November 11, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Packers losing a low-scoring game to the Eagles on MNF and if Jordan Love belongs in the elite category of QBs, how the trade for Micah Parsons is working out for the Packers, the current state of the Eagles, and more!
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Here in our number one, the Eagles edge out the Packers.
Does Green Bay's Jordan Love belong in the elite category
of quarterbacks? Certainly didn't play like it in that game.
And how is the edge rusher Micah Parsons and his
trade from Dallas to Green Bay working out for the Packers.
We'll discuss that. What's the pulse of Nick Sirianni's Eagles,
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a team that gets another grinded out win on the
road in Chiley, Wisconsin. We'll talk about the state of
the Philadelphia football team right now here it is our
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We'll start out at the in Tundra Lombowl Field. Jalen
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Hurts and the boys that loved the Toush Push taking
on the guys that don't like the Toush Push. They
tried to have it banned from the NFL. It's a
it's a bad blood matchup here. Jordan Love and the Cheeseheads,
a key NFC battle Royale. A chamber of commerce kind
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of night there in Northern Wisconsin. Why was it a
chamber of commerce kinda night? Kickoff? Temperatures in the low thirties.
It was thirty three degrees a kickoff. Welcome to mid
November football in Northern Wisconsin. The home team a slight
favorite at the beginning of the week the game, some
of the books had the game of pick them. By
the time they kicked off on Monday night, you had
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Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, the Fox Refugees, who were
there calling the game on the boob tube? Did you watch?
Were you riv? No? You were? What else were you doing? Okay?
I got you. Well, we watched so you would not
have to. It was our public service. And this game,
despite what Joe Buck was trying to sell, was a
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yon Fest call that a hollering James special, A lot
of snoring, A lot of snoring. You missed the first
scoreless tie of the NFL season, the first scoreless tie
in a couple of years in the NFL. You had
one highlight, if you want to call that, Jalen Hurts
hitting a thirty six yard catch and run for a
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touchdown as DeVante Smith made the play there as the
phil at deelf Eagles. That was the only touchdown of
the game. The Eagles defense made some plays, not that many.
He didn't have to make many plays. Jordan Love's not
very good. And ten to seven your final that's right,
ten to seven. That was it. Seventeen points in the game,
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and it goes to the team on the road. On
Monday night, the Packers go down Brandon McManus because of
some coaching miscues by Nick Siriatti. Brandon McManus had an
opportunity to tie the game. We've been a game time
sixty four yard field goal? How did that go? As
time ran out? No, I were close. It didn't even
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make it into the actual Green Bay in green Bay.
Nowhere there, so nowhere close. So green Bay second straight loss.
Now the Packers are five to three and one. They
drop into third place, third place in the NFC North
behind Detroit and Chicago. So this is a painful night
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of football the results of that, and the Packers, who
did have the top record in the NFC, they were
at the very top in the NFC. That was back
on November second. They've now they lost to Carolina at home.
That's embarrassing, tied the Dallas Cowboys, that's embarrassing. And now
they're barely hanging on by their fingernails. At this point,
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the Green Bay Packers for the seventh and final playoff
spot in the National Football Conference. So there's not a
guarantee that the Packers end up making the playoffs. And
Jordan Love in particular is getting charbroiled for his suck
bag performance in this game. He gets the brunt of
the raspberries for a royal stinko performance. There for Jordan Love,
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and that is a good jumping off point as we discuss.
So the question, after another week performance by Jordan Love,
after another pathetic performance, does Jordan Love, the green Bay quarterback,
belong in the elite category of quarterbacks? That's the question.
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What's the answer? So on this one, I've got Marvel,
spin Off, Culvers and the lou and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make some delicious cheese fondue. Yum, yum to my Tom, Tom,
hell me just outstanding. So hey. To answer the question
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Jordan Love is he's not even in the same zip code.
If there was a town called Elite Town, he would
not be in the zip code of elite Town. Do
we all agree on that? Okay, everyone's great, very good.
He is the antithesis of elite. They said, well, this
was just a bad game. Well this seems seems we've
been a lot of these bad games for Jordan Love.
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He averaged in this game less than five yards per
pass attempt. Now, the argument for the Jordan Love marching
in Chada society is, well, he didn't have Tucker Kraft,
the breakout star for Green Bay. He's out for the
year with injury, and Tucker Kraft was a guy would
run through defenses like a wrecking ball, right ram right
right through defenses, and so Glove without him, did love
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Ella eight anyone else? No, he was a glorified checkdown artist,
and he did not did not elevate to anyone else
on that offense, and did not set them up. Finished
with a passer rating below seventy, which I don't think
is all that good. Had a fumble key fumble as
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Green Bay was matriculating the ball down the field and
they were going to get at least a field goal
attempt before halftime, and Jordan Love he fetched around, fumbled
the ball there and just handed it back to Philadelphia,
which cemented the first half scoreless tie. Now the Eagles,
whether they're legit, and yeah, they're legit, the Eagles are
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or another solid team this year. There's product. They won
the Super Bowl last year. They're obviously could this year. However,
I go back to the resume of this Green Bay
Packer team. You tied a bad cowboy team. That's a
bad Dallas cowboy team. You tied them. You lost at
home to Carolina. That should be like four losses. Carolina
just got their doors blown off by the Saints, and
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you lost at Cleveland the Browns. You lost to the Browns.
So that's that should be worth three losses. So they
should really have if you do the math on this,
like six losses based on this. And you can lose
to those teams, right, You can lose to those teams,
uh and and and you did, but you're gonna get
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killed for it, right, And you can't be in the
elite conversation when you're you lose even once in a while,
you're gonna have a stinker against an inferior opponent. But
you can't convince anyone when you lose those type of
games that you're an ascending football player. And that's the
issue here for Jordan Love and and the fact that
Love is lacking that Gennisi quah. He is right, that
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spark that magic dust I don't see it, at least
not on a weekly base. There have been flashes of it,
usually when he plays the Dallas Cowboys. He seems to
play very well. Could that be I don't know, the
Cowboy defense. Could that be why he's playing well? I'm
just saying, but Jordan Love is part of what we
called the trust fund generation of quarterbacks. And this is
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something that's changed in my lifetime. And someone is going
to write a great book about this. There'll be a
great docu series about what's gone on in the NFL
the last five years or so. It is fascinating. There
was always this mindset in the NFL. You really got
to prove it before you got the big money. You
had to prove it. You had to show that you
were legit. And at some point the money got so
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cartoonish in the NFL, so ridiculous in the NFL, they
just said, I screw it, We'll just pay everybody, right,
We'll just pay these guys. All got so rich, these
NFL teams because it's the only thing people watch live
on television. Everything else is on demand, right, Nobody watches
stuff live anymore. He's watch it when you want to
watch it. This is the only communal experience left in
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American television. And so they got so much money. At
this point, the salary cap keeps going up. It's like
faster than bitcoin back in twenty twenty one, right, just
keeps going up and up and up, and the league
so flushed. They're like a drug cartel and they're trying
to get rid of the cash. They have so much cash.
It's the it's in the washing machine, it's it's in
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the dishwasher, it's in the sink, it's everywhere. And so
they're the accountants are essentially their money laundering, and they're
doing it by paying these suck bag quarterbacks. It is wild.
It is I mean serious. I mean you look at
some of the guys that got paid that really suck
like we all agree and they're not good, Like, how
did this happen? And it happened because there's so much money,
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they just had to give everyone the money. The quarterbacks
all got. Jordan Love, unproven got two hundred and twenty
million dollars, an NFL record at the time. I don't
know if it's been broken. Seventy five million signing bonus.
Seventy five million in the signing bonus for Jordan Love.
Criminal criminal, absolute heist, absolutely heist with Jordan Love got
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from the Green Bay Packers. My god. And you look
around and Love is sitting there at the kiddy table
in the quarterback group, and you've got on one side
of the table. You've got to a tongue of our law.
