November 20, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about Eagles QB Jalen Hurts saying he'll "never run away" from holding himself accountable, the chances that Jonathan Gannon avoids getting fired by the Arizona Cardinals, Lions coach Dan Campbell praising the Giants "fresh energy," and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, it's our number one, our number one.
We start out in Dallas. How about them Cowboys? A
lot of chatter about George Pickens, not slim pickings for
George Pickens. Should the wide receiver named George Pickens take
less money for legacy? Should he take less for his
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legacy with the Cowboys? Des Bryant says yes. Also, how
do you process Raiders coach Pete Carroll's endorsement of Gino Smith?
And what does this latest update on Titans rookie quarterback
cam Ward indicate to you? We'll talk about all that
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We'll have that an hour two. We've got later on
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fact or Fiction. So all that coming away throughout the overnet.
But our lead this hour, don't bury the lead, my man,
all right, We're not gonna bury the lead. So our
lead this hour from Philadelphia are ongoing coverage as we
have a follow up to the follow up to the
follow up as the Birds sitting at the very top
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there their nest, the Bird nest, the very top of
the NFC either tied with Rams, but they won the
tiebreaker because the Rams special team sucked and had a
kick block that would have won the game. But not
all is right in the Delaware Valley. No, no, no,
no no, we've been talking about the Eagle players who
have been whispering in hushed tones, whispering in hushed tones
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to medium members in Philadelphia frustrated. Who are they frustrated
with Jalen Hurts? OMG, they're upset with Jalen Hurts and
his approach this season. Now, specifically when it comes to
his hesitancy to throw the ball into show. I don't know,
tight windows, they say, when you could be picked off right,
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it's not a no risk situation for the quarterback and
he's tried to avoid that. Now, Hurts address this. I
don't know if you heard what he had to say
or not. Maybe not. I believe we have some audio here.
So Eagle's quarterback Jalen Hurts said he was not startled
by the many reports that are bouncing around the echo chamber.
People frustrated inside the organization on with his play the
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finger being pointed at him, a number of fingers being
pointed at Jalen Hurts for what he's been doing here,
and well he's used the a word accountability. Let's go
to the audio tape. Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I guess I get a lot of attention when things
are going well and when things are not going so well,
and so I never run away from holding myself accountable.
And I think, you know, I think that's exactly what
I've taken the approach of doing.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Okay, so I never run away from holding myself accountable.
I think exactly what I've taken that approach of doing
and all that all right, So that is a good
jumping off point. Let's get into this right now. The
question Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts, as you just Hurt says
he never runs away from holding himself accountable. How do
you interpret the meaning of this? Is it straightforward? Is
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there some nuanced to so on this one. I've got Ruth,
Chris Steakhouse, Wooden Pallettes, and gymnastics, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
have some delicious, delicious banana cream pie. The king of
a pie is the banana cream pie. So A, there's
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really no need for us to sit here and just
blab blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
and give you all kinds of fluff. We cut through
the fluff. We actually have a machete. We cut through
the fluff. It's a fluff cutting machete and we use
that every night. So Jalen Hurts did not actually accept accountability. Well,
we shud it. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
He shut it?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Oh shut up, Okay, here's what he did. He said,
I'll never run away from it. But really, yeah, it's
really I know I'm at fault, and the key part
is I'm not changing. I did not get the sense
from watching the Jalen Hurts newscomers that he has any
intention of doing anything differently. And that's how the malor
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Rosetta stone ruled. When we listened to what he had
to say. This is the modern day quarterback news conference?
What do you do with these things? Right? You do
some news conference? Jiu jitsu is what you do? You
say accountability, and if you say it, certain percentage of
people don't pay attention. Oh he said it. He said accountability.
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But you say that, but you do stubbornness. Okay, you
do stubbornness. Meanwhile, the Eagles offense, despite that great record,
they are circling the drain. They're twenty fifth overall on offense.
That's not good. Oh, you're being too critical. Twenty eight
been passing. I think that sucks. Oh why'd you say that?
That's why you're doing overnights twenty ninth in terms of
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third down play, which is not great either. Last year,
behind Sakwan Barkley, they were bulldozing people one hundred and
seventy nine yards rushing per game. I believe last season ridiculous.
This year it's like a buck fifteen or something like that.
That's not a dip. That is a sixty four foot
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plunge off the Ben Franklin Bridge. All right, and then
and the locker room knows it, and the Eagle the
people around the Eagles are claiming that, hey, listen, they
got the game plan. Jalen Hurts is using the I
word ignorance in terms of the game plan. There he
will not throw into the tight windows against the zone,
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and you know he plays he essentially the translation is
he doesn't want to risk anything at all. Like you know,
he's the guy that will buy stock and if it
goes down, he keeps it. He just it's a long
term strategy here. And this all started a couple of
years back in twenty twenty three through a bunch of interceptions.
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He got buried for it. Jalen Hurts is that what
are you doing? You're turning the ball over too much,
And so he said, Okay, I'm going to get ripped
for that. So I'm going to now go into my
safe space. And the last seven hundred and twenty one
pass attempts since that fateful twenty twenty three season, he
has seven interceptions. He's playing safe. He's being very conservative
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with the football. Are the Eagles winning, Yes, they're being
very successful on the field. It's also uninspiring, right, they're
spending here's the issue. If Jalen Hurts was being paid
a pedestrian amount of money and they didn't go out
and fill out the roster, it would be fine. But
they're paying him as a franchise quarterback. He's a checkdown merchant,
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is what he is, Charlie. Checkdown is what they're they're
getting they're paying him for a franchise quarterback. They're not
getting that. It's kind of like going to Ruth Chris
Steakhouse and they have all those delicious steaks and all that,
and you're like, you know what I want to order
the I would like to order the lettuce wedge is
what I would like? Well, no, no, it's a steakhouse.
Well no, it's on the menu though it says lettuce,
which I know it's on the menu, but you should
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get a steak. But I don't want a steak. I
want the lettuce with nobody orders the letter switch. We
don't even know why it's on the menu. You're the
first person ever to order that. It's fine, that's what
I want, Okay whatever, So technically eats a meal, but
it's like kind of a waste, right, It's like, you
know you're not there for that, and you got aj
Brown prime years of his career. He's the only one
that's been vocal and spoken on the record put their
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name on it. Davonte Smith is also another guy who
might as well trade him. You don't need him. If
you're just gonna check down, you're wasting the entire buffet
of playmakers, and you got this big offensive line and
all that. And so the Eagles they're winning, winning, You
know what, they remind me of the they used to be.
So I'm gonna talk hockey here much. The New Jersey Devils,
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believe it or not, years ago, won a bunch of
Stanley Cups. They had a really good run and they
were contenders every year, and they were so boring. They
were so boring, boring winners is what they were. And
kind of like the San Antonio Spurs when they won.
They were boring in basketball. So you're doing that, you're winning,
and you're paying a luxury rate for your roster, and
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you've just dumbed down everything. You've dumbed down everything. And
so they've got a team that plays football like they're
trying not to wake up a baby. There's a baby
slipping off to the site. They don't want to wake
up the baby. And Jalen Hurts, he says he'll never
run from accountability, which is fine. I mean, Jalen Hurts
has been a great SoundBite in terms of cliches. And
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remember when he first came on the scene against the
Cowboys and they played terribly. The Eagles against Dallas in Dallas,
and yeah, he gave us that great quote when you
drop a deuce, you don't stop and stare at it,
You flush it and move on, which is still one
of my favorite Jalen Hurds quotes. But here's the deal,
just to be clear, for those of you that are late,
and you're like a Dallas Cowboy receiver, you're little late
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there in the back of the room. So Jalen Hurts
admits that he's the problem. He's not running from it,
he just won't solve it. So that's the Philly paradox
is what it is. As long as they you can't
say anything, everything is good. Blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah. All right. Meanwhile, to Arizona we go,
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where another coach on the hot seat, Jonathan Gannon. Jonathan Gann,
the Cardinals head coach, was questioned about his job status.
