he's auditioning for the role
of Frankenstein, like real stiff, like a universal reboot of
Frankenstein or something like that. But it's 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,
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this is it.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
You're judged by that and you have to overcome that.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Once you get that in 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
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those in the NFL that would be like your New
Orleans Saints, so you're Carolina Panthers 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 Genty's career, is more of a
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blooper reel than a highlight reel. 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? Well, Charges Wide Receiver Keenan
Allen with the Monday Night Game the other night videos
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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.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Night pregame hype video.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I think it's actually his postgame a hype video there
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,
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Charges Wide Receiver, Keenan Allen going viral for the craziest
shoulder joints you will ever see or Nazi, So how
do you evaluate this one? So this clips kind of
like watching Discovery Channel, like a special show on Discovery.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Channel on Human Anatomy gone Wrong.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Like we're used to seeing football players in shoulder pads,
it's kind of a regular occurrence. This guy's got shoulder spikes,
as in 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.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
With a deadly weapon.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
He could literally poke defensive backs in the eye before
the snap and injury.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
They couldn't even able to see him, and he'd run
by him.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Keenan plays, he kind of plays like he's he's got
a chip on his shoulder anyway, he's got an edge
to his game. And it 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.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
There both of these things, we are told.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Based on a minute long Malleor investigation, they were Grade
three separations that he never got fixed. They had the
separation and he's supposed to have those surgically fixed.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
He never did.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
And so now it's like when I was a kid,
I always wonder what would happen if that skeletor came
to life.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
What do we look like And now I know, now
I know, just have a grade three shoulder separation.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Do not have surgery, and then 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.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Own swoothcky costume.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
He looks like he's wearing. I'm gonna go 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 him, and it kind of
looks like that, kind of looks like that, right, well,
you know what a rush, except it's not a gimmick,
like this is his body.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
This is what happens.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
And then you see some really nasty photos of basketball
players with their fingers bent the wrong way from playing
in the NBA or toes that are really wacky, 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
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grotesque but impressive. It can be both things at the
same time. It's like one of those carnival sideshow.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Acts that you'll see right every once in a while.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Step right up, every man, woman, and child. See the
wide receiver with the dislocated skeleton right here. So keenan
am playing football in a full horror show mode.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Must be uncomfortable when he's got the shoulder pads on
because he's already got a weapon.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Below the shoulder pads. So it's not about fighting for
the respect. Everyone wants respect.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
This is the shoulders are already throwing punches like the
shoulders are ready to go.
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hour is from baseball. We're going to start there the
story that a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Are talking about, not the Cubs, Doc Cubbs, who.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Are in the playoffs now, but the Dodgers who did
beat the Phillies.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
That's shocking.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
But the Dodgers are in a bit of a pickle
jar here on how they're going to handle shohe Otani,
who hit another home run in the game that was
played there on Wednesday night, and he's got fifty one
home runs now and getting close to the end of
the season, just about a ten games or so to
go in.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
The regular season.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
So if he didn't see this, perhaps not the Dodgers
robotic manager by the book preordained.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Dave, we should call him Dave Roberts.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Dave Roberts acknowledge that the Dodgers have considered whether or
not sho hail Tani may end up being their salvation
to their crap bag bullpen. The bullpen blows, it's embarrassing.
It's a minor league bullpen, and so the chance, the
chances of a Tani going to the bullpen, what are
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they well, we don't know what they are it's being considered,
and a shorter series wild card round. The Dodgers, the
greatest team all time, are gonna be in the wildcard
round because they're not that good. So it remains to
be seen whether or not this will happen or not.
Otani still will likely end up being a starting pitcher
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because of the rule, because of the rule in baseball,
the Otani rule, which was put in for him as
a starting pitcher, not as a reliever. But the Dodgers
say that it is something they're considering, that Otani would
help them out of the bullpen, and they're talking about it.
Otani did say that he's open to playing the outfield.
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Oh my god, a guy making seventy million dollars a
year and he's willing to play the outfield.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Holy crap, just to remain in the lineup.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Because the rule is, if you're a reliever and you
leave the game, it's all over.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
That's it. You're done. Ski's all right.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
So let us discuss the question. Sho Haltani says that
he is willing to play the outfield. The Dodgers could
use him as a relief pitcher under that scenario.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
What is your initial reaction to all of this.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
So I've got Ricky, Bobby, Greek, and Wyoming and we
will combine all of these things together.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
And we are going to make your Babushka's favorite peanut
butter and jelly is what we're going to make. So
number I said number. Now Otani not.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Just as bad at gambling, but he's a unicorn and
he's a full on one man marching band.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
How can one.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Man be a marching band. Well, there's Otani. He's the
drum major, he's playing the trumpet, he's got the tuba,
he's the guy twirling the baton.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
He's all that. But really, what this.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Is is an obvious referendum on the Dodger front office.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
They were bad at their job.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
They went out, they signed a guy in Kirby Yates
who's completely washed up.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
He should be playing shuffle board somewhere.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
And Tanner Scott, whose mind is mush as mashed potatoes.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
This guy blows.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
And so those were the big pickups that they improved
the bullpen, and the bullpen sucks so much that they're
thinking about putting Otani out there and have him strap
a harmonica on. In addition to all the other stuff
that he's got going on.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
It is insane that Dodger bullpen, which they thought was
going to be a beachfront luxury condo building, but it
was that, except it was actually built on top of
a sinkle, which is not what you want. And so
now this is Major League Baseball's version of Ricky Bobby.
You remember Will Ferrell, the star of that Talladega Knights,
and played all nine positions for ten different teams one
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day in the Cactus League.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
He flew around and all that.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
But you look at it and you will have to
get Harmonica for Otani there. And he can also juggle
chainsaws just to get them through the Wildcard series, just
to get them through the walk cars. There's now a
little bird, he says. The Dodgers have been lobbying for
a rules change, rules change with Major League Baseball. They
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would have to rewrite the constitution. I imagine the letter
goes something like, dear mister Manford, you called the World
Series Trophy a hunk of metals, so you clearly don't
care about competition, So surely you'd be willing to change
the rule just before the playoffs to accommodate the Dodgers
to allow shohal Tony to pitch and relief, hit cleanup,
and he can shag flies and left field without losing
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the designated hitter. Thank you very much, signed Los Angeles Dodgers.
