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October 27, 2025 • 41 mins

Ben Maller talks about Aaron Rodgers' performance for the Steelers in their SNF loss to the Packers, what happened to Mike Tomlin's defense making adjustments, Jerry Jones saying the Broncos beat the Cowboys with "physicality," and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, it's our number one, our number one,
and ready for some fun. Here on the Ben Maler Show.
We survived the weekend. We're back at it here on
this twenty seventh day of October. And here in our
number one we talked about that Sunday night game last night. Also,
don't forget Fifth Hour podcast is available from the weekends.

(00:21):
You can hear the wild tales of Cowboy Buccaroo Benny
and some other stories only available on the podcast, The
Fifth Hour Podcast. But here in hour number one, how
do you explain Aaron Rogers and his performance or lack
thereof in the second half for Pittsburgh. Also, what happened
to Mike Tomlins Steelers defense making any kind of adjustments

(00:45):
as they were caught flat footed time and time again
in the second half. Your reaction outside of that game
in Denver the Broncos with a big win, Jerry Jones
saying the Broncos won that game with physicality over his
Dallas cas Is there some kind of other agenda in
play there for Jerry Jones. We'll talk about all that

(01:05):
and more right now, give it up for our number one.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, it's all about the return of a guy that
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out with the Sunday night game in the Land of

(02:50):
the Insurs, The Land of the Insurs. That's the story,
big game made for TV extravaganza there, and we go
to the confluence. Now why do we go to the confluence,
because that's where they played the game, Right there, where
the Monongahela and the Alleghany get together. They have a
baby and the baby is the Ohio River. So that
is the birth of the Ohio rig right there. It's

(03:12):
great public the PDA type display there and so that
is where the story was. Mike Tariko, Chris Collinsworth. Collinsworth
had his knee pads out for the quarterbacks as he
always does there. And if you didn't see the game,
maybe not eh. It was a game for a half,
game for a half in a quarter about a quarter

(03:35):
not so good, So we watched so you would not
have to. As Jordan Love passed for almost almost four
hundred yards and not one, not two, but three touchdowns
as Green Bay, after falling behind at halftime, sprinted past
the Pittsburg Steelers in the second half. Now, the better story, though,

(03:58):
is in the losing locker room, so that where we
will begin. And despite him down playing it, saying, well,
it was not a revenge game. It will be different.
It was at Lambeau. That'd be Aaron Rodgers. Now, Aaron
Rodgers was put on a pedestal. He was absolutely put
on a pedestal here, and he went against his old team.
We all know the backstory, right, we all know it.

(04:19):
You're listening to a sports talk radio show late at
night here, you know the backstory. So Rogers was out
there doing his thing, and how did that go? Not good?
Not good? Rogers pathetic in the second half in particular there,
And we'll get into it, but here's Rogers, first of all,
pointing out that things just didn't go right in many areas,

(04:43):
including paying attention to what you're supposed to do. Here's
Rogers complaining about the execution of the Steelers.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
We had some discipline issues and some penalties everyone necessary,
and then you're not going to win a lot of
games when we're so bad on third down. Boz built
us out some four incredible kicks, but you're playing good
teams and need score touchdowns and we just stall that
in the high red zone.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
All right, so let us discuss. That's a good jumping
off point. So the question, how do you explain Aaron Rogers'
performance or lack thereof for Pittsburgh in the second half.
So I've got Tommy Hill, figure, eyewash, and tiki bar,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make an outstanding rice cake, which

(05:28):
is about what the Steelers were in the second half,
a rice case. Of course, as you know, it's disgusting
rice cakese who wants to eat that crap? So a
so much for the Aaron Rodgers payback revenge game and
all that stuff, which he tried to downplay, but Mike
gout and Rogers was a big part of it. With
the defense was embarrassing. And we'll get to that here

(05:48):
in a minute. Even if the Packers had not gotten
the benefit of being able to bait the Steeler players
because they're undisciplined into excessive penalties, even if that had
not been the case, the way the Steelers tackled it
would not have mattered. We're starting out with Aaron Rodgers here.
So Aaron Rodgers, who was okay. I wouldn't say he
was great in the first half. He was okay in