The Cardinals off to the typical three and seven start,
and they now have they benched their starting corp back.
They made some fake injury up for him, a little
fella the gardened home their alligator arms Murray, so Gannon
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on the hot seat, he was asked about this he
dismissed it. Of course I'm great. If he said, yeah,
they should probably fire my ass, I suck. He didn't
say that. He said he would, he wouldn't pay attention
to it. He said it's not controllable. He said, quote,
I didn't hire myself. I'm not going to fire myself. Well, okay,
that's the quote. Question. What are the chances? What are
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the chances that coach Jonathan Gannon is Jonathan Gannon and
he's out? What are the chances he avoids the pinkxil
Let's look at it that way. So what are the chances
he actually stays in Arizona? So the Malard sports book odds,
which is never wrong because they're the mala sports book gods,
the chances that Jonathan Gannon remains with the Cardinals of
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the football variety is plus two thousand. Now, that implies,
based on the math, the mal of math, about five percent,
give or take about five percent. So you'd be better
off wandering through the deserts of Arizona with no water
in July, late July and just thinking, well, maybe I'll
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stumble on some water somewhere. You know, you got better
odds of that happening. Ha's got a three p forty
one winning percentage in Arizona and barreling towards his third
straight losing season. There Cliff Kingsbury, who wasn't very good either.
He was he was the guy who gave the player's
cell phone breaks during practice and orange slices and all that.
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He got run out of town. He had one bad year,
and this guy, Jonathan Gannon is stacking up bad performances
like wooden pallets in a warehouse, and the whole reason
that you hire a guy like that. He was a
defensive coach. He was with the Philadelphia Eagles, and he's okay,
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he's going to fix the defense. They're going to fix
the defense. Okay, so let's see how that's going. He's
been there three years. First year thirty second in the NFL.
Second year twenty seventh, and now they're twenty fifth in
the NFL. So if you do the math on that,
you give another ten years, they'll have the number one
defense in the NFL. Not exactly fixing things. It's kind
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of like you have a problem with termites and you're like,
let me hire the exterminator, and the exterminator comes over
and seals the house off and fumigates the house with
the family still in the house. That's essentially what's going
going on here. And the bid Wells the family that
owns that they're getting closer to finally getting rid of
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alligator arms Murray, and once they dump his little tush,
they might as well just dump the coach as well,
get a fresh start and reboot the whole thing, right,
reboot the whole thing and get a new quarterback and
a new coach, and get a new sofa, get a
new television, all that stuff, all right, now, this is
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what they do, this amazing fun factor. So no Cardinals
coach has lasted six seasons since they became the Cardinals, well,
the Arizona they were the Phoenix Cardinals for a while
when they moved from Saint Louis in nineteen eighty eight.
Nineteen eighty eight, that's been a minute. So this franchise
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treats stability like it's contagious. They also can't seem to
hire a good coach to save their life, maybe once
every generation. And johnthan Gannon is a again defensive guy
coaching a bad defense, and it's like hiring a chef
or in this case a baker, and the baker comes
in he said, well, I really, you know I love
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My favorite thing is toast. I love perfectly made toast.
And the baker says, well, I make toast all the time.
That's it's it's not really you know, baked that cookies
or make toast. I'll make toast for you, sure, And
he said, well, who do you make toast for? I
want to make toast for Jim Nance. I like burnt toast,
and he likes burnt toast and I don't like burnt toast.
But anyway, so again it's a dead man walking in
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the valley of the sun. Now the last word here
we go now to Mowtown, the Detroit football team hosting
the New York NFC football team that would be the
Giants this weekend. Not a game that has a lot
of juice to it. Not a game that has a
lot of juice to it. And some interesting comments by
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Dan Campbell, the coach of your Detroit Lions, question, how
do you process? Lions coach Dan Campbell praising the Giants
quote fresh energy? Fresh energy was the quote under interim
coach Mike Kofka. So on this one, Dan Campbell suddenly
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turning into the meatthead lou Holtz on this SoundBite, just
buttering the popcorn of the opponent. Here. Now, the term
that predates lou Holtz is called poor mouthing. You can
look it up. I'm not making that up, poor mouthing
one oh one. And he's taking that fresh energy, fresh
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energy under Mike Kafka, like the giants somehow just discovered
fire and the wheel and just wonderful. It's like, give
me a break. It's the oldest move in the coaching world.
You're a double digit favorite, you being the Detroit Lions.
What are you gonna do? You inflate the other guy,
You turn them into the Jimmy Johnson, Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin,
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EMMITTT Smith Cowboys back in the day. And you're like, well,
my team's not gonna get get caught flat footed, sleepwalking
all that, and Campbell he sees the odds. This is
a trap game situation. You're not getting up for it.
The Lions have a Thanksgiving game next week, as they
always play on Thanksgiving, and so this is a game
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you kind of get through and then the whole world's
watching next week and you see the standings. And so
it's mental gymnastics, is what it is. It's mental gymnastics. Now,
the fresh energy thing, that's what they say when a
team fires the coach and still blows thereof street blows.
It's a red bull energy. The Giants win three or
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four games a year. They don't beat anybody. Let's not
rewrite the Bible over here. Dan Campbell knows what this is.
He's just planting some insurance, is what he's doing. If
Detroit goes out and wins the game in a dominating fashion,
which according to the pointspread, they're supposed to be doing,
if they in this game, big big, big, big big big, big,
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big big big. Then he said, well, yeah, hey, we
respected him. We showed up to play. And now if
they don't, if they don't win big either, well we warned,
we warned our guys. You know this is fresh energy. Now,
if the Lions actually lose this somehow, you might have
to cancel the Thanksgiving game in Detroit and pull the
Ford Field fire alarm. You might have to do that,
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and then Dan Campbell's knee biting card will be taken away.
No more knee biting for you. So there's that it
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of sports radio, so please please act accordingly, and now
back to it, all right, we do go back to
it and yappin in the open on the Mala monologue,
Jalen Hurts problems in Philadelphia, as hurts addressing that not
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planning on changing it. Another coach on the hot seat,
Jonathan Gannon in Arizona. The only thing that could save
him is the fact that the Cardinals ownership is notoriously
cheap and they're pretty much stuck with Kyler Murray unless
they can convince a dumb executive like Tom Brady to
take Tyler Murray off their hands. And then you got
Dan Campbell using the old lou Holtz thing and just
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just going for it, just poor mouthing and living his best.
Poor mouthing life is what he's doing. We have plenty
of people that want to yap on the X machine
and have their voice heard. That's at Ben Mahler Late
Night drug tester says Jalen Hurts needs to start acting
like the Philly mascot gritty and face the music about
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the abysmal offense. So what he said? All right? Not
a burner writes in, says Ben. It feels like the
Lakers are a hockey team playing the majority of the
game with a man in the penalty box because of
Luca and his no D policy. Yeah, well, good luck
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on that. I'm not I have a didn't even me.
I was watching a good game? Did I have the Knicks?