So they want a loopity loop is what they want.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
They want a show.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Hel tany loophole written into the baseball by laws because
the rest of the roster.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Is not good and he listen, the Dodgers deserve the circus.
It would be hilarious.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Baseball shouldn't change the rules, but then the commissioner doesn't
care about the integrity of the game. They don't care
about that. You got two teams playing in minor league
stadiums this year. It's embarrass But the Dodgers deserve the
circus because they babied their pitchers into glass figurines. They
put them all in bubble wrap, and then of course
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the bullpen's completely cooked at this point.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
And now we're closing in.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Just a couple weeks away from October, and the hopes
rest on O'tani pulling a Will Ferrell, just playing all
the positions.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Good luck with that, Good luck with that.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
All right, Now we go back to football and to
the Valley of the Sun, a team we normally don't
talk about because nobody cares about them. But this is
an interesting story. The Cardinals wide receiver Marvin Harrison Junior. Now,
you told me this guy was going to be great,
the spawn of a Hall of Famer, and they had
a few highlights last year, a couple of good games.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
It wasn't consistently great.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
So Marvin Harrison Junior has been a non factor to
begin the year. Arizona somehow's two and oh thanks to
the schedule gods. But Marvin Harrison Junior says his lack
of targets is a quote, silly conversation to Marvin Harrison says, listen,
it's nothing to worry about.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Silly, silly, silly.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
And he has been targeted just eleven times through the
first two games of the NFL season, and so it
obviously stands out right stands out a lot. This is
supposed to be their big stud wide receiver. This is
there forever franchise wide receiver, the next Larry Fitzgerald, better
than Larry Fitzgerald, and he's not. So the question, is
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it a silly conversation that Marvin Harrison is lost in
the Cardinals offense right now, So absolutely not. Do you
know how many millions, if not billions, of dollars are
exchanged in fantasy football, and then you add in gambling
and all that, and there are prop bets on production
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and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
And Marvin Harrison.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Is not living up to the building. That's a story.
It's not a silly conversation. Harrison was the fourth overall
pick in the twenty twenty four draft.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Ship the draft, right, you literally.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Say prayers at the tabernacle for the NFL draft and
this season so far, all we have to do is
judge him on his actions. This season, Marvin Harrison Junior
has been a stool pigeon. Tell me what company you
keep and I will tell you what you are. So
Marvin Harrison Jr. Is currently tied with someone named Josh
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Downs of the Colts. Sounds like a relief pitcher for
the Giants and the Jaguars Diamy Brown in targets this year.
Let me repeat that for those of you a little
slow in the back of the room. It is an
overnight show. So Marvin Harrison Jr. Is tied with the
Colts wide receiver Josh Downs and the Jaguars, Diami Brown
(27:48):
in targets. That is not the company that you want
to keep. Now, I didn't play in the NFL. I
know Ryan Clark will probably be upset that I have
a take because I didn't play in the NFL. But
that is not the company you want to keep, all right,
when you're supposed to be the next Jamar Chase or
Justin Jefferson. This is the guy we were told can't miss,
gold plated spawn of a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeahah yeah. So at this part of it,
I'm gonna go fluent in Greek. Marvin Harrison looks like Adonis,
remember the viral photos all he worked out.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
This guy is amazing.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
He's built like a Greek god. He plays like a
Greek salad. That's not what you're looking for. Where's the production,
where's the juice? The great white outs? You know what
they do my entire life. They demand the ball. They
give me the damn ball. The famous quote from Keishawn
Johnson back and then his book. They don't just sit
there smiling and twiddling their thumbs on the sidelines while
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they're getting three or four targets a game, whether that's
Devonte Adams who's getting older with the ramsde Lamb or
any of these guys. Those guys all get fed.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
They do. And Marvin Harrison, he is a garnish on
the plate right now.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
He's a partially sprig is essentially what he I mean, listen,
he looks nice. Half you really want him as like
the centerfold of a magazine.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
If you're read of that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
It doesn't change the flavor. So far, he's half the
man his father was. I don't even know if half
is right. Marvin Harrison Senior, well, he certainly had some
issues off the field, and there was a lot of
shady stuff and we don't know all the details on
what was involved and what didn't happen with Marvin Harrison senior.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
But he was slick and he was he was silk.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
He was effortless and when he got the ball, whoever
the quarterback was mostly Peyton Manning, it was Velcrow and
the kid.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Eh.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
You know it's it's like he's running these routes and
it seems like he's stuck in a TSA line at
Sky Harbor Airport, or.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Some other airport.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
All the hype, all the hype, right, changing the franchise,
You draft.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
This receiver, he's so good blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
And yet he's out there putting up stat lines that
you can get from a fifth round pick out of
Western Michigan. You can get that kind of production. So
Marvin Harrison Jr. Is as good as advertised. The staff
would mandate that he gets the ball. Is that an
accurate state?
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Right? Again, you look at him.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
And you're saying, well, there's a guy that looks like
a Greek god, but again it plays like a Greek salad.
And you'd say, scheme him up. You can feed him
the ball, bubble screens, slants, whatever you find, right, what
you find ways to get him ten looks a game, right,
you find ways to get the ball. Here's the fun
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sized quarterback, or the alligator arms as we like to
call him. There, here's Kyler Murr. You hear the question
and the answer on the issue of targets.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Take a listen through.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
The ball, Marvar be down, but do you feel like
you should have more targets in a game?
Speaker 7 (30:48):
Right now you're asking me. You know, I say it
every time, like I wish all of them could get
ten targets a game. Of course, there's only one ball.
You know, we been playing this game for a long time.
We all understand how it goes. Some days he's gonna
get ten, some days he might get three whatever it is,
and Mike might get eight. You know, you never know.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Yeah, okay, that's a non answer answer. Again. I go
back to my point.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
If the player is great, do you think the Vikings
going to a game saying, well, we you know, we
can't get we can't target Justin Jefferson or the Bengals
with with their their star wide receiver, mister Chase there
you get him the ball, and there are trick codes
that you can use, the bubble screen, the slant, whatever
it might be, as I said, to get them open.