(06:10):
the first half. He watched the game forget the stats,
just watched the game and then the second half. If
he was at the movie theater, he would have been
what kind of snack at the movie theater? He would
have been a milk dud is what he would have been.
It was an absolute dud. The shine came off Aaron
Rodgers in the second half there real quick in the
steel City and the first half. I wouldn't say he

(06:33):
was great. I would say he was function functional in
the first half of the game. I thought in the
second half there was this system malfunction from Aaron Rodgers
and it's like someone went in there and unplugged the motive.
It's like the motem got unplugged and he couldn't get connected,
he couldn't get online, Like everything was kind of messed
up there. It's like, what's up with that? The Steelers

(06:55):
actually had a nine point lead at halftime. They're up
sixteen to seven. Not riveting football, but they were up
by nine points. They got the ball to start the
third quarter. Every meatthead ex jock that gets a microphone, Oh,
they have all the moment of oh my god, amenta
shoving up you Tuckers. They had all them momentum, all
them more metim. The Pittsburgh Steelers had all of them metum.

(07:18):
Then they had to play the game, and they rode
the vomit comet in the second half momentum I ass
outscored twenty eight to night. It should have been worse
than that. In fact, in many ways it was worse
than that. It was really twenty eight to three in
the second half. There was a late touchdown there, but
that is not just a leak, okay, that is a
full on pipe burst in the basement, is what that

(07:40):
is what happened in the second half of this game.
And so they got that late touchdown. The garbage time
touchdown was a little bit of a spritz, little sprits.
That was some Tommy Hill figure cologne there right on
top of a clogged toilet, which was the Steelers in
the second half, and they just put a little spritz
of Tommy Hill figure cologne on there, right on top

(08:01):
of the toilet was clogged up Rogers in the second half.
If you take away the charity score game Packers were
playing them would just prevent type defense situation. They had
a two score lead, two scores and two two point conversions,
and so then Pittsburgh goes down the field, they drive
down with Rogers, and they score a touchdown with a
couple of minutes to go in the game. You take

(08:22):
that away because it's really a cheap, garbage time score.
The rest of the second half, Rodgers averaged less than
five yards per pass in the second half. He basically
handing it off sideways. Was the way you would describe
the Pittsburgh Steeters offense there. And people will point out
that the overall numbers for Rogers are not terrible, and

(08:42):
in fact, some would say they're even good if you
just go by the pure stats, Aaron Rodgers overall passer rating,
even after this game on Sunday Night, where he was
not very good in the second half, Rogers still has
a higher passer rating at this point where at week
eight of the season. Now the Packers and steve Ers
next time they play will be Week nine. So Josh

(09:05):
Allen and Patrick Mahomes do not have as good a
quarterback rating as Aaron Rodgers. If I had said in
the offseason, if I said back in July, all right,
whenever Rogers signed, maybe like August, whenever you finally signed,
So right, we're gonna be sitting on the NFL schedule,
Week nine, going in to pass the midway point. It's
seventeen games, so eight and a half weeks is the

(09:26):
midway point of the NFL season. So we're gonna go
in there and Rogers is going to have a higher
passer rating than Mahomes and Josh Allen. He said, okay,
all right, we got something here, all right, the Steels
are gonna be great watch out and uh yeah. And
this is again for those people that dry hump stats.
And stats tell you what has happened, not what's going

(09:48):
to happen. But they also they also tell you a
cloudy version of events that took place, a foggy version
of events that took place. It's like, would you rather
read sheet music? Because you love music, you want to
read the sheet music rather than hear the song. I

(10:08):
would rather hear the song. The stats are the sheet music, right,
that's the musical notes on there, but you really would
rather hear the song rather than just read it. You
get the whole vibe and all that you watch the game.
The mood, Oh, it's all about the mood. The mood
changed after after Rogers flat lined and the Packers' offense

(10:30):
or Packer's offense did whatever they wanted, while Rogers on
the other side with the Steelers forget about it. Now.
Speaking of that, turning the page here, Jordan Love became
the first Packers quarterback since Brett farre to complete twenty
straight passes in a game. Farv did it way back
in oh seven. I was barely alive then. I was

(10:51):
like a kid. I remember Rogers having a big game,
but I was a child. So twenty oh seven for
that performance there. That was his final season green Bay
where he was having problems with Aaron Rogers and so far.
Then left went to the Jets and then the Vikings
and all that, and so be it. But the question

