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Well, it turns out these are not slim pickens. They
are not slim pickens.

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So our lead this hour is from Dallas. The post
Mortem on a win against a tomato can. The Raiders
and Cowboys also a tomato can. They're just a little
tougher tomato can than the Raiders so fresh off the
cakewalk win in Vegas so good. A couple of the

(02:55):
star players didn't show up to meetings because they were
out at the Bellagio or doing whatever they were doing.
And so the Cowboys doing the pirouett on the catwalk
and shaking it all about having a great time. Now,
George Pickens the talk of the town. One of the
guys that was on the naughty list is he and
cdee Lamb tweetled the and tweedled dumb not out there

(03:18):
in the first series for the Dallas Cowboys, and it
didn't matter. But they are the talk of the town.
It was really George Pickens is the talk of the town.
He had a huge game. If you had him on Fantasy,
you're very happy about that. If you watch the game,
he played very well. Now. Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer, when
asked about George Pickens at the news conference on Tuesday,

(03:38):
said possibility of Pickens staying in Dallas, he said, sign
me up. Now there's a shocking take. Did anyone think
that Brian Schottenheimer Shotzi would say, you know, hey, I'll
I don't want the guy. But shot he said no,
I said I love the firepower. He said, he and

(03:59):
CD give us pinch myself at times I want to
see a doctor. I'm very in favor of George having
a long term future with us in Dallas. Close quote.
So Jerry Jones also chimed in He's talked about George
Pickens multiple times over the last month or so and
is interested in a long term relationship between the player

(04:21):
and the team. Olho. There have been no conversations at
this point, leading many to believe that George Pickens would
like to test the market. Well, George Pickens has an
expiring contract. We know that former Dallas star Des Bryant,
who knows the thing or two about playing for Jerry
Jones as a wide receiver. So does Bryant went on

(04:41):
social media and he gave some advice recently to George Pickens.
He said to Pickens that his legacy will be worth
more than being the highest paid receiver. He said, if
you stay with the Cowboys, there's a lot more to
the thought process, indicating that yeah, the money is great,

(05:03):
but you you know, Cowboys, Come on, you can do
autograph shows in Plano, Texas when you're seventy years old.
Come on, now, all right, So that is a good
jumping off point. Let us discuss the question should George
Pickens take less for quote legacy reasons with the Cowboys?

(05:24):
That is the question. Now my thoughts on this, I
have TSA Texas Instruments and emergency app update, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a double cheeseburger with extra onions and
garlic is what we're going to make. So a listen.
We love the fact that Des Bryant, who has apparently

(05:47):
lots of free time, he's got nothing going on. But
I don't know he's he must be bored out of
his mind. Made a good amount of money. I don't
know if he kept his money, just be bored out
of his mind. So Des Bryant is out there giving
career advice like he's the Dalai Lama of wide receivers.
Is like it's just so great, just outstanding, just absolutely,

(06:11):
I say, the Dali Lama of wide receivers. You think
about your legacy, George, Ye, think about you? Like are
you are we kidding? Like? What do what do we doing?
Can we talk? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (06:21):
All right?

Speaker 1 (06:21):
So this is the NFL. This is not some lifestyle drama.
George Pickens is not taking a dime less, not a
dime less, then the market will provide him. And you
know why, let me tell you why. This isn't something
about legacy, Okay, because his reputation, his legacy from his
time in Pittsburgh, he already comes with a loaded suitcase.

(06:44):
In fact, TSA has already flagged George Pickens when he
was in Pittsburgh. He's on the do not flyless. So
he's got to get screened when he goes to the
airport extra because of what he did with Mike Tomlin.
And so it's fair to say, based on what we know,
based on what we know, he's not George Pickens walking

(07:07):
into Jerry Jones office and saying, Okay, I'll take less.
He's also not going in there and getting a ceedee
lamb contract. No shot, no shot, that's not gonna happen.
So he's gonna have to take less than see the
lamb and Jerry already shot his shot. That's the issue here.

(07:29):
Dallas picked their Alpha wide receiver C. D. Lamb is
the man in a lamb, That's who they picked. He's
the guy. George, George, George George George George Pickens. He
would have to be the number two. And there have
been some wonderful number two receivers in my lifetime. I

(07:52):
think even the Dallas Cowboys when they used to win.
I'm old, so I remember when the collage Is actually
had good teams they won. I'm old. I remember that.
And the top receiver was a guy named Michael Irvin,
the playmaker. The number two receiver was a guy named
Alvin Harper. Not a bad player, Alvin Harper. You don't
hear Alvin Harper's name very much these days, or really
ever after he stopped playing. You always like the number

(08:15):
two guy is forgotten. I'll give you some more evidence
of that. Jerry Rice. In a different era in the
eighties with the forty nine Ers, the all time greatest
receiver of all time, the number two receiver a guy
named John Taylor. Very good player, very good player. When's
the last time you hear John Taylor's name? Right? The

(08:35):
Pittsburgh Steelers had heinz Ward and the number two receiver
was Santonio Holmes. Not a bad player. But that's the
B side. People remember the A side, they don't remember
the B side. All those guys great second bananas is
wide receivers. They were great, but they weren't at the
very top and they didn't get paid the top dollar.