You got Trevor Lawrence right in front, and then you've
got Kyler Alligator Arms Murray. Now this is actually a
Marvel spinoff. The late great stan Lee came up with
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the Fantastic four for Marvel. Well, this group of quarterbacks
is we'll call them the Boorresome Forsome, those four. So
think about these guys. All nothing in play. Kylermbers already benched.
Trevor Lawrence just lost to the Houston Texans, did nothing
in the fourth quarter of Note I did the Malor
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math on this. If my math is correct, the Boresome
Forsome of Trevor Lawrence, Kyler Murray, Jordan Love and to
a tongue of by Loa have gotten contracts worth nine
hundred and thirty million dollars. Let me repeat that for
those of you a little slow in the back of room.
Nine hundred and thirty million dollars for the Marvel spinoff
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the Borsom force them. Wow, that is the price of
delusion in the NFL, where potential gets paid like production.
Didn't used to be like that, but now you do.
That's how you do it. That's the nerd taking over
the NFL. Well, we don't want to pay someone for
what they have done. We want to pay them for
what they're going to do. So what you end up
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doing is gambling your betting that these guys are going
to live up to your projections. Unfortunately, there's the human
element where most of these guys don't live up to that,
and then you end up with the Borsom Forsome getting
nine you know what, a bestling, nine hundred million dollars.
This is gonna be an amazing documentary. Holy crap, they
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all suck. They all got paid two hundred million dollar contracts,
every one of them. Trevor Lawrence is like two seventy
five blows. It's wild. He is so great. Like, listen,
Jordan Love was born at the right time. He was
born under the right star. It's a green and gold
star and it shaped like a dollar sign. So good
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for him, Good for him. I'm not listen, I'm not
blaming them. These teams are stupid. They're run by smart idiots,
Ivy League educated academia. They're idiots giving those contracts out. Criminal, criminal,
and it's fomo. They were all afraid fear of missing out,
fear of missing out. Now digging deeper, the question also
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when we talk about the Packers. How about the edge
rusher Micah Parsons. Let's do a deep dive on that
at this point. So Michaeh. Parsons the big story in
the NFL coming over from the Dallas Cowboys. So how
is that Micah Parsons trade working out for the green
Bay Packers as we sit here week ten? Now in
the books we head on to week eleven, so ten
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weeks in to the set game season and green Bay
currently holding on barely, barely by their fingernails, as we said,
and they're biting their fingernails for that final playoff spot.
It's like the cheeseheads traded for a treadmill, because what
they got most of these games. Now, I don't watch
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every second of every Packer game, but when I've watched
the Packers, what I have seen from Micah Parsons is
TV guys wearing knee pads talking about him, and then
when I watch him actually on the field, it's like
he's getting a nice workout in it's Cardio. In this case,
it was Cardio Knight for Micah Parsons, and he had
let me do the math of this. So he had
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zero sacks, zero quarterback kids, zero tackles for loss. Hmm, okay,
is that good? I don't know. I just do an
overnight talk show. Is that good? Does anyone think that's good? Okay?
All right now? His biggest impact, and I might be
wrong on this, I believe the biggest impact that Mikeah
Parsons had was he took a selfie at halftime with
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some soldiers. They were honoring the military there, and I thought, well,
that was kind of cool, cool move, bro, way to
go right. But that said, you're getting paid one hundred
and thirty six million guaranteed from Green Bay. I don't
think they're paying you that to run a photo booth,
but maybe they are. I don't know how they can
set you up on the mezzanine there at Lambeau. They
have got that nice big event haul where they have
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weddings and things. You can go in there and put
a photo booth up and knock yourself out in the
main concourse, have a great time. But man, really, the
way Parsons played, at least in this game, you could
have gone down to Culver's and gotten a bag of
cheese curds from Culvers and that would have had the
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same amount of impact plays as Micah Parsons, and at
least you know with that you get the cheese curds there.
They're delicious and satisfying. Michah Parsons I know about that.
He was totally boxed up, totally boxed up in this
game and the Eagles and everyone's doing the same thing.
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He's like, well, Parsons is good, so we'll just scheme
against him and the offensive line when they did go
his direction there, they neutralized Micah Parsons and he was
pretty much just background. It was a classical music you'd
hear in the background, and that's it. That's what he was.
And so mostly false adversary. He was built as a
game wrecker. A game wrecker, I've not seen that. Have
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you seen that? Am I missing? Maybe I'm missing something.
Am I getting a different feet of the Green Bay Packers?
Maybe that's it. I don't know because I haven't seen it.
If you look at ROI return on investment for Micah Parsons,
could the Green Bay Packers have been third place in
the division if they hadn't traded? And now I like
the fact that they did it, but they're not very good.
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They're not They tied the Cowboys they lost to Carolina,
lost the c That's not a good football team. And
so Parsons looks like a very expensive cardio machine, the
kind of thing you know people buy. They say the
number one waste of money for homes is the treadmill
or the workout device that you buy and then you
just hang clothes on it because you don't actually use
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it all.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Right.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Now, last word on the Philadelphia side of things. Here,
question what is the pulse of the birds? Nick Sirianni's
Eagles here? What is the pulse of the Eagles as
they get another grinded out wind and this one in
an island game at Lamba Field, So you know what
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the Eagles are. I had this epiphany as I was
making the long drive in on the winding road from
the north Woods here into the main studio. The Eagles
have mastered the Picasso. Yeah you know what that means.
So it's like going to the tulou in Perie and
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you know, you go in there and you can't quite
and I've never been there. I've seen photos now you
can't quite tell what you're looking at, and everyone's there
because you're supposed to be there. But most people don't
give a crap about art. I don't really care about this,
but you're supposed to go, you go, and so you
show up and you're like, well, that's kind of stupid.
What is that? But it's abstract. The way the Eagles
are playing, it's abstract. It's confusing, somewhat successful, I guess valuable.
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They're winning another cold night rock fight, and I don't
know if rock fight is the way we're throwing pebbles,
not really rocks. Little pebbles is what they were throwing.
Not bombs, definitely not bombs in this game. And so
let's not kill herself. Jalen Hurts had been playing well.
If you watched Benny versus the Penny on YouTube, which
I know you did, we talked about Jalen Hursts the
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last few games and how good he had been playing,
and he had had a bunch of touchdown passes, only
one interception I believe, and thrown for a good amount
of yards by his standards. Jalen Hurts was playing at
a very high level. Coming into this game. He was
not sharp at all. Was this the weather. If that's
the case, it's problematic. It gets cold in Philadelphia too.
He completed less than sixty percent of his passes, and
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he had a funnel not quite in the red zone,
but kind of close to the red zone where he
fumbled there. And that was on the opening drive of
the game for the Eagles. How about AJ Brown? They
refuse to trade AJ Brown? The trade deadline is coming gone,
they being the Philadelphia Eagles. AJ Brown might as well
have been running wind sprints in the combine, and you
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know they do the forty yard dash of the combine
in your underwear. He might as well have been wearing
his underwear. He didn't need his shoulder pads or a
helm or anything like that. What can Brown do for you? Well,
what can Brown do for you? Two catches thirteen yards?
Two catches thirteen yards for AJ Brown? You're paying the
guy eighty four million dollars. You targeted him three times.
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Am I the bad guy for bringing that up? Maybe
I am? Now you do get the sideline pout and
I have not seen I'll try to dig up. I'm
sure he had some kind of nonsense in the locker
room postgame. That's normally how this goes, passive aggressive stuff.
Even Nick Sirianni screwed this thing up. If you saw
the game. Late in the game, up a field goal
fourth and eight and inside Green Bay territory, Nick Sirianni decided, rather,
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you don't kick the field I don't blame him not
kicking the field goal. Why can't you coffin corner kick it? Why?
