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September 26, 2025 • 39 mins

Ben Maller talks about Richard Sherman insinuating that Russell Wilson owes his success to the Legion of Boom defense and Tony Gonzalez saying that Wilson played himself out of the Hall of Fame, Shedeur Sanders saying he could step on the field today and play better than some of the QBs that get playing time, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ding long, it's our numb burn two, our number two,
And how new you do for Russell Wilson as he
was sitting back living his life and he was under
siege during the Thursday night NFL broadcast where a former
teammate unloaded, did Richard Sherman cross the line with his

(00:21):
pointed criticism at Russell Wilson? Also give me your school
of thought on Hall of Fame tight end Tony Gonzalez
saying that Russell Wilson played himself out of the Hall
of Fame, played himself out of the Hall of Fame.
Plus Brown's backup quarterback Shooter Sanders thinks he could step
on the field today and play better than some of
the quarterbacks who are getting playing time around the NFL.

(00:44):
How do you process that. We'll get to all of it,
all of it right now here. It is our number
burn two, a hall of a good time. Welcome in
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Speaker 2 (02:48):
And we settle in to the fun here. And we
settle in to an.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Interesting conversation that I did not have on my radar.
And this popped up in the Amazon. Some chatter, some
chatter by talking heads ex jocks about mister unlimited, mister unlimited,
and let's just say this blew the doors off the algorithm.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
So if you didn't see this or hear.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
About it, perhaps not. Chances are you were not watching
the Seahawks defeat the Cardinals in the Thursday night NFL game.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
But during that.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Broadcast the career of Russell Wilson was analyzed. This after
he was demoted to backup status by the Giants. Now
Tony Gonzalez, that's a Hall of Famer and Richard Sherman
they went back and forth, back.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
And forth, back and forth.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
But let's start with Richard Sherman, and we have some
sound here, So Richard Sherman, Richard Sherman. They went back
and but Sherman noted that the success that Russell Wilson,
I remember he played with Russ in Seattle.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
I mean we most of us know that, but maybe
you forgot or whatever.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
So they were teammates together back in the glory days
of the Seahawks, part of the greatest era in franchise history.
And Sherman pointed out that the real reason the Seahawks
won was it because of Russell Wilson.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Well, take a listen, let's go to the audio tape.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
Take a list I think you got to judge his
career off. When the legion the boom was there, you
had a legendary defense and all time defense, and how much.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Success he had.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
And then without that legendary defense, the success he had
without that legendary defense, he's been four and eleven, seven
and eight on in three to start with the Giants
like that. He was a winning football player in Seattle,
and people said, hey, winning his football player, all this
good stuff, all these accolades, and now you get to
go on your own and you get to prove, hey,
I'm this great quarterback, I'm this guy that's going to

(04:48):
be dominant, and it just hasn't worked.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Out that way.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Okay, shots fired, So that is a pretty good spot.
We'll pause right there. Let's discuss the question did Richard.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Sherman cross the line?

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Did he cross the line with this seahawk on seahawk
criticism of Russell Wilson. So I've got big old chunks
Wikipedia and peacock, and we will combine all of these things.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Together and we are going to make a.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Delicious saft pretzel, just oh so good, fresh hot, little salt.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
On top there, yummy, yummy to my tummy. Tummy.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
So number wa number did he cross the line? Let
me see here ixnay on the line cross a okay, no.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
No, no, no, no, no, no no no. I'm shaking
my head.