(08:56):
That's just the way it was. And so the idea
of legacy, Oh, it's all about the legacy. Oh my god,
please light you took us with your legacy there. And
occasionally it may mean something if you've only played for
one team and you buy into that dogma. That is
not the case here with George Pickens. He is a

(09:17):
now football mercenary. He worked himself out of Pittsburgh for
being on the on the bad list and all the
baggage and all that stuff, and Jerry got him for
pennies on the dollar because the Steelers are like, we
gotta get rid of this guy. He's a cancer. So
they got rid of him. And we know Jerry loves baggage.
We know that Jerry Jones loves baggage and he collects

(09:39):
it like frequent flyer miles. And so don't confuse that
with paying a premium. We don't think that's going to
going to happen. So we know Jerry Jones is going
to sell George Pickens when the time comes. Here on
being a Dallas Cowboy, and he's going to talk about
all the marketing opportunities you have when you're playing Dallas
and the star on the helmet and they leave the

(10:02):
light there in the stadium so God can look down
because apparently God doesn't have X ray vision. All that stuff,
the bright lights, it just means more when you play
for the Cowboys, right, all that stuff, Sunday Night Full
is just bigger when the Cowboys are in. But everyone's
got a price tag. Everyone's got a price tag. And
des Bryant can preach about legacy and all this nonsense

(10:25):
and this rigamarole and all that stuff. But Legacy does
not pay, does not pay for the extra private island
in the Bahamas that he would like to have, right,
And he guaranteed money typically does it, typically does, right,
So should Pickens take less for the legacy? Yeah, if

(10:46):
he wants to be a foot soldier for Jerry Jones
and a made man, a made man in the football
mob in the Death Star in Jerry's world, is he
actually going to do it? No, he's not going to
actually do it. Once those negotiations start, the Legacy goes

(11:10):
out the window, right right out the window. And then
they pull out the old calculator on the phone and
they start crunching the numbers, and they go over the
numbers and all that, and the legacy sounds nice, and
then it is the NFL. You know, legacy is good.
Direct deposits better. I kind of like the direct deposit.
And you want to be the number one guy. You

(11:31):
can't beat the number one guy in Dallas unless the
Cowboys would trade CD LAMB. That seems unlikely. They're gonna
trade CD LAMB. So what you're gonna do. What you're
gonna do, that's the question. All right. Now turn the
pitch to page two. We go to Viva Las Vegas,
Viva Las Vegas, where Raider coach Pete Carroll, good old

(11:51):
Pete Carroll, continues to sing the virtues of Geno Smith. Yeah,
that suck bag quarterback, Gino Smith, who proves on a
weekly basis he cannot play as a starting quarterback in
the NFL. He listen to Pete Carroll here, you'd think,
if you listen to this, you'd think that Geno Smith

(12:13):
is God's gift to the quarterback position. Tagels.

Speaker 5 (12:16):
You know, I continue to really believe in him. I
have no hesitation in telling you that he's an incredible
player and he's busting his tail and he's working at
it really hard. He has not backed off one step
throughout the process, and so we're counting on on that.
He's going to keep working and he'll come too for us.
We just got to help him out more, got to
protect him better.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
All right, So how do you process the Raiders coach?
You just heard the sound bite there Pete Carroll and
his endorsement of Gino Smith. Well, it proves that there
is no correlation between hard work and performance. Because if
he's working hard and these are the results he's getting,
holy crap, you might want to not work hard because
you're wasting your time. You suck, dude, You're terrible, right,

(12:57):
Good old positive Pete, Good old positive Pete. There he is.
Raiders are two and eight. They're like a turd circling
the ball. This is what they're doing right there. And
is it like a little rubber ducky surrounded by turds.
That's the Raiders right there in the bathtub. And this

(13:17):
is not so much coaching, it's the art of manifestation.
That's what Pete Carroll's doing on this One's that's what
I'm going with. It's the art of manifestation, and he's
trying to speak this into existence. Good luck. Pete's not
visualizing a playoff run because that's that's over. He's visualizing

(13:38):
therapist bills, is what he's doing. The shrink bills is
that's where he's going. So essentially treating Geno Smith like
a fragile porcelain tea cup, which is we all know
genosaf if we learned that when he was at West Virginia.
He got into it with me on social media back
in the day, so we know that. But it's just crazy.

(13:59):
Pete Carroll will not publicly criticized Geno Smith. I challenge
any man, woman, or child to find audio of Pete
Carroll ripping Geno Smith. It has not happened, and it
will not happen. Now, why is that? Because Pete Carroll
understands that you cannot speak the truth to Gino Smith.

(14:23):
Cannot do it. He's not wired that way. He's soft,
and you can't do it with a soft athlete. You
cannot not you can't. You know, Pete's much rather rather
than just be honest here, he's like taking the peanut
butter and jelly sandwich, and he's cutting off the crust
to make an uncrustable homemade and he's getting the blankie

(14:44):
ready every week for Gino Smith, it's wild. Meanwhile, Gino's
out there playing like he's a Texas Instruments calculator from
nineteen ninety four, just real slow, real real slow of
it doing his thing, and my god, takes forever, takes

(15:05):
forever to get through reads. And there's a theme a
lot of these bad quarterbacks. There's one common denominator, and
they don't get rid of the ball quickly. They don't.
And you watch the Raiders with Geno Smith, and it's
always the same am like, well the offense all lunch,
no good, Oh my god, because people are stupid. They
don't understand that it's the quarterback most of the time
that f's it up, not the offensive line. It's the quarterback.