(11:12):
is not so much about Jordan Love. It's the other side.
What on God's green Earth was that by Mike Tomlins
Pittsburgh Steelers defense. What happened to making adjustments? What happened
to improving as the season goes on? Now we saw
the Pittsburgh Steelers get sliced up by Joe Flacco, So

(11:33):
you took the position that they were going to make
that a point of emphasis and they were going to
cut down on their mistakes there and clean some stuff
up they had a mini bye week, they being the
Pittsburgh Steelers. How did that go? The adjustments were non existent,
They were non existent. The Steelers defense just stood there
like they were watching a Matt Nay at the Cineramadome.

(11:57):
They were just enjoying buttered popcorn. What was that? Horrific? Unacceptable,
absolutely unaccepted. Here's Mike Tomlin commenting on one of the
most pathetic defensive performances you'll see in the Black and Yellow,
Black and Yellow, black and Yellow tail is.

Speaker 5 (12:15):
You know, we all have to own it. Certainly, you
start with the schematics, man, because you know that's the
leadership component of it. And certainly we'll be looking at
everything that we're doing, man, because some of these problems
are somewhat repetitive and we're not getting better fast enough. Mike,
I'm not gonna talk too much tonight. We'll take a
look at it. As I mentioned, they made some significant
plays on possession down ball and you know, you got

(12:38):
to get off on third down.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Okay, got it so very important to get off according
to Mike Tomins. All right, So anyway, they say they
went to these Cinerama doomas I said, they had the
buttered pop going there and oh my god. And now
maybe it was just my TV. Sometimes my TV sees
things that other TVs don't see. I have no idea,
but I saw these Steelers playing. I called the cover
m defense, as in the cover Matador. Right, alright, oay, yeah.

(13:07):
If you want miss tackles, check the Steelers are really
good at miss tackles, really good. If you want arm tackles,
they got those two. A lot of arm tackles, a
lot of arm tackles. You want poor pursuit ankle angles
where they come at the wrong direction. You know how
you're supposed to cut down the path. They don't do that.
Never never see that. It's essentially a video on how

(13:31):
not to play defense in the NFL. What the Steelers
are doing on a weekly basis. There's a lot of
people on defense in the secondary in particular, that are
making business decisions, if you know what I'm saying here.
And he allowed the Packers tied end. Who's a good player,
Tucker Craft, who is not that good a player? My god,

(13:54):
Tucker Craft. He went yak aty yack yards after the catch.
There no pushback. And what I've noticed, and the kicker
on this is that they're the most expensive defense, they
being the Pittsburgh series in the entire NFL. They spend
more money on defense than anyone else. They're giving up
now thirty plus points most games. They played seven games.

(14:17):
Four of the seven they've allowed thirty or more points
per game. That's the Pittsburgh Steelers at this particular point.
And the one game where they looked okay against Drake
May and the Patriots, that was more of a byproduct
because the Patriots, I think they had five turnovers in
that game. That was the Ramander Stevenson fumble fumble game there.
But it's not bad luck. It's like I look at

(14:40):
the series we've seen them now in Island games, the
last couple of games against the Bengals and against the
Green Bay Packers, and it's just systemic rot is what
it is. I mean, they're just they're not anywhere close
to being good.

Speaker 6 (14:55):
Now.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
I get I made the mistake, was handicapped the games.
Mike Thomas gonna go in there, going to the the
workshop and figure some things out. It doesn't look like
they figured anything out at all. And so listen, listen,
they're gonna end up winning nine or ten games. They're
over five hundred. As bad as the defense is, they're

(15:15):
still over five hundred. They're a fake contender. They're in
the fake contender zone. The Pittsburgh Seelers at this point
just enough there to kind of trick people into thinking
may matter and that anybody can win it. It's wide
open in the AFC here and nobody is scared of
that defense. But the thing about it too, though, is

(15:37):
you see the guys and it's eye wash in the secondary,
that's the term here. It's the fake hustle where they're
kind of around the ball, but it looks like they're not.
Just based on the eyeball test, it looks like they're
not hustling. It's eye washes. Hustles stunt double, that's what

(15:58):
eye washes, right. It's guys flying around just enough to
get on cameras. So it looks like for the low
information fan that they're in position and looks like they
cared and looks like they're trying, and yet they're not.
This is just ridiculous. So that's where we are on that.

