July 22, 2021 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about Cowboys CEO Stephen Jones saying the biggest mistake he has made during his tenure was not signing Dak Prescott sooner, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our numb Bird two, our number
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So the Cowboys executive vice president, the spawn of Jerry Jones,
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Stephen Jones, said that not signing Dak Prescott earlier is
the biggest mistake that Dallas has made. Agree or disagree,
and we are in disagreement. We'll tell you why that
and more. It's coming your way right now in our
number two Cowboy Up. Welcome. In the beginning of another
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Coast to coast, bordering the border and beyond. On the
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imaginary place where listeners like yourself dwell. The Fox Sports
Radio studios back at it again. It's football season and
that means a license to talk about literally and figuratively
everything involving the NFL, including the news around the big
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team in Texas. Not the Texans, of course, the other
team deep in the heart of Texas. We go the
football engine getting cranked up. We have several franchises already practicing,
some beginning later today, and it'll be a slow trickle
building up to July twenty seventh, when everybody and their
uncle will be out running around on the field. Now,
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some interesting comments that we have from the Cowboys. One
of the big shots in the Dallas front office, Steven Jones,
who won the genetic lottery, is the spawn of Jerry,
the executive vice president of this historical franchise, and he
was recently asked what the biggest swing and miss has
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been since he took over running the Cowboys, his daddy's team. Now,
keep in mind there are a million possible options when
you talk about mistakes. The Cowboys have maids, and Stephen
Jones got promoted to the big chair. And I don't
know if you heard what he said, maybe you missed it.
So we have the audio tape here. This is from
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a local TV in Dallas, and this is the son
of Jerry Jones, Stephen Jones. You'll hear the question and
his intriguing answer, The biggest swinging miss that you've had,
because everybody's going to have them. But is there a
pick or somebody you didn't sign or somebody you let
get away? You look back and you're like, man, that's
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the one guy that if I could do it over
again or one move, I would go and do something
a little different. Probably would have signed back the first
time around to join some of the last couple of years,
and it would have been better for everybody. How cringeworthy
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was that? Laugh? Play it again, Roberto, playing again. Listen
to the awkwardness of this. Listen the biggest swinging miss
that you've had, because everybody's going to have them. But
is there a pick or somebody you didn't sign or
somebody you let get away? And you look back and
you're like, man, that's the one guy that if I
could do it over again or one move, I would
go and do something a little different. Probably would have
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signed back the first time around, joined some of the
last couple of years, and it would have been better
for everybody. Hey, all right, though, that was quite the answer. There,
good question though the way it is asked, because you
had all these qualifiers, like it's okay, everyone f's up
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their NFL team. That their daddy let them run, right.
I mean it's like, oh yeah, it's okay. I don't
worry about that anyway. Let us discuss the question. You
heard the sound bite twice. Dak Prescott waiting, having to
wait on a contract, the Cowboys not paying him right away.
Does that rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors?
That's the biggest sin of the Stephen Jones watch as
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executive VP of the Cowboys. You agree with that or
disagree with that? This is a hard pass, hard pass
on this one. I've got Bamboo, Costanza and Bookies, and
we will connect all of these things together like legos. Now,
first of all, the Dallas front office, right, Dallas front office,
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which we know Jerry's still the one making the big decisions.
But Stephen Jones day to day, I would imagine is
doing his thing because Jerry's got to hang out at
cocktail parties and going his yacht in the South of
France and going the party bus with Dean Blandino and
all those fun things. So the Cowboy front of is
the reason they didn't sign Dak Prescott is rather simple
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because they did not buy that Dak Prescott was worth
the money. They were not buying what he was selling.
This is not open heart surgery. Follow Okam's razer. The
simplest answer is the right answer. They didn't want to
pay the man, and guess what, spoiler alert, that was
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the right move. The Cowboys were initially making the right decision,
and then they follow that up by making a mistake
and paying him. Dak Prescott still to this day, has
yet to prove he's anything more than a stat bandit.
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And I've been barking this in the middle of the
night and people need to listen. And still the cowboy
finally caved in. Why did they do that? They caved
in because of media pressure and social media clout again
another big time operation. Afraid of algorithms. They went against
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their better judgment. They went against their better judgment. Have
you ever had that happen to you in life? Well,
you decided something, and maybe it was a relationship you
were in. You're like, this person's not for me, and
then you changed your mind. But your initial decision was right,
the old flip flop. Well, in this case, the Cowboys
initially were correct, as we said, and then they changed
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their mind. We have believed for many years that Dak
Prescott is better in fantasy football than he is in
real life. The man is built like bamboo. He's hollow
on the inside. Box score stuffer who has managed to
use this Bengali effect the hornswaggle many casual fans. But
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when you look at Dak Prescott's performance under the Mallard
microscope in clutch situations and against better teams, you watch
the cookie crumble. The argument falls apart about the presence
of Dak Prescott. Now. Secondly, as far as Steven Jones,
you had the awkward laugh. You had the awkward laugh
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in his response, and he was being kind. He's sucking
up to his starting quarterback, making him feel good to
feel good situation as Dak Prescott returns from having his
legs snapped like a twig, and Steven Jones wasn't technically lying.
That's the old castanza line from that old show Seinfeld
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back in the day. If you believe it, it's not
a lie. Now there's also this little fun fact that
we believe there is a little truth in every life.
Like sports executives, coaches, players and certainly the political class
have mastered this technique miss leading by telling the truth.
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In fact, I go back to a coach that I
work with who worked here at Fox Sports Radio back
in the day, and he told me, I don't tell
the I don't lie, but I don't tell the whole truth.
Is what he said. That's the way he described I
tell a version of the truth. So they've come up
with the term for this, right misleading by telling the truth.
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It's so pervasive in daily life, not just politicians and
sporting people. You might even do it in your job,
that there's a relatively new term that people have come
up with. Psychologists have come up with you describe this.
It's called I believe that you pronounce it paltering pa
L T E R I n G. And it's by
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starting or by staying rather you stayed a truthful fact.
You start out stating a truthful fact. And you know,
you say you're answering a question, and you could imply
something that was truthful when the answer was it you're
not telling the truth, but you start out speaking the truth. Right,
there's a vert there's some truth in there. Now in
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this case Stephen Jones, like he's not totally full of fertilizer.
There's a grain of truth in the bucket of sand.
The truth is that if the Cowboys were going to
be foolish enough to pay mediocre Dak Prescott the contract
they handed him, they should have done it years ago.
They would have saved a pile of pesos avoiding inflation.
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So that's like a half truth. The real mistake is
keeping Jason Garrett around as long as the Cowboys did
the clapper, clap on, clap off the clapper. He's an
adequate quote. Jason garretts an addequate quote, a poor man's
Jeff Fisher. Remember, Jeff Fisher got to a Super Bowl
with the Tennessee Titans as their coach million years ago.
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But Jason Garrett the clapper, marginal coach, but but not
the mastermind that Jarrett thought he was, because Jason was
really good soldier, good foot soldier for the Cowboys, fair
to middling coach, but he was able to hang on
to that job and hold Jerry Jones captain. Now, what
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about paying Zeke Ellie. That would fall on the list
of mistakes. You're never supposed to pay top dollar to
a running back. A running back, the most replaceable position
outside of kicker is running back. You go down to
home depot and find a running back. And the Cowboys
are paying Zeke a ton of money. And Zeke hasn't
exactly been all world, all everything since getting that contract.
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Final fun. So the final nail in the coffin for
Dak Prescott comes from the gambling world. The gambling world.
