September 27, 2025 • 44 mins
Big Ben talks about the back-and-fourth MNF game between the Ravens and the Lions with the Lions coming out on top, Russell Wilson getting demoted by the Giants in favor of rookie Jaxon Dart, Maller's Mountain of Money: Joan Jett Edition, and more!
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Wow.
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made for TV matchup in Baltimore, the final act of
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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 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.
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So anyway, I bring this up because he had Lamar
Jackson and the Ravens taking on Dan Campbell and the
traveling circus that is the 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
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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 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
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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 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
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a two touchdown lee. It just kind of let up
a little bit there at the end the final second,
the Lions are two to one. They sacked Lamar Jackson,
not once, not twice, not three times, how about not four,
not five, not six seven sacks out rushed the Baltimore
football team two hundred and twenty four yards on the
ground for the Lions and eighty five for the once
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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, so let
us discuss the question is this, who do you point
the finger at? The better store in the losing locker room?
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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
John Harball. And here's John Harball pointing out that the
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Ravens defensively, well, it's kind of obvious here. They're not
very good against the run.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
The biggest problem is we didn't play good run defense.
I mean, we didn't as as a defense completely. 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 Battino, 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.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
So a.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
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 Hartbaugh'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 his team comes
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out there like Gangbusters. They do the monster maish, 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 all they were
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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 Benny
versus the Paint on YouTube. We didn't tell you to
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take the Lions. Did I think they were going to
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 I am.
It's like in an identity crisis for the Ravens. Like
the Ravens have always been that team. In the last
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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 football team, and you're not
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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 the ground in Baltimore. John
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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. They said, listen, boys,
us 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,
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and and 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.
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They are thirty second in the NFL. That's not my opinion,
it is a fact I've done the mother of matth.
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
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Capitol leave for the Ravens and then on Monday Night
Football they allowed that running in and Jared Goff 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,
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the Detroit Lions. 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
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multi time MVP of 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 bringing
a short drug. He needed to be better. He needed
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to be better. He needed to be better. 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
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the Lions laid up after they went up by two
touchdowns late in the game in garbage time. 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
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seconds or something left in the clock. The game was
over at that particular point. And then 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
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percent of the time, the quarterback that 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
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in this game, seven sacks, seven of them. 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
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think it were sacked seven times tonight.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
That rarely rarely happens.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
With you what what you seen back there? There was
causing problems.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Oh man, got the don stunts. I had a a spy,
and sometimes the spy was they was grabbing my leg
and that's just.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
What it was.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
You know, guys, they were dropping the coverage. You got
three safeties back there, and I'm just not from throw
a hair mary ball. You know, I'm gonna read the
coverage out and try to make.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Something happens the 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 close, it is a big difference. Zero sacks. Jared
Goff had zero sacks. The offense I ran the ball
a lot, so you didn't have too many opportunities to
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get sacked. And generally speaking, 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,
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dazed and confused in this game, and Baltimore now desperately
trying to get their mojo back because 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
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to know. But right now, we do the 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, if you will,
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for Baltimore is do the Ravens have a Derrick Henry problem?
And that's the question. So I'm gonna nod my head
yes on this. Derek 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 ass. You look at the circumstantial evidence on this,
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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 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 of that, let's hear from
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But 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 3 (14:45):
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, 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 (15:04):
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? Craser right now? Three
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games straight and having in.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
My career r fumbles doing critical moments, it was, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I apologize, fought Nation, and I'll just keep working this shirts.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
It's a flock nation. It's a cheesy name the Ravens
marketing department came up with. It could do better, flock.
It sounds like sounds like you say that too many times.
You'll say the effort.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah, all right. So I want to go back though
to the argument, my argument here with Derek Henry, and
now I was skeptical, I was. I was completely wrong.
Last year I said, what are the 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 is like, well,
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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, 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
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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 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 and worse and worse that you
don't get a caution sign. They don't send that out.
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It's bam. You go from King Henry to court Jester
Henry overnight, just like that, Just like that. Now one
second you are 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.
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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 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,
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lost two of them in key matchups. The Buffalo Bills
don't come back and win that game without the generosity
of Derrick Henry. And you can make the same argument
that the Lions, they don't win that game without the
help of Derick 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,
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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 that guy, Palp,
You're not that guy, certainly, not now, not ever in
your career. Like at least he used to be good.
Ramondre Stevenson fumbles all the time for the Patriots, but
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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 The
Ravens historically have prided themselves on a lot of things.
But they're always a smart team, and they're a physical
team and all that stuff. And Henry is not looking
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right now like much of a centerpiece.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
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 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
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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 age thirty two, don't just bounce back.
It's not a bounce back situation. Usually fall apart pretty quickly.
And Derrick Henry, who has always been that he's got
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that fear factor where he scares the other team, and
it does. 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 winners locker
room 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.
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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 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 kind
of thing. So question, does this count as a statement
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victory for Dan Campbell's Detroit Lions to sashe their way
into Baltimore and get the win. 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
being playing defense. You read and react in basketball whatever,
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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 in this game.