Is there anything more disappointing when you turn on an
NBA game thinking you're gonna get Barkley and those guys,
and you get that who's that stiff? What's the guy's
name on the Kendrick Perkins? Holy crap? Oh you want
Charles Barkley, you get Kendrick Perkins. Holy. It's like, can
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I hey, mom, can I have a nice ice cream Sunday? Sure,
we'll get you an ice cream Sunday?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Okay? And then they give you a bowl of broccoli.
I don't want brock. I want an ice cream Sunday.
What is that? My god, unbelievable supermarket. Steve writes in
from Asles seven, and he says, any of those daytime
radio shows that want to give you grief for taking calls,
I would just like to point out that you are
doing a solo show for four hours without any update.
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Man anymore, who else are you supposed to talk to you?
That's a fair point. Well, there's a fair point here,
and but that's the way it is and the way
it be. And Bill writes in, I believe is that
is that Hoosier Bill? No, that's not Hoosier. But this's
a different Bill. He says, A little late with the
banana cream pie. Little late there now, Trucker Joy points out.
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Trucker Joe says, speaking of banana cream pie, he says,
y'all never threw that party that was paid for by Skeeter.
It's a great point. That's a great point. We're gonna
have to honor the great Skeeter with the banana cream
pie party. As a Skeeter hooked us up and we
were waiting for something. I forget what we were waiting for.
But whatever we were waiting for, we clearly did not
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wait that long. I mean, I guess we did wait
too long, but whatever it was, we forgot about it
and we just moved on. Yeah, unbelievable. What else do
you want to see? Page down here? I can't read that.
Let's say some random gibbers here. All right, let's get
to the phones. Why not. Let's see her Eeny Meanie
miny Moe. Pick a caller by their name, and let's
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start out with e Dog on Long Island, a fan favorite. Hello,
eat dog Ete Doggie.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
All right, man, Hello, come on, what do you what
do you do?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
All you do is call radio shows? What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Listen, remember that call the other day the blind guy
who you know?
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I said litters things about me and made up storage.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Which one are you talking about? Blind Scott or whatever?
That guy? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yeah, he could go answer the arrange OVENE he's going
answer the Uh what.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
You want to go after the iron? Are you're you're
still upset about that phone call?
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Hey, you go answer the iron? And how about those bulls.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
In the Knicks?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Baby, the Knicks down to the.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Wire they did it. I love the baby, I love it.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
He did not just set you did not watch a
second of that game?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
He dog, Yes, I did.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I don't believe. I don't believe. I don't believe you
watched that game. I don't believe you did brunt that twenty.
You're reading a box score or whatever, but you didn't
watch the game. You're laughing. I caught youa I caught you.
I had the game on in the background. It was
hard for me to watch the game, and I was
excited when they because I didn't watch the pregame stuff.
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I turned it on the game had already started, so
then I was like, Okay, I'm gonna wait till halftime.
And I kind of had it in the background, and
then it got to halftime, and then I saw Kendrick Perkins.
I was like, oh no, Kendrick Perkins. I need Charles Barker.
I don't need Kendrick Perkins. I mean, that's criminal. They
should not even be allowed to broadcast unless Barkley's on there.
That's the only reason to watch. The games are unwatchable.
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I mean, what kind of business is the NBA running
Where I tune in to hear Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith,
and I don't want to watch the Knicks and the Mavericks.
I would rather watch the halftime show with those guys,
not me, not me. Oh stop, you didn't watch again,
you did not when you look at some box score,
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you didn't watch the game?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
The game?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Who is the who's the who's the referee? Who's the
referee in the game?
Speaker 5 (28:05):
A shaman?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yeah, it was not. It was not a navy It
was Scott Foster, legendary. Scott Foster was the Tim Tim
Donnie's buddy, Tim Donnie's buddy was that was the guy?
Speaker 2 (28:22):
What?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Anyway?
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Who is the next place tonight?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
What I am? I am? I the Knicks pocket schedule?
Is that what I am? Listen, lamar Jack, you are
all You're all over the place. I don't think I don't.
I don't think the Knicks are playing yet today. Anyway,
all right, you got your joking. You're happy, and Melissa
is doing great. Okay, now we're going to Melissa. Now
(28:50):
we're and now we've reached the Melissa part of the show. Yeah,
do you want to do you want to would you
like to say anything? Scottie Barnes is a legend face
of the NBA, Scotty Barnes is yes, would you would
you like to would you like to address your your
critic there? Do you want to go mono a mono
(29:11):
against the person that doesn't like you? Sure? Okay, all right,
let's see if we can make this happen here. Let's
dial up here, let's a line Blind Scott. Hello, blind Scott?
Shut up for a second.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
You suck so bad?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
All right? All right, all right, all right, all right?
That uh, that went about as well as I thought
it would be. What was it about three four seconds?
And then boom f bomb barely that But it'll be
in the podcast. We'll get great podcast download numbers, and
we're excited about that. We e dog has helped the podcast.
We'll let those guys calm down, and then at some
(29:54):
point we might I don't know, should we even go
back to blind Scott? I don't know. Well, Hey, my
father knows best. What about gambling? Did you see Pat
Mahomes sor? I wonder whose kid is? I wonder this
guy I interviewed. Pat Mahomes was a journeyman relief pitcher
for like the Mets and the Twins. Back when I
was covering baseball every day, and now he's just kind
(30:16):
of like, I don't know what he is. He's just
kind of there getting a lot of show. It loves
the booze. We know that, but who doesn't anyway, Mahomes Dad,
Patrick Mahomes Senior is putting his neck out and has
decided to do an old bit. Now, if you've listened
to the Ben Maller Show years ago, we had the
great caller Pete and Pittsburgh, one of the all time
great talk radio callers who's retired from calling talk radio.
(30:37):
He grew out of it. Pete was wonderful. He was
part of Howard Stern's whack pack back when Stern had
his fastball and didn't go woke and did all the
crazy stuff back in the old days when radio, when
he was great at radio, and so Pete and Pittsburgh.
On that show he was known as Pittsburgh Pete, but
on our show he was Pete and Pittsburgh. And one
night we did Pete and Pittsburgh versus the World, and
(30:58):
it was Pete and everyone's calling up insulting Pete, and
then he would insult them back, and it was one
of the great bits that we did. We did Versus
the World with Blind Scott and some other people over
the years, but the Pete and Pittsburgh won was one
of the legendary bits on the show. I bring that
up because Patrick Mahomes dad, Patrick Mahomes Senior, has decided
to publicly wager that his kid is going to get
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the Chiefs into the playoffs. The patriarch of the family there,
the Mahomes family, or in this case, Patrick Moves. He
went on social media and made a decree. He said,
I'll take any bet that anyone wants to make that
we make the playoffs. So just DM and let me know,
(31:46):
all right, So should we take should we take a bet?
Do you think I should put one hundred dollars bet
up with Patrick Mahomes' dad that the Chiefs don't make
the playoffs can win one hundred bucks? What do you
think here? I can slide into the d there at
Patrick mahomes s and you make a quick hundred dollars?
Well you just say it. I mean it's one hundred bucks.
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Do you think he's actually gonna pay up? I don't know.
It's a very film I got yeah, well exactly got
filled with Bravado. That's a proud papa right there. That
is a proud papa and he's in the corner and
all that. It's there's one of two things, especially one
of three things. Either Mahomes dad is back on the sauce,
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right that's that's possibility. Former major league pitcher, you know,
it's retired, still get that pension coming in from Major
League Baseball and not kids, got a ton of money.