Why did they stop doing that? Very rarely do you
see that when you just punt it out of bounds,
corner kick it out of bounds inside the ten yard
line and that's it, and then make the Green Bay
Packers have to go down and there wasn't really enough
time to do anything, but you turn the ball over
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on downs, you went for it on fourth and eight.
You then allowed because of that decision, you allowed the
Packers for the hail Mary field goal, which it turned
out wasn't It wasn't close, But Sirianni would have been
absolute and would have deserved to be destroyed for that
that decision. It was coaching chaos. It worked out for
him because they won, So thats all is forgetting forgotten.
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It's nice bodies and all that stuff, and they almost
always win. It seems. The Eagles are seven and two.
They're technically tied with Seattle for the top record in
the NFC. However, they have the tiebreaker, so they are
currently the number one seed in the entire NFC. And
it seems like most of these games for the Eagles,
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most of these games is it's a disaster in terms
of style points. You know, it's an esthetic disaster, That's
what I'm trying to say for the team from Philadelphia.
Yet on the scoreboard, it's it's a masterpiece. Back in
the old day, it is one of the catchphrases of
Jim Rome was scarboard. You know, that was big back
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in the day. Not anymore as like thirty years ago.
But they win winning ugly, winning ugly. And do not
confuse this like they're not invincible. They're not unbeatable. Like
if you're Seattle, oh they got Sam Darlin about that.
But if you're the Rams somebody like that. You know,
you look at Philadelphia is they almost beat them the first time,
you idiot kicker f that up, So you're not really
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that concerned. The Eagles don't scare you. They win a lot,
they don't really scare They don't have the fear factor
in Philadelphia. They don't. And these Picasso wins they look
pretty good. I hang them up in a museum. You're
not gonna win like that most of the time. It's
certainly not in the playoffs. It is the Ben Mahlor
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He's going to go to the bathroom on company time.
Coop believes in taking a dump on company time. It's
fascinating every night, same thing. Anyway, let me take your
call back to it, all right, and the Green Bay
Packers go down. They go down at home. And that's
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the ten years over ten years of the making, gonna
go back to the last time the Green Bay Packers
lost back to back at home. Well, first time since
twenty thirteen barely alive in twenty thirteen. My god, Billy,
I don't know what was going on ever so long ago.
That's the last time. It's been a minute. It has
been a minute. The nurse jockey writes, Since says, was
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it a boring game? Yeah, but if you want a
boatload of dough by betting on the birds, it was
be beautiful. Eat hey gee hell eat hey, goes, says
nurse jockey. Yeah. I had Philadelphia too, I went a boatload.
But it's nice to see them win. Doc Dan from
Minnesota says, I remember when I remember when teams used
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to fear trips to lambeau Not so much anymore. It's
been a long time since people feared going to lambeau Field.
It's been a long time they have. There used to
be a point where teams did not know how to
prepare for cold weather. Everyone knows how to prepare for
cold weather. They have all the creature comforts. It's nice cold.
It's the worst thing. You get the wool socks, and
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you get the heaters and the heat and your hands
go numb. I think about the players out there, and
it's like icicle fingers there are right, they get pital
on mine. They can do it. They have all the
bells and whistles and the heat packs and all. It's
not that. And don't they have like sideline heaters. Yeah,
they got heaters on the sidelines. They got those handwarmers,
those things. Get helmets. Yeah, well I don't know about that.
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They have gloves, and they have all kinds of stuff.
They wear Scooba suits. Some of those guys gets really cold,
they'll wear Scooba suits. King Roy writes and says, Jordan
Love is far from being elite. But he's not the problem.
It's the incompetent coaching. He has played Matt Lafleur. He is.
He's playing Matt Lafleur for someone who is coaching for
a new contract. He is doing everything possible to not
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get one time for a new head coach. It's a
bad call. It's a bad call by me. In title Town.
How bad is the Packer offense? The last seventeen possessions,
the Green Bay Packers have twenty points. Twenty points? Yeah,
there you go. What else do we have? Scrooge says,
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the last two weeks, every game I've seen has either
been a twenty plus point blowout, or where teams spend
the whole game not scoring. Bory Scrooge, who's in the
Younger Demo, says, the trauma that I have suffered this
week tell me that the football gods are going to
sabotage all the games I watch. He says, I guess
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he meant not sabotage the games I watch, aside from
the Raiders self sabotage. I hear you now. Tacoma Drew
is a big fan of Micah Parsons, and he believes
that my criticism of Micah Parsons was unwarned. He says. Look,
he says, Ben, you are smart, and you and I
both know quarterback pressures is the stat that matters. I
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am the startest man, and Mikah leads the NFL with
forty four quarterback pressures, which is quite essential the stat
that matters, all right, And I would counter that to
Coma Drew by saying, do you actually watch the games?
Like I could just go. I have a bunch of
stat websites I go to, and I can look up
all the stats and all that, but if you actually
watch the impact plays during the game, I've not seen
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Micah Parsons make too many impact plays. He certainly didn't
make them in this particular game. If you just want
to go by the box score, and that's the type
of fan or I don't think that's a good fan.
I think that's a bad fan. But that's fine if
you believe Tacoma drew that just by reading the box score,
that's all you need, and to not actually watch the
context of the freaking game. Okay, my god, let's see
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Michael bar Let's see how many quarterback hits he had.
Zero quarterback hits, zero tackles for loss, more, zero sacks.
I'm sure he had a lot of pressures. He had
a lot of pressures, tons of pressure. Let's go to
the phones and we'll say hello to eeny Meanie, mighty mall.
Let's go to Jed who fled Who's next? Stuff? The
man had a heart attack last week, although it has
(29:27):
not slowed him down. Hello, Jed, who fled.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
The Florida State football football program. Having an art attack
slowed him down? Well, yes, substantially.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Never mind?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Does it just slows them down substantially? But I'm saying,
are we going to power coach?
Speaker 6 (29:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Because are we.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Starting with Florida State seminole talk? Is that what we're doing?
Are we beginning the night by talking about the seminoles
of Florida? Sta? What is it nineteen ninety five? Is
Bobby Bouten now the coach again? What are we doing?
Speaker 6 (30:00):
Dan?
Speaker 3 (30:01):
I've been playing this latest intervention called a game boy.
They said game boys, Rance, and I've been playing Spider
Man on it. It's ninety ninety five? Where are you?
How about this? How about this? How did the Green
Bay Packers hit on Greg Taller, Aaron Rodgers and Jorge
g Love?
Speaker 6 (30:19):
Are they?
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Is the general management working with satan or Andrea from
astrology World? How are they getting of these pigs rights?
Why does not a plot to state quarterback work into
their plans?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Go going? No, no, no, no, no, no no no,
you have nothing to say. I gotta go. I thank you.
It's it's it's not you. It's really just you. That's solid.
So guy says is good night. His name is Tie.
He says, I'm a new caller and I'm waiting. Is
that I do know? Is that Terry? Is that you? Terry?
(30:54):
And Minnieapos? Are you? Are you Tie? On social media?
Is that you?
Speaker 3 (30:59):
No?
Speaker 5 (30:59):
I'm not on social media for Minneapolis.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
This guy's a fraud. This guy's a fraud. This guy
saying you're the only guy with a T in the
name there, I say, I don't know what that. What's
up with that? Anyway? What's going on? Terry? Welcome?
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Hey.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
So you know last week.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
I took the malaos, right, and uh, some Texter decided
to take a shot at me and claim that I'm
from the lineage of hollering James and I just wanted
to let that person know I come from old school comedy,
you know, like Monty Python, you know, mel Brooks. So
when I state your name, I state your name.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Thing.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
It was a bit it got allowed.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Oh, don't care about the haters. Listen, you are a star,
You've taken the oath. Don't care about the haters, Terry,
You're at a different level of celebrity. Those guys are losers.