Speaker 5 (05:46):
No.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
This is not church. We're not at the tabernacle, We're
not at temple. This is football. Sherman is telling the truth.
One of my great complaints here from the bully pulpit
is that so many of these athletes getting the broadcasting
and they cover for the players that are playing today.
You strip away that defense and what is Russell Wilson

(06:10):
A whole lot of mediocrity with a capitol in and
the man's resume is held up by Richard Sherman, Cam Chanceler,
Earl Thomas, Bobby Wagner, that iconic Seattle Seahawks defense in
that in that era and when you peel back the scab,
and that's part of the story. Richard Sherman and Russell

(06:31):
Wilson are the personification of what we call work friends,
not real friends, not real friends, work friends. And Sherm
has never hidden that he didn't like Russell Wilson's act,
and we'd done I go back in my archive of

(06:52):
the notes that I keep for the show, and we've
done multiple monologues over the years since they stopped working
together about dislike that Sherman had with Russell Wilson. He's
never shied away from airing the fact that he didn't
like Russell Wilson. I remember when Richard Sherman was playing
for the forty nine ers after he left Seattle, and
they would play each other twice a year, and Sherman

(07:14):
just had nothing nice to say about Russell Wilson.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
And so here we are.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Here's an opportunity. And like a great running back. I
know Sherman was not a running back. He was a
defensive back. But a running back gets the ball and
you've got the B gap, okay, and you've got the
A gap.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
Do you go A gap? B gap?

Speaker 1 (07:30):
A gap B gap? Now if you go to the
B gap, you get stuffed at the line of scrimmage.
You see daylight on the A gap, boom right through
the A gap. And that's what he saw. An opportunity
and he and he went for all right, and he's
stirring the pot again and the numbers back up. Richard Truman,
Russell Wilson without that defense is not very good right now. Now,

(07:52):
I love it to me. This is comfort food for
talk radio. It's an old fashioned beef stew with big
old chunks of bitterness floating right at the surface. Where's
the beef, where's the right here? Here's a beef right here, baby,
that's your beef. And Richard Sherman. I like the fact
that not only is he taking a shot at his

(08:14):
former teammate Russell Wilson, he's also taking advantage of it
by elevating himself.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Sounds like somebody I.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Do a YouTube show with every week that make sure
to make it all about them, right, So Sherman's it's
a two for one daily double because not only is
Sherman unloading on Russell Wilson, who he doesn't like, he's
also patting himself on the back and his boys for
by belittling Russ, which a lot of people see is obnoxious.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
And I wouldn't disagree. I would not disagree that's obnoxious.
It's also true.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
It's also true Russ is essentially a microwave dinner quarterback.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Now what is a microwave dinner quarterback?

Speaker 1 (08:56):
Okay, here's what you put him in the writing and
I had the right environment and looks great. It's kin
when I was a bachelor back in the day and
i'd get those TV dinners, I'd microwave dinner, and you know,
once in a while you cook it perfectly and you're like, man,
this is so freaking good, dude, Like that little apple
tart thing is wonderful. It's not too hot, the corn

(09:17):
is good, the turkey's are and you take away the
packaging and the preservatives, and all of a sudden you're
left with a plate of garbage and Wilson who was
marketed as the winningest quarterback in Seattle and all that.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
But in truth, it is a byproduct.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Of the lesion of boom, and every man, woman and
child knows it. Certainly Richard Sherman is aware of it.
He's not just pulling this out of nowhere. It's like
the facade mansion. I was lucky enough for the last
couple of years to have access to Universal Studios, and.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
I took full advantage.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
And we'd wander around the back lot at Universal where
they make all the movies and the TV shows, and
you'd see these big mansions and these big you know,
New York City downtowns, and they're like just so awesome,
and then you walk behind them. They look great from
the front, and then you'd walk behind them and they're
just it's.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
A bunch of plywood, a bunch of nothing.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
That's Russell Wilson without that defense, bunch of nothing, bunch
of plywood. And Sherman to me, he didn't cross the line.
Of course, I have a talk show to do. He
didn't cross the line. He just poked the bear. And
I don't mind poking the bear. Poking the bear is
kind of fun. And the bear in this case is
a washed up quarterback who's gonna be sitting on the
bench and occasionally walking around.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Holding a clipboard. But wait, there's more page two.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
So, staying with the theme of the hour, a bona
fide Hall of Famer, Tony Gonzalez from Kansas City in Atlanta, well,
originally from Huntington Beach. But Tony Gonzalez got the ball.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Rolling on the Amazon.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
He did.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
He was the one that started this.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Now we played the Sherman stuff first because that's that's
a teammate on teammate things, so that's a bigger deal.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
But this is also pretty good. This also pretty good.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
So Tony Gonzalez said that he wanted Russell Wilson to
stop playing.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Take a listen. Do you think we've seen the last
of Russell Wilson?