After the no show, which is dope from outside Detroit
who emailed me, all all worked up into a ladder there.
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The Lions deserve to be ripped for the way they
played against green Bay, especially considering how they played against
Baltimore like you, and then they destroyed the Chicago Bears
as well the green Bay game. We were on after
the green Bay game, they deserved a lashing. We gave
them a lashing. And there were some lingering questions about
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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 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
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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 just DNA that's in the Dan Campbell DNA
and all that stuff. And what happened was soft dome team.
I thought all these dome teams is soft. Well, maybe
the Ravens. I might as well play an adult in the
way they're playing right now. So there you go. It
was the Ravens defense that was soft around the edges,
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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
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
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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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Speaker 1 (23:50):
It is the Ben Malord Show. I think we have
some contestants here that have answered the call. And let's
see who we have. We sailoed 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
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know how the game works? I think so I do.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Good?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Okay, all right, that's all right, that's fine. I'm sure
you do 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. They always choose you, Ben, if you want,
I can have someone choose you. Still working on my
sports knowledge, but maybe in like five years, five years,
Oh my god. So Kevin's gonna play alongside me. We've
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got Tyler in Boston. Who's going to play? Hello? Tyler? Welcome?
What's going on? Bey? You out working right now? Tyler?
On your way? And I got you all right, Well
I've already been picked, Tyler. So who do you want
to partner up with?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
You?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
You want to go with the Reina or who as
much as a love Lorrena. I'll have to take coop
on that song. Sorry, not picked again? All right, fine,
now you know my life in elementary school when I
wasn't picked the kickball. All right, now you know what
it's like. You see you have that that pretty girl privilege.
But right now you don't. You see that that's ugly people.
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Privileged is what we have. All right?
Speaker 8 (25:21):
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
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you like?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
All right? Man loves rock and roll? And Tyler, how
about you bad reputation, bad reputation? 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 entire we will
have the game. If you're on hold, you're our backup
in case one of these two guys hangs up. But
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we'll have Malords Mountain of Money. We'll get to that
and we will do it next.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Malors
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
Malor's Mountain of Money. Do you have what it takes
to get to the top? Probably not.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Let's do here we go. We've got Kevin who's hanging
out in a beautiful Joshua tree in southern 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. It is the Jones Jed Edition and Kevin,
you picked I love rock and roll? Is that correct? Kevin?
(26:51):
All right? These athletes have all performed in or with
rock bands. We need the first and last name. Do
you understand?
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
All right? Forty five seconds on the clock. We're on
Away Go. Greatest nineteen eighties professional wrestler. He just passed
away blonde hair. Yes, Steelers quarterback in 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
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hail Mary pass. He played with the Patriots. Yes, very
angry nineteen eighties. White guy tennis player yelled the deft. Yes,
the Flying Tomato was his nickname. He was a snowboarder
in the Olympics. What's his name? All right? Pitcher for
the White Sox and the Yankees. White guy named Blackjack
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starting pitcher in the in the nineties. Yeah, yeah, I
mean you said his first name. I said Blackjack. That's
the that's not his name. His name is his names
and the nickname. That's question. That is right? How many
points it should be? One hundred? Cheating again? Okay, Kevin?
(28:07):
Some garlic?
Speaker 8 (28:08):
Okay, Tyler, Tyler, we have bad reputation. Uh, these sports
figures all have a bad reputation.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Are you ready? Will Coop's voice maker? Ready? All right?
Speaker 8 (28:21):
Forty five seconds of the clock. Let's begin. Bill's running
back killed two people. Yes, Patriots tight end killed one person. Yes,
this guy was the head coach of Penn State. He'd
let some Yes. Uh, this guy was a running back
for the Ravens. He beat up his wife in an elevator.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Right. Yes, this was a figure skater.
Speaker 8 (28:45):
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 and he yes, this guy.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Was a on the Tampa Bay Rays.
Speaker 8 (29:00):
He was in a relationship with a fourteen year old
in the Dominican Republic.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Let's go. So it was so easy? God, it's not easy.
That's right, that's right. Good jobs. You shut up to
John Tyler.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Come on, Kevin ran the Kevin's what I call domination.
Get how about you get a throat, Lawson?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Get a damn throat? Lodgings. 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 jo very good? Forty five seconds on o'clock. These
athletes were all traded before they reached superstardom. Are you ready, Kevin?
(29:44):
I hope? 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, mister big shot for
the Pistons. He was drafted by the Celtics guard Yes
for the Podres and the nineties were of the all
time great Hall of Fame closers. Brever Yeprev keep talking.
(30:07):
Yes uh, the pitcher for the Reds, for the Red
Sox and the Expos was traded by the Dodgers for
de Liino Deshields. Yes uh. 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. Part yeah,
(30:31):
I get that.
Speaker 8 (30:31):
We read all right, easy category, All right, Tyler. Let's
go everyday people, Tyler, let's go. These athletes all got
regular jobs after their playing careers. Forty five seconds, let's begin,
all right. He was the 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.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yes, all right, you're cheater. You were cheater, Tyler.