They don't understand comedy. And I thought it was hilarious.
He was great, Who cares about the haters?
Speaker 6 (31:48):
All right? Good? So then now let's move on.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
So I sent you an email this weekend, which I
know you don't respond, and that's all good. I was
just laughing hysterically watching my Vikings because it was so
bad that I couldn't do anything but laugh. So then
all I could think about was like, how hard you
must have been laughing if you tapping to turn on
that game.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Well here's the thing, though, I've noticed. The thing about
the Vikings I've noticed this year is when they wean
and like McCarthy will make a play late in the
game or something like that, It's it's like calls and
emails like, oh McCarthy's so good, Oh man, we got
our guy. And then he goes out there and plays
like he did against Baltimore. Suddenly I don't hear those calls.
I don't know what happened. Where did those people? Where
(32:27):
do those people go?
Speaker 1 (32:28):
There?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
They go into hiding, and then when the Vikings win
a game, they come back. Is that how that works?
Speaker 6 (32:33):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you know. I mean it's like I
don't get it either.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
All my friends do the same thing, and I'm just sitting.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
There going, what the heck? Man? This is? This is horrible.
I can't this is not who wants to watch this?
You know?
Speaker 5 (32:43):
I was hoping that they were gonna pull one of
those moves where they went to a different.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Game just so that it would Yeah, that would be funny.
We're now we're leaving the local station in Minnesota is
now leaving the game to go show a regional broadcast
of another NFL game. Now, that would have been good.
Speaker 6 (33:01):
I loved it. But anyway, that's all right.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Thank you, all right, thank you, Terry. There's a Terry
checking in from Minneapolis. Yeah, it's pretty pretty amusing, man,
JJ McCarthy thing. I guess it's that Minnesota nice. If
you have nothing nice to say, you don't say anything.
But he was like he didn't even play that well
when they've won. He was terrible against the Bears. The
Bears in that game until the fourth quarter, and made
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a few plays in the fourth quarter in Minnesota. One
was cold, it was cold, one and cold. Then was
it what do you tell me it was? Was it was September.
It wasn't cold in September. So he made a few plays.
He won that game, Okay. Then he came back beat
the Lions, and again he was all that good in
that game. Didn't turn the ball over in terms or
I had one interception, but it wasn't like it wasn't
(33:47):
a disaster. But he it was fine. I think it
was great. Only had like one hundred and forty something
yards passing in that game. And so but he's like,
oh did you see McCarthy. Oh my god, it's so good,
old man. I was like, what are you doing? Like
what is that? Anyway, it is the Ben Mahler Show.
As we are navigating our way through the overnight. If
you'd like to chime in, you can do it right now,
(34:11):
say hello, we will by the way next hour. I've
been asked to promote next hour. Ask a weed man,
ask a meet a weed man returns next hour, So
that'll be coming up for you. Check that out time
now though for the who am I? Game? This is
where I pretend to be somebody else. As the Packers
(34:31):
lost on the Monday night game, however, Green Bay's Josh
Jacobs became the first player with a touchdown run in
nine straight home games since me? Who Again? Josh Jacobs
of the Green Bay football team became the first player
with a touchdown run in nine straight home games since me?
(34:52):
Who am I? That is the question. The answer. We'll
get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
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Speaker 5 (35:36):
Thank God for the Internet.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Bonus hot takes, pop up Ask Ben segments only available
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It never ever closes, even during the day. It's available
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to it at time. Now for the big payoff on
the who who am I going to? Actually, before we
do the payoff on the who am I gave? Let's
go let's go to the phones and oh the guy
I was gonna go to, Well, let's go to gutter.
We'll go to Gunner. He's gonna hang up anyway. Gunner
one of the worst callers we have, but he's back. Hello, Gunner, welcome.
Speaker 6 (36:18):
Hello. Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (36:23):
No? Can't?
Speaker 6 (36:26):
You can't carry it off? Well, then how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Can you hear him? I can't. I can't hear you.
I'm curious where they're at. I think maybe I'll turn
them up a bit. Well, they use what they do
is they use like a tin can in a string.
I tried that when I was Yeah, yeah, it's it's
the phone service they have there. It's right distance, like
like a mile from the Canadian border or something.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Can you hear him?
Speaker 2 (36:51):
And now? Yah? This call, this call, this call is
actually it's actually going as well this call as the
Carolina Panthers performance against the Orleans Saints. It's going very well.
Speaker 6 (37:02):
Well, Ben, it's because they went to my high, and
you talked about not going to my high. But we
have some real momentum in the my high. Super Bowl champions, right,
NBA moment champions In the next future.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Momentum momentum doesn't exist so.
Speaker 6 (37:21):
Well, well, momentum definitely exists. The morning guys about it, Well, I.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Don't listen to them, so who cares? It doesn't affect
me at all. They can talk about Yeah, I don't
know who the you know momentum? To me, it doesn't.
I'm worried about my world. I don't care about other
people's shows. Why don't you call them and talk about momentum?
I don't give it a crapper. They talk about momentum,
what's that?
Speaker 6 (37:44):
Well, let's talk some Clippers. You want to talk some Clippers?
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Why would I talk clippers? The NBA doesn't the You
realize the NBA season does not start until Christmas. It's
not even Thanksgiving, and and really we got to push
that back because the NFL now plays on Christmas, So
really we got to push that back. The NBA season
starts about what do you think mid April? Mid April?
(38:09):
I think that's when the season begins.
Speaker 6 (38:11):
Well, Jokic, you've been playing since last summer in getting
horse money. And it's because you like Clippers. Is because
the NBA starts it late. But if you like the Nuggets,
the NBA would start earlier and you'd probably like it then.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
No, I'm good. I'm old enough to remember when the
players actually tried during the regular season, so I guess
they ruined it the players. Really the problem is the
older players ruined it. They actually cared about the product,
and it's problematic. And David Stern rest his soul, tried
to put a stop on load management, and even Adam Silver,
after ten years of load management, said well, maybe this
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is not a good idea. And they still doing it.
They just now they're coming up with fake injuries. It's
the same crap. Anyway, Gunner, you have not improved at
all as a caller. But I'm glad you called back,
So thank your time. Now to pay off the Who
am I? Get?
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Who?
Speaker 2 (38:59):
That's where I pretend to be somebody else? So Green
Bay's Josh Jacobs becoming the first player with a touchdown
run in nine straight home games since me. Who am I?
That is the question? What is the answer? And who
do we have here? Let's see page now, Ice Ice
Baby from Sir smokes a Lot, Uh he liked the
music there. Jerry Don Gleaton, good get by, mister nice
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guy like that? Who else do we have? Paige dan
Mark Sanchez from Shawn of the Valley of the Son.
We have Johnny Knoxville from Rob the goat Man Jed
who fled from malprop Guy Cowboy John Brad guessed by
Shane in Des Moines, Mister Magoo good get by Milkman
Mike Sidney Sweeney from ferg Dog. JJ McCarthy from Doc Dan,
(39:43):
Adrian Peterson guests by Femi the number one Uber eats
driver in Minnesota, Pablo Picasso from Eileen in San Francisco.
That's her answer to the Nigerian Nightmare. Christian McCoy from
Nurse Jockey. What say you, LORRAINA gotta go with Ed Smith?
Ben Oh, that's a bad no. It's dou Cook. Dalvin
is a Viking. Dalvin Cook is the answer Dalvin back
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in twenty twenty
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Here in our number one, the Eagles edge out the Packers.
Does Green Bay's Jordan Love belong in the elite category
of quarterbacks? Certainly didn't play like it in that game.
And how is the edge rusher Micah Parsons and his
trade from Dallas to Green Bay working out for the Packers.
