September 22, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Russell Wilson putting up a stinker against the Chiefs and if he is done as the Giants starting QB, if Patrick Mahomes' offense has finally figured things out, if Michael Penix Jr. deserves the benefit of the doubt with the Falcons, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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check that out here. An hour one is Russell Wilson
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Dunskis as Giants starting quarterback after another dud in the
Sunday night game, and did Patrick Mahomes chiefs offense find
something in that Sunday Night victory. We'll also talk about
the story in Atlanta, does Michael Pennex Junior deserve the
benefit of the doubt with the Falcons losing thirty to
nothing to lowly Carolina. We'll talk about all that and
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so our lead this hour, we start out play the hits,
Play the hits. We'll start out with that Sunday night
game in New Jersey as the Chiefs oh in two
the Giants oh and two, And there they were. You
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had Collinsworth and Mike Tarrico yapping way, Collin's Worth going
gaga over the Chiefs as he normally does, and they
had all the documentation of these two bad football teams.
And so the Chiefs trying to get off the schneid
right and Russell Wilson desperate to get that taste of victory.
How did that play out? Well, eh, if you didn't
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see the game, you didn't miss much. As Patrick Mahomes aid,
two hundred and twenty four yards passing, it's fine and
a touchdown. It was a relative bumpy ride for the
majority of the game for the Chiefs offense yet again,
and they ended up taking advantage of the lowly Giants.
Point future generations will not realize. Even the current generation
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does not realize. The Giants used to be good. What
an embarrassment to Giants? Are they so bad? Holy crap? Anyway,
the Chiefs get to win, they improve the one and two.
The Giants dropped to zero and three on the seasons.
But the better story is in the losing locker room.
So that is where we go. A lot of chatter
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about a quarterback change in New York with the Giants.
As you were watching this game, he saw that Jackson
Dart did come in a couple of times, as they
did that last week. But Russell Wilson, all right, so
let us discuss the question. Is Russell Wilson done as
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the Giants starting quarterback? That's the question. So I've got
Suntan City, lettuce and George thurergood and we will combine
all of these things together. We're gonna make some deep
fried mac and cheese, is what we're going to do. Delicious.
Anything deep fried is both bad for you and good
for you at the same time. Anyway, So in terms
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of the question, is Russell Wilson done as the Giant
starting quarterback? Well, you can spell it out if you
wat's D O N E. That's how you spell it.
We're done, of course he is, Come on, of course
he is. Russ is cooked. It's microwaved leftovers at this
particular point, and it's the kind of microwave leftovers that
were left in the break room for a little too long,
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just a little too long there, And of course you
could argue he was showing signs of being dun Skis
when he was playing for the Seattle Seahawks at the
end there and they got rid of him, and they
went to Denver and kind of confirmed, yeah, I'm done.
I can't really play that well. And then the Steers said, well,
we think you're not done. We'll bring in He sucked there,
and now the Giants are like, wow, we want you
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to suck for our team as well. I guess we
Maybe the news doesn't travel, is it possible, like the
this is one of those times, like the fans no
more than the people running the sport. They all, oh,
we're going to turn things around. Oh yeah, we'll be fine.
We're gonna unlock Russ, mister unlimited. How's that going for you?
How's that going? A bunch of dingleberrys around the NFL
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as Russ going out there and another stinker. And then
you've got Brian Dayball, the coach of the Giants, who
is basically running sun Tan City. Here they're laying in
untanned beds. You've got one side has ross. The other
side had Brian day Ball in it, and it is
kind of laying there and they've got that artificial heat
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lamp above them, and they're sweating bullets, getting paid a
lot of money and just kind of waiting for the
pink slip to come down, down, down, down down. At
this point, you do wonder what Brian Dable has to
do to lose his job. Coaching bad football is not enough, clearly,
I mean it's I mean, if you just judged him
off his record, which usually is what happens in that business,
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Brian Dayball would have been fired long ago. The guy
blows as a head coach. What more does he need
to show you? He's telling you I suck as a
head coach, and it Chad's like, oh no, we're loyal.
We don't fire coaches. Really, okay, he stinks horrific And anyway,
here's that Brian day Ball. The fans were serenading the
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team in Boo Flat. Here is Brian Dable on the fans,
giving the giants the business.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Progressing well, will continue to work with them. You know,
I got a lot of confidence in him, his development
that he's had, and that's what we'll continue.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
To do jackbi Biorn too.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
To be honest with you, in terms of not being
good enough, no, not scoring, not finishing, I understand that that's.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
A nature of it, all right. So the Giants under
Brian Dable have a three forty winning percentage, which ironically,
maybe not ironically is probably at the word the Giants
has the same winning percentage they've had the last decade.
There is ten years of poo poo, and for the
New York Giants, ten years ten years. It's almost like
those Fluke Championships. They made a deal with the devil,
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those Giant teams that weren't good enough to win the
championship but did when they beat the Patriots, right, fraudulent
teams that got you know, played well, played well at
the end of the year in the playoffs, but they
weren't really worthy of being a championship team. So now
the payback on that is a decade of suck. That's
the Giant And they're not even rebuilding. They're just rotting,
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just rotten. That's the Giants. Right. Russell Wilson, in theory,
was supposed to be the bridge. He was gonna be
the study veteran hand that would come in there and
instead at this point Russ looks like a guy who
missed the bridge and he drove. He didn't listen to
the GPS, he missed the bridge. He somehow drove into
the East River, which you're not supposed to do. You're
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not supposed to miss the bridge and drive into theat rivers.
But he did. And the biggest sin is being unable
to find Molik Neighbors until I don't know garbage time
is the right word. But for most of the game
you failed to get the ball to your top guy.
Bad job by you. None ever played in me NF.
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I know Ryan Clark doesn't want to hear this, but
that sucks, all right. Neighbors had as many catches as
you had and I had combined going to the fourth quarter.
He had zero catches through three quarters. Zero buppkis nothing
zip o. That was Molik neighbors in this game. That
malpractice and the fans and rhythm. They were also rhythmically
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chanting for Jackson Dart as Russell Wilson tossing a couple
of interceptions in the first half. Of course, they assume,
what do they think he's going to be? They just
wanted to be average. Well, I guess they want to
be Eli Manning. Eli Manning was just an average quarterback.
Eli's not a Hall of Famer with that good had
a couple of fluke playoff runs. So I guess they
want Jackson dart to just be average. Just please be having.
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We need average, is what they're saying. And uh, you know,
the crowd's basically sending you a a door dash receipt saying,
get dark in there now we want him. Of course
he'll stink also, and then what are they gonna do? Uh,
they're trying to push that back as long as they
can because the chances are pretty good he's going to
be terrible. Why not. I love the fact that Russell
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Wilson was the safe bet. I love the fact that
Wilson was the safe bet, which is which is great,
Which is kind of like saying the Bad News Bears were,
you know, the They're gonna go out with a championship,
you know, except their pitchers a drunk and the head
coach there doesn't care and all that, and the catcher's
probably smoking SIGs behind the stands. So it's just ridiculous.
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And so they got Wilson and day Ball together here,
and you got the coach. How about the GM here,
Joe Shane, the guy that came over from the Buffalo Bills.