The bookies never let us down, and when in doubt,
throw the bookie out. All right, go to the book. So,
Dak Prescott, if you look at the one loss record
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in games he started with the Cowboys, say, man, that's
a good quarterback. Dak over the years has started sixty
nine games. I know that'll make Rob Gronkowski very happy.
The Cowboys record in those sixty nine games started by
Prescott forty two and twenty seven, it's a six zo
nine winning percentage. But remember the golden rule of the
gambling world, and this applies across the board for quarterbacks.
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Good quarterbacks win, great quarterbacks cover. And despite sexy stats,
all right, look at the career completion percentage. You're like, WHOA,
that's pretty good and passing touchdowns and he's got one
hundred and six passing touchdowns Dak versus forty interceptions. But
it doesn't pass the eyeball test. When you look at
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the gambling market, he has failed to live up the
expectations for the bookmakers. Dak Prescott against the spread as
a starting quarterback, the Cowboys are thirty six thirty five
and one against the number. That's barely over five hundred,
and that includes last season before Snapcrack Will Pop knocked
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him out. The Cowboys were o one five against the
spread last season. With Dak Prescott understanding, now, what does
all this mean? If you are a blind sheep, a
cowboy sycophan, and you go into the book or your
app if you have that wherever you gamble, and you
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go into your your your gambling fund, and you put
one hundred dollar bill hunty on Dak Prescott and you've
done it. Every game he's starting, were all sixty nine
games that he is he's started right against the number.
If you if you go there and look at that
and you do the math on deck. And by the way,
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the the against the spread numbers include the playoffs. So
I tossed that and that's the postseason. Well, but so
there's a few more games in there for the playoffs.
But the Cowboys hundred dollars bet for the Gambler each
week of his NFL career, including the postseason. And let's
say it was a minus one ten, which is the
standard betting line purse spread minus one ten, So you
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would be two hundred and sixty dollars in the hole
in the hole after five seasons as a quarterback. But again,
he's got the nice numbers, he's got the good numbers.
Come on, now, he's got those sexy numbers. What did
we say? This is a guy who's better in fantasy
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football than he is in real life. If you want
to win your fantasy football league, you would draft Dak Prescott.
Winning games for the Cowboys not so much. It is
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three six nine. So we have an amazing tale from
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the British Open I know a few days old. Now
the British Opens. Old news, but there's a story that
has come out of the final t shot at the
British Open for the winner of the British Open. Something
happened that is amazing and we need to break it
down as only we can do in the middle of
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the night. We'll get to that and we will do
it next. Knowledge is that new, I can't be new.
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Gets the Coop de Loop, Justin Cooper and he's at
uh bronco fan. Just my girlfriend's high school just announced
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just ain't the same without a little Justin Cooper and
Rubert Doode. Alright with me? Hate talking over vocals, great tune,
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show of the album? We gotta do it. I agree,
we allowed to. I don't know. We gotta talk to
these guys. If they're okay with it, we can raise
it money for charity or something like that. I don't
not very charitable, as you know, but it's gotta be
where we can do it for the holidays. Wouldn't that
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be great? Put all these songs together for the holidays.
I'll buy a copy. There you go. Doublo Mexican. I
used to like this guy. He's become angry and jaded.
I don't know what's going on with Dolo Mexican. He
says ce plus monologue, Big Ben really a cowboy and
Dak monologue damn right. Like to say hello to all
our listeners in Dallas, by the way, on a massively
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popular radio station in daw So they don't like us,
but we're there. They'll get used to us after a while.
He says, what did you run out of Aaron Rodgers
complaining material or even Deshaun Watson unleashing his anaconda, anything
but a cowboy monologue from Double Oh Mexican. Alf the
Alien Opiner says, you may need to purge the lines
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after that monologue. Alf says we should disinfect the lines.
Callers Cowboy, Jim, Bob, Cowboy, Joe, Cowboy Rick will be
coming out. Oh the world work to talk about him cowboys,
so he says. Illinois Ted writes another great monologue by
Ben I got ninety nine problems, but Bella ain't one. Mallard.
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Now Bella is a problem. Bella who had been potty
trained up until we moved into the temporary Mallard mansion,
the halfway house here or I'm currently living, and all
of a sudden, Bella has decided that the great outdoors
not a bathroom, it's indoors you need to take care
of business has become problematic, but hopefully only a few
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more weeks and then we'll get back to the potty
train version of my dog bella Dolphin, Mike says, is
what you're saying is Dakota Prescott is exactly like Matthew Stafford,
who is only a good fantasy quarterback. Yes, well, listen,
Matthew Stafford is going to blow your socks off this
season with the Los Angeles Rams. And I can tell
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Dolphin Mike, you're scared. You're afraid because you know you're
gonna be able to watch me enjoy ram it all day,
ram it all night with the Los Angeles Rams. Now
that Matthew Stafford is a real coach and Sean McVay
has a real quarterback, you watch you out. You got
your own problems to a to a tongue of Iloa.
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Good luck on that romosexual, Charlie writes in from San
Antonio prestoss Hey plus plus monologue, Ben dak is whack.
But now we're gonna be triggered by a bunch of
cowboy fans who will blame coaching, no help on the
offense or bad defenses instead of the pile of manure
under center. So he says, there you go. All right,
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let's take some phone calls. It is the Ben Mallers Show,
and let's go to Dallas, the Belly of the Beast,
and we'll say hello to Brian. What's going on, Brian? Yeah, Hey,
how's it going? Um? Yeah, I mean, cowboys have a
hard enough time winning games anyways, and now you're trying
to judge them based upon not when in the spread, Mike.
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It's just it's fuzzy math and it's not no. No, Brian,
I disagree, and that's a that's an antiquated take by you.
That's a bad job by you, Brian. Sports gambling is
the It's been legalized pretty much across the country. Everyone
within the next few years is going to be able
to gamble legally except some places in the Bible Belt,
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and it's gonna become more and more important. It's not
whether you win to lose. Did you cover the sprint? Yeah,
I understand that it's gonna be legal. But what I'm
saying is just winning games, winning championships, things that we
haven't done in a long time. And I mean, you
have a guy winning in a sixty percent clip in
five years. Uh, you know, listen, that's pretty good and
you can't judge him and calling mediocre because you're not
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winning money in Vegas. That's all I'm saying in that regard. Well,
you can say that, Brian, and I will respectfully disagree.
You're wrong. Uh, the gambling market sets the line, the expectation.
Dak Prescott has failed to meet those expectations. Hey, I'm
I'm wins and lasses. I'm wins and losses. So that's
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all I'm looking for. And again I'm okay, well he doesn't.
He doesn't do well in that gay, Okay, He's great
at beating bad teams, although last year he didn't beat
bad teams at the beginning of the year, so he's
he's you know, he's great against the weaker teams, but
against the better teams. You've seen the stats, Brian. They're
all over the internet about what how daks perform against
teams that have a good record. It's not pretty. Have
you seen our conference? We just need to beat the
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bad Yeah, you're one of the bad teams. So the
Cowboys are one of the Cowboys are one of the
bad teams. Right, That's what I'm saying. So we need
we need some consistency of the quarterback position. And we
went through the Quinty Carters. We went through the quint
Sterners and things like that. We have a quarterback, he's consistent.
Now he's gonna put points up. And if we can
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go to defense and a coach that can, you know,
make some adjustments on the fly, will start covering some
of those games. All right, Brian, Brian, listen, I know
you love your Cowboys. You're part of the problem. All right,
You're part of it. You're making excuses for this guy.