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And the fact that that Harrison is not getting the
ball that often means either one of two things. Either
he can't separate despite looking like a Greek god there's
not he's not getting open, or he's not the guy.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
It's one of those two things. And if he can't separate,
you could also argue he's not the guy, So it's
almost one of the same. All right, now, final points
falling quarterback category.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
We go to Carolina, where the Panthers sucked yet again
and their coach Dave Canalis. Don't learn his name, He
won't be there long, but Dave Canalis announced this week
that he has complete confidence in Panthers quarterback Bryce Young
says his confidence is quote super high. That's his words,
not mine. He said, a super high confidence level despite
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the oh and two start yet again. And the Atlanta
Falcons are up next in a game that will be
regionally broadcast and maybe back in the day we'd say
that's on public access cable, but I guess it'll be
on television somewhere.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
So this is one year.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Remember last season, one of the great sports radio talking
points was the famous benching of Bryce Young following an
oh and two start, and Bryce Young, after Carolina had
been firmly exterminated from any chance of doing anything, put
up some halfway decent games. But here we are back
to square one. So Canalls says he's quote fired up.
(33:00):
He said about where the Panthers are headed. Okay, quotes quote,
So let us discuss the question. Is coach Dave Canalis
confidence in Carolina quarterback Bryce Young warranted. So you can't
see me unless you're watching the YouTube channel, which is
(33:20):
at Ben Mahler's show. You can watch it right there.
So I'm shaking my head. No, this is wishful thinking.
I love the fact that Canalis is fired up about
where the Panthers are going. He must love the NFL draft,
the top ten of the NFL draft, because that's.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Where Carolina is going. They're going to the top ten
of the NFL Draft.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
It's the coach trying to sell you beachfront property in Wyoming,
beautiful beachfront property in Wyoming. Canalis is playing mister Sunshine
and it's mister Canalis in the Sunshine Band.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
They're the ultimate cheerleader. Give me some pom poms and
passing them over to Dave Canalis. Get him a little
skirt and there you go.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
You can lead the keep the faith cheer at the
rally while the quarterback looks like one of those candy bars,
you know, the small sized candy bars you get on
Halloween there where they're a little small, though sweet. You
take a couple of bites and they're all gone. Bryce Young.
It's like he's shrunk in the drier. Now we goof
on Kyler Murray because he's terrible too. But Bryce Young,
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I mean, he doesn't get as much. He's not as
obtuse as Kyler Murray, so we don't attack him as much.
But you look at him next to NFL defenders. If
you've ever flipped over to a Carolina game, and it's
like they put a high school freshman out and it's
like he's in.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
The middle of the octagon and Dana White event.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
You know, he's the twenty ninth ranked quarterback in the NFL,
and even that is misleading.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
It's only been a couple of games.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
The only time Carolina has successfully moved the ball is
in garbage time. The Cardinals in this last game had
a twenty seven to three lead in that game, and
at that point, Carolina then or three touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
They scored on three straight possessions.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
That is not a comeback, by the way, That is
garbage time cardio. You're doing garbage time cardio, which it's
like bragging you scored an empty net goal in the
National Hockey League and you know you don't really get
that much credit for the goal. He pulled himself to
go get some gatorade or whatever it might be. Nobody's
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impressed by that. Now Carolina is owing to against Jacksonville
and Arizona, who are still who are still not gonna
make the playofy. Neither one have made plowffs lat year.
They're gonna make the plows this year. And and they
were behind by three touchdowns. It's like watching a bad
cover band watching the Carolina Panthers. You show up, they
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say they're gonna bring the energy and all that stuff,
and then they butcher you know whatever old song Hotel
California or whatever at the County Fair. But that's Bryce
Young right now. Like Bryce Young is essentially the Carolina
Panthers tribute act to real NFL quarterbacks.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
And they're sending them out there.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
And you know, they decided not gonna bench him because
he got some garbage time touchdowns and all that. And
I'm not real happy about that, particularly because of the
point spread.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
But we'll see what happens this weekend.
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Speaker 3 (36:28):
This is one big event. Gets grilled Coop Daalu Ben.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
There are ten oh to two teams in the NFL
heading into Week three, how embarrassing. Well, aside from the Chiefs,
are there any others that you believe can turn their
season around?
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Yeah, obviously Kansas City's on that. But the teams that
are owing too are supposed to be owing two right,
They're supposed to be the only one that I would
say is the clear obvious one would be the Texans.
It's not because I think the Texans are good. It's
because the Texans play in the right division. They play
in the AFC South, And even though the culture toing oh,
(37:05):
at some point Daniel Jones is gonna realize he's Daniel Jones.
So I would say Houston's the only other one because
somebody's gonna make the playoffs in that division. It's not
gonna be Tennessee, it won't be Jacksonville. So it's either
Indy or Houston next.
Speaker 5 (37:17):
Joey Bosa said this week that he's feeling as good
as he ever has in his career and it's showing
on the field. After forcing a fumble in Week one,
Bosa had a sack in two forced fumbles in Week two.
Do you think Bosa can be the key for the
Bills to get over the hump?
Speaker 1 (37:29):
No, because he's gonna get hurt in the game on
Thursday night. When you come on and talk about how
great you're feeling, how wonderful you're doing, all that boom
your snake bit, you put the wammie on yourself.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
So no, next.
Speaker 5 (37:42):
Jim Harbaugh is known to slobber all over his quarterback,
but he's doing with his defense too. Harbar called German
James the best safety I've ever seen in the history
of the National Football League after the game on Monday,
be is this crazy hyperbole or do you think James
could be in that discussion?
Speaker 1 (37:56):
No, it's coch coach Hyperbley. Harball played against the Atwater
and Ronnie Lott. I think they were a little bit better.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
All right, that's a that's a win. I'm counting that
as a win right there right.
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Speaker 3 (38:48):
Hi, Fergie.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
He wants to know who is your favorite late night host?
You don't have many to choose from anymore.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Yeah, there's only one left, right, Kimmel's getting whacked. That
looks like, So.
Speaker 5 (39:01):
I'm gonna take this question more of a who is
your favorite late night.
Speaker 7 (39:04):
All the time?
Speaker 3 (39:06):
I think I was a huge Letterman guy back in
the day. I love David Letterman. I thought it was amazing.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
I was online at the Ed Sullivan Theater in Manhattan
to see Letterman. I got bumped from the audience. I'm
so pissed about that. But yeah, Letterman, what about you? Lorena,
anybody late night TV?
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Never watched when you were a little girl, never watched
late night TV? Okay, all right, cool.
Speaker 5 (39:28):
So I feel bad saying this because because you were
on with your buddy, Because I was on the Tonight
Show with Jay Leno.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
The Great Jay Leno. Yes, verty funny manute.