So just doing a great thing. There's that. Uh, there's
number number two option is he's seen the script from
the NFL and he knows this is all rigged and
that the Chiefs are going to make the playoffs because
they need Taylor Swift to be at playoff games on
(32:53):
television on wild Card weekend and to facilitate that. They
will they will make sure that get certain certain breaks
along the way. And then the third option is he's
just just off his rocker and just you know, just
craziness and all that. Those are three options. So it's
one of those three opements. But there it is the
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father of Patrick Mahlomes. Mahomes versus the world. Yeah, Mahomes
versus the world. And we'll see if the Chiefs change anything. Up.
You know, I got into a rant yesterday about Andy
Reid kind of a subtle shot. Some of the uneducated
fans don't understand that, but name in a little subtle
(33:34):
shot about mahomes and getting out of running plays and
the chief's calling running plays and all that, and seem
to be annoyed by that. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
As we are rolling, rolled in, rolling through the overnight hours,
we will take some more of these calls and time
now though, hope for the who am I? Game? Oh
(33:56):
my god, it's the who am I?
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Game?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else and
you have to figure out who we are. Thus, let's
call it the who am I?
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Game? Who?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
You can answer this on X at Ben malis so
here it is. Indianapolis running back Jonathan Taylor has seventy
three scrimmage touchdowns in his career in seventy seven career games.
Now on Sunday at Cansas City, see all this stuff's
tied together. At Kansas City, he can become the fifth
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running back in NFL history to read seventy five scrimmage
touchdowns in fewer than eighty games. He would join Jim
Brown the greatest of them all, Ladanian, Tomlinson, what a
great San Diego Charger he was, Emmitt Smith as well
as me again who Colts running back Jonathan Taylor has
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seventy three scrimmage touchdowns in seventy seven career games. He
can become just the fifth player in the history of
the NFL to get the seventy five scrimmage touchdowns. This
is proof we love round numbers, you know we Seventy
three is not impressive, seventy five is impressive. So seventy
five scrimmage touchdowns in fewer than eighty games. He would
join Jim Brown, Ladanian, Tomlinson, emmittt Smith, as well as me.
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Who am I? That is the question? The answer and
your calls we'll get to that. We will do it next.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Bill Miller here The Ben Mahler Show is in all
inclusive program and coming up later on it'll be ask
Ben in our number three. Now, if you're not going
to be listening hours and hours from now, because you
will be sleeping or God only knows what kind of
debauchery you'll be up to. But in the meantime you
can always go back into the podcast you want to
submit a question hashtag ask Ben. A programming note, we
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don't do sporty questions on Ask Ben. They can be
loosely related to sports, but we generally answer questions that
are not sports related. So that's ask Ben coming up
in our number three of the Big Baffosaco Overnight Show.
So check that out and be part of the programming.
(36:13):
Ask anyone on the show, and everyone on the show.
You know, I've just asked one person. Just bundle everyone together.
It's part of the bundle package. Yeah, what a deal.
It's like a combo meal. That's an hour three back
to it, back to it we go. We'll take some
calls here in a moment. Got to pay off the
(36:34):
always popular who Am I game? And here is the
whom I game for today. This is where we pretend
to be somebody else and you can try to answer
it on the X machine at Ben Mallard. That's at
Ben Mallor. So here we go. Indianapolis running back Jonathan
Taylor seventy three scrimmage touchdowns in his seventy seven career
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games now on Sunday at arrow Boy, what great. That's
the coolest NFL stadium I've ever been to. I don't
know if you've ever been to Arrowhead, but it's awesome.
You got to get there because eventually the Chiefs will
be playing in a Dome stadium in Kansas, so you
might want to go to Arrowhead before they go across
the state line there. But in the meantime, so Jonathan
Taylor at Arrowhead can become the fifth running back in
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NFL history to reach seventy five scrimmage touchdowns in fewer
than eighty games. He would join Jim Brown, Ladanian, Tomlinson,
EMMITTT Smith as well as me. So that is the question.
What is the answer? Rob the goat Man going with
John Lovetts as his answer, Dan dating himself with a
(37:40):
nineties of Atlanta Brave Dan going with Ron Gant is
his answer. Sean Alexander and his fourteen.
Speaker 6 (37:53):
Oh this sounds great. Oh well, I guess we'll keep.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Going with the game, won't we coop?
Speaker 6 (38:05):
Yeah, let's let's go ahead and read some more of
these these answers wonderful guesses. Well, we figure out why the.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Gremlins are attacking Ben. Right.
Speaker 6 (38:13):
Now, let's see we got Gunner from The King, Rory
Andy Reid from Shane and des Moines, Adrian Peterson from Femi.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
I can't.
Speaker 6 (38:28):
I don't think so. Manuel in Guardina is guessing for
Magilla Gorilla. That's something before my time. I would assume
uh Eloi from Compton. Scarin Eloi from Compton says it's
Lorena's favorite Dallas cowboy, Ezekiel Elliott. I don't. I don't
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think Lorena knows who that is.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
You mean, of course I do.
Speaker 6 (38:54):
What position is he? What the back position? What back
the quarter? Yes, that's correct. Just Josh says it's SuDS Mahomes.
This is gonna be interesting if we don't get Ben back,
because I don't know what the actual answer is. My
(39:16):
guess is yeah. Let's see, we got ray Rice from
On the Grind. That's I'm pretty sure that's incorrect. Alf
the Alien Opiner believes it's Richard Hurts. Miguel on Fire
is guessing Alvin Kamara. That's a good picture of Alvin Kamara.
(39:38):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Now?
Speaker 1 (39:40):
That's who it is? Okay? Perfect? Thank god? All right,
all right, good reading. Coop, though good reading. Let me
just point out, and this was a different kind of
Gremlin attack than the previous Kremlin attacks that we've had. Normally,
the Gremlin's attacks are the line drops. This was where
I don't know that I can hear anymore.
Speaker 7 (40:00):
There was a very loud like no, I literally think
I lost my hair. As you know, I've been in
radio my entire adult life.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
I've always had terrible hearing because of I wear headphones
for hours at a time, and you keep turning them
up a little bit louder and loud. But this is
never I've been man, that is never happened Anyway, I
don't know what answers you read, Coop. Let me just
give the actual Yeah, that's Jady. Would you like to guess? Yeah, yes,
go aheadlet me one more time. So Jonathan Taylor, if
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he gets two touchdowns on Sunday, he will end up
getting to seventy five. He will join Jim Brown in
eighty games. Jim Brown, Lydian and Thomas and Emmett Smith
as well as me, the only players to do that.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
Yeah, I'm gonna go with someone I should probably go
see today. I'm gonna go with doctor.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Dre, doctor Dre. All right, is that your doctor, doctor Dre.
Speaker 6 (40:54):
Yeah, he's a mess.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Okay, yeah, great, yeah, anyway, no, the correct answer. Underrated
player for the LA Rams Todd Gurley. Todd Gurley. How
about that? Gurley on the same stat line with Jim Brown, Ladmian,
Tomlinson and Emmitt Smith. Didn't go so well after that.
For Todd Curley though, didn't go that well. Never heard
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of him.
Here we go. Welcome, it's our number one, our number one.
We start out in Dallas. How about them Cowboys? A
lot of chatter about George Pickens, not slim pickings for
George Pickens. Should the wide receiver named George Pickens take
less money for legacy? Should he take less for his
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legacy with the Cowboys? Des Bryant says yes. Also, how
do you process Raiders coach Pete Carroll's endorsement of Gino Smith?