Speaker 6 (16:18):
Now.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
The last thing, we go to Denver where bo Nicks
had not one, not two, not three, but four touchdowns
and JK. Dobbins ran for one hundred and seventeen yards,
no touchdowns, but the Broncos mollywop the once proud Dallas
Cowboys beat them by twenty in the Mile High City.

Speaker 5 (16:38):
Now.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
The better story, though, is in the losing locker room.
So some postgame comments from Jerry Jones. We'll get to
that in a second. Here Dak Prescott, he commented all this,
Dak Prescott, he was swallowed up by the Broncos defense.
I guess, I guess the MVP campaign for Dak Prescott
has gone off the rails at this point.

Speaker 6 (16:59):
Here.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
No touchdowns, two interceptions for Dak Prescott. Here he is
on postgame commentary about the Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 7 (17:07):
Ticulous surprise for sure, it's a good good word to use.
Frustrated as well. Frustrating. Yeah, as you said, right, what
we've been doing, what we're capable of doing, didn't really
ever get it going. Having an opportunity right there in
the first drive of getting down there in the red zone,
being able to have a chance to put put seven
up and settling for a field goal. That that was
the start of.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
It all, right now. Jerry Jones also chimed on this
It was very bizarre. Jerry was praising the Broncos owners.
He was celebrating the ownership group. Being with Walmart family
owns the Broncos. He was celebrating that, and he's like, oh, yeah, yeah,
the great ownership. Want to congratulate the ownership group, he said.
Postgame they beat us physically, their lines beat us, Jerry said,

(17:48):
but their overall team, they did it with a young quarterback.
He said. All right, So question, what is your reaction
to Jerry Jones calling out the cow Boys by praising
the Broncos and celebrating the fact that they won the
game with essentially I'm paraphrasing here with physicality. All right,

(18:09):
So does Jerry Jones know really when he was praising
the Broncos owner I'm wondering, now, does Jerry realize they
did not actually play in the game. Does he realize
that no Broncos owner suited up for the Broncos, none
of them laced it up? So that that was my
first takeaways, Like Jerry kept praising the owners like they
were out there making tackles or they were pushing around

(18:30):
the offensive line of the Dallas Cowboys there, and so
to me, it's coded I look at this as coded.
It's like using invisible ink. Jerry Jones using some invisible ink.
Here its owners speak. Now, what does it mean? It's
you know, my guys meeting Jerry Jones. His team got
punched waylaid in the mouth, and they didn't swing back.

(18:53):
Did not swing back. That's essentially what Jerry Jones is saying.

Speaker 8 (18:56):
Right.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
The Cowboys got treated like they were working at the
Tiki Juice bar at Disneyland, and they served up some
dole whip and nice soft cold doll whip. That's essentially
what the Dallas Cowboys were in this game, getting out muscled,
getting out hustled and out gutted, and not losing in
the margins. You lose in the margins when you hustle

(19:19):
and you muscle around and you play with vim and vigor,
you can still lose that game, but you lose in
the margins. This was not losing in the margins. This
was not that Denver did push around the couch. Oh
the Cowboys shut some guys out. Oh boo hoo, hoo,
boo hoo. Six touchdowns. The Broncos scored six six touchdown.

(19:41):
Bon Nicks did not get sacked. I don't think he
had to wash his uniform after the game. That's the
Cowboys defense that this was trench warfare, is what it was.
And the Cowboys showed up with a NERF gun. Now
it was a good NERF gun, It was a nice
NERF gun, but it was a NERF gun. Is what
it was. Is a ref a random on Brian Schottenheimer.