You've got this guy. And they thought Russell Wilson would
keep them afloat, keep their jobs, and how's that looking
right now? Instead he's been an anchor, like the kind
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JJ and Renton makes those big giant anchors for those
massive ships that the Navy uses. And so just a
giant anchor strapped to the bottom of the boat, right
there at the bottom of the boat. And he's only
I guess good against the Cowboys last week. A lot
of yards, a loss, a loss, a lot of yards.
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But otherwise Russ has been pretty much completely guilty of
strategic incompetence as a quarterback for the Giants, the Steelers
and the Broncos. And so they've turned big Blue, which
they used to brag, Oh we're big blue, We're the Giants,
We're big blue. And now they're like big blab blab blab,
big blab. That's where they are, right And you know, again,
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waste the three quarters of elite neighbors. And at this
point you're just gonna waste the early part of his career,
and then he's gonna have to run off to the
Rams and win a championship like Odell Beckham did back
in the day. But the Giants are owing three. They
are lifeless, and next step, logical step would be to
bench Russell Wilson. Now I was sending some correspondence to
people I know around the football world. The consensus is
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actually that he will not be benched. This he should
be benched. But the Giants play the Chargers. That's a
good team. And if you open a restaurant, what do
they tell you want a soft launch? Right? You want
a soft launch. You don't want to open it up
with a rush crowd. So the Chargers would be a
rush crowd. They're pretty good. So after that you play
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the Saints. That's the game. The Saints, I mean they're
the yints like when I was a kid there, the Aints.
They they're terrible. So that's the that's the game. If
you want a soft start for Jackson Dart, you toss
him out there against the New Orleans Saints, which is
not this coming weekend, a week four. It be week
five of the NFL season. Meanwhile, on to cansa City,
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the Kansas city side of things. And the question here,
I've been seeing some of the commentary after the game,
and a lot of the commentaries went, well, the Chiefs
got back on track, the train is back on the
tracks and all that. So, question did Patrick Mahomes, Did
Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs offense find something? Did they
find the spark? Did they find the spark? On a
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Sunday night in Jersey against the Giants and they find
a spark? And after a minutes long deliberation on that question, right,
everyone wants to throw rose pedals at Patrick Mahomes, right
at his feet because because the Chiefs beat the Giants.
But to answer the question, pumped the brakes on that, No,
they found the Giants. They found the Giants. It's a
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tomato can. That's the Giants. As we've laid out that,
that's it. That is a cure all. It's kind of
like if you don't feel good, you got a headache,
maybe you take some ibuprofen. If your football team's not
playing well, play the Giants. That's it. But that being said,
we realize the Giants are a medicine ball of incompetence.
But the game was still sitting there was. It wasn't
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anyone's game, but it was a one score game in
the fourth quarter, one against the Giants, one score game.
If Kansas City had really found something, this game would
have been forty one to ten or something along those lines.
They would have blown the doors off the Giants. But
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that didn't happen. Did not happen. Instead, we got more
of the Andy Reid, which is ironic. He didn't usually
eat this the plotting Chiefs offense, which is it was
essentially they're sherving up iceberg lettuce and much like myself
and me and Andy have that in come. We don't
enjoy iceberg lettuce because it's got no taste to it.
It's ninety six percent water. But that's essentially what the
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Chiefs offense is, right, even in this game for a
mild flavor, there's not a lot of spice to it.
You look at the numbers, Mahomes average six point one
yards to seven yards per pass is average. Above seven
is really good. Six point one is not even average
quarterback play for Mahomes. Oh, but he was the Chiefs
found something, then you had certainly he wasn't a video
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game guy. And then you look at Travis Kelcey. More
on him later this hour. But Travis Kelly, mister Taylor
Swift had four catches for twenty six yards. He better
get married. She's gonna dump him. He keeps flaying like this,
and Taylor Swift's gonna dump his ass because he sucks.
She's got I'm gonna find a younger tight end. I'm
gonna marry. I'm gonna marry you. You're terrible. I mean,
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that's not even a decent his standard, that's not even
a decent half for Travis Kelcey. His production low? How low?
All right? I mean he's terrible. The Giant and I
guess the Giants. Oh, the Giants have all these first
round back draft picks, wonderful. But when Kelsey's not producing,
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it's a big factor in the Chiefs offense looking like
they're stuck in molasses and mahomes and coming. They barely
cracked three hundred yards. They said, well, that's acceptable. Three
hundred yards. Yeah, until you realize the Giants gave up
almost five hundred yards to the Cowboys last week. Well
wait a minute, hold on a second, So the Chiefs
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are like two hundred yards worse offensively, than the Dallas
Cowboys at this particular point. Dallas carved him up like
the Thanksgiving turkey and the Kansas City struggling to get
to twenty two points with Russell Wilson turning the ball
over with two interceptions in this game. And so it's
just not a championship level of football for the Chiefs
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even it's more like survival. And they got the Ravens,
they have the Ravens next week. That's looking like that's
the way they played against the Giants. Obviously they got
played better, but that man play like that, you're gonna
lose that. You'd be one in three the first four
games of the year to start the year. You had
special teams problems. Harrison Buckner missed a field goal, missed
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an extra point in this game. That's four points left
on the table by the special teams and three games
in in the offense for the Kansas City Chiefs. Still
looks broken. That's my diagnosis. I'm now working at the
repair shop and it just looks broken. And this is
the supposed to be the improvement though again because all
the Chiefs savings just showed some signs of improvement here
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and if that's the case, the bar is. I don't
know what's below the basement, but whatever's below the basement,
that's where the bar is. And so it's just not
a scary team. You don't that offense. It does not
intimidate anyone despite having Patrick Mahomes and they got some
trash from the Patriots who had a good game at
wide receiver. But I mean, you look around here and
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they still are searching for answers in Kansas City. Andy
Reid's got to clean a lot up before you put
them as a legit title threat. And they can get there.
They certainly can get there. There's no doubt that defense
is legit. They're not there yet. There's no guarantee they're
going to get there. So for now, because we do
the show right now today, you have to downgrade, continue
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to downgrade the Kansas City chiefs. What they found is
they found the giants, which is just what the doctor ordered.
That's what they found all right now, last word to Atlanta,
we go and is there a quarterback change on the horizon?
Say why, Well, this is one of the surprising games
and Benny versus the Penny, and we hope you watch
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that and enjoy it. We had a middling week, yet
again had a couple of bad beats. The worst beat
I've had in probably fifteen years. The Eagles Cowboys Eagles
Rams game. Holy crap, that is like a PSA. Maybe
you should stay away from certain things. My god, the Rams.
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We'll get to this later. It's on my big board.
Not a list Terry in England, but a big board.
The Rams were trying to kick a game winning field goal,
so that the options were they made the field goal,
they win the game. If they missed the field goal,
I still win the bet because of the point spread.
The only way that bet loses if the kick is
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blocked and returned for a touchdown. Some fantass for the
Eagles ran it back for a touchdown. Oh my god.
All right, anyway, but we want to focus on Atlanta.
This is one of the surprises you I for some reason,
I guess I'm a moron. I thought Atlanta would actually
play a competent football game. I know that's on me,
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it's not on them. They're the Falcons. This is what
the Falcons do. They're a joke of a franchise. This
is what jokes of a franchise do. So they benched
Michael Pennex Junior, their next franchise quarterback. They benched him
with eleven minutes left in the game for veteran Kirk Cousins.