Speaker 5 (39:36):
But Conan is by far my favorite late night host.
Really love Conan O'Brien. Hilarious.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Okay, yeah, I was always a letterman guy back back
in the day.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
But I mean I'm so old. When I was a kid,
my parents watched Johnny Carson. Yeah, to be back in
the day. That's how long that goes back?
Speaker 1 (39:55):
All right, what's next? Let's ask Ben? Your questions are answers.
Speaker 5 (39:59):
Donkeys stage and I imagine this question is just for
for give and me, Ben, But I mean, I don't know.
You never know these days. Donkey Sausage likes to know.
Do you leave the toilet seat up?
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Yeah? Yeah, I usually do. I do. I'm not gonna
lie you would Ben, Uh Lorena, do.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
You leave it a couple of times?
Speaker 3 (40:25):
Does that sure? Look out cool?
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (40:30):
No, I don't. But I will say this. I am
now to the point in my life where if you
don't have one of those, I don't know if they
call them like the soft closed toilet seats, I'm kind
of like, oh man, what you know what? What cavemen?
You got to have the soft toilets where it doesn't
(40:50):
slam like you you like you can put the toilet seats. Yes, yes, yes,
because now it's so easy closing. You just tap it
and then it was just by itself. Okay, anyway, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
I never really thought much about it.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
It's just like, well, I just I don't usually the
main thing, like I don't usually do it when I
go to like out public bathrooms because they're covered in
I don't even know what's on the toilet.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
It's like there's a bunch.
Speaker 5 (41:16):
Of oh yeah, no, that's I know. I don't Yeah,
you're right, public bathroom is no boy.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
No, I mean I use my mother foot to try
to tap it or something.
Speaker 5 (41:24):
That's like yeah, all right, this ink of Terror would
like to know I've met him.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
He's famous.
Speaker 5 (41:34):
Yeah, he says after immigrating to the US, I grew
up in farm country. Have any of you had any
farm experience milking cows, turning butter, shucking corn, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
Uh no, nothing more than a day. I remember when
I was a kid, they brought cows to the school,
like element school. Yeah, you know they did that for
your toe. Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (41:54):
If I don't think like I was. I think maybe
like kids could have had like an opportunity to milk
the how but I was like, nah, I'm good.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Yeah, I got up close to the cow, but I
didn't really, I wasn't in it. I like the meat
after the cows cut up. But Lorena, any experienced farming.
Speaker 5 (42:11):
You grew up in me, man, I got all that
country up in me.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
You know.
Speaker 5 (42:15):
I've been around the horses and my goats and cake.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
From a small town in Oregon, right, there's a lot
of farms out there, all the.
Speaker 5 (42:22):
Cow pots you could ever want. I can't tell her.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
You're just all right anyway? All right, what's next year?
What do we have? You said, yes, the school thing?
Speaker 5 (42:32):
Yeah, yeah, this was just for you. It's another one
from Donkey Sausage. But this was just for you, Ben. Okay,
where did you learn baking from?
Speaker 3 (42:41):
You know? It's funny.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
My mom was a prolific baker when I was a kid,
but I just ate what she made. I just kind
of started messing around with it about ten years ago.
I just a lot of YouTube videos, and I found
some of my mom's old recipes after she passed away,
So I started making.
Speaker 3 (42:56):
Some of that stuff. And so, yeah, I found out
my mom's cookies that she made. I love was she
just ripped off a package of like Nestley chocolate chip things.
She just ripped it off. Anyway, it was good. That's
about it. What's the next quick way, Coop? What do
we have?
Speaker 5 (43:13):
Let's see Bobby and Florida wants to know what's your
favorite fair food?
Speaker 3 (43:17):
Oh, giant corn dog, Lorena. Oh it's so hard.
Speaker 5 (43:21):
I think it's a new bean. And she's ice cream cone.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
Oh disgusting. What about you, Coop?
Speaker 5 (43:27):
Churros chiros are ok?
Speaker 1 (43:29):
There?
Speaker 3 (43:31):
Corn dog? The corn dog the size of your arm though,
that's awesome. Yeah, it's pretty good.
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You got to play the hit small Man one world
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 off season. But the
Bears first two games of the year and they are
(02:49):
in hybernation mode.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
The hibernating Bears dull Bears.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So Chicago the football team off to the zero and
two start, got absolutely bitch. They gave up against the Lions.
That's gutless football. You don't give up fifty points if
you're halfway decent and you're trying. They gave up on
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.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
You just don't do that.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
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 know it 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.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Take a listen. I think our practice habits are are
yet to reflect the championship caliber team.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Dah.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Now he went on and expanded on that, but that
one playing the guy, play the guy and listen to this.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I think our practice habits are are yet to reflect
the championship caliber team. All right, So he expanded on that.
But that's where we're gonna jump off.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
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 of these things together and
(04:20):
we're gonna make delicious Pistromi fries.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Is what we're gonna do. So A, I love this story.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Hot shot coach gets 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, the
kind that fills your insides and you can't get it
out for years.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Two weeks, that's it.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
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. This is Pop Warner football level mistakes by
the Chicago Bear. He's essentially saying, the way I translated this,
(05:08):
I used to 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 in Chicago and Eugene in Chicago, all
those guys, they put more effort into it than the
actual players on the team. Now, in life, the saying
(05:30):
is you are what you eat. You probably heard that
when you were younger.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
You are what you eat.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
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 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.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
It's been hanging out there.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
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 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
(06:15):
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. We're not in Kansas anymore.
I guess 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,
(06:37):
good popcorn, bad football. You've inherited the island of misfit toys. Congratulations. Now,
I've never been to Bears practice. I'm assuming you have
an either. It must be like animal House, though I imagine
just a total frat party like guys have like zombie mode. Right,
I mean, he's called what is Ben Johnson's really What
he's really doing here is not even calling out the
(06:57):
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, then me make my argument here. Now,
he didn't say his name, and I watched the news
coming he didn't say Cayleb Williams name in regard to this. However,
(07:18):
the reason I'm going down that road is because your
quarterback is supposed to be the tone setter, right, They're
the ones lead by example. You're supposed to be the
leader of men, and instead Caleb, Well, this is all
going on.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
He's probably looking out. He's auditioning for some.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
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
no pride in product in Chicago and they're grinding it
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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.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Like it here.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Instead, he's got a team full of Instagram influencers. They
got a lot of cloud online. Let's be honest here,
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. So we'll see if that changes, but
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at this point unlikely. Now, speaking of problems, because we
love problems on the Ben Malor Show, we celebrate problems
because we got problems. Now we go to Vegas, lost
wages in Nevadom 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.