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as they have choked away the division lead. We'll talk
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to start with football because that's what pays the bills.
So we'll save some of that stuff for the b block.
But we begin this hour on the shores of the
mighty Hudson River. And we have another quarterback change in
the NFL, and this one not because of injury, by
(33:24):
systemic incompetence. And if you have not heard by now,
maybe not. It was anticipated and it has now happened.
We have learned the Giants have demoted. They have benched
mister unlimited Russell Wilson, who is now limited to holding
a clipboard in favor of the flavor of the week,
(33:45):
and that would be first round quarterback rookie Jackson Dart.
They've gone to the dart. They're now throwing darts the
Giants and that just comes after three games. Now, remember
all that rhetoric, all that bull crap. Oh oh, he's
gonna sit out half the year, at least maybe the
entire year. The Giants are gonna do this the right way. Okay,
(34:07):
what a bet on that? No, and we'll get into it.
But Dart's first start will come at home on Sunday
against Eddie Garcia's Chargers. There super fan Eddie Garcia's Chargers
and his wife picked super fans there. Also Jim Harbaugh
he coaches the team, and Justin Herbert there. So that'll
be the match up the three to zero Chargers at
(34:28):
MetLife Stadium in Jersey. The Giants trying to wake up
the echoes as they will take on the Chargers with
a new quarterback. So let us discuss the question for
the esteem panel. Russell Wilson demoted Jackson. Dart is now
QB one for the Giants. Your thoughts on these developments
(34:51):
regarding the Giants, So I've got Mason, Jars, Kobe and
human shields, and we will combine all of these things
together and we're going to make some fried rice, which
is highly underrated fried rice, well pretty much anything fried
is usually not good for you, but taste marvelous. All right,
So a, this was the word I will use for
(35:13):
the Giants quarterback change. Telegraphed. Telegraphed is the word I
will use. Everybody with half a brain saw this one coming.
Russell Wilson had been running on fumes. What about the
game against the Cowboys? Okay, that says more about the Cowboys.
They suck. Okay, Russell Wilson, if you watched them. But
this is a year's long thing. Like how he ended
(35:35):
up getting that gig with the Giants is beyond me.
He's been telling everyone I suck, and yet they said, no,
you don't. We you don't suck enough. You have to
play for us because we want to make sure you suck.
And so there you go. So Russell Wilson, who's been
running on low fuel, he's been slogging away for years
(35:55):
with multiple teams, no rhythm, no tempo to his game
at all. And Russell Wilson, who has less juice than
a Dollar store high Sea pack You know, there's not
allowed juice in those little packets they have at the
dollar store. He's a football zombie at this particular point,
but he's been a zombie. It's not a surprise. The
real surprise is who they're throwing Jackson dart against. Not
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exactly a soft open. I've had friends of mine that
have been involved in restaurants and they always say, well,
you gotta have the soft launch, friends and family, friends
and family. You have a date you're going to launch
the restaurants. We have a night or two where it's
his friends and family. So everything gets lined up there
and that's it at all. The restaurant staff knows what
they're doing. Everything's lined up and not not exactly that.
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The Chargers off to a legit start. They have a
top ten defense in the NFL. So that's not a
cupcake with extra frosting. It is a trial by fire.
It is our right, Jackson Dart. Our franchise is stunk
for ten years, So we'll throw you in the wood
chipper right away. No easing in to the deep end
you go. No easing in right now. You're not going
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in the kiddie pool. You're going in the deep end
right now. There you go, so good luck on that.
No chance to iron out the case. No, you did
play a little bit sporadically here the first couple or
last couple of weeks. So keep in mind, if they
had waited, if they being the team from New Jersey
that calls themselves with the Giants, if they had waited
a week, Jackson Dart would have broken in in a
(37:26):
very soft launch against the gumbo guys. The New Orleans Saints.
Saints go marching into embarrassment on a weekly basis. There,
that's the feel good component. That's the hey, we're gonna
go out there, you'll throw three touchdowns and throw for
three hundred yards and feel good about yourself. Instead, they
are saying, right, go out there against Derwin James and
(37:46):
the Chargers, knock yourself out. Welcome to the NFL. Kid,
Here you go knock yourself well again. I'm fine with it.
I've always said you go with it. There's this false
belief if you sit on the bench, you're going to
be great. There's plenty of examples of people that sat
on the bench. It also sucked. Either you've got it
or you don't have it. We'll find out whether Jackson
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Dart has it or not. I don't know. I didn't
think he was all that great in college. I thought
he was fine. I didn't think he would be anything
Spettackler in the NFL. But there's other guys who were
in the NFL that I didn't think would be all
that great that have turned out to be pretty good.