(20:02):
And just when you thought the Cowboys had turned the
corner and they figured some things out, and that entire
coaching staff got worked over by Sean Payton and his
coaching staff. Here they were raggedalled, manhandled however else you
want to say it, whatever phrase you want to use.
And so Jerry's essentially saying, hey, they're the ones. They
being the Broncos. They had the juice and we had

(20:23):
jello is what we had a lot of jello is
what we had there. And so there you go, physicality
on one side, you had finesse on the other, and
the finesse ends up getting steamrolled Jerry Jones when he
needs to do now, he used to go on a
field trip with the Dallas Cowboys go down to Avery Island.
That's not a real island, but it's in Louisiana, and
every restaurant that has Tabasco sauce, they says, from Avery Island,

(20:45):
you get some of that Avery Island Tabasco sauce, and
from right out of Louisiana there and maybe you grow
some hair on your chest there. If you're the Dallas Cowboys,
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we go, talking about that Sunday night game as the

(23:11):
Green Bay Packers go on the road. Jordan Love dominating
in these primetime games. Three primetime games this season, Jordan
Love has averaged a seventy one percent completion percentage and
three hundred and twenty nine yards per game. I am
told that is good. You'll have to be the judge
of that. What is not good? Well, that would be

(23:33):
the Dallas Cowboys defense. Defense. Yes, so how bad is it?
This would be a bonus fun fact, not the official
fun fact, but a bonus fun fact fun fact. The
Dallas Cowboys have now given up two hundred and fifty
points through eight games. That is a NFL worst average
of thirty one point two five points per game allowed.

(23:55):
So congratulations for the Dallas Cowboys. There tremendously plausibly. You're
saw practice how to play defense. They spend some time
during practice every day working on defense, and that is
what you get right there. They are settling down. That's
part of the problem. They're too calm. They're very, very calm.

(24:16):
And all right, go to the phones. We'll take your calls. Actually,
before we go to the phones, there are people that
would like to speak on the X machine. A bunch
of messages coming in here, so we'll get to some
of those as we just begin the brain spanking new
week here on Fox Sports Radio. Ferg Dog says, I
know you tend to open and with a Mallard MiLoG
on the Sunday Night game, but I want to talk
about the Chargers beat down of the Vikes. Justin Herbert

(24:39):
played like an MVP. The defense completely shut down future
Hall of Famer Carson Wentz go Bolts. All right, So
Ferg Dog, what I want you to do is I
want you to go back on the hot top time
machine till Thursday. So go back to Thursday and Friday,
and there you go. King Roy says this particular Sunday
night game. Now King Roy's in Wisconsin. He says, this
game proves how dominant the Green Bay and why they

(25:01):
are the best team in the NFC. Come January, the
road to the super Bowl will run through the frozen tundra,
says King Roy. So this is this the part of
the broadcast where I point out who are the real
Green Bay Packers? This is the part where I say,
this is the same green Bay Packer team that needed

(25:22):
a flukey touchdown late to beat the lowly Arizona Cardinals.
This is the same green Bay Packer team that lost
lost to the Cleveland Browns with Jordan Love playing quarterback
and they scored ten points in that game. This is
the same Green Bay Packer team, is it not? That
played to a tie a tie against the Dallas Cowboys,

(25:42):
a tie. They gave up forty points the greatest defense
with Michael Parsons forty points in that game. All right'
score to the phones. Let's say lo to eeny meenie money, Moe.
Let's go to Sewn the hood guy. You know things
are not going well for Pittsburgh. If Shawn the Hood
Guy calls and he's a huge Steelers fan, welcome to
the Ben Malors show. Man.

Speaker 10 (26:02):
Come on now, they don't even do me like that.
You know, I'm a fan of this show. I've been
down forever. I'm laughing because this is not Pittsburgh's defense.
I've been to Pittsburgh Stiller fan since the seventies. This
is not the defense that that's you know, required as
our team. You know, they went out and bought all
these They got all these players, and these guys can't

(26:24):
even stop and those bleed. I mean, the offense is
so so. But Metcalfe and Aaron Rodgers playing catch at
U c l A doing the off season don't look
like they mean playing catch to me.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yeah, Hey, what happened to Patrick Queen? I thought he
used to be good. He sucks that guy. He's late,
missing tackles. He was good with the Ravens. I don't
know what happened. I guess he's washed up. He looked terrible.
He looked bad against the Bengals last week too.

Speaker 10 (26:50):
That see why I haven't been calling it because we didn't.
We didn't drop two games. Those guys are embarrassing. Jenden
Ramsey embarrassment, Slay embarrassment. Come on, man, those guys, that's them. Teams.
Let those guys go. And they seem like the Steelers
doesn't the trash and got them up the trash to
try to recycle these guys. This is this is not
good for our team. We didn't drop two games already,

(27:10):
and the vision is weak right now, and nobody's winning
our division right now. But they should be taking advantage
of everybody that we're not. You know, we're we're winning,
but they should be taking more advantage of doing more
because these teams are they can't.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
We are supposed to. They can't. They don't tackle arm tackling,
not in position. That's that's mediocre football. They're mediocre NFL team,
like they always are.