(15:29):
And people don't understand. They don't understand ball, they understand
how that works. And so he holds the ball too long.
He's waiting for deep roots or routes, and that's how
you end up with almost thirty sacks in one hundred
and eighty five yards lost. He's the second worst in
the NFL. Gino Smith and yards lost via sack. Congratulation

(15:53):
that the brain takes the scenic route when he's playing quarterback.
There he leads the NFL tied for the lead in interceptions.
Can congratulations. He's the thirty first ranked quarterback in the NFL.
But he's working really hard. He's working really hard. And
there's Pete Carroll. He's got now, he's got he bought
this on Tiamu. He's got silver and black knee pads.

(16:15):
When he talks about Geno Smith's wild he's wearing him
right there, praising his effort and busting his tail and
all that. Do I need to be the voice of
reason here and point out that the Raiders gave that
man seventy five million dollars of new money before he
had ever played a game I ever played a game
of the Raiders when they got him from Seattle. And

(16:37):
you could have bought the entire XFL and one of
those guys would have been better than Geno Smith, one
of them. And so if Pete really believes in Geno Smith,
which he doesn't, but he really believes in Geno Smith,
he had a drive Gino to the Harry Reid Airport,
the newly renamed Harry Reid Airport in Vegas, and personally

(16:58):
buy him a one way ticket out of Vegas middle seat,
just like Rob Parker likes on Spirit airlines. No carry on,
that's it, get out of here. You're done, all right now?
Last word to Nashville, Tennessee we go where Danny and
Nashville is the only person left watching the monstrosity that

(17:19):
is the Tennessee football team. So Titans offensive coordinator Nick
Holtz chimed in on this, Holts saying that he was
talking about the quarterback cam Ward and he told reporters,
he told the staff here that they're working to reinvent
cam Ward to raise his arm slot. Yeah. I know,

(17:43):
just listen, they say, because the way cam throws the football,
he's got a lower release, and that has led to
a ton of passes being batted down at the line
of scrimmage. It happens at least a couple of times
seemingly every game where cam Wore has passes that should
be completed that don't even have a chance because they're

(18:04):
getting batted down by the defensive players who know when
cam Ward throws the ball jump up. Good chance you're
going to get a hold of it. Good chances you're
gonna get a hold of it. Now, the question on
this one, what does the latest update on Titans rookie
quarterback cam Ward indicate to you? So this is not

(18:24):
that difficult. Cam Ward we knew going in was never
a plug and play guy. He was never that, And
watching him play in college at Miami, you never got
the vibe, well, this is a all time great player.
This is going to be an amazing clearly the number
one player in the draft and all that stuff. This
was not a microwave dinner. This was a raw piece

(18:46):
of chicken and you needed to season it. It was
unseasoned and you had to put in the oven for
forty minutes and hope for the best, hope for the best.
The Titans draft of this guy number one overall, and
here we are, it's not even the middle of the season.
We're getting kind of near the end of the season

(19:07):
Thanksgivings right around the corner, and they're trying to patch
the glitches in real time, in real time in season,
that's the plan in Tennessee. Like they're pushing out an
emergency app update in the app store bug fixes and
performance improvements and all that. Now the release time, that

(19:29):
is another issue. We talked about this with Gino Smith,
same problem with cam Ward. Cam Ward two point eight
seconds seems like that's pretty quick, but in the NFL world,
that is slow motion. That is dial up internet in
the NFL world. And that's a quarterback just like Gino
waiting to take the deep shot, not making quick decisions,

(19:51):
and as a result, you end up eating your lunch
is what you end up doing as you get sacked
and all that stuff. And now now his arm slot
is all messed up. That's the probably armslot that's the issue.
Great double whammy, that's the double whammy is what that is.
And so not only is he late on his throes

(20:11):
and his decisions, cam Ward, he's also got a wonky delivery.
That sounds great. Where did you draft the guy the
fifth round?

Speaker 6 (20:20):
No?

Speaker 1 (20:21):
Number one? Overall? That's what he says, So great, you
got the guy with the double whamy. Now, I do
like cam Ward. Don't treat this as some kind of
attack on cam mord. He's the only quarterback in my
life who is given the most honest answer with regarding
his team. When he said we asked, and he's right.

(20:41):
He also could have said me ass is what he
could have said. He could have said that as well.
And so if you want batted balls, if you want turnovers,
if you want all that stalled drives, watch the Tennessee
Titans with cam Ward. And that's the stuff to get
coaches fired. Oh by the way, cam Moore's already got
his coach fired, so they're on the interim coach there

(21:03):
and from franchise savior, which is what you expect when
you have the top pick in the draft. And now
we're talking about doing demo on cam Ward, doing some demo,
going back to studs, recreating things, because that always works,
that never goes wrong. Sure, reinvent the quarterback. Yeah, week

(21:24):
was it? We eleven? Week twelve, something like that. Just
redo it. Just that's it. You know, cam Ward not broken,
He's just unfinished. He's just unfinished. Be sure to.