And what does this latest update on Titans rookie quarterback
cam Ward indicate to you? We'll talk about all that
and more right now in our number one. Here it
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is the Hurts Desserts well kind of welcome in number
beginning of another night of the Ben Mallard Show. We
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We'll be hanging out with you later on before we
get into the monologue. Later on, we'll have Mallard of
the third Degree that'll be coming up an hour number two.
We'll have that an hour two. We've got later on
the Riddle of the Day ask Ben as well, and
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fact or Fiction. So all that coming away throughout the overnet.
But our lead this hour, don't bury the lead, my man,
all right, We're not gonna bury the lead. So our
lead this hour from Philadelphia are ongoing coverage as we
have a follow up to the follow up to the
follow up as the Birds sitting at the very top
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there their nest, the Bird nest, the very top of
the NFC either tied with Rams, but they won the
tiebreaker because the Rams special team sucked and had a
kick block that would have won the game. But not
all is right in the Delaware Valley. No, no, no,
no no, we've been talking about the Eagle players who
have been whispering in hushed tones, whispering in hushed tones
(03:19):
to medium members in Philadelphia frustrated. Who are they frustrated
with Jalen Hurts? OMG, they're upset with Jalen Hurts and
his approach this season. Now, specifically when it comes to
his hesitancy to throw the ball into show. I don't know,
tight windows, they say, when you could be picked off right,
(03:44):
it's not a no risk situation for the quarterback and
he's tried to avoid that. Now, Hurts address this. I
don't know if you heard what he had to say
or not. Maybe not. I believe we have some audio here.
So Eagle's quarterback Jalen Hurts said he was not startled
by the many reports that are bouncing around the echo chamber.
People frustrated inside the organization on with his play the
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finger being pointed at him, a number of fingers being
pointed at Jalen Hurts for what he's been doing here,
and well he's used the a word accountability. Let's go
to the audio tape. Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I guess I get a lot of attention when things
are going well and when things are not going so well,
and so I never run away from holding myself accountable.
And I think, you know, I think that's exactly what
I've taken the approach of doing.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Okay, so I never run away from holding myself accountable.
I think exactly what I've taken that approach of doing
and all that all right, So that is a good
jumping off point. Let's get into this right now. The
question Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts, as you just Hurt says
he never runs away from holding himself accountable. How do
you interpret the meaning of this? Is it straightforward? Is
(04:58):
there some nuanced to so on this one. I've got Ruth,
Chris Steakhouse, Wooden Pallettes, and gymnastics, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
have some delicious, delicious banana cream pie. The king of
a pie is the banana cream pie. So A, there's
(05:20):
really no need for us to sit here and just
blab blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
and give you all kinds of fluff. We cut through
the fluff. We actually have a machete. We cut through
the fluff. It's a fluff cutting machete and we use
that every night. So Jalen Hurts did not actually accept accountability. Well,
we shud it. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
He shut it?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Oh shut up, Okay, here's what he did. He said,
I'll never run away from it. But really, yeah, it's
really I know I'm at fault, and the key part
is I'm not changing. I did not get the sense
from watching the Jalen Hurts newscomers that he has any
intention of doing anything differently. And that's how the malor
(06:04):
Rosetta stone ruled. When we listened to what he had
to say. This is the modern day quarterback news conference?
What do you do with these things? Right? You do
some news conference? Jiu jitsu is what you do? You
say accountability, and if you say it, certain percentage of
people don't pay attention. Oh he said it. He said accountability.
(06:25):
But you say that, but you do stubbornness. Okay, you
do stubbornness. Meanwhile, the Eagles offense, despite that great record,
they are circling the drain. They're twenty fifth overall on offense.
That's not good. Oh, you're being too critical. Twenty eight
been passing. I think that sucks. Oh why'd you say that?
That's why you're doing overnights twenty ninth in terms of
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third down play, which is not great either. Last year,
behind Sakwan Barkley, they were bulldozing people one hundred and
seventy nine yards rushing per game. I believe last season ridiculous.
This year it's like a buck fifteen or something like that.
That's not a dip. That is a sixty four foot
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plunge off the Ben Franklin Bridge. All right, and then
and the locker room knows it, and the Eagle the
people around the Eagles are claiming that, hey, listen, they
got the game plan. Jalen Hurts is using the I
word ignorance in terms of the game plan. There he
will not throw into the tight windows against the zone,
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and you know he plays he essentially the translation is
he doesn't want to risk anything at all. Like you know,
he's the guy that will buy stock and if it
goes down, he keeps it. He just it's a long
term strategy here. And this all started a couple of
years back in twenty twenty three through a bunch of interceptions.
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He got buried for it. Jalen Hurts is that what
are you doing? You're turning the ball over too much,
And so he said, Okay, I'm going to get ripped
for that. So I'm going to now go into my
safe space. And the last seven hundred and twenty one
pass attempts since that fateful twenty twenty three season, he
has seven interceptions. He's playing safe. He's being very conservative
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with the football. Are the Eagles winning, Yes, they're being
very successful on the field. It's also uninspiring, right, they're
spending here's the issue. If Jalen Hurts was being paid
a pedestrian amount of money and they didn't go out
and fill out the roster, it would be fine. But
they're paying him as a franchise quarterback. He's a checkdown merchant,
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is what he is, Charlie. Checkdown is what they're they're
getting they're paying him for a franchise quarterback. They're not
getting that. It's kind of like going to Ruth Chris
Steakhouse and they have all those delicious steaks and all that,
and you're like, you know what I want to order
the I would like to order the lettuce wedge is
what I would like? Well, no, no, it's a steakhouse.
Well no, it's on the menu though it says lettuce,
which I know it's on the menu, but you should
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get a steak. But I don't want a steak. I
want the lettuce with nobody orders the letter switch. We
don't even know why it's on the menu. You're the
first person ever to order that. It's fine, that's what
I want, Okay whatever, So technically eats a meal, but
it's like kind of a waste, right, It's like, you
know you're not there for that, and you got aj
Brown prime years of his career. He's the only one
that's been vocal and spoken on the record put their
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name on it. Davonte Smith is also another guy who
might as well trade him. You don't need him. If
you're just gonna check down, you're wasting the entire buffet
of playmakers, and you got this big offensive line and
all that. And so the Eagles they're winning, winning, You
know what, they remind me of the they used to be.
So I'm gonna talk hockey here much. The New Jersey Devils,
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believe it or not, years ago, won a bunch of
Stanley Cups. They had a really good run and they
were contenders every year, and they were so boring. They
were so boring, boring winners is what they were. And
kind of like the San Antonio Spurs when they won.
They were boring in basketball. So you're doing that, you're winning,
and you're paying a luxury rate for your roster, and
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you've just dumbed down everything. You've dumbed down everything. And
so they've got a team that plays football like they're
trying not to wake up a baby. There's a baby
slipping off to the site. They don't want to wake
up the baby. And Jalen Hurts, he says he'll never
run from accountability, which is fine. I mean, Jalen Hurts
has been a great SoundBite in terms of cliches. And
(10:25):
remember when he first came on the scene against the
Cowboys and they played terribly. The Eagles against Dallas in Dallas,
and yeah, he gave us that great quote when you
drop a deuce, you don't stop and stare at it,
You flush it and move on, which is still one
of my favorite Jalen Hurds quotes. But here's the deal,
just to be clear, for those of you that are late,
and you're like a Dallas Cowboy receiver, you're little late
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there in the back of the room. So Jalen Hurts
admits that he's the problem. He's not running from it,
he just won't solve it. So that's the Philly paradox
is what it is. As long as they you can't
say anything, everything is good. Blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah. All right. Meanwhile, to Arizona we go,
(11:08):
where another coach on the hot seat, Jonathan Gannon. Jonathan Gann,
the Cardinals head coach, was questioned about his job status.
