October 14, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Buffalo Bills losing to the Atlanta Falcons and the poor performance from Bills QB Josh Allen, if this victory changes the outlook for the Falcons, why things didn't work out for Brian Callahan in Tennessee, Cite the Bite, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, Shaka Laca. It's our number four, our number four,
ready to go. And here in our number four, who
gets to wear the shame bell for Josh Allen and
the Bills losing to Atlanta. Yeah, they lost, Buffalo, big Bat,
Buffalo got run over. They were bullied by the Falcons
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in the Monday night early game. Also, what was that
performance from Bill's quarterback Josh Allen? What do you make
of that performance from Josh Allen? That was a stinker?
And does this victory change your opinion of Raheem Morris
and the Atlanta Falcons as they get into the win column.
Signature win if you will. There have been many in
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Atlanta under Raheem Morris. We'll talk about that. And why
did things not work out in Nashville for Brian Callahan
as he was excommunicated as coach of the Tennessee football team.
We'll talk about all that and more. Have a wonderful
rest of your time Tuesday. Here it is our number four.
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Some people hate the Atlanta Airport. I've never had a
bad experience there. I guess I haven't flown there enough.
But a busy sports night had two playoff baseball games,
the West Coast teams winning both. Seattle two wins away
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from their first ever World Series. They mollywopped the Toronto
baseball team and the La Dodgers. The Dodgers barely with
their weak ass bullpen able to pull off a victory there,
as the Dodgers take down the Brewers, holding on by
the very shortest of margins there because the Brewers batter
at the end of the game decided he didn't want
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to get hit by a pitch with the basis loader
it would have tied the game, and then struck out
in a pitch way out of the strike zone. So
those were a couple of baseball games. We had two
NFL games. The late NFL game went to the team
from Chicago on a last second field goal. The Bears
upset the Washington football team. But the featured game for
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many of us was on football's card. The Buffalo Bills,
supposedly one of the teams in the NFL. Buffalo Bills
lost to the Patriots their last time out. They're not
going to lose again, right, Bills bounce back situation here
against Atlanta, and that was one of the final games
to end the Week six card in the NFL. Did
you watch it? Maybe not so. The Jon Robinson, he
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put the mustard on the hot dog. He matched a
career highe hundred and seventy yards for this guy one
hundred and seventy yards, and he gave Atlanta a turbo
boost with an early two touchdown lead and never really
in danger despite being a home dog Atlanta, which was
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led by the eighty one yard run, the career long
eighty one yard run by Robinson that accounted for a
big chunk of the one hundred and seventy yards that
he had on the ground there. So the Falcons denied
the comeback efforts of Josh Allen and they double digit win.
Atlanta wins twenty four to fourteen on Monday Night. The
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better story, though, is in the losing locker room, as
you know, so we're going to start there. Atlanta is
three and two. They led by as many is at
one point is twenty one to seven. They had a
two touchdown lead in that game. So the story here
is about the Buffalo Bills. The question who gets to
wear the shame bell for Josh Allen and the Bills
losing in Atlanta in a game for the balance of
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the game, they were on the wrong side of the scoreboard.
They were playing uphill for most of that game. So
on this one, I've got hot yoga, quantum physics, and
mister Ruter and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make some delicious cinnamon cookies,
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is what we're going to make. Oh man, they could.
There's a little cinnamon, like the cinnamon role filling in there.
That's the way to go. So first of all, let's
just say the obvious. This is a full spell embarrassment
for the Buffalo Bills. And as we sit here today,
if you look out in the wild blue yonder of
the NFL, there is no dominant team. No one is
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head and shoulders above everyone else. With Buffalo is one
of those teams that you think about the upper echelon
of the AFC. You think of the Buffalo Bills, and
I don't care how many guys were injured for the
Bills defense, how many practice squad or fringe players they
were playing. That defense was a combination. On one side
you had traffic cones over here. Now on the other side,
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it was slip and slide tackling. That's it, that's all.
Atlanta ran the ball down the throat of the Buffalo
Bills defense and threw their nose and then up the
back alley. I didn't even know there was a back
alley there. Up the back alley, whatever direction they wanted
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to go. The zig, the zag, and big chunk of yards.
Three hundred and thirty five yards allowed in the first half.
In the first half, the Bills gave Atlanta three hundred
and thirty five yards. Is that sounds like a lot?
That is the most the Buffalo Bills have allowed in
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a generation. You've got to go back most yards allowed
and a half since twenty one. Now that was before
the smartphone in twenty one, that was before social media
was a thing in twenty oh one. And here we are.
That's how long back you have to go for the
Buffalo Bills. What a disgrace, an absolute disgraceful performance. What's
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here from the head coach Sean McDermott of the Buffalo
Bills and not only does you want to talk about
Hen want to talk about the defensive, but he's gonna
talk about the offense. But here's a McDermott ranting about
the Bills offense, which was also bad, but not as
bad as the defense.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Takel is staying in a two dimensional offense against a
good pass rushing defense. We knew that was going to
be important. We were off schedule quite a bit and
that can't happen against a defense like that. Second half.
I thought we found a rhythm in that first job
in particular, but then after that, you know, again, we
were shooting ourselves in the foot there, So we got
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to be better.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
You don't have to bring plax and go Burrows's name
up like that. That's bad job. But you anyway, all right,
let's focus in on the Bills defense though for a second.
So the question with a disgraceful performance, the question here
is we already framed it, but who gets to wear it?
Who's the one that you blame the shame bell on
the Bills defense here? So that falls on the defensive coordinator.
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Bobby Babbage, the defensive coordinator, He right now is in
the hot yoga Sanna. He's in the hot yoga Sanna.
It's warming up. Things are getting very warm in here.
As we like to say in these parts. As a rule,
when teams play as pathetically as the Buffalo Bills defense
did in that game, that you're either coaching it or
you're allowing it to happen. And right now the Bills
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are allowing it to happen. I'm not saying they're coaching it,
but they're allowing it to happen. The Bill's defense, you
talk about a leaky faucet. Now, they haven't been good
all year and you look at it right now against Atlanta.
Does anyone think the Falcons are good? By the way,
at the very peak there in the middle of the pack,
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the Atlanta Falcons, But that was a busted water main.
That was not a leaky faster. That was a busted
water main. And it looked like a wet paper bag
defense is what it looked like. And it's like guys out,
but tough luck. That's professional sports. Nobody cares. Do your job,
as Belichick used to say when he was respected. But
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this is supposed to be the super Bowl window for
the Buffalo Well it's only week six. Who cares? But
if the Bills really looked that great this season. That
is a rhetorical question. They have not even our blind
listeners like Stevie Meatballs. No, they do not look that good.
And inca terror they know that they don't look that good.
And Babbage the defensive for it. And his seat again
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we said hot yoga. His seat is not just warm
at this point, it is glowing. It is glowing, and
not in a good way. McDermott, Now, Sean mcdermot's got
decisions to make, and I've already done seventeen monologues over
these firing Sean McDermott normally after Bill's playoff games. But
Sean mcdervits got to make a decision. The ownership and
the front office there in Buffalo, they have to decide
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whether they want to do something drastic and try to
get somebody else, a new voice in there to patch
up this defense. Where if this is the defense the
Bills are gonna have all year, they're not gonna win
a playoff game. They'll get to the playoffs, but they're
not gonna win a playoff game, and that window is
gonna slam shut another year of Josh Allen's prime out
the window, see you later. The Falcons offense is nothing special.
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Like you knew going in, they were gonna try to
run the ball. The Bills have had a problem stopping
the run, and the Bills confirmed they still have a
problem stopping the run. My god. And it's not like
Michael Pennock. Pennix made a couple of completions here and there,
and you know, the final numbers were good. I watching
the game, I didn't think he was all that great.