We'll discuss that. What's the pulse of Nick Sirianni's Eagles,
(00:48):
a team that gets another grinded out win on the
road in Chiley, Wisconsin. We'll talk about the state of
the Philadelphia football team right now here it is our
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We'll start out at the in Tundra Lombowl Field. Jalen
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Hurts and the boys that loved the Toush Push taking
on the guys that don't like the Toush Push. They
tried to have it banned from the NFL. It's a
it's a bad blood matchup here. Jordan Love and the Cheeseheads,
a key NFC battle Royale. A chamber of commerce kind
(03:29):
of night there in Northern Wisconsin. Why was it a
chamber of commerce kinda night? Kickoff? Temperatures in the low thirties.
It was thirty three degrees a kickoff. Welcome to mid
November football in Northern Wisconsin. The home team a slight
favorite at the beginning of the week the game, some
of the books had the game of pick them. By
the time they kicked off on Monday night, you had
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Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, the Fox Refugees, who were
there calling the game on the boob tube? Did you watch?
Were you riv? No? You were? What else were you doing? Okay?
I got you. Well, we watched so you would not
have to. It was our public service. And this game,
despite what Joe Buck was trying to sell, was a
(04:13):
yon Fest call that a hollering James special, A lot
of snoring, A lot of snoring. You missed the first
scoreless tie of the NFL season, the first scoreless tie
in a couple of years in the NFL. You had
one highlight, if you want to call that, Jalen Hurts
hitting a thirty six yard catch and run for a
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touchdown as DeVante Smith made the play there as the
phil at deelf Eagles. That was the only touchdown of
the game. The Eagles defense made some plays, not that many.
He didn't have to make many plays. Jordan Love's not
very good. And ten to seven your final that's right,
ten to seven. That was it. Seventeen points in the game,
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and it goes to the team on the road. On
Monday night, the Packers go down Brandon McManus because of
some coaching miscues by Nick Siriatti. Brandon McManus had an
opportunity to tie the game. We've been a game time
sixty four yard field goal? How did that go? As
time ran out? No, I were close. It didn't even
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make it into the actual Green Bay in green Bay.
Nowhere there, so nowhere close. So green Bay second straight loss.
Now the Packers are five to three and one. They
drop into third place, third place in the NFC North
behind Detroit and Chicago. So this is a painful night
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of football the results of that, and the Packers, who
did have the top record in the NFC, they were
at the very top in the NFC. That was back
on November second. They've now they lost to Carolina at home.
That's embarrassing, tied the Dallas Cowboys, that's embarrassing. And now
they're barely hanging on by their fingernails. At this point,
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the Green Bay Packers for the seventh and final playoff
spot in the National Football Conference. So there's not a
guarantee that the Packers end up making the playoffs. And
Jordan Love in particular is getting charbroiled for his suck
bag performance in this game. He gets the brunt of
the raspberries for a royal stinko performance. There for Jordan Love,
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and that is a good jumping off point as we discuss.
So the question, after another week performance by Jordan Love,
after another pathetic performance, does Jordan Love, the green Bay quarterback,
belong in the elite category of quarterbacks? That's the question.
(06:52):
What's the answer? So on this one, I've got Marvel,
spin Off, Culvers and the lou and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make some delicious cheese fondue. Yum, yum to my Tom, Tom,
hell me just outstanding. So hey. To answer the question
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Jordan Love is he's not even in the same zip code.
If there was a town called Elite Town, he would
not be in the zip code of elite Town. Do
we all agree on that? Okay, everyone's great, very good.
He is the antithesis of elite. They said, well, this
was just a bad game. Well this seems seems we've
been a lot of these bad games for Jordan Love.
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He averaged in this game less than five yards per
pass attempt. Now, the argument for the Jordan Love marching
in Chada society is, well, he didn't have Tucker Kraft,
the breakout star for Green Bay. He's out for the
year with injury, and Tucker Kraft was a guy would
run through defenses like a wrecking ball, right ram right
right through defenses, and so Glove without him, did love
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Ella eight anyone else? No, he was a glorified checkdown artist,
and he did not did not elevate to anyone else
on that offense, and did not set them up. Finished
with a passer rating below seventy, which I don't think
is all that good. Had a fumble key fumble as
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Green Bay was matriculating the ball down the field and
they were going to get at least a field goal
attempt before halftime, and Jordan Love he fetched around, fumbled
the ball there and just handed it back to Philadelphia,
which cemented the first half scoreless tie. Now the Eagles,
whether they're legit, and yeah, they're legit, the Eagles are
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or another solid team this year. There's product. They won
the Super Bowl last year. They're obviously could this year. However,
I go back to the resume of this Green Bay
Packer team. You tied a bad cowboy team. That's a
bad Dallas cowboy team. You tied them. You lost at
home to Carolina. That should be like four losses. Carolina
just got their doors blown off by the Saints, and
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you lost at Cleveland the Browns. You lost to the Browns.
So that's that should be worth three losses. So they
should really have if you do the math on this,
like six losses based on this. And you can lose
to those teams, right, You can lose to those teams,
uh and and and you did, but you're gonna get
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killed for it, right, And you can't be in the
elite conversation when you're you lose even once in a while,
you're gonna have a stinker against an inferior opponent. But
you can't convince anyone when you lose those type of
games that you're an ascending football player. And that's the
issue here for Jordan Love and and the fact that
Love is lacking that Gennisi quah. He is right, that
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spark that magic dust I don't see it, at least
not on a weekly base. There have been flashes of it,
usually when he plays the Dallas Cowboys. He seems to
play very well. Could that be I don't know, the
Cowboy defense. Could that be why he's playing well? I'm
just saying, but Jordan Love is part of what we
called the trust fund generation of quarterbacks. And this is
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something that's changed in my lifetime. And someone is going
to write a great book about this. There'll be a
great docu series about what's gone on in the NFL
the last five years or so. It is fascinating. There
was always this mindset in the NFL. You really got
to prove it before you got the big money. You
had to prove it. You had to show that you
were legit. And at some point the money got so
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cartoonish in the NFL, so ridiculous in the NFL, they
just said, I screw it, We'll just pay everybody, right,
We'll just pay these guys. All got so rich, these
NFL teams because it's the only thing people watch live
on television. Everything else is on demand, right, Nobody watches
stuff live anymore. He's watch it when you want to
watch it. This is the only communal experience left in
(10:55):
American television. And so they got so much money. At
this point, the salary cap keeps going up. It's like
faster than bitcoin back in twenty twenty one, right, just
keeps going up and up and up, and the league
so flushed. They're like a drug cartel and they're trying
to get rid of the cash. They have so much cash.
It's the it's in the washing machine, it's it's in
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the dishwasher, it's in the sink, it's everywhere. And so
they're the accountants are essentially their money laundering, and they're
doing it by paying these suck bag quarterbacks. It is wild.
It is I mean serious. I mean you look at
some of the guys that got paid that really suck
like we all agree and they're not good, Like, how
did this happen? And it happened because there's so much money,
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they just had to give everyone the money. The quarterbacks
all got. Jordan Love, unproven got two hundred and twenty
million dollars, an NFL record at the time. I don't
know if it's been broken. Seventy five million signing bonus.
Seventy five million in the signing bonus for Jordan Love.
Criminal criminal, absolute heist, absolutely heist with Jordan Love got
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from the Green Bay Packers. My god. And you look
around and Love is sitting there at the kiddy table
in the quarterback group, and you've got on one side
of the table. You've got to a tongue of our law.
You got Trevor Lawrence right in front, and then you've
got Kyler Alligator Arms Murray. Now this is actually a
Marvel spinoff. The late great stan Lee came up with
(12:25):
the Fantastic four for Marvel. Well, this group of quarterbacks
is we'll call them the Boorresome Forsome, those four. So
think about these guys. All nothing in play. Kylermbers already benched.
