September 23, 2025 • 50 mins
Big Ben talks about the Lions upsetting the Ravens in Baltimore in a MNF shootout, Jerry Jones saying the Cowboys are not planning a tribute to Micah Parsons when he returns to Dallas this weekend, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Joan Jett Edition, and more!
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hour from the big made for TV matchup in Baltimore,
the final act of Week three of the NFL. We
are now almost twenty percent into the NFL season and
it was a big time Inner conference matchup. Is this
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a preview of the Super Bowl in Northern California coming
in February of twenty twenty six or merely just a
matchup that will be forgotten in the large, wide angle
lens of the NFL season. So anyway, I bring this
up because you had Lamar Jackson and the Ravens taking
on Dan Campbell and the traveling circus that is the
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Detroit Lions. They came in there I don't know if
you saw this game or not. We watched so you
would not have to. And it was up set City
the Ravens, who had been as big as a six
point favorite in this game. They ended up at four
and a half and they were back and forth for
a while, but then the Lions pulled away. Jamir Gibbs
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and David Montgomery. There goes that man. Watch him run run, run, run, run, run, run,
both of them as Jamier Gibbs and David Montgomery each
ran for two touchdowns a piece, and Detroit doing something
you don't normally expect the Lions to do. They bullied.
They bullied, they played bully ball. They bullied the Baltimore
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football team thirty eight to thirty in a game that
really wasn't that close when you think about the fact
that the Lions gave up that last touchdown, even though
they had a two touchdown lee. It just kind of
let up a little bit there at the end the
final second, the Lions are two and one. They sacked
Lamar Jackson, not once, not twice, not three times, how
about not four, not five, not six, seven sacks, rushed
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the Baltimore football team two hundred and twenty four yards
on the ground for the Lions and eighty five for
the once proud Baltimore football team Detroit, scoring on drives
of ninety eight and ninety six yards. They had drives
of ninety eight and ninety six yards. Wow. All right,
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so let us discuss the question is this, who do
you point the finger at? The better store in the
losing locker room? So who do you point the finger at?
For John Harbaugh's Ravens. Who's the the one wearing the
dunch cap? That's the question. Who is it? All right? So, well,
before we get into this, let's hear from the aforementioned
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John Harball. And here's John Harball pointing out that the
Ravens defensively, well, it's kind of obvious here. They're not
very good against the run.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
The biggest problem is we didn't play good run defense.
I mean, we didn't as as a defense complete. We
didn't do it. And that's not going to be good enough.
There's nobody in that locker room that thinks that's good enough.
That's disappointing. That's bad run defense. And that's not who
we are. It cannot be who we are. It's not
going to be good enough, it's not going to be
acceptable and it's got to be better.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
All right. So again the question here, the jumping off point,
is the question who do you point the finger at?
For John Harbaugh's Ravens. He mentioned the run defense. There,
I've got Rick Bettino, Bart Simpson and DNA and we
will combine all of these things together and we will
throw them against the wall and we're going to make
some delicious grilled chicken, is what we're going to make.
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So a, this is not who the Ravens have been,
but it is who they are now. Is that a
fair statements? That an accurate statement that Harbaugh's complaining about
the run defense, which is true. But this is supposed
to be John Harbaugh's sweet spot. Sunday night, Monday night,
Thursday night, any kind of night, especially at home, and
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his team comes out there like Gangbusters. They do the
monster mash, the monster mash. In this game, they did
the opposite. They they're usually the ones that are pounding
teams in submission, and on this night they were powdered
and mashed potatoes, is what they were. It is soft
and fake cream and no bite and that's it. That's
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all they were. A reminder though, as the iconic sportscaster
Dick Stockton taught me years ago here at Fox Sports Radio,
Stat's tell you what has happened, not what's going to happen.
And that's the reality of the situation. Here. They got
they being the Ravens, got completely manhandled by the line.
I thought the Lions were the right side. You watched
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Benny versus the Paint on YouTube. We did tell you
to take the Lions. Did I think they were gonna
play that? Well, no, absolutely not. I did not expect
that at all. But this is not just losing a
game for Baltimore. To me, it feels bigger than that. Oh,
you're being too dramatic. I don't think it's like in
an identity crisis for the Ravens. Like the Ravens have
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always been that team. In the last twenty years or so,
with few exceptions, the Ravens have been that team that
you'd circle on the calendar and it's like, oh, no,
that's gonna be a that's gonna be a nasty game.
You play the Ravens. They're gonna push you around, they're
gonna punch you in the mouth, they're gonna poke your eyes.
I mean, that's a good football team, that's a physical
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football team, and you're not gonna be able to push
them around. And so here we are in twenty twenty five.
We are about twenty percent into the NFL season, and
the Ravens are lightweights, They're pushovers. These are not your
daddy's Ravens. They're not John Harball, you know what you
got to bring in here? I got advice here. I'm
gonna tell my guys sports with Coleman, who's boots on
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the ground in Baltimore. John Harbaugh needs to bring in
Rick Patino because Rick Patino can give these guys on defense,
say pep talk here and say listen, now, rally the
team around. He said, listen, boys, Lewis is not walking
through that door. He's not all right, And just tell
the fan Ray Lewis is not walking through that door.
Terrell Suggs is not walking through that door, and Ed
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Reid is not walking through that door. And if you
expect them to walk through that door, they're going to
be gray and old. Boom, drop the mic. That's it.
The Ravens have the worst defense in the National Football League.
Put that in the pipe and smoke it of hard
to believe stuff. The Ravens are dead last. They are
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thirty second in the NFL. That's not my opinion, it
is a fact I've done the mother of math. The
Ravens have allowed an average of four hundred and fifteen
yards per game and that includes a laugh or a
blowout win courtesy of Joe Flacco who gave the game
to Baltimore in Week two. It's embarrassing with the capital
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leave for the Ravens, and then on Monday Night Football
they allowed that running in and Jared also made some
key third down plays as well. But Dan Campbell, those guys,
they were able to do whatever the hell they wanted.
Four hundred and twenty six yards four one hundred and
twenty six yards for the team representing Michigan, the Detroit Lions.
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They're fifty percent conversion on third down, they were perfect
on fourth down and nearly perfect in the red zone. Wowsers.
And it's like they were playing at some stretch of
that game. It was like seven on seven. It's like
a walk through. It was insane. And you know, meanwhile,
you have Lamar Jackson, yes, mister multi time MVP of
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Lamar Jackson and if you look at the box score
for Lamar, you're like, wow, he played pretty well. Look
at the numbers there. You can't rip Lamar Jackson what
to bet? So you gotta dig a little deeper. And
this is like, if you didn't watch the game, you think, wow, Listen,
Lamar was fine. I don't know what you're talking about.
You're just bring a short drug. He needed to be better.
He needed to be better. He needed to be better.
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And if you dig deeper, the numbers he put up
are misleading. I'll tell you why, all right. So he
averaged ten point seven yards per pass attempt two hundred
and eighty eight yards. Seventy eight of those yards and
a touchdown pass came when the game was already decided.
I mentioned the Lions laid up after they went up
by two touchdowns late in the game in garbage time.
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That is a stat bondito performance that Dak Prescott will
be impressed with. So the Lions were up thirty eight
twenty four, and then Lamar on a few pass plays,
led them all the way down the field the Ravens,
and they went down and scored a touchdown. But there's
only like twenty seconds or something. Left in the clock.
The game was over at that particular point. And then
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you've got the HeLa monster in the room, the HeLa
monster and the Komodo dragon in the room, and that
is the negative place, and that is what loses games.
It's a simpleton's way to look at a football game.
But if you just look at the quarterbacks side by side,
and roughly ninety percent of the time, the quarterback that
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makes fewer mistakes his team will win the game. Now,
those negative plays, A negative play is a sack, a fumble,
an incompletion. Those are negative plays. And if you look
side by side in this game, Lamar Jackson had fourteen
negative plays in this game, seven sacks, seven of them.
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He had a fumble that was recovered in incompletions left
and right. He had six incompletions in the game. So
you do the math on that, it works out to
be fourteen. The sack number is rather shocking. That is
tied for a career high. Hey, Lamar, you've just been
sacked seven times. What are you gonna say for yourself,
Lamar Jackson, I think there were sacks seven times tonight.
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That rarely, rarely happens with you. What were you seen
back there that was causing problem.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Oh man, gods are doing stunts and they had a
a spy and sometimes the spy was they were grabbing
my leg and that's just what it was. You know, guys,
they were dropping the coverage. You got three safeties back there,
and I'm just not gonna throw a hair mary ball,
you know, I'm gonna read the coverage out and try
to make something happen.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Spy spy versus spy, that's the issue there. So Jared Golf,
on the other hand, while Lamar had fourteen negative plays,
Golf had nine, which is said, well, that's not that
big a difference, but in a game that's closed, it
is a big difference. Zero sacks. Jared Goff had zero sacks.
The offense ran the ball a lot, so you didn't
have too many opportunities to get sacked. And generally speaking,
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this was a even though Lamar had good Fantasy numbers
thanks a lot to that last drive there, overall not good. Then.
The Ravens normally the ones that are doing the steamrolling,
and in this game they were not. They were soft, certainly,
defensively uninspired, defensively, dazed and confused. In this game, and
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Baltimore now desperately trying to get their mojo back as
they have a losing record, and they go to Arrowhead.