I didn't get the vibe watching the Falcons that boy.
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This was a Michael Pennix junior game, and I loved
him in college. I didn't think he was all that great.
The numbers were not mad, The numbers were not all right.
One more thing, so the other question is what was
that performance from Josh Allen. If you put things in tiers,
not a big board, but in tears, you'd say the
biggest issue for the Buffalo Bills is the defense. Josh
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Allen though very unlike Josh Allen last night he looked
like a guy strumming a guitar at an open mic
night at the Rusty Pelican. Josh Allen and he was
just vibing on the g flat Major Cord, a lot
of flat passes, didn't look like he had really thought
the game plan through. I hate to say that, but
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I'm just telling you what I watched, Like the whole
thing burned to the ground. There. They got seventeen points,
seventeen first downs, two of those because of penalties by
the Atlanta Falcons that were given to the Buffalo Bills.
Didn't look anything like an MVP level quarterback. Very average
on a yuck there's a lot of yuck out there,
and you don't get the mulligans. There's no mullig when
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you play like this. You don't get a do over.
And just one hundred and eighty passing yards for Josh
Allen against a so so Atlanta Falcons defense again not terrible,
not great, somewhere in the middle, one touchdown. The Josh
Allen Marching and Chowder Society will tell you that the
passes that were intercepted, we're both tipped, and they'll say,
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we'll get my pass, give up, mulligan. It was just
bad luck. I don't hear about bad luck, Okay, I
don't want to hear it. And you make your own luck.
You're the guy, right, you're one of the faces of
the NFL, Josh Allen, And in this particular game, you
didn't look like everyone has a stinker now and again, right,
we all have bad days at work, and he had
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a bad day at work. He was not very good.
And don't look now, but we have a changing of
the guard, like ships passing in the middle of the night.
The Buffalo Bills are no longer in first place in
the AFC East. The New England Patriots. Holy Old Belichick,
he's not even there where Tom Brady go. The Patriots
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are in the penthouse of the AFC East. Now, technically
the teams are tied. However, the tiebreaker goes to the
New England Football team, So the Bills are looking up
at the tuckas of Drake May and the New England
Football Team sipping martiniz as they are currently in first
place in the AFC. So as far as what went
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wrong in this particular game, well, Atlanta Blitz Josh Allen,
and despite having an MVP award on his Pro Football
Reference page, it looked like he had never seen the
blitz before. And I'm not gonna say he was like
justin fields bad, but it was not pretty deer in
the headlights looked often confused, flustered, bit draggled by what
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the Falcons were doing defensively, and you know, throwing into
coverage that you don't have good enough receivers to complete
those passes, and you know, a couple of interceptions. He
did have two fumbles, both of them were recovered by
the team. But remember I know this from doing Benny
versus the Penny and your handicapping games and trying to
factor in fumbles and turnovers. The fumble is a fifty
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to fifty proposition, Like just know you fumble it, it's
half the time you get it, half the time the
other team gets it. So it was a bad night
all the way around. Dysfunctional offense. Check penalties, check tip passes,
check mistackles galore check check check check, oh golly, check
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check check check check. Yeah. And so despite some excuses
that have already trickled in from my friends and the
Bills mafia there that listen to us in the greater
Buffalo area, not here for it. The standard, as Mike
Tomlin said, is the standard, and Josh Allen did not
meet the standard. Wait it say it's a bad game
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until he has another bad game. And then we'll say
there's a pattern because we'll go into patternicity.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
All right.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Secondly, does this victor rechange your opinion of Raheem Morris
and the Atlanta Falcons go to the winner's side? So
I was impressed with Robinson. How could you not be.
He's had some good games recently. This was a special
performance for Beijon Robinson. But the way I'll answer this,
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does this game does this win for Atlanta change your
opinion of rahe Morris and the Falcon So this is
quantum physics, meaning that there are two versions of reality
that can exist at the same time. Because yes, this
was a nice performance. This was a signature win for
the Atlanta Falcons the dirty Birds. And at the same time, no,
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it doesn't really move the needle that much. Like when
I'm handicapping the Falcons up coming, I'm gonna be like, wow,
they played really wellgast Buffalo, they can play well against
this team. This was as much about the Buffalo Bills
as much about the Buffalo Bills hitting the snooze button
on defense as it was about anything magical that the
Atlanta Falcons did they have. But Jon Robinson's a very
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fast player. The Bills are not good at tackling and
were half a step slow, and that is a lethal cocktail,
is what that is. It's not like the Falcons defense
turned into the nineteen eighty five Chicago Bears of the
two thousand Baltimore Ravens. They let Robinson turn the field.
The guy's an Olympic track guy, speed wise and eighty
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one yard jail break, that's what happens. In fact, the
other I thought was more impressive. The eighty one yards
was great because that was a broken play and the
Bills are bad at tackling the other carries. I think
with the other carries he averaged four point nine yards
almost five yards per carry. The other carries they did,
so that was a smoke show kind of performance. Electric.
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So if you want flowers, you want to give him
flower I'm not a flower guy. I don't give flowers out.
If you want to give him flowers, and give him flowers,
and that's great. And the defense gave Josh Allen Fitz
that's accurate as well. All of that stuff is true, Brit.
Regardless of that, all, regardless of the bugaboo is still there.
Michael Pennick. While the stats were not bad. I didn't
get the sense that he's in the circle of trust
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for the Atlanta Falcons, and one win does not scrub
away scrub a dub dub. The reputation that Raheem Morris
has his teams are doctor Jekyl mister Hyde, that Atlanta
is the kind of team that can manhandle the Buffalo
Bills and then down the line lose. They play the
Jets and lose that game down the line, like it's
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that kind of a team that is not greatness. We
know that greatness is not in a moment. It is
a rhythm of greatness. It's rat tat tat, it's doing
it all the time, and it's going to be a
night after night thing that if the Falcons starts stacking
performances like this, then we can reevaluate it. But one
island game under the bright lights on a Monday night,
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which wasn't even its wished it was an Island game,
but it really was it because there was another NFL
game going on. It started halfway through and there was
a baseball game. So it's kind of a weird, weird situation.
But I don't doubt the Falcons will probably go out
into a face plant somewhere. So no, I'm not buying
stock in the Atlanta Falcons at this point. I love
the running back and the defense showing some signs of
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life here. But they got to follow this up with
something that resembles consistency of before. You want to be
like McDonald's. You go to McDonald's, you get a big Mac.
I don't care whether you're in Sheboygan, Seattle, you're in Manchester,
New Hampshire, wherever you go, it's going to be the
same quality of big Mac.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
All right.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Final thought to Nashville coaching change, Yes, coaching shay follow
up follow up to coach calling out quarterback. The Tennessee
Titans parently did not appreciate their head coach Brian Callahan
calling out his quarterback, so they whacked him. Yeah, they
sent him to the showers. Get out of here. He's
been excommunicated just six games into the NFL season in
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his second season as an NFL head coach, four and
nineteen four and nineteen a one to seventy four winning percentage,
and he going, Now here's a blast in the past.
You remember Mike McCoy no, got coached the Chargers, and
he's back he was an assistant for the Tennessee football team.
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He's the interim coach. He coached the Chargers so long
ago they were the San Diego Chargers twenty thirteen to
twenty sixteen. Had a record of ten games under five hundred,
made the playoffs his first season, then went to hell.
All right, question, what a question? Why? Why? Why did
things not work out for Brian Callahan in Tennessee. So
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this one was a disaster with a capital D from
Jump Street. The Titans hired Brian Callahan because I guess
he once stood next to Joe Burrow when Joe Burrow
was on the launching pad and his career took off.