Bad job by you. Thank you. Though. Let's go to
the phones. Let's say hello to Laughy Taffy, who's in
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North Carolina, a Twitter star, a Twitter sensation. Hello, Laughy Taffy. Hey,
what's going on? Man? And I was stunned by that. Ques,
I've never been asked that question before. Last was taken
him back by that. Just wanted a call to follow
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up the last time I called and told you honest
with non decoy. He's like, I'm want to get it
done by myself. I told you I called the league.
He told me himself so that you are the I
told you so guy. You've become the I told you
so guy, Laughy Taffy, You're you're calling up now? To
do a victory lap. Of course, Yeah, you're mister I
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told you so, mister Noah it all which does anyone
like mister Noah ar mister I told you so? Guy?
Does anyone like that? Sounds like a sports talk radio host? Who? Who? Who?
Does that? All of them? Really? I don't know what
you're talking about. I never point out on right, by
the way, Chris Paul. I told you Chris Paul was
an a hole? Did I tell in Big Games? Did
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I not tell you that? I don't point that out. Yeah,
all right, laughy taffy, Well, what do you want me
to say? I don't know how to follow that up.
I guess we'll say audios, bon voyage. I don't know
what to do with it. Congratulations. I hope you want
a lot of money, laffy taffy. But I also said
that the series was not Oh everyone was writing the
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eulogy for the Bucks after the first two games. The
unknoledgeable fan, the prisoner of the moment, whatever they see.
This is one of the reasons there's so much money
that is won in the gambling world. Is human beings.
Whatever they see, think they think is going to happen.
It there'll be no change that. If things are going
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one direction, you know, the stock markets going up, it's
always going to go up, or the stock markets going down,
it's always going to go down. Or team wins the
first two games, they're guaranteed to win the series. And
even though statistically that happens most of the time, when
you throw Chris Paul into the equation, that does change them.
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If you're curious whether cancel culture is a worldwide phenomenon
or just what's going on in the US. Apparently it
is a worldwide phenomenon. Oh good, did you see the
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opening ceremonies are coming up about seven am Eastern time tomorrow,
we'll have the opening ceremonies. And the director of the
opening ceremonies has been fired because he made a Holocaust
joke in nineteen ninety eight, So twenty two years years
ago he made a Holocaust joke. Now it wasn't like
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he you know the context of the joke, and you
can certainly find a Holocaust joke dis tasteful in any form.
But he was apparently a part of a comedy act,
so he was actually performing. I don't know if it
was stand up or what it was. But in the
in the midst of doing this comedy act he had
he had made a Holocaust joke. And so it is
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now apparently come to light or come to light of
people running the Olympics, and and so they have fired him.
He is, he's gone. He will not be directing the
opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Tokyo. Yeah, am I
wrong for thinking most good comedy is tremendously offensive and
that's what it's supposed to be. Like? Yeah, I think
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most reasonable people. I think when it comes to comedy,
you know you're going to how many how many people
are really, like legitimately offended by that? Like you know
what I mean? You know what I mean? Like, I mean,
I don't know. It's just a twenty two year old
joke by somebody who's attempting to be funny and all that.
I mean, Yeah, I mean, like I said, I was,
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I was curious myself if this is a global thing
or not. I don't I don't know. I don't think
it's said in the story. He apparently used the phrase
let's play Holocaust. I don't know what the context of
that was, but apparently that was the phrase, and who
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knows if it's lost in translation. I have no idea,
but apparently it Huh, Coop's dying to find that joke
out there? You want us to find the joke? Coop,
did you have something you want to include there? Or no?
I mean just it's a weird phrase. Yeah, I don't know, Okay,
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I saw. They also fired the musical director of the
opening ceremonies because he apparently had some bullying issues or something.
Ye fire, Yeah, okay. I think everyone should be cancer
and uh, and I need to be canceled right now
so I can just go to bed. How about that.
Can you know any do you guys remember the jokes
that were set in the playground We're going up? Oh yeah,
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you know what, Roberto. I. I was in high school
and I remember like the next day after the Space
Shuttle blew up, you know, some kid telling me a joke,
and I's just like, wow, Wow, too soon, dude, Jesus. Yeah.
And I'd like to think that kids, because kids aren't woke.
You don't become woke. Cook him an a hole like
grown up, then you're in, you know, complete schmuck and
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uh and and so kids still, i'd like to think it.
Play they still do the same thing. I don't think
they've changed. Kids are the same. They are outrageous with
their comedy and stuff on the playground. I gotta tell you, Ben,
I don't know if you're around any kids. I have
a twelve year old nephew. He's woke, woke. That's bad
job parents there. I don't know. I hear kids, and
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I hear a lot of things on the video games, Eddie.
Those videos peshkt kids, and they're video games that if
it was on radio or television, they would be canceled anyway.
It is the Ben Mallers show. As we press on
here further and further into the wee hours of the morning,
we go big Rig Rob rights and says, Ben, you
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were spot on with your monologue about Dak. I can.
I am completely stunned that a mediocre fourth round pick
has somehow managed to fool the Jones Boys into a
major payday. Dak has benefited from the plug and play
team around him. Ryan Leaf could do better. F al
toofe Buddy Dog says a minus monologue, Ben, I'm nodding
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my head. Yes, thank you, thanks for reminding us how
simple the signing of Bamboo Dak actually should have been.
Now Ed from Spokane, a man who has fallen off
more ladders and survived than anyone listening right now Ed
from Smokecan, says Ben. They would have saved millions of
dollars by signing him long term. Agree with you on that, Ed.
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My point is they shouldn't have signed him long term
because he hasn't He hasn't proven himself as a big
time quarterback in the NFL. He's very mediocre. And asked
the Rams with Jared Goff or the Philadelphia Eagles with
Carson Wentz, when you sign a mediocre quarterback to a
long term contract. You then end up having to jump
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over mountains in order to get rid of those quarterbacks,
and you end up and desperately giving away the house
to get other quarterbacks. In the Rams gave up multiple
first round picks to get Now they got a great quarterback.
It worked out. The stud Matthew Stafford is now the
Rams quarterback in Philadelphia. Though they don't know if Jalen
Hurts is gonna be any good or not, and no idea.
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So I want to take it back. Let's change gears
here and go to the British Open. And if you're
watching the end of the British Open, you likely saw
the final T shot of Colin Morikawa and he backed
off his final T shot. And some people were speculating
was this because he had a case of anxiety, that
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there were nerves there, that the tension, the pressure of
the moment to finish the job had gotten to him.
Why did he back off the final shot? So he
recently did an interview and he gave a version of
what had happened. So he said that because of blank,
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he stepped away. What do you think blank was, Eddie?
Did you see the story. Are you aware of this story?
Don't don't cheat? Don't look it up? What do you think?
Colin morricole the winner of the British Open. Because of
blank he stepped away from the final t shot and
had to recompose himself. Someone passing gas edy, you're not,
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you're not, You're not. You're not supposed to cheat it.
I mean, come on, man, that dude he just ruined
all my games, you know. I mean, the whole point
of this is for you not to get it right, Eddie.