The Cardinals off to the typical three and seven start,
and they now have they benched their starting corp back.
They made some fake injury up for him, a little
fella the gardened home their alligator arms Murray, so Gannon
(11:31):
on the hot seat, he was asked about this he
dismissed it. Of course I'm great. If he said, yeah,
they should probably fire my ass, I suck. He didn't
say that. He said he would, he wouldn't pay attention
to it. He said it's not controllable. He said, quote,
I didn't hire myself. I'm not going to fire myself. Well, okay,
that's the quote. Question. What are the chances? What are
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the chances that coach Jonathan Gannon is Jonathan Gannon and
he's out? What are the chances he avoids the pinkxil
Let's look at it that way. So what are the chances
he actually stays in Arizona? So the Malard sports book odds,
which is never wrong because they're the mala sports book gods,
the chances that Jonathan Gannon remains with the Cardinals of
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the football variety is plus two thousand. Now, that implies,
based on the math, the mal of math, about five percent,
give or take about five percent. So you'd be better
off wandering through the deserts of Arizona with no water
in July, late July and just thinking, well, maybe I'll
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stumble on some water somewhere. You know, you got better
odds of that happening. Ha's got a three p forty
one winning percentage in Arizona and barreling towards his third
straight losing season. There Cliff Kingsbury, who wasn't very good either.
He was he was the guy who gave the player's
cell phone breaks during practice and orange slices and all that.
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He got run out of town. He had one bad year,
and this guy, Jonathan Gannon is stacking up bad performances
like wooden pallets in a warehouse, and the whole reason
that you hire a guy like that. He was a
defensive coach. He was with the Philadelphia Eagles, and he's okay,
(13:20):
he's going to fix the defense. They're going to fix
the defense. Okay, so let's see how that's going. He's
been there three years. First year thirty second in the NFL.
Second year twenty seventh, and now they're twenty fifth in
the NFL. So if you do the math on that,
you give another ten years, they'll have the number one
defense in the NFL. Not exactly fixing things. It's kind
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of like you have a problem with termites and you're like,
let me hire the exterminator, and the exterminator comes over
and seals the house off and fumigates the house with
the family still in the house. That's essentially what's going
going on here. And the bid Wells the family that
owns that they're getting closer to finally getting rid of
(14:04):
alligator arms Murray, and once they dump his little tush,
they might as well just dump the coach as well,
get a fresh start and reboot the whole thing, right,
reboot the whole thing and get a new quarterback and
a new coach, and get a new sofa, get a
new television, all that stuff, all right, now, this is
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what they do, this amazing fun factor. So no Cardinals
coach has lasted six seasons since they became the Cardinals, well,
the Arizona they were the Phoenix Cardinals for a while
when they moved from Saint Louis in nineteen eighty eight.
Nineteen eighty eight, that's been a minute. So this franchise
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treats stability like it's contagious. They also can't seem to
hire a good coach to save their life, maybe once
every generation. And johnthan Gannon is a again defensive guy
coaching a bad defense, and it's like hiring a chef
or in this case a baker, and the baker comes
in he said, well, I really, you know I love
(15:07):
My favorite thing is toast. I love perfectly made toast.
And the baker says, well, I make toast all the time.
That's it's it's not really you know, baked that cookies
or make toast. I'll make toast for you, sure, And
he said, well, who do you make toast for? I
want to make toast for Jim Nance. I like burnt toast,
and he likes burnt toast and I don't like burnt toast.
But anyway, so again it's a dead man walking in
(15:30):
the valley of the sun. Now the last word here
we go now to Mowtown, the Detroit football team hosting
the New York NFC football team that would be the
Giants this weekend. Not a game that has a lot
of juice to it. Not a game that has a
lot of juice to it. And some interesting comments by
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Dan Campbell, the coach of your Detroit Lions, question, how
do you process? Lions coach Dan Campbell praising the Giants
quote fresh energy? Fresh energy was the quote under interim
coach Mike Kofka. So on this one, Dan Campbell suddenly
(16:13):
turning into the meatthead lou Holtz on this SoundBite, just
buttering the popcorn of the opponent. Here. Now, the term
that predates lou Holtz is called poor mouthing. You can
look it up. I'm not making that up, poor mouthing
one oh one. And he's taking that fresh energy, fresh
(16:33):
energy under Mike Kafka, like the giants somehow just discovered
fire and the wheel and just wonderful. It's like, give
me a break. It's the oldest move in the coaching world.
You're a double digit favorite, you being the Detroit Lions.
What are you gonna do? You inflate the other guy,
You turn them into the Jimmy Johnson, Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin,
(16:55):
EMMITTT Smith Cowboys back in the day. And you're like, well,
my team's not gonna get get caught flat footed, sleepwalking
all that, and Campbell he sees the odds. This is
a trap game situation. You're not getting up for it.
The Lions have a Thanksgiving game next week, as they
always play on Thanksgiving, and so this is a game
(17:18):
you kind of get through and then the whole world's
watching next week and you see the standings. And so
it's mental gymnastics, is what it is. It's mental gymnastics. Now,
the fresh energy thing, that's what they say when a
team fires the coach and still blows thereof street blows.
It's a red bull energy. The Giants win three or
(17:41):
four games a year. They don't beat anybody. Let's not
rewrite the Bible over here. Dan Campbell knows what this is.
He's just planting some insurance, is what he's doing. If
Detroit goes out and wins the game in a dominating fashion,
which according to the pointspread, they're supposed to be doing,
if they in this game, big big, big, big big big, big,
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big big big. Then he said, well, yeah, hey, we
respected him. We showed up to play. And now if
they don't, if they don't win big either, well we warned,
we warned our guys. You know this is fresh energy. Now,
if the Lions actually lose this somehow, you might have
to cancel the Thanksgiving game in Detroit and pull the
Ford Field fire alarm. You might have to do that,
(18:26):
and then Dan Campbell's knee biting card will be taken away.
No more knee biting for you. So there's that it
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It's weird, just warming up the old engine here the
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We have something to say. Feel free on the X
(21:58):
Machine at Ben that's Ashbred Mahler. You can salo to
Lorena the FSR tech queen. Oh my, I need some
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can and will be used against you in the court
(22:21):
of sports radio, so please please act accordingly, and now
back to it, all right, we do go back to
it and yappin in the open on the Mala monologue,
Jalen Hurts problems in Philadelphia, as hurts addressing that not
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planning on changing it. Another coach on the hot seat,
Jonathan Gannon in Arizona. The only thing that could save
him is the fact that the Cardinals ownership is notoriously
cheap and they're pretty much stuck with Kyler Murray unless
they can convince a dumb executive like Tom Brady to
take Tyler Murray off their hands. And then you got
Dan Campbell using the old lou Holtz thing and just
(23:07):
just going for it, just poor mouthing and living his best.
Poor mouthing life is what he's doing. We have plenty
of people that want to yap on the X machine
and have their voice heard. That's at Ben Mahler Late
Night drug tester says Jalen Hurts needs to start acting
like the Philly mascot gritty and face the music about
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the abysmal offense. So what he said? All right? Not
a burner writes in, says Ben. It feels like the
Lakers are a hockey team playing the majority of the
game with a man in the penalty box because of
Luca and his no D policy. Yeah, well, good luck
(23:49):
on that. I'm not I have a didn't even me.