So it's a hit and miss situation. It's an imperfect
science and all that stuff, but it does show you
the giants dysfunction. That's my other thought on this, the
dysfunction for the Giants because you've got Brian Dayball and
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Joe Shane the coach, and the GM there who are
essentially drinking moonshine from Mason Jars at Dick's last resort,
because this is it. This is your last resort if
you're the coach and the GM there hoping that nobody
notices that you're getting sucker punched, and you're likely to
get sucker punched again here. And the reality is, if
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Jackson Dart is not prepared to hit the ground running here,
and if he goes out there and sucks at a time,
you cannot suck does a cannonball and a belly whopper
against the Chargers, and they have to take him out
of the game for some reason because he's so bad
and they have to go to Russell Wilson again or
Jamis Winston. Well, let's just say the not so dynamic duo,
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the brains of the Giants operation. They should start updating
their LinkedIn page right now because they've got some issues there.
And John Maher, the owner of the Giants, they for
some reason keep this group together. They should have gotten
rid of him at the end of last year. They
kept him around, John Merra. But if you look at it,
it has been a revolving door. They are the Cleveland
(39:35):
Browns of New York, that is, the New York Giants. One.
The Jets are worse than the Cleveland Browns, but the
Giants are like the Cleveland Browns. So they keep changing
coaches and all that stuff. Four coaches since they canned
Tom Coughland back in the day, ten years. Four coaches.
So the patience isn't endless for the Giants, but the
clock is a ticking. Certainly, no more honeymoon that's long gone.
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That Fluke playoff situation where they weren't that good and
they made the playoffs and then took advantage of the
incompetence of Kirk Cousins to beat the Vikings in a
playoff game. But you look at it now and there's
really no long term plans. It's just kind of a
reactionary move and you bench the veteran. And again, they
should have never signed Russell Wilson. That's the thing. You
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didn't need Benjamin. You shouldn't have signed him. If the
overnight sports radio guy knows the quarterback is washed up,
why do you not know that? You're getting paid a
lot more money than I am. You should know that,
you dummies. It's ridiculous anyway, So they're gonna throw him
out there and get all dramatic and they're throwing him
(40:43):
Jackson Dart to the wolves there. I don't want to
do that, but you'll buy at least a couple of weeks.
In theory, this buys you at least a couple of weeks,
and maybe you'll get some good headlines. The tabloids seem
to like this In New York. Reading some of the
tabloids there, it's desperate and typically it ends with everyone
(41:03):
getting fired because you started out owing three rather than
just start. You would have started owing three anyway, if
you started Jackson Dart at least then you can say,
well he played well against the Cowboys and do all
that bull crap instead. Now you're owing three, and then
Jackson Dart's gonna take some time to get going here,
so then you're looking at maybe one in six or
(41:24):
something along those lines. Good luck, good luck on that.
This says dead man walking for Brian day Ball written
all over it. Now we move on, as for mister ulimited,
mister unlimited, what was the monstrosity performance against Kensau City.
(41:46):
The last time we will see Russell Wilson as a
regular starting quarterback in the NFL was that it didn't
know it at the time, But is that it so
in terms of Russell Wilson being given the keys to
the kingdom and a team being as dumb, the dumb,
(42:08):
dumb dumb as the Giants and giving him the keys,
I would say yes, that that's not going to happen.
Speaker 7 (42:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
It's impossible that Russell will start some games even this year,
because Jackson Dart's either gonna get hurt or is going
to suck. That is obviously a possibility, but in terms
of his career arc, he is Dunskies cooked. He has
been microwaved, reheated, and tossed in the garbage disposal at
this particular point. Wilson is a football hobo, is what
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he is. And he's hitch hiking down the dusty winnemuck
a road. Shout out Johnny Cash. He's got that knapsack,
he's got that going for him. He's got thumb in
the air and he's hoping that some desperate general manager
will pick him up at the trade deadline or again
in the offseason. But he was again washed in Denver.
(42:56):
You could argue at the end of the run in
Seattle he didn't look all that good. But the reason
he left Seattle, as I understand it, was he tried
to usurp Pete Carroll. There was a power play and
Russ did not win that battle, which is crazy because
a couple of years later, Pete Carroll wasn't let go anyway.
So they're like, well, we're not gonna get rid of
Pete Carroll. We're gonna pick the coach over the quarterback.
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And then they got rid of the coach anyway, So
that's that's something different. But he was Washington, Denver, tumble
dried in Pittsburgh and now left to rust out with
the Giants. Like that car, you know, that kind of
disheveled house that everyone drives by and says, why is
that car rusted out in front of the house. That's like,
that's terrible, it's embarrassing anyway, So there is no let's
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ride like Russ les to say, it's let's hide. It
went from let's ride to let's hide. That's the new
message from Russell Wilson. And he's gone. In Seattle, he
was considered Kobe Beef Kobe, and now he is leftover
meat loaf in tupperware in the back of the refrigerator
that has not been eaten and is starting to turn colors.
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That's what's going on. So Russ's only hope now is
to take advantage of the supply chain shortage of quarterbacks
in the league. But again, I just can't imagine a
scenario where he's given the job. Now, can he get
the job because of injury? Sure, there's something like that
could happen, But going into a year like this year
where the Giants said you're a guy. No, that's not happening.
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You can sell himself as a not so savvy backup
quarterback
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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 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.