It's a bad job by you. Colin Morrikawa revealed that
the reason he stepped away at the British Open the
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seventy second hole there was not because of anxiety and
the moment was too big. He heard someone rip one flatulence,
Oh he heard one. Come on yeah, and they said
the announcers on the one, yeah, smell that or something
that's worse. You smell it. I want to go rotate
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my tires in the day at the tire shop and
damn man, something was laying it ripped like crazy, those
awful and somebody in the face. I was like, what's
going on here? Man? Yeah? The worst is like when
you're in an elevator. Yeah, but there's like there's nowhere
to go, man, it was just everywhere. Yeah. Well, my
experience with the good Fellas that the ladies that repair
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cars is it often does smell like flatulence, you know
what I'm saying, Like you just kinda yeah, it's a
there's a there's a lot, there's a lot of what
do you call it the harmonic distortion? I guess we
can call it that takes place anyway, listen. So, so
this guy's at the seventy second second hole, they're Makawa,
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and he tells the story that what had happened, and
the announcers apparently they pointed this out and they said
that it sounded like there was a whoopie cushion, but
the mics did not pick it up on the television broadcast.
The listener watching on their sofa could not understand what's
going on, but it was actually fart sounds. According to Morikawa,
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he had to step off and he had to recompose himself,
and he ends up obviously winning the open by two shots.
But he said that some spectators are quote some spectator
at some point in the day, Morikawa stated, snuck a
little old school microphone like a recording. I don't think
he means microphone. I think he means like recording, like
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a tape recording type thing. Threw it underneath one of
the marshals around there and started playing these farting noises
right as I was about to swing, Morikawa said, And
we all knew it was a farting noise, but we
seriously thought it was from the spectators. We thought someone
was playing playing it on their phone. The marshals were
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all looking, Morikawa said, they're all looking around. The marshal
digs in the grass and pulls this little recorder out
and that that was the the item that I guess
you could say it was fantastic, and that was Let
let the fund begin, so quite the jokes dirty the
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British open. Very impressive work, all right, spem Allas show
on Fox Time. Now for the who am I gaming?
Have the MLB pick him? MLB pick him? Coming up?
Here's the or not the MLB are get You have
the aist to Shiva and Mallard to the third degree.
Here here it is get it right at this time,
get it right, stupid at this time of Blank, at
the time of his retirement, time of Blank's retirement in
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nineteen ninety eight, he was sixth all time in receptions.
Each player above him is in the Hall of Fame.
He also ranked third in yards between James Lofton and
Steve Largen. Again, at the time of blanks retirement in
nineteen ninety eight, he was sixth all time in receptions,
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and each player above him is in the Hall of Fame.
He also ranked third in yards between James Lofton and
Steve Largent. Fill in the blank. That's the instant tribute,
a ballard of the third degree. We'll get to all
that and we will do it. Nags, I'll see I
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the blank. At the time of blanks retirement in nineteen
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ninety eight, twenty three years ago, he was sixth all
time in receptions. Each player above him is in the
Hall of Fame. He also ranked third in yards between
James Lofton and Steve Larging at the time this player retired,
but not in the Hall of Fame. That is the question.
What is the answer? Andre Reisen guest by Sam Bleeding
(35:59):
Heart Washington national fan. Who else do we have? Let's
see page down here, page down, Justin Cooper's acting career.
Guests by bread Man Bill. That's a cheap shot. How
dare you? Tom Fears from Valls Fan, Jimmy Windy Winston,
the iconic garbage pale kid from Miguel on Fire. That's
a good blast in the past, Tony Berna's ard from
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mister nice Guy. Who else do we have? Michael Irvin
tossed out by bread Man Bill, the occasional marginal show contributor.
Page down, Page down, Chad Ocho Cinco Johnson Remember when
he retired in nineteen ninety eight before he did play
the game in the NFL. From Robbie the Mariner fan.
Who else do we have? Page down? Page down? Can't
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read that on the air, Let's see. Next up is
Jack Nicholas from David in Ohio. Irvin Fernandez from Double
Oh Mexican in San Diego. Peppermint Patty tossed out by
Donkeys sausage, the Great Dane Looker from Chris in de Moine.
(37:02):
Matt the Warrior rator is fan cheated and got it right?
Do you have an answer, Eddie? Of course I have
an answer. It's former New York Jets legend Johnny Lamb Jones.
Johnny Lamb Jones, Eddie, that's a great name, but you
must put your head down in shame, Eddie. This is
your old homeboy from Fresno State, Henry Ellard. Henry Ellard
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is the answer. Fresno born, Fresno bread and when he dies,
he'll be Fresno Dead. Henry Elli with the La Rams,
also played with the Redskins and the Patriots, but he
was sixth all time and receptions when we retired everyone
ahead of him in the Hall of Fame. Here we go.
It's Maller. How about to the third degree. This is
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one big band gets grilled kobaloo. It was reported on
Tuesday that several NBA executives expected that if the Blazers
were to trade Damian Lillard, they would get more than
the Rockets did for James Harden. Do you agree, Ben Well?
I agree that the Portland Trailblazers were to trade Damian Lillard,
(38:10):
They'd be big dummies. That's what I agree. If I'm
the Trailblazers, here's what I do. I put my phone
on silent, I block all text messages, I don't check
my email involving If Lillard's name is mentioned, I'm out.
Damian Lillard is not available, period, hard stop. And secondly,
if you were to put a gun to my head
or a knife to my throat and say, okay, you've
got to trade this guy, I'll be well, all right, fine,
(38:34):
I'll I want seven first round draft picks, which I
believe what Oklahoma got for Oklahoma City for Paul George.
I want two young players on the rise, and those
are the starting qualifications to acquire the Great Dame Lillard.
Next Raiders, under Mark Davis, made an abrupt announcement on
Monday that Team President of Mark Badane has resigned his
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post and will no longer be with the organization now,
But Damian Releasa, stay thinking, Davis and everyone in the organization. Ben,
do you think there's trouble brewing behind the scenes in Vegas? Listen?
Three days ago, I had never heard of this cat,
Mark Badane or whoever his name is, team president, I'd
never heard of him. And now we're supposed to believe
(39:17):
the Raider franchises in ruins. Let's going to hell in
a handbasket because a guy I've never heard of is
not a round anymore? Are you bloody kidding me? I'm
scratching my head here trying to figure this out. Now. Well,
I will agree with you that something does smell fishy,
because those are great jobs. You don't leave a great job.
(39:38):
He's not at retirement age or anything like that. And
there's a job that pays well, it's got a lot
of great perks, tremendous benefits and all that. So you
don't walk away from that unless there's either a scandal,
some kind of illness, some family drama rama. So from
that perspective, yeah, but like the matter for the Raiders
going forward. Next, Davos Sweeney spoke out of against the
(40:00):
expansion of college football playoffs during media day on Tuesday.
He said that the team doesn't want to play more
games and that he doesn't think that there are twelve
teams good enough. Ben Is he right about that last part?
Dabbos Sweeney is like a hot air balloon. He's filled
with the hot air. I mean, there are always teams
that qualify for the postseason who don't have great resumes.
The NBA and NHL make their living doing that. They
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don't have sixteen good teams every year that make the
playoffs in those leagues. But that's how big time sports work.
Television wants more teams in Dabbo's being selfish. He wants
to know Clemson in Alabama to continue their show called PLAYFFS.