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Speaker 1 (22:46):
So our lead this hour is from a heartache in case.
Well it's not hard ae get things are not going
particularly well if the playoffs started today. If the playoffs
started today, Kansas City would be watching on television like
you and I will be watching on television. So problems
in paradise developing. Hot dot dot dot. If you have

(23:10):
not heard, perhaps not warning warning, morning morning, morning warning.
Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid at Loggerheads say it ain't,
so say it ain't. So this hasn't really popped up
at all in recent years. Why would it? The Chiefs
have been so good in this run of dominance. Well,

(23:31):
now some picking apart on what's going on in Kansas City.
So the relationship, there's it on the verge of cracking,
breaking apart into little pieces, Andy Reid and Mahomes. Problems
more serious than anticipated with Kens City. So this all
because of some comments made by Andy Reid recently after

(23:55):
the latest Chiefs loss, losing to the Denver Broncos, Andy
Reid seemingly calling out Patrick Mahomes. He was asked about
the lack of a running game for the Kansas City
football team and Andy Reid pointed out, well, I mean
calls were made. Now, let's go to the audio tape.
Take a listen.

Speaker 8 (24:15):
We're calling the quite a few of the r pos.
So yesterday they were giving us opportunities to throw the football.
So we utilized the opportunities there and those things end
up being as good as a run for you. We're
getting four plus yards and and you go with it.
And but the runs are being called, it's just you know,

(24:38):
sometimes they they get turned into into passes in today's world.
You know that's how it goes. So but we're getting
we're getting the man. Now we have some hard runs
where you just get up, lineup and go. Probably could
call more of those we're calling.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Okay, so there's Andy Reid there, But any the gist
of that was, Hey, we're making the calls like as
a coaching staf, we are telling them to run the football.
And in today's world, he said, you know, that's how
it goes. The runs are being called. It's just you
you know, sometimes they turn into passes in today's world. Well,
that was the implication was that was a shot at

(25:16):
Patrick mahomes here as he would audible or change the
play to accommodate the passing game for Kansas City. So
that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
the question you just heard the audio was was chief
said coach Andy Reid poking the bear? Was he poking

(25:37):
the bear by essentially saying, Hey, I'm doing my job
as a coach. It's his fault. Mom's changing the play,
abandoning the running game that we're making the calls. That's
all we can do, is coaches. That's what it sounded like.
So my observations on this, I have Midwestern mom, hurts,

(25:57):
rental car, and cocktail party, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
some fetichini alfredo and some delicious garlic. Brother. That sounds good, right,
It can't go wrong. I've only had bad fetichini alfredo
one time. Every other time it's been good. Every time
it's been good.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
So number wa, I said, number wa.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
That's right. So, based on a minutes long deliberation of
the available evidence from Andy Reid and Mahomes, I have
determined the Court of the Ben Maller Show is determined
this was absolutely one hundred percent a shot at Mahomes
with a chuckle with a chuckle at the end of it.

(26:44):
This wasn't subtle. This was read between the lines, kid,
is what this was Andy Reid. Now, he might look
like Santa Claus, looked like Santa Claus, like he's a
jolly good fellow. Wish nobody can then, But on this one,
that was a body blow, body blow, body blow over

(27:07):
the play calling from Mahomes. And he said when we
called the runs is what he said, and Mahomes made
them passes. That's that's essentially what Andy Reid will say.
And that is the message. That is the message. And
it was wrapped in a nice little bow. It was
a red bow, just like the Chiefs colors had little

(27:29):
red bow there. Passive aggressive, passive aggressive, like a Midwestern
mom asking if you really need seconds, which is her
way of saying, you fat pig, why would you need
more food? Indirectly critical with a nice warm tone. Yes,

(27:49):
it's like, oh, would you really need seconds? Okay, I'll
get you, I'll get you some more pasta? Why not? Yeah? Look,
when the audible's audible audible audible. When the audibles lead
to touchdowns, nobody says a word why would you You're
not gonna say a word when they don't. The offense
is sputtering, and it wasn't. The Chiefs still had a

(28:11):
chance to win the game. Defense makes some plays there,
they still they beat the Broncos. But the offense it
was kind of blah. It's kind of bla Broncos have
a good defense at all. That, but Kansas Cy's offense,
if you look at the way things are going the
last month or so, the Chiefs offense has gotten worse,
not better, even though they've got their playmakers. And suddenly
the Chiefs look like a middle of the pack NFL team,

(28:34):
which is, oh, by the way, what they are. And
they will be fighting with Jacksonville, it would appear, based
on what we're doing the show today, for one of
the final playoff spots in the division or in the
in the conference rather. And they lost to Jacksonville because
one of their defensive players, their top defensive player, got
lazy and decided not to hustle. How great is that?