(02:43):
So anyway, I bring this up because he had Lamar
Jackson and the Ravens taking on Dan Campbell and the
traveling circus that is the 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
(03:03):
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 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
(03:23):
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 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
(03:45):
a two touchdown lee. It just kind of let up
a little bit there at the end the final second,
the Lions are two to one. They sacked Lamar Jackson,
not once, not twice, not three times, how about not four,
not five, not six seven sacks out rushed the Baltimore
football team two hundred and twenty four yards on the
ground for the Lions and eighty five for the once
(04:08):
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, so let
us discuss the question is this, who do you point
the finger at? The better store in the losing locker room?
(04:29):
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
John Harball. And here's John Harball pointing out that the
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Ravens defensively, well, it's kind of obvious here. They're not
very good against the run.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
The biggest problem is we didn't play good run defense.
I mean, we didn't as as a defense completely. 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 Battino, 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.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
So a.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
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 Hartbaugh'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 his team comes
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out there like Gangbusters. They do the monster maish, 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 all they were
(06:24):
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 Benny
versus the Paint on YouTube. We didn't tell you to
(06:46):
take the Lions. Did I think they were going to
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 I am.
It's like in an identity crisis for the Ravens. Like
the Ravens have always been that team. In the last
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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 football team, and you're not
(07:29):
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 the ground in Baltimore. John
(07:49):
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. They said, listen, boys,
us 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,
(08:10):
and and 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.
(08:34):
They are thirty second in the NFL. That's not my opinion,
it is a fact I've done the mother of matth.
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
(08:54):
Capitol leave for the Ravens and then on Monday Night
Football they allowed that running in and Jared Goff 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,
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the Detroit Lions. 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
(09:40):
multi time MVP of 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 bringing
a short drug. He needed to be better. He needed
(10:02):
to be better. He needed to be better. 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
(10:22):
the Lions laid up after they went up by two
touchdowns late in the game in garbage time. 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
(10:43):
seconds or something left in the clock. The game was
over at that particular point. And then 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
(11:07):
percent of the time, the quarterback that 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
(11:29):
in this game, seven sacks, seven of them. 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
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think it were sacked seven times tonight.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
That rarely rarely happens.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
With you what what you seen back there? There was
causing problems.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Oh man, got the don stunts. I had a a spy,
and sometimes the spy was they was grabbing my leg
and that's just.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
What it was.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
You know, guys, they were dropping the coverage. You got
three safeties back there, and I'm just not from throw
a hair mary ball. You know, I'm gonna read the
coverage out and try to make.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Something happens the 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 close, it is a big difference. Zero sacks. Jared
Goff had zero sacks. The offense I ran the ball
a lot, so you didn't have too many opportunities to
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get sacked. And generally speaking, 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,
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dazed and confused in this game, and Baltimore now desperately
trying to get their mojo back because 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
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to know. But right now, we do the 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, if you will,
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for Baltimore is do the Ravens have a Derrick Henry problem?
And that's the question. So I'm gonna nod my head
yes on this. Derek 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 ass. You look at the circumstantial evidence on this,
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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 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 of that, let's hear from
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But 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 3 (14:45):
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, 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 (15:04):
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? Craser right now? Three
(15:27):
games straight and having in.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
My career r fumbles doing critical moments, it was, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I apologize, fought Nation, and I'll just keep working this shirts.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
It's a flock nation. It's a cheesy name the Ravens
marketing department came up with. It could do better, flock.
It sounds like sounds like you say that too many times.
You'll say the effort.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah, all right. So I want to go back though
to the argument, my argument here with Derek Henry, and
now I was skeptical, I was. I was completely wrong.
Last year I said, what are the 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 is like, well,
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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, 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
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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 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 and worse and worse that you
don't get a caution sign. They don't send that out.
(17:01):
It's bam. You go from King Henry to court Jester
Henry overnight, just like that, Just like that. Now one
second you are 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.
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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 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,
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lost two of them in key matchups. The Buffalo Bills
don't come back and win that game without the generosity
of Derrick Henry. And you can make the same argument
that the Lions, they don't win that game without the
help of Derick 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,
(18:06):
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 that guy, Palp,
You're not that guy, certainly, not now, not ever in
your career. Like at least he used to be good.
Ramondre Stevenson fumbles all the time for the Patriots, but
(18:27):
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 The
Ravens historically have prided themselves on a lot of things.
But they're always a smart team, and they're a physical
team and all that stuff. And Henry is not looking
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right now like much of a centerpiece.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
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 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
(19:13):
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 age thirty two, don't just bounce back.
It's not a bounce back situation. Usually fall apart pretty quickly.
And Derrick Henry, who has always been that he's got
(19:34):
that fear factor where he scares the other team, and
it does. 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 winners locker
room 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.
(19:56):
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 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 kind
of thing. So question, does this count as a statement
(20:21):
victory for Dan Campbell's Detroit Lions to sashe their way
into Baltimore and get the win. 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
being playing defense. You read and react in basketball whatever,
(20:42):
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 in this game.
After the no show, which is dope from outside Detroit
who emailed me, all all worked up into a ladder there.