Trevor Lawrence just lost to the Houston Texans, did nothing
in the fourth quarter of Note I did the Malor
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math on this. If my math is correct, the Boresome
Forsome of Trevor Lawrence, Kyler Murray, Jordan Love and to
a tongue of by Loa have gotten contracts worth nine
hundred and thirty million dollars. Let me repeat that for
those of you a little slow in the back of room.
Nine hundred and thirty million dollars for the Marvel spinoff
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the Borsom force them. Wow, that is the price of
delusion in the NFL, where potential gets paid like production.
Didn't used to be like that, but now you do.
That's how you do it. That's the nerd taking over
the NFL. Well, we don't want to pay someone for
what they have done. We want to pay them for
what they're going to do. So what you end up
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doing is gambling your betting that these guys are going
to live up to your projections. Unfortunately, there's the human
element where most of these guys don't live up to that,
and then you end up with the Borsom Forsome getting
nine you know what, a bestling, nine hundred million dollars.
This is gonna be an amazing documentary. Holy crap, they
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all suck. They all got paid two hundred million dollar contracts,
every one of them. Trevor Lawrence is like two seventy
five blows. It's wild. He is so great. Like, listen,
Jordan Love was born at the right time. He was
born under the right star. It's a green and gold
star and it shaped like a dollar sign. So good
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for him, Good for him. I'm not listen, I'm not
blaming them. These teams are stupid. They're run by smart idiots,
Ivy League educated academia. They're idiots giving those contracts out. Criminal, criminal,
and it's fomo. They were all afraid fear of missing out,
fear of missing out. Now digging deeper, the question also
(14:34):
when we talk about the Packers. How about the edge
rusher Micah Parsons. Let's do a deep dive on that
at this point. So Michaeh. Parsons the big story in
the NFL coming over from the Dallas Cowboys. So how
is that Micah Parsons trade working out for the green
Bay Packers as we sit here week ten? Now in
the books we head on to week eleven, so ten
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weeks in to the set game season and green Bay
currently holding on barely, barely by their fingernails, as we said,
and they're biting their fingernails for that final playoff spot.
It's like the cheeseheads traded for a treadmill, because what
they got most of these games. Now, I don't watch
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every second of every Packer game, but when I've watched
the Packers, what I have seen from Micah Parsons is
TV guys wearing knee pads talking about him, and then
when I watch him actually on the field, it's like
he's getting a nice workout in it's Cardio. In this case,
it was Cardio Knight for Micah Parsons, and he had
let me do the math of this. So he had
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zero sacks, zero quarterback kids, zero tackles for loss. Hmm, okay,
is that good? I don't know. I just do an
overnight talk show. Is that good? Does anyone think that's good? Okay?
All right now? His biggest impact, and I might be
wrong on this, I believe the biggest impact that Mikeah
Parsons had was he took a selfie at halftime with
(16:03):
some soldiers. They were honoring the military there, and I thought, well,
that was kind of cool, cool move, bro, way to
go right. But that said, you're getting paid one hundred
and thirty six million guaranteed from Green Bay. I don't
think they're paying you that to run a photo booth,
but maybe they are. I don't know how they can
set you up on the mezzanine there at Lambeau. They
have got that nice big event haul where they have
(16:25):
weddings and things. You can go in there and put
a photo booth up and knock yourself out in the
main concourse, have a great time. But man, really, the
way Parsons played, at least in this game, you could
have gone down to Culver's and gotten a bag of
cheese curds from Culvers and that would have had the
(16:45):
same amount of impact plays as Micah Parsons, and at
least you know with that you get the cheese curds there.
They're delicious and satisfying. Michah Parsons I know about that.
He was totally boxed up, totally boxed up in this
game and the Eagles and everyone's doing the same thing.
(17:06):
He's like, well, Parsons is good, so we'll just scheme
against him and the offensive line when they did go
his direction there, they neutralized Micah Parsons and he was
pretty much just background. It was a classical music you'd
hear in the background, and that's it. That's what he was.
And so mostly false adversary. He was built as a
game wrecker. A game wrecker, I've not seen that. Have
(17:27):
you seen that? Am I missing? Maybe I'm missing something.
Am I getting a different feet of the Green Bay Packers?
Maybe that's it. I don't know because I haven't seen it.
If you look at ROI return on investment for Micah Parsons,
could the Green Bay Packers have been third place in
the division if they hadn't traded? And now I like
the fact that they did it, but they're not very good.
(17:48):
They're not They tied the Cowboys they lost to Carolina,
lost the c That's not a good football team. And
so Parsons looks like a very expensive cardio machine, the
kind of thing you know people buy. They say the
number one waste of money for homes is the treadmill
or the workout device that you buy and then you
just hang clothes on it because you don't actually use
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it all.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Right.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Now, last word on the Philadelphia side of things. Here,
question what is the pulse of the birds? Nick Sirianni's
Eagles here? What is the pulse of the Eagles as
they get another grinded out wind and this one in
an island game at Lamba Field, So you know what
(18:32):
the Eagles are. I had this epiphany as I was
making the long drive in on the winding road from
the north Woods here into the main studio. The Eagles
have mastered the Picasso. Yeah you know what that means.
So it's like going to the tulou in Perie and
(18:57):
you know, you go in there and you can't quite
and I've never been there. I've seen photos now you
can't quite tell what you're looking at, and everyone's there
because you're supposed to be there. But most people don't
give a crap about art. I don't really care about this,
but you're supposed to go, you go, and so you
show up and you're like, well, that's kind of stupid.
What is that? But it's abstract. The way the Eagles
are playing, it's abstract. It's confusing, somewhat successful, I guess valuable.
(19:22):
They're winning another cold night rock fight, and I don't
know if rock fight is the way we're throwing pebbles,
not really rocks. Little pebbles is what they were throwing.
Not bombs, definitely not bombs in this game. And so
let's not kill herself. Jalen Hurts had been playing well.
If you watched Benny versus the Penny on YouTube, which
I know you did, we talked about Jalen Hursts the
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last few games and how good he had been playing,
and he had had a bunch of touchdown passes, only
one interception I believe, and thrown for a good amount
of yards by his standards. Jalen Hurts was playing at
a very high level. Coming into this game. He was
not sharp at all. Was this the weather. If that's
the case, it's problematic. It gets cold in Philadelphia too.
He completed less than sixty percent of his passes, and
(20:07):
he had a funnel not quite in the red zone,
but kind of close to the red zone where he
fumbled there. And that was on the opening drive of
the game for the Eagles. How about AJ Brown? They
refuse to trade AJ Brown? The trade deadline is coming gone,
they being the Philadelphia Eagles. AJ Brown might as well
have been running wind sprints in the combine, and you
(20:28):
know they do the forty yard dash of the combine
in your underwear. He might as well have been wearing
his underwear. He didn't need his shoulder pads or a
helm or anything like that. What can Brown do for you? Well,
what can Brown do for you? Two catches thirteen yards?
Two catches thirteen yards for AJ Brown? You're paying the
guy eighty four million dollars. You targeted him three times.
(20:51):
Am I the bad guy for bringing that up? Maybe
I am? Now you do get the sideline pout and
I have not seen I'll try to dig up. I'm
sure he had some kind of nonsense in the locker
room postgame. That's normally how this goes, passive aggressive stuff.
Even Nick Sirianni screwed this thing up. If you saw
the game. Late in the game, up a field goal
fourth and eight and inside Green Bay territory, Nick Sirianni decided, rather,
(21:16):
you don't kick the field I don't blame him not
kicking the field goal. Why can't you coffin corner kick it? Why?