How about that for a plot twist. You've got the
Chiefs sitting at one and two, the Ravens at one
and two. One of those two teams will be at
five hundred, the other one to be one in three,
a quarter of the way into the NFL season. Who goofed,
I've got to know. But right now, we do the
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show right now, and the Baltimore Ravens look like a
middle of the pack AFC team. They have a bottom
of the league defense, They have an offense that will
be fine against most anyone and certainly will beat up
on the Tomato Cans of the NFL. But man, all
right now turning the page on that, The other big issue,
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if you will, for Baltimore is do the Ravens have
a Dereck Henry problem? And that's the question. So I'm
gonna nod my head yes on this. Derrick Henry had
a very mediocre stat line in this game, but he
also had a signature fumble yet again for Derrick Henry,
So I'm not in my ask you look at the
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circumstantial evidence on this, and it is piling up. And
it's the same evidence that we have seen for many,
many years doing this job, where you're since the dawn
of time, when you're a running back of a certain age,
and things all of a sudden stopped working, right, It
goes pretty quick. But before we get into the meat
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of that, let's hear from We'll hear from Henry in
a second, but let's hear from the aforementioned John Harbaugh.
Here's John Harbaugh talking about what was a backbreaking fumble
late by Derrick Henry. It happened again. Here's the coach.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
We got to get it fixed. I mean, that was
kind of a blind shot there. I thought he had
the ball in good position, you know. I thought the
defender got a good look at it though, because it
was kind of a pretrace cutback play. So a little
bit of perfect storm. But still, I mean, we just
want to protect football, you know, all our guys do,
and we gotta we gotta do it. We gotta be
good at it.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
It's a perfect storm, except it's happened three games in
a row. Three games in a row. All right, here's
the man of the hour here Derrick Henry. You're the
running back. You were right there among all the top
players in the NFL last year, a great renaissance in Baltimore.
And now what do we got here? Well, explain for
yourself what happened on that fumble Craiser.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Right now, three games straight, having to my in my
career st fumbles being critical moments.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Just yeah, I ain't gonna.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Go for I apologize, so flat Nation and I don't know.
I'll just keep.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Working and get the shirts.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
It's a flock Nation. It's a cheesy name the Ravens
marketing department came up with. You could do better, Flock.
It sounds like sounds like you say that too many times.
You'll say the effort. Yeah all right, So I'll want
to go back though to the argument, my argument here
with Derek Henry, and I was skeptical, I was, I
was completely wrong. Last year. I said, what are the
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Ravens doing here? And we bring in Henry. He was
showing some signs of regression in Tennessee. They brought him
in and he shoved it down my throat. But here
we are a year later and three games in and
it's like, well, this is the thing that we have
seen from running backs since the dawn of time. As
I mentioned here, once they hit that magic age of thirty,
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they run into a wall. It's not a gentle fade.
It's not like you're fading out from a scene in
a TV show or a movie. It's oh, he's he's
useful in certain spots. It's not that it's a cliff dive.
You're free diving off the side of the Grand Canyon
and you're just diving. There's a rope or a parachute
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or anything like that. You're just diving and you don't
get a warning flare. It's not like they said, well,
by the way, here's a warning. You're running backs starting
to get worse and worse that you don't get a
caution sign. They don't send that out. It's bam. You
go from King Henry to court Jester Henry overnight, just
like that, Just like that. Now one second you are
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the wrecking ball and then the next your toast, your toast.
He's thirty one, which is not old, but in sports
when you're running back, that's an issue. Birthday is coming
up in early January, and the numbers tell the story.
If you look at it three point one yards per
carry combined the last two games against the Browns and
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now against the Detroit Lions. That is plotting. That is ordinary.
And fumble that's the scarlet letter, the fumble things the
scarlet letter. Three straight games, three straight fumbles, lost two
of them in key matchups. The Buffalo Bills don't come
back and win that game without the generosity of Dereck Henry.
And you can make the same argument that the Lions don't.
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They don't win that game without the help of Derrick Henry.
That he's doing more to help the other team right
now than he is to help his team. And so Henry,
if it doesn't work out, if this continues here, he
can at least replace Bart Simpson and be the new
face of Butterfingers, right because at three games in a row,
and that's as many as he had all of last year.
For Derrick Henry, you can't be that guy. You're not
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that guy, Palp, You're not that guy, certainly, not now,
not ever in your career. Like at least he used
to be good. Ramandre Stevenson fumbles all the time for
the Patriots, but he's you know, he's not that good
and So if you're Baltimore, though, what do we always say,
Don't let a falling star fall on you. Don't do it,
You just cannot do it. Don't sit there on the
ground and look up and the falling star falls onto.
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The Ravens historically have prided themselves on a lot of things,
but there always a smart team, and they're a physical
team and all that stuff. And Henry is not looking
right now like much of a centerpiece. Now. He did
for three quarters in that game against Buffalo in Week one,
but that's three weeks ago now, and it doesn't appear
to be just a pothole. It does not appear to
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be just a pothole at this point. And now you
go against Kansas City at Arrowhead, a stout Chiefs defense
coming up next week, and if Henry does not look
like his old self, then and you start We'll wait
a minute here. Now it's like a quarter of the
way into the NFL season, and does he fumble again here?
And running backs generally at age thirty one heading into
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age thirty two don't just bounce back. It's not a
bounce back situation. They usually fall apart pretty quickly. And
Derrick Henry who has always been that he's got that
fear factor where he scares the other team, and it
doesn't the only thing he's scaring right now is the
raven fan base, flocked nations as he called it. There
all right, last word, quickly to the winner's locker room
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we go where we were very critical. I got an
email from John who lives in He says he lives
outside Detroit, so I'll say the suburbs of Detroit. And
John said he wrote me immediately after the game, which
I knew was one of those oh no, no, no, no, no no.
Anytime you get an email right after a game is no, no, no, no,
no no, your opinion sucked. You know. That was that
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kind of thing. It was like, I remember what you
said after that game in Green Bay. I remember wash
your mouth out? You know that coming. So question, does
this count as a statement victory for Dan Campbell's Detroit
Lions to sasheer their way into Baltimore and get the win.
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So yeah, I'll nod my head. Yes, Listen, I reacted.
The job is to read and react. That's the job.
You read. It's like playing defense. You read and react
in basketball whatever, and in certain elements of football you
read and react, and so I'm not in my yes, yes,
Detroit was strutting into what is supposed to be a
hostile environment and they didn't blink. They did not blink
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in this game. After the no show, which is dope
from outside Detroit who emailed me all worked up into
a ladder there. The Lions deserve to be ripped for
the way they played against green Bay, especially considering how
they played against Baltimore. What do you? And then they
destroyed the Chicago Bears as well the green Bay game.
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We were on after the green Bay game, they deserved
a lashing. We gave them a lashing. And there were
some lingering questions about whether or not they were going
to be as good. They had changed the roster a
little bit, the coordinators were different. Those were legitimate questions.
This is the kind of a win for the Lions
on the road, on the road against a brand name
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franchise like the Ravens that helps answer those doubts. It's
not just that they won the Lions, it's how they won. Physical, aggressive,
Now they're always fearless on fourth down and all that
stuff that'll come back to bite. Dan Campbell in the ass.
But that's his DNA, that's in the Dan Campbell DNA
and all that stuff. And what happened was soft Dome team.
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I thought all these dome teams is soft. Well, maybe
the Ravens. I might as well play Adulton the way
they're playing right now. So there you go. It was
the Ravens defense that was soft. Around the edge is
a very jello like in this particular performance here, and
so there you go. The Lions on the catwalk there
they flexed. They did a pirouette right there on the
catwalk for everyone to see, and they made their little
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statement and they shook their tushy and they walked away. Congratulations.
There you go. They are legit, and so they proved
it in this particular game. Unless the Ravens turn out
to be total frauds, then we visit this. But we
do the show right now, and so right now that
is my position on the lines.
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them or not. Anyway, our lead this hour. We talked
earlier about the Monday Night game, a surprising result as
the Detroit Lions kicking the tukis of the Baltimore Ravens.
So it was only an eight point game. But if
you saw the game at the line of scrimmage in
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the trenches, trench warfare, dominate, blocking and tackling, blocking and tackling,
blocking and tackling, and the Lions did better there. But
we move on from that. We have a developing story
out of Jerry's world, and that is where star defensive
end and former Dallas player Micah Parsons, who was one
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of the faces of the Dallas Cowboys defense for four seasons,
barely remember this, but apparently didn't do quite enough, quite
enough to get one of those Jumbo Tron video tributes,
the thing of a jigs on the Jumbo Tron, the
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what you mightna call it. Now, what is my evidence?
My evidence is the Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones
said that the team will not will not have a
tribute video for Micah Parsons when he returns to the
scene of the crime in Jerry's world this weekend. Do
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you agree or disagree with the Dallas Cowboys position that
they will not will not be putting one of those
video tributes up on the scoreboard. So I've got tractor Supply,
tow truck and kiss and we will combine all of
these things together, and we are going to make some
chicken wings, just like the ones moving Man Matt made.
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He told me in his truck right here out in
front of the studio. So why not live the life.
That's a as Lurina pointed out, that truck is bigger
than most studio apartments, at least in Manhattan. I don't
know about in La. But it's a massive, massive, huge,
that's what she said. All right, So number one, all right,
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unpopular opinion to some, but the proper opinion to most.
Jerry Jones got this one right. Don't cave, Jerry, don't
do it. Don't cave Jerry Jones. Good job by you. Listen,
Michah Parsons, he didn't want to be a Cowboy anymore.
Otherwise he would have stayed there, right, So the Cowboys
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ended up trading him to Green Bay. Now, all of
a sudden, he loves lambeau Field and all that, and
I hope he enjoys that. But Michael Parsons was a
He was a box score stuffer, is what he was.