The Falcons were trailing Carolina twenty seven to nothing. You
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know how bad you have to play to be down
twenty seven nothing to Carolina? My god? Anyway, So Raheem
Morris after the game attempted to squash any chance of
a quarterback change, just dismissing the idea that Michael Pennix
Junior is in jeopardy of being benched. So the question is,
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does Michael Pennex Junior deserve the benefit of the doubt
from Raheem Morris? Has he shown you enough in his
brief time as an NFL quarterback that he's worthy of
the benefit of the doubt? So I'm gonna go first
year No, of course not. What are you doing? Seriously,
Michael Pennick Junior looked like he didn't even belong holding
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a football. Mean two picks, one for a pick six,
the other setting up a Carolina touchdown. So you do
the malor math on that. Michael Pennix Junior was Fagon
scored no points in this game. He led them to
no points. They scored no points. Penix was a negative
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fourteen minus fourteen. And he, you know, he was the
essence of the George Thoroughgood song bad to the bone.
He was bad to the bone. What Mike go except
without the cool guitar riff. He didn't have that. Even
I didn't have that. He was an average four point
eight yards against Carolina, the Panthers. All right, my god,
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so they're so bad. And my Penix Junior did he
practice this week? Was there something else going on? Maybe
there was a death in the family. My god. And
here's the other problem, all right, Michael, bad games. Well
everyone has a bad game, Okay, fine, but you don't
normally have bad games against that opponent. That is who
you fat your stats up against the Carolina Panthers. Anyway,
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So Penix is I believe he's twenty five. This is
not some twenty year old kids straight out of college,
campus housing and all that. And he played last year
in the NFL. He came into the league. He's already
one of the older quarterbacks. And you're supposed to get
NFL ready, that's always the argument. Well, the older player,
he played a lot of games. Michael Pennix Junior at
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Washington and Indiana, and we liked him at Washington, we did.
This is terrible. It's absolutely terrible. And he had even
the first couple of games, he wasn't all that good.
So it's not like he showed some overnight improvement from
from a year to year improvement. Meanwhile, Kirk Cousins standing
there with the clipboard. You're paying him all this money, right,
what's the point of paying him as your backup quarterback
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so we can rot on the sidelines when Pennex is
clearly drowning at as QB number one and you're you're
paying Cousins. You were afraid to trade him, So what
what are you doing? I don't get it, and I
don't I don't get it again. I guess they're they're
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looking at the long game. What is the long game?
Exactly like the Falcons are always terrible, Like there is
no long game there anyway. So when coach Rahie Morris
says there's no quarterback controversy unless they trade Kirk Cousins
this week, there is a quarterback controversy. It's coach speak
for we have a quarterback controversy, and that is that
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back to it all right, ferg Dog writes, and he says,
let me just say, how glad I am that the
it's all about the Benjamin's opening is back. Puff Daddy
is innocent. Well, he was fully innocent. But I'm gonna
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say it again. It is not a crime to be freaky.
Uh well, it depends if you're in the Bible belt
or not. But he was not.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Well, I mean it is. It is a crime to
uh to beat your girlfriend out.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Generally charge for that. Generally you're not supposed to beat
up like you know, women.
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But let's talk to a couple of our NFL players, Okay,
and then we'll go.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
But but he didn't do any sex trafficking, and that's
that's what matters. Matters.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
People were I was an email Lorena. I got two
emails saying I need to know why Lorena was in Chicago.
Were you in Chicago this weekend?
Speaker 5 (25:47):
I was, definitely.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
That's a very quick trip to Chicago. That's a long
way to go for a couple of days.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Is it was there a special occasion or something? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (25:56):
I have a friend who is a comedian and he
was hosting a a gala there for the weekend and
I was his plus one. It was an amazing event.
We raised money for veterans so that they can get
fresh food.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yes, all right, did you see my dress?
Speaker 8 (26:12):
Bend?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
I did not. I try to stay off social media
because it's toxic, but I okay, Well, apparently our listeners
did enjoy the photos you posted. Based on the two.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Emails, I dressed up very nicely.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Okay, you clean up nicely?
Speaker 8 (26:27):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (26:27):
And oh my gosh.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
I loved walking around the city the water. I did
not realize how big the lake was.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
You didn't realize how big lake?
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Me no idea. I was like, what is that?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Did you think it was an ocean? Because it looks
like an ocean.
Speaker 6 (26:45):
I had to open the maps like we were am
I again because I.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Well, I'm glad you made in Chicago before the weather
turns really nasty in a couple of weeks, because you
don't want to go in the winter. But yeah, Chicago's cool.
Did you meet any listener? He didn't meant any listener,
No Eugene or tree in Chicago.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
Now, A lot of a lot of people did message
me saying that, uh that they wish that I did.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
But you did not do a spur of the moment
meet and greet. You did not have that.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
You should have done it out of Portillo's or something
that would have been chocolate cakeshakes for everybody.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Well, I ran it to Eddie the Great Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
I saw I look at your Instagram.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
I just post and I jump off sometimes all futs
around on it. But today I was busy, so I
didn't do it. But I saw any It's great to
catch up with Eddie. I love Eddie. We're telling old
radio stories about the old days and stuff. So it
was great to talk to him. And he was tailgating
at the Big Sofi tailgate there before. He said his
Coop here. I said, I don't know if Coop's here.
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They said, well, Coop said he was supposed to be here,
so I don't know if he's here not. I did
you go to the game, Cooper? You you did? Did
you reach out? No?
Speaker 5 (27:52):
I cannot get to a game early enough to say
hi to anybody.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
No.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
No, I was walking in right as the game is starting.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Didn't you get there early? You get get the ambiance
of the stadium. You know, it's a good vibot there
mostly brought. I saw so many patricks are Tangercy. He
was insighted. I thought I thought they were giving him away.
There were that many people wearing Bronco orange patricks or
tang ER's. I thought that they were just giving everyone
when they walked into the stadium. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
So, I mean, first of all, first of all, you lied.
He said you weren't going to the game.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
No. I never said I was not good. You did.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
Helmet man called up asked if you were going to.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
The game like I called. I did call Hilp. Well,
I don't have called he's he keeps like sending me
things on Facebook. So I he said he wasn't able
to make it today. Oh okay, okay, good good because
I did reach out to him and he didn't get
back to me. I but uh, on the live did
you buy your ticket off of sc like the secondary market,
(28:46):
like a scalp or something like that, or do you
know somebody that had tickets?
Speaker 5 (28:49):
No, I bought it off of like a Ticketmaster resale.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Okay, do you have good seats?
Speaker 5 (28:54):
It was the pretty goods in the three hundred section.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
But you know one of the passes that bick sailed
almost hit you in the face. Because all right, so
first of all, yes, had some issues there.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
They were all overthrows, yes, but.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
The two of them would have been touchdowns though that's
the problem, right.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
But see, but okay, two of them, I think first
could have been caught. One of them should have been caught.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Mims the yes, Mims is the guy that kept screwing
that up.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Yes, Mims, Mims should have caught that. Uh, Courtland could
have caught that. It would have been an amazing catch.
And then there was another one that he completely sailed.