Why did they stop doing that? Very rarely do you
see that when you just punt it out of bounds,
corner kick it out of bounds inside the ten yard
line and that's it, and then make the Green Bay
Packers have to go down and there wasn't really enough
time to do anything, but you turn the ball over
(21:37):
on downs, you went for it on fourth and eight.
You then allowed because of that decision, you allowed the
Packers for the hail Mary field goal, which it turned
out wasn't It wasn't close, But Sirianni would have been
absolute and would have deserved to be destroyed for that
that decision. It was coaching chaos. It worked out for
him because they won, So thats all is forgetting forgotten.
(21:58):
It's nice bodies and all that stuff, and they almost
always win. It seems. The Eagles are seven and two.
They're technically tied with Seattle for the top record in
the NFC. However, they have the tiebreaker, so they are
currently the number one seed in the entire NFC. And
it seems like most of these games for the Eagles,
(22:21):
most of these games is it's a disaster in terms
of style points. You know, it's an esthetic disaster, That's
what I'm trying to say for the team from Philadelphia.
Yet on the scoreboard, it's it's a masterpiece. Back in
the old day, it is one of the catchphrases of
Jim Rome was scarboard. You know, that was big back
(22:41):
in the day. Not anymore as like thirty years ago.
But they win winning ugly, winning ugly. And do not
confuse this like they're not invincible. They're not unbeatable. Like
if you're Seattle, oh they got Sam Darlin about that.
But if you're the Rams somebody like that. You know,
you look at Philadelphia is they almost beat them the first time,
you idiot kicker f that up, So you're not really
(23:02):
that concerned. The Eagles don't scare you. They win a lot,
they don't really scare They don't have the fear factor
in Philadelphia. They don't. And these Picasso wins they look
pretty good. I hang them up in a museum. You're
not gonna win like that most of the time. It's
certainly not in the playoffs. It is the Ben Mahlor
(23:23):
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that has not happened in over a decade. It happened
in the game on Monday Night. What is it hadn't
happened in over a decade. We'll get to that and
we will do it next.
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he died. He likes to go to the bathroom on
(25:03):
company time. He's like Shack Shack got hurt on company time.
He's going to go to the bathroom on company time.
Coop believes in taking a dump on company time. It's
fascinating every night, same thing. Anyway, let me take your
call back to it, all right, and the Green Bay
Packers go down. They go down at home. And that's
(25:25):
the ten years over ten years of the making, gonna
go back to the last time the Green Bay Packers
lost back to back at home. Well, first time since
twenty thirteen barely alive in twenty thirteen. My god, Billy,
I don't know what was going on ever so long ago.
That's the last time. It's been a minute. It has
been a minute. The nurse jockey writes, Since says, was
(25:47):
it a boring game? Yeah, but if you want a
boatload of dough by betting on the birds, it was
be beautiful. Eat hey gee hell eat hey, goes, says
nurse jockey. Yeah. I had Philadelphia too, I went a boatload.
But it's nice to see them win. Doc Dan from
Minnesota says, I remember when I remember when teams used
(26:10):
to fear trips to lambeau Not so much anymore. It's
been a long time since people feared going to lambeau Field.
It's been a long time they have. There used to
be a point where teams did not know how to
prepare for cold weather. Everyone knows how to prepare for
cold weather. They have all the creature comforts. It's nice cold.
It's the worst thing. You get the wool socks, and
(26:31):
you get the heaters and the heat and your hands
go numb. I think about the players out there, and
it's like icicle fingers there are right, they get pital
on mine. They can do it. They have all the
bells and whistles and the heat packs and all. It's
not that. And don't they have like sideline heaters. Yeah,
they got heaters on the sidelines. They got those handwarmers,
those things. Get helmets. Yeah, well I don't know about that.
(26:52):
They have gloves, and they have all kinds of stuff.
They wear Scooba suits. Some of those guys gets really cold,
they'll wear Scooba suits. King Roy writes and says, Jordan
Love is far from being elite. But he's not the problem.
It's the incompetent coaching. He has played Matt Lafleur. He is.
He's playing Matt Lafleur for someone who is coaching for
a new contract. He is doing everything possible to not
(27:12):
get one time for a new head coach. It's a
bad call. It's a bad call by me. In title Town.
How bad is the Packer offense? The last seventeen possessions,
the Green Bay Packers have twenty points. Twenty points? Yeah,
there you go. What else do we have? Scrooge says,
(27:33):
the last two weeks, every game I've seen has either
been a twenty plus point blowout, or where teams spend
the whole game not scoring. Bory Scrooge, who's in the
Younger Demo, says, the trauma that I have suffered this
week tell me that the football gods are going to
sabotage all the games I watch. He says, I guess
(27:56):
he meant not sabotage the games I watch, aside from
the Raiders self sabotage. I hear you now. Tacoma Drew
is a big fan of Micah Parsons, and he believes
that my criticism of Micah Parsons was unwarned. He says. Look,
he says, Ben, you are smart, and you and I
both know quarterback pressures is the stat that matters. I
(28:19):
am the startest man, and Mikah leads the NFL with
forty four quarterback pressures, which is quite essential the stat
that matters, all right, And I would counter that to
Coma Drew by saying, do you actually watch the games?
Like I could just go. I have a bunch of
stat websites I go to, and I can look up
all the stats and all that, but if you actually
watch the impact plays during the game, I've not seen
(28:41):
Micah Parsons make too many impact plays. He certainly didn't
make them in this particular game. If you just want
to go by the box score, and that's the type
of fan or I don't think that's a good fan.
I think that's a bad fan. But that's fine if
you believe Tacoma drew that just by reading the box score,
that's all you need, and to not actually watch the
context of the freaking game. Okay, my god, let's see
(29:05):
Michael bar Let's see how many quarterback hits he had.
Zero quarterback hits, zero tackles for loss, more, zero sacks.
I'm sure he had a lot of pressures. He had
a lot of pressures, tons of pressure. Let's go to
the phones and we'll say hello to eeny Meanie, mighty mall.
Let's go to Jed who fled Who's next? Stuff? The
man had a heart attack last week, although it has
(29:27):
not slowed him down. Hello, Jed, who fled.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
The Florida State football football program. Having an art attack
slowed him down? Well, yes, substantially.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Never mind?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Does it just slows them down substantially? But I'm saying,
are we going to power coach?
Speaker 6 (29:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Because are we.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Starting with Florida State seminole talk? Is that what we're doing?
Are we beginning the night by talking about the seminoles
of Florida? Sta? What is it nineteen ninety five? Is
Bobby Bouten now the coach again? What are we doing?
Speaker 6 (30:00):
Dan?
Speaker 3 (30:01):
I've been playing this latest intervention called a game boy.
They said game boys, Rance, and I've been playing Spider
Man on it. It's ninety ninety five? Where are you?
How about this? How about this? How did the Green
Bay Packers hit on Greg Taller, Aaron Rodgers and Jorge
g Love?
Speaker 6 (30:19):
Are they?
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Is the general management working with satan or Andrea from
astrology World? How are they getting of these pigs rights?
Why does not a plot to state quarterback work into
their plans?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Go going? No, no, no, no, no, no no no,
you have nothing to say. I gotta go. I thank you.
It's it's it's not you. It's really just you. That's solid.
So guy says is good night. His name is Tie.
He says, I'm a new caller and I'm waiting. Is
that I do know? Is that Terry? Is that you? Terry?
(30:54):
And Minnieapos? Are you? Are you Tie? On social media?
Is that you?
Speaker 3 (30:59):
No?
Speaker 5 (30:59):
I'm not on social media for Minneapolis.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
This guy's a fraud. This guy's a fraud. This guy
saying you're the only guy with a T in the
name there, I say, I don't know what that. What's
up with that? Anyway? What's going on? Terry? Welcome?