Speaker 6 (11:10):
Honest, I hope we have. And I say that because
I just looking at him and his career, his legacy,
like he talked about, if ever there was somebody who
played himself out of a Hall of Fame, it's Russell Wilson.
And I say that because look at what he's what's
happened ever since he left Seattle when he was in seat,
he was the man. He was making these good plays.
He won a super went to two of them. But

(11:31):
as soon as he left there, he went to Dinverse
on that big old deal. They paid him thirty nine
million dollars to leave.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
He goes to Pittsburgh, play's there.

Speaker 6 (11:37):
One year, he's out of there, and now he goes
here and has three games. I just don't know if
it's gonna get any better. And I don't want to
see him on a sideline holding a clipboard.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Okay, So the money part of that is, if ever
there was somebody who played himself out of the Hall
of Fame, it's Russell Wilson.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Question. All right, let's jump off on that question.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
Give me your school of thought on Toni Gonzalez, who
is in the Hall of Fame, saying that Russell Wilson
played himself out of the Hall of Fame. So my
response is, I've got two words I wrote on my scorecard.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Horse feathers. That is.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
Horse feathers is what that is? Russell Wilson. And let
me say this for those of you in the back
of the room, was never ever on the Hall of
Fame track ever, never, not in Seattle surely, not in Denver,
not in Pittsburgh, not in New York. The guy was
good at times, but never great. Good at times, but

(12:31):
never great. Middle of the pack quarterbacks don't get to
the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
They don't.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
He rode shotgun. Russell Wilson, the legion of Boom Boom,
was driving. They were driving. They were in the big
chair right And if you want my evidence, you can
go to Pro Football Reference, or I recommend the Wikipedia
page of Russell Wilson. He had as many All Pro
Team appearances as I had, and you had none. None,

(12:59):
not first team, not second team. Gooseg gooseg zero votes
for the Most Valuable Player award. No one ever voted
Russell Wilson for the MVP. Didn't happen? Did he make
an All Decade team? No?

Speaker 2 (13:13):
No, he didn't. You know why? He was never elite,
and elite players get to the Hall of Fame. He
was never elite. He was just there. He was just there,
like the side table near your sofa. He was just there.
And don't give me the Pro Bowls, I siddy, Well,
he meant a bunch of Pro Bowls. What p damn dude,

(13:34):
what P B damn new.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
The Pro Bowl is dodgeball now tug of War and
a skills carnival that is.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
The Pro Bowl.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
It's kind of like getting into Harvard because you had
good penmanship. Congratulations, it means nothing, means nothing. And the
Pro Bowl. I remember when they actually played the Pro
Bowl game, and like one year there every quarterback except
for like one or two skipped out, and so they
were going to like the third fourth alternatives and eventually
like Vincey, who was terrible, made a Pro Bowl because
they had to get somebody in there. He was like

(14:04):
a replacement for a replacement for replacement. But at his peak,
Russell Wilson led the NFL in touchdown passes one time
in twenty seventeen. That's it, period stop. That is the
only meaningful category. He led the NFL in one category
one year. Otherwise, he's known for selling us on nanobubbles

(14:27):
and mister Unlimited on social media. The Hall of Fame
is supposed to be reserved for players who make history,
who change history or direct history. That's not Russell Wilson.
So again, Tony Gonzalez saying Russ played himself out of
the Hall of Fame is factually incorrect.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Russ was never in the Hall of Fame. He wasn't, all.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
Right, Russell Wilson was the quarterbacking equivalent of a timeshare presentation.
You ever been to a timeshare presentation? I got hornswaggled
in the one in Vegas. I'll never do that again.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
But you go in there and they look all flashy. Mind, Well,
this is a really good deal. My god.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
I can take the family on vacation every year. I
can go to Hawaii, I go to Florida, I go
to the Bahamas. Man, that's good. But you walk out
of that timeshare presentation and you walk out of that
room and you realize, man, I've just been hornswoggle. I mean,
that is some skullduggery that happened to me right there.