But also, I mean, I don't even I don't even
want to get it.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Okay, that's a tough loss. I mean, you're you're you're
lost to the call and that penalty. The the young
sportsman like, that's okay, you just I know I was,
I was like, what are we doing here? Well? I know, well,
I could say the same thing about that Rams Eagles game.
There's some things there that Puka Nukua got called. I'll
(29:55):
talk about this later. He got called for he doesn't
the same effing celebration every time he gets to the ball,
but in the third quarner, all of a sudden, it's
a fifteen yard penalty against the rim, the same gend celebration,
the same exact thing every time he gets a first down,
but the referee had to book up his ass and
(30:16):
decided to call a penalty. Not that I'm bitter about it,
cause I'm fine, You're not bitter. It's just football. I
don't care. There'll be another game Monday night and I
can complain about that. Well I am bitter, Okay, good, yeah,
because the Broncos are now one and two, the Chargers
three and oer in the division.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
Well, and see the Broncos could easily be three and
oh that's what's really annoying.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I don't know. We well, I'm gonna talk about them later.
So you get really upset at that. Let's go to
the phones and we'll speak of him. He shall appear
helmet Man. Hello, helmet Man to the rescue.
Speaker 8 (30:53):
Fun morning.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
There he is right there.
Speaker 8 (30:57):
Oh yeah, I couldn't get to the game because when
I came from work out in Hollywood last night, I
got home six something in the morning, I had a.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Home to sleep for a few hours to get out
there in uh.
Speaker 8 (31:13):
And I was drained out of fell asleep.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
You fell asleep? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (31:18):
What time did you wake up the last time I called? Uh,
y'll probably call me. I think I fell asleep.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yeah, I understand you. Definitely you were not You didn't
answer when I reached out to you, so that was
a sign that you were not available.
Speaker 8 (31:32):
I fell asleep.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yes, you've fallen asleep a lot. It's the beauty.
Speaker 8 (31:37):
He was getting on the band's case. But now they won, Well.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
They won, Helmet Man. They won because of me. I
gave them tough love. And that's why they responded because
I gave them tough love.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
And the Ravens gonna win.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
You say that every time the Ravens play, they're going
to win.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
You say that, No, they're gonna win at home they
play the Lions. I'm gonna watch them.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Oh congratulations. What channels it on?
Speaker 8 (32:07):
Bom?
Speaker 1 (32:08):
What channels the Ravens game on?
Speaker 8 (32:11):
I'ma wants it on?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Uh sports?
Speaker 8 (32:14):
Uh, you know the NFL Sports channel, you know, like
when you click and.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Uh, yeah, whatever, I got you. By the way, I
want to I want to let all the affiliates. So
the computer is rebooting now, so this is good here.
Oh I love when the computers do that. Yes, why
don't they do this towered show? Is it always the
overnight show?
Speaker 8 (32:33):
Monday night football?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
You're not listening. You're not listening to what I'm saying anyway, man,
And I love you.
Speaker 8 (32:40):
Man.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
When you come see us, you got us. You're not available.
I might go to that Rams game and Rams are
playing the Colts. I might go to that game that's
got a little juice to it.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
Game tonight.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
No, I'm talking about no help me, man, I'm talking
about next Sunday. The Rams play the Colts in Week four.
Speaker 8 (33:00):
Yeah, but the Rams were the game in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I'm aware of that. I watched it. I saw what happened.
I mean, yes, they choked. That was pathetic.
Speaker 8 (33:11):
Yeah, but that was warm weather there. They had that game.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Well, they did the one thing they wanted to do
more than anything was stopped Sekwon Barkley. And they did.
They defense that he ran for like two point fifty
a game against them last year. They stopped him and
they still fetched away the game in the second half.
They allowed Jalen Hurst do something I didn't think it
was possible he could do and light them up for
three touchdowns in the second half. And then in addition
(33:37):
to that, you look at the the the special teams.
They still would have won the game even with Hurts
throwing three touchdowns if their idiot kicker hadn't missed but
one blocked and then the oh god would have made
it two blocked. Actually, they would have won.
Speaker 8 (33:53):
Right.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yeah, yeah, that's that is that is correct. You are
you know what you know, you should be. You should
be working for NFL Network. You're You're much better than
those people they have over there.
Speaker 8 (34:03):
My god, the eighty three and except thy.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Okay, do you still have your Orioles uniform? I remember
when I ran, Remember when I ran, Remember when I
ran into you a helmet man and you had your
full Oriols uniform on.
Speaker 8 (34:21):
Yeah, I still got that on my phone.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
That's one of the great photos of all time. Me
and you was side by side. It's like I was
standing next to you Eddie Murray or something like that,
just right there, just wandering around the streets of La
in full oriel paraphernalia. I love it.
Speaker 8 (34:37):
Murray down on the outside of the Staffs Center. One night,
I mean one night. Yeah, I think he came from
a Laker game.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
No, definitely not a Laker game. It was a Kings game.
He doesn't go to Laker games.
Speaker 8 (34:47):
You know there was a boxing man.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
I don't think he goes to boxing either. You know,
I gotta go, thank you the great helmet man outstand,
Doctor Crude. You know it's a good night of Doctor
Cruise listening, he says, Ben marvelous monologue, particularly the part
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Right. Time now for the play of the day. And
oh what a play of the day, very painful play
of the day. It's the Tiraq play of the day.
Let's go to Philadelphia, the Rams lining up for a
game winning field goal and then this happened. They blocked
in the last time the bull spotted. The kick is
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Speaker 7 (37:19):
It's wucked up by the Eagles running w to is
Davis thirty twenty ten five touchdown kat over George Davis?
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (37:31):
Look to the gain?
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Speaker 8 (37:33):
Long?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Tom again? Happy? Ever seen anything like this? Do you
believe in miracles?
Speaker 9 (37:38):
The Rams are standing silent, They can't believe what just
happened to them. Successful field done, blocks winning for the Eagles.
What a great, great game, what a great great comeback?
And the final score is thirty three to twenty six.
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so our lead this hour, we start out play the hits,
Play the hits. We'll start out with that Sunday night
game in New Jersey as the Chiefs oh in two
the Giants oh and two, And there they were. You
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had Collinsworth and Mike Tarrico yapping way, Collin's Worth going
gaga over the Chiefs as he normally does, and they
had all the documentation of these two bad football teams.
And so the Chiefs trying to get off the schneid
right and Russell Wilson desperate to get that taste of victory.
How did that play out? Well, eh, if you didn't
(03:14):
see the game, you didn't miss much. As Patrick Mahomes aid,
two hundred and twenty four yards passing, it's fine and
a touchdown. It was a relative bumpy ride for the
majority of the game for the Chiefs offense yet again,
and they ended up taking advantage of the lowly Giants.
Point future generations will not realize. Even the current generation
(03:37):
does not realize. The Giants used to be good. What
an embarrassment to Giants? Are they so bad? Holy crap? Anyway,
the Chiefs get to win, they improve the one and two.
The Giants dropped to zero and three on the seasons.
But the better story is in the losing locker room.
So that is where we go. A lot of chatter
(03:58):
about a quarterback change in New York with the Giants.