We talked about it at the time he was playing
for the Cowboys. This is not revisionist history. We're talking
about it right now, but hollow numbers, s p stat padding,
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a lot of stat padding there. Now, this is not
some Super Bowl darling that was the MVP and dominated
the Super Bowl for the Dallas Cowboys. In the big picture,
you look at He's said, well, Jerry Jones and the
Dallas Cowboys look at Micah Parsons so like it was
like a what' even a cup of coffee And wasn't
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even a cup of coffee his time in Dallas and
Parsons is basically a guy who loads up garbage time
fantasy points and he did it time after time after time,
and it's all the kind of guy like the equivalent
would be in basketball, where the guy will go out
there and drop twenty two points in the fourth quarter
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and like, wow, that's impressive, and they're like, well they
were actually down by thirty at the start of a quarter,
and it said, well, it doesn't really matter, it's not
that big a deal. So Jerry Jones is actually shockingly
the grown up in the room on this Micah Parson's
video tribute thing, because the thing that so many people
in sports do, they're all a bunch of SAPs, and
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it's heartstrings marketing and all that, and we've got to
give everyone a video tribute and all that. I love
the fact that Cowboys are not doing it. I love it.
Jerry Jones is saying, Hey, you might not think we
have standards, but we have standards. Here were the Dallas Cowboys.
And we're not just gonna throw a state funeral every
time some guy leaves and we trade him to another team.
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That's not how this operates. Right. Thank god, there's somebody
in sports unlike that damn Dodgers, right with Clayton Kershaw,
who they had a losing record when Kershaw started the playoffs,
and the damn Dodgers they went down to track their supply,
got some shovels and they started digging the pitching rubber
up for Clayton Kershaw like it was some kind of
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religious experience. It was so stupid, so dumb. I mean,
nobody did anyone over there say what are you doing?
You morons? Look how stupid we look. He's not dead.
What do you do? At least the Cowboys aren't like
the Dodgers, so good for them. Good for them. And
Michael Parsons is the Dak Prescott of defense. He is
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right all sizzle, no steak. It's a junk stat machine,
is what it is. Parsons. You know, a better cop
would be I got this NFL's Russell Westbrook. NFL's Russell Westbrook.
Where you look at the numbers and you're like, WHOA,
get a little turned on here? Those are good numbers, right,
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And then you're like, well, wait a minute, another triple double,
another triple double, another triple double, meaningless, meaningless, empty, empty,
and Jerry Jones, of all people, of all people, Jerry
Jones drawing a line in the sand, good old Jerry
Jones here. Imagine that Jerry freaking Jones acting like the
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adult at the table. Yeah, that's things I cannot believe,
things I cannot believe. There tells you all you need
to know, all you need to know about the Micah
Parsons experience there in Jerry's world. And if Jerry of
all people, who loves a promotion as much as anybody,
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but he's like, well, the Cowboys don't retire numbers. They
they're not going to do a sizzle video for a
guy that didn't want to be with the cowboys and
then took off. Be a trade and you know, not
like the Cowboys miss him. They would have sucked if
he had stayed there. Now they sucked without him, But
they're the same team they would have been, whether Parsons
is there or not. A bad team. Now, speaking of
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the Cowboys, we have wide receiver C. D. Lamb, who
could miss now three to four weeks because of a
high ankle spraine. Oh my ankle. Yeah, he suffered that
in the loss to the chicag Go Bears over the
weekend there in Chicago. So coach Brian Schottenheimer did not
(31:45):
did not put a timetable on the possibility of Ceedee
Lamb returning. He said, quote, he'll miss some time, but
CD is a guy who heals quickly and blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah, he'll do everything in this
power blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah. Alright, So how do you see
things working out for the Cowboys without Ceedee Lamb for
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let's say the next month. The next month, the Cowboys
without Ceedee Lamb so much like the Cowboys with Michael
Parsons or without Michael Parsons. I don't see much of
a change. I don't see much of a change looking
at the Dallas Cowboys there and they have been serving
up hum drum football. Now, the Giants game was exciting
(32:30):
until you realize it's embarrassing that the Cowboys had to
go overtime neck and neck with Russell Wilson and Jackson
Dart to get the win. That's embarrassing. And then you
look at the Cowboy rosters said, well, humdrum and all that.
When you look at the Cowboys set up outside of
Ceedee Lamb and Dak Prescott a lot of generic, lot
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of generic brands. Now, I'm okay with generic brand because
you save a little money, save a little money, I'm
okay with that. And the moneyball adage has always gone
when any time, anytime a star player gets hurt. The
adage from moneyball is it is impossible to replace the player,
but it is possible to recreate him in the aggregate.
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That's the big nerd word they use in the aggregate.
So multiple people step up and then the collective will
end up in a situation where they they're in better
shape or at least as good as shape. But again,
you look at the roster, and there's a lot of
flotsam and jetsam on the roster. It just is that's
the way this team has been put together. And you
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take Ceedee Lambs had some issues. He didn't play particularly
well in Game one against the Philadelphia Eagles. We ripped
him on a mal of monologue after that game. But
you look at everything, and so you do the math
on this. You got a quarterback who's good but not great,
Dak Prescott, good but not great. You've got a running
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game which is just average, nothing special, just average running game.
You've got a bunch of receivers who could not separate
from a folding chair at this particular point. So you've
got the secondary receivers for the Cowboys are Jalen Tolbert
and Cavante Turpin. Those are the receivers for the Cowboys.
So Jerry Jones needs a tow truck, is what he needs?
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Right.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Ceede Lamb was the guy the last couple years, at
least in games against lesser opponent. Ceedee Lamb would win
one on one matchups and stretch the field and make
a play and break a play open from the benign
of the normal Cowboys. Now, he said a little about
George Pickens by George, and that is true. George Pickens
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is there, and the scouting report on George Pickens is
talented but moody, talented but moody. You also have tight
end Jake Ferguson, who's essentially a glorified safety valve, so
he's in the offense as well, and yeah, that'll work
out great, right, Well, what could possibly be wrong? And
then you've got Brian Schottenheimer and you're like, well, what's
(35:01):
going on here? And we know he's a sock puppet
and all that. This guy has been fired more times.
He's had more jobs around football. He's been fired more
than a cannon at a Revolutionary War re enactment. Okay,
he has had by my count, twelve jobs around big
time in college football and the NFL, from the Saint
(35:21):
Louis Rams to the Kansas City Chiefs owner of his
dad hired him, Syracuse, USC Georgia, the Redskins, they were
called the Redskins. Then we're allowed to say at the
San Diego Chargers, the Colts, the Seahawks, the Jaguars, and
now the Dallas Cowboys. So he is going we're supposed
to think that he's going to scheme up George Pickens
and some of those other receivers to make up for
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Ceedee Lamb. Police. Now maybe Jerry Jones will. Of course,
Jerry is saying everything's fine. So let's assume the position.
Let's assume the position that Ceedee Lamb is going to miss.
Let's say he misses four games, four games. So if
he misses four games, the Cowboys going, where are they going?
One in three? If everything goes right, they go two
(36:04):
and two? Defense. I say the defense bails them out.
Is that even possible the way the Cowboys are playing
defense at this particular point. Now that being said, let's
be honest here though. All right, this is a soft,
marshmallowy football team. This is a soft football team. They
have a soft coach, and they have a soft quarterback,
and it's it's all the same. And so even with
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Ceedee Lamb, things were bad. They were not good. When
they had Cede Lamb, they were bad. And so now Lamb,
you take him out of the equation, and now they'll
get exposed more. And so they're flashy, fragile, all of that.
And when the lights get bright, when it's light bright
and they'll shrink again, shrink again, sure enough, because that's
(36:48):
what they do all right.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Final point, so, staying with the theme of the hour,
and we mentioned the Baltimore Ravens the worst defense in
the NFL this season. Following Week three. These games, which
ended on Monday, Monday Monday, a just an absolute horrific
performance by the Ravens. They give up thirty eight points
and the Lions did what they want.
Speaker 6 (37:11):
Well.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
The Dallas Cowboys are not much better at this particular point.
They're not much better than the Baltimore raven In fact,
the Dallas Cowboys right now, if you look at the
overall standard, Cowboys are thirtieth in the NFL in defense.
In total defense, they're thirtieth out of thirty two teams.
That's not good. I didn't play in the NFL, but
(37:32):
where I come from, that's not good. That is not good. Now.
I bring this up because you've got some underlying conditions
here that the Cowboys hired a high falutant, supposedly defensive genius.
The guy got a head coaching job in the NFL
based on his defensive pedigree. Matt Iberflus, who was the
coach of the Chicago bear. So did you see that
the Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer encouraging, encouraging the defensive coordinator
(37:58):
Matt Eberflus to simplify, to simplify the playbook, to try
to fix this terrible defense. So what is Shatzi What
is he really saying? What is the head coach of
the Cowboys really saying with all so, if you just
take your machete and you just cut through the crap,
(38:20):
just cut through the crap with the machete. There Schottenheimer
is essentially spelling it all out for you don't really
have to dig that deep. There's not a lot of
nuance to it. When a coach says that he wants
to simplify the approach. When that is said, okay, he's
telling you my players are dumb, the dumb, dumb, dumb.
(38:45):
They're so stupid, the Dallas Cowboy players. They can't understand
the scheme, cannot do it, they don't understand. They're not
that right. That's what he's saying. That's it. Forget all
the coach speak and all. It's when you say simplify, Fine,
what you are saying is you're really saying, my guys
are unable to process what we are trying to get
(39:08):
them to do. Cannot get it. Well, that's what they're saying.
So they're turning to the thing that came out of
the military. It's called the Kiss method, and that's keep
it simple, stupid, the Kiss method. And we've seen this
movie before, sitting in this chair over the years, we've
seen this from time to time and went, in doubt.
You always strip it down, down, down, down, down down.
(39:31):
You strip it down, and you handhold, and you do
the ABC's and the one two threes, and you treat
them like they're playing pee wee football. Professional football players.
Treat it like they're playing pee wee football. And don't
bury the lead, mo Man, We're not going to bury
the lead. This all comes right after, right after, of course,
(39:52):
the famous Micah Parsons trade, who will not be honored
on the jumbo Tron when he goes back with Green
Bay this weekend. But the argument for where Michael Parsons
is he's the eraser. Of course, we pointed out a
lot of empty stats on that, a lot of empty stats.