Speaker 7 (15:22):
All right?

Speaker 1 (15:23):
Final point? We go now to Cleveland. Go to Cleveland?
Why because we like talking about bad question. Brown's backup
quarterback Shauldur Sanders. Shadeur Sanders recently said that he thinks
he could step on the field today, on the field
today and play better than some of the quarterbacks who

(15:45):
are getting playing time around the NFL.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
How do you process that? All right? So I thought
this was amusing.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
I understand that athletes have to have big egos and
kind of the way it works, you have to have.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
Confidence in yourself, and that's fine.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
But Shaniff Sanders should be working over at NBC because
he is as proud as a peacock.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
He is as proud as a delusions of grandeur.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
A little self confidence is perfectly acceptable.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
I think we can all agree on that goes a
long way in life. Goes a long way in life.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
However, this is like saying that you're ready to headline
at Madison Square Garden at Midtown Manhattan, just above Penn
Station there before you've even done a karaoke night the
local Moose Lodge.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Okay, what are you doing?

Speaker 7 (16:32):
All right?

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Bombastic bravado. That's what it is.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
That's what it is, and so Sheener Sanders should focus
on beating out Joe Flacco or Dylan Gabriel in Cleveland
before he starts dunking on half the league, considering he
is currently QB three QB three.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
Also, Bailey Zappi last.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
We heard, is running the scout Scout team there in Cleveland,
so play the numbers game. Does that mean Dylan Gabriel
could make some noise in the league because Joe Flacco's
not making much noisier anyway. For now, it's like it's
like announcing your the heavyweight championd of the world before
you've ever even stepped into the ring to fight anybody, Like,

(17:15):
what are you doing?

Speaker 2 (17:16):
But that's life.

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Speaker 7 (20:43):
Welcome idiots, so good.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Back in the old days, they used to have these
things called soundboards on the internet.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
I don't think those really exist anywhere.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
But how great would it be to have a Marcel
and Brooklyn soundboard with all the dumb things that Marcell
and Brooklyn has said would be wouldn't be able to have.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
A soundboard big enough? I don't know.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
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us as Blair in Mayne watches plenty of movies about work,
friends work friends with benefits, that is, are those on TikTok.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
I don't know about that.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Saw Man says, I can think of one mediocre quarterback
that will make the Hall of Fame, Elijah Man. Anyway,
he's not. I don't.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
I don't have an Hall of fame, saw Man. I
wouldn't put him.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
He's a five hundred quarterback, had a couple of fluke
playoff runs.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
Other than that, No, not a Hall of famer. Wouldn't
put him in not my Hall of Famer. No no, no,
no no no no.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Ferg Dog writes in says, seeing what Russ has become
with not the Legion of Boom makes you think how
many Super Bowls would the Seahawks have won if they
had Sam Darnold all these years. I'm thinking of at
least four? Yeah, Dog, Just worry about your your Pokemon collection. Okay,

(22:06):
just worry about that, please. Mister irrigation, who's offended because
he sent me something from a parody account the other
day and I called him out on it. So now
anytime he sends me any story, he says, this is
this a parody account? He said, yes, that is not
a parody account, mister Irrigation. I did see the Mets

(22:26):
broadcaster Gary Khane is under attack. I just I don't
understand why he would even bother going there. It's very
odd to me that you would go down that road.
He chose to go down that road. And when you
go down that road, you're gonna get some shrapnel. And
he's getting some shrapeonel right now. But Gary Coning a
great broadcaster for the Mets Eugene in Chicago, right since

(22:47):
says Ben. Russell Wilson's numbers versus Eli Manning's numbers. Who's
your pick for the Hall of Fame, Eugene, I'm gonna
go with door number three. None of the above, None
of the above, none, none, no, no, no no no.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
JJ from Renton, what's Thatalern, what do you.