(28:58):
Wouldn't that be the perfect for the Chiefs not to
make the playoffs? That keeping up with the Joneses couldn't
get off his fat ass to go make a play,
and he was walking while Trevor Lawrence stumbled and bumbled,
got up, stumbled and bubbled again, got up and scored
a touchdown, while Chris Jones is like, la la la
la la la la la la la la la la
la la la la la just like that. So there

(29:19):
you go. This is officially based on the data. This
is officially the first time since Patrick Mahomes became the
man the QB number one, since he took over the number,
that missing the playoffs is a legitimate possibility for the Chiefs,
like they're gonna have to overperform. They've underperformed so far,

(29:41):
They're gonna have to overperform to get into the playoffs.
And that's not gas baggerie, it's media nonsense. No, it's
not that. That is reality with a capitol R. Is
what that isn't Andy Reid. We know he's not a rookie.
He's only got a little time left as an NFL coach.
Who knows. If this continues to go the way it's going, Andy,
we could be forced out at the end of the year.

(30:03):
This could be his final season as coach of the Chiefs.
If they don't make the playoffs, theyll say, oh, he's
too old. They need a change. It's time to replace
Andy Reid a big red. Come on, go to retirement,
Go go to Dana point there in so cal knock
yourself out. And it was a shot, Andy Reid. That
was his way of saying, and went on, roll it
back a little bit. Stop stop freelancing. It's not a

(30:26):
freelance job. Stick to the script. Do that kind of
stuff in the moment because mahomes he keeps checking out
of runs and setting up because of the inefficiency of
the passing game quite a bit these days. It sets
up third and long and then they'll they'll be watching
the playoffs, hanging out eating delicious kettle corn like we

(30:49):
are watching the playoffs. So Andy Reid again, he didn't
just poke the bear. This is not just a poke
the bear situation. He yanked its tail and rang the
dinner bell is what Andy redid with that. And so
the pressure gets cranked up. There's sound of the actual
actual bear, very hungry bear. It's not a bear and underwear. No,

(31:10):
it is not all right now page two to seeaattle
we go. That's right. The Seahawks still licking their wounds
after losing because the Rams can ram it all day
and ram it all night. So one veteran NFL coach
making a statement recently about the Seattle Seahawks and their
situation with a stout defense and pretty good special teams,

(31:36):
and this unnamed, unnamed NFL coach, NFL coach giving a
reminder of the many limitations that Seattle has with Sam Darnald.
With Sam Darnald, So this NFL coach told the athletic
behind a paywalt, the old gray lady said, quote, Sam

(31:59):
is just going to have that in him for life.
Of course, that would be the four interceptions he gift
wrapped to the Rams. He's going to have that in
him for life, the coach said to the athletic, he said,
he will play great Sam Donald. He will play good
Sam Donald. Then he is going to have those plays.

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Problem is, quote continues, problem is when you get established
as a playoff team, everyone is scared to death that
is going to happen. Close quote and oh, by the way,
we touch up his work there. It often does happen.
It happened last year, It's going to happen again this
year for Sam Donald. So that's the deal. The question
on this one, what do you make of the Sam

(32:46):
Donald quagmire that the Seattle Seahawks find themselves in. Yeah,
I know it's a cartoon character. Did they find themselves
in a quagmar? So Seattle, this is a great reality check.
Things are going great. Think everything wonderful. You're a big
man on campus. Everything's so just glowing the football gods.

(33:07):
The football gods are smiling until they're not. And Seattle
has put a team together that has a built in
liability they do. The liability is called Sam Donald. That's it.
And you knew that moment was gonna happen when you
signed up for Sam Donald because it's part of the

(33:27):
Sam Donald package. That's what it is. It's an underlying
condition you signed up for it. I know, JJ and
Rent's not happy about it. I see crying Craig out there.
He's upset, and Nosterdines' is like, oh my god, what
am I gonna do to What kind of lies am
I gonna spread to Mallard here to try to defend
Sam Donald? What am I gonna do? Yeah, so you
can have the greatest defense in the world. You're gonna

(33:48):
have good special teams, and if Sam Donald does that,
you're going to lose you're going to lose, and eventually
you're going to have to play in big games. It's
just gonna happen. A guy, We'll play, and the lights
will get cranked up in the stadium there, it'll be
national TV. The crowd will get a little bit louder,
and his brain, the Sam Donald brain, will start doing

(34:11):
geometry and then realize he went to USC so he
doesn't know geometry. Donald is like a Hurts rental car
or any other rental car. I just happen to use Hurts.
I like a rental car that you get at the
airport and then it's got to check engine light on.
And they said, well, that just always has it. I
don't worry about that. We checked everything. Everything's good. And

(34:33):
they say, okay, you're sure about that because it says
the check engine light. I don't know if I feel
comfortable driving the automobile. And they say, don't worry about it.
We've rented this car one hundred times. There have never
been any issues. It's always on. It's just a glitch
in the car. But the car runs fine. You're going
to enjoy the car, thank you very much. All right,
So you get in the car, you put your suitcase
in there. You put a couple of bags in the
car at the Hurts rental car and then you leave

(34:55):
the airport and then everything's cleaned. The car smells good,
drives fine. And then suddenly right when you get on
the highway there the interstate, the transmission drops out of
the car. That's Sam Donald. That is Sam He's fine
on surface streets, and then you get on the highway
and it doesn't go very well. There interceptions. That is

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a personality trait of Sam Donald in big games. And
this is why coaches are terrified, absolutely terrified of having
Sam Donald. And you can have Superman for fourteen or
fifteen games, and then at some point somebody brings some
kryptonite to the stadium. How'd they get that into the stadium?