So Dallas, we mentioned now thirtieth in well, they're thirtieth
in total defense, they're twenty eighth in scoring defense, Cowboys
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allowing thirty point seven points per game this season. The
only teams averaging more points on average are the Chicago Bears,
the New York Jets, the Titans, and the Dolphins. That's it,
and even worse in as we mentioned in the total defense.
So you've got Shani who's doing a shawnee job as
(40:34):
the head coach there. He knows it's bad, he knows
it stinks, and so that's why he's talking about we
need to quote simplify. It's all about simplifying the playbook there,
because right now, you are trying to polish a turd
is what you're trying to do. You're trying to polish
a turd. That is what you are attempting to do.
That is the reality of the situation. You can spray
(40:55):
cologne on it if you want little split splits just
like that. You do that. You can wrap it in
tinfoil if you choose to do that. Whatever, it still stinks,
it doesn't matter. It does not smell good. And Dallas's defense,
they look like a bunch of guys that just met
each other, and they just met each other and they're
(41:17):
trying to solve advanced calculus, but they can barely get
through long division. So they're cooked. They're absolutely cooked. And
it's not about scheme. It's not about that. It's about survival.
At this point, well, just dumb it down. We'll play
a basic defense and instead of getting completely embarrassed, we'll
only get partially embarrassed, and that'll be good.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
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Speaker 1 (41:44):
Good name about that? To the third degree, this is
one thing.
Speaker 8 (41:53):
It seems every year the Chargers are a popular sleeper
pick in the NFL, only to ultimately disappoint. Well after
they win over the Broncos, we're seeing it again, headline
saying that this will be the year that the Chargers
justify the hype, and it's because of Justin Herbert.
Speaker 6 (42:05):
Ben, do you think they're finally legit contender?
Speaker 1 (42:07):
No, I don't trust Herbert. He's had two playoff games,
did nothing in the second half, they got killed by
Jacksonville and then this Houston game last year. I don't
trust him. I don't care how many games they win.
I gotta see him perform under the pressure of the playoffs.
I don't next Baker.
Speaker 8 (42:21):
Mayfield admitted after the Bucks went over the Jets on
Sunday that he took a little extra pleasure in beating
their defensive coordinator Steve Wilkes, who Baker pointed out was
the one who cut him in Carolina. But how much
better do you think things would be going for the
Panthers right now if they had kept Baker?
Speaker 1 (42:34):
Well, they don't have a quarterback, so he couldn't be
much worse. By the way, you need some garlic, Coop,
he needs some garlic. I just lost my voice. I'm
not sick, all right.
Speaker 8 (42:44):
Kevin O'Connell refused to say that he started JJ McCarthy
over Carson Wentz when he's healthy.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
What do you think that's a dead giveaway. He's not
happy with JJ McCarthy. It's an easy thing to say, Yes,
JJ my starter. He didn't say it. Trouble in Minnesota.
How'd we do? How'd we do? Passes? You will get
some garlic, get some tea and honey and honey.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
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Speaker 1 (43:15):
Well, I think we have some contestants here that have
answered the call, and let's see who we are. We
say hello to Kevin, who's in I believe southern California?
What's going on? Kevin? Welcome? Welcome, Hello, Kevin? What's going
You want to play the game? Yes, you know how
(43:37):
the game works?
Speaker 2 (43:39):
I think, so I do good?
Speaker 1 (43:42):
I listen, but okay I might so. Well, all right,
that's all right, that's fine. I'm sure you find out.
Who do you want to partner up with here? Kevin? Yeah,
me me, all right, Well we're in it to win
it very good. Hold on a shocker.
Speaker 6 (43:53):
They always choose you, Ben if.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
You want, I can have someone choose you. Still working
on my sports knowledge, maybe in like five years, five years,
Oh my god. So Kevin's gonna play alongside me. We've
got Tyler in Boston. Who's going to play? Hello? Tyler? Welcome?
What's going on? Beny? You out working right now? Tyler?
On my way on your way in? I got you
(44:17):
all right, Well I've already been picked, Tyler. So who
do you want to partner up with here? You want
to go with the Rena or Coop. As much as
I love Lorena, I'll have to take Coop on this song.
I'm sorry not picked again? All right, fine, now you
know my life in elementary school when I wasn't picked
for kickball? All right, now you know what it's like.
You see you have that that pretty girl privilege. But
(44:39):
right now you don't. You see that that's ugly people.
Privilege is what we have. All right?
Speaker 8 (44:45):
Well, anyway, gentlemen, this is Malard's mount of Money, the
Joan Jet edition. She turned sixty seven years old on Monday,
Happy birthday. Yes, the categories are you don't know what
you've got? Bad reputation. I love rock and roll and
everyday people. Kevin, you were on first, Which category would
(45:05):
you like?
Speaker 1 (45:07):
I think? All right, man loves rock and roll?
Speaker 6 (45:11):
And Tyler, how about you?
Speaker 1 (45:13):
Bad reputation, bad reputation?
Speaker 9 (45:15):
All right, like that might be you, Tyler. All right,
A hold on, gentlemen, do not hang up. We will
pause for the cause, and then we will have in
its entirety, we will have the game. If you're on hold,
you're our backup in case one of these two guys
hangs up. But we'll have Malord's Mountain of Money. We'll
get to that, and we will do it.
Speaker 6 (45:37):
Next.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
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Speaker 1 (45:54):
Let's do here we go. We've got Kevin who's hanging
out in a beautiful Joshua tree in California. He's matched
up with me. And we've got Tyler on his way
to work in Boston, and he is matched up with
Cooper Loop. But is the Jones, Jededish and and Kevin?
You picked? I love rock and roll? Is that correct? Kevin?
(46:15):
All right? These athletes have all performed in or with
rock bands. We need the first and last name. Do
you understand? Yes? All right? Forty five seconds on the clock.
We're on our way. Go. Greatest nineteen eighties professional wrestler.
He just passed away blonde hair. Yes, Steelers quarterback in
(46:35):
the seventies. He's on the NFL on Fox right now
on the weekend. Yes, he had a serial named after him.
He was a star at Boston College. A little short
quarterback hit a hail Mary pass. He's played with the Patriots. Yes,
very angry. Nineteen eighties white guy tennis player yelled at Yes,
(46:56):
the Flying Tomato was his nickname. He was a snowball
in the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
What's his name?
Speaker 1 (47:04):
All right? Picture for the White Sox of the Yankees.
White guy named black Jack, starting pitcher in the in
the nineties. Yeah, yeah, ok, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (47:14):
I mean you said his first name. I said Blackjack.
That's the That's not his name. His name is part
of his names in the nickname. That's questionable, questionable?
Speaker 2 (47:25):
Right?
Speaker 1 (47:25):
How many points is that?
Speaker 6 (47:27):
It should be? One hundred? Cheating again?
Speaker 1 (47:29):
Shut up?
Speaker 8 (47:30):
Okay, Kevin some garlic? Okay, Tyler, Tyler, We have bad reputation. Uh,
these sports figures all have a bad reputation.
Speaker 6 (47:40):
Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (47:41):
Will Coop's voice maker? Ready?
Speaker 6 (47:43):
All right?
Speaker 1 (47:44):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (47:45):
Forty five seconds of the clock. Let's begin. Bill's running
back killed two people? Yes, Patriots tight end killed one person.
Speaker 6 (47:54):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (47:55):
This guy was the head coach of Penn State. He'd
let I'm bad.
Speaker 6 (48:01):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (48:01):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (48:02):
This guy was a running back for the Ravens. He
beat up his wife in an elevator.
Speaker 1 (48:06):
Right.
Speaker 6 (48:07):
Yes, this was a figure skater.
Speaker 8 (48:08):
She had her ex husband take a crowbar to the
Nancy Kerrigan's knee. Yes, this guy was a wide receiver
for the Raiders. He drove like one hundred and ten
miles an hour. Yes, this guy was a on the
Tampa Bay Rays. He was in a relationship with a
fourteen year old in the Dominican Republic.
Speaker 6 (48:28):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (48:29):
So that was so easy? God, it's not easy.
Speaker 6 (48:36):
That's right, that's right, good job, that's you. Shut up job, Tyler.
Speaker 1 (48:40):
Come on, Kevin ran the Kevin.
Speaker 6 (48:42):
That's what I call domination.
Speaker 1 (48:44):
Get how about you get a throat, lawson? How about that?
Get a damn throat losing? Do you sound like Doc
Rivers over there? All right, Kevin? What do you want? Yeah,
you don't know what you got? Or everyday people, you
don't know what you got? All right, you don't know
what you good? Forty five seconds on o'clock. These athletes
were all traded before they reached superstardom. Are you ready, Kevin?
Speaker 2 (49:07):
I hope?
Speaker 1 (49:08):
So, yeah, all right, here we go. He was known
as the chief of the nineteen eighties Boston Celtics, the
center alongside McHale and yes, uh, mister big shot. For
the Pistons. He was drafted by the Celtics guard. Yes,
a closer for the Padres and the nineties, one of
the all time great Hall of Fame closers. Yeah, keep talking.
(49:31):
Yes uh. The pitcher for the Reds, for the Red
Sox and the Expos was traded by the Dodgers for
the Lino Deshields. Yes.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (49:39):
Forty nine ers quarterback after Joe Montana, there was yes, uh,
the Bambino for the Yankees. Yes, and the and the
Beard for the Clippers. Yeah, I get that.
Speaker 8 (49:55):
We read all right, easy category, All right, Tyler, let's
go every day, even Tyler, let's go. These athletes all
got regular jobs after their playing careers. Forty five seconds,
let's begin, all right. He was a center for the
Milwaukee Bucks and the SuperSonics. He's an assistant coach on
the Bucks right now. His last name is like what
you do to cookies. Yes, all right, you're a cheater.