I was watching a good game? Did I have the Knicks?
Is there anything more disappointing when you turn on an
NBA game thinking you're gonna get Barkley and those guys,
and you get that who's that stiff? What's the guy's
name on the Kendrick Perkins? Holy crap? Oh you want
Charles Barkley, you get Kendrick Perkins. Holy. It's like, can
(24:12):
I hey, mom, can I have a nice ice cream Sunday? Sure,
we'll get you an ice cream Sunday?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Okay? And then they give you a bowl of broccoli.
I don't want brock. I want an ice cream Sunday.
What is that? My god, unbelievable supermarket. Steve writes in
from Asles seven, and he says, any of those daytime
radio shows that want to give you grief for taking calls,
I would just like to point out that you are
doing a solo show for four hours without any update.
(24:40):
Man anymore, who else are you supposed to talk to you?
That's a fair point. Well, there's a fair point here,
and but that's the way it is and the way
it be. And Bill writes in, I believe is that
is that Hoosier Bill? No, that's not Hoosier. But this's
a different Bill. He says, A little late with the
banana cream pie. Little late there now, Trucker Joy points out.
(25:02):
Trucker Joe says, speaking of banana cream pie, he says,
y'all never threw that party that was paid for by Skeeter.
It's a great point. That's a great point. We're gonna
have to honor the great Skeeter with the banana cream
pie party. As a Skeeter hooked us up and we
were waiting for something. I forget what we were waiting for.
But whatever we were waiting for, we clearly did not
(25:24):
wait that long. I mean, I guess we did wait
too long, but whatever it was, we forgot about it
and we just moved on. Yeah, unbelievable. What else do
you want to see? Page down here? I can't read that.
Let's say some random gibbers here. All right, let's get
to the phones. Why not. Let's see her Eeny Meanie
miny Moe. Pick a caller by their name, and let's
(25:46):
start out with e Dog on Long Island, a fan favorite. Hello,
eat dog Ete Doggie.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
All right, man, Hello, come on, what do you what
do you do?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
All you do is call radio shows? What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Listen, remember that call the other day the blind guy
who you know?
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I said litters things about me and made up storage.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Which one are you talking about? Blind Scott or whatever?
That guy? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yeah, he could go answer the arrange OVENE he's going
answer the Uh what.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
You want to go after the iron? Are you're you're
still upset about that phone call?
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Hey, you go answer the iron? And how about those bulls.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
In the Knicks?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Baby, the Knicks down to the.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Wire they did it. I love the baby, I love it.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
He did not just set you did not watch a
second of that game?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
He dog, Yes, I did.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I don't believe. I don't believe. I don't believe you
watched that game. I don't believe you did brunt that twenty.
You're reading a box score or whatever, but you didn't
watch the game. You're laughing. I caught youa I caught you.
I had the game on in the background. It was
hard for me to watch the game, and I was
excited when they because I didn't watch the pregame stuff.
(27:15):
I turned it on the game had already started, so
then I was like, Okay, I'm gonna wait till halftime.
And I kind of had it in the background, and
then it got to halftime, and then I saw Kendrick Perkins.
I was like, oh no, Kendrick Perkins. I need Charles Barker.
I don't need Kendrick Perkins. I mean, that's criminal. They
should not even be allowed to broadcast unless Barkley's on there.
That's the only reason to watch. The games are unwatchable.
(27:36):
I mean, what kind of business is the NBA running
Where I tune in to hear Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith,
and I don't want to watch the Knicks and the Mavericks.
I would rather watch the halftime show with those guys,
not me, not me. Oh stop, you didn't watch again,
you did not when you look at some box score,
(27:56):
you didn't watch the game?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
The game?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Who is the who's the who's the referee? Who's the
referee in the game?
Speaker 5 (28:05):
A shaman?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yeah, it was not. It was not a navy It
was Scott Foster, legendary. Scott Foster was the Tim Tim
Donnie's buddy, Tim Donnie's buddy was that was the guy?
Speaker 2 (28:22):
What?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Anyway?
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Who is the next place tonight?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
What I am? I am? I the Knicks pocket schedule?
Is that what I am? Listen, lamar Jack, you are
all You're all over the place. I don't think I don't.
I don't think the Knicks are playing yet today. Anyway,
all right, you got your joking. You're happy, and Melissa
is doing great. Okay, now we're going to Melissa. Now
(28:50):
we're and now we've reached the Melissa part of the show. Yeah,
do you want to do you want to would you
like to say anything? Scottie Barnes is a legend face
of the NBA, Scotty Barnes is yes, would you would
you like to would you like to address your your
critic there? Do you want to go mono a mono
(29:11):
against the person that doesn't like you? Sure? Okay, all right,
let's see if we can make this happen here. Let's
dial up here, let's a line Blind Scott. Hello, blind Scott?
Shut up for a second.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
You suck so bad?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
All right? All right, all right, all right, all right?
That uh, that went about as well as I thought
it would be. What was it about three four seconds?
And then boom f bomb barely that But it'll be
in the podcast. We'll get great podcast download numbers, and
we're excited about that. We e dog has helped the podcast.
We'll let those guys calm down, and then at some
(29:54):
point we might I don't know, should we even go
back to blind Scott? I don't know. Well, Hey, my
father knows best. What about gambling? Did you see Pat
Mahomes sor? I wonder whose kid is? I wonder this
guy I interviewed. Pat Mahomes was a journeyman relief pitcher
for like the Mets and the Twins. Back when I
was covering baseball every day, and now he's just kind
(30:16):
of like, I don't know what he is. He's just
kind of there getting a lot of show. It loves
the booze. We know that, but who doesn't anyway, Mahomes Dad,
Patrick Mahomes Senior is putting his neck out and has
decided to do an old bit. Now, if you've listened
to the Ben Maller Show years ago, we had the
great caller Pete and Pittsburgh, one of the all time
great talk radio callers who's retired from calling talk radio.
(30:37):
He grew out of it. Pete was wonderful. He was
part of Howard Stern's whack pack back when Stern had
his fastball and didn't go woke and did all the
crazy stuff back in the old days when radio, when
he was great at radio, and so Pete and Pittsburgh.
On that show he was known as Pittsburgh Pete, but
on our show he was Pete and Pittsburgh. And one
night we did Pete and Pittsburgh versus the World, and
(30:58):
it was Pete and everyone's calling up insulting Pete, and
then he would insult them back, and it was one
of the great bits that we did. We did Versus
the World with Blind Scott and some other people over
the years, but the Pete and Pittsburgh won was one
of the legendary bits on the show. I bring that
up because Patrick Mahomes dad, Patrick Mahomes Senior, has decided
to publicly wager that his kid is going to get
(31:23):
the Chiefs into the playoffs. The patriarch of the family there,
the Mahomes family, or in this case, Patrick Moves. He
went on social media and made a decree. He said,
I'll take any bet that anyone wants to make that
we make the playoffs. So just DM and let me know,
(31:46):
all right, So should we take should we take a bet?
Do you think I should put one hundred dollars bet
up with Patrick Mahomes' dad that the Chiefs don't make
the playoffs can win one hundred bucks? What do you
think here? I can slide into the d there at
Patrick mahomes s and you make a quick hundred dollars?
Well you just say it. I mean it's one hundred bucks.
(32:07):
Do you think he's actually gonna pay up? I don't know.