And congratulations, he got billed as a quarterback whisper because
he happened to be in the right place at the
right time. You hired a guy in Callahan because he
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had good seats for someone else's show, for the Joe
Burrow show, right, I mean hollering James, hollering James could
have coached Joe Burrow and Burrow would have been fine
because he's good and it's not that complicated. Brian Callahan
was supposed to be the quarterback whisper. How's that working
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out and the whole job was Okay. We sucked the
first year, but now you've got this guy, cam Ward.
He was the number one overall pick in the draft.
He's your franchise guy. How's that working out? Well? Cam
Ward is now the duke, He's the Duke of Puke.
Certainly is fifty five percent completion percentage, thirty fourth in
the NFL, and he's behind guys who've already been benched.
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He's behind guys that have already been traded. Cam Ward's
you know what sizzle reel? You know, like I don't
know if they still this NFL films When I was
a kid, because I'm old, they used to do these
sizzle reels for players, like highlights of their rookie season.
You know, they navigate their way through the rigors of
the NFL. They make it very dramatic. They put music
on there, they got the big voiceover guy, really dramatic
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the highlight. And I don't think I'm wrong on this
of cam Ord's rookie season. Two words, we ask that's it,
that's what we need. That as a drop, by the way,
we need cam Wards said, we asked. That was the
quote we got to get that dropped anyway, fade to block.
So Tennessee is dead last in offense despite having the
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top quarterback of the draft. They're twenty second in defense,
and their special teams are like a wet paper towel.
So that's it, and good luck on that. That's where
they are, the Titans and their next coach. They should
hire mister Ruter as their next coach, because that team
is a clog toilet. The Tennessee Titans are a clogged toilet.
The quarterback stinks, the coaching's rubbish. Now they change coaches.
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The offense DA and the defense ain't all that good.
You can't sell that product. That product is rotten. That's vermin.
That is vermin the Titans right now, the Tennessee Titans
are the team you accidentally watch because you lost the
remote and you're too lazy to get off your fat
ass and change the channel. All right, So this is
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an absolute failure. And it's really just a fail because
cam Ward's not doesn't look like he knows what he's doing,
and he's not getting any better. And that's that's why
this move. If cam Word was playing okay and the
team was losing, they'd be like, all right, he's getting better.
He blows and so there she blows, just unwatchable. It
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two reasons. Robbie the Marini fan was busy watching the Alcs,
and he wanted to help his favorite football team, the
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Atlanta Falcons, get a win. There you go, all right,
what else do you see? Page down? The Mariners are
good now, Josh Allen not so much. Is that a
trade that you'd make if you want to make that trade,
let's see. Sirley Scott writes in from Virginia, says, outstanding
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weekend of football. The Chargers won, the Panthers won, Hell,
even the Bears. The Bears one that is accurate. Who's that?
Who's that? The Jets? The Jets? Oh yeah yeah, the
Jets are they That's a bad bad team, man, bad team.
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It's a bad team. And I'm mad because the very
first week of football I ordered Peacock to specifically watch
the Jets game. Really, that's a U problem. That's a
U problem. That's a bad job by you. Maybe I'm
the they call that the mush, right, Uh yeah, yeah,
I think just go with it. Stevie Meebol says, I
remember reading an interview and Rolling So magazine when Willie
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Nelson turned seventy. They asked him, Willie, in seventy years,
what can you say you've learned? He answered, I've learned,
I've outlived my my junk is I cleaned that up
for the radio. Let's go to his his love disco
stick or whatever. That's Yeah, that was the song, right,
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what's her name, Lady got Lady got got? Yeah, Let's
go to the phones. Mark on the north end is
beaming from ear to ear with Patriot pride, unless he's not.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Hello, Mark, Welcome, good morning, ben hoor my friends.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
If I was any better, I'd be a bill, but
not a Buffalo bill, because they currently are looking up
at the New England Patriots in your AFC standings right now.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
If you were to tell me then that I would
wake up today a third of the way to the season,
and you would tell me that the Patriots are in
first place and they have a better record than the
Kansas City Chiefs. I tell you you were smoking some good, good.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Good good grat Yeah, don't no, And are you starting
a position like where you want to finish in the
AFC standings. Now, Mark to see what matchup you want,
because right now, if the season ended today, the Patriots
would be the number four seeds. They would have to
play the Bills in the four or five matchups, so
that would be the matchup.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Well, then, I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm not
gonna count Josh Allen out just yet. Although Atlanta, I'll
tell you they stopped his legs last night. He really
didn't get much on the ground, considering you know, they
got fucking James Cook, you know, but even even Cook,
they stopped that running game last night. And if the
Patriots can do the same thing, I think the Patriots
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to win the second meeting and possibly possibly go I'm
gonna say eleven and seven was eleven and six rather.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yeah you got you got that all? Uh? You're all playing? Yeah, well, no,
they have a very easy He's not wrong. If you
look at the Patriots schedule, it is a cupcake schedule.
The New England Patriots have the isn't it one of
the easiest schedules the last fifty years in the NFL?
Lots of frosting. Uh, yeah, it's a host of schedule.
Oh wow, they played here's what's upcoming with the Patriots.
(28:22):
You want to do the Mike Frances' schedule game. They
play at Tennessee, who just fired their coach. That's a
Mike Mike Raibo revenge game. They play home to Cleveland,
home to Atlanta. It'll probably be pretty cold there in November.
Second right Dome team coming to New England Hill Chili
there in early November. Falcons. After that they played Tampa Bay.
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That's a good game in Tampa. Still have the Jets twice.
So if you just beat the teams you're supposed to
be Tennessee, Cleveland. I think Atlanta. The Patriots should beat
Atlanta and the Jets. That's that's five more wins right there.
I can see the nine and you play the Bengals
already good, and the Dolphins and the Ravens.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Jeez, yeah, I agree one thousand percent. And it looks
like finally the Patriots have found there.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Man from Drake May, yeah, he's good. I need to
see more. He's playing well. I'll give him that. You
all you can do is beat up the bad teams.
That's how you get your stats, right, we know that
from watching football, Mark you get your great stats beating
up bad teams and then you just have to hold
your own against the good teams.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
But they did beat a good team. They beat Buffalo.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yeah no, well he's Buffalo a good team. They didn't
look very good last night.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Well their favorite to go to the super Bowl. So
what would you call them?
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I don't know their favorite anymore after that game about that,
But there you go, Josh Allen after that performance, he's
not a top ten quarterback. He's falling out of the
top ten. And Drake May is number four in the
NFL if you go by the quarterback ratings.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Ben, I got a question for you, though, Yes, yes,
do you think Kansas City Chiefs make the playoffs this year?
I'm gonna go over a limb and say absolutely not,
and I'll leave you with that.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah, they're gonna. The Chiefs will be in the playoffs.
They're gonna they have a very difficult schedule, but they're
gonna navigate that. There's a guy wants to say all
over to you, Mark, I don't know, let's see your
hold on, Mark. Let's go random caller. You're on the air,
Random caller, SALEO to Mark, Hello, random call Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
He hung up.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
He hung up, real collars.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
From the North End. It's a real caller from the
North End. I'm here right now. I'm a real Patriots fan.
I celebrate all Boston sports teams. I don't root for
the Yankees. I'm a huge Patriots fan. I grew up
with the team. I saw them lose every game when
they played at Fenway Parking.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
He's not even on hole. Your stick is not working,
he hung up.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
Well, yeah, he stinks as a caller. Oh he's not
that great. He's supposed to represent the North End. So
I stopped calling. I gave him a chance. He's not
representing the North End that well. He was rooting for
the Yankees during the Red Sox series. He didn't know
I was coming on. Probably I apologize, dam.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I said, we have somebody that wants to talk to you.