(50:19):
You were a cheater, Tyler.
Speaker 1 (50:21):
You were a cook
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hour from the big made for TV matchup in Baltimore,
the final act of Week three of the NFL. We
are now almost twenty percent into the NFL season and
it was a big time Inner conference matchup. Is this
(02:28):
a preview of the Super Bowl in Northern California coming
in February of twenty twenty six or merely just a
matchup that will be forgotten in the large, wide angle
lens of the NFL season. So anyway, I bring this
up because you had Lamar Jackson and the Ravens taking
on Dan Campbell and the traveling circus that is the
(02:51):
Detroit Lions. They came in there I don't know if
you saw this game or not. We watched so you
would not have to. And it was up set City
the Ravens, who had been as big as a six
point favorite in this game. They ended up at four
and a half and they were back and forth for
a while, but then the Lions pulled away. Jamir Gibbs
(03:13):
and David Montgomery. There goes that man. Watch him run run, run, run, run, run, run,
both of them as Jamier Gibbs and David Montgomery each
ran for two touchdowns a piece, and Detroit doing something
you don't normally expect the Lions to do. They bullied.
They bullied, they played bully ball. They bullied the Baltimore
(03:35):
football team thirty eight to thirty in a game that
really wasn't that close when you think about the fact
that the Lions gave up that last touchdown, even though
they had a two touchdown lee. It just kind of
let up a little bit there at the end the
final second, the Lions are two and one. They sacked
Lamar Jackson, not once, not twice, not three times, how
about not four, not five, not six, seven sacks, rushed
(04:00):
the Baltimore football team two hundred and twenty four yards
on the ground for the Lions and eighty five for
the once proud Baltimore football team Detroit, scoring on drives
of ninety eight and ninety six yards. They had drives
of ninety eight and ninety six yards. Wow. All right,
(04:21):
so let us discuss the question is this, who do
you point the finger at? The better store in the
losing locker room? So who do you point the finger at?
For John Harbaugh's Ravens. Who's the the one wearing the
dunch cap? That's the question. Who is it? All right? So, well,
before we get into this, let's hear from the aforementioned
(04:45):
John Harball. And here's John Harball pointing out that the
Ravens defensively, well, it's kind of obvious here. They're not
very good against the run.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
The biggest problem is we didn't play good run defense.
I mean, we didn't as as a defense complete. We
didn't do it. And that's not going to be good enough.
There's nobody in that locker room that thinks that's good enough.
That's disappointing. That's bad run defense. And that's not who
we are. It cannot be who we are. It's not
going to be good enough, it's not going to be
acceptable and it's got to be better.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
All right. So again the question here, the jumping off point,
is the question who do you point the finger at?
For John Harbaugh's Ravens. He mentioned the run defense. There,
I've got Rick Bettino, Bart Simpson and DNA and we
will combine all of these things together and we will
throw them against the wall and we're going to make
some delicious grilled chicken, is what we're going to make.
(05:38):
So a, this is not who the Ravens have been,
but it is who they are now. Is that a
fair statements? That an accurate statement that Harbaugh's complaining about
the run defense, which is true. But this is supposed
to be John Harbaugh's sweet spot. Sunday night, Monday night,
Thursday night, any kind of night, especially at home, and
(06:01):
his team comes out there like Gangbusters. They do the
monster mash, the monster mash. In this game, they did
the opposite. They they're usually the ones that are pounding
teams in submission, and on this night they were powdered
and mashed potatoes, is what they were. It is soft
and fake cream and no bite and that's it. That's
(06:23):
all they were. A reminder though, as the iconic sportscaster
Dick Stockton taught me years ago here at Fox Sports Radio,
Stat's tell you what has happened, not what's going to happen.
And that's the reality of the situation. Here. They got
they being the Ravens, got completely manhandled by the line.
I thought the Lions were the right side. You watched
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Benny versus the Paint on YouTube. We did tell you
to take the Lions. Did I think they were gonna
play that? Well, no, absolutely not. I did not expect
that at all. But this is not just losing a
game for Baltimore. To me, it feels bigger than that. Oh,
you're being too dramatic. I don't think it's like in
an identity crisis for the Ravens. Like the Ravens have
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always been that team. In the last twenty years or so,
with few exceptions, the Ravens have been that team that
you'd circle on the calendar and it's like, oh, no,
that's gonna be a that's gonna be a nasty game.
You play the Ravens. They're gonna push you around, they're
gonna punch you in the mouth, they're gonna poke your eyes.
I mean, that's a good football team, that's a physical
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football team, and you're not gonna be able to push
them around. And so here we are in twenty twenty five.
We are about twenty percent into the NFL season, and
the Ravens are lightweights, They're pushovers. These are not your
daddy's Ravens. They're not John Harball, you know what you
got to bring in here? I got advice here. I'm
gonna tell my guys sports with Coleman, who's boots on
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the ground in Baltimore. John Harbaugh needs to bring in
Rick Patino because Rick Patino can give these guys on defense,
say pep talk here and say listen, now, rally the
team around. He said, listen, boys, Lewis is not walking
through that door. He's not all right, And just tell
the fan Ray Lewis is not walking through that door.
Terrell Suggs is not walking through that door, and Ed
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Reid is not walking through that door. And if you
expect them to walk through that door, they're going to
be gray and old. Boom, drop the mic. That's it.
The Ravens have the worst defense in the National Football League.
Put that in the pipe and smoke it of hard
to believe stuff. The Ravens are dead last. They are
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thirty second in the NFL. That's not my opinion, it
is a fact I've done the mother of math. The
Ravens have allowed an average of four hundred and fifteen
yards per game and that includes a laugh or a
blowout win courtesy of Joe Flacco who gave the game
to Baltimore in Week two. It's embarrassing with the capital
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leave for the Ravens, and then on Monday Night Football
they allowed that running in and Jared also made some
key third down plays as well. But Dan Campbell, those guys,
they were able to do whatever the hell they wanted.
Four hundred and twenty six yards four one hundred and
twenty six yards for the team representing Michigan, the Detroit Lions.
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They're fifty percent conversion on third down, they were perfect
on fourth down and nearly perfect in the red zone. Wowsers.
And it's like they were playing at some stretch of
that game. It was like seven on seven. It's like
a walk through. It was insane. And you know, meanwhile,
you have Lamar Jackson, yes, mister multi time MVP of
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Lamar Jackson and if you look at the box score
for Lamar, you're like, wow, he played pretty well. Look
at the numbers there. You can't rip Lamar Jackson what
to bet? So you gotta dig a little deeper. And
this is like, if you didn't watch the game, you think, wow, Listen,
Lamar was fine. I don't know what you're talking about.
You're just bring a short drug. He needed to be better.
He needed to be better. He needed to be better.
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And if you dig deeper, the numbers he put up
are misleading. I'll tell you why, all right. So he
averaged ten point seven yards per pass attempt two hundred
and eighty eight yards. Seventy eight of those yards and
a touchdown pass came when the game was already decided.
I mentioned the Lions laid up after they went up
by two touchdowns late in the game in garbage time.
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That is a stat bondito performance that Dak Prescott will
be impressed with. So the Lions were up thirty eight
twenty four, and then Lamar on a few pass plays,
led them all the way down the field the Ravens,
and they went down and scored a touchdown. But there's
only like twenty seconds or something. Left in the clock.
The game was over at that particular point. And then
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you've got the HeLa monster in the room, the HeLa
monster and the Komodo dragon in the room, and that
is the negative place, and that is what loses games.
It's a simpleton's way to look at a football game.
But if you just look at the quarterbacks side by side,
and roughly ninety percent of the time, the quarterback that
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makes fewer mistakes his team will win the game. Now,
those negative plays, A negative play is a sack, a fumble,
an incompletion. Those are negative plays. And if you look
side by side in this game, Lamar Jackson had fourteen
negative plays in this game, seven sacks, seven of them.
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He had a fumble that was recovered in incompletions left
and right. He had six incompletions in the game. So
you do the math on that, it works out to
be fourteen. The sack number is rather shocking. That is
tied for a career high. Hey, Lamar, you've just been
sacked seven times. What are you gonna say for yourself,
Lamar Jackson, I think there were sacks seven times tonight.
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That rarely, rarely happens with you. What were you seen
back there that was causing problem.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Oh man, gods are doing stunts and they had a
a spy and sometimes the spy was they were grabbing
my leg and that's just what it was. You know, guys,
they were dropping the coverage. You got three safeties back there,
and I'm just not gonna throw a hair mary ball,
you know, I'm gonna read the coverage out and try
to make something happen.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Spy spy versus spy, that's the issue there. So Jared Golf,
on the other hand, while Lamar had fourteen negative plays,
Golf had nine, which is said, well, that's not that
big a difference, but in a game that's closed, it
is a big difference. Zero sacks. Jared Goff had zero sacks.
The offense ran the ball a lot, so you didn't
have too many opportunities to get sacked. And generally speaking,
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this was a even though Lamar had good Fantasy numbers
thanks a lot to that last drive there, overall not good. Then.
The Ravens normally the ones that are doing the steamrolling,
and in this game they were not. They were soft, certainly,
defensively uninspired, defensively, dazed and confused. In this game, and
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Baltimore now desperately trying to get their mojo back as
they have a losing record, and they go to Arrowhead.
How about that for a plot twist. You've got the
Chiefs sitting at one and two, the Ravens at one
and two. One of those two teams will be at
five hundred, the other one to be one in three,
a quarter of the way into the NFL season. Who goofed,
I've got to know. But right now, we do the
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show right now, and the Baltimore Ravens look like a
middle of the pack AFC team. They have a bottom
of the league defense, They have an offense that will
be fine against most anyone and certainly will beat up
on the Tomato Cans of the NFL. But man, all
right now turning the page on that, The other big issue,
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if you will, for Baltimore is do the Ravens have
a Dereck Henry problem? And that's the question. So I'm
gonna nod my head yes on this. Derrick Henry had
a very mediocre stat line in this game, but he
also had a signature fumble yet again for Derrick Henry,
So I'm not in my ask you look at the
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circumstantial evidence on this, and it is piling up. And
it's the same evidence that we have seen for many,
many years doing this job, where you're since the dawn
of time, when you're a running back of a certain age,
and things all of a sudden stopped working, right, It
goes pretty quick. But before we get into the meat
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of that, let's hear from We'll hear from Henry in
a second, but let's hear from the aforementioned John Harbaugh.