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They just at some point Vegas will realize probably not
a good idea, Probably not a good idea for.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Those parking fees.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Anyway, so we get to the now they look horrible
and we ripped apart Geno Smith for his performance or
lack theirop 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.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Now it is true.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Out of Boise State, Genty was the number six, number
six pick in the twenty is we have a button
for everything, number six pick in the twenty twenty five
NFL draft and had a prolific career in Idaho, 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
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the question, as we discussed the question is why why
is Ashton Genty apparently in Peak Farrel's doghouse with the
Raiders already?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
So this is an early reality check, That's the way
I see it.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Like the silver and Black height 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 weeks into the
process or the process, and he looks much more like
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Trent Richardson 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 yards.
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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.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
That's like the nineteen eighty three NFL all over again.
And then against the Chargers there was a little bit
of improvement.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
He hit forty three yards, so five more yards and
average three point nine yards per carry. Limited work, nothing special.
So Ashton Gent'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. So, and then he
has the hoods. But I want more carries, Okay, of course,
of course you want more carries. Be careful what you
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wish for, though, the more touches that you get right,
more times you touch the ball. Right now, the more
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.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
We all know that, right, we all know that.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
And you know he insists he wants to give gent
the football 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 and because you know, you you slap some EyeBlack
on or whatever, and it's not all of a sudden
you're gonna be mister techmobile back in the day. This
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is like, this isn't Boise State versus Hawaii. There is
no blue turf in the NFL. Right, in the NFL,
the the linebackers. You don't play a school where the
linebackers are biology majors on scholarship, right that these are
these are all the top one percent of the top
one percent. And Ashton genty uh, you know he just
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has looked clunky. It's like he's auditioning for the role
of Frankenstein, like real stiff, like a universal reboot of
Frankenstein or something like that. But it's 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,
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this is it.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
You're judged by that and you have to overcome that.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Once you get that in 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
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those in the NFL that would be like your New
Orleans Saints, so you're Carolina Panthers 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 Genty's career, is more of a
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blooper reel than a highlight reel. 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? Well, Charges Wide Receiver Keenan
Allen with the Monday Night Game the other night videos
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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.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Night pregame hype video.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I think it's actually his postgame a hype video there
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,
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Charges Wide Receiver, Keenan Allen going viral for the craziest
shoulder joints you will ever see or Nazi, So how
do you evaluate this one? So this clips kind of
like watching Discovery Channel, like a special show on Discovery.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Channel on Human Anatomy gone Wrong.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Like we're used to seeing football players in shoulder pads,
it's kind of a regular occurrence. This guy's got shoulder spikes,
as in 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.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
With a deadly weapon.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
He could literally poke defensive backs in the eye before
the snap and injury.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
They couldn't even able to see him, and he'd run
by him.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Keenan plays, he kind of plays like he's he's got
a chip on his shoulder anyway, he's got an edge
to his game. And it 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.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
There both of these things, we are told.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Based on a minute long Malleor investigation, they were Grade
three separations that he never got fixed. They had the
separation and he's supposed to have those surgically fixed.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
He never did.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
And so now it's like when I was a kid,
I always wonder what would happen if that skeletor came
to life.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
What do we look like And now I know, now
I know, just have a grade three shoulder separation.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Do not have surgery, and then 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.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Own swoothcky costume.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
He looks like he's wearing. I'm gonna go 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 him, and it kind of
looks like that, kind of looks like that, right, well,
you know what a rush, except it's not a gimmick,
like this is his body.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
This is what happens.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
And then you see some really nasty photos of basketball
players with their fingers bent the wrong way from playing
in the NBA or toes that are really wacky, 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
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grotesque but impressive. It can be both things at the
same time. It's like one of those carnival sideshow.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Acts that you'll see right every once in a while.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Step right up, every man, woman, and child. See the
wide receiver with the dislocated skeleton right here. So keenan
am playing football in a full horror show mode.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Must be uncomfortable when he's got the shoulder pads on
because he's already got a weapon.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Below the shoulder pads. So it's not about fighting for
the respect. Everyone wants respect.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
This is the shoulders are already throwing punches like the
shoulders are ready to go.
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hour is from baseball. We're going to start there the
story that a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Are talking about, not the Cubs, Doc Cubbs, who.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Are in the playoffs now, but the Dodgers who did
beat the Phillies.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
That's shocking.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
But the Dodgers are in a bit of a pickle
jar here on how they're going to handle shohe Otani,
who hit another home run in the game that was
played there on Wednesday night, and he's got fifty one
home runs now and getting close to the end of
the season, just about a ten games or so to
go in.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
The regular season.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
So if he didn't see this, perhaps not the Dodgers
robotic manager by the book preordained.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Dave, we should call him Dave Roberts.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Dave Roberts acknowledge that the Dodgers have considered whether or
not sho hail Tani may end up being their salvation
to their crap bag bullpen. The bullpen blows, it's embarrassing.
It's a minor league bullpen, and so the chance, the
chances of a Tani going to the bullpen, what are
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they well, we don't know what they are it's being considered,
and a shorter series wild card round. The Dodgers, the
greatest team all time, are gonna be in the wildcard
round because they're not that good. So it remains to
be seen whether or not this will happen or not.
Otani still will likely end up being a starting pitcher
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because of the rule, because of the rule in baseball,
the Otani rule, which was put in for him as
a starting pitcher, not as a reliever. But the Dodgers
say that it is something they're considering, that Otani would
help them out of the bullpen, and they're talking about it.
Otani did say that he's open to playing the outfield.