(35:36):
Did that get through the metal? Detectivele I don't know
how it got in, but there's kryptonite? Uh oh yeah.

Speaker 9 (35:42):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
So you don't just downgrade Sam Donald. You downgrade the
entire Seattle Seahawk twenty twenty five team with Sam Donald.
You just do all right, whatever you think they're going
to do, just downgrade a couple of slots. You just
have to downgrade it. There there's a cap on how
far you can go for Seattle here with a quarterback

(36:07):
who can spontaneously combust and Donald's good enough to put
up some gaudy stats in random one o'clock games on
a Sunday, and he's flawed enough to ruin your whole
football viewing experience for the twelves. It's football purgatory, is
what it is. And that is the Sam Donald experience

(36:31):
is what it is. All right now, final point to Chicago.
We go. We go to Chicago despite a seven and
three record. I believe that is their record. My computer
like brain tells me. There are some around the NFL
who are questioning the relationship between the head coach, Ben Johnson.

(36:54):
Show me your Ben Johnson and the quarterback Caleb Williams. Well,
how could that be? Hey, I don't understand the Bears
are good. I don't get it. Well, the athletic again,
the old gray lady there. They recently had a defensive
coach who was played against the Chicago Bears, an unnamed

(37:15):
defensive coach who suggested that Williams, Caleb Williams, that his
style of play does not suit Ben Johnson's coaching, that
it's a mismatch here. Despite the team having a good record,
it's a bit of a mismatch and Johnson is still,
of course in the early stages. This his first year

(37:37):
as a head coach. He's trying to trying to help
the Bears take the next level. If you look at
the record, everything's going great there and all that make
Caleb Williams a reliable starter. I was the top pick
in the draft in twenty twenty four. The quote was
to be honest with you. This is from the unnamed
defensive coach. To be honest with you, I think Ben,

(37:57):
meaning Ben Johnson, is frustrated with him. Caleb doesn't play
on time and doesn't do the things that allow the
offense to get to the next level that Ben is
used to said. Ben Johnson was able to scheme up
max protection things for Jared Goff in Detroit and run
guys open. This guy can't do that. So now it's

(38:18):
all off schedule ball, which is uncontrollable for a coach.
Close quote question, Bear's coach Ben Johnson frustrated with Caleb Williams.
Up and down, up and down play? Is this fair
or is this foul? Is it fair or is it foul,

(38:39):
that's the question. So based on an expedited review, fair ball,
fair ball, both feet inbounds fair ball. All right, now
the lesson here, You don't judge a book by its cover.
That's what they said, don't don't judge a book by
its cover. Okay, we're not gonna judge a book by
its cover, but we're gonna look at the book based
on the pages. The pages. We've opened the book. The

(39:02):
pages got bent in the book, and there's some coffee stains.
I don't know. I don't drink coffee. There's some coffee
stains there. And someone tried to make an art piece
on page twenty seven with broken crayons. So there's that.
So that's how we're going to judge the book. Listen,
Caleb Williams, what a cocktail part of this guy is?
Caleb Williams, You got five game winning drives? I think

(39:24):
that number is right, five game winning drives. Yet the
internal clock, if you look at the clock, tick tick tick,
tick tick does a common bond on the overnight tonight.
The clock it's broken. The clock is not right there.
He's finger he's the fingernail painter at quarterback. If you
know what I mean, and looks great on the gram

(39:47):
social media looks very good there. But when it's third
down and eight and Ben Johnson needs a timing and
rhythm play, not so much. He's out there freelancing like
he's at Lincoln Park playing some pickup ball at seven
A grand old time there, beautiful Lincoln Park. Now, what
is my evidence? What is my evidence here? Now? He's

(40:08):
late much. We talked last hour about Geno Smith and
some of these other guys who do the same thing. Well,
this is another example of holding the ball for two
long three point three four seconds on average, which is
an eternity for an NFL quarterback. Williams completion rate is
below sixty percent. He's bottom five under pressure, twenty fifth

(40:30):
in red zone touchdown rate, which I'm told is not good.
I'm told that's not good. And then when his nails
get chipped inside the twenty yard line in the red zone,
receivers have to be making circus catches for the Bears
because he cannot seemingly place the football outside of five

(40:51):
yards with any kind of consistency when you watch the
Bears play there, and so I get it now. Publicly,
everything's going great. The Bears are winning some games and
all that stuff, although Ben Johnson did call out the
work habits of some of the Bears players earlier this year.
But they're winning, and yet you think Ben Johnson is
frustrated that things are not completely clicking, Like you win

(41:14):
enough of these close games you think, Okay, that's great,
but it's not a sustainable formula. And to think that
you're longing for Jared Goff, who has to be spoon
fed everything that Jared Goff is like beautiful sheet music
on time and all that stuff, and it's like, what
are we doing? And Caleb turning the Bears offense into