Speaker 6 (23:04):
I'm just shocked you don't have an opinion on that?

Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yeah, well, I said, that's my opinion, not of the above.
That's an opinion. That is an opinion. JJ from Renton
says Sherman. Richard Sherman is one hundred percent correct on that.
And Lynch, Marshawn Lynch was the leader of the offense.
Russell Wilson changed his phone number after he lost.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
The Super Bowl. I do remember that was a good story.
I remember talking about that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Absolutely, Terry in England, the great lister. Terry in England,
says Polease. Ben Scharman was never a forty nine er
and he was still a It was a total shill,
he says, deserved the red, deserve the red and gold.
He said, never deserved the red and goal. Well he

(23:53):
did wear the uniform, Terry. Uh, and that's your team
that took Richard Sherman. Okay, so I didn't sign him.
That's your deal Mark from Queens in also Arlington, Texas. Right,
So he says, oh, he wanted to answer the game
we did earlier. But we've moved on from that. We've
moved on from that. Shannon de Moyes says, the Mariners

(24:14):
sweep the Rockies and they next face your Dodgers. Ben,
does the finale or the final series mean Didley pooh
to either team?

Speaker 2 (24:26):
So there's the micro and there's the macro.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Shanean de Moines, you have both those things in play,
and both would argue in the big picture, it doesn't matter,
it doesn't matter. He's just want to get into the
playoffs healthy and all that stuff. I would think the
Mariners would have an advantage considering the Dodgers wrapped up
the Nationallygue West on Thursday and had a massive party

(24:51):
as they made their way up to Seattle for the
final weekend of the baseball season. But the look at
the overall standings, and I don't believe home field matters
much because if you've got a decent bullpen, you should
be fine.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
But if you look at it.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
The the big picture, American League, National League. The Dodgers
are locked into where they're going to be as far
as the wild card.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
But the Seattle Mariners, they're neck and neck.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
They're one game behind Toronto and the Yankees for the
top record in the American League. So you want to
get into the top two. Right now, they're third one
in the lost columns. So yeah, it means a little something,
but it's not like it's going to decide what happens here.
Let's go to the phones and eenie meenie, miney moll.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
Let's say hello to uh do we have Let's go
to Ryan in San Diego. What's going on? Ryan? Welcome Ryan?

Speaker 7 (25:47):
Sam Darnold so much tonight. I will say Sam was
the MVP. I coached against him in basketball, high school basketball.
He's the MVP of his league.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
His senior Yeahlemente High School, the Tritons of San Clemente
High School.

Speaker 7 (26:04):
Yeah yeah, yeah. He's a good player. Man. He had
a good hit, good head on his shoulders. All right, Hey,
real quick, I was listening last night driving from San Diego,
Sant Clementy on cow Walney, and you know the last
MVP rookie of the year was Fredland Boston Red Sox.

(26:26):
I grew up in Nanaheim so uh anahon nails and
Fredline used to have his Porsche and on his license
plate was r O Y m VP.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Knew that so he liked. He liked a downplay that
he was the Rookie of the Year in the m
v P. He didn't like to promote it. He didn't
want to promote himself.

Speaker 7 (26:45):
Well and rock Crew. What was his RC twenty nine.
That was his license plate on the ninety eleven Porsche.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Look at that.

Speaker 7 (26:55):
Before I need you to diagnosed me. Yeah, I need
I need to get stuck her. Ben maller.

Speaker 5 (27:02):
Man.

Speaker 7 (27:02):
We used to give this kid the MVP. I'm just.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
Well I did. I gave him the m v P. Ryan,
what do you What do you want me to do?
I said, I count Rollie, I said, he's the envy P.
What do you want me to do? I can't do
anything other than say it on the radio.