How do you pass this edition that's a winner
Hello and welcome. It's our numb Bird two, our number
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So the Cowboys executive vice president, the spawn of Jerry Jones,
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Stephen Jones, said that not signing Dak Prescott earlier is
the biggest mistake that Dallas has made. Agree or disagree,
and we are in disagreement. We'll tell you why that
and more. It's coming your way right now in our
number two Cowboy Up. Welcome. In the beginning of another
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Coast to coast, bordering the border and beyond. On the
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(01:10):
the land. We're not at Disneyland. It's Radio Land, an
imaginary place where listeners like yourself dwell. The Fox Sports
Radio studios back at it again. It's football season and
that means a license to talk about literally and figuratively
everything involving the NFL, including the news around the big
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team in Texas. Not the Texans, of course, the other
team deep in the heart of Texas. We go the
football engine getting cranked up. We have several franchises already practicing,
some beginning later today, and it'll be a slow trickle
building up to July twenty seventh, when everybody and their
uncle will be out running around on the field. Now,
(01:55):
some interesting comments that we have from the Cowboys. One
of the big shots in the Dallas front office, Steven Jones,
who won the genetic lottery, is the spawn of Jerry,
the executive vice president of this historical franchise, and he
was recently asked what the biggest swing and miss has
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been since he took over running the Cowboys, his daddy's team. Now,
keep in mind there are a million possible options when
you talk about mistakes. The Cowboys have maids, and Stephen
Jones got promoted to the big chair. And I don't
know if you heard what he said, maybe you missed it.
So we have the audio tape here. This is from
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a local TV in Dallas, and this is the son
of Jerry Jones, Stephen Jones. You'll hear the question and
his intriguing answer, The biggest swinging miss that you've had,
because everybody's going to have them. But is there a
pick or somebody you didn't sign or somebody you let
get away? You look back and you're like, man, that's
(03:01):
the one guy that if I could do it over
again or one move, I would go and do something
a little different. Probably would have signed back the first
time around to join some of the last couple of years,
and it would have been better for everybody. How cringeworthy
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was that? Laugh? Play it again, Roberto, playing again. Listen
to the awkwardness of this. Listen the biggest swinging miss
that you've had, because everybody's going to have them. But
is there a pick or somebody you didn't sign or
somebody you let get away? And you look back and
you're like, man, that's the one guy that if I
could do it over again or one move, I would
go and do something a little different. Probably would have
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signed back the first time around, joined some of the
last couple of years, and it would have been better
for everybody. Hey, all right, though, that was quite the answer. There,
good question though the way it is asked, because you
had all these qualifiers, like it's okay, everyone f's up
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their NFL team. That their daddy let them run, right.
I mean it's like, oh yeah, it's okay. I don't
worry about that anyway. Let us discuss the question. You
heard the sound bite twice. Dak Prescott waiting, having to
wait on a contract, the Cowboys not paying him right away.
Does that rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors?
That's the biggest sin of the Stephen Jones watch as
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executive VP of the Cowboys. You agree with that or
disagree with that? This is a hard pass, hard pass
on this one. I've got Bamboo, Costanza and Bookies, and
we will connect all of these things together like legos. Now,
first of all, the Dallas front office, right, Dallas front office,
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which we know Jerry's still the one making the big decisions.
But Stephen Jones day to day, I would imagine is
doing his thing because Jerry's got to hang out at
cocktail parties and going his yacht in the South of
France and going the party bus with Dean Blandino and
all those fun things. So the Cowboy front of is
the reason they didn't sign Dak Prescott is rather simple
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because they did not buy that Dak Prescott was worth
the money. They were not buying what he was selling.
This is not open heart surgery. Follow Okam's razer. The
simplest answer is the right answer. They didn't want to
pay the man, and guess what, spoiler alert, that was
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the right move. The Cowboys were initially making the right decision,
and then they follow that up by making a mistake
and paying him. Dak Prescott still to this day, has
yet to prove he's anything more than a stat bandit.
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And I've been barking this in the middle of the
night and people need to listen. And still the cowboy
finally caved in. Why did they do that? They caved
in because of media pressure and social media clout again
another big time operation. Afraid of algorithms. They went against
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their better judgment. They went against their better judgment. Have
you ever had that happen to you in life? Well,
you decided something, and maybe it was a relationship you
were in. You're like, this person's not for me, and
then you changed your mind. But your initial decision was right,
the old flip flop. Well, in this case, the Cowboys
initially were correct, as we said, and then they changed
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their mind. We have believed for many years that Dak
Prescott is better in fantasy football than he is in
real life. The man is built like bamboo. He's hollow
on the inside. Box score stuffer who has managed to
use this Bengali effect the hornswaggle many casual fans. But
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when you look at Dak Prescott's performance under the Mallard
microscope in clutch situations and against better teams, you watch
the cookie crumble. The argument falls apart about the presence
of Dak Prescott. Now. Secondly, as far as Steven Jones,
you had the awkward laugh. You had the awkward laugh
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in his response, and he was being kind. He's sucking
up to his starting quarterback, making him feel good to
feel good situation as Dak Prescott returns from having his
legs snapped like a twig, and Steven Jones wasn't technically lying.
That's the old castanza line from that old show Seinfeld
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back in the day. If you believe it, it's not
a lie. Now there's also this little fun fact that
we believe there is a little truth in every life.
Like sports executives, coaches, players and certainly the political class
have mastered this technique miss leading by telling the truth.
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In fact, I go back to a coach that I
work with who worked here at Fox Sports Radio back
in the day, and he told me, I don't tell
the I don't lie, but I don't tell the whole truth.
Is what he said. That's the way he described I
tell a version of the truth. So they've come up
with the term for this, right misleading by telling the truth.
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It's so pervasive in daily life, not just politicians and
sporting people. You might even do it in your job,
that there's a relatively new term that people have come
up with. Psychologists have come up with you describe this.
It's called I believe that you pronounce it paltering pa
L T E R I n G. And it's by
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starting or by staying rather you stayed a truthful fact.
You start out stating a truthful fact. And you know,
you say you're answering a question, and you could imply
something that was truthful when the answer was it you're
not telling the truth, but you start out speaking the truth. Right,
there's a vert there's some truth in there. Now in
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this case Stephen Jones, like he's not totally full of fertilizer.
There's a grain of truth in the bucket of sand.
The truth is that if the Cowboys were going to
be foolish enough to pay mediocre Dak Prescott the contract
they handed him, they should have done it years ago.
They would have saved a pile of pesos avoiding inflation.
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So that's like a half truth. The real mistake is
keeping Jason Garrett around as long as the Cowboys did
the clapper, clap on, clap off the clapper. He's an
adequate quote. Jason garretts an addequate quote, a poor man's
Jeff Fisher. Remember, Jeff Fisher got to a Super Bowl
with the Tennessee Titans as their coach million years ago.
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But Jason Garrett the clapper, marginal coach, but but not
the mastermind that Jarrett thought he was, because Jason was
really good soldier, good foot soldier for the Cowboys, fair
to middling coach, but he was able to hang on
to that job and hold Jerry Jones captain. Now, what
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about paying Zeke Ellie. That would fall on the list
of mistakes. You're never supposed to pay top dollar to
a running back. A running back, the most replaceable position
outside of kicker is running back. You go down to
home depot and find a running back. And the Cowboys
are paying Zeke a ton of money. And Zeke hasn't
exactly been all world, all everything since getting that contract.
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Final fun. So the final nail in the coffin for
Dak Prescott comes from the gambling world. The gambling world.
The bookies never let us down, and when in doubt,
throw the bookie out. All right, go to the book. So,
Dak Prescott, if you look at the one loss record
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in games he started with the Cowboys, say, man, that's
a good quarterback. Dak over the years has started sixty
nine games. I know that'll make Rob Gronkowski very happy.
The Cowboys record in those sixty nine games started by
Prescott forty two and twenty seven, it's a six zo
nine winning percentage. But remember the golden rule of the
gambling world, and this applies across the board for quarterbacks.