(41:36):
a jazz improv night with a couple of people that
have never even heard of jazz music performing. What are
we doing here? And it's at a bowling alley down
the street. Well, that doesn't seem like it's going to
be very good at all. It doesn't seem good at all.
It's all off schedule, all that stuff all over the place.
And I buy it, Ben Johnson, you got the public
and the private. Publicly, everything's great. The Bears are winning. Privately,

(42:00):
I thought this guy would be better. I don't understand
I could have had any job I wanted, and I
took this job because of this guy, and this guy's
helter skelter. It's the Caleb Williams, who's very talented. However,
a roller coaster, a roller coaster with loose bolts, is
what he is, and the Bears are winning often despite him. Well,

(42:23):
how could you say.

Speaker 9 (42:24):
That you don't know ball?

Speaker 1 (42:25):
You don't know ball? Well, okay, field goals, lucky kickoff returns,
special teams, blunders either by the other team or defensive blunders.
And again, you're not gonna live like that long term.
So the malar panic meter is rising. The malar panic

(42:46):
meter is rising. The Bears better pray that the nail
polish dries before the playoffs start, because right now you
don't want to play with wet nail polish. You gotta
let that drive for a few minutes.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show days at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
Here we go, Here we go, but here we go,
Here we go, gets grilled, Here we go, cool boy, Ben.

Speaker 6 (43:15):
Yes, the Indianapolis Colts are eight and two, and you're
then they're coming off a buy and they face again.
They face off against a five and five Chiefs team
this week. Yes, yet they're currently three point underdogs. Now
Colds wide receiver Michael Pittman Junior said he prefers when
people underestimate them. Ben, are you among these people?

Speaker 1 (43:33):
Uh Am, I under estimate. I don't think I'm underestimating.
I have the Colts as a team that's gonna be
a fraud team because Daniel Jones is going to kill
them in the playoffs. They're gonna have to need it.
They're gonna need a touchdown drive and he's progressed and
everyone's all excited about that. But I don't buy it.
So yeah, I'm on that team. If that's the team,
I want to be on that team. That's the side.
And there's a reason the Chiefs are favored is because

(43:55):
the people that make the odds in Vegas believe they're
the better team next.

Speaker 6 (43:58):
All week leading up to the game against the Chiefs,
analysts and fans alike, we're calling the Broncos frauds. Well now,
analysts done in about face and they're all saying Denver
deserves respect after their latest win.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
Then do you agree? Uh? Well, I was not on that.
I picked the Broncos in that game, as you know,
cool because you watch Benny versus the Pan on YouTube.
So I had the Broncos in that game and all that. Whatever,
here's the way the meter works. Whatever happens, they just
react to and that's what whoever won they love.

Speaker 6 (44:28):
Next, the ballots for the twenty twenty six Baseball Hall
of Fame class have been announced. Some analysts are saying
that only Andrew Jones and Carlos Beltran would get in
next year.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
What do you think now? Beltran can't get in. He
was part of the cheating Astros. And Andrew Jones became
a whale when he played with the Dodgers, so I
wouldn't put him in either. So no, neither one here.
You all right? You passed. That's a win. Cheata, Cheeta, cheetah,
Carlos Beltran, cheetah.

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Speaker 4 (45:05):
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Hearts going to help you gear rye gear ride to night,
gear right to night.

Speaker 9 (45:17):
Dear Ry, you heard the man It's officially time for
love again here on the Ben Mallors Show. Sorry you
guys had to miss me last week.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
You're back there, I'm back, You're back.

Speaker 9 (45:27):
All right, The love Queen is back.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
Okay, your night mirror is over. Let's get right to it. Lorena,
I'm ready late night, your Accester writes in hashtag Queen
of Hearts, He says, is it ever too early to
have my lady wearing holiday lingerie?

Speaker 7 (45:42):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (45:43):
No, no.

Speaker 9 (45:44):
The best thing about holiday lingerie is it's usually red,
and red is a very versatile color. You can use
it all the time. But with lingerie, you usually want
to get your girl a new set every time.

Speaker 1 (45:54):
Oh really, so one and done situation? Is that right? Yeah?

Speaker 9 (45:57):
Just like a prom dress, you're not gonna wear it twice.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
That like you have to buy a new TV every year?

Speaker 9 (46:02):
The same thing, right, Friday sales coming up?

Speaker 1 (46:06):
Yes, I can't wait for the video of the people
getting the fights at Walmart for the eighty inch television.
So I can't wait.

Speaker 9 (46:13):
You know about Christmas lingerie? I love the idea of
like role playing Missus Claus and like Santa Claus. I
think that's super fun for a festive time of the year. Yeah,
you know, take your sleigh.

Speaker 1 (46:24):
Eh right, yeah, absolutely, all right, let's hear those. Shane
Shane in The Moine writes, and he says, you own
one of your ex's shirts and still wear it.

Speaker 9 (46:35):
I did keep one of my ex's shirts for a
long time. It was a little comforting thing. But no,
not anymore.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
You've given that up. You have, yes, so you don't
need that anymore. You've determined you.