As you were watching this game, he saw that Jackson
Dart did come in a couple of times, as they
did that last week. But Russell Wilson, all right, so
let us discuss the question. Is Russell Wilson done as
(04:19):
the Giants starting quarterback? That's the question. So I've got
Suntan City, lettuce and George thurergood and we will combine
all of these things together. We're gonna make some deep
fried mac and cheese, is what we're going to do. Delicious.
Anything deep fried is both bad for you and good
for you at the same time. Anyway, So in terms
(04:42):
of the question, is Russell Wilson done as the Giant
starting quarterback? Well, you can spell it out if you
wat's D O N E. That's how you spell it.
We're done, of course he is, Come on, of course
he is. Russ is cooked. It's microwaved leftovers at this
particular point, and it's the kind of microwave leftovers that
were left in the break room for a little too long,
(05:06):
just a little too long there, And of course you
could argue he was showing signs of being dun Skis
when he was playing for the Seattle Seahawks at the
end there and they got rid of him, and they
went to Denver and kind of confirmed, yeah, I'm done.
I can't really play that well. And then the Steers said, well,
we think you're not done. We'll bring in He sucked there,
and now the Giants are like, wow, we want you
(05:26):
to suck for our team as well. I guess we
Maybe the news doesn't travel, is it possible, like the
this is one of those times, like the fans no
more than the people running the sport. They all, oh,
we're going to turn things around. Oh yeah, we'll be fine.
We're gonna unlock Russ, mister unlimited. How's that going for you?
How's that going? A bunch of dingleberrys around the NFL
(05:48):
as Russ going out there and another stinker. And then
you've got Brian Dayball, the coach of the Giants, who
is basically running sun Tan City. Here they're laying in
untanned beds. You've got one side has ross. The other
side had Brian day Ball in it, and it is
kind of laying there and they've got that artificial heat
(06:08):
lamp above them, and they're sweating bullets, getting paid a
lot of money and just kind of waiting for the
pink slip to come down, down, down, down down. At
this point, you do wonder what Brian Dable has to
do to lose his job. Coaching bad football is not enough, clearly,
I mean it's I mean, if you just judged him
off his record, which usually is what happens in that business,
(06:31):
Brian Dayball would have been fired long ago. The guy
blows as a head coach. What more does he need
to show you? He's telling you I suck as a
head coach, and it Chad's like, oh no, we're loyal.
We don't fire coaches. Really, okay, he stinks horrific And anyway,
here's that Brian day Ball. The fans were serenading the
(06:53):
team in Boo Flat. Here is Brian Dable on the fans,
giving the giants the business.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Progressing well, will continue to work with them. You know,
I got a lot of confidence in him, his development
that he's had, and that's what we'll continue.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
To do jackbi Biorn too.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
To be honest with you, in terms of not being
good enough, no, not scoring, not finishing, I understand that that's.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
A nature of it, all right. So the Giants under
Brian Dable have a three forty winning percentage, which ironically,
maybe not ironically is probably at the word the Giants
has the same winning percentage they've had the last decade.
There is ten years of poo poo, and for the
New York Giants, ten years ten years. It's almost like
those Fluke Championships. They made a deal with the devil,
(07:38):
those Giant teams that weren't good enough to win the
championship but did when they beat the Patriots, right, fraudulent
teams that got you know, played well, played well at
the end of the year in the playoffs, but they
weren't really worthy of being a championship team. So now
the payback on that is a decade of suck. That's
the Giant And they're not even rebuilding. They're just rotting,
(08:00):
just rotten. That's the Giants. Right. Russell Wilson, in theory,
was supposed to be the bridge. He was gonna be
the study veteran hand that would come in there and
instead at this point Russ looks like a guy who
missed the bridge and he drove. He didn't listen to
the GPS, he missed the bridge. He somehow drove into
the East River, which you're not supposed to do. You're
(08:22):
not supposed to miss the bridge and drive into theat rivers.
But he did. And the biggest sin is being unable
to find Molik Neighbors until I don't know garbage time
is the right word. But for most of the game
you failed to get the ball to your top guy.
Bad job by you. None ever played in me NF.
(08:42):
I know Ryan Clark doesn't want to hear this, but
that sucks, all right. Neighbors had as many catches as
you had and I had combined going to the fourth quarter.
He had zero catches through three quarters. Zero buppkis nothing
zip o. That was Molik neighbors in this game. That
malpractice and the fans and rhythm. They were also rhythmically
(09:05):
chanting for Jackson Dart as Russell Wilson tossing a couple
of interceptions in the first half. Of course, they assume,
what do they think he's going to be? They just
wanted to be average. Well, I guess they want to
be Eli Manning. Eli Manning was just an average quarterback.
Eli's not a Hall of Famer with that good had
a couple of fluke playoff runs. So I guess they
want Jackson dart to just be average. Just please be having.
(09:27):
We need average, is what they're saying. And uh, you know,
the crowd's basically sending you a a door dash receipt saying,
get dark in there now we want him. Of course
he'll stink also, and then what are they gonna do? Uh,
they're trying to push that back as long as they
can because the chances are pretty good he's going to
be terrible. Why not. I love the fact that Russell
(09:50):
Wilson was the safe bet. I love the fact that
Wilson was the safe bet, which is which is great,
Which is kind of like saying the Bad News Bears were,
you know, the They're gonna go out with a championship,
you know, except their pitchers a drunk and the head
coach there doesn't care and all that, and the catcher's
probably smoking SIGs behind the stands. So it's just ridiculous.
(10:12):
And so they got Wilson and day Ball together here,
and you got the coach. How about the GM here,
Joe Shane, the guy that came over from the Buffalo Bills.
You've got this guy. And they thought Russell Wilson would
keep them afloat, keep their jobs, and how's that looking
right now? Instead he's been an anchor, like the kind
(10:33):
JJ and Renton makes those big giant anchors for those
massive ships that the Navy uses. And so just a
giant anchor strapped to the bottom of the boat, right
there at the bottom of the boat. And he's only
I guess good against the Cowboys last week. A lot
of yards, a loss, a loss, a lot of yards.
(10:54):
But otherwise Russ has been pretty much completely guilty of
strategic incompetence as a quarterback for the Giants, the Steelers
and the Broncos. And so they've turned big Blue, which
they used to brag, Oh we're big blue, We're the Giants,
We're big blue. And now they're like big blab blab blab,
big blab. That's where they are, right And you know, again,
(11:16):
waste the three quarters of elite neighbors. And at this
point you're just gonna waste the early part of his career,
and then he's gonna have to run off to the
Rams and win a championship like Odell Beckham did back
in the day. But the Giants are owing three. They
are lifeless, and next step, logical step would be to
bench Russell Wilson. Now I was sending some correspondence to
people I know around the football world. The consensus is
(11:39):
actually that he will not be benched. This he should
be benched. But the Giants play the Chargers. That's a
good team. And if you open a restaurant, what do
they tell you want a soft launch? Right? You want
a soft launch. You don't want to open it up
with a rush crowd. So the Chargers would be a
rush crowd. They're pretty good. So after that you play
(12:01):
the Saints. That's the game. The Saints, I mean they're
the yints like when I was a kid there, the Aints.