But he didn't want to stay.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
You know, he said, you're driving, though, you can tell him.
One of these guys are driving, like Mike some New
Hampshire and him, it's hard to do a sports radio
call when you're driving. You can't do a good sports Well.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Mike was on hold. Mike in New Hampshire. I was
about to go to him, and then he the phone drops,
So I don't know what.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Happened with that Mike the lep On there. I'm big.
I'm big at the Irish Cultural Center. My family supports
the Irish right.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Let me see, is this Mike the Lepertun? Is that true?
Is blind? Scott Big at the Irish Cultural Center?
Speaker 6 (31:28):
It's a beautiful Mike took and I don't know that
they won't even let him in there. Dude, he just
has a rubber ducky. That's all he is is as
an Irish accent with a rubber.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
He very very very angry, very combative.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
You're cultural center, what would you expect?
Speaker 3 (31:41):
It's ay Irish sports there. That's a rugby.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
My god, it's had a real hot take about the
Irish said this is line.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
I have a question for you, Blank, Scott, welcome back.
You've been on hiatus for about two weeks. Why did
somebody take a shot at you?
Speaker 6 (31:58):
He said that Big calling Mike, You've been calling me
like all these names that I can't stand.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
All right, hold on, Marks called back. Mark would like
to defend his good name. Mark in the North End.
You've called back, Hello, you're on with Scott.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Did he just say he's an original North.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Yes, yes he did. He just said that. Yes.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
Yead went to calling Brown, Jude, I'm best friends with
Caesar and jewel Mark, stopping him and his father.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Okay are yeah, you guys are trying to one up
each other. Now, this is not I don't know, dude.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
I'm part of the he on Handover Street right now.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
And you're not blind either, You're a blind fraud.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Okay, all right, thank you.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
Those are great. Comeback, dude, I'm totally blind.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
All right, all right, all right, yeah, thank you. Uh yeah,
I'm gonna say that you are blinde definitely, definitely one
hundred percent blind.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
And I did have a meal with blind Scott years
ago and his dog, his dead dog. I don't know
if his dogs is your dog still alive? That dog's gone, right.
We lost Kramer, he's no.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Kramer passed away. But Dylan recently with barking at a coyote.
He never barked before. He started backing at barking at
a coyote. So my dad let him out to check
out the coyote. You never do that with a dog,
you know what I mean. You don't say, don't beat that.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
No, No, my dog got lost, a dog got eaten
partially bitten by a coyote. Bella my old dog. Yeah yeah,
it was a big cost, a bunch of money. She
died anyway, But anyway, nothing I'm complaining. But but you
know what happens anyway, It is the ben Malershow so
you need a head coach you want to do some
window shopping. Here are the names for the Tennessee Texan
the early names. But this will get you all horny
(33:41):
if you're a Tennessee Titan fan. You need a head coach.
Arthur Smith. Yep, that Arthur Smith. He's Steelers offensive coordinator.
And Matt Naggy, who, in hindsight actually didn't do a
terrible job with the Chicago Bears, considering yet Mitch Trubisky
as his quarterback. But Matt Naggy is the offensive supposedly
offensive guru of the team from Kansas City. So those
(34:03):
are two of the early names. That doesn't do anything
for you, No, that doesn't. Yeah, I understand Arthur Smith,
who was the head coach, although you wouldn't know it
because there was nothing memorable about his time with the
Atlanta Falcons a couple of years there as head coach
now he's in Pittsburgh, so a couple of early names.
(34:25):
I also thought this was a shot at Kyle Shanahan.
Jake Moody, he's a Moody petuti. Jake Moody hit the
game winning field goal for the Chicago Bears on a
kind of a rainy night in Landover, Maryland there, and
they were celebrating after the game, and of course TV
interviewed him, and so he's on the field and his quote,
(34:46):
I thought this was a shot at the forty nine ers,
he said. Quote, it feels amazing. Moody told Lisa Salters
there after they got to win the Bears. He says,
to get all that support after the game from all
my teammates. I got here not too long ago, but
for everybody to embrace me and take me in as
(35:08):
one of their own, it's an amazing feeling, he said.
So doesn't that sound he had major issues, like the
locker room was against Jake Moody with the forty nine ers.
There was a sideline confrontation in Tampa. You remember that,
And so it seems like a shot at Kyle Shanahan
and the forty nine ers more than anything. Subtle subtle, passive, aggressive,
(35:32):
passive aggressive, shot straight ahead, We're gonna have sight the Bite.
If you want to be part of Site to Bite
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Speaker 4 (35:45):
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Speaker 4 (36:35):
It's time now to site site tub Bite where we
play random generic sound bites, you know, in a sports
and entertainment cliches spoken by so called experts. You trying
to tell us who's doing the talking.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
It has been said that radio is theater of the mind,
so you have to figure out using your mind and
you're hearing people are Now every week we picked somebody
from sports. It could be a coach, a prominent media member,
an athlete, and you have to listen close to see
if you figure out who it is. And it's called
site the Bite. Let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
I'm not surprid. Play again, play, I'm not surprid. I'm
not surprised. I'm not surprised. I'm not surprid. All right,
who said I am not surprised? Will anyone get it right?
I'm gonna go call her color five, Lorena, You're so predictable, Ben,
I'm going with four. I didn't say five last week.
(37:36):
I said five last week. We're going to number four.
What about you? Coop color number five? Okayz he coop
cheated off my paper, Loraine. You see that he cheated
off my papers. It's a bad job by him. Okay,
Play again, Play again, Play again, Play again.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
I'm not surprid.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Mike in New Hampshire is in the leadoff chair. Mike,
you and my caller number one, number one? Who is it? Mike?
What'd you say? Is it Stefon Diggs?
Speaker 6 (38:06):
No?
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Think you might be safe out there driving around?
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Buddy?
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Is Mike in New Hampshire? He's not Stefon Diggs? Can
you dig it? Let's go to call her to Coach
Russell in Orlando. Hello, Coach Russell, my caller too.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Hey, good morning, Good morning. We're a six eight chance again,
so I just want to let you know that, but
I'm gonna go with John Robins.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Is that be good? Congratulations Coach Russell. Good job by
you guys. Is that b John Robinson? No, thank you, Coach,
good job that six to eight chance. We want winners.
We got winners on this show time for the first Cluely,
his great grandaunt talked him into staying in the state
of Texas for college. He was gonna leave, but he
stayed in the state of Texas. I'm all right, Lucky
(38:53):
Tony call her number three, Hello, Lucky Tony.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Ben Johnson?
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Is it Ben Johnson? I saved you, Loraina, Thank you.
You're welcome. Tree in Chicago. Tree.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Who is it?
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Tree?
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Oh man?
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (39:08):
David Montgomery?
Speaker 4 (39:09):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
David montgum No broke Ojay's record for most one hundred
yard games in the season last one, Ben Chicago, Kansas City, Ben.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
No.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
It's Eric Dickerson, Eric Dickerson, Eric Dickerson, Eric Dickerson, Eric Dickerson,
Eric
Boom, Shaka Laca. It's our number four, our number four,
ready to go. And here in our number four, who
gets to wear the shame bell for Josh Allen and
the Bills losing to Atlanta. Yeah, they lost, Buffalo, big Bat,
Buffalo got run over. They were bullied by the Falcons
(00:21):
in the Monday night early game. Also, what was that
performance from Bill's quarterback Josh Allen? What do you make
of that performance from Josh Allen? That was a stinker?