It's a very film I got yeah, well exactly got
filled with Bravado. That's a proud papa right there. That
is a proud papa and he's in the corner and
all that. It's there's one of two things, especially one
of three things. Either Mahomes dad is back on the sauce,
(32:30):
right that's that's possibility. Former major league pitcher, you know,
it's retired, still get that pension coming in from Major
League Baseball and not kids, got a ton of money.
So just doing a great thing. There's that. Uh, there's
number number two option is he's seen the script from
the NFL and he knows this is all rigged and
that the Chiefs are going to make the playoffs because
they need Taylor Swift to be at playoff games on
(32:53):
television on wild Card weekend and to facilitate that. They
will they will make sure that get certain certain breaks
along the way. And then the third option is he's
just just off his rocker and just you know, just
craziness and all that. Those are three options. So it's
one of those three opements. But there it is the
(33:13):
father of Patrick Mahlomes. Mahomes versus the world. Yeah, Mahomes
versus the world. And we'll see if the Chiefs change anything. Up.
You know, I got into a rant yesterday about Andy
Reid kind of a subtle shot. Some of the uneducated
fans don't understand that, but name in a little subtle
(33:34):
shot about mahomes and getting out of running plays and
the chief's calling running plays and all that, and seem
to be annoyed by that. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
As we are rolling, rolled in, rolling through the overnight hours,
we will take some more of these calls and time
now though, hope for the who am I? Game? Oh
(33:56):
my god, it's the who am I?
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Game?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else and
you have to figure out who we are. Thus, let's
call it the who am I?
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Game? Who?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
You can answer this on X at Ben malis so
here it is. Indianapolis running back Jonathan Taylor has seventy
three scrimmage touchdowns in his career in seventy seven career games.
Now on Sunday at Cansas City, see all this stuff's
tied together. At Kansas City, he can become the fifth
(34:26):
running back in NFL history to read seventy five scrimmage
touchdowns in fewer than eighty games. He would join Jim
Brown the greatest of them all, Ladanian, Tomlinson, what a
great San Diego Charger he was, Emmitt Smith as well
as me again who Colts running back Jonathan Taylor has
(34:51):
seventy three scrimmage touchdowns in seventy seven career games. He
can become just the fifth player in the history of
the NFL to get the seventy five scrimmage touchdowns. This
is proof we love round numbers, you know we Seventy
three is not impressive, seventy five is impressive. So seventy
five scrimmage touchdowns in fewer than eighty games. He would
join Jim Brown, Ladanian, Tomlinson, emmittt Smith, as well as me.
(35:13):
Who am I? That is the question? The answer and
your calls we'll get to that. We will do it next.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Bill Miller here The Ben Mahler Show is in all
inclusive program and coming up later on it'll be ask
Ben in our number three. Now, if you're not going
to be listening hours and hours from now, because you
will be sleeping or God only knows what kind of
debauchery you'll be up to. But in the meantime you
can always go back into the podcast you want to
submit a question hashtag ask Ben. A programming note, we
(35:51):
don't do sporty questions on Ask Ben. They can be
loosely related to sports, but we generally answer questions that
are not sports related. So that's ask Ben coming up
in our number three of the Big Baffosaco Overnight Show.
So check that out and be part of the programming.
(36:13):
Ask anyone on the show, and everyone on the show.
You know, I've just asked one person. Just bundle everyone together.
It's part of the bundle package. Yeah, what a deal.
It's like a combo meal. That's an hour three back
to it, back to it we go. We'll take some
calls here in a moment. Got to pay off the
(36:34):
always popular who Am I game? And here is the
whom I game for today. This is where we pretend
to be somebody else and you can try to answer
it on the X machine at Ben Mallard. That's at
Ben Mallor. So here we go. Indianapolis running back Jonathan
Taylor seventy three scrimmage touchdowns in his seventy seven career
(36:57):
games now on Sunday at arrow Boy, what great. That's
the coolest NFL stadium I've ever been to. I don't
know if you've ever been to Arrowhead, but it's awesome.
You got to get there because eventually the Chiefs will
be playing in a Dome stadium in Kansas, so you
might want to go to Arrowhead before they go across
the state line there. But in the meantime, so Jonathan
Taylor at Arrowhead can become the fifth running back in
(37:18):
NFL history to reach seventy five scrimmage touchdowns in fewer
than eighty games. He would join Jim Brown, Ladanian, Tomlinson,
EMMITTT Smith as well as me. So that is the question.
What is the answer? Rob the goat Man going with
John Lovetts as his answer, Dan dating himself with a
(37:40):
nineties of Atlanta Brave Dan going with Ron Gant is
his answer. Sean Alexander and his fourteen.
Speaker 6 (37:53):
Oh this sounds great. Oh well, I guess we'll keep.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Going with the game, won't we coop?
Speaker 6 (38:05):
Yeah, let's let's go ahead and read some more of
these these answers wonderful guesses. Well, we figure out why the.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Gremlins are attacking Ben. Right.
Speaker 6 (38:13):
Now, let's see we got Gunner from The King, Rory
Andy Reid from Shane and des Moines, Adrian Peterson from Femi.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
I can't.
Speaker 6 (38:28):
I don't think so. Manuel in Guardina is guessing for
Magilla Gorilla. That's something before my time. I would assume
uh Eloi from Compton. Scarin Eloi from Compton says it's
Lorena's favorite Dallas cowboy, Ezekiel Elliott. I don't. I don't
(38:51):
think Lorena knows who that is.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
You mean, of course I do.
Speaker 6 (38:54):
What position is he? What the back position? What back
the quarter? Yes, that's correct. Just Josh says it's SuDS Mahomes.
This is gonna be interesting if we don't get Ben back,
because I don't know what the actual answer is. My
(39:16):
guess is yeah. Let's see, we got ray Rice from
On the Grind. That's I'm pretty sure that's incorrect. Alf
the Alien Opiner believes it's Richard Hurts. Miguel on Fire
is guessing Alvin Kamara. That's a good picture of Alvin Kamara.
(39:38):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Now?
Speaker 1 (39:40):
That's who it is? Okay? Perfect? Thank god? All right,
all right, good reading. Coop, though good reading. Let me
just point out, and this was a different kind of
Gremlin attack than the previous Kremlin attacks that we've had. Normally,
the Gremlin's attacks are the line drops. This was where
I don't know that I can hear anymore.
Speaker 7 (40:00):
There was a very loud like no, I literally think
I lost my hair. As you know, I've been in
radio my entire adult life.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
I've always had terrible hearing because of I wear headphones
for hours at a time, and you keep turning them
up a little bit louder and loud. But this is
never I've been man, that is never happened Anyway, I
don't know what answers you read, Coop. Let me just
give the actual Yeah, that's Jady. Would you like to guess? Yeah, yes,
go aheadlet me one more time. So Jonathan Taylor, if
(40:34):
he gets two touchdowns on Sunday, he will end up
getting to seventy five. He will join Jim Brown in
eighty games. Jim Brown, Lydian and Thomas and Emmett Smith
as well as me, the only players to do that.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
Yeah, I'm gonna go with someone I should probably go
see today. I'm gonna go with doctor.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Dre, doctor Dre. All right, is that your doctor, doctor Dre.
Speaker 6 (40:54):
Yeah, he's a mess.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Okay, yeah, great, yeah, anyway, no, the correct answer. Underrated
player for the LA Rams Todd Gurley. Todd Gurley. How
about that? Gurley on the same stat line with Jim Brown, Ladmian,
Tomlinson and Emmitt Smith. Didn't go so well after that.
For Todd Curley though, didn't go that well. Never heard
(41:17):
of him.
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