(21:34):
Oh my god, a guy making seventy million dollars a
year and he's willing to play the outfield.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Holy crap, just to remain in the lineup.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Because the rule is, if you're a reliever and you
leave the game, it's all over.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
That's it. You're done. Ski's all right.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
So let us discuss the question. Sho Haltani says that
he is willing to play the outfield. The Dodgers could
use him as a relief pitcher under that scenario.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
What is your initial reaction to all of this.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
So I've got Ricky, Bobby, Greek, and Wyoming and we
will combine all of these things together.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
And we are going to make your Babushka's favorite peanut
butter and jelly is what we're going to make. So
number I said number. Now Otani not.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Just as bad at gambling, but he's a unicorn and
he's a full on one man marching band.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
How can one.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Man be a marching band. Well, there's Otani. He's the
drum major, he's playing the trumpet, he's got the tuba,
he's the guy twirling the baton.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
He's all that. But really, what this.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Is is an obvious referendum on the Dodger front office.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
They were bad at their job.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
They went out, they signed a guy in Kirby Yates
who's completely washed up.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
He should be playing shuffle board somewhere.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
And Tanner Scott, whose mind is mush as mashed potatoes.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
This guy blows.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
And so those were the big pickups that they improved
the bullpen, and the bullpen sucks so much that they're
thinking about putting Otani out there and have him strap
a harmonica on. In addition to all the other stuff
that he's got going on.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
It is insane that Dodger bullpen, which they thought was
going to be a beachfront luxury condo building, but it
was that, except it was actually built on top of
a sinkle, which is not what you want. And so
now this is Major League Baseball's version of Ricky Bobby.
You remember Will Ferrell, the star of that Talladega Knights,
and played all nine positions for ten different teams one
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day in the Cactus League.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
He flew around and all that.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
But you look at it and you will have to
get Harmonica for Otani there. And he can also juggle
chainsaws just to get them through the Wildcard series, just
to get them through the walk cars. There's now a
little bird, he says. The Dodgers have been lobbying for
a rules change, rules change with Major League Baseball. They
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would have to rewrite the constitution. I imagine the letter
goes something like, dear mister Manford, you called the World
Series Trophy a hunk of metals, so you clearly don't
care about competition, So surely you'd be willing to change
the rule just before the playoffs to accommodate the Dodgers
to allow shohal Tony to pitch and relief, hit cleanup,
and he can shag flies and left field without losing
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the designated hitter. Thank you very much, signed Los Angeles Dodgers.
So they want a loopity loop is what they want.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
They want a show.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Hel tany loophole written into the baseball by laws because
the rest of the roster.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Is not good and he listen, the Dodgers deserve the circus.
It would be hilarious.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Baseball shouldn't change the rules, but then the commissioner doesn't
care about the integrity of the game. They don't care
about that. You got two teams playing in minor league
stadiums this year. It's embarrass But the Dodgers deserve the
circus because they babied their pitchers into glass figurines. They
put them all in bubble wrap, and then of course
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the bullpen's completely cooked at this point.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
And now we're closing in.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Just a couple weeks away from October, and the hopes
rest on O'tani pulling a Will Ferrell, just playing all
the positions.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Good luck with that, Good luck with that.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
All right, Now we go back to football and to
the Valley of the Sun, a team we normally don't
talk about because nobody cares about them. But this is
an interesting story. The Cardinals wide receiver Marvin Harrison Junior. Now,
you told me this guy was going to be great,
the spawn of a Hall of Famer, and they had
a few highlights last year, a couple of good games.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
It wasn't consistently great.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
So Marvin Harrison Junior has been a non factor to
begin the year. Arizona somehow's two and oh thanks to
the schedule gods. But Marvin Harrison Junior says his lack
of targets is a quote, silly conversation to Marvin Harrison says, listen,
it's nothing to worry about.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Silly, silly, silly.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
And he has been targeted just eleven times through the
first two games of the NFL season, and so it
obviously stands out right stands out a lot. This is
supposed to be their big stud wide receiver. This is
there forever franchise wide receiver, the next Larry Fitzgerald, better
than Larry Fitzgerald, and he's not. So the question, is
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it a silly conversation that Marvin Harrison is lost in
the Cardinals offense right now, So absolutely not. Do you
know how many millions, if not billions, of dollars are
exchanged in fantasy football, and then you add in gambling
and all that, and there are prop bets on production
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and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
And Marvin Harrison.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Is not living up to the building. That's a story.
It's not a silly conversation. Harrison was the fourth overall
pick in the twenty twenty four draft.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Ship the draft, right, you literally.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Say prayers at the tabernacle for the NFL draft and
this season so far, all we have to do is
judge him on his actions. This season, Marvin Harrison Junior
has been a stool pigeon. Tell me what company you
keep and I will tell you what you are. So
Marvin Harrison Jr. Is currently tied with someone named Josh
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Downs of the Colts. Sounds like a relief pitcher for
the Giants and the Jaguars Diamy Brown in targets this year.
Let me repeat that for those of you a little
slow in the back of the room. It is an
overnight show. So Marvin Harrison Jr. Is tied with the
Colts wide receiver Josh Downs and the Jaguars, Diami Brown
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in targets. That is not the company that you want
to keep. Now, I didn't play in the NFL. I
know Ryan Clark will probably be upset that I have
a take because I didn't play in the NFL. But
that is not the company you want to keep, all right,
when you're supposed to be the next Jamar Chase or
Justin Jefferson. This is the guy we were told can't miss,
gold plated spawn of a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeahah yeah. So at this part of it,
I'm gonna go fluent in Greek. Marvin Harrison looks like Adonis,
remember the viral photos all he worked out.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
This guy is amazing.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
He's built like a Greek god. He plays like a
Greek salad. That's not what you're looking for. Where's the production,
where's the juice? The great white outs? You know what
they do my entire life. They demand the ball. They
give me the damn ball. The famous quote from Keishawn
Johnson back and then his book. They don't just sit
there smiling and twiddling their thumbs on the sidelines while
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they're getting three or four targets a game, whether that's
Devonte Adams who's getting older with the ramsde Lamb or
any of these guys. Those guys all get fed.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
They do. And Marvin Harrison, he is a garnish on
the plate right now.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
He's a partially sprig is essentially what he I mean, listen,
he looks nice. Half you really want him as like
the centerfold of a magazine.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
If you're read of that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
It doesn't change the flavor. So far, he's half the
man his father was. I don't even know if half
is right. Marvin Harrison Senior, well, he certainly had some
issues off the field, and there was a lot of
shady stuff and we don't know all the details on
what was involved and what didn't happen with Marvin Harrison senior.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
But he was slick and he was he was silk.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
He was effortless and when he got the ball, whoever
the quarterback was mostly Peyton Manning, it was Velcrow and
the kid.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Eh.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
You know it's it's like he's running these routes and
it seems like he's stuck in a TSA line at
Sky Harbor Airport, or.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Some other airport.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
All the hype, all the hype, right, changing the franchise,
You draft.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
This receiver, he's so good blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
And yet he's out there putting up stat lines that
you can get from a fifth round pick out of
Western Michigan. You can get that kind of production. So
Marvin Harrison Jr. Is as good as advertised. The staff
would mandate that he gets the ball. Is that an
accurate state?