And does this victory change your opinion of Raheem Morris
and the Atlanta Falcons as they get into the win column.
Signature win if you will. There have been many in
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Atlanta under Raheem Morris. We'll talk about that. And why
did things not work out in Nashville for Brian Callahan
as he was excommunicated as coach of the Tennessee football team.
We'll talk about all that and more. Have a wonderful
rest of your time Tuesday. Here it is our number four.
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A quiet night for the Mafia. Welcome in the beginning
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the atl home of What's Always been a good airport.
Some people hate the Atlanta Airport. I've never had a
bad experience there. I guess I haven't flown there enough.
But a busy sports night had two playoff baseball games,
the West Coast teams winning both. Seattle two wins away
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from their first ever World Series. They mollywopped the Toronto
baseball team and the La Dodgers. The Dodgers barely with
their weak ass bullpen able to pull off a victory there,
as the Dodgers take down the Brewers, holding on by
the very shortest of margins there because the Brewers batter
at the end of the game decided he didn't want
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to get hit by a pitch with the basis loader
it would have tied the game, and then struck out
in a pitch way out of the strike zone. So
those were a couple of baseball games. We had two
NFL games. The late NFL game went to the team
from Chicago on a last second field goal. The Bears
upset the Washington football team. But the featured game for
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many of us was on football's card. The Buffalo Bills,
supposedly one of the teams in the NFL. Buffalo Bills
lost to the Patriots their last time out. They're not
going to lose again, right, Bills bounce back situation here
against Atlanta, and that was one of the final games
to end the Week six card in the NFL. Did
you watch it? Maybe not so. The Jon Robinson, he
(04:08):
put the mustard on the hot dog. He matched a
career highe hundred and seventy yards for this guy one
hundred and seventy yards, and he gave Atlanta a turbo
boost with an early two touchdown lead and never really
in danger despite being a home dog Atlanta, which was
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led by the eighty one yard run, the career long
eighty one yard run by Robinson that accounted for a
big chunk of the one hundred and seventy yards that
he had on the ground there. So the Falcons denied
the comeback efforts of Josh Allen and they double digit win.
Atlanta wins twenty four to fourteen on Monday Night. The
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better story, though, is in the losing locker room, as
you know, so we're going to start there. Atlanta is
three and two. They led by as many is at
one point is twenty one to seven. They had a
two touchdown lead in that game. So the story here
is about the Buffalo Bills. The question who gets to
wear the shame bell for Josh Allen and the Bills
losing in Atlanta in a game for the balance of
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the game, they were on the wrong side of the scoreboard.
They were playing uphill for most of that game. So
on this one, I've got hot yoga, quantum physics, and
mister Ruter and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make some delicious cinnamon cookies,
(05:36):
is what we're going to make. Oh man, they could.
There's a little cinnamon, like the cinnamon role filling in there.
That's the way to go. So first of all, let's
just say the obvious. This is a full spell embarrassment
for the Buffalo Bills. And as we sit here today,
if you look out in the wild blue yonder of
the NFL, there is no dominant team. No one is
(06:01):
head and shoulders above everyone else. With Buffalo is one
of those teams that you think about the upper echelon
of the AFC. You think of the Buffalo Bills, and
I don't care how many guys were injured for the
Bills defense, how many practice squad or fringe players they
were playing. That defense was a combination. On one side
you had traffic cones over here. Now on the other side,
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it was slip and slide tackling. That's it, that's all.
Atlanta ran the ball down the throat of the Buffalo
Bills defense and threw their nose and then up the
back alley. I didn't even know there was a back
alley there. Up the back alley, whatever direction they wanted
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to go. The zig, the zag, and big chunk of yards.
Three hundred and thirty five yards allowed in the first half.
In the first half, the Bills gave Atlanta three hundred
and thirty five yards. Is that sounds like a lot?
That is the most the Buffalo Bills have allowed in
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a generation. You've got to go back most yards allowed
and a half since twenty one. Now that was before
the smartphone in twenty one, that was before social media
was a thing in twenty oh one. And here we are.
That's how long back you have to go for the
Buffalo Bills. What a disgrace, an absolute disgraceful performance. What's
(07:27):
here from the head coach Sean McDermott of the Buffalo
Bills and not only does you want to talk about
Hen want to talk about the defensive, but he's gonna
talk about the offense. But here's a McDermott ranting about
the Bills offense, which was also bad, but not as
bad as the defense.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Takel is staying in a two dimensional offense against a
good pass rushing defense. We knew that was going to
be important. We were off schedule quite a bit and
that can't happen against a defense like that. Second half.
I thought we found a rhythm in that first job
in particular, but then after that, you know, again, we
were shooting ourselves in the foot there, So we got
(08:01):
to be better.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
You don't have to bring plax and go Burrows's name
up like that. That's bad job. But you anyway, all right,
let's focus in on the Bills defense though for a second.
So the question with a disgraceful performance, the question here
is we already framed it, but who gets to wear it?
Who's the one that you blame the shame bell on
the Bills defense here? So that falls on the defensive coordinator.
(08:24):
Bobby Babbage, the defensive coordinator, He right now is in
the hot yoga Sanna. He's in the hot yoga Sanna.
It's warming up. Things are getting very warm in here.
As we like to say in these parts. As a rule,
when teams play as pathetically as the Buffalo Bills defense
did in that game, that you're either coaching it or
you're allowing it to happen. And right now the Bills
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are allowing it to happen. I'm not saying they're coaching it,
but they're allowing it to happen. The Bill's defense, you
talk about a leaky faucet. Now, they haven't been good
all year and you look at it right now against Atlanta.
Does anyone think the Falcons are good? By the way,
at the very peak there in the middle of the pack,
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the Atlanta Falcons, But that was a busted water main.
That was not a leaky faster. That was a busted
water main. And it looked like a wet paper bag
defense is what it looked like. And it's like guys out,
but tough luck. That's professional sports. Nobody cares. Do your job,
as Belichick used to say when he was respected. But
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this is supposed to be the super Bowl window for
the Buffalo Well it's only week six. Who cares? But
if the Bills really looked that great this season. That
is a rhetorical question. They have not even our blind
listeners like Stevie Meatballs. No, they do not look that good.
And inca terror they know that they don't look that good.
And Babbage the defensive for it. And his seat again
(09:51):
we said hot yoga. His seat is not just warm
at this point, it is glowing. It is glowing, and
not in a good way. McDermott, Now, Sean mcdermot's got
decisions to make, and I've already done seventeen monologues over
these firing Sean McDermott normally after Bill's playoff games. But
Sean mcdervits got to make a decision. The ownership and
the front office there in Buffalo, they have to decide
(10:11):
whether they want to do something drastic and try to
get somebody else, a new voice in there to patch
up this defense. Where if this is the defense the
Bills are gonna have all year, they're not gonna win
a playoff game. They'll get to the playoffs, but they're
not gonna win a playoff game, and that window is
gonna slam shut another year of Josh Allen's prime out
the window, see you later. The Falcons offense is nothing special.
(10:31):
Like you knew going in, they were gonna try to
run the ball. The Bills have had a problem stopping
the run, and the Bills confirmed they still have a
problem stopping the run. My god. And it's not like
Michael Pennock. Pennix made a couple of completions here and there,
and you know, the final numbers were good. I watching
the game, I didn't think he was all that great.
I didn't get the vibe watching the Falcons that boy.
(10:53):
This was a Michael Pennix junior game, and I loved
him in college. I didn't think he was all that great.
The numbers were not mad, The numbers were not all right.