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Good quarterbacks win, great quarterbacks cover. And despite sexy stats,
all right, look at the career completion percentage. You're like, WHOA,
that's pretty good and passing touchdowns and he's got one
hundred and six passing touchdowns Dak versus forty interceptions. But
it doesn't pass the eyeball test. When you look at
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the gambling market, he has failed to live up the
expectations for the bookmakers. Dak Prescott against the spread as
a starting quarterback, the Cowboys are thirty six thirty five
and one against the number. That's barely over five hundred,
and that includes last season before Snapcrack Will Pop knocked
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him out. The Cowboys were o one five against the
spread last season. With Dak Prescott understanding, now, what does
all this mean? If you are a blind sheep, a
cowboy sycophan, and you go into the book or your
app if you have that wherever you gamble, and you
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go into your your your gambling fund, and you put
one hundred dollar bill hunty on Dak Prescott and you've
done it. Every game he's starting, were all sixty nine
games that he is he's started right against the number.
If you if you go there and look at that
and you do the math on deck. And by the way,
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the the against the spread numbers include the playoffs. So
I tossed that and that's the postseason. Well, but so
there's a few more games in there for the playoffs.
But the Cowboys hundred dollars bet for the Gambler each
week of his NFL career, including the postseason. And let's
say it was a minus one ten, which is the
standard betting line purse spread minus one ten, So you
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would be two hundred and sixty dollars in the hole
in the hole after five seasons as a quarterback. But again,
he's got the nice numbers, he's got the good numbers.
Come on, now, he's got those sexy numbers. What did
we say? This is a guy who's better in fantasy
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football than he is in real life. If you want
to win your fantasy football league, you would draft Dak Prescott.
Winning games for the Cowboys not so much. It is
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three six nine. So we have an amazing tale from
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the British Open I know a few days old. Now
the British Opens. Old news, but there's a story that
has come out of the final t shot at the
British Open for the winner of the British Open. Something
happened that is amazing and we need to break it
down as only we can do in the middle of
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the night. We'll get to that and we will do
it next. Knowledge is that new, I can't be new.
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Gets the Coop de Loop, Justin Cooper and he's at
uh bronco fan. Just my girlfriend's high school just announced
(15:59):
today that they're changing their their mascot and a live
in the Fox Sports radio studios. It's Ben Maller. It
just ain't the same without a little Justin Cooper and
Rubert Doode. Alright with me? Hate talking over vocals, great tune,
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professionally done. What are we gonna release the Ben Mallor
show of the album? We gotta do it. I agree,
we allowed to. I don't know. We gotta talk to
these guys. If they're okay with it, we can raise
it money for charity or something like that. I don't
not very charitable, as you know, but it's gotta be
where we can do it for the holidays. Wouldn't that
(16:41):
be great? Put all these songs together for the holidays.
I'll buy a copy. There you go. Doublo Mexican. I
used to like this guy. He's become angry and jaded.
I don't know what's going on with Dolo Mexican. He
says ce plus monologue, Big Ben really a cowboy and
Dak monologue damn right. Like to say hello to all
our listeners in Dallas, by the way, on a massively
(17:03):
popular radio station in daw So they don't like us,
but we're there. They'll get used to us after a while.
He says, what did you run out of Aaron Rodgers
complaining material or even Deshaun Watson unleashing his anaconda, anything
but a cowboy monologue from Double Oh Mexican. Alf the
Alien Opiner says, you may need to purge the lines
(17:24):
after that monologue. Alf says we should disinfect the lines.
Callers Cowboy, Jim, Bob, Cowboy, Joe, Cowboy Rick will be
coming out. Oh the world work to talk about him cowboys,
so he says. Illinois Ted writes another great monologue by
Ben I got ninety nine problems, but Bella ain't one. Mallard.
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Now Bella is a problem. Bella who had been potty
trained up until we moved into the temporary Mallard mansion,
the halfway house here or I'm currently living, and all
of a sudden, Bella has decided that the great outdoors
not a bathroom, it's indoors you need to take care
of business has become problematic, but hopefully only a few
(18:10):
more weeks and then we'll get back to the potty
train version of my dog bella Dolphin, Mike says, is
what you're saying is Dakota Prescott is exactly like Matthew Stafford,
who is only a good fantasy quarterback. Yes, well, listen,
Matthew Stafford is going to blow your socks off this
season with the Los Angeles Rams. And I can tell
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Dolphin Mike, you're scared. You're afraid because you know you're
gonna be able to watch me enjoy ram it all day,
ram it all night with the Los Angeles Rams. Now
that Matthew Stafford is a real coach and Sean McVay
has a real quarterback, you watch you out. You got
your own problems to a to a tongue of Iloa.
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Good luck on that romosexual, Charlie writes in from San
Antonio prestoss Hey plus plus monologue, Ben dak is whack.
But now we're gonna be triggered by a bunch of
cowboy fans who will blame coaching, no help on the
offense or bad defenses instead of the pile of manure
under center. So he says, there you go. All right,
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let's take some phone calls. It is the Ben Mallers Show,
and let's go to Dallas, the Belly of the Beast,
and we'll say hello to Brian. What's going on, Brian? Yeah, Hey,
how's it going? Um? Yeah, I mean, cowboys have a
hard enough time winning games anyways, and now you're trying
to judge them based upon not when in the spread, Mike.
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It's just it's fuzzy math and it's not no. No, Brian,
I disagree, and that's a that's an antiquated take by you.
That's a bad job by you, Brian. Sports gambling is
the It's been legalized pretty much across the country. Everyone
within the next few years is going to be able
to gamble legally except some places in the Bible Belt,
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and it's gonna become more and more important. It's not
whether you win to lose. Did you cover the sprint? Yeah,
I understand that it's gonna be legal. But what I'm
saying is just winning games, winning championships, things that we
haven't done in a long time. And I mean, you
have a guy winning in a sixty percent clip in
five years. Uh, you know, listen, that's pretty good and
you can't judge him and calling mediocre because you're not
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winning money in Vegas. That's all I'm saying in that regard. Well,
you can say that, Brian, and I will respectfully disagree.
You're wrong. Uh, the gambling market sets the line, the expectation.
Dak Prescott has failed to meet those expectations. Hey, I'm
I'm wins and lasses. I'm wins and losses. So that's
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all I'm looking for. And again I'm okay, well he doesn't.
He doesn't do well in that gay, Okay, He's great
at beating bad teams, although last year he didn't beat
bad teams at the beginning of the year, so he's
he's you know, he's great against the weaker teams, but
against the better teams. You've seen the stats, Brian. They're
all over the internet about what how daks perform against
teams that have a good record. It's not pretty. Have
you seen our conference? We just need to beat the
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bad Yeah, you're one of the bad teams. So the
Cowboys are one of the Cowboys are one of the
bad teams. Right, That's what I'm saying. So we need
we need some consistency of the quarterback position. And we
went through the Quinty Carters. We went through the quint
Sterners and things like that. We have a quarterback, he's consistent.
Now he's gonna put points up. And if we can
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go to defense and a coach that can, you know,
make some adjustments on the fly, will start covering some
of those games. All right, Brian, Brian, listen, I know
you love your Cowboys. You're part of the problem. All right,
You're part of it. You're making excuses for this guy.
Bad job by you. Thank you. Though. Let's go to
the phones. Let's say hello to Laughy Taffy, who's in
(21:47):
North Carolina, a Twitter star, a Twitter sensation. Hello, Laughy Taffy. Hey,
what's going on? Man? And I was stunned by that. Ques,
I've never been asked that question before. Last was taken
him back by that. Just wanted a call to follow
(22:12):
up the last time I called and told you honest
with non decoy. He's like, I'm want to get it
done by myself. I told you I called the league.