Speaker 9 (46:46):
Have enough current boyfriends. I can wear their clothes.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
Oh all right. Uh, ferg Dog says, how do I
get that special someone to notice me? That's kind of
creepy for Dog. I don't know if you want to Well, it.

Speaker 9 (46:56):
Depends on how you want to go. Do you want
to be like stocker Ish? Do you want to be
a normal person? Because you know, you could pull a
Michael Leprechaun and stand outside someone's window. Wow, you could
do a mail order bride, you could do you could
do like regular Instagram reaches out, which is a little harder,
especially if they're more of a personality. But there's a
lot of ways to be noticed.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
Next question from Mike, he says, speaking of friends with
benefits after going and doing the business Is it bad
for the man to immediately nod off and or go
for a cigarette.

Speaker 9 (47:31):
No, No, I don't mind it at all. No, once
you're done, do in the business whatever you need to do, right,
So I see it as like an energy release, right,
So after that you should calm down, you should go
into more relaxed date. I would love to nap after that.
If you need to go and h you know, smoke
a cigarette and get that mental high that you like,
that's good too. Whatever tops off your.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
Or gather from mike there. And I don't think I
don't recommend sleeping and smoking at the same time.

Speaker 9 (47:56):
I don't think no, not in bed either. Well, some
people do smoke in bed, you know.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
I'll coiled up all right. Dave writes this is an email.
He says he's thirty four years old. He thinks he's
good looking, at least decent looking, he said. He says
he's been on about eighty first dates the past four
years and zero second dates. He says. He says he

(48:19):
thinks people women think he's boring. She says, should he
give up any any advice?

Speaker 9 (48:26):
If you really do want companionship and love, I wouldn't
give up.

Speaker 1 (48:29):
But I would brought a Russian bride, but yeah, I would.

Speaker 9 (48:32):
Also look at how you're approaching these women. What kind
of dates are you taking them onto? You know, are
you taking them to McDonald's. Are you just walking in
the park like.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
I think you gotta go another twenty because they say
one hundred, right, at least one out of one hundred
is going to give you a second date. Right, maybe
if you're I can't be. The guy's got to be long, right,
there's no way you're oh for eighty, that is impossible
to be oh for eighty?

Speaker 3 (48:51):
Right?

Speaker 2 (48:52):
Or else?

Speaker 9 (48:52):
I mean so much finer bag over your head?

Speaker 1 (48:55):
Fine? Blind women? Right, come on, do something?

Speaker 9 (48:59):
You can do this.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
Yes, there's guys. I don't believe. I think I got
no way. That guy's over eighty LA, no way right,
suppressing it? Come on, you can't be over eighty.

Speaker 2 (49:07):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
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Speaker 1 (49:23):
All right, let's do it. And we have America's favorite
crossing guard, Daniel in Fort Wayne, who's gonna play. Hello Daniel,
good morning, bank.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
You have to forgive me.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
I'm eating my breakfast right now. Oh I don't want
to interrupt your bregy. Why do you eat your breakfasts?
Will have you playing another time? How about that?

Speaker 2 (49:39):
No?

Speaker 1 (49:39):
No, no, no, no, no no no. I'm done now
I'm done. Okay, all of a sudden, he's done.

Speaker 9 (49:44):
All of u.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
Okay, calm down. What who do you want to partner
up with? Quickly?

Speaker 9 (49:48):
Daniel, day, I gotta go with you.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
I gotta win today.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
Okay, you're gonna win, and we have Mike the Leprechaun
is gonna play. Hello, Mike the Leprechaun.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
Good morning, the morning.

Speaker 9 (50:01):
I'm going to the bathrooms.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
Who do you want? Okay? Lareya? All right? She took
her headphones off. All right, well you're gonna play. Oh
what's she doing?

Speaker 7 (50:13):
She?

Speaker 1 (50:14):
Where does she go? I don't see her?

Speaker 2 (50:16):
Okay, I'll do.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
Somebody's got a Daniel. We have a list of words
one to ten. Please pick a number. Hurry up, please,
you're going down. You're going down.

Speaker 9 (50:28):
Hot.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
I'm gonna go number three, number three. All right, let's
go with let's see here, let's go with any meanie moneyment.
How about M dependence depending No dependence d E P
E N D E n c E dependence.

Speaker 9 (50:56):
No, okay, Leprachaun. Let's go with habit.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
Ritual No, Daniel, how about crack?

Speaker 9 (51:08):
No, let's go with craving.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
Desire.

Speaker 6 (51:15):
Think of all the words that have been saying, not
just the most.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
They're not they're not listening, Coop, Let's show the word out. Quickly,
pick another number. Mike quickly picked the number, but the
word was addiction. Addiction, Yeah, okay, okay, number number two,
number two.

Speaker 9 (51:30):
Go ahead, okay, let me think, let me think.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
Oh she said it all right, Daniel was sort it's
a very good, cool arena, very good clue. Daniel, pick
what a disaster this game? It turned out to be.
My god, I think it's fine.

Speaker 9 (51:48):
What are you talking?

Speaker 1 (51:51):
A sword to the heart is what that was? A
sword to the heart.