They they're terrible. So that's the that's the game. If
you want a soft start for Jackson Dart, you toss
him out there against the New Orleans Saints, which is
not this coming weekend, a week four. It be week
five of the NFL season. Meanwhile, on to cansa City,
(12:25):
the Kansas city side of things. And the question here,
I've been seeing some of the commentary after the game,
and a lot of the commentaries went, well, the Chiefs
got back on track, the train is back on the
tracks and all that. So, question did Patrick Mahomes, Did
Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs offense find something? Did they
find the spark? Did they find the spark? On a
(12:47):
Sunday night in Jersey against the Giants and they find
a spark? And after a minutes long deliberation on that question, right,
everyone wants to throw rose pedals at Patrick Mahomes, right
at his feet because because the Chiefs beat the Giants.
But to answer the question, pumped the brakes on that, No,
they found the Giants. They found the Giants. It's a
(13:12):
tomato can. That's the Giants. As we've laid out that,
that's it. That is a cure all. It's kind of
like if you don't feel good, you got a headache,
maybe you take some ibuprofen. If your football team's not
playing well, play the Giants. That's it. But that being said,
we realize the Giants are a medicine ball of incompetence.
But the game was still sitting there was. It wasn't
(13:35):
anyone's game, but it was a one score game in
the fourth quarter, one against the Giants, one score game.
If Kansas City had really found something, this game would
have been forty one to ten or something along those lines.
They would have blown the doors off the Giants. But
(13:56):
that didn't happen. Did not happen. Instead, we got more
of the Andy Reid, which is ironic. He didn't usually
eat this the plotting Chiefs offense, which is it was
essentially they're sherving up iceberg lettuce and much like myself
and me and Andy have that in come. We don't
enjoy iceberg lettuce because it's got no taste to it.
It's ninety six percent water. But that's essentially what the
(14:17):
Chiefs offense is, right, even in this game for a
mild flavor, there's not a lot of spice to it.
You look at the numbers, Mahomes average six point one
yards to seven yards per pass is average. Above seven
is really good. Six point one is not even average
quarterback play for Mahomes. Oh, but he was the Chiefs
found something, then you had certainly he wasn't a video
(14:41):
game guy. And then you look at Travis Kelcey. More
on him later this hour. But Travis Kelly, mister Taylor
Swift had four catches for twenty six yards. He better
get married. She's gonna dump him. He keeps flaying like this,
and Taylor Swift's gonna dump his ass because he sucks.
She's got I'm gonna find a younger tight end. I'm
gonna marry. I'm gonna marry you. You're terrible. I mean,
(15:02):
that's not even a decent his standard, that's not even
a decent half for Travis Kelcey. His production low? How low?
All right? I mean he's terrible. The Giant and I
guess the Giants. Oh, the Giants have all these first
round back draft picks, wonderful. But when Kelsey's not producing,
(15:22):
it's a big factor in the Chiefs offense looking like
they're stuck in molasses and mahomes and coming. They barely
cracked three hundred yards. They said, well, that's acceptable. Three
hundred yards. Yeah, until you realize the Giants gave up
almost five hundred yards to the Cowboys last week. Well
wait a minute, hold on a second, So the Chiefs
(15:42):
are like two hundred yards worse offensively, than the Dallas
Cowboys at this particular point. Dallas carved him up like
the Thanksgiving turkey and the Kansas City struggling to get
to twenty two points with Russell Wilson turning the ball
over with two interceptions in this game. And so it's
just not a championship level of football for the Chiefs
(16:03):
even it's more like survival. And they got the Ravens,
they have the Ravens next week. That's looking like that's
the way they played against the Giants. Obviously they got
played better, but that man play like that, you're gonna
lose that. You'd be one in three the first four
games of the year to start the year. You had
special teams problems. Harrison Buckner missed a field goal, missed
(16:26):
an extra point in this game. That's four points left
on the table by the special teams and three games
in in the offense for the Kansas City Chiefs. Still
looks broken. That's my diagnosis. I'm now working at the
repair shop and it just looks broken. And this is
the supposed to be the improvement though again because all
the Chiefs savings just showed some signs of improvement here
(16:49):
and if that's the case, the bar is. I don't
know what's below the basement, but whatever's below the basement,
that's where the bar is. And so it's just not
a scary team. You don't that offense. It does not
intimidate anyone despite having Patrick Mahomes and they got some
trash from the Patriots who had a good game at
wide receiver. But I mean, you look around here and
(17:10):
they still are searching for answers in Kansas City. Andy
Reid's got to clean a lot up before you put
them as a legit title threat. And they can get there.
They certainly can get there. There's no doubt that defense
is legit. They're not there yet. There's no guarantee they're
going to get there. So for now, because we do
the show right now today, you have to downgrade, continue
(17:33):
to downgrade the Kansas City chiefs. What they found is
they found the giants, which is just what the doctor ordered.
That's what they found all right now, last word to Atlanta,
we go and is there a quarterback change on the horizon?
Say why, Well, this is one of the surprising games
and Benny versus the Penny, and we hope you watch
(17:54):
that and enjoy it. We had a middling week, yet
again had a couple of bad beats. The worst beat
I've had in probably fifteen years. The Eagles Cowboys Eagles
Rams game. Holy crap, that is like a PSA. Maybe
you should stay away from certain things. My god, the Rams.
(18:15):
We'll get to this later. It's on my big board.
Not a list Terry in England, but a big board.
The Rams were trying to kick a game winning field goal,
so that the options were they made the field goal,
they win the game. If they missed the field goal,
I still win the bet because of the point spread.
The only way that bet loses if the kick is
(18:37):
blocked and returned for a touchdown. Some fantass for the
Eagles ran it back for a touchdown. Oh my god.
All right, anyway, but we want to focus on Atlanta.
This is one of the surprises you I for some reason,
I guess I'm a moron. I thought Atlanta would actually
play a competent football game. I know that's on me,
(19:00):
it's not on them. They're the Falcons. This is what
the Falcons do. They're a joke of a franchise. This
is what jokes of a franchise do. So they benched
Michael Pennex Junior, their next franchise quarterback. They benched him
with eleven minutes left in the game for veteran Kirk Cousins.
The Falcons were trailing Carolina twenty seven to nothing. You
(19:26):
know how bad you have to play to be down
twenty seven nothing to Carolina? My god? Anyway, So Raheem
Morris after the game attempted to squash any chance of
a quarterback change, just dismissing the idea that Michael Pennix
Junior is in jeopardy of being benched. So the question is,
(19:49):
does Michael Pennex Junior deserve the benefit of the doubt
from Raheem Morris? Has he shown you enough in his
brief time as an NFL quarterback that he's worthy of
the benefit of the doubt? So I'm gonna go first
year No, of course not. What are you doing? Seriously,
Michael Pennick Junior looked like he didn't even belong holding
(20:12):
a football. Mean two picks, one for a pick six,
the other setting up a Carolina touchdown. So you do
the malor math on that. Michael Pennix Junior was Fagon
scored no points in this game. He led them to
no points. They scored no points. Penix was a negative
(20:33):
fourteen minus fourteen. And he, you know, he was the
essence of the George Thoroughgood song bad to the bone.