Here's John Harbaugh talking about what was a backbreaking fumble
late by Derrick Henry. It happened again. Here's the coach.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
We got to get it fixed. I mean, that was
kind of a blind shot there. I thought he had
the ball in good position, you know. I thought the
defender got a good look at it though, because it
was kind of a pretrace cutback play. So a little
bit of perfect storm. But still, I mean, we just
want to protect football, you know, all our guys do,
and we gotta we gotta do it. We gotta be
good at it.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
It's a perfect storm, except it's happened three games in
a row. Three games in a row. All right, here's
the man of the hour here Derrick Henry. You're the
running back. You were right there among all the top
players in the NFL last year, a great renaissance in Baltimore.
And now what do we got here? Well, explain for
yourself what happened on that fumble Craiser.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Right now, three games straight, having to my in my
career st fumbles being critical moments.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Just yeah, I ain't gonna.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Go for I apologize, so flat Nation and I don't know.
I'll just keep.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Working and get the shirts.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
It's a flock Nation. It's a cheesy name the Ravens
marketing department came up with. You could do better, Flock.
It sounds like sounds like you say that too many times.
You'll say the effort. Yeah all right, So I'll want
to go back though to the argument, my argument here
with Derek Henry, and I was skeptical, I was, I
was completely wrong. Last year. I said, what are the
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Ravens doing here? And we bring in Henry. He was
showing some signs of regression in Tennessee. They brought him
in and he shoved it down my throat. But here
we are a year later and three games in and
it's like, well, this is the thing that we have
seen from running backs since the dawn of time. As
I mentioned here, once they hit that magic age of thirty,
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they run into a wall. It's not a gentle fade.
It's not like you're fading out from a scene in
a TV show or a movie. It's oh, he's he's
useful in certain spots. It's not that it's a cliff dive.
You're free diving off the side of the Grand Canyon
and you're just diving. There's a rope or a parachute
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or anything like that. You're just diving and you don't
get a warning flare. It's not like they said, well,
by the way, here's a warning. You're running backs starting
to get worse and worse that you don't get a
caution sign. They don't send that out. It's bam. You
go from King Henry to court Jester Henry overnight, just
like that, Just like that. Now one second you are
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the wrecking ball and then the next your toast, your toast.
He's thirty one, which is not old, but in sports
when you're running back, that's an issue. Birthday is coming
up in early January, and the numbers tell the story.
If you look at it three point one yards per
carry combined the last two games against the Browns and
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now against the Detroit Lions. That is plotting. That is ordinary.
And fumble that's the scarlet letter, the fumble things the
scarlet letter. Three straight games, three straight fumbles, lost two
of them in key matchups. The Buffalo Bills don't come
back and win that game without the generosity of Dereck Henry.
And you can make the same argument that the Lions don't.
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They don't win that game without the help of Derrick Henry.
That he's doing more to help the other team right
now than he is to help his team. And so Henry,
if it doesn't work out, if this continues here, he
can at least replace Bart Simpson and be the new
face of Butterfingers, right because at three games in a row,
and that's as many as he had all of last year.
For Derrick Henry, you can't be that guy. You're not
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that guy, Palp, You're not that guy, certainly, not now,
not ever in your career. Like at least he used
to be good. Ramandre Stevenson fumbles all the time for
the Patriots, but he's you know, he's not that good
and So if you're Baltimore, though, what do we always say,
Don't let a falling star fall on you. Don't do it,
You just cannot do it. Don't sit there on the
ground and look up and the falling star falls onto.
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The Ravens historically have prided themselves on a lot of things,
but there always a smart team, and they're a physical
team and all that stuff. And Henry is not looking
right now like much of a centerpiece. Now. He did
for three quarters in that game against Buffalo in Week one,
but that's three weeks ago now, and it doesn't appear
to be just a pothole. It does not appear to
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be just a pothole at this point. And now you
go against Kansas City at Arrowhead, a stout Chiefs defense
coming up next week, and if Henry does not look
like his old self, then and you start We'll wait
a minute here. Now it's like a quarter of the
way into the NFL season, and does he fumble again here?
And running backs generally at age thirty one heading into
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age thirty two don't just bounce back. It's not a
bounce back situation. They usually fall apart pretty quickly. And
Derrick Henry who has always been that he's got that
fear factor where he scares the other team, and it
doesn't the only thing he's scaring right now is the
raven fan base, flocked nations as he called it. There
all right, last word, quickly to the winner's locker room
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we go where we were very critical. I got an
email from John who lives in He says he lives
outside Detroit, so I'll say the suburbs of Detroit. And
John said he wrote me immediately after the game, which
I knew was one of those oh no, no, no, no, no no.
Anytime you get an email right after a game is no, no, no, no,
no no, your opinion sucked. You know. That was that
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kind of thing. It was like, I remember what you
said after that game in Green Bay. I remember wash
your mouth out? You know that coming. So question, does
this count as a statement victory for Dan Campbell's Detroit
Lions to sasheer their way into Baltimore and get the win.
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So yeah, I'll nod my head. Yes, Listen, I reacted.
The job is to read and react. That's the job.
You read. It's like playing defense. You read and react
in basketball whatever, and in certain elements of football you
read and react, and so I'm not in my yes, yes,
Detroit was strutting into what is supposed to be a
hostile environment and they didn't blink. They did not blink
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in this game. After the no show, which is dope
from outside Detroit who emailed me all worked up into
a ladder there. The Lions deserve to be ripped for
the way they played against green Bay, especially considering how
they played against Baltimore. What do you? And then they
destroyed the Chicago Bears as well the green Bay game.
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We were on after the green Bay game, they deserved
a lashing. We gave them a lashing. And there were
some lingering questions about whether or not they were going
to be as good. They had changed the roster a
little bit, the coordinators were different. Those were legitimate questions.
This is the kind of a win for the Lions
on the road, on the road against a brand name
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franchise like the Ravens that helps answer those doubts. It's
not just that they won the Lions, it's how they won. Physical, aggressive,
Now they're always fearless on fourth down and all that
stuff that'll come back to bite. Dan Campbell in the ass.
But that's his DNA, that's in the Dan Campbell DNA
and all that stuff. And what happened was soft Dome team.
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I thought all these dome teams is soft. Well, maybe
the Ravens. I might as well play Adulton the way
they're playing right now. So there you go. It was
the Ravens defense that was soft. Around the edge is
a very jello like in this particular performance here, and
so there you go. The Lions on the catwalk there
they flexed. They did a pirouette right there on the
catwalk for everyone to see, and they made their little
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statement and they shook their tushy and they walked away. Congratulations.
There you go. They are legit, and so they proved
it in this particular game. Unless the Ravens turn out
to be total frauds, then we visit this. But we
do the show right now, and so right now that
is my position on the lines.
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them or not. Anyway, our lead this hour. We talked
earlier about the Monday Night game, a surprising result as
the Detroit Lions kicking the tukis of the Baltimore Ravens.
So it was only an eight point game. But if
you saw the game at the line of scrimmage in
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the trenches, trench warfare, dominate, blocking and tackling, blocking and tackling,
blocking and tackling, and the Lions did better there. But
we move on from that. We have a developing story
out of Jerry's world, and that is where star defensive
end and former Dallas player Micah Parsons, who was one
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of the faces of the Dallas Cowboys defense for four seasons,
barely remember this, but apparently didn't do quite enough, quite
enough to get one of those Jumbo Tron video tributes,
the thing of a jigs on the Jumbo Tron, the
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what you mightna call it. Now, what is my evidence?
My evidence is the Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones
said that the team will not will not have a
tribute video for Micah Parsons when he returns to the
scene of the crime in Jerry's world this weekend. Do
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you agree or disagree with the Dallas Cowboys position that
they will not will not be putting one of those
video tributes up on the scoreboard. So I've got tractor Supply,
tow truck and kiss and we will combine all of
these things together, and we are going to make some
chicken wings, just like the ones moving Man Matt made.
(26:44):
He told me in his truck right here out in
front of the studio. So why not live the life.
That's a as Lurina pointed out, that truck is bigger
than most studio apartments, at least in Manhattan. I don't
know about in La. But it's a massive, massive, huge,
that's what she said. All right, So number one, all right,
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unpopular opinion to some, but the proper opinion to most.
Jerry Jones got this one right. Don't cave, Jerry, don't
do it. Don't cave Jerry Jones. Good job by you. Listen,
Michah Parsons, he didn't want to be a Cowboy anymore.
Otherwise he would have stayed there, right, So the Cowboys
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ended up trading him to Green Bay. Now, all of
a sudden, he loves lambeau Field and all that, and
I hope he enjoys that. But Michael Parsons was a
He was a box score stuffer, is what he was.
We talked about it at the time he was playing
for the Cowboys. This is not revisionist history. We're talking
about it right now, but hollow numbers, s p stat padding,
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a lot of stat padding there. Now, this is not
some Super Bowl darling that was the MVP and dominated
the Super Bowl for the Dallas Cowboys. In the big picture,
you look at He's said, well, Jerry Jones and the
Dallas Cowboys look at Micah Parsons so like it was
like a what' even a cup of coffee And wasn't
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even a cup of coffee his time in Dallas and
Parsons is basically a guy who loads up garbage time
fantasy points and he did it time after time after time,
and it's all the kind of guy like the equivalent
would be in basketball, where the guy will go out
there and drop twenty two points in the fourth quarter
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and like, wow, that's impressive, and they're like, well they
were actually down by thirty at the start of a quarter,
and it said, well, it doesn't really matter, it's not
that big a deal. So Jerry Jones is actually shockingly
the grown up in the room on this Micah Parson's
video tribute thing, because the thing that so many people
in sports do, they're all a bunch of SAPs, and
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it's heartstrings marketing and all that, and we've got to
give everyone a video tribute and all that. I love
the fact that Cowboys are not doing it. I love it.