Speaker 10 (27:36):
They at leave the road, get rid of the defensive coordinator,
whoever's calling these players, they're not doing a good job.
It's embarrassing being and I don't know what to say.
You know, I ain't been calling because I don't want
to hear you. I know you even want to jump
on me.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
No, no, I would never. I would never want to
do Why would I want to do that shot? Come on,
it's a lot of fun, though, it is a lot
of fun. I'm gonna say, there's some shot in freude.
There's some shot in freuda there with how the Steelers
are always in the playoffs every year and uh yet
this and they're gonna win like niner you know, eight
or nine. You know they'll win nine or ten, not eight,
because they eight would be eight would be under five hundred.

(28:11):
They'll play the polka music, they'll win a couple of
games they shouldn't win down the line, and then we
get to the playoffs and say, well, if Aaron Rodgers
takes a magic carpet ride, the Steelers are gonna win
the super Bowl. Yeah, my fat ass, that's gonna happen.
So forget about that.

Speaker 10 (28:27):
I put that prediction out there that they were gonna
win like that.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Man, listen, I hear. But you can't only call when
they win. I give you credit, they lost, you called
up there. But some of these guys, you know who
they are, Sean the Hood guy, they're front runners. They
only call up when their team wins. They don't call
up when they lose.

Speaker 10 (28:43):
I call when they lose. I'm gonna call them out.
I'm gonna call them to the carpet before they lose.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
I get down, man, I got you, all right.

Speaker 10 (28:49):
I hate being I'm laughing because I saw your pictures
this weekend. Man, what are you doing with a cowboy
hat on?

Speaker 6 (28:54):
Well?

Speaker 1 (28:54):
I got I got dragged to a party that was
a Western theme party.

Speaker 10 (28:58):
Man, don't do that.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
Well, I mean when you think cowboy, you think city slickers,
you think me. That's what? Yeah, all right, there's Sean
the Hood guy. Yeah, if you want to see those photos,
they're up on the on the Instagram and the Facebook
page some photos of the weekend. And also I got
to tell you the I was in Vegas last week
at the end of the week I was invited to

(29:19):
hang out with the guys on Kfan just kind of
do uh you know, do whatever, you know, do our
thing and and and chill out and uh so I
was invited down there and they did a remote from
this bar at New York, New York, and it's like
by the time I got there, it was like four
in the morning in Vegas, and I don't know what
I'm gonna be here. The place was packed. I've never
seen anything like it. And then these people traveled from

(29:41):
Minnesota to hang out with the guys and it was
not absolutely insane, so at a good time. But there
are photos of the weekend if you want to check
that out on the Instagram page.

Speaker 6 (29:52):
Now.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
The Instagram page is Ben Maler on Fox. The Facebook
page is Ben Mahler Show. So you got Instagram Ben
Maller on Fox. The Facebook page Ben Malers Show. Let's
go back to the phones. Another seasoned veteran in the
Malar militia, a man who brings ribs and other delicious
treats every once in a while when he comes Visit
had been a while, he had me here a long time.

(30:14):
But Rod the ambassador of Bakersville.

Speaker 6 (30:16):
Hello, Rod, Ben, I love you, my brother, and I've
got to apologize for my last appearance. I got a
little loose lipped. I apologize for that. And I want
to say congratulations.

Speaker 11 (30:34):
To the Broncos.

Speaker 6 (30:35):
Coot yeah, and they destroyed those Cowboys, which.

Speaker 11 (30:41):
I absolutely love.

Speaker 6 (30:43):
Thank you very much. Now, Ben, Yes, my big question.

Speaker 11 (30:48):
Is here, sir.

Speaker 6 (30:50):
I think my Green Bay Packers are the phoniest one
lots team.

Speaker 11 (30:57):
In the league right now. I think their defense has
to get better.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
Uh, if they can't a game, that's a good take
right there.

Speaker 6 (31:08):
I like this their phony.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
Look at Dad Rod bringing down the hard cheese, bringing
down the hard cheese for the well, you know what, You.