One more thing, so the other question is what was
that performance from Josh Allen. If you put things in tiers,
not a big board, but in tears, you'd say the
biggest issue for the Buffalo Bills is the defense. Josh
(11:16):
Allen though very unlike Josh Allen last night he looked
like a guy strumming a guitar at an open mic
night at the Rusty Pelican. Josh Allen and he was
just vibing on the g flat Major Cord, a lot
of flat passes, didn't look like he had really thought
the game plan through. I hate to say that, but
(11:38):
I'm just telling you what I watched, Like the whole
thing burned to the ground. There. They got seventeen points,
seventeen first downs, two of those because of penalties by
the Atlanta Falcons that were given to the Buffalo Bills.
Didn't look anything like an MVP level quarterback. Very average
on a yuck there's a lot of yuck out there,
and you don't get the mulligans. There's no mullig when
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you play like this. You don't get a do over.
And just one hundred and eighty passing yards for Josh
Allen against a so so Atlanta Falcons defense again not terrible,
not great, somewhere in the middle, one touchdown. The Josh
Allen Marching and Chowder Society will tell you that the
passes that were intercepted, we're both tipped, and they'll say,
(12:20):
we'll get my pass, give up, mulligan. It was just
bad luck. I don't hear about bad luck, Okay, I
don't want to hear it. And you make your own luck.
You're the guy, right, you're one of the faces of
the NFL, Josh Allen, And in this particular game, you
didn't look like everyone has a stinker now and again, right,
we all have bad days at work, and he had
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a bad day at work. He was not very good.
And don't look now, but we have a changing of
the guard, like ships passing in the middle of the night.
The Buffalo Bills are no longer in first place in
the AFC East. The New England Patriots. Holy Old Belichick,
he's not even there where Tom Brady go. The Patriots
(13:05):
are in the penthouse of the AFC East. Now, technically
the teams are tied. However, the tiebreaker goes to the
New England Football team, So the Bills are looking up
at the tuckas of Drake May and the New England
Football Team sipping martiniz as they are currently in first
place in the AFC. So as far as what went
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wrong in this particular game, well, Atlanta Blitz Josh Allen,
and despite having an MVP award on his Pro Football
Reference page, it looked like he had never seen the
blitz before. And I'm not gonna say he was like
justin fields bad, but it was not pretty deer in
the headlights looked often confused, flustered, bit draggled by what
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the Falcons were doing defensively, and you know, throwing into
coverage that you don't have good enough receivers to complete
those passes, and you know, a couple of interceptions. He
did have two fumbles, both of them were recovered by
the team. But remember I know this from doing Benny
versus the Penny and your handicapping games and trying to
factor in fumbles and turnovers. The fumble is a fifty
(14:12):
to fifty proposition, Like just know you fumble it, it's
half the time you get it, half the time the
other team gets it. So it was a bad night
all the way around. Dysfunctional offense. Check penalties, check tip passes,
check mistackles galore check check check check, oh golly, check
(14:32):
check check check check. Yeah. And so despite some excuses
that have already trickled in from my friends and the
Bills mafia there that listen to us in the greater
Buffalo area, not here for it. The standard, as Mike
Tomlin said, is the standard, and Josh Allen did not
meet the standard. Wait it say it's a bad game
(14:52):
until he has another bad game. And then we'll say
there's a pattern because we'll go into patternicity.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
All right.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Secondly, does this victor rechange your opinion of Raheem Morris
and the Atlanta Falcons go to the winner's side? So
I was impressed with Robinson. How could you not be.
He's had some good games recently. This was a special
performance for Beijon Robinson. But the way I'll answer this,
(15:20):
does this game does this win for Atlanta change your
opinion of rahe Morris and the Falcon So this is
quantum physics, meaning that there are two versions of reality
that can exist at the same time. Because yes, this
was a nice performance. This was a signature win for
the Atlanta Falcons the dirty Birds. And at the same time, no,
(15:41):
it doesn't really move the needle that much. Like when
I'm handicapping the Falcons up coming, I'm gonna be like, wow,
they played really wellgast Buffalo, they can play well against
this team. This was as much about the Buffalo Bills
as much about the Buffalo Bills hitting the snooze button
on defense as it was about anything magical that the
Atlanta Falcons did they have. But Jon Robinson's a very
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fast player. The Bills are not good at tackling and
were half a step slow, and that is a lethal cocktail,
is what that is. It's not like the Falcons defense
turned into the nineteen eighty five Chicago Bears of the
two thousand Baltimore Ravens. They let Robinson turn the field.
The guy's an Olympic track guy, speed wise and eighty
(16:26):
one yard jail break, that's what happens. In fact, the
other I thought was more impressive. The eighty one yards
was great because that was a broken play and the
Bills are bad at tackling the other carries. I think
with the other carries he averaged four point nine yards
almost five yards per carry. The other carries they did,
so that was a smoke show kind of performance. Electric.
(16:49):
So if you want flowers, you want to give him
flower I'm not a flower guy. I don't give flowers out.
If you want to give him flowers, and give him flowers,
and that's great. And the defense gave Josh Allen Fitz
that's accurate as well. All of that stuff is true, Brit.
Regardless of that, all, regardless of the bugaboo is still there.
Michael Pennick. While the stats were not bad. I didn't
get the sense that he's in the circle of trust
(17:11):
for the Atlanta Falcons, and one win does not scrub
away scrub a dub dub. The reputation that Raheem Morris
has his teams are doctor Jekyl mister Hyde, that Atlanta
is the kind of team that can manhandle the Buffalo
Bills and then down the line lose. They play the
Jets and lose that game down the line, like it's
(17:32):
that kind of a team that is not greatness. We
know that greatness is not in a moment. It is
a rhythm of greatness. It's rat tat tat, it's doing
it all the time, and it's going to be a
night after night thing that if the Falcons starts stacking
performances like this, then we can reevaluate it. But one
island game under the bright lights on a Monday night,
(17:53):
which wasn't even its wished it was an Island game,
but it really was it because there was another NFL
game going on. It started halfway through and there was
a baseball game. So it's kind of a weird, weird situation.
But I don't doubt the Falcons will probably go out
into a face plant somewhere. So no, I'm not buying
stock in the Atlanta Falcons at this point. I love
the running back and the defense showing some signs of
(18:15):
life here. But they got to follow this up with
something that resembles consistency of before. You want to be
like McDonald's. You go to McDonald's, you get a big Mac.
I don't care whether you're in Sheboygan, Seattle, you're in Manchester,
New Hampshire, wherever you go, it's going to be the
same quality of big Mac.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
All right.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Final thought to Nashville coaching change, Yes, coaching shay follow
up follow up to coach calling out quarterback. The Tennessee
Titans parently did not appreciate their head coach Brian Callahan
calling out his quarterback, so they whacked him. Yeah, they
sent him to the showers. Get out of here. He's
been excommunicated just six games into the NFL season in
(18:57):
his second season as an NFL head coach, four and
nineteen four and nineteen a one to seventy four winning percentage,
and he going, Now here's a blast in the past.
You remember Mike McCoy no, got coached the Chargers, and
he's back he was an assistant for the Tennessee football team.
(19:20):
He's the interim coach. He coached the Chargers so long
ago they were the San Diego Chargers twenty thirteen to
twenty sixteen. Had a record of ten games under five hundred,
made the playoffs his first season, then went to hell.
All right, question, what a question? Why? Why? Why did
things not work out for Brian Callahan in Tennessee. So
(19:42):
this one was a disaster with a capital D from
Jump Street. The Titans hired Brian Callahan because I guess
he once stood next to Joe Burrow when Joe Burrow
was on the launching pad and his career took off.