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Right? Again, you look at him.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
And you're saying, well, there's a guy that looks like
a Greek god, but again it plays like a Greek salad.
And you'd say, scheme him up. You can feed him
the ball, bubble screens, slants, whatever you find, right, what
you find ways to get him ten looks a game, right,
you find ways to get the ball. Here's the fun
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sized quarterback, or the alligator arms as we like to
call him. There, here's Kyler Murr. You hear the question
and the answer on the issue of targets.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Take a listen through.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
The ball, Marvar be down, but do you feel like
you should have more targets in a game?
Speaker 7 (30:48):
Right now you're asking me. You know, I say it
every time, like I wish all of them could get
ten targets a game. Of course, there's only one ball.
You know, we been playing this game for a long time.
We all understand how it goes. Some days he's gonna
get ten, some days he might get three whatever it is,
and Mike might get eight. You know, you never know.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Yeah, okay, that's a non answer answer. Again. I go
back to my point.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
If the player is great, do you think the Vikings
going to a game saying, well, we you know, we
can't get we can't target Justin Jefferson or the Bengals
with with their their star wide receiver, mister Chase there
you get him the ball, and there are trick codes
that you can use, the bubble screen, the slant, whatever
it might be, as I said, to get them open.
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And the fact that that Harrison is not getting the
ball that often means either one of two things. Either
he can't separate despite looking like a Greek god there's
not he's not getting open, or he's not the guy.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
It's one of those two things. And if he can't separate,
you could also argue he's not the guy, So it's
almost one of the same. All right, now, final points
falling quarterback category.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
We go to Carolina, where the Panthers sucked yet again
and their coach Dave Canalis. Don't learn his name, He
won't be there long, but Dave Canalis announced this week
that he has complete confidence in Panthers quarterback Bryce Young
says his confidence is quote super high. That's his words,
not mine. He said, a super high confidence level despite
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the oh and two start yet again. And the Atlanta
Falcons are up next in a game that will be
regionally broadcast and maybe back in the day we'd say
that's on public access cable, but I guess it'll be
on television somewhere.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
So this is one year.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Remember last season, one of the great sports radio talking
points was the famous benching of Bryce Young following an
oh and two start, and Bryce Young, after Carolina had
been firmly exterminated from any chance of doing anything, put
up some halfway decent games. But here we are back
to square one. So Canalls says he's quote fired up.
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He said about where the Panthers are headed. Okay, quotes quote,
So let us discuss the question. Is coach Dave Canalis
confidence in Carolina quarterback Bryce Young warranted. So you can't
see me unless you're watching the YouTube channel, which is
(33:20):
at Ben Mahler's show. You can watch it right there.
So I'm shaking my head. No, this is wishful thinking.
I love the fact that Canalis is fired up about
where the Panthers are going. He must love the NFL draft,
the top ten of the NFL draft, because that's.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Where Carolina is going. They're going to the top ten
of the NFL Draft.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
It's the coach trying to sell you beachfront property in Wyoming,
beautiful beachfront property in Wyoming. Canalis is playing mister Sunshine
and it's mister Canalis in the Sunshine Band.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
They're the ultimate cheerleader. Give me some pom poms and
passing them over to Dave Canalis. Get him a little
skirt and there you go.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
You can lead the keep the faith cheer at the
rally while the quarterback looks like one of those candy bars,
you know, the small sized candy bars you get on
Halloween there where they're a little small, though sweet. You
take a couple of bites and they're all gone. Bryce Young.
It's like he's shrunk in the drier. Now we goof
on Kyler Murray because he's terrible too. But Bryce Young,
(34:19):
I mean, he doesn't get as much. He's not as
obtuse as Kyler Murray, so we don't attack him as much.
But you look at him next to NFL defenders. If
you've ever flipped over to a Carolina game, and it's
like they put a high school freshman out and it's
like he's in.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
The middle of the octagon and Dana White event.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
You know, he's the twenty ninth ranked quarterback in the NFL,
and even that is misleading.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
It's only been a couple of games.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
The only time Carolina has successfully moved the ball is
in garbage time. The Cardinals in this last game had
a twenty seven to three lead in that game, and
at that point, Carolina then or three touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
They scored on three straight possessions.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
That is not a comeback, by the way, That is
garbage time cardio. You're doing garbage time cardio, which it's
like bragging you scored an empty net goal in the
National Hockey League and you know you don't really get
that much credit for the goal. He pulled himself to
go get some gatorade or whatever it might be. Nobody's
(35:25):
impressed by that. Now Carolina is owing to against Jacksonville
and Arizona, who are still who are still not gonna
make the playofy. Neither one have made plowffs lat year.
They're gonna make the plows this year. And and they
were behind by three touchdowns. It's like watching a bad
cover band watching the Carolina Panthers. You show up, they
(35:47):
say they're gonna bring the energy and all that stuff,
and then they butcher you know whatever old song Hotel
California or whatever at the County Fair. But that's Bryce
Young right now. Like Bryce Young is essentially the Carolina
Panthers tribute act to real NFL quarterbacks.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
And they're sending them out there.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
And you know, they decided not gonna bench him because
he got some garbage time touchdowns and all that. And
I'm not real happy about that, particularly because of the
point spread.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
But we'll see what happens this weekend.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
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Speaker 3 (36:28):
This is one big event. Gets grilled Coop Daalu Ben.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
There are ten oh to two teams in the NFL
heading into Week three, how embarrassing. Well, aside from the Chiefs,
are there any others that you believe can turn their
season around?
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Yeah, obviously Kansas City's on that. But the teams that
are owing too are supposed to be owing two right,
They're supposed to be the only one that I would
say is the clear obvious one would be the Texans.
It's not because I think the Texans are good. It's
because the Texans play in the right division. They play
in the AFC South, And even though the culture toing oh,
(37:05):
at some point Daniel Jones is gonna realize he's Daniel Jones.
So I would say Houston's the only other one because
somebody's gonna make the playoffs in that division. It's not
gonna be Tennessee, it won't be Jacksonville. So it's either
Indy or Houston next.