Speaker 11 (31:17):
Know what, man, I've never ever ever been in the
state of Wisconsin in my life. I'm a bart Star
fan number fifteen. You never played any sport. I wore
number five.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
But you've never been to you never been in Wisconsin.

Speaker 11 (31:33):
Really, I've never been in.

Speaker 6 (31:39):
Packer fan. Well, I was a kid, and they were
they were kicking Penny back in the day, and uh,
you gotta remember it, you know. But between all the
all the championships, uh, the NFL championships and.

Speaker 11 (31:54):
The two super in the Super bowls. Uh, they're like,
uh kind of leading everybody.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Uh that's a long time that's a long time ago
though recently. That's that's okay for you, not for them.

Speaker 11 (32:09):
No, no, no, no, old turn bird. I love you
so much.

Speaker 6 (32:19):
Now listen, if I might bring Grips down, are you
going to be in the damn studio?

Speaker 1 (32:25):
Well, it's called the scheduling situation. And let me know
very important, let us know when you're thinking about coming down.
I'll put you on hold. You can talk to Coop
and you guys can figure out the dates as long hold.
I mean Rod, don't put Rod. Don't bring anybody who
might get us in trouble, you know what I'm saying. Okay,
all right, all right, yeah, No. Rod brought a buddy

(32:47):
of his that was completely sauced and we had to
Unfortunately Rod drove all the way to l A from
Bakers who we had to kick him out no, because
his buddy was really bugging us and we had to
get rid of him.

Speaker 6 (32:56):
Dude.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
He was like, not quite as bad as Michael Leprechaan
who almost got us fired. But in that dimension, in
the multiverse, in that dimension, so the eye of the
dolphin to a tongue of eyloa. What a couple of weeks.
This guy called out his Dolphin teammates for not attending
meetings this past week. He said he's too short, that's

(33:19):
why he didn't throw passes to Jalen Waddle in the
last game. And then he goes out courtesy of the
Atlanta Falcons. How's Robbie the Falcon fan doing? We know
how Robbie the Falcon fan? How's Tommy and Atlanta doing?
My god to a tongue of iloa looking like he
was at Alabama playing a directional game, one of those
dirretional schools in the opening game of the season. My god,

(33:41):
as he had a swollen eye. They claim his eye
was swollen shut on Sunday morning. How dramatic. And he
then went out there and he shoved it down the
throat of the Atlanta Falcons. A swollen eye, it's called allergies.
From what I understand, it's called allergies. It happens. Must
have been something he ate in Atlanta possibly that messed

(34:04):
him up.

Speaker 11 (34:05):
There there you go.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
So as McDaniel, who needs a latte, pointed out, he said,
it's something to do with He said, some kind of
medication that will take care of allogies. This is what
to it needed. And then he went out and well
that helps too, and just dominated, just absolutely dominated. It
is the Ben Maler Show. If you'd like to be
part eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. That's eight

(34:29):
seven seven nine nine six six three six nine time
now though for the who Am I game? This is
where I pretend to be somebody else. So Aaron Rodgers
has well, he's now lost to twenty nine teams and
never played the Packers and lost to them. He's lost
to them now and so Rodgers has now lost to
twenty nine teams. As a starter that is too shy

(34:51):
of the all time record, which is currently shared by
Derek Carr, Joe Flacco and me again, Aaron Rodgers has
now lost to twenty nine of the thirty two members
of the cartel as a starter that's too shy of
the all time record, which is shared by Derek Carr,
Joe Flacco and me. Who am I? That is the question.

(35:14):
The answer, We'll get to it. We'll do it next.

Speaker 9 (35:16):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
Bill Miller and you. It is the Ben Maller Show,
the Yackety Yack yards after catch the Steelers defense not
tackling in Green Bay. Packers taking full advantage of that,
and then some take your calls at eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox. Also on ex at Ben Mahler.

(35:45):
That's at Ben mal If you'd like to be part
of the live program. And we mentioned this earlier, but
don't forget you're a night owl. You're with us all
night long. We use x during the show. However, there
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(36:07):
Ben Maler's show. Behind the scenes, the overnight Circus does
not end. It does not stop. The overnight circus there
the tent never closes, so support it not back to it.