Jerry Jones is saying, Hey, you might not think we
have standards, but we have standards. Here were the Dallas Cowboys.
And we're not just gonna throw a state funeral every
time some guy leaves and we trade him to another team.
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That's not how this operates. Right. Thank god, there's somebody
in sports unlike that damn Dodgers, right with Clayton Kershaw,
who they had a losing record when Kershaw started the playoffs,
and the damn Dodgers they went down to track their supply,
got some shovels and they started digging the pitching rubber
up for Clayton Kershaw like it was some kind of
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religious experience. It was so stupid, so dumb. I mean,
nobody did anyone over there say what are you doing?
You morons? Look how stupid we look. He's not dead.
What do you do? At least the Cowboys aren't like
the Dodgers, so good for them. Good for them. And
Michael Parsons is the Dak Prescott of defense. He is
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right all sizzle, no steak. It's a junk stat machine,
is what it is. Parsons. You know, a better cop
would be I got this NFL's Russell Westbrook. NFL's Russell Westbrook.
Where you look at the numbers and you're like, WHOA,
get a little turned on here? Those are good numbers, right,
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And then you're like, well, wait a minute, another triple double,
another triple double, another triple double, meaningless, meaningless, empty, empty,
and Jerry Jones, of all people, of all people, Jerry
Jones drawing a line in the sand, good old Jerry
Jones here. Imagine that Jerry freaking Jones acting like the
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adult at the table. Yeah, that's things I cannot believe,
things I cannot believe. There tells you all you need
to know, all you need to know about the Micah
Parsons experience there in Jerry's world. And if Jerry of
all people, who loves a promotion as much as anybody,
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but he's like, well, the Cowboys don't retire numbers. They
they're not going to do a sizzle video for a
guy that didn't want to be with the cowboys and
then took off. Be a trade and you know, not
like the Cowboys miss him. They would have sucked if
he had stayed there. Now they sucked without him, But
they're the same team they would have been, whether Parsons
is there or not. A bad team. Now, speaking of
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the Cowboys, we have wide receiver C. D. Lamb, who
could miss now three to four weeks because of a
high ankle spraine. Oh my ankle. Yeah, he suffered that
in the loss to the chicag Go Bears over the
weekend there in Chicago. So coach Brian Schottenheimer did not
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did not put a timetable on the possibility of Ceedee
Lamb returning. He said, quote, he'll miss some time, but
CD is a guy who heals quickly and blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah, he'll do everything in this
power blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah. Alright, So how do you see
things working out for the Cowboys without Ceedee Lamb for
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let's say the next month. The next month, the Cowboys
without Ceedee Lamb so much like the Cowboys with Michael
Parsons or without Michael Parsons. I don't see much of
a change. I don't see much of a change looking
at the Dallas Cowboys there and they have been serving
up hum drum football. Now, the Giants game was exciting
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until you realize it's embarrassing that the Cowboys had to
go overtime neck and neck with Russell Wilson and Jackson
Dart to get the win. That's embarrassing. And then you
look at the Cowboy rosters said, well, humdrum and all that.
When you look at the Cowboys set up outside of
Ceedee Lamb and Dak Prescott a lot of generic, lot
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of generic brands. Now, I'm okay with generic brand because
you save a little money, save a little money, I'm
okay with that. And the moneyball adage has always gone
when any time, anytime a star player gets hurt. The
adage from moneyball is it is impossible to replace the player,
but it is possible to recreate him in the aggregate.
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That's the big nerd word they use in the aggregate.
So multiple people step up and then the collective will
end up in a situation where they they're in better
shape or at least as good as shape. But again,
you look at the roster, and there's a lot of
flotsam and jetsam on the roster. It just is that's
the way this team has been put together. And you
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take Ceedee Lambs had some issues. He didn't play particularly
well in Game one against the Philadelphia Eagles. We ripped
him on a mal of monologue after that game. But
you look at everything, and so you do the math
on this. You got a quarterback who's good but not great,
Dak Prescott, good but not great. You've got a running
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game which is just average, nothing special, just average running game.
You've got a bunch of receivers who could not separate
from a folding chair at this particular point. So you've
got the secondary receivers for the Cowboys are Jalen Tolbert
and Cavante Turpin. Those are the receivers for the Cowboys.
So Jerry Jones needs a tow truck, is what he needs?
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Right.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Ceede Lamb was the guy the last couple years, at
least in games against lesser opponent. Ceedee Lamb would win
one on one matchups and stretch the field and make
a play and break a play open from the benign
of the normal Cowboys. Now, he said a little about
George Pickens by George, and that is true. George Pickens
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is there, and the scouting report on George Pickens is
talented but moody, talented but moody. You also have tight
end Jake Ferguson, who's essentially a glorified safety valve, so
he's in the offense as well, and yeah, that'll work
out great, right, Well, what could possibly be wrong? And
then you've got Brian Schottenheimer and you're like, well, what's
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going on here? And we know he's a sock puppet
and all that. This guy has been fired more times.
He's had more jobs around football. He's been fired more
than a cannon at a Revolutionary War re enactment. Okay,
he has had by my count, twelve jobs around big
time in college football and the NFL, from the Saint
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Louis Rams to the Kansas City Chiefs owner of his
dad hired him, Syracuse, USC Georgia, the Redskins, they were
called the Redskins. Then we're allowed to say at the
San Diego Chargers, the Colts, the Seahawks, the Jaguars, and
now the Dallas Cowboys. So he is going we're supposed
to think that he's going to scheme up George Pickens
and some of those other receivers to make up for
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Ceedee Lamb. Police. Now maybe Jerry Jones will. Of course,
Jerry is saying everything's fine. So let's assume the position.
Let's assume the position that Ceedee Lamb is going to miss.
Let's say he misses four games, four games. So if
he misses four games, the Cowboys going, where are they going?
One in three? If everything goes right, they go two
(36:04):
and two? Defense. I say the defense bails them out.
Is that even possible the way the Cowboys are playing
defense at this particular point. Now that being said, let's
be honest here though. All right, this is a soft,
marshmallowy football team. This is a soft football team. They
have a soft coach, and they have a soft quarterback,
and it's it's all the same. And so even with
(36:25):
Ceedee Lamb, things were bad. They were not good. When
they had Cede Lamb, they were bad. And so now Lamb,
you take him out of the equation, and now they'll
get exposed more. And so they're flashy, fragile, all of that.
And when the lights get bright, when it's light bright
and they'll shrink again, shrink again, sure enough, because that's
(36:48):
what they do all right.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Final point, so, staying with the theme of the hour,
and we mentioned the Baltimore Ravens the worst defense in
the NFL this season. Following Week three. These games, which
ended on Monday, Monday Monday, a just an absolute horrific
performance by the Ravens. They give up thirty eight points
and the Lions did what they want.
Speaker 6 (37:11):
Well.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
The Dallas Cowboys are not much better at this particular point.
They're not much better than the Baltimore raven In fact,
the Dallas Cowboys right now, if you look at the
overall standard, Cowboys are thirtieth in the NFL in defense.
In total defense, they're thirtieth out of thirty two teams.
That's not good. I didn't play in the NFL, but
(37:32):
where I come from, that's not good. That is not good. Now.
I bring this up because you've got some underlying conditions
here that the Cowboys hired a high falutant, supposedly defensive genius.
The guy got a head coaching job in the NFL
based on his defensive pedigree. Matt Iberflus, who was the
coach of the Chicago bear. So did you see that
the Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer encouraging, encouraging the defensive coordinator
(37:58):
Matt Eberflus to simplify, to simplify the playbook, to try
to fix this terrible defense. So what is Shatzi What
is he really saying? What is the head coach of
the Cowboys really saying with all so, if you just
take your machete and you just cut through the crap,
(38:20):
just cut through the crap with the machete. There Schottenheimer
is essentially spelling it all out for you don't really
have to dig that deep. There's not a lot of
nuance to it. When a coach says that he wants
to simplify the approach. When that is said, okay, he's
telling you my players are dumb, the dumb, dumb, dumb.
(38:45):
They're so stupid, the Dallas Cowboy players. They can't understand
the scheme, cannot do it, they don't understand. They're not
that right. That's what he's saying. That's it. Forget all
the coach speak and all. It's when you say simplify, Fine,
what you are saying is you're really saying, my guys
are unable to process what we are trying to get
(39:08):
them to do. Cannot get it. Well, that's what they're saying.
So they're turning to the thing that came out of
the military. It's called the Kiss method, and that's keep
it simple, stupid, the Kiss method. And we've seen this
movie before, sitting in this chair over the years, we've
seen this from time to time and went, in doubt.
You always strip it down, down, down, down, down down.
(39:31):
You strip it down, and you handhold, and you do
the ABC's and the one two threes, and you treat
them like they're playing pee wee football. Professional football players.
Treat it like they're playing pee wee football. And don't
bury the lead, mo Man, We're not going to bury
the lead. This all comes right after, right after, of course,
(39:52):
the famous Micah Parsons trade, who will not be honored
on the jumbo Tron when he goes back with Green
Bay this weekend. But the argument for where Michael Parsons
is he's the eraser. Of course, we pointed out a
lot of empty stats on that, a lot of empty stats.