Speaker 5 (37:17):
Joey Bosa said this week that he's feeling as good
as he ever has in his career and it's showing
on the field. After forcing a fumble in Week one,
Bosa had a sack in two forced fumbles in Week two.
Do you think Bosa can be the key for the
Bills to get over the hump?
Speaker 1 (37:29):
No, because he's gonna get hurt in the game on
Thursday night. When you come on and talk about how
great you're feeling, how wonderful you're doing, all that boom
your snake bit, you put the wammie on yourself.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
So no, next.
Speaker 5 (37:42):
Jim Harbaugh is known to slobber all over his quarterback,
but he's doing with his defense too. Harbar called German
James the best safety I've ever seen in the history
of the National Football League after the game on Monday,
be is this crazy hyperbole or do you think James
could be in that discussion?
Speaker 1 (37:56):
No, it's coch coach Hyperbley. Harball played against the Atwater
and Ronnie Lott. I think they were a little bit better.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
All right, that's a that's a win. I'm counting that
as a win right there right.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
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Speaker 5 (38:19):
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Speaker 3 (38:23):
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Speaker 1 (38:27):
Now and it is asked Ben. Your questions are answers
for the rest of the hour. These are actual questions
sent in by actual listeners like yourself, who use.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
The hashtag ask.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Ben on the micro blogging website called x koop a
loop with the reading of the questions.
Speaker 5 (38:45):
All right, we're gonna start off with the ferb dog.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Hi, Fergie.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
He wants to know who is your favorite late night host?
You don't have many to choose from anymore.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Yeah, there's only one left, right, Kimmel's getting whacked. That
looks like, So.
Speaker 5 (39:01):
I'm gonna take this question more of a who is
your favorite late night.
Speaker 7 (39:04):
All the time?
Speaker 3 (39:06):
I think I was a huge Letterman guy back in
the day. I love David Letterman. I thought it was amazing.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
I was online at the Ed Sullivan Theater in Manhattan
to see Letterman. I got bumped from the audience. I'm
so pissed about that. But yeah, Letterman, what about you? Lorena,
anybody late night TV?
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Never watched when you were a little girl, never watched
late night TV? Okay, all right, cool.
Speaker 5 (39:28):
So I feel bad saying this because because you were
on with your buddy, Because I was on the Tonight
Show with Jay Leno.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
The Great Jay Leno. Yes, verty funny manute.
Speaker 5 (39:36):
But Conan is by far my favorite late night host.
Really love Conan O'Brien. Hilarious.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Okay, yeah, I was always a letterman guy back back
in the day.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
But I mean I'm so old. When I was a kid,
my parents watched Johnny Carson. Yeah, to be back in
the day. That's how long that goes back?
Speaker 1 (39:55):
All right, what's next? Let's ask Ben? Your questions are answers.
Speaker 5 (39:59):
Donkeys stage and I imagine this question is just for
for give and me, Ben, But I mean, I don't know.
You never know these days. Donkey Sausage likes to know.
Do you leave the toilet seat up?
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Yeah? Yeah, I usually do. I do. I'm not gonna
lie you would Ben, Uh Lorena, do.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
You leave it a couple of times?
Speaker 3 (40:25):
Does that sure? Look out cool?
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (40:30):
No, I don't. But I will say this. I am
now to the point in my life where if you
don't have one of those, I don't know if they
call them like the soft closed toilet seats, I'm kind
of like, oh man, what you know what? What cavemen?
You got to have the soft toilets where it doesn't
(40:50):
slam like you you like you can put the toilet seats. Yes, yes, yes,
because now it's so easy closing. You just tap it
and then it was just by itself. Okay, anyway, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
I never really thought much about it.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
It's just like, well, I just I don't usually the
main thing, like I don't usually do it when I
go to like out public bathrooms because they're covered in
I don't even know what's on the toilet.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
It's like there's a bunch.
Speaker 5 (41:16):
Of oh yeah, no, that's I know. I don't Yeah,
you're right, public bathroom is no boy.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
No, I mean I use my mother foot to try
to tap it or something.
Speaker 5 (41:24):
That's like yeah, all right, this ink of Terror would
like to know I've met him.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
He's famous.
Speaker 5 (41:34):
Yeah, he says after immigrating to the US, I grew
up in farm country. Have any of you had any
farm experience milking cows, turning butter, shucking corn, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
Uh no, nothing more than a day. I remember when
I was a kid, they brought cows to the school,
like element school. Yeah, you know they did that for
your toe. Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (41:54):
If I don't think like I was. I think maybe
like kids could have had like an opportunity to milk
the how but I was like, nah, I'm good.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Yeah, I got up close to the cow, but I
didn't really, I wasn't in it. I like the meat
after the cows cut up. But Lorena, any experienced farming.
Speaker 5 (42:11):
You grew up in me, man, I got all that
country up in me.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
You know.
Speaker 5 (42:15):
I've been around the horses and my goats and cake.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
From a small town in Oregon, right, there's a lot
of farms out there, all the.
Speaker 5 (42:22):
Cow pots you could ever want. I can't tell her.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
You're just all right anyway? All right, what's next year?
What do we have? You said, yes, the school thing?
Speaker 5 (42:32):
Yeah, yeah, this was just for you. It's another one
from Donkey Sausage. But this was just for you, Ben. Okay,
where did you learn baking from?
Speaker 3 (42:41):
You know? It's funny.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
My mom was a prolific baker when I was a kid,
but I just ate what she made. I just kind
of started messing around with it about ten years ago.
I just a lot of YouTube videos, and I found
some of my mom's old recipes after she passed away,
So I started making.
Speaker 3 (42:56):
Some of that stuff. And so, yeah, I found out
my mom's cookies that she made. I love was she
just ripped off a package of like Nestley chocolate chip things.
She just ripped it off. Anyway, it was good. That's
about it. What's the next quick way, Coop? What do
we have?
Speaker 5 (43:13):
Let's see Bobby and Florida wants to know what's your
favorite fair food?
Speaker 3 (43:17):
Oh, giant corn dog, Lorena. Oh it's so hard.
Speaker 5 (43:21):
I think it's a new bean. And she's ice cream cone.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
Oh disgusting. What about you, Coop?
Speaker 5 (43:27):
Churros chiros are ok?
Speaker 1 (43:29):
There?
Speaker 3 (43:31):
Corn dog? The corn dog the size of your arm though,
that's awesome. Yeah, it's pretty good.
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