He told me himself so that you are the I
told you so guy. You've become the I told you
so guy, Laughy Taffy, You're you're calling up now? To
do a victory lap. Of course, Yeah, you're mister I
(22:32):
told you so, mister Noah it all which does anyone
like mister Noah ar mister I told you so? Guy?
Does anyone like that? Sounds like a sports talk radio host? Who? Who? Who?
Does that? All of them? Really? I don't know what
you're talking about. I never point out on right, by
the way, Chris Paul. I told you Chris Paul was
an a hole? Did I tell in Big Games? Did
(22:54):
I not tell you that? I don't point that out. Yeah,
all right, laughy taffy, Well, what do you want me
to say? I don't know how to follow that up.
I guess we'll say audios, bon voyage. I don't know
what to do with it. Congratulations. I hope you want
a lot of money, laffy taffy. But I also said
that the series was not Oh everyone was writing the
(23:16):
eulogy for the Bucks after the first two games. The
unknoledgeable fan, the prisoner of the moment, whatever they see.
This is one of the reasons there's so much money
that is won in the gambling world. Is human beings.
Whatever they see, think they think is going to happen.
It there'll be no change that. If things are going
(23:36):
one direction, you know, the stock markets going up, it's
always going to go up, or the stock markets going down,
it's always going to go down. Or team wins the
first two games, they're guaranteed to win the series. And
even though statistically that happens most of the time, when
you throw Chris Paul into the equation, that does change them.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
(23:56):
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Hey,
I'm Doug Gottlieb. The podcast is called All Ball. We
usually talk all basketball all the time, but it's more
about the stories about what made these people love their
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(24:19):
You download it, you listen to it. I think you
like it. Listen to All Ball with Doug Gotlieb on
the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or ever you get your podcast.
If you're curious whether cancel culture is a worldwide phenomenon
or just what's going on in the US. Apparently it
is a worldwide phenomenon. Oh good, did you see the
(24:41):
opening ceremonies are coming up about seven am Eastern time tomorrow,
we'll have the opening ceremonies. And the director of the
opening ceremonies has been fired because he made a Holocaust
joke in nineteen ninety eight, So twenty two years years
ago he made a Holocaust joke. Now it wasn't like
(25:04):
he you know the context of the joke, and you
can certainly find a Holocaust joke dis tasteful in any form.
But he was apparently a part of a comedy act,
so he was actually performing. I don't know if it
was stand up or what it was. But in the
in the midst of doing this comedy act he had
he had made a Holocaust joke. And so it is
(25:26):
now apparently come to light or come to light of
people running the Olympics, and and so they have fired him.
He is, he's gone. He will not be directing the
opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Tokyo. Yeah, am I
wrong for thinking most good comedy is tremendously offensive and
that's what it's supposed to be. Like? Yeah, I think
(25:46):
most reasonable people. I think when it comes to comedy,
you know you're going to how many how many people
are really, like legitimately offended by that? Like you know
what I mean? You know what I mean? Like, I mean,
I don't know. It's just a twenty two year old
joke by somebody who's attempting to be funny and all that.
I mean, Yeah, I mean, like I said, I was,
(26:07):
I was curious myself if this is a global thing
or not. I don't I don't know. I don't think
it's said in the story. He apparently used the phrase
let's play Holocaust. I don't know what the context of
that was, but apparently that was the phrase, and who
(26:28):
knows if it's lost in translation. I have no idea,
but apparently it Huh, Coop's dying to find that joke
out there? You want us to find the joke? Coop,
did you have something you want to include there? Or no?
I mean just it's a weird phrase. Yeah, I don't know, Okay,
(26:48):
I saw. They also fired the musical director of the
opening ceremonies because he apparently had some bullying issues or something.
Ye fire, Yeah, okay. I think everyone should be cancer
and uh, and I need to be canceled right now
so I can just go to bed. How about that.
Can you know any do you guys remember the jokes
that were set in the playground We're going up? Oh yeah,
(27:10):
you know what, Roberto. I. I was in high school
and I remember like the next day after the Space
Shuttle blew up, you know, some kid telling me a joke,
and I's just like, wow, Wow, too soon, dude, Jesus. Yeah.
And I'd like to think that kids, because kids aren't woke.
You don't become woke. Cook him an a hole like
grown up, then you're in, you know, complete schmuck and
(27:32):
uh and and so kids still, i'd like to think it.
Play they still do the same thing. I don't think
they've changed. Kids are the same. They are outrageous with
their comedy and stuff on the playground. I gotta tell you, Ben,
I don't know if you're around any kids. I have
a twelve year old nephew. He's woke, woke. That's bad
job parents there. I don't know. I hear kids, and
(27:56):
I hear a lot of things on the video games, Eddie.
Those videos peshkt kids, and they're video games that if
it was on radio or television, they would be canceled anyway.
It is the Ben Mallers show. As we press on
here further and further into the wee hours of the morning,
we go big Rig Rob rights and says, Ben, you
(28:16):
were spot on with your monologue about Dak. I can.
I am completely stunned that a mediocre fourth round pick
has somehow managed to fool the Jones Boys into a
major payday. Dak has benefited from the plug and play
team around him. Ryan Leaf could do better. F al
toofe Buddy Dog says a minus monologue, Ben, I'm nodding
(28:38):
my head. Yes, thank you, thanks for reminding us how
simple the signing of Bamboo Dak actually should have been.
Now Ed from Spokane, a man who has fallen off
more ladders and survived than anyone listening right now Ed
from Smokecan, says Ben. They would have saved millions of
dollars by signing him long term. Agree with you on that, Ed.
(29:01):
My point is they shouldn't have signed him long term
because he hasn't He hasn't proven himself as a big
time quarterback in the NFL. He's very mediocre. And asked
the Rams with Jared Goff or the Philadelphia Eagles with
Carson Wentz, when you sign a mediocre quarterback to a
long term contract. You then end up having to jump
(29:23):
over mountains in order to get rid of those quarterbacks,
and you end up and desperately giving away the house
to get other quarterbacks. In the Rams gave up multiple
first round picks to get Now they got a great quarterback.
It worked out. The stud Matthew Stafford is now the
Rams quarterback in Philadelphia. Though they don't know if Jalen
Hurts is gonna be any good or not, and no idea.
(29:44):
So I want to take it back. Let's change gears
here and go to the British Open. And if you're
watching the end of the British Open, you likely saw
the final T shot of Colin Morikawa and he backed
off his final T shot. And some people were speculating
was this because he had a case of anxiety, that
(30:07):
there were nerves there, that the tension, the pressure of
the moment to finish the job had gotten to him.
Why did he back off the final shot? So he
recently did an interview and he gave a version of
what had happened. So he said that because of blank,
(30:30):
he stepped away. What do you think blank was, Eddie?
Did you see the story. Are you aware of this story?
Don't don't cheat? Don't look it up? What do you think?
Colin morricole the winner of the British Open. Because of
blank he stepped away from the final t shot and
had to recompose himself. Someone passing gas edy, you're not,
(30:55):
you're not, You're not. You're not supposed to cheat it.
I mean, come on, man, that dude he just ruined
all my games, you know. I mean, the whole point
of this is for you not to get it right, Eddie.