So Dallas, we mentioned now thirtieth in well, they're thirtieth
in total defense, they're twenty eighth in scoring defense, Cowboys
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allowing thirty point seven points per game this season. The
only teams averaging more points on average are the Chicago Bears,
the New York Jets, the Titans, and the Dolphins. That's it,
and even worse in as we mentioned in the total defense.
So you've got Shani who's doing a shawnee job as
(40:34):
the head coach there. He knows it's bad, he knows
it stinks, and so that's why he's talking about we
need to quote simplify. It's all about simplifying the playbook there,
because right now, you are trying to polish a turd
is what you're trying to do. You're trying to polish
a turd. That is what you are attempting to do.
That is the reality of the situation. You can spray
(40:55):
cologne on it if you want little split splits just
like that. You do that. You can wrap it in
tinfoil if you choose to do that. Whatever, it still stinks,
it doesn't matter. It does not smell good. And Dallas's defense,
they look like a bunch of guys that just met
each other, and they just met each other and they're
(41:17):
trying to solve advanced calculus, but they can barely get
through long division. So they're cooked. They're absolutely cooked. And
it's not about scheme. It's not about that. It's about survival.
At this point, well, just dumb it down. We'll play
a basic defense and instead of getting completely embarrassed, we'll
only get partially embarrassed, and that'll be good.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
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Speaker 1 (41:44):
Good name about that? To the third degree, this is
one thing.
Speaker 8 (41:53):
It seems every year the Chargers are a popular sleeper
pick in the NFL, only to ultimately disappoint. Well after
they win over the Broncos, we're seeing it again, headline
saying that this will be the year that the Chargers
justify the hype, and it's because of Justin Herbert.
Speaker 6 (42:05):
Ben, do you think they're finally legit contender?
Speaker 1 (42:07):
No, I don't trust Herbert. He's had two playoff games,
did nothing in the second half, they got killed by
Jacksonville and then this Houston game last year. I don't
trust him. I don't care how many games they win.
I gotta see him perform under the pressure of the playoffs.
I don't next Baker.
Speaker 8 (42:21):
Mayfield admitted after the Bucks went over the Jets on
Sunday that he took a little extra pleasure in beating
their defensive coordinator Steve Wilkes, who Baker pointed out was
the one who cut him in Carolina. But how much
better do you think things would be going for the
Panthers right now if they had kept Baker?
Speaker 1 (42:34):
Well, they don't have a quarterback, so he couldn't be
much worse. By the way, you need some garlic, Coop,
he needs some garlic. I just lost my voice. I'm
not sick, all right.
Speaker 8 (42:44):
Kevin O'Connell refused to say that he started JJ McCarthy
over Carson Wentz when he's healthy.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
What do you think that's a dead giveaway. He's not
happy with JJ McCarthy. It's an easy thing to say, Yes,
JJ my starter. He didn't say it. Trouble in Minnesota.
How'd we do? How'd we do? Passes? You will get
some garlic, get some tea and honey and honey.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
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Speaker 1 (43:15):
Well, I think we have some contestants here that have
answered the call, and let's see who we are. We
say hello to Kevin, who's in I believe southern California?
What's going on? Kevin? Welcome? Welcome, Hello, Kevin? What's going
You want to play the game? Yes, you know how
(43:37):
the game works?
Speaker 2 (43:39):
I think, so I do good?
Speaker 1 (43:42):
I listen, but okay I might so. Well, all right,
that's all right, that's fine. I'm sure you find out.
Who do you want to partner up with here? Kevin? Yeah,
me me, all right, Well we're in it to win
it very good. Hold on a shocker.
Speaker 6 (43:53):
They always choose you, Ben if.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
You want, I can have someone choose you. Still working
on my sports knowledge, maybe in like five years, five years,
Oh my god. So Kevin's gonna play alongside me. We've
got Tyler in Boston. Who's going to play? Hello? Tyler? Welcome?
What's going on? Beny? You out working right now? Tyler?
On my way on your way in? I got you
(44:17):
all right, Well I've already been picked, Tyler. So who
do you want to partner up with here? You want
to go with the Rena or Coop. As much as
I love Lorena, I'll have to take Coop on this song.
I'm sorry not picked again? All right, fine, now you
know my life in elementary school when I wasn't picked
for kickball? All right, now you know what it's like.
You see you have that that pretty girl privilege. But
(44:39):
right now you don't. You see that that's ugly people.
Privilege is what we have. All right?
Speaker 8 (44:45):
Well, anyway, gentlemen, this is Malard's mount of Money, the
Joan Jet edition. She turned sixty seven years old on Monday,
Happy birthday. Yes, the categories are you don't know what
you've got? Bad reputation. I love rock and roll and
everyday people. Kevin, you were on first, Which category would
(45:05):
you like?
Speaker 1 (45:07):
I think? All right, man loves rock and roll?
Speaker 6 (45:11):
And Tyler, how about you?
Speaker 1 (45:13):
Bad reputation, bad reputation?
Speaker 9 (45:15):
All right, like that might be you, Tyler. All right,
A hold on, gentlemen, do not hang up. We will
pause for the cause, and then we will have in
its entirety, we will have the game. If you're on hold,
you're our backup in case one of these two guys
hangs up. But we'll have Malord's Mountain of Money. We'll
get to that, and we will do it.
Speaker 6 (45:37):
Next.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Malor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
Mailor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it takes
to get to the top? Probably not.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
Let's do here we go. We've got Kevin who's hanging
out in a beautiful Joshua tree in California. He's matched
up with me. And we've got Tyler on his way
to work in Boston, and he is matched up with
Cooper Loop. But is the Jones, Jededish and and Kevin?
You picked? I love rock and roll? Is that correct? Kevin?
(46:15):
All right? These athletes have all performed in or with
rock bands. We need the first and last name. Do
you understand? Yes? All right? Forty five seconds on the clock.
We're on our way. Go. Greatest nineteen eighties professional wrestler.
He just passed away blonde hair. Yes, Steelers quarterback in
(46:35):
the seventies. He's on the NFL on Fox right now
on the weekend. Yes, he had a serial named after him.
He was a star at Boston College. A little short
quarterback hit a hail Mary pass. He's played with the Patriots. Yes,
very angry. Nineteen eighties white guy tennis player yelled at Yes,
(46:56):
the Flying Tomato was his nickname. He was a snowball
in the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
What's his name?
Speaker 1 (47:04):
All right? Picture for the White Sox of the Yankees.
White guy named black Jack, starting pitcher in the in
the nineties. Yeah, yeah, ok, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (47:14):
I mean you said his first name. I said Blackjack.
That's the That's not his name. His name is part
of his names in the nickname. That's questionable, questionable?
Speaker 2 (47:25):
Right?
Speaker 1 (47:25):
How many points is that?
Speaker 6 (47:27):
It should be? One hundred? Cheating again?
Speaker 1 (47:29):
Shut up?
Speaker 8 (47:30):
Okay, Kevin some garlic? Okay, Tyler, Tyler, We have bad reputation. Uh,
these sports figures all have a bad reputation.
Speaker 6 (47:40):
Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (47:41):
Will Coop's voice maker? Ready?
Speaker 6 (47:43):
All right?
Speaker 1 (47:44):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (47:45):
Forty five seconds of the clock. Let's begin. Bill's running
back killed two people? Yes, Patriots tight end killed one person.
Speaker 6 (47:54):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (47:55):
This guy was the head coach of Penn State. He'd
let I'm bad.
Speaker 6 (48:01):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (48:01):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (48:02):
This guy was a running back for the Ravens. He
beat up his wife in an elevator.
Speaker 1 (48:06):
Right.
Speaker 6 (48:07):
Yes, this was a figure skater.
Speaker 8 (48:08):
She had her ex husband take a crowbar to the
Nancy Kerrigan's knee. Yes, this guy was a wide receiver
for the Raiders. He drove like one hundred and ten
miles an hour. Yes, this guy was a on the
Tampa Bay Rays. He was in a relationship with a
fourteen year old in the Dominican Republic.
Speaker 6 (48:28):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (48:29):
So that was so easy? God, it's not easy.
Speaker 6 (48:36):
That's right, that's right, good job, that's you. Shut up job, Tyler.
Speaker 1 (48:40):
Come on, Kevin ran the Kevin.
Speaker 6 (48:42):
That's what I call domination.
Speaker 1 (48:44):
Get how about you get a throat, lawson? How about that?
Get a damn throat losing? Do you sound like Doc
Rivers over there? All right, Kevin? What do you want? Yeah,
you don't know what you got? Or everyday people, you
don't know what you got? All right, you don't know
what you good? Forty five seconds on o'clock. These athletes
were all traded before they reached superstardom. Are you ready, Kevin?
Speaker 2 (49:07):
I hope?
Speaker 1 (49:08):
So, yeah, all right, here we go. He was known
as the chief of the nineteen eighties Boston Celtics, the
center alongside McHale and yes, uh, mister big shot. For
the Pistons. He was drafted by the Celtics guard. Yes,
a closer for the Padres and the nineties, one of
the all time great Hall of Fame closers. Yeah, keep talking.
(49:31):
Yes uh. The pitcher for the Reds, for the Red
Sox and the Expos was traded by the Dodgers for
the Lino Deshields. Yes.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (49:39):
Forty nine ers quarterback after Joe Montana, there was yes, uh,
the Bambino for the Yankees. Yes, and the and the
Beard for the Clippers. Yeah, I get that.
Speaker 8 (49:55):
We read all right, easy category, All right, Tyler, let's
go every day, even Tyler, let's go. These athletes all
got regular jobs after their playing careers. Forty five seconds,
let's begin, all right. He was a center for the
Milwaukee Bucks and the SuperSonics. He's an assistant coach on
the Bucks right now. His last name is like what
you do to cookies. Yes, all right, you're a cheater.
(50:19):
You were a cheater, Tyler.
Speaker 1 (50:21):
You were a cook
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