Speaker 7 (27:19):
Oh, I'm green with you. I'm just saying, well, the writer,
you got to give him the m v P.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
Now they don't because the riders are mostly East Coast riders.
They love the Yankees, and if they write a story
about the Yankees.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
Then they get a lot of clicks. They write a
story about the Seattle Mariners, they don't get any clicks.

Speaker 7 (27:36):
And the steroids air. I always say the Lloyds and
enderly play killed baseball. That's just my opinion. But man,
that's crazy what he's doing right now. I'm just crazy.
But hey, it is.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
We go to the Rams, and the reason we go
to the Rams, Ryan, is because you can ram it
all day and you can ram it all night. That's why.

Speaker 7 (27:58):
Okay, so I could spray and I had some losses, man,
where I would not want to watch basketball all week
and long, or when the last thing ever want to
watch is the Lakers or the pap ten at the
time in the Pat twelve, blah blah blah that when

(28:19):
that look I like Mavey. He out coached himself. He
got in the damn way. He was horrendous managing. Uh
the short down yards just won the ball.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
You don't want need to be cute, We don't need
to throw the ball, all right.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
Listen, listen. I I don't disagree that he could have
been better.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
However, they still had the game in the bag, and
if they just blocked the Eagles, they win the game.
So all you have to do is block a field goal,
which should be in modern football easy easy.

Speaker 7 (28:54):
I told him someone who was who has what's what
I used to coach with? I said, I didn't say
the thing get blocked. I said, he's gonna miss this
because the last one was blocked.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
So you know it's well, it's one, it's one thing.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
You could certainly miss it, Ryan, But from a purely
gambling standpoint, to lose if they kicked, like you can't
lose and the damn Eagles return it for a touchdown,
Like what are we doing?

Speaker 7 (29:19):
Okay, so hear me out, hear me out on this.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
I hurry up.

Speaker 7 (29:25):
Off. When that I didn't see the touchdown, I turned
the damn TV off, and that I haven't listened to
you until last night. I still don't know the score
of the Chiefs and the Giants. So diagnosed me. I
wanted nothing to do with sports. I couldn't watch the
afternoon games. My screen was blocked.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Yeah, I got you, So what do you want me
to do?

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Diagnose you?

Speaker 1 (29:54):
You need to go outside, put your feet on some grass,
get some fresh air, and just kind of relaxes. I
I guarantee you Sean Sean McVay was not as worked
up as you were into a ladder. You care more
than those guys, So don't come on, but I gotta go.
Thank you, Ryan the Great, Ryan san Diego, say hello
to Nick in Berkeley. He's got the pipe. Hello Nick

(30:14):
in Berkeley.

Speaker 5 (30:15):
Welcome He then okay, So Kerman is right, says you know,
like like I said, might saying on this show that
Russell Wilkson would never win another Super Bowl laps that
first one. When we see the interception and not giving
the ball tomorrow, Sam Lynch for who you guys you
need to mintion tonight. That office is more Seawn Lynch,
Biden with the leading the room and a little shooting
on the clock by by the and I'm a nineer dillars,

(30:37):
I can share lest about the seaogks and we softened up.
You're Elgon mc Cardinals and Murray's just out of each
and played baseball because the man cannot see over the line,
so I thrankly. He has to roll out. His bootleg
catches are great when he runs. He wasn't hit though,
my we all needn care who we got a much
year Ben, We're fired up in the inn semisus. Well,
we're not shitting the hite of the ball, the door
of injury. Who's who and who's Hervey don't care. We

(30:59):
got a whole we're running out of band aide. Shut
this out, man. I want to know for football rep
acount he's like a gimmick right now after me, because
you know he's not doing that. You know, he's just like,
you know, he's like hiver death like if he's as
tradition to what he's saying, he's all over the map.
I don't even know what he's talking about that time
he's pointing this. Marcelle is a minimalist. You must be
calling from an instant room. And now, if you don't
get me wrong, Marcelle's a beat the roof right, He's