And congratulations, he got billed as a quarterback whisper because
he happened to be in the right place at the
right time. You hired a guy in Callahan because he
(20:06):
had good seats for someone else's show, for the Joe
Burrow show, right, I mean hollering James, hollering James could
have coached Joe Burrow and Burrow would have been fine
because he's good and it's not that complicated. Brian Callahan
was supposed to be the quarterback whisper. How's that working
(20:27):
out and the whole job was Okay. We sucked the
first year, but now you've got this guy, cam Ward.
He was the number one overall pick in the draft.
He's your franchise guy. How's that working out? Well? Cam
Ward is now the duke, He's the Duke of Puke.
Certainly is fifty five percent completion percentage, thirty fourth in
the NFL, and he's behind guys who've already been benched.
(20:51):
He's behind guys that have already been traded. Cam Ward's
you know what sizzle reel? You know, like I don't
know if they still this NFL films When I was
a kid, because I'm old, they used to do these
sizzle reels for players, like highlights of their rookie season.
You know, they navigate their way through the rigors of
the NFL. They make it very dramatic. They put music
on there, they got the big voiceover guy, really dramatic
(21:11):
the highlight. And I don't think I'm wrong on this
of cam Ord's rookie season. Two words, we ask that's it,
that's what we need. That as a drop, by the way,
we need cam Wards said, we asked. That was the
quote we got to get that dropped anyway, fade to block.
So Tennessee is dead last in offense despite having the
(21:32):
top quarterback of the draft. They're twenty second in defense,
and their special teams are like a wet paper towel.
So that's it, and good luck on that. That's where
they are, the Titans and their next coach. They should
hire mister Ruter as their next coach, because that team
is a clog toilet. The Tennessee Titans are a clogged toilet.
The quarterback stinks, the coaching's rubbish. Now they change coaches.
(21:55):
The offense DA and the defense ain't all that good.
You can't sell that product. That product is rotten. That's vermin.
That is vermin the Titans right now, the Tennessee Titans
are the team you accidentally watch because you lost the
remote and you're too lazy to get off your fat
ass and change the channel. All right, So this is
(22:18):
an absolute failure. And it's really just a fail because
cam Ward's not doesn't look like he knows what he's doing,
and he's not getting any better. And that's that's why
this move. If cam Word was playing okay and the
team was losing, they'd be like, all right, he's getting better.
He blows and so there she blows, just unwatchable. It
is the Ben Maler Show. If you'd like to be
(22:38):
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and a little window shopping. If you need an NFL
head coach, who you're gonna call, Who you're gonna call.
We'll get to that and we will do it next.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
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Speaker 1 (23:23):
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I'm the producer of the Paul and Tony Fusco Show.
Usually in these promos they asked you to listen to
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(24:00):
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(24:43):
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Bronco fans Live, Go, Press on back to It Late
Night drug tester says Josh Allen didn't play well for
two reasons. Robbie the Marini fan was busy watching the Alcs,
and he wanted to help his favorite football team, the
(25:04):
Atlanta Falcons, get a win. There you go, all right,
what else do you see? Page down? The Mariners are
good now, Josh Allen not so much. Is that a
trade that you'd make if you want to make that trade,
let's see. Sirley Scott writes in from Virginia, says, outstanding
(25:25):
weekend of football. The Chargers won, the Panthers won, Hell,
even the Bears. The Bears one that is accurate. Who's that?
Who's that? The Jets? The Jets? Oh yeah yeah, the
Jets are they That's a bad bad team, man, bad team.
(25:47):
It's a bad team. And I'm mad because the very
first week of football I ordered Peacock to specifically watch
the Jets game. Really, that's a U problem. That's a
U problem. That's a bad job by you. Maybe I'm
the they call that the mush, right, Uh yeah, yeah,
I think just go with it. Stevie Meebol says, I
remember reading an interview and Rolling So magazine when Willie
(26:07):
Nelson turned seventy. They asked him, Willie, in seventy years,
what can you say you've learned? He answered, I've learned,
I've outlived my my junk is I cleaned that up
for the radio. Let's go to his his love disco
stick or whatever. That's Yeah, that was the song, right,
(26:29):
what's her name, Lady got Lady got got? Yeah, Let's
go to the phones. Mark on the north end is
beaming from ear to ear with Patriot pride, unless he's not.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Hello, Mark, Welcome, good morning, ben hoor my friends.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
If I was any better, I'd be a bill, but
not a Buffalo bill, because they currently are looking up
at the New England Patriots in your AFC standings right now.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
If you were to tell me then that I would
wake up today a third of the way to the season,
and you would tell me that the Patriots are in
first place and they have a better record than the
Kansas City Chiefs. I tell you you were smoking some good, good.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Good good grat Yeah, don't no, And are you starting
a position like where you want to finish in the
AFC standings. Now, Mark to see what matchup you want,
because right now, if the season ended today, the Patriots
would be the number four seeds. They would have to
play the Bills in the four or five matchups, so
that would be the matchup.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Well, then, I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm not
gonna count Josh Allen out just yet. Although Atlanta, I'll
tell you they stopped his legs last night. He really
didn't get much on the ground, considering you know, they
got fucking James Cook, you know, but even even Cook,
they stopped that running game last night. And if the
Patriots can do the same thing, I think the Patriots
(27:50):
to win the second meeting and possibly possibly go I'm
gonna say eleven and seven was eleven and six rather.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yeah you got you got that all? Uh? You're all playing? Yeah, well, no,
they have a very easy He's not wrong. If you
look at the Patriots schedule, it is a cupcake schedule.
The New England Patriots have the isn't it one of
the easiest schedules the last fifty years in the NFL?
Lots of frosting. Uh, yeah, it's a host of schedule.
Oh wow, they played here's what's upcoming with the Patriots.
(28:22):
You want to do the Mike Frances' schedule game. They
play at Tennessee, who just fired their coach. That's a
Mike Mike Raibo revenge game. They play home to Cleveland,
home to Atlanta. It'll probably be pretty cold there in November.
Second right Dome team coming to New England Hill Chili
there in early November. Falcons. After that they played Tampa Bay.
(28:43):
That's a good game in Tampa. Still have the Jets twice.
So if you just beat the teams you're supposed to
be Tennessee, Cleveland. I think Atlanta. The Patriots should beat
Atlanta and the Jets. That's that's five more wins right there.
I can see the nine and you play the Bengals
already good, and the Dolphins and the Ravens.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Jeez, yeah, I agree one thousand percent. And it looks
like finally the Patriots have found there.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Man from Drake May, yeah, he's good. I need to
see more. He's playing well. I'll give him that. You
all you can do is beat up the bad teams.
That's how you get your stats, right, we know that
from watching football, Mark you get your great stats beating
up bad teams and then you just have to hold
your own against the good teams.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
But they did beat a good team. They beat Buffalo.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yeah no, well he's Buffalo a good team. They didn't
look very good last night.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Well their favorite to go to the super Bowl. So
what would you call them?
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I don't know their favorite anymore after that game about that,
But there you go, Josh Allen after that performance, he's
not a top ten quarterback. He's falling out of the
top ten. And Drake May is number four in the
NFL if you go by the quarterback ratings.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Ben, I got a question for you, though, Yes, yes,
do you think Kansas City Chiefs make the playoffs this year?
I'm gonna go over a limb and say absolutely not,
and I'll leave you with that.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah, they're gonna. The Chiefs will be in the playoffs.
They're gonna they have a very difficult schedule, but they're
gonna navigate that. There's a guy wants to say all
over to you, Mark, I don't know, let's see your
hold on, Mark. Let's go random caller. You're on the air,
Random caller, SALEO to Mark, Hello, random call Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
He hung up.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
He hung up, real collars.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
From the North End. It's a real caller from the
North End. I'm here right now. I'm a real Patriots fan.