(21:02):
The Lions deserve to be ripped for the way they
played against green Bay, especially considering how they played against
Baltimore like you, and then they destroyed the Chicago Bears
as well the green Bay game. We were on after
the green Bay game, they deserved a lashing. We gave
them a lashing. And there were some lingering questions about
(21:24):
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 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
(21:49):
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 just DNA that's in the Dan Campbell DNA
and all that stuff. And what happened was soft dome team.
I thought all these dome teams is soft. Well, maybe
the Ravens. I might as well play an adult in the
way they're playing right now. So there you go. It
was the Ravens defense that was soft around the edges,
(22:10):
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
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
(22:31):
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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It is the Ben Malord Show. I think we have
some contestants here that have answered the call. And let's
see who we have. We sailoed 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
(24:13):
know how the game works? I think so I do.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Good?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Okay, all right, that's all right, that's fine. I'm sure
you do 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. They always choose you, Ben, if you want,
I can have someone choose you. Still working on my
sports knowledge, but maybe in like five years, five years,
Oh my god. So Kevin's gonna play alongside me. We've
(24:42):
got Tyler in Boston. Who's going to play? Hello? Tyler? Welcome?
What's going on? Bey? You out working right now? Tyler?
On your way? And I got you all right, Well
I've already been picked, Tyler. So who do you want
to partner up with?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
You?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
You want to go with the Reina or who as
much as a love Lorrena. I'll have to take coop
on that song. Sorry, not picked again? All right, fine,
now you know my life in elementary school when I
wasn't picked the kickball. All right, now you know what
it's like. You see you have that that pretty girl privilege.
But right now you don't. You see that that's ugly people.
(25:19):
Privileged is what we have. All right?
Speaker 8 (25:21):
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
(25:42):
you like?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
All right? Man loves rock and roll? And Tyler, how
about you bad reputation, bad reputation? 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 entire we will
have the game. If you're on hold, you're our backup
in case one of these two guys hangs up. But
(26:06):
we'll have Malords Mountain of Money. We'll get to that
and we will do it next.
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Speaker 1 (26:30):
Let's do here we go. We've got Kevin who's hanging
out in a beautiful Joshua tree in southern 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. It is the Jones Jed Edition and Kevin,
you picked I love rock and roll? Is that correct? Kevin?
(26:51):
All right? These athletes have all performed in or with
rock bands. We need the first and last name. Do
you understand?
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
All right? Forty five seconds on the clock. We're on
Away Go. Greatest nineteen eighties professional wrestler. He just passed
away blonde hair. Yes, Steelers quarterback in 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
(27:23):
hail Mary pass. He played with the Patriots. Yes, very
angry nineteen eighties. White guy tennis player yelled the deft. Yes,
the Flying Tomato was his nickname. He was a snowboarder
in the Olympics. What's his name? All right? Pitcher for
the White Sox and the Yankees. White guy named Blackjack
(27:46):
starting pitcher in the in the nineties. Yeah, yeah, I
mean you said his first name. I said Blackjack. That's
the that's not his name. His name is his names
and the nickname. That's question. That is right? How many
points it should be? One hundred? Cheating again? Okay, Kevin?
(28:07):
Some garlic?
Speaker 8 (28:08):
Okay, Tyler, Tyler, we have bad reputation. Uh, these sports
figures all have a bad reputation.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Are you ready? Will Coop's voice maker? Ready? All right?
Speaker 8 (28:21):
Forty five seconds of the clock. Let's begin. Bill's running
back killed two people. Yes, Patriots tight end killed one person. Yes,
this guy was the head coach of Penn State. He'd
let some Yes. Uh, this guy was a running back
for the Ravens. He beat up his wife in an elevator.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Right. Yes, this was a figure skater.
Speaker 8 (28:45):
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 and he yes, this guy.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Was a on the Tampa Bay Rays.
Speaker 8 (29:00):
He was in a relationship with a fourteen year old
in the Dominican Republic.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Let's go. So it was so easy? God, it's not easy.
That's right, that's right. Good jobs. You shut up to
John Tyler.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Come on, Kevin ran the Kevin's what I call domination.
Get how about you get a throat, Lawson?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Get a damn throat? Lodgings. 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 jo very good? Forty five seconds on o'clock. These
athletes were all traded before they reached superstardom. Are you ready, Kevin?
(29:44):
I hope? 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, mister big shot for
the Pistons. He was drafted by the Celtics guard Yes
for the Podres and the nineties were of the all
time great Hall of Fame closers. Brever Yeprev keep talking.
(30:07):
Yes uh, the pitcher for the Reds, for the Red
Sox and the Expos was traded by the Dodgers for
de Liino Deshields. Yes uh. 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. Part yeah,
(30:31):
I get that.
Speaker 8 (30:31):
We read all right, easy category, All right, Tyler. Let's
go everyday people, Tyler, let's go. These athletes all got
regular jobs after their playing careers. Forty five seconds, let's begin,
all right. He was the 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.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yes, all right, you're cheater. You were cheater, Tyler.
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(33:01):
as they have choked away the division lead. We'll talk
about that as we go through. But well, I want
to start with football because that's what pays the bills.