Speaker 11 (36:21):
Thank God for the Internet.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
I'll pay off the who am I game in a minute,
but first, the play of the day. You'd say, this
is low hanging fruit. The Buffalo Bills had a week
off after losing back to back and belly to belly
to the Patriots, which at the time seemed like a
bad loss. Now the Patriots keep winning beating up tomato cans,

(36:42):
and the Bills also lost to the Atlanta Falcons. But
they were back at it against the Carolina Panthers and
they really didn't even need their quarterback Josh Allen because
they were cooking. And that leads us to our play
of the day. Take a list and.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
Off to Cook through a hole and talked it to
the opening and he is g Ohn.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
He gone twenty.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
Ten five touchdown James Cook as the cook is in
the kitchen for the first time in three games.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
Actually we call it an end zone. He scored two touchdowns,
so that was a sixty four yard run. That is
the tire Iraq play of the day, James Cook, have
yourself a day. Two hundred and sixteen yards rushing. He
averaged eleven yards per carry for the Bills as they
get back in the win column. And that is the
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James Cook two hundred and sixteen yards of the ground.
Josh Allen had one hundred and sixty three yards passing.
In the game. Course of the game, gifted by Carolina,

(38:01):
they started Andy Dalton, and oh my god, the Carolina
Panthers began the game punt fumble, field goal punt interception,
missed field goal, punt fumble. So good they suck all right? Anyway,
Time now to pay off the who am I?

Speaker 6 (38:18):
Game?

Speaker 1 (38:18):
This is where I pretend to be somebody else else.
We call it the who am I? Game? And we
go back to the Sunday night game where Aaron Rodgers
is now lost to twenty nine teams as a QB
one as a starter. That's too shy of the record,
which is held by and shared by Derek Carr, Joe
Flacco and me. Who am I? That is the question.

(38:41):
What is the answer? This is anyone in the mallad
militia know the answer. We go through a bunch of
random name Scrooge who's in the younger demo. He's in
Northern California. Screen that show knowledge. He's going with a
great pumpkin as his answer. Malibur Rubin says Cliff Stout
sfl legend from the Stallions. Who else the real Martin's

(39:03):
going with a great Jim Beam as his answer. Uh,
Paige down, Paige down, Donald Driver and his white teeth
guessed by Big Lou. He's on number two alf the
alien o. Piner checks in with lemon pepper wings. You

(39:24):
realize if the Atlanta Falcons had put a plate of
lemon pepper wings under center, they would have done as
well as they did with Kirk. Cousins says me. Femi
going with Carson Wentz is his answer. Paullyd says the goat,
Tom Brady Shane in Des Moines going with Twins Hall

(39:44):
of Famer Ron Garden higher as his answer. Harbo from
ferg Dog hollering James guest by Malard prop guy. Good
image there, Oh, look James's movie. He's shaking his belly.
Lorraine Uh from King and he says the costume there
the girl obsessed with pinkles, Pickles, it's a great costume.

(40:07):
You like that costume. Meg Ryan guests by Manuel In Guardena.
That's his answer, mister, mister irrigation. Mister Irrigation says the
well traveled brock Osweiler is the answer. Ryan Klesco of
the Atlanta Rips guess by mister Niska, not the Potters,
the Atlanta Braves, but no logo on his hat. John

(40:27):
Wayne guessed by Rod J. Fiedler from Freeman. Who else
we have? Page down? Uh see real Martin wants more
Bronco propaganda. He says, you failed to mention the Broncos
have scored on offense seventy seven points the last five quarters. Unbolievable. Okay,
there you go. Some Bronco porns or smokes a lot.
Going with a great Bambino is his answer. Who else

(40:50):
we have? A Reek says you are Ben Maller in
the initials game. Hey, I did get one right? Kind
of the They kept playing and I did get one right.
I didn't get shut out. I'm told by the way
that I did better than the Viking coach. Anyway, who
didn't get any right? Lorraine? Do you have an answer? Lorraine? Yes,
I'm gonna go with Hannibal Lecter bet all right, Hannibal
elector let's see here. No, Aaron Rodgers now has lost

(41:10):
to twenty nine teams as a starter, too shy of
the record held by Derek Carr, Joe Flacco and mister
mister alimited Russell without Mussel, Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson's the
other name. That's what we're looking for.
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