I celebrate all Boston sports teams. I don't root for
the Yankees. I'm a huge Patriots fan. I grew up
with the team. I saw them lose every game when
they played at Fenway Parking.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
He's not even on hole. Your stick is not working,
he hung up.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
Well, yeah, he stinks as a caller. Oh he's not
that great. He's supposed to represent the North End. So
I stopped calling. I gave him a chance. He's not
representing the North End that well. He was rooting for
the Yankees during the Red Sox series. He didn't know
I was coming on. Probably I apologize, dam.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I said, we have somebody that wants to talk to you.
But he didn't want to stay.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
You know, he said, you're driving, though, you can tell him.
One of these guys are driving, like Mike some New
Hampshire and him, it's hard to do a sports radio
call when you're driving. You can't do a good sports Well.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Mike was on hold. Mike in New Hampshire. I was
about to go to him, and then he the phone drops,
So I don't know what.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Happened with that Mike the lep On there. I'm big.
I'm big at the Irish Cultural Center. My family supports
the Irish right.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Let me see, is this Mike the Lepertun? Is that true?
Is blind? Scott Big at the Irish Cultural Center?
Speaker 6 (31:28):
It's a beautiful Mike took and I don't know that
they won't even let him in there. Dude, he just
has a rubber ducky. That's all he is is as
an Irish accent with a rubber.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
He very very very angry, very combative.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
You're cultural center, what would you expect?
Speaker 3 (31:41):
It's ay Irish sports there. That's a rugby.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
My god, it's had a real hot take about the
Irish said this is line.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
I have a question for you, Blank, Scott, welcome back.
You've been on hiatus for about two weeks. Why did
somebody take a shot at you?
Speaker 6 (31:58):
He said that Big calling Mike, You've been calling me
like all these names that I can't stand.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
All right, hold on, Marks called back. Mark would like
to defend his good name. Mark in the North End.
You've called back, Hello, you're on with Scott.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Did he just say he's an original North.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Yes, yes he did. He just said that. Yes.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
Yead went to calling Brown, Jude, I'm best friends with
Caesar and jewel Mark, stopping him and his father.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Okay are yeah, you guys are trying to one up
each other. Now, this is not I don't know, dude.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
I'm part of the he on Handover Street right now.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
And you're not blind either, You're a blind fraud.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Okay, all right, thank you.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
Those are great. Comeback, dude, I'm totally blind.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
All right, all right, all right, yeah, thank you. Uh yeah,
I'm gonna say that you are blinde definitely, definitely one
hundred percent blind.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
And I did have a meal with blind Scott years
ago and his dog, his dead dog. I don't know
if his dogs is your dog still alive? That dog's gone, right.
We lost Kramer, he's no.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Kramer passed away. But Dylan recently with barking at a coyote.
He never barked before. He started backing at barking at
a coyote. So my dad let him out to check
out the coyote. You never do that with a dog,
you know what I mean. You don't say, don't beat that.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
No, No, my dog got lost, a dog got eaten
partially bitten by a coyote. Bella my old dog. Yeah yeah,
it was a big cost, a bunch of money. She
died anyway, But anyway, nothing I'm complaining. But but you
know what happens anyway, It is the ben Malershow so
you need a head coach you want to do some
window shopping. Here are the names for the Tennessee Texan
the early names. But this will get you all horny
(33:41):
if you're a Tennessee Titan fan. You need a head coach.
Arthur Smith. Yep, that Arthur Smith. He's Steelers offensive coordinator.
And Matt Naggy, who, in hindsight actually didn't do a
terrible job with the Chicago Bears, considering yet Mitch Trubisky
as his quarterback. But Matt Naggy is the offensive supposedly
offensive guru of the team from Kansas City. So those
(34:03):
are two of the early names. That doesn't do anything
for you, No, that doesn't. Yeah, I understand Arthur Smith,
who was the head coach, although you wouldn't know it
because there was nothing memorable about his time with the
Atlanta Falcons a couple of years there as head coach
now he's in Pittsburgh, so a couple of early names.
(34:25):
I also thought this was a shot at Kyle Shanahan.
Jake Moody, he's a Moody petuti. Jake Moody hit the
game winning field goal for the Chicago Bears on a
kind of a rainy night in Landover, Maryland there, and
they were celebrating after the game, and of course TV
interviewed him, and so he's on the field and his quote,
(34:46):
I thought this was a shot at the forty nine ers,
he said. Quote, it feels amazing. Moody told Lisa Salters
there after they got to win the Bears. He says,
to get all that support after the game from all
my teammates. I got here not too long ago, but
for everybody to embrace me and take me in as
(35:08):
one of their own, it's an amazing feeling, he said.
So doesn't that sound he had major issues, like the
locker room was against Jake Moody with the forty nine ers.
There was a sideline confrontation in Tampa. You remember that,
And so it seems like a shot at Kyle Shanahan
and the forty nine ers more than anything. Subtle subtle, passive, aggressive,
(35:32):
passive aggressive, shot straight ahead, We're gonna have sight the Bite.
If you want to be part of Site to Bite
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Speaker 4 (35:45):
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Speaker 4 (36:35):
It's time now to site site tub Bite where we
play random generic sound bites, you know, in a sports
and entertainment cliches spoken by so called experts. You trying
to tell us who's doing the talking.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
It has been said that radio is theater of the mind,
so you have to figure out using your mind and
you're hearing people are Now every week we picked somebody
from sports. It could be a coach, a prominent media member,
an athlete, and you have to listen close to see
if you figure out who it is. And it's called
site the Bite. Let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
I'm not surprid. Play again, play, I'm not surprid. I'm
not surprised. I'm not surprised. I'm not surprid. All right,
who said I am not surprised? Will anyone get it right?
I'm gonna go call her color five, Lorena, You're so predictable, Ben,
I'm going with four. I didn't say five last week.
(37:36):
I said five last week. We're going to number four.
What about you? Coop color number five? Okayz he coop
cheated off my paper, Loraine. You see that he cheated
off my papers. It's a bad job by him. Okay,
Play again, Play again, Play again, Play again.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
I'm not surprid.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Mike in New Hampshire is in the leadoff chair. Mike,
you and my caller number one, number one? Who is it? Mike?
What'd you say? Is it Stefon Diggs?
Speaker 6 (38:06):
No?
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Think you might be safe out there driving around?
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Buddy?
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Is Mike in New Hampshire? He's not Stefon Diggs? Can
you dig it? Let's go to call her to Coach
Russell in Orlando. Hello, Coach Russell, my caller too.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Hey, good morning, Good morning. We're a six eight chance again,
so I just want to let you know that, but
I'm gonna go with John Robins.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Is that be good? Congratulations Coach Russell. Good job by
you guys. Is that b John Robinson? No, thank you, Coach,
good job that six to eight chance. We want winners.
We got winners on this show time for the first Cluely,
his great grandaunt talked him into staying in the state
of Texas for college. He was gonna leave, but he
stayed in the state of Texas. I'm all right, Lucky
(38:53):
Tony call her number three, Hello, Lucky Tony.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Ben Johnson?
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Is it Ben Johnson? I saved you, Loraina, Thank you.
You're welcome. Tree in Chicago. Tree.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Who is it?
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Tree?
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Oh man?
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (39:08):
David Montgomery?
Speaker 4 (39:09):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
David montgum No broke Ojay's record for most one hundred
yard games in the season last one, Ben Chicago, Kansas City, Ben.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
No.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
It's Eric Dickerson, Eric Dickerson, Eric Dickerson, Eric Dickerson, Eric Dickerson,
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