(31:22):
a beat. You know he becomes with it. But martiall,
I'm much make the question where have you been, sir?
When it comes to sports. I was there Charle Sadie
when the Bears play it back to the play ran
over the public players. You know what I'm saying. I
was at the Lakers games at a forum when when
Bernard team came back down from me and we've got
a double Mitchell. But George James Wharton was in forty nine,

(31:44):
and that is John pattleship of doubles. So let's let's
not let's let's talk about let's talk about games. You
know what I'm saying. Where where have you been? Marcelle?
How many sports unions got your attendance?

Speaker 2 (31:54):
Shot Marshall does, Yeah, he didn't get out much. I
don't know what you want me to go here.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
That's the beauty of Marcel. He lives in his own bubble,
But a lot of us live in our own bubble.
You live in your Nick and Berkeley bubble. Isn't it
that we're all the stars of our own movie and
everyone else is just a supporting actor, right, We're all
living like the featured stars in a documentary and everyone
else is just yeah, yeah, exactly. So all right, Nick,
I love your voice, but your phone sucks.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
I don't know. Was that just my headphones? It seemed
like it was very muffled to me. Yeah, No, his
phone sucks. He was bad. Okay, get a better phone.
Please get a better phone. We'll push back that sixty
eight percent, guy store. It's a good story. We'll push
it back. Want to let it breathe a little.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
Bit time Now for the instant trivia. They we'll have
mallardly third degree. Here's the instant trivia. Saints quarterback Spencer
Rattler has started nine games.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
In the NFL. He is oh and nine in his
NFL career.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
Now, Blank holds the record for the most losses the
starter career since nineteen ninety.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Again, Spencer Rattler of the Saints. He's oh and nine
and they play the Bills this weekend. They being the
New Orleans Saints. Blank holds the record for the most
losses to start a.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
Career since nineteen ninety. That is the instance trivia. If
you know the answer, hit us up on acts at
Ben Mallard. That's at Ben Mahler.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
We'll get to it and we will do it.

Speaker 7 (33:17):
Next.

Speaker 8 (33:18):
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the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio
dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to
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Speaker 2 (33:35):
Lie war.

Speaker 11 (33:37):
Don't worry, it's just tay the top.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
Today's Friday, Today's Friday, Today's Friday.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Jerk yourself away. That's a plump pussy right there. That's
our path. That's twenty five thousand dollars Oltpack. I love you, Yes, yes, Yes,
how about shut up?

Speaker 7 (33:57):
Who is that Shirley? The show is over.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
Good bye, Bill Miller in you.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
It is the Ben Maller Show. We are here all night,
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We realize that most consumers of audio content do not
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(34:22):
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Speaker 2 (34:40):
Again.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
Again, just search Ben Maller wherever you get your podcast.
You'll find the full show and a best version that
is three point eight seconds long a little long today posted.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
Right after the end of the show. Show Bill Miller,
Bill did shut up? It is I Ben.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
We're back at it, and here is the insta tribua.
We're gonna have mallor to the thirty three coming up here,
Mam Matelly. Spencer Rattler as a quarterback not a good
one for the.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
New Orleans Saints.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
Ohen nine oh and nine in his NFL career and
blank though holds the record for the most losses to
start a career.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
This is since nineteen ninety, since nineteen ninety, so that
that's a good sample size. That's good to spent a
long time since nineteen ninety. So that is the question.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
What is the answer, And let's see does anyone know
the answer? We go to the Hoy POLOI the Great Unwashed.
There they'll see if anyone knows. Bobby and Florida says
the number one blind listener, Steve.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
Stevie Wonder not blind, that's what I hear. Vaughan Eshelman from.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
Alf the Alien, o Piner good photo there, Jamal Anderson
the Dirty Bird from Shane and des Moines.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Who else do we have? Page down?