So we'll save some of that stuff for the b block.
But we begin this hour on the shores of the
mighty Hudson River. And we have another quarterback change in
the NFL, and this one not because of injury, by
(33:24):
systemic incompetence. And if you have not heard by now,
maybe not. It was anticipated and it has now happened.
We have learned the Giants have demoted. They have benched
mister unlimited Russell Wilson, who is now limited to holding
a clipboard in favor of the flavor of the week,
(33:45):
and that would be first round quarterback rookie Jackson Dart.
They've gone to the dart. They're now throwing darts the
Giants and that just comes after three games. Now, remember
all that rhetoric, all that bull crap. Oh oh, he's
gonna sit out half the year, at least maybe the
entire year. The Giants are gonna do this the right way. Okay,
(34:07):
what a bet on that? No, and we'll get into it.
But Dart's first start will come at home on Sunday
against Eddie Garcia's Chargers. There super fan Eddie Garcia's Chargers
and his wife picked super fans there. Also Jim Harbaugh
he coaches the team, and Justin Herbert there. So that'll
be the match up the three to zero Chargers at
(34:28):
MetLife Stadium in Jersey. The Giants trying to wake up
the echoes as they will take on the Chargers with
a new quarterback. So let us discuss the question for
the esteem panel. Russell Wilson demoted Jackson. Dart is now
QB one for the Giants. Your thoughts on these developments
(34:51):
regarding the Giants, So I've got Mason, Jars, Kobe and
human shields, and we will combine all of these things
together and we're going to make some fried rice, which
is highly underrated fried rice, well pretty much anything fried
is usually not good for you, but taste marvelous. All right,
So a, this was the word I will use for
(35:13):
the Giants quarterback change. Telegraphed. Telegraphed is the word I
will use. Everybody with half a brain saw this one coming.
Russell Wilson had been running on fumes. What about the
game against the Cowboys? Okay, that says more about the Cowboys.
They suck. Okay, Russell Wilson, if you watched them. But
this is a year's long thing. Like how he ended
(35:35):
up getting that gig with the Giants is beyond me.
He's been telling everyone I suck, and yet they said, no,
you don't. We you don't suck enough. You have to
play for us because we want to make sure you suck.
And so there you go. So Russell Wilson, who's been
running on low fuel, he's been slogging away for years
(35:55):
with multiple teams, no rhythm, no tempo to his game
at all. And Russell Wilson, who has less juice than
a Dollar store high Sea pack You know, there's not
allowed juice in those little packets they have at the
dollar store. He's a football zombie at this particular point,
but he's been a zombie. It's not a surprise. The
real surprise is who they're throwing Jackson dart against. Not
(36:21):
exactly a soft open. I've had friends of mine that
have been involved in restaurants and they always say, well,
you gotta have the soft launch, friends and family, friends
and family. You have a date you're going to launch
the restaurants. We have a night or two where it's
his friends and family. So everything gets lined up there
and that's it at all. The restaurant staff knows what
they're doing. Everything's lined up and not not exactly that.
(36:42):
The Chargers off to a legit start. They have a
top ten defense in the NFL. So that's not a
cupcake with extra frosting. It is a trial by fire.
It is our right, Jackson Dart. Our franchise is stunk
for ten years, So we'll throw you in the wood
chipper right away. No easing in to the deep end
you go. No easing in right now. You're not going
(37:03):
in the kiddie pool. You're going in the deep end
right now. There you go, so good luck on that.
No chance to iron out the case. No, you did
play a little bit sporadically here the first couple or
last couple of weeks. So keep in mind, if they
had waited, if they being the team from New Jersey
that calls themselves with the Giants, if they had waited
a week, Jackson Dart would have broken in in a
(37:26):
very soft launch against the gumbo guys. The New Orleans Saints.
Saints go marching into embarrassment on a weekly basis. There,
that's the feel good component. That's the hey, we're gonna
go out there, you'll throw three touchdowns and throw for
three hundred yards and feel good about yourself. Instead, they
are saying, right, go out there against Derwin James and
(37:46):
the Chargers, knock yourself out. Welcome to the NFL. Kid,
Here you go knock yourself well again. I'm fine with it.
I've always said you go with it. There's this false
belief if you sit on the bench, you're going to
be great. There's plenty of examples of people that sat
on the bench. It also sucked. Either you've got it
or you don't have it. We'll find out whether Jackson
(38:06):
Dart has it or not. I don't know. I didn't
think he was all that great in college. I thought
he was fine. I didn't think he would be anything
Spettackler in the NFL. But there's other guys who were
in the NFL that I didn't think would be all
that great that have turned out to be pretty good.