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Hey.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
So you know last week.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
I took the malaos, right, and uh, some Texter decided
to take a shot at me and claim that I'm
from the lineage of hollering James and I just wanted
to let that person know I come from old school comedy,
you know, like Monty Python, you know, mel Brooks. So
when I state your name, I state your name.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Thing.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
It was a bit it got allowed.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Oh, don't care about the haters. Listen, you are a star,
You've taken the oath. Don't care about the haters, Terry,
You're at a different level of celebrity. Those guys are losers.
They don't understand comedy. And I thought it was hilarious.
He was great, Who cares about the haters?
Speaker 6 (31:48):
All right? Good? So then now let's move on.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
So I sent you an email this weekend, which I
know you don't respond, and that's all good. I was
just laughing hysterically watching my Vikings because it was so
bad that I couldn't do anything but laugh. So then
all I could think about was like, how hard you
must have been laughing if you tapping to turn on
that game.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Well here's the thing, though, I've noticed. The thing about
the Vikings I've noticed this year is when they wean
and like McCarthy will make a play late in the
game or something like that, It's it's like calls and
emails like, oh McCarthy's so good, Oh man, we got
our guy. And then he goes out there and plays
like he did against Baltimore. Suddenly I don't hear those calls.
I don't know what happened. Where did those people? Where
(32:27):
do those people go?
Speaker 1 (32:28):
There?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
They go into hiding, and then when the Vikings win
a game, they come back. Is that how that works?
Speaker 6 (32:33):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you know. I mean it's like I
don't get it either.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
All my friends do the same thing, and I'm just sitting.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
There going, what the heck? Man? This is? This is horrible.
I can't this is not who wants to watch this?
You know?
Speaker 5 (32:43):
I was hoping that they were gonna pull one of
those moves where they went to a different.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Game just so that it would Yeah, that would be funny.
We're now we're leaving the local station in Minnesota is
now leaving the game to go show a regional broadcast
of another NFL game. Now, that would have been good.
Speaker 6 (33:01):
I loved it. But anyway, that's all right.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Thank you, all right, thank you, Terry. There's a Terry
checking in from Minneapolis. Yeah, it's pretty pretty amusing, man,
JJ McCarthy thing. I guess it's that Minnesota nice. If
you have nothing nice to say, you don't say anything.
But he was like he didn't even play that well
when they've won. He was terrible against the Bears. The
Bears in that game until the fourth quarter, and made
(33:26):
a few plays in the fourth quarter in Minnesota. One
was cold, it was cold, one and cold. Then was
it what do you tell me it was? Was it was September.
It wasn't cold in September. So he made a few plays.
He won that game, Okay. Then he came back beat
the Lions, and again he was all that good in
that game. Didn't turn the ball over in terms or
I had one interception, but it wasn't like it wasn't
(33:47):
a disaster. But he it was fine. I think it
was great. Only had like one hundred and forty something
yards passing in that game. And so but he's like,
oh did you see McCarthy. Oh my god, it's so good,
old man. I was like, what are you doing? Like
what is that? Anyway, it is the Ben Mahler Show.
As we are navigating our way through the overnight. If
you'd like to chime in, you can do it right now,
(34:11):
say hello, we will by the way next hour. I've
been asked to promote next hour. Ask a weed man,
ask a meet a weed man returns next hour, So
that'll be coming up for you. Check that out time
now though for the who am I? Game? This is
where I pretend to be somebody else. As the Packers
(34:31):
lost on the Monday night game, however, Green Bay's Josh
Jacobs became the first player with a touchdown run in
nine straight home games since me? Who Again? Josh Jacobs
of the Green Bay football team became the first player
with a touchdown run in nine straight home games since me?
(34:52):
Who am I? That is the question. The answer. We'll
get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bell.
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Thank God for the Internet.
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Bonus hot takes, pop up Ask Ben segments only available
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It never ever closes, even during the day. It's available
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(36:00):
to it at time. Now for the big payoff on
the who who am I going to? Actually, before we
do the payoff on the who am I gave? Let's
go let's go to the phones and oh the guy
I was gonna go to, Well, let's go to gutter.
We'll go to Gunner. He's gonna hang up anyway. Gunner
one of the worst callers we have, but he's back. Hello, Gunner, welcome.
Speaker 6 (36:18):
Hello. Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (36:23):
No? Can't?
Speaker 6 (36:26):
You can't carry it off? Well, then how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Can you hear him? I can't. I can't hear you.
I'm curious where they're at. I think maybe I'll turn
them up a bit. Well, they use what they do
is they use like a tin can in a string.
I tried that when I was Yeah, yeah, it's it's
the phone service they have there. It's right distance, like
like a mile from the Canadian border or something.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Can you hear him?
Speaker 2 (36:51):
And now? Yah? This call, this call, this call is
actually it's actually going as well this call as the
Carolina Panthers performance against the Orleans Saints. It's going very well.
Speaker 6 (37:02):
Well, Ben, it's because they went to my high, and
you talked about not going to my high. But we
have some real momentum in the my high. Super Bowl champions, right,
NBA moment champions In the next future.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Momentum momentum doesn't exist so.
Speaker 6 (37:21):
Well, well, momentum definitely exists. The morning guys about it, Well, I.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Don't listen to them, so who cares? It doesn't affect
me at all. They can talk about Yeah, I don't
know who the you know momentum? To me, it doesn't.
I'm worried about my world. I don't care about other
people's shows. Why don't you call them and talk about momentum?
I don't give it a crapper. They talk about momentum,
what's that?
Speaker 6 (37:44):
Well, let's talk some Clippers. You want to talk some Clippers?
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Why would I talk clippers? The NBA doesn't the You
realize the NBA season does not start until Christmas. It's
not even Thanksgiving, and and really we got to push
that back because the NFL now plays on Christmas, So
really we got to push that back. The NBA season
starts about what do you think mid April? Mid April?
(38:09):
I think that's when the season begins.
Speaker 6 (38:11):
Well, Jokic, you've been playing since last summer in getting
horse money. And it's because you like Clippers. Is because
the NBA starts it late. But if you like the Nuggets,
the NBA would start earlier and you'd probably like it then.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
No, I'm good. I'm old enough to remember when the
players actually tried during the regular season, so I guess
they ruined it the players. Really the problem is the
older players ruined it. They actually cared about the product,
and it's problematic. And David Stern rest his soul, tried
to put a stop on load management, and even Adam Silver,
after ten years of load management, said well, maybe this
(38:48):
is not a good idea. And they still doing it.
They just now they're coming up with fake injuries. It's
the same crap. Anyway, Gunner, you have not improved at
all as a caller. But I'm glad you called back,
So thank your time. Now to pay off the Who
am I? Get?
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Who?
Speaker 2 (38:59):
That's where I pretend to be somebody else? So Green
Bay's Josh Jacobs becoming the first player with a touchdown
run in nine straight home games since me. Who am I?
That is the question? What is the answer? And who
do we have here? Let's see page now, Ice Ice
Baby from Sir smokes a Lot, Uh he liked the
music there. Jerry Don Gleaton, good get by, mister nice
(39:22):
guy like that? Who else do we have? Paige dan
Mark Sanchez from Shawn of the Valley of the Son.
We have Johnny Knoxville from Rob the goat Man Jed
who fled from malprop Guy Cowboy John Brad guessed by
Shane in Des Moines, Mister Magoo good get by Milkman
Mike Sidney Sweeney from ferg Dog. JJ McCarthy from Doc Dan,
(39:43):
Adrian Peterson guests by Femi the number one Uber eats
driver in Minnesota, Pablo Picasso from Eileen in San Francisco.
That's her answer to the Nigerian Nightmare. Christian McCoy from
Nurse Jockey. What say you, LORRAINA gotta go with Ed Smith?
Ben Oh, that's a bad no. It's dou Cook. Dalvin
is a Viking. Dalvin Cook is the answer Dalvin back
(40:05):
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