Speaker 1 (35:52):
Rolando McClain from Scrooge, one of the younger listeners in
the Bay Area. And Poppy in that's from a pop
guy Poppy in San Diego. You are Daniel and Henrik Sedin,
who are forty five today? From the Late Night Drug
tester Bobby the Brain Heenan guests by Rob in Vegas.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
That's his answer.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
A horrible call from Nick in Berkeley from Milkman Mike
in Colorado.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Robbie the Mariner fan got it right. Bad job by him,
obviously cheating.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
Pulled an Altuve Brady Quinn from Eke in Rozo, Minnesota.
Brian Site from James, that's his answer. Sean Hill guests
by Rob in Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Who else? Page down?

Speaker 1 (36:35):
Joe Cap from Fat Daddy, Willie Tanner guess by Just Josh,
Bitcoin Investors from mad Jack that's the answer. Daniel Jones
guests by JT the Wingman, Chip and the Qes got
it right. The Wicked Witch of the West from Gilden,
San Diego.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
Do you have an answer? Lorrain?

Speaker 1 (36:53):
Well, I'm gonna go with the Biggest Loser from Season
ten of The Biggest Loser.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Patrick House. Okay, Patrick House, No, it's also not Doug.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
Opher Williams from Charman in Harmon and Off offspring of
Blair and Marcel from JD and Casey. The correct answer
Deshaun Kaiser, the Pulam Brown legend.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
Oh in fifteen fift that's not good. It's maller. How
about that?

Speaker 8 (37:23):
To the third degree, this is one big fan gets grilled.

Speaker 11 (37:31):
Cowboys All Pro defensive back do Ron Bland returned to
practice on Wednesday. He has missed the last two games,
during which the Cowboys pass defense has looked pretty awful. Ben,
do you think Bland's return will make a big impact
for Dallas?

Speaker 2 (37:44):
Well, big, No, It's like going down to the beach
and taking a cup of sand and saying, Okay, I've
cleaned the sand off the beach.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Like it's nice that Bland's going to play. He is
a good player, assuming he is out there this weekend.
But no, the Cowboys are cooked. They they need three
or four guys like mister Bland to be any good.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
Next.

Speaker 11 (38:05):
Jayden Daniels made it clear to reporters on Wednesday that
he quote feels good and definitely wants to play on
Sunday against the Falcons, but it's up to the doctors now, Ben,
since the Falcons kind of suck, would it be a
better idea to take the cautious route and put Mariota
back out there.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
I know if he's able to play, If Daniels is
healthy and he's clear. Now you only get seventeen games
a year, I'd much rather watch. If I'm a fan
of the Washington football team, I'd much rather watch Jayden
Daniels than Marcus Mariota. Now, could they beat Atlanta? They
being Washington with either quarterback? Yes, you can't coach scared

(38:42):
and all that.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
Next, well, you alluded to it. Earlier.

Speaker 11 (38:44):
Mets broadcaster Gary Cohen put himself in hot water after
expressing bewilderment that Cobs infielder Matt Shaw missed a game
to attend Charlie Kirk's funeral. Cohen said, quote, the thought
of leaving your team in the middle of a race
for any reason other than a family emergency really strikes
me as weird. Ben does Cohen deserved the back line?

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Well, the thing I will say, Gary comes a great
broadcaster for the Mets. I enjoy watching you when I
watch the Mets games on the TV MLB package. But
it's just like, like what do you what do you
even bother going there?

Speaker 1 (39:11):
You know, It's like I don't I don't understand, like
why you would go down that road. That in Tennis
they call that an unforced era coop.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
You know what I mean. It's everything political is polarizing
and all that. So it's like, I just I don't
get why you would go down that road.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
If it's like, if you sell cheeseburgers, sell cheeseburgers, don't
sell chicken. People want cheeseburgers, so bad job.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
By, how did we do? Coople? Lo the Rada, I
won the Rada. I thank you, Matt
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