So it's a hit and miss situation. It's an imperfect
science and all that stuff, but it does show you
the giants dysfunction. That's my other thought on this, the
dysfunction for the Giants because you've got Brian Dayball and
(38:28):
Joe Shane the coach, and the GM there who are
essentially drinking moonshine from Mason Jars at Dick's last resort,
because this is it. This is your last resort if
you're the coach and the GM there hoping that nobody
notices that you're getting sucker punched, and you're likely to
get sucker punched again here. And the reality is, if
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Jackson Dart is not prepared to hit the ground running here,
and if he goes out there and sucks at a time,
you cannot suck does a cannonball and a belly whopper
against the Chargers, and they have to take him out
of the game for some reason because he's so bad
and they have to go to Russell Wilson again or
Jamis Winston. Well, let's just say the not so dynamic duo,
(39:15):
the brains of the Giants operation. They should start updating
their LinkedIn page right now because they've got some issues there.
And John Maher, the owner of the Giants, they for
some reason keep this group together. They should have gotten
rid of him at the end of last year. They
kept him around, John Merra. But if you look at it,
it has been a revolving door. They are the Cleveland
(39:35):
Browns of New York, that is, the New York Giants. One.
The Jets are worse than the Cleveland Browns, but the
Giants are like the Cleveland Browns. So they keep changing
coaches and all that stuff. Four coaches since they canned
Tom Coughland back in the day, ten years. Four coaches.
So the patience isn't endless for the Giants, but the
clock is a ticking. Certainly, no more honeymoon that's long gone.
(40:00):
That Fluke playoff situation where they weren't that good and
they made the playoffs and then took advantage of the
incompetence of Kirk Cousins to beat the Vikings in a
playoff game. But you look at it now and there's
really no long term plans. It's just kind of a
reactionary move and you bench the veteran. And again, they
should have never signed Russell Wilson. That's the thing. You
(40:22):
didn't need Benjamin. You shouldn't have signed him. If the
overnight sports radio guy knows the quarterback is washed up,
why do you not know that? You're getting paid a
lot more money than I am. You should know that,
you dummies. It's ridiculous anyway, So they're gonna throw him
out there and get all dramatic and they're throwing him
(40:43):
Jackson Dart to the wolves there. I don't want to
do that, but you'll buy at least a couple of weeks.
In theory, this buys you at least a couple of weeks,
and maybe you'll get some good headlines. The tabloids seem
to like this In New York. Reading some of the
tabloids there, it's desperate and typically it ends with everyone
(41:03):
getting fired because you started out owing three rather than
just start. You would have started owing three anyway, if
you started Jackson Dart at least then you can say,
well he played well against the Cowboys and do all
that bull crap instead. Now you're owing three, and then
Jackson Dart's gonna take some time to get going here,
so then you're looking at maybe one in six or
(41:24):
something along those lines. Good luck, good luck on that.
This says dead man walking for Brian day Ball written
all over it. Now we move on, as for mister ulimited,
mister unlimited, what was the monstrosity performance against Kensau City.
(41:46):
The last time we will see Russell Wilson as a
regular starting quarterback in the NFL was that it didn't
know it at the time, But is that it so
in terms of Russell Wilson being given the keys to
the kingdom and a team being as dumb, the dumb,
(42:08):
dumb dumb as the Giants and giving him the keys,
I would say yes, that that's not going to happen.
Speaker 7 (42:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
It's impossible that Russell will start some games even this year,
because Jackson Dart's either gonna get hurt or is going
to suck. That is obviously a possibility, but in terms
of his career arc, he is Dunskies cooked. He has
been microwaved, reheated, and tossed in the garbage disposal at
this particular point. Wilson is a football hobo, is what
(42:35):
he is. And he's hitch hiking down the dusty winnemuck
a road. Shout out Johnny Cash. He's got that knapsack,
he's got that going for him. He's got thumb in
the air and he's hoping that some desperate general manager
will pick him up at the trade deadline or again
in the offseason. But he was again washed in Denver.
(42:56):
You could argue at the end of the run in
Seattle he didn't look all that good. But the reason
he left Seattle, as I understand it, was he tried
to usurp Pete Carroll. There was a power play and
Russ did not win that battle, which is crazy because
a couple of years later, Pete Carroll wasn't let go anyway.
So they're like, well, we're not gonna get rid of
Pete Carroll. We're gonna pick the coach over the quarterback.
(43:17):
And then they got rid of the coach anyway, So
that's that's something different. But he was Washington, Denver, tumble
dried in Pittsburgh and now left to rust out with
the Giants. Like that car, you know, that kind of
disheveled house that everyone drives by and says, why is
that car rusted out in front of the house. That's like,
that's terrible, it's embarrassing anyway, So there is no let's
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ride like Russ les to say, it's let's hide. It
went from let's ride to let's hide. That's the new
message from Russell Wilson. And he's gone. In Seattle, he
was considered Kobe Beef Kobe, and now he is leftover
meat loaf in tupperware in the back of the refrigerator
that has not been eaten and is starting to turn colors.
(44:03):
That's what's going on. So Russ's only hope now is
to take advantage of the supply chain shortage of quarterbacks
in the league. But again, I just can't imagine a
scenario where he's given the job. Now, can he get
the job because of injury? Sure, there's something like that
could happen, But going into a year like this year
where the Giants said you're a guy. No, that's not happening.
(44:24):
You can sell himself as a not so savvy backup
quarterback
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