He was bad to the bone. What Mike go except
without the cool guitar riff. He didn't have that. Even
I didn't have that. He was an average four point
eight yards against Carolina, the Panthers. All right, my god,
(20:57):
so they're so bad. And my Penix Junior did he
practice this week? Was there something else going on? Maybe
there was a death in the family. My god. And
here's the other problem, all right, Michael, bad games. Well
everyone has a bad game, Okay, fine, but you don't
normally have bad games against that opponent. That is who
you fat your stats up against the Carolina Panthers. Anyway,
(21:22):
So Penix is I believe he's twenty five. This is
not some twenty year old kids straight out of college,
campus housing and all that. And he played last year
in the NFL. He came into the league. He's already
one of the older quarterbacks. And you're supposed to get
NFL ready, that's always the argument. Well, the older player,
he played a lot of games. Michael Pennix Junior at
(21:43):
Washington and Indiana, and we liked him at Washington, we did.
This is terrible. It's absolutely terrible. And he had even
the first couple of games, he wasn't all that good.
So it's not like he showed some overnight improvement from
from a year to year improvement. Meanwhile, Kirk Cousins standing
there with the clipboard. You're paying him all this money, right,
what's the point of paying him as your backup quarterback
(22:05):
so we can rot on the sidelines when Pennex is
clearly drowning at as QB number one and you're you're
paying Cousins. You were afraid to trade him, So what
what are you doing? I don't get it, and I
don't I don't get it again. I guess they're they're
(22:26):
looking at the long game. What is the long game?
Exactly like the Falcons are always terrible, Like there is
no long game there anyway. So when coach Rahie Morris
says there's no quarterback controversy unless they trade Kirk Cousins
this week, there is a quarterback controversy. It's coach speak
for we have a quarterback controversy, and that is that
(22:47):
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A coach and a star player at loggerheads during the game.
What is that all about. We'll get to it. We'll
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We'll get to that, and we will do it next.
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Uh Bronco fan. Your comments can and will be used
against you in the court of sports radio and not
back to it all right, ferg Dog writes, and he says,
let me just say, how glad I am that the
it's all about the Benjamin's opening is back. Puff Daddy
is innocent. Well, he was fully innocent. But I'm gonna
(25:13):
say it again. It is not a crime to be freaky.
Uh well, it depends if you're in the Bible belt
or not. But he was not.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Well, I mean it is. It is a crime to
uh to beat your girlfriend out.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Generally charge for that. Generally you're not supposed to beat
up like you know, women.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
But let's talk to a couple of our NFL players, Okay,
and then we'll go.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
But but he didn't do any sex trafficking, and that's
that's what matters. Matters.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
People were I was an email Lorena. I got two
emails saying I need to know why Lorena was in Chicago.
Were you in Chicago this weekend?
Speaker 5 (25:47):
I was, definitely.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
That's a very quick trip to Chicago. That's a long
way to go for a couple of days.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Is it was there a special occasion or something? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (25:56):
I have a friend who is a comedian and he
was hosting a a gala there for the weekend and
I was his plus one. It was an amazing event.
We raised money for veterans so that they can get
fresh food.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yes, all right, did you see my dress?
Speaker 8 (26:12):
Bend?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
I did not. I try to stay off social media
because it's toxic, but I okay, Well, apparently our listeners
did enjoy the photos you posted. Based on the two.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Emails, I dressed up very nicely.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Okay, you clean up nicely?
Speaker 8 (26:27):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (26:27):
And oh my gosh.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
I loved walking around the city the water. I did
not realize how big the lake was.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
You didn't realize how big lake?
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Me no idea. I was like, what is that?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Did you think it was an ocean? Because it looks
like an ocean.
Speaker 6 (26:45):
I had to open the maps like we were am
I again because I.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Well, I'm glad you made in Chicago before the weather
turns really nasty in a couple of weeks, because you
don't want to go in the winter. But yeah, Chicago's cool.
Did you meet any listener? He didn't meant any listener,
No Eugene or tree in Chicago.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
Now, A lot of a lot of people did message
me saying that, uh that they wish that I did.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
But you did not do a spur of the moment
meet and greet. You did not have that.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
You should have done it out of Portillo's or something
that would have been chocolate cakeshakes for everybody.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Well, I ran it to Eddie the Great Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
I saw I look at your Instagram.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
I just post and I jump off sometimes all futs
around on it. But today I was busy, so I
didn't do it. But I saw any It's great to
catch up with Eddie. I love Eddie. We're telling old
radio stories about the old days and stuff. So it
was great to talk to him. And he was tailgating
at the Big Sofi tailgate there before. He said his
Coop here. I said, I don't know if Coop's here.
(27:43):
They said, well, Coop said he was supposed to be here,
so I don't know if he's here not. I did
you go to the game, Cooper? You you did? Did
you reach out? No?
Speaker 5 (27:52):
I cannot get to a game early enough to say
hi to anybody.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
No.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
No, I was walking in right as the game is starting.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Didn't you get there early? You get get the ambiance
of the stadium. You know, it's a good vibot there
mostly brought. I saw so many patricks are Tangercy. He
was insighted. I thought I thought they were giving him away.
There were that many people wearing Bronco orange patricks or
tang ER's. I thought that they were just giving everyone
when they walked into the stadium. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
So, I mean, first of all, first of all, you lied.
He said you weren't going to the game.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
No. I never said I was not good. You did.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
Helmet man called up asked if you were going to.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
The game like I called. I did call Hilp. Well,
I don't have called he's he keeps like sending me
things on Facebook. So I he said he wasn't able
to make it today. Oh okay, okay, good good because
I did reach out to him and he didn't get
back to me. I but uh, on the live did
you buy your ticket off of sc like the secondary market,
(28:46):
like a scalp or something like that, or do you
know somebody that had tickets?
Speaker 5 (28:49):
No, I bought it off of like a Ticketmaster resale.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Okay, do you have good seats?
Speaker 5 (28:54):
It was the pretty goods in the three hundred section.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
But you know one of the passes that bick sailed
almost hit you in the face. Because all right, so
first of all, yes, had some issues there.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
They were all overthrows, yes, but.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
The two of them would have been touchdowns though that's
the problem, right.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
But see, but okay, two of them, I think first
could have been caught. One of them should have been caught.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Mims the yes, Mims is the guy that kept screwing
that up.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Yes, Mims, Mims should have caught that. Uh, Courtland could
have caught that. It would have been an amazing catch.
And then there was another one that he completely sailed.
But also, I mean, I don't even I don't even
want to get it.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Okay, that's a tough loss. I mean, you're you're you're
lost to the call and that penalty. The the young
sportsman like, that's okay, you just I know I was,
I was like, what are we doing here? Well? I know, well,
I could say the same thing about that Rams Eagles game.
There's some things there that Puka Nukua got called. I'll
(29:55):
talk about this later. He got called for he doesn't
the same effing celebration every time he gets to the ball,
but in the third quarner, all of a sudden, it's
a fifteen yard penalty against the rim, the same gend celebration,
the same exact thing every time he gets a first down,
but the referee had to book up his ass and
(30:16):
decided to call a penalty. Not that I'm bitter about it,
cause I'm fine, You're not bitter. It's just football. I
don't care. There'll be another game Monday night and I
can complain about that. Well I am bitter, Okay, good, yeah,
because the Broncos are now one and two, the Chargers
three and oer in the division.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
Well, and see the Broncos could easily be three and
oh that's what's really annoying.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I don't know. We well, I'm gonna talk about them later.