It's a bad job by you. Colin Morrikawa revealed that
the reason he stepped away at the British Open the
(31:18):
seventy second hole there was not because of anxiety and
the moment was too big. He heard someone rip one flatulence,
Oh he heard one. Come on yeah, and they said
the announcers on the one, yeah, smell that or something
that's worse. You smell it. I want to go rotate
(31:40):
my tires in the day at the tire shop and
damn man, something was laying it ripped like crazy, those
awful and somebody in the face. I was like, what's
going on here? Man? Yeah? The worst is like when
you're in an elevator. Yeah, but there's like there's nowhere
to go, man, it was just everywhere. Yeah. Well, my
experience with the good Fellas that the ladies that repair
(32:01):
cars is it often does smell like flatulence, you know
what I'm saying, Like you just kinda yeah, it's a
there's a there's a lot, there's a lot of what
do you call it the harmonic distortion? I guess we
can call it that takes place anyway, listen. So, so
this guy's at the seventy second second hole, they're Makawa,
(32:22):
and he tells the story that what had happened, and
the announcers apparently they pointed this out and they said
that it sounded like there was a whoopie cushion, but
the mics did not pick it up on the television broadcast.
The listener watching on their sofa could not understand what's
going on, but it was actually fart sounds. According to Morikawa,
(32:43):
he had to step off and he had to recompose himself,
and he ends up obviously winning the open by two shots.
But he said that some spectators are quote some spectator
at some point in the day, Morikawa stated, snuck a
little old school microphone like a recording. I don't think
he means microphone. I think he means like recording, like
(33:04):
a tape recording type thing. Threw it underneath one of
the marshals around there and started playing these farting noises
right as I was about to swing, Morikawa said, And
we all knew it was a farting noise, but we
seriously thought it was from the spectators. We thought someone
was playing playing it on their phone. The marshals were
(33:25):
all looking, Morikawa said, they're all looking around. The marshal
digs in the grass and pulls this little recorder out
and that that was the the item that I guess
you could say it was fantastic, and that was Let
let the fund begin, so quite the jokes dirty the
(33:45):
British open. Very impressive work, all right, spem Allas show
on Fox Time. Now for the who am I gaming?
Have the MLB pick him? MLB pick him? Coming up?
Here's the or not the MLB are get You have
the aist to Shiva and Mallard to the third degree.
Here here it is get it right at this time,
get it right, stupid at this time of Blank, at
the time of his retirement, time of Blank's retirement in
(34:08):
nineteen ninety eight, he was sixth all time in receptions.
Each player above him is in the Hall of Fame.
He also ranked third in yards between James Lofton and
Steve Largen. Again, at the time of blanks retirement in
nineteen ninety eight, he was sixth all time in receptions,
(34:28):
and each player above him is in the Hall of Fame.
He also ranked third in yards between James Lofton and
Steve Largent. Fill in the blank. That's the instant tribute,
a ballard of the third degree. We'll get to all
that and we will do it. Nags, I'll see I
(34:48):
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After the instant trivia Mallardly third degree Mallardly third degree
straight ahead, but first the instant trivia, So fill in
the blank. At the time of blanks retirement in nineteen
(35:33):
ninety eight, twenty three years ago, he was sixth all
time in receptions. Each player above him is in the
Hall of Fame. He also ranked third in yards between
James Lofton and Steve Larging at the time this player retired,
but not in the Hall of Fame. That is the question.
What is the answer? Andre Reisen guest by Sam Bleeding
(35:59):
Heart Washington national fan. Who else do we have? Let's
see page down here, page down, Justin Cooper's acting career.
Guests by bread Man Bill. That's a cheap shot. How
dare you? Tom Fears from Valls Fan, Jimmy Windy Winston,
the iconic garbage pale kid from Miguel on Fire. That's
a good blast in the past, Tony Berna's ard from
(36:20):
mister nice Guy. Who else do we have? Michael Irvin
tossed out by bread Man Bill, the occasional marginal show contributor.
Page down, Page down, Chad Ocho Cinco Johnson Remember when
he retired in nineteen ninety eight before he did play
the game in the NFL. From Robbie the Mariner fan.
Who else do we have? Page down? Page down? Can't
(36:42):
read that on the air, Let's see. Next up is
Jack Nicholas from David in Ohio. Irvin Fernandez from Double
Oh Mexican in San Diego. Peppermint Patty tossed out by
Donkeys sausage, the Great Dane Looker from Chris in de Moine.
(37:02):
Matt the Warrior rator is fan cheated and got it right?
Do you have an answer, Eddie? Of course I have
an answer. It's former New York Jets legend Johnny Lamb Jones.
Johnny Lamb Jones, Eddie, that's a great name, but you
must put your head down in shame, Eddie. This is
your old homeboy from Fresno State, Henry Ellard. Henry Ellard
(37:25):
is the answer. Fresno born, Fresno bread and when he dies,
he'll be Fresno Dead. Henry Elli with the La Rams,
also played with the Redskins and the Patriots, but he
was sixth all time and receptions when we retired everyone
ahead of him in the Hall of Fame. Here we go.
It's Maller. How about to the third degree. This is
(37:48):
one big band gets grilled kobaloo. It was reported on
Tuesday that several NBA executives expected that if the Blazers
were to trade Damian Lillard, they would get more than
the Rockets did for James Harden. Do you agree, Ben Well?
I agree that the Portland Trailblazers were to trade Damian Lillard,
(38:10):
They'd be big dummies. That's what I agree. If I'm
the Trailblazers, here's what I do. I put my phone
on silent, I block all text messages, I don't check
my email involving If Lillard's name is mentioned, I'm out.
Damian Lillard is not available, period, hard stop. And secondly,
if you were to put a gun to my head
or a knife to my throat and say, okay, you've
got to trade this guy, I'll be well, all right, fine,
(38:34):
I'll I want seven first round draft picks, which I
believe what Oklahoma got for Oklahoma City for Paul George.
I want two young players on the rise, and those
are the starting qualifications to acquire the Great Dame Lillard.
Next Raiders, under Mark Davis, made an abrupt announcement on
Monday that Team President of Mark Badane has resigned his
(38:56):
post and will no longer be with the organization now,
But Damian Releasa, stay thinking, Davis and everyone in the organization. Ben,
do you think there's trouble brewing behind the scenes in Vegas? Listen?
Three days ago, I had never heard of this cat,
Mark Badane or whoever his name is, team president, I'd
never heard of him. And now we're supposed to believe
(39:17):
the Raider franchises in ruins. Let's going to hell in
a handbasket because a guy I've never heard of is
not a round anymore? Are you bloody kidding me? I'm
scratching my head here trying to figure this out. Now. Well,
I will agree with you that something does smell fishy,
because those are great jobs. You don't leave a great job.
(39:38):
He's not at retirement age or anything like that. And
there's a job that pays well, it's got a lot
of great perks, tremendous benefits and all that. So you
don't walk away from that unless there's either a scandal,
some kind of illness, some family drama rama. So from
that perspective, yeah, but like the matter for the Raiders
going forward. Next, Davos Sweeney spoke out of against the
(40:00):
expansion of college football playoffs during media day on Tuesday.
He said that the team doesn't want to play more
games and that he doesn't think that there are twelve
teams good enough. Ben Is he right about that last part?
Dabbos Sweeney is like a hot air balloon. He's filled
with the hot air. I mean, there are always teams
that qualify for the postseason who don't have great resumes.
The NBA and NHL make their living doing that. They
(40:22):
don't have sixteen good teams every year that make the
playoffs in those leagues. But that's how big time sports work.
Television wants more teams in Dabbo's being selfish. He wants
to know Clemson in Alabama to continue their show called PLAYFFS.
How do you pass this edition that's a winner
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