So you get really upset at that. Let's go to
the phones and we'll speak of him. He shall appear
helmet Man. Hello, helmet Man to the rescue.
Speaker 8 (30:53):
Fun morning.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
There he is right there.
Speaker 8 (30:57):
Oh yeah, I couldn't get to the game because when
I came from work out in Hollywood last night, I
got home six something in the morning, I had a.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Home to sleep for a few hours to get out
there in uh.
Speaker 8 (31:13):
And I was drained out of fell asleep.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
You fell asleep? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (31:18):
What time did you wake up the last time I called? Uh,
y'll probably call me. I think I fell asleep.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yeah, I understand you. Definitely you were not You didn't
answer when I reached out to you, so that was
a sign that you were not available.
Speaker 8 (31:32):
I fell asleep.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yes, you've fallen asleep a lot. It's the beauty.
Speaker 8 (31:37):
He was getting on the band's case. But now they won, Well.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
They won, Helmet Man. They won because of me. I
gave them tough love. And that's why they responded because
I gave them tough love.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
And the Ravens gonna win.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
You say that every time the Ravens play, they're going
to win.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
You say that, No, they're gonna win at home they
play the Lions. I'm gonna watch them.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Oh congratulations. What channels it on?
Speaker 8 (32:07):
Bom?
Speaker 1 (32:08):
What channels the Ravens game on?
Speaker 8 (32:11):
I'ma wants it on?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Uh sports?
Speaker 8 (32:14):
Uh, you know the NFL Sports channel, you know, like
when you click and.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Uh, yeah, whatever, I got you. By the way, I
want to I want to let all the affiliates. So
the computer is rebooting now, so this is good here.
Oh I love when the computers do that. Yes, why
don't they do this towered show? Is it always the
overnight show?
Speaker 8 (32:33):
Monday night football?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
You're not listening. You're not listening to what I'm saying anyway, man,
And I love you.
Speaker 8 (32:40):
Man.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
When you come see us, you got us. You're not available.
I might go to that Rams game and Rams are
playing the Colts. I might go to that game that's
got a little juice to it.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
Game tonight.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
No, I'm talking about no help me, man, I'm talking
about next Sunday. The Rams play the Colts in Week four.
Speaker 8 (33:00):
Yeah, but the Rams were the game in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I'm aware of that. I watched it. I saw what happened.
I mean, yes, they choked. That was pathetic.
Speaker 8 (33:11):
Yeah, but that was warm weather there. They had that game.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Well, they did the one thing they wanted to do
more than anything was stopped Sekwon Barkley. And they did.
They defense that he ran for like two point fifty
a game against them last year. They stopped him and
they still fetched away the game in the second half.
They allowed Jalen Hurst do something I didn't think it
was possible he could do and light them up for
three touchdowns in the second half. And then in addition
(33:37):
to that, you look at the the the special teams.
They still would have won the game even with Hurts
throwing three touchdowns if their idiot kicker hadn't missed but
one blocked and then the oh god would have made
it two blocked. Actually, they would have won.
Speaker 8 (33:53):
Right.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yeah, yeah, that's that is that is correct. You are
you know what you know, you should be. You should
be working for NFL Network. You're You're much better than
those people they have over there.
Speaker 8 (34:03):
My god, the eighty three and except thy.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Okay, do you still have your Orioles uniform? I remember
when I ran, Remember when I ran, Remember when I
ran into you a helmet man and you had your
full Oriols uniform on.
Speaker 8 (34:21):
Yeah, I still got that on my phone.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
That's one of the great photos of all time. Me
and you was side by side. It's like I was
standing next to you Eddie Murray or something like that,
just right there, just wandering around the streets of La
in full oriel paraphernalia. I love it.
Speaker 8 (34:37):
Murray down on the outside of the Staffs Center. One night,
I mean one night. Yeah, I think he came from
a Laker game.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
No, definitely not a Laker game. It was a Kings game.
He doesn't go to Laker games.
Speaker 8 (34:47):
You know there was a boxing man.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
I don't think he goes to boxing either. You know,
I gotta go, thank you the great helmet man outstand,
Doctor Crude. You know it's a good night of Doctor
Cruise listening, he says, Ben marvelous monologue, particularly the part
where you made no mention of my own three Houston Texas.
They're on my big board. They're on my big board.
Eileen says, I knew Lorena would be all over the
(35:10):
George throw a good bumper music. Well that's a classic song, man,
That's what right, that's a great song. It's all about
the Benjamins. Yeah, Fergduck says, let me. I can't say. Well,
I think we've already read that one. I was the
wrong song. That's the wrong one. Berner count says Benjamin.
Hilarious story on the fifth hour, Someone do a wellness
check on Cowboy Dan, the Cowgirls or Derby. We haven't
(35:33):
heard from Cowboy Dan in a while. I hope he's
all right. I don't know. He might have retired from
calling radio shows or something else might have happened. Who
they hell knows? All right, is the Ben Mahler Show
straight ahead. Now we will get to the loggerheads on
the sidelines at some point. With the play of the day,
here is the who am I? Game? Colt running back
Jonathan Taylor became the fourth player since two thousand with
(35:54):
at least seventy five hundred scrimmage yards sixty touchdowns in
their first seventy career games. He joins Adrian Peterson, Ladanian,
Tomlinson and me. Who am I? That is the question.
What is the answer? We'll get to it. We will
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All.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Right. Time now for the play of the day. And
oh what a play of the day, very painful play
of the day. It's the Tiraq play of the day.
Let's go to Philadelphia, the Rams lining up for a
game winning field goal and then this happened. They blocked
in the last time the bull spotted. The kick is
a last blocked. It's blocked.
Speaker 7 (37:19):
It's wucked up by the Eagles running w to is
Davis thirty twenty ten five touchdown kat over George Davis?
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (37:31):
Look to the gain?
Speaker 5 (37:32):
Are you kindding?
Speaker 8 (37:33):
Long?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Tom again? Happy? Ever seen anything like this? Do you
believe in miracles?
Speaker 9 (37:38):
The Rams are standing silent, They can't believe what just
happened to them. Successful field done, blocks winning for the Eagles.
What a great, great game, what a great great comeback?
And the final score is thirty three to twenty six.
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player since two thousand to have at least seventy five
hundred scrimmage yards and sixty touchdowns in his first seventy
career games. Joins Adrian Peterson that Andy and Tomlinson and me,
who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
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Cardiac Cowboys
The heart was always off-limits to surgeons. Cutting into it spelled instant death for the patient. That is, until a ragtag group of doctors scattered across the Midwest and Texas decided to throw out the rule book. Working in makeshift laboratories and home garages, using medical devices made from scavenged machine parts and beer tubes, these men and women invented the field of open heart surgery. Odds are, someone you know is alive because of them. So why has history left them behind? Presented by Chris Pine, CARDIAC COWBOYS tells the gripping true story behind the birth of heart surgery, and the young, Greatest Generation doctors who made it happen. For years, they competed and feuded, racing to be the first, the best, and the most prolific. Some appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, operated on kings and advised presidents. Others ended up disgraced, penniless, and convicted of felonies. Together, they ignited a revolution in